International Call For New Year’s Eve Noise Demonstrations

Call from New York City Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) for global noise demonstrations around the world outside of jails, detention facilities, and prisons on New Year’s Eve. 

This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of the noisiest nights of the year. On New Year’s Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself and come together to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not alone.

People incarcerated at MCC in Chicago flash cell lights in solidarity with the NYE Prison Solidarity Noise Demo pic.twitter.com/LzI3I4ScWf

— agitator in chief (@soit_goes) January 1, 2016

Internationally, noise demonstrations outside of prisons are a way to remember those who are held captive by the state and a way to show solidarity with imprisoned comrades and loved ones. We come together to break the loneliness and isolation.

#NYC noise demo in solidarity with all prisoners! Out here in the rain! pic.twitter.com/K5PEYRZg8v

— RevAbolitionNYC (@RevAbolitionNYC) January 1, 2019

We know that prison is beyond reform and must be completely abolished. It is a mechanism of repression used by the state to maintain a social order rooted in white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativity. To come together outside of the sites of repression is to also stand in defiance of what they represent.

The logic of the state and capital—of punishment and imprisonment, must be replaced by a rejection of oppression and exploitation. This call is one step in that direction.

"The passion for freedom is stronger than any prison!"
This year 200 comrades took part in the #NYE noise demo outside Korydallos prisons in #Athens, #Greece.
Footage/Info by @D_A_Kratoumenon pic.twitter.com/7IURys95G7

— th1an1 (@th1an1) January 1, 2019

Wherever you are, meet on New Year’s Eve at the prisons, jails, and detention centers, be loud in solidarity with those imprisoned and to push forward the idea of a world free from domination.

We send this call in solidarity with those defying state repression of large scale dissent: from the anarchist uprising in Chile to those in Exarchia facing repression as anarchist anti-state organizers, and all of those in the spaces between.

We want a world without walls and borders.

We will fight together until everyone is free!