A-Infos (en) US, August 1: Pittsburghs Fifth Annual Anarchist Picnic!

Join in a community celebration of anarchism as we prepare to confront the G20 Summit in 
September ---- Saturday, August 1 at 1:00pm to 6:00pm Overlook Shelter, Schenley Park. The 
Pittsburgh Organizing Group invites you to our fifth annual Anarchist Picnic on Saturday, 
August 1, 1PM-6PM at the Schenley Park Overlook. There will be food, games, and more. 
Bring a dish to share. Kids are extra welcome and we will be providing childcare this 
year. ---- For the past four years the Anarchist Picnic has been the largest explicitly 
anarchist cultural event in Pittsburgh, bringing together 100+ people active in a wide 
variety of resistance projects. It has been a day to celebrate an uninterupted history of 
struggle in this country, in which anarchists have played an important role.

This summer we will be continuing this tradition as local communities of resistance 
mobilize against the G-20 meetings that will take place in our city in September. We hope 
this years’ picnic can be a space where folks can come together, re-energize, and build 
solidarity for the serious struggles ahead of us.

Since the announcement that the September G-20 summit would taking place in Pittsburgh, 
many anarchists have been working to develop frameworks for anti-authoritarian actions, 
prepare medical and legal support, talk to our neighbors, and get out our message about 
the G-20 and the reasons for our actions and tactics -- all amid the usual corporate media 
misinformation about the aims of the G-20 and those who would dare challenge the state. We 
know from past experience with summit protests and other large street demonstrations that 
we have a lot of work ahead of us. Inevitably we will face attempts to villify us in the 
corporate media, harrassment and violence from law-enforcement and a potentially expensive 
and grueling legal aftermath.

But past experiences also show that our movements are best at facing down and surviving 
repression when they have strong roots, strong ties, and strong support from and within 
local communities. As an anarchist group, and as people who practice and support direct 
action we want to build solidarity and supportive relationships with other already radical 
comrades, whether they call themselves anarchists or not, and with our other neighbors, 
friends and family in the places where we live and work who face the same grueling 
struggles we do. We want this year’s picnic to be an opportunity for people to come 
together, build existing relationships and learn more about anarchists and anarchism, and 
so we welcome all friends, supporters, and anyone else who is interested and friendly.

In struggle,

Pittsburgh Organizing Group
pog@mutualaid.org
www.organizepittsburgh.org
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