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Month: December 2023

Kalamazoo McDonald’s Vandalized for Palestine

Posted on 2023/12/27 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted
A McDonald's drive-through menu is covered with wheatpasted posters reading "McDonald's Supports Genocide", "Free Gaza", "River to Sea", "Stop Bombing Gaza", and "Stand with Palestine!"

Early one December morning in so-called “Kalamazoo, Michigan”, four humans dressed in black crept under the light of golden arches, posters and spray paint in hand. They set out to disrupt people’s genocide-flavored morning coffee. Rollers oozing wheat paste, they splattered signs which read, “McDonald’s supports genocide”, “Free Gaza River to Sea”, “Hungry for Freedom”, and other messages onto the driveway menus, windows, and the speaker box. They also sprayed the word “BOYCOTT” onto the wall of the building in black paint, and quickly made their exit.

A McDonald's window is covered with a wheatpasted flyer reading "Hungry 4 Freedom" with a Palestinian flag.

It was a monday morning. People would soon need their coffee to help them facilitate capitalism better, and McDonald’s would profit. The goal was to disrupt that as much as possible. While people in Kalamazoo enjoy a morning crappucino, people in Gaza don’t even have basic access to water – clean or dirty, thanks to corporations such as McDonald’s which directly support the Israeli bombings in Palestine. While people here can enjoy an egg mcmuffin and hashbrowns for breakfast, people in Gaza go hungry — 9 in 10 Gazans cannot eat everyday. If they do find food, it is likely moldly, expired, or otherwise unfit for consumption. While McDonald’s is hungry for profit, the world is hungry for freedom. The hope was to make the ongoing horrors in Palestine all too apparent to those who are complicit by supporting such businesses that aid in their continuation. Continue reading “Kalamazoo McDonald’s Vandalized for Palestine” →

Posted in Communiqués, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged anti-imperialism, direct action, Free Palestine, Kalamazoo, Palestine, vandalism

NOISE DEMO AT HOME OF STACIE KUHLMAN, REGIONAL MANAGER FOR BNY MELLON BANK, PRIMARY FUNDER OF ELBIT, PRIMARY SUPPLIER OF ARMS ISRAEL IS USING TO COMMIT GENOCIDE

Posted on 2023/12/14 - 2024/06/05 by unsalted
Protestors hold a banner reading "Stacie Kuhlman Invests in Palestinian Death"

This reportback consists of three elements. First, a description of the action, and the reasons it was taken. Second, a description of how this action was made to happen, to inspire comrades across the country to act. Third, lessons learned from the action for comrades.

I.

From Jinx Press:

In Chicagoland last night, an autonomous group gathered outside the home of Stacie Kuhlman, Midwest Regional President of Wealth Management for BNY Mellon bank.

Activists disrupted dinnertime in Kuhlman’s otherwise quiet, wealthy neighborhood. Under the frosty glow of Christmas lights, they banged on pots and pans, sang, and chanted, ‘Stacie K, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!’

Body bags representing the 15,000+ dead were tossed on Stacie Kuhlman’s lawn. Activists also distributed flyers to her neighbors. Some emerged from their homes to chat with LaGrange police officers.

One neighbor remarked to protesters, “She’s just doing what she’s told!”

“So were the Nazis!” they fired back.

BNY Mellon’s investment portfolios have directly funded Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons supplier.

The arms manufacturer’s stock prices have surged since October 7. As noted by activists, BNY Mellon increased their shares in Elbit by 22% less than three weeks after the Israeli invasion of Gaza—increasing the wealth of Kuhlman’s managed investments in parallel with the senseless slaughter of Palestinians.

Activists around the globe continue to pressure Elbit and its subsidiaries with direct actions and blockades in an effort to halt ongoing bombing and encourage disinvestment.

Images and video from this action can be found, at the time of this submission, at https://www.instagram.com/p/C0hVJ_NxbGB/?img_index=1

To add to this: Stacie seemed pretty disrupted. She seemed to call the police, but the small-town police didn’t arrive until about 10-15 minutes after the group of comrades arrived, and once the police got there, they didn’t seem to know what to do. At peak, there were 6 squad cars. After about half an hour, Stacie seemed to have left the house via the back driveway, and people continued making noise and chanting for another half hour, then chanted marching up and down the street for a little while to alert the neighbors of Stacie’s crimes. Continue reading “NOISE DEMO AT HOME OF STACIE KUHLMAN, REGIONAL MANAGER FOR BNY MELLON BANK, PRIMARY FUNDER OF ELBIT, PRIMARY SUPPLIER OF ARMS ISRAEL IS USING TO COMMIT GENOCIDE” →

Posted in Communiqués, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged Chicago, direct action, home demo

The Tender Recoding of the Cellular Motherboard — MhTAC announces transhumanist reading group

Posted on 2023/12/14 by unsalted

The Tender Recoding of the Cellular Motherboard

MhTAC announces transhumanist reading group

“It is the insertion of a topological-keyframe for the formation of a new logic. In affirming a future untethered to the repetition of the present, we militate for ampliative capacities, for spaces of freedom with a richer geometry than the aisle, the assembly line, and the feed.”–XF Overflow

On January 20th, at 10AM, outside Prairie Cafe, in Middleton Hills, our bodies and minds will transgress and rewire the very definitions of humanity and rediscover the intense cravings to connect and discover that the tepid token of domestic submission has hidden from us. The Middleton Hills Trans Anarchist Collective will be discussing Laboria Cuboniks’s The Xenofeminist Manifesto and a journal called Anarcho-Transhumanism #3, and will be considering how the philosophy of transhumanism can be used to liberate us from all forms of hierarchy and allow us to discover unimaginable joys through the constructive tensions of our bodies and minds. What do you want to hack from and beyond humanity to make your own belonging? What would you do with your life in an anarchist biology? What do you want to unpick and press the very tender filaments of together as the worlds in your spirit awaken?

Read the XF manifesto: https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/

Read a selection from Anarcho-Transhumanism #3: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lexi-linnell-this-machine-kills-ableism

Check out our website: https://linktr.ee/tranarchymiddletonhills

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Posted in Events, GeneralTagged anarcho-transhumanism, Madison, mhtac, reading group

Proud Theater Madison is back! Presenting “Proud Theater: Commercial Break”

Posted on 2023/12/12 - 2024/06/05 by unsalted

Proud Theater Madison is back! Art & Soul Innovations Inc. presents “Proud Theater: Commercial Break,” an exciting evening of theater and performance pieces written by and starring the talented youth of Proud Theater Madison, the city’s premier LGBTQIA+ and Allied youth theater troupe.

Proud Theater: Commercial Break runs December 15 (7:30pm) through 16 (2:30pm and 6:30pm) at the Madison Youth Arts Center (MyArts), located at 1055 East Mifflin Street, in Madison, Wisconsin. Tickets are a suggested donation of $10 at the door. Reservations for the show are encouraged and can be made via email at reservations@proudtheater.org. Since this is a youth production, audience members will be asked to wear a mask while in the theater space in order to curb the spread of COVID.

Proud Theater is an award-winning, exciting, and innovative youth theater program whose mission is ‘to change the world through the power of theater and the theater arts, and to make a positive difference in the lives of LGBTQIA+ youth through the tenets of art, heart, and activism.’ Founded in 1999, the group is open to youth ages 13 to 18 that identify as LGBTQIA+. Continue reading “Proud Theater Madison is back! Presenting “Proud Theater: Commercial Break”” →

Posted in Events, GeneralTagged LGBTQI+, Madison, Theater

SUPPORT REQUEST FOR HANNAH KASS

Posted on 2023/12/11 by unsalted

In addition to facing profound state repression, Stop Cop City RICO co-defendants are having their accounts at Bank of America suddenly closed. Defendant Hannah Kass, an organizer for food equity and eco-defense, is in need of survival funds this week because she had her account closed—to support Hannah and her co-defendants, please share this ask, and venmo @madisonsolidarity with the subject line “support.” No donation is too small, and if you can’t contribute financially, signal boosting this is equally helpful and meaningful. Thank you all for your community care and solidarity!

To learn more about Hannah and her co-defendants, check out the statement “Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized”: https://bbnews.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/10/statement-from-12-of-61-rico-co-defendants-anarchism-must-not-be-criminalized/

Posted in Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged anti-repression, Solidarity, Stop Cop City

FIND EACH OTHER: WINTER EDITION

Posted on 2023/12/08 - 2024/06/05 by unsalted

We wanted to submit this addendum to “Find Each Other, Build Your Communities: Full Moon Anarchist Gatherings”. So many people have been able to connect or reconnect with other anti-authoritarians thanks to the organizers of gatherings like the ones described. BUT, it seems that whomever wrote this either left some stuff out, or just isn’t familiar with Great Lakes region weather and/or doesn’t seem to be concerned about hosting potential superspreader events inside in the midst of another covid surge and the height of flu season. We have enough ancestors and enough of our people have been sidelined by long covid already. So here’s…

FIND EACH OTHER: WINTER EDITION

Most readers probably don’t imagine such social events happening outside in the middle of winter, in deep snow or blustry north winds, but sometimes that’s what we HAVE TO DO, for almost half the year. Thankfully, doing so can be just as fun as a summer event, just in different ways, and can leave you feeling badass after pulling it off. Continue reading “FIND EACH OTHER: WINTER EDITION” →

Posted in Call to Action, GeneralTagged call to action, Distro

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