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Transphobic Hair Salon in Traverse City Vandalized

Posted on 2023/07/22 - 2023/07/24 by unsalted

The storefront of a salon whose owner made transphobic comments is vandalized with spraypaint reading "TC loves trans folks" on the door, and "Trans power" etched on the window.

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The owner of Studio 8 Hair Lab, Christine Geiger, said that people who specify their pronouns should go to a pet groomer. She also said she didn’t care that she was in violation of MI HB 4744, a Michigan law banning gender discrimination. Well, trans people and their allies can break the law too, Christine, and we thought your store front could use some redecoration. Glass etch and spray paint reading “TC <3s trans folks” and “trans power” did just the trick. Trans people and our allies will not let this stand in our community.

Chase Bank and ATMs Vandalized in Southeast Michigan

Posted on 2023/07/12 - 2023/07/22 by unsalted

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here in so-called southeast Michigan, it was too freakin hot on the night of the 4th so we decided to take to the streets for mischief, and what did we find but a Chase Bank with plenty of good-sized windows and atms!
we decided to redecorate. we glued the ATMs shut and spray-painted the windows, and used acid-etch paint to write messages of resistance like DROP COP CITY and VIVA TORTUGUITA!
we think that your stupid bank looks MUCH better now. down with beige minimalism! up with the spirit of resistance!
it was the best fourth of july we’ve ever spent.

chase, if you don’t drop the Cop City project, we will rain down more destruction upon you and your buildings.

death to america!
death to banks everywhere!
STOP COP CITY!

Ypsilanti Slumlord’s Work Vehicles Slashed

Posted on 2023/07/06 by unsalted

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Reposted from https://unravel.noblogs.org/slumlords-work-vehicles-slashed-ypsilanti-mi/

July 04, 2023

So-called Ypsilanti, Michigan

To Mr. Beal:
Hey Stewie,
We slashed the tires on three of your fucking work trucks! They were just sitting there in the lot between Hamilton and Adams, looking all stab-able.
Housing should be free. No one wants to work dead-end, soul-crushing jobs just to turn over their earnings to you every month. All just to have a roof over our heads so we can have somewhere to rest before returning to our shit jobs? Nah.
We were meant for more fun and sexy things.
The tenants are tired of paying your mortgages for you while you refuse to make basic repairs on your shitty units. They’re tired of living in squalor while you reside comfortably in your remodeled home at 113 Buffalo St, Ypsilanti, MI (this action was successful despite cameras, so the 3 at your home should be no trouble).
Against all landlords!
The war is on, and there’s more of us than you.

To our friends:
While it’s not exactly our favorite holiday, did you know the chaos of the 4th of July makes good cover for all sorts of fun activities? The rocket’s red glare and bombs bursting in air provide good distraction for the FWOOSH of a depressurizing tire. Imagine the trouble we could cause if we started planning for next year now.

Anyhow, Beal has offices in Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Toledo also:
Grand Rapids
625 Kenmoor Ave. SE, Suite 301
Grand Rapids MI 49546

Lansing
835 Louisa St
Lansing, MI 48911

Toledo
2800 W. Central Ave. A
Toledo OH 43606

Patriot Front Leader Exposed in Flyers in Ann Arbor

Posted on 2023/04/29 by unsalted

Flyers exposing Patriot Front member "Alan MI" as University of Michigan student Jackson Rex, wheat-pasted in a 3x3 grid on a concrete pillar

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Thanks to various antifascists, “Alan MI” — the leader of the Michigan cell of the fascist organization Patriot Front — has been exposed as Jackson Rex, an undergraduate student at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor. The full article and a printable flyer can be found here: https://lonegunmenafa.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/22/university-of-michigan-student-unmasked-as-regional-patriot-front-leader/

Jackson is graduating this year so we made sure that his last week would be extra memorable for him by flyering all over campus and Ann Arbor, especially areas that other Ross students and parents visiting for graduation would see. His involvement in a fascist organization and his racist vandalism of the Ypsilanti BLM mural deserve to be known by his classmates, friends, and family.

The University of Michigan put a lot of effort into removing the flyers we put up (probably more effort than responding to concerns about their nazi student), but they kept going up. Fuck U of M and anyone else who shields fascists.

No safe spaces for nazis.

Michigan State Police Sign Tagged in Solidarity with Stop Cop City

Posted on 2023/04/28 by unsalted

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JUSTICE FOR TORT, WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY, 1312

the world IS on fire

Posted on 2023/04/24 - 2023/04/25 by unsalted

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last friday [April 14th], five fire alarms were pulled at university of michigan buildings simultaneously. the buildings were those with the most students in class, and the action was done in solidarity with the striking graduate students. trans people are being attacked from all sides and it is time that someone raised the alarm. love to every graduate student putting their job on the line for a better world, every u of m member who does not cross a picket line to side with the abusers, and to every queer and trans person who refuses to assimilate. rage at human resources, at scabs, and biggots.

xoxo

tortuguita mourned in ann arbor- cars painted and tires slashed

Posted on 2023/02/04 - 2023/02/10 by unsalted

Masked demonstrators on a snowy sidewalk hold a hand-painted banner reading "Rest In Power Tortugita, Forest Defender, Murdered By Police, #stopcopcity #justicefortort"

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last saturday, a crowd of 100 people gathered in front of the merrill lynch office building to share memories, tears, and vengence for tortuguita. the crowd was a militant throng, mostly in black from head to toe. the march took state street and then paraded behind a porsche dealership, which funds the atlanta police foundation. the crowd riotously engaged in expressions of grief, including spray painting fancy cars and slashing the tires of 40+ cars waiting to be sold. signs were left behind at porsche and merrill lynch stating “cop city will never be built” and “you fund police murder”. no arrests were made.

people discussed the cop city project, and how direct action can locally be taken to stop it. stopreevesyoung.com was discussed as a resource listing the companies (and the people who run them) who profit off of the murder of tortuguita. stopapf.noblogs.org lists the companies who fund this murder and desire to fund more police killings of us and our loved ones.

we love you tort, and we will never stop fighting for the world you believe in.

Atlas Offices Redecorated

Posted on 2023/01/24 by unsalted

Office building windows, vandalized with acid-etching paint, read "Justice 4 Tort", "RIP TORT" and have a circle-a

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From so-called Novi, MI:

On the Night of Rage (January 20) the Detroit MI Atlas offices were artfully decorated with acid-etching paint. Hope you had fun discovering that your windows are totally fucked, you shitheads. Atlas, until you stop supporting Cop City, there will be no safe corner for you on Turtle Island.

We did this in Tortuguita’s name. We love you, friend, and will never stop fighting. Love and rage to all those fighting in Atlanta.

-Your friends up north

Jane’s Revenge Publishes Open Letter to Jeanne Vanegmond

Posted on 2022/12/25 - 2023/01/02 by unsalted

Jeanne Vanegmond's garage door is spraypainted to read "Jeanne, If abortions aren't safe neither are you!"

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Dear Jeanne Vanegmond,

Your Pro-Birth And Anti-Choice Work At Pregnancy Aid In Eastpointe, Mi Has Not Gone Unnoticed. No Doubt You Know This, As We Left Messages For You There And At 1469 Yorktown St In Grosse Pointe Woods, Your Home. The “Pro-Life” Movement Has Cost Thousands Of People Their Lives And Trapped Even More In Desperate Circumstances They Didn’t Choose. Each Fake Clinic That Still Peddles Their Dangerous And Dehumanizing Lies Is A Threat To The Lives And Freedom Of Pregnant People. Vulnerable Pregnant People Who Need Help Deserve Access To All Of Their Options, They Don’t Deserve To Be Lied To And Coerced Into Making The Choice That You Want For Them. So, As Long As Abortions Aren’t Safe, Neither Are You.

To Anyone Else Reading This: The Anti-Choice Movement Wants A World Where Women Don’t Own Their Own Bodies, Where Their Bodies Are Instead Owned By The State And The Church. But We Can Fight For A Freer World. The Members Of The Anti-Choice Movement Have Names; Their Homes And Businesses Have Addresses. Our Tactics May Not Be Popular With The Media, But That’s No Matter. This Isn’t A Popularity Contest, But A Fight For Our Lives, And A Little Can Go A Long Way.

Over 100 Trees Spiked in Opposition to Camp Grayling

Posted on 2022/12/18 by unsalted

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Over the past 2 weeks more than 100 trees in and around the proposed camp grayling expansion area were spiked, namely forests managed by the grayling and gaylord department of natural resources. Spikes of various sizes were placed at various heights in red pine plantations (not necessarily marked for cut) and areas marked for cutting. To avoid worker injury we insist that all trees in Crawford, otsega, Roscommon, and kalkaska be thoroughly checked for spikes before cutting. We are very concerned about these worker’s safeties and wellbeings.

To ensure our claims are taken seriously, we have marked a stand of red pine in a dnr managed campground to demonstrate we are not bluffing. The bathroom is tagged and a few trees are tagged with a white s.

These trees were spiked as an opposition to camp grayling and the Michigan DNR. We will not sit idylly while the military industrial complex expands and the world and it’s people are destroyed by extraction.

We urge Michigan department of national resources to reject the proposal to expand camp grayling, to end cooperation with camp grayling, and to give landback.

Please, stop camp grayling and cop cities everywhere