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Month: October 2024

Towards Another Uprising

Posted on 2024/10/25 by unsalted
Graffiti on a wall reads "war starts here"

At the end of 2010 an individual act of despair in the town of Sidi Bouzid ignited a daring, enraged, and joyful upheaval that travelled through North Africa into the Middle East and beyond. People defied the oppressive systems they had been immersed in for generations and came together in the streets to topple the political elites at their helm. The authorities, at first stunned by this courageous spirit that they couldn’t understand, then unleashed a cynical and brutal response.

This defeat is still being inflicted on the people in the region, and is also felt all over the world by those who stood in solidarity with the uprisings but were mostly unable to overcome their powerlessness as the uprisings were massacred.

The horrors in the region during the last decade are many. To name some that stick most in my mind: Sisi has turned back the clock in Egypt to military dictatorship with the material support of the US. The regimes in the other North-African countries are paving over any sign of freedom while being coaxed by European countries to shut down the immigration routes over the Mediterranean. Without the murderous military campaigns of Hezbollah and the IRGC in Syria, Assad wouldn’t have survived the uprising. The Iranian regime itself brutally oppressed three different uprisings in the country in the last decade. Most people in Lebanon are in a daily struggle for survival because of the greed of its political leaders while mobs at the orders of Hezbollah beat down street protests. Early on in the uprisings, Hamas, who has shot political opponents in broad daylight on the streets of Gaza, culled attempts at an uprising by rounding up protest organizers and threatening them with murder. Leaders in the region understood once again that they can use any means against the populations under their control without real push-back from outside. Indifference, cynicism and opportunism trump moral appeals, and strategic alliances are always in play. The world churns on. For those of us who have not looked away, how can we not see a connection between Assad bombing Syrian cities into obliteration and Netanyahu razing Gaza? Continue reading “Towards Another Uprising” →

Posted in Free Palestine, GeneralTagged anti-imperialism, Commentary, Free Palestine, Palestine, repost

Call for Autonomous Acts of Rage Against Colonization Everywhere on Monday October 14th 2024

Posted on 2024/10/12 by unsalted
A single wolf in the woods, howling to the sky.

“We will need each other to make sure that the flames, if they were to come, clear the area that we will live in together. We will need to clear it of the fuel that would end up repeating the problems we are currently having. We will need to make sure that the seeds, nutrients and soil are scattered beyond our ability to control.” Aragorn

We don’t just want a cease fire, we want the Right of Return for all Palestinian people, for water to flow, and the traditions to stay alive. We can’t get back the countless lives lost, but we can honor and avenge them. And we will.

For the end of the struggle that is settler colonialism everywhere. Where the land is stolen, consent violated, the old ways forgotten – let it burn.

We hope that every colonizer who robs the lives and dignity of the land and the people on it understands that their great-grandchildren, and their great-grandchildren’s children are not going to be here because of their violence and indeterminent destruction.

We will still be here fighting for the next seven generations, but we will never forget the slaughter, and we will remember to make sure those grandchildren stay afraid of all that is wild.

The united states government now “recognizes” indigenous people’s day alongside columbus day. we must make this impossible to reconcile. We will remain illegible to them, and unknowable to all but each other and the stars above, the water below, and all that of the earth fighting back. We call out to the brave and the humble – all that is striving towards life, while defying management, capture, and domestication with a strength they could never know.

find the connections, funders, manufacturers, advisors, politicians, gentrifiers, and all enemies of the people and the earth. you know who they are.

find some friends and haunt those motherfuckers ghosts

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Posted in Call to Action, GeneralTagged Anti-Colonial, anti-imperialism, call to action, Free Palestine, Indigenous Day of Rage

Upcoming Fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare: November 1-3

Posted on 2024/10/10 - 2024/10/11 by unsalted
Flyer for a Chicago Anarchist Skillshare. A skeleton hand is holding a rose in the foreground, over a checkered background. It reads "let's take care of each other so we can be dangerous together". The date and location info: Nov 1st, Patchwork Farms, 2825 W Chicago Ave, 6-10pm. Nov 2nd & 3rd, Westside Justice Center, 601 S. California Ave, 12-9pm. An email at the bottom: chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net

❤️‍🔥Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together ❤️‍🔥

🍂Join us for a fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare, the weekend before the election on November 1-3!🍂

After over a year full of actions, disruptions and more, we are focusing on skillshares and group-faciliated sessions on care, in AND out of the streets.

What does it look like to care for ourselves and our people when we are not in the streets? What is care in times where people are reckoning with immense repression and dehumanization that comes with trying to confront the empire and all its entities?

While we don’t claim to have all the answers, we invite folks to engage in these questions with us.

​​​​​​​Some skillshare workshops to look forward to are: care under stress, diaster relief and mutual aid work, long-term prisoner support, somatic exercises, operational and digital security culture, fighting toxic prisons, storytelling by the beehive collective, community and self defense, conflict resolution, storytelling around the bonfire and so much more! Continue reading “Upcoming Fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare: November 1-3” →

Posted in Events, GeneralTagged Chicago, Events, Skillshare

University of Michigan Admin Homes and Israel-Linked Businesses Redecorated on October 7th

Posted on 2024/10/10 by unsalted
The front doors of an office building are spray-painted with "Free Palestine"

To mark one year of genocide against the Palestinian people, an autonomous group visited the homes of two University of Michigan leaders, President Santa Ono and Chief Investment Officer Erik Lundberg. They also decorated the offices of the Jewish Federation of Detroit and the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator, organizations that are deeply entrenched in the apartheid state. From businesses to universities, we reject all financial support for the Israeli regime.

Continue reading “University of Michigan Admin Homes and Israel-Linked Businesses Redecorated on October 7th” →

Posted in Communiqués, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged direct action, Free Palestine, Michigan, Palestine, University of Michigan, vandalism

Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: On Bad-jacketing

Posted on 2024/10/04 - 2024/10/04 by unsalted
A black and white collage featuring a pallet of bricks, and title of the zine "not liking someone doesn't mean they're a cop", with the subtitle "or a zionist, or a fed, or a white parachuter from montreal". The background are different social media posts claiming that pallets of bricks are traps placed by cops.

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Since the commencement of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, millions around the world have taken to the streets in support of Palestine against the genocidal Zionist entity. We are, globally, in an unprecedented moment of anti-imperialist mobilisation, which threatens not only the Zionist occupation but the colonial powers that uphold it.

This text was written through the summer and early autumn of 2024 from Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory (so-called Southern Ontario, Canada), where people, many new to the left, have been facing intensified violence and harassment from both police and Zionists. Protests are regularly met with arrests and other attacks, which have created a climate of fear among attendees and organisers.

At the same time, that fear, combined with a disconnect from previous generations of struggle and an often-unchallenged fear of militancy, has led to practices that end up putting our comrades in more danger. This text hopes to address one such recurring issue.

Continue reading “Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: On Bad-jacketing” →

Posted in Free Palestine, General, ZinesTagged anti-repression, Free Palestine, security culture, Zines

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