How Protest Marshals Sabotage Liberation and Protect the State
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We are not special. Our skills are not overly technical or advanced, and our tools are simple to acquire. If you are reading this, you are capable of doing what we do.
While I agree with this sentiment, the reader is left with many questions about how to develop such a capacity for action, even if they are motivated. What exactly does it take to not get caught carrying out heavy actions like arson? This is especially important in the long run; not getting caught for a single arson is one thing, but being able to continue carrying out attacks in the face of heightened repressive attention is quite another.
For anyone who wants to carry out actions like this, but isn’t doing so yet, I’ve sketched an outline of the steps I think are necessary to sustain hard-hitting attacks on domination (limited to the topic of “operational” considerations, i.e., acquiring skills). This brief outline is intended to orient you and provide a “learning path” — each step has recommended reading that actually goes into the appropriate amount of depth on the subject. Use the Tails operating system to visit these links, which runs from a USB drive and leaves no trace on your computer. What I’ve written here is by no means definitive, and I hope to spark a dialogue about any operational aspects I may have neglected, as well as anything outside this scope that is important for sustaining and intensifying the capacity for action. Continue reading “New Zine: Developing Action Capacity, A Path”
On Tuesday February 13th, University of Wisconsin police officers assaulted at least two UW students at a protest against Israeli arms suppliers BAE systems, CAT and General Dynamics at a “career fair” on their campus. Violent piece of shit, Adam Boardman, who makes $126,000 a year professionally beating up students, was caught on video throwing one student headfirst into a door before slamming an already handcuffed student into a wall.
We thought people might like to know a little more about Boardman, in case they want to tell him how they feel about the little rampage he went on last week:
Adam E Boardman
You can also tell his boss to fire him at:
Brent Plisch
UW students have protested genocidal, ecocidal and otherwise evil companies at “career fair” recruiting events in the past. They have successfully prevented companies from whitewashing their crimes by handing out flyers detailing their atrocities in front of their booth. This tactic was so successful that the unversity had to make a new set of career fair rules to specifically ban handing out literature of any kind (even though handing out resumes and brochures is literally the main point of a career fair lol).
A video of some of the assaults can be seen here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3YYETqrvoK/
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Dear Parents,
I see the weight you’re carrying. The endless pitying gazes and contempt for you for your kid “not measuring up” and you for “caving” and “not modelling well” and everything. The housing prices, the logistics, the patriarchal pressures on any partnerships you’re in. The endless hours at the office forced to hide all emotion, smile, and put just the right amount of pressure to keep a living wage. The bodyshame around pregnancy and not pregnancy and former pregnancy. You are loved in all of this, I know that’s nowhere near sufficient, but we can work this out.
I know you’re afraid for your neurodivergent children and what will happen if they don’t have the skills to be safe in the world. I know you see the onslaught they will face for their atypical traits as they get older, and already do today. All the school board meetings and bullying and threats.
But your childrens’ subversive, unrestrainable, desperate urges to flap their hands, spin, bite themselves, read that physics textbook at age 6, NOT TALK, NOT BE PERCIEVED, and all of the above are not achievements, they are not delays, and they are not just “attention-seeking.” They are the products of desperation in the cold amethyst pulsing and shredding, like a thousand bladed mace, of the flourescent light, the voices that to you are a distraction and to them are swarming insects. They are a brain that cannot be changed and whose cravings for meaning and comfort cannot be socialized away without great torment. Continue reading “~~~ BEHAVIOR IS COMMUNICATION ~~~”
Is our love finite? Must we only exchange care by compulsion?
On March 9, at 10 AM, outside the Prairie Cafe (with possible remote options), the tranarchists of Middleton Hills will descend with our unbridled, unconfined, unrestrained love and desire to discuss the seminal essay of Voltairine de Cleyre on the societal harms and personal violation of marriage and monogamy. We will also discuss a short piece of biographical material on Voltairine de Cleyre written by her (totally platonic, no feral love or connection whatsoever, very straight) friend Emma Goldman as context for De Cleyre’s rhetoric and experiences.
Why is marriage a violation? It deeply restrains the resolution of interpersonal dynamics to something based on preserving a “product”–the nuptial vow–rather than the needs of people, and creates duties out of social relationships that could be a sustainment of an unsustainable joy. It encourages the patriarchal domination over birthing bodies, treating peoples’ joyous, contradictory, and vulnerable experiences as mere means to reproduction. And finally, it forces us to love finitely, rather than sharing unfathomable queer desire however is consensual and being made the closer to those we love precisely by the fact that we are not alone in loving. We do not own each other. Let that release, shatter, and satisfy you.
If you love classical anarchafeminist theory, please join us! Here are links to our readings:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-voltairine-de-cleyre
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voltairine-de-cleyre-they-who-marry-do-ill
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Bank of America branch locked in response to BOA funding: Mountain Valley Pipeline, Cop City linked to Tortuguita’s murder, and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Chicago, Illinois — A Bank of America branch was locked and windows wheatepasted with flyers containing links to the bank’s abhorrent acts of cruelty. People are calling on BOA to drop its funding of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile pipeline described as “a scar across Appalachia.” The MVP will supply fuel to the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. RAAP is operated by BAE systems, which supplies the Israeli government with weapons used to murder Palestinians. BOA also funds Cop City, the 85-acre militarized police training compound that the Atlanta Police Foundation is attempting to build in Atlanta, GA. Construction for Cop City desecrates and bulldozes the Weelaunee Forest, the largest urban forest in the United States, dubbed one of the lungs of Atlanta. Continue reading “Chicago action in solidarity with Appalachians Against Pipelines”
Art project to deface Chicago police department recruitment posters the night of Tortuguita’s death anniversary.
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Canton, MI
the early hours of January 19 2024
have you heard of MTU? it’s a subsidiary of Rolls Royce, based in Germany (but also operate in turtle island). a quick review of the MTU Solutions website will reveal they manufacture diesel engines for many unfavorable purposes: oil/gas extraction, mining vehicles, yachts, and perhaps most notably– military use.
MTU engines power 80% of the Israeli naval boats, as well as their Merkava tanks and armored personnel carriers. additionally, Rolls Royce components make possible the F-35 warplanes that carry out the genocidal airstrikes on Gaza.
“what better way to remember Tort than to leave caltrops and wall/window messages for a MTU engine technician training center?”, we thought.
and did.
free Palestine
revenge for Tortuguita
make every war profiteer afraid
ps-
there is so much more to do.
some of the aforementioned engines are made in so-called Michigan.
Here:
MTU Solutions
39525 MacKenzie Dr, Novi, MI 48377
and Here:
RENK
76 S Getty St, Muskegon, MI 49442
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With love and rage a vigil for Tortuguita
Wentworth Park, 100 N Grand Ave, Lansing
Thursday 1/18 7:30pm
It’s been 1 year since forest defender Manuel Esteban Paez Teran (Tortuguita) was murdered by ATL police as they sat in their tent, legs crossed, hands up…
Join us in holding space for our fallen comrade, while connecting with others to learn about solidarity efforts taking place in Michigan.
Dress warmly and bring something for the altar. #stopcopcity
On January 18, 2023, Georgia State Patrol officers entered the Weelaunee Forest alongside police from other agencies in the region. They sought to clear the encampments re-established there in the weeks prior. A month earlier, on December 13, a similar operation cleared encampments after a year of struggle, and culminated in the arrest of 6 forest defenders on obscene and fraudulent charges of Domestic Terrorism.
When Patrolmen entered the forest in January, they entered into a long confrontation they had little or no experience with, a confrontation pitting free people, local residents, environmentalists, aspiring revolutionaries, and itinerant insurrectionalists against the Atlanta Police Foundation, the Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and his submissive City Council, Michael Thurmond and the Dekalb County government, Ryan Millsap and Shadowbox Studios, and all of the contractors hoping to devastate the land, displace its life forms, and replace them with a police training facility and soundstage complex.
This struggle has been something of a burning torch for class confrontation and subversive cultural innovation in the United States for nearly 3 years. It would not be an exaggeration to say this has been the sharpest struggle in North America during the entirety of the Biden-Harris administration.
The nature of this confrontation was altered permanently by the hasty and poorly-made decisions of Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb. These officers ambushed and killed Tortuguita, the nom de guerre with which we knew a 26 year old anarchist living in the forest.
******************** Continue reading “JANUARY 18: DAY OF THE FOREST DEFENDER”