While the two-year reality TV horror show that is “election season” puts the other political endeavors of many on hold, groups like the dogged NYC Anarchist Black Cross have continued their work of writing letters to political prisoners, raising awareness about state repression, and fighting against the manifold injustices of the prison system.

Next week, on Saturday, August 13, the organization will host a major event in Bushwick: a discussion with long-time political prisoner Eric McDavid, one of 20 activists who were prosecuted during the FBI’s “Green Scare” crackdown on animal liberation and ecodefense activists.

In 2005, McDavid was convinced by an agent to purchase materials to make an incendiary device, allegedly for a plan to target cell phone towers. After serving approximately 9 years of a 20-year sentence, it was discovered the government withheld thousands of pages of evidence on the case, and McDavid, who maintains he was entrapped, was released.