The first Monday of every month the Flying Squirrel hosts an event that seeks to examine the role that our community space can play in creating positive social change. This month we will be examining what new trends in political repression mean for us and how we can resist their influences. Beginning his first day in office, Trump and his appointees have attempted to squash resistance to their regime by demanding prosecuters and DAs seek the most extreme possible charges against protestors. This month, we will dive deep into the intricacies of the state's strategies against popular resistance and begin to examine what the best movement response to this repression would be. Helping us in this investigation will be Heidi Reynolds Stenson, a sociologist who has studied the effects of state repression on social movements, Erik, a protester arrested on J20 who is facing 60 years in prison in the wake of this repression.

[source: Facebook, 2017-Nov-27]