Monday, November 25th, 6:30pm at A-Space (4722 Baltimore Ave) - Join us once again for monthly letter-writing to either strike up correspondence with someone new or keep up your correspondence with an existing penpal in prison. Bring only yourself or friends and comrades. All letter-writing supplies and snacks are provided. This month we will be sending letters to Russell Maroon Shoatz . Maroon is serving life in prison after being charged with four other known Black Panther Party members for an attack on a police station, committed by unknown persons presumably in retaliation for Frank Rizzo’s persecution of the BPP and tensions arising from police brutality and police killings of Black youth. [Read More]

Monday, October 28th; 6:30pm at A-Space (4722 Baltimore Ave) - Join us as we mail our 2019 Running Down the Walls reportback to US held political prisoners. Mailing prisoners news about events a few times a year keeps them in the loop with outside organizing. If you have been wanting to become a penpal of a political prisoner and would like a suggestion of who to write or want to chat about other ideas to free political prisoners we welcome you to do some at this event! [Read More]

Philly ABC is happy to report the success of our second annual Running Down The Walls in support of political prisoners, held on September 7th, roughly 2 years from the date that our group formed. We again chose a late summer date for the event, but we hope to align our 2020 RDTW with other ABC chapters. We also joined the ABCF earlier this year to more closely work with our long-term comrades in the LA and former Philly ABC chapters. [Read More]

Monday, September 23rd, 6:30pm at A-Space (4722 Baltimore Ave) - We are at it once again, sending love to those punitively locked up for their political beliefs and facing additional repression while inside for the same reason. Bring only yourself or friends and comrades. All letter-writing supplies and snacks are provided. Jeremy Hammond is an anarchist computer hacker serving 10 years for leaking the personal information of 860,000 customers of private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) through the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. [Read More]

Monday, August 26th, 6:30pm at A-Space (4722 Baltimore Avenue) - Eric King , vegan anarchist political prisoner, was arrested and charged with an attempted firebombing of a government official’s office in Kansas City, MO in September 2014. Eric was charged with throwing a hammer through a window of the building, followed by two lit Molotov cocktails. The criminal complaint states that both incendiary devices failed to ignite. Eric was identified as a suspect by local police because he had previously come under suspicion for anti-government and anti-police graffiti. [Read More]