On December the 31st of 2022,
there was a New Year's Eve noise demonstration in downtown
so-called Asheville, North Carolina.
So this year, Pansy Collective,
which is a queer and trans DIY music and arts collective,
teamed up with MaadCo,
And Maadco is the Mountain Area Abortion Doula Collective,
And we provide abortion access to folks in western North Carolina
as well as funding.
And then the Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross,
which is a group that does really amazing work,
including but not limited to bailing folks out,
supporting prisoners, and doing direct action
So all of these groups teamed up together to bring
this year's New Year's Eve noise demonstration and bailout action to fruition,
using the skills and the best parts of each of our groups
to, like, bring a really solid action to the community.
After that first initial meeting where we decided together
that we were going to move forward with a bailout and a noise demonstration,
we also knew that we wanted to get other folks involved in the community
like the medics, like the bike crew.
So in addition to bailing folks out,
there was a lot of attention and getting folks trained to do jail support
and then doing that jail support together.
Getting, you know, care packages together, cigarettes, tampons,
whatever folks need when they're getting out.
We're really proud of the work that we did to bring together
this action with the bail out, with the noise demonstration.
And we are excited to see
other groups take on these prison abolitionist commitments
of bringing community together, bailing people out,
supporting community and doing mutual aid,
and really putting community and care at the forefront of all of our strategies.
We want to see that happen all across the world and all across the country.