NYPD Raids 13 Thames, Arrests Two
Seems the NYPD raided the 13 Thames Art Space and arrested a couple residents, or “members of the collective.” This comes just three days before the group’s NYC Anarchist Film Festival, so yes, put on your conspiracy hats!
The organizers statement:
Today in Brooklyn NY, the NYPD entered without a warrant 13 Thames Art Space, a Bushwick based art and performance space where members of the Independent Anarchist Media (I AM) Collective have been organizing the Fourth Annual NYC Anarchist Film Festival in honor of Brad Will.
Two plainclothes detectives entered first, followed quickly by a Lieutenant and vans full of blue shirt officers. After corralling everyone present in the back room, they searched the space and detained two members of the collective.
The I AM collective was preparing for the NYC Anarchist Film Festival, a showcase of resistance movements and insurrectionary events from around the world presented from an anarchist and anti-authoritarian perspective.
Our response to the raid: regardless of these attacks, the film festival will happen as planned on Friday April 16, 2010 at Judson Memorial Church. The voice of decentralized creative communities will not be silenced by police repression. They cannot raid us, because we are everywhere.
Were you there!? Write us but I swear to god DO IT FROM A FREE WIFI ZONE WITH MASKED COMPUTER IPS SO THEY CANNOT TRACE YOU!!!111!!!!
I used to live in that building. Those people forced me to leave. They’re all assholes, don’t give a fuck about anyone else, and will rob/destroy your stuff at any opportunity they get. I don’t feel sorry for them at all, and they live in a space which should be condemned. They’re filthy, and I’m glad they’re getting arrested.
Really??? Who gives a fuck? I live next to that ass, He’s the worst. I’m sure his rich parents bailed him out.
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fuck the police. fuck trolls.
Obviously matt only said the rich parents thing to sound stylish. He probably helped bend the ‘bogart’ sign to read ‘art’.
The only people who make statements like david’s are actually kind of worthwhile to listen to only because they are the sketchiest mother fuckers you will ever encounter. watching them speak is like watching one of those tiny people eat 50 hotdogs all at once for sport.
13.1 is a dirty and awful place that I love very much. this is a tragedy.