We know it's short notice but please pull up on Sunday! It's appropriate that Sunday's sweep defense teach-in and homeless solidarity organizing sign-up event is at @morusnyc , the standing monument to the ongoing struggle for community control over our own streets because a little over four years ago just down the block, militant sweep defense exploded under a scaffolding off the corner of East 9th Street and Avenue B. It was an hours long stand off between pigs and housed and unhoused encampment defenders that ended with a mass arrest by SRG in front of throngs of media. That day energized the organizing for a time. But the Adams harm machine did not falter and eventually no-notice emergency sweeps hampered our efforts as we could not show up for a sweep we did not know was happening. The intensified persecution wore on homeless New Yorkers and drove them into the shadows to avoid the attention of the state. Sweep defense organizing stalled out but then in the fall of 2023 we met @edua_r1691 Eduardo had been senselessly assaulted at his encampment by pigs from the 9th precinct so he chose to get his justice in his own way. For Eduardo sweep resistance was about redirecting all the trauma homeless New Yorkers had absorbed from sweeps and blowing it right back in the pigs' faces. Whenever cops showed up to sweep his encampment a growing number of anti-pig graffiti tags would greet them. Then he would go off. He would rage hell at them so loudly neighbors would come to their windows to watch. He pushed them just as far as he thought he could without catching charges. This sweeps resistance wasn't about civil disobedience and planned arrests it was about what another unhoused comrade named Trip called "chaotic justice" and it took a toll on the pigs who had the misfortune to be sent our way. In the end the 9th precinct threw everything they had to wipe out Eduardo's encampment but you can still find him every Sunday in that same spot at @anarchy_9_9. This Sunday besides practical info about the process of sweeps and how to support our neighbors facing them join us for a discussion with Eduardo about militant sweep defense. Let's find that energy again.