13 Thames raided days before NY Anarchist Bookfair/Film Festival
April 14, 2010
Press Release from the I Am collective:
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.
Trailer for the Film Fest:
The New School Reoccupied 
April 15, 2010 at 9:07 am
banners and protests continune the fight:
http://occupyuno.blogspot.com/
April 15, 2010 at 2:13 pm
can u please explain what they were being arrested FOR?? i dont get it.
April 15, 2010 at 6:39 pm
They had warrants for not showing up for drinking in public and fare evasion court dates. in jail they were questioned about the film fest and bookfair more info: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/film-fest-is-on-police-radar-anarchists-say/nvr.brk.dwn@gmail.com