Felony Littering Trials Under Way in Asheville
This week: a chat with Pip, a defendant in, and Grace, a supporter of, the Aston Park Defendants case which led to the arrest of 16 people, including 2 journalists for the Asheville Blade, many facing various charges of felony littering and conspiracy to felony litter. You can read some background to this in the words fo the Sanctuary Park defendants at AVLSolidarity.NoBlogs.Org by clicking the “Our Story” link and there’s a bunch more there, including how to support the defendants monetarily. We spend the hour talking about gentrification, police repression, mutual aid and resistance in this small, “progressive” mountain town in the US south. Trials begin April 10, 2023.
Other ASP & adjacent links:
- ASP Substack
- ASP Venmo
- ASP CashApp: $Streets1de
- ASP Instagram
- ASP Facebook
- Defendant Support T-shirt designs
Some past shows that touch on this week’s topic include:
- Mutual Aid and the Asheville Water Crisis (Jan 2023)
- Mutual Aid Repression Started (May 2022)
- Protests Against Homeless Sweeps in Asheville (Dec 2021)
- Asheville Survival Program (Oct 2021)
- Asheville’s “Policing Crisis” (Aug 2021)
- Harm Reduction Repression Continues (Apr 2020)
- Housing Protests in Asheville (Apr 2020)
- Repression of Harm Reduction (Aug 2018)
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