A-Infos (en) US, NYC: Reportback from NYE Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex

On December 31st, at least 60 people responded to the call* for a noise demo outside the 
Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in downtown Manhattan. The crowd easily filled the 
street in front of the institution and an aural ruckus filled the air from noisemakers, 
voices, air horns, a variety of drums, and even a proper brass trumpet. ---- Anti-prison 
and anti-police chants from the crowd accompanied a banner reading "BURN THE PRISON 
SOCIETY." Rebels in the street cheered on the caged and excluded as they banged on their 
windows, flicked lights on and off, and gave other signals of life from within an 
otherwise deadening, lifeless building. We moved back and forth around the building to be 
sure everyone could hear our screams and tried to be as close as possible to the cell of 
anarchist hacker Jeremy Hammond as we chanted his name.

Let's make 2013 a terrifying year for capitalists and state operatives the world over and 
a joyous year for those seeking the triumph of life over death.

OUR PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS

FOR THE ANNIHILATION OF PRISON AND THE PRISON-SOCIETY

In Durham, North Carolina, something more than 50 people turned out for the noise demo at 
the jail, which featured drumming, banging on street signs, plenty of anarchist banners, 
and the release of several fire kites into the air. The youngsters ran around joyously 
while the older folks grimly chanted their anti-police mantras. At least one police car 
was spat upon.

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* WHAT: Noise Demo Against the PIC, for the Liberation of PPs + POWs
WHEN: 9:00pm, Monday, December 31st
WHERE: Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC, the federal prison in downtown Manhattan); 
Pearl Street, between Cardinal Hayes Place and Park Row (J to Chambers Street or 4/5/6/ to 
City Hall)
BRING: Noisemakers, air horns, drums, anything that is loud!
On the noisiest night of the year in New York City, come help us remind folks locked up 
that they are not alone. NYC Anarchist Black Cross, in response to an international call 
for noise demonstrations outside of prisons, is asking folks to join us outside of the 
Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan. Come, not to appeal to 
authority, speak truth to power, or any other contrivance, but rather to stand arm in arm 
with comrades and show direct solidarity to those on the other side of the wall.

The state, writ large, is targeting anarchists all across the United States and abroad. 
This will be both protest and celebration. Let’s make it another night in which we show 
them we’re never scared.
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