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Month: February 2024

A Report-Back and Call to Action from Madison, Wisconsin

Posted on 2024/02/21 - 2024/03/06 by unsalted
Portrait photo of University of Wisconsin officer Adam E Boardman

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

  • address:
    2031 Saint Albert the Great Drive
    Sun Prairie, WI 53590
  • work phone number: 608-265-0022
  • home phone number: 608-843-4304
  • work email: adam.boardman@wisc.edu, AEB@athletics.wisc.edu.

You can also tell his boss to fire him at:

Brent Plisch

  • email: brent.plisch@wisc.edu
  • work phone: 608-890-2730

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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Posted in Call to Action, Free Palestine, General, ReportbackTagged call to action, Free Palestine, Madison, police violence, Wisconsin

~~~ BEHAVIOR IS COMMUNICATION ~~~

Posted on 2024/02/18 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted

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 ~~~” →

Posted in GeneralTagged Neurodivergence, Parenting, Youth Liberation

MhTAC Announces Family Abolition Reading Group

Posted on 2024/02/18 - 2024/03/06 by unsalted

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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Posted in Events, GeneralTagged LGBTQI+, Madison, mhtac, reading group, Wisconsin

Chicago action in solidarity with Appalachians Against Pipelines

Posted on 2024/02/02 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted
A bicycle u-lock is locked to the front doors of a Bank of America branch. It is covered in white tape with various slogans written on it: No MVP! Stop Cop city! Viva Tort! Doom 2 the Pipeline! Stop!

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.

The front doors of a Bank of America branch are locked together with a bicycle u-lock, with some flyers wheat-pasted to the front doors.

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” →

Posted in Communiqués, Defend the Atlanta Forest, Free Palestine, No MVPTagged Chicago, direct action, eco-defense, Free Palestine, No MVP, Sabotage, Stop Cop City, vandalism

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