Don’t forget to mark your calendars for this year’s Alternative Media Fest, Saturday December 6th, 2025. BAMF is a fundraiser for us! Come mingle, peruse a bunch of cool media, zines, and creations and help celebrate local independent publishing all in support of the Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross.
Join us as we sign holiday cards to send to an assortment of prisoners!
Running Down the Walls is back — nationwide and beyond — September 21st! Proceeds benefit political prisoners, many of whom will also participate in this event transcending the prison walls.
Registration for our Running Down the Walls event in Bloomington is now live on our site through September 7th! You can always show up the day of without registering, we just can’t guarantee you’ll get a t-shirt. Excited to see you there!
Details and our form can be found at Bloomingtonabc.noblogs.org/rdtw25
Catch us on Monday night for letter writing at the library!
And an update on Sean’s mail from Mongoose Distro:
Effective 21 August, snail mail sent to me will have to be directed to the ODRC Mail Processing Center rather than to OSP:
Sean Swain A243-205
Mail Processing Center
884 Coitsville Hubbard Road
Youngstown, Ohio 44505
Mail delivered to my prior address on or after that date will be forwarded to the mail processing center and scanned and uploaded onto my tablet.
This is what I am permitted to receive in each mailing:
• 10 photos (if anyone still owns an old timey camera)
• 1 Greeting card, single fold
• 10 pages of written or typed correspondence, 8.5×11″ paper This change does NOT apply to legal mail, magazines, or packages.
Questions or comments can be directed to:
ODRCMailProcessingCenter©drc.ohio.gov
(330) 333-7372
Join us in Bryan Park at 9pm for an outdoor screening of two media footage compilations by comrades in St. Louis, exploring the question, “What does abolition look like?” Rain or Shine!
Also our next letter writing night will be on July 28th, from 6:30-8pm, in room 1C of the downtown library.
Fire Ant journal for anarchist prisoners is back! We’ve got letters from Michael Kimble and Anson Chi as well as June 11th statements from Michael, Marius Mason, and Ryan Roberts.
Our monthly letter writing night will commence on Monday March 31st at a new location, from 6:30-8pm. We are excited to be hosted by Close Knit, in basement suite 013, at 205 N. College Ave. It’s a comfy little spot, and centrally located, so come through!
And then there’s a meeting to develop an independent initiative to support LGBTQ+ prisoners onSunday April 6th, frm 4-6pm, at the library on Kirkwood Ave.
Imprisoned queer and trans people are some of the most vulnerable to the state’s intensifying attacks. Come join a discussion to create networks of support for queer prisoners. Learn about what people inside and out are already doing and bring your own ideas. This is not a pre-formed project – it will be shaped by everyone who joins in its creation!
The criminalization of various health care and the very recent transfer of our friend Marius Mason are all relevant to this discussion. We are stronger together so let’s start planning to look out for each other!
Our seasonal salon is coming up next Saturday, February 15th, from 1-5pm at Maple Playschool (1000 E Allendale Dr.)!
Stay tuned for the flyer for our monthly letter writing night on Monday February 24th, from 6:30-8pm. We’ll have members of the Pendleton 2 Defense Committee on hand to talk about the cases of John “Balagoon” Cole and Christopher “Naeem” Trotter: who saved a man’s life from KKK prison guards in 1985, and got sentenced to 200+ years for it. We’ll write some letters to them while learning about our regional history.
Also, did you notice those additions on our side bar? You can now sign up for our Riseup email list, and check out our Mastodon account, by clicking on the appropriate icons to the right.
Next letter writing night this Monday January 27th at 6:30 at Vulture Video!
