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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

Tortuguita Vigil, January 18th, Lansing

Posted on 2024/01/11 by unsalted
Event flyer reading: 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

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

Posted in Defend the Atlanta Forest, Events, GeneralTagged abolition, anti-repression, call to action, Lansing, RIPTortuguita, Stop Cop City

JANUARY 18: DAY OF THE FOREST DEFENDER

Posted on 2024/01/09 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted

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” →

Posted in Call to Action, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged anti-repression, call to action, counter-repression, eco-defense, Solidarity, Stop Cop City

“If the Cops Kill Me I Want You to Riot”

Posted on 2024/01/06 by unsalted
An Atlanta Police Department cruiser burns, with overlaid text reading "Jan 18 2024 Tortuguita was murdered by the state on this day last year. Take action anywhere + everywhere on turtle island and all over the world. Honor its life. Cherish its memory. Be ungovernable. You know what to do."

“If the cops kill me I want you to riot
Burn down their stations and set their cars alight
Know that I went out fighting and wish we all
Could just have peace and be free
…
We cannot have peace until this empire falls. Even then, peace takes work and freedom is a constant struggle. If the cops kill me I want you to riot, to kill as many of them as you can.” – Tort’s diary p. 121

Tortuguita lived and died fighting for the dispossessed, the wild, and the feral; against the world of empire, prisons, and police. It was a true warrior who made the forest its home, devoted their life to the struggle, and was willing to die a revolutionary death rather than be captured. We invite all those who knew Tort, and all who were impacted by its life from afar, to take the anniversary of their death as an opportunity to reflect on our own commitments and deepen our resolve, so that we might invigorate and intensify our conflictuality.

Rather than retreat into the bounds of comfort and safety, let us allow our memory of Tort to remind us of what it means to truly act in accordance with our values, and to challenge ourselves to follow through. We are rendered harmless only when we allow our fear of the enemy to eclipse our desires to defend the land and reduce this capitalist hellworld to ashes. Remember that the mechanisms of subjugation and control encroach all around us. Wherever you are, you need not venture far to find the veins of industry; go out and sever them.

We need not be concerned with optics and media portrayals. We have no interest in seeking validation, recognition, or understanding from the same media outlets — agents of the society we wish to destroy — that deadname and misgender Tortuguita and relentlessly whitewash its life as one of nonviolence and passivity. Additionally, to contort our actions to render them acceptable to the general public is to inevitably dull them to the point of irrelevance. To work only within the confines of the existent is to disarm ourselves completely. As anarchists, we are able to speak to each other in a language all our own. When we redecorate walls, shatter windows, and set fires, we speak to each other in ways that the media and the general public need not understand; we become beautiful. When we refuse legibility, when we refuse sympathy and demands, we refuse cooptation, we refuse recuperation, and we seek out life.

Avenge Tortuguita — Avenge the Forest

Originally published on https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/05/if-the-cops-kill-me-i-want-you-to-riot/

Posted in Call to Action, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged call to action, direct action, repost, RIPTortuguita, Solidarity, Stop Cop City

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

Banner Drops in Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor in Solidarity with Stop Cop City

Posted on 2023/11/13 - 2023/11/16 by unsalted
A banner hanging from a roof in downtown Ann Arbor which reads "Free Palestine, Stop Cop City"

Last night we dropped a banner in downtown Ann Arbor reading “Free Palestine, Stop Cop City” in solidarity with the Block Cop City Week of Action and with Palestinians everywhere.

The genocide of Palestinians is directly supported by the Atlanta Police Foundation and all cops defending it. These two struggles are connected. The unmitigated violence of Cop City as well as the IDF will be brought “home” to be used against us if the need arises. No to settler colonialism, no to cop city!
A black flag on a police monument flagpole which reads "ACAB"
We also improved a local police monument by hoisting a black flag reading “ACAB” in place of some thin blue line trash, to make them mad and make us laugh.

Love and rage to everyone throwing down to stop cop city, and to everyone fighting for life against domination.

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Posted in Communiqués, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged Banner Drop, Block Cop City, Free Palestine, No Cop City, Solidarity, Stop Cop City

Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized – Statement from 12 of the 61 People Indicted on RICO Charges in Atlanta

Posted on 2023/11/09 - 2024/06/05 by unsalted

This RICO indictment is an attempt by the state to not only criminalize dissent, but a specific set of ideas which leads to dissent and offers an alternative framework to the state and capitalism. Anarchism, solidarity, mutual aid, and collectivism are specifically named in the indictment to make people afraid of these ideas, when the only people who are actually afraid of these collective ways of organizing are the politicians, cops, and corporations who seek to preserve their absolute power over humanity. If we had ways of living more collectively, satisfied our needs through mutual aid, and had solidarity with each other, people may realize they don’t need the state or capitalism, and they may realize that the greatest causes of human suffering and barriers to freedom and security are the state and capitalism. The state wants us to be atomized consumers who cannot survive without selling ourselves to someone wealthier than us, who rely on alienating, impersonal judicial systems and violence from a gang of armed outsiders to resolve our conflicts, who outsource the production of our food to invisibIlized, mostly non-white, non-citizen laborers, and who outsource our decisions to a corrupt, unaccountable politician class. The state wants us to be terrified and paralyzed into allowing the continuation of its sordid legacy through the land grab, the plantation, and the prison farm which haunts the Weelaunee forest and all the state’s territories to this day. This critical analysis of the state is an important part of anarchism, and it is what the state and corporate media want to scare us away from and criminalize.

Acting autonomously and directly to shape our world is a good thing. Solidarity means seeing our siblings in the human species as people with the same intrinsic value as ourselves. A society which depends on endlessly competing, undercutting, exploiting, dominating, and selling each other out is going to be scrutinized and resisted by anyone who believes in solidarity. Mutual aid means providing for each other and collectively gaining from the construction of mutually beneficial interpersonal/inter-community relationships. A society which depends on depriving us of the ability to meet our needs for food, water, shelter, and healthcare and then selling them back to us is going to be seen as unjust and worth changing/rejecting by anyone who believes in mutual aid. Fowler’s description of collectivism is a bogeyman meant to imply that anarchists intend to force everyone to give up their personal autonomy and sacrifice their needs for the collective, but in fact a core goal of anarchism is to empower people to have more autonomy, and a core goal of the state to force everyone to sacrifice some or all of their autonomy for the continuation of systems which enrich a shocking few and are making the Earth uninhabitable. Do you feel free when you go to work? When you pay taxes? When you pay rent? When you pay for health insurance? When you pay for groceries? If people had more solidarity maybe they wouldn’t allow the US to invade and exploit other countries with impunity. Maybe they wouldn’t allow the US to imprison millions of people, tear apart families at the border, or let people starve to death while throwing away half of all the food. If people learned about mutual aid maybe they would start to solve these problems themselves, start to mitigate the damage done by the state, and demonstrate that none of it is necessary. Continue reading “Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized – Statement from 12 of the 61 People Indicted on RICO Charges in Atlanta” →

Posted in Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged eco-defense, No Cop City, Solidarity, Statements, Welaunee

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!

Posted in Communiqués, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged Chase Bank, direct action, No Cop City, RIPTortuguita, vandalism

Michigan State Police Sign Tagged in Solidarity with Stop Cop City

Posted on 2023/04/28 by unsalted
Michigan State Police car with "Stop Cop City" and "Justice 4 Tort" written on it with spray paint, with a circle-a over the Michigan State Police logo

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JUSTICE FOR TORT, WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY, 1312

Posted in Communiqués, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged No Cop City, RIPTortuguita, vandalism

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.

Posted in Communiqués, Defend the Atlanta Forest, GeneralTagged direct action, Merrill Lynch, No Cop City, Porsche, RIPTortuguita, Solidarity, vandalism

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