April 14, 2010

For Immediate Release

for more info contact announce (at) nyanarchistfilmfest.org

Yesterday, April 13 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

(www.nyanarchistfilmfest.org)

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 and

arrested

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.

The I AM collective issued the following statement following 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 stop us with illegal raids and targeted

harassment, because we are everywhere."

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJAo4f803k