Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) was created in 1995 when the North American ABC collectives from Paterson (NJ), Bronx (NY), and Washington DC merged into a federation. Soon after, the Bronx and DC groups left to form a separate Anarchist Black Cross Network, but the New Jersey ABC and others continued to build the ABC Federation and attracted new ABC groups to carry it on.

Related Topics:
1995 - North America - ABC - Federation - Anarchist Black Cross Network

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The aim of the ABCF is to provide support and defense for political prisoners and prisoners of war. Later support for social prisoners was accepted as a secondary goal of the federation.

Related Topics:
Political prisoners - Prisoners of war - Social prisoners

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ABCF believes that it is important to support PPs/POWs must be done before supporting individual prisoners not falling into those categories is "backwards and criminal" http://abcf.net/abcf.asp?page=whats2. Reasoning behind that is PPs/POWs have themselves helped to build the movement that supports them, and they, therefore, demand that priority support.

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Before ABCF takes on a responsibility of support of a prisoner, such prisoner must first supply documentation that proves that one is in fact PP/POW or in the case where such documentation cannot be supplied then "collective judgement will be based on the prisoners overall personal/political history and their overall accountability and responsibility in their action(s)." http://abcf.net/abcf.asp?page=const1 In any case ABCF insists that the evaluation is based on a factual account and not on a subjective statement of this or that person.

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