Reportback – Unsalted Counter Info

REPORTBACK FROM NOISE DEMO @ WASHTENAW COUNTY JAIL 10/23

Posted on 2025/11/07 - 2025/11/07 by unsalted

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

A noise demo was held on october 23rd at washtenaw county jail at 2201 HOGBACK rd in ann arbor to demand the release of two (of three) comrades who were arrested at a protest of an iof talking tour event put on by U of M’s ‘students supporting israel’ chapter that same evening.

A group of about 100 of us organically assembled at the jail’s main entrance, drumming and clanging as we do at noise demos. After a short period of making noise at the main entrance of the jail (on the washtenaw side), we decided to move around the perimeter of the jail, towards the Hogback side. This is where the two garages are that cops use to bring the people they’ve kidnapped into the jail. We rounded into the garage area and broke out into chants and clangs. At this point some of us decided to make noise using the garage door itself. That garage door sure did shake!

We pounded against these impermanent walls- kicking and throwing our bodies against it as the beat to which we shouted for the release of our comrades. Boy did it piss the pigs off…Sure enough cruisers rounded into the entrances off of hogback in what looked like a potential kettle. We slowly moved back from the garage so as to avoid this, continually chanting and shouting expletives at the approaching officers. After standing ground for about a half hour, people slowly decided to leave.

Continue reading “REPORTBACK FROM NOISE DEMO @ WASHTENAW COUNTY JAIL 10/23” →

Community Notice: Activist Followed Home for Alleged Protest Activity: Tied to “Terrorist Group” for Said Activity

Posted on 2025/10/24 - 2025/10/24 by unsalted

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

After an alleged counterprotest that took place in responce to a far right gathering on September 21st.The Wheaton Police Department followed an activist home and ran the license plate on their personal car. According to word of mouth, this activity is being labeled as “terrorist activity” and this activist is being accoused of being apart of a “terrorist group”

We post this not to spread fear, but awareness, we encourage all activists and protesters to reevaluate their digital and in person security practices to respond to this increase in monitoring and state survailance

North Lake Correctional Center Noise Demo Reportback

Posted on 2025/09/16 - 2025/09/16 by unsalted

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

On Saturday, September 6, 2025, about 200 Michiganders gathered outside of the North Lake Correctional Center for a noise demo. Formerly a youth prison, since June 2025, North Lake has become an ICE detention center operated by GEO Group, holding over 600 people captive from various ICE raids across the Midwest.

The demonstration was called by the No Detention Centers in Michigan coalition. First, there were a few speakers. Members of the coalition, a lawyer who represents some prisoners at North Lake, as well as the voices of some of the people trapped inside. Some imprisoned people and their loved ones sent statements or audio recordings to be read or played back at the demo, while one person happened to call during the demo and was able to have their voice amplified and to hear their supporters. While the speakers addressed the crowd, ICE goons drove past the gathering in white pickup trucks, recording the crowd with camcorders and spying on everyone with binoculars (the cowards wouldn’t come out and confront anyone).

Continue reading “North Lake Correctional Center Noise Demo Reportback” →

Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus

Posted on 2025/06/19 - 2025/06/19 by unsalted

A satellite view of the site with many locations marked and captions pointing out various things like fences, buildings, and empty fields.

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

Comrades visited Steelworkers Park and walked through the surrounding land to scout the area where the Quantum campus is scheduled to be constructed. This report back is based on two scouts. Go and see for yourself.

Steelworkers Park is a public city park: folks are on walks with their dogs, fishing, climbing, and birdwatching. There’s free parking, DIVY bikes, and community work days. A cop car was present in the cul-de-sac of the entrance/parking/exit, like at many public parks. Rainbow Beach is further north, another public park with several parking lots. It would be a manageable distance to bike from.

There are traffic cameras at the 87th and LSD intersection and some above the parking area for the park. No other cameras were spotted throughout the land at the time of writing [mid April 2025].

The land specifically designated for the first phase of the construction of the Quantum base is directly south of the Steelworkers Park entrance. It butts up against the west side of the park and continues south towards US Army Corps of Engineers signs (looks like piles of rocks mostly tbh). This land is surrounded with a 5.5 ft fence. There are gates at several points which are locked, but there are a number of places where the fence has been damaged (notably on the north side there’s a giant rock that opens the space). It is also climbable. “No Trespassing” signs are nearly entirely absent. One was seen along with a US Army Corps of Engineers sign at the very westernmost fence near a gated entrance along LSD.

This lot varies in appearance; some areas have waist-height grass, some areas have denser trees, some of it is almost cleared. There are construction cones and little marking flags throughout, but it is not clear whether these are new or leftover from the past. There’s a bunch of trash, including two human-abandoned, bee-busy beehives. There are multiple “well testing” spots throughout. There are a number of gravel / dirt roads at various locations as well. There was a truck with a drill parked on one of these dirt roads. No workers were seen; unclear if the truck is there long term or what.

There’s a smaller fenced in area with a taller fence (~10ft) with barbed wire. The gate however is wide open. There’s a caterpillar sitting near this area, also unclear how long it’s been sitting.

It does not look like construction has started nor that there is elevated surveillance at this time. Keep watch, take risks. Fight against Quantum. Fight for the lake, the beavers, South Shore, for privacy and autonomy, for ur lovers and friends.

Continue reading “Spring 2025 Scouting at Proposed Location for the Quantum Campus” →

ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP

Posted on 2025/04/22 - 2025/04/22 by unsalted

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this report-back of recent movement building and protest against the specter of Quantum in so-called Chicago.

On the spring equinox, March 20, 2025, opponents of a plan to build the 9 Billion dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park(IQMP) on the shores of southern Lake Michigan or Mishigami, disrupted an event that the Chicago Architecture Center hosted to sell the project to the public.

A dozen people rallied outside of the entrance of the swank downtown offices of the Chicago Architecture Center Thursday, calling simultaneously for the whole project to be stopped entirely, but also to make sure that the people are not forgotten if developers were to go forward with terraforming the lakefront to make room for this massive tech campus, and that there are also plans to ensure that somehow it would benefit the people currently living in the neighborhoods and the local ecosystem, not corporate profit and militarization. Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum”, “Quantum = Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer” and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted.

Continue reading “ANTI QUANTUM DAY Reportback, Opponents of PsiQuantum Facility in Chicago Disrupt Architecture Center Event with PsiQuantum VP “ →

Fight Like a Flea: Lessons from the Casbah of Basel al-Araj

Posted on 2024/06/10 by unsalted

The occupied Institute of Politics building at University of Chicago, temporarily the Casbah Basel al-Araj, with various banners. They read "casbah bassel al-araj", "Fuck UChicago", "Free Palestine", and the demans "1. Free Palestine 2. Abolish the University 3. Land Back 4. Fuck Gentrification 5. Fuck 12"

Originally published on https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/06/04/fight-like-a-flea-lessons-from-the-casbah-of-basel-al-araj/

“The flea has fascinating fighting strategies and techniques…It does not kill its host…what it does is exhaust its host and consume its blood, causing constant disturbance, eventually preventing the host from being able to rest. It makes the host nervous and demoralized. […]

[T]he guerilla fights its wars like fleas…If the battle lasts long enough to exhaust the host then it will fail in the battle due to its weakness while unable to locate the flea(s)…[F]ight like a flea.” Live Like A Porcupine, Fight Like A Flea

“The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law, stability, public interest, and the greater good.” Exiting Law & Entering Revolution

CONTEXT

Since October 7th, Chicago has seen countless marches and actions that have been successful in bringing out hundreds and thousands of people. However, many of these numbers consist of suburbanites driving or being bussed into the city to show support, rather than a mass of Chicagoans coming together from across the deeply race- and class-segregated city. In addition, these marches have usually been put on by a small number of nonprofit organizations. They have been heavily marshaled and largely symbolic, leaving many people demoralized and looking for more.

As every day sees more Gazans murdered by the zionist entity, symbolic parades that play into respectability politics at every turn and ask the state for permission to protest are clearly a toothless and insufficient response. Small, isolated acts of sabotage aren’t enough either—it is crucial to seek more militant forms of collective action. These actions should demonstrate an understanding of the throughline between the colonial states of the US and Israel, and the need to abolish both entirely—prisons, police, military, and state bureaucracies alike—to stop both the genocide in Gaza and the daily forms of state violence here in Chicago. From within the imperial core, there’s an obligation to interrupt the material support that the “U.S.” provides “israel.”

In order to encourage more militant collective action, there is a need for a change in protest culture that is rife with peace policing liberal concerns about “outside agitators.” Contrary to what peace police, protest managers, and the heads of liberal social justice organizations would have us believe, many people are looking to take more escalated action and learn the skills to do so together. This desire clearly expressed itself in flashes at the campus encampments here in Chicago, including in the brief but impactful establishment of the Casbah of Basel Al Araj on the University of Chicago campus.

Continue reading “Fight Like a Flea: Lessons from the Casbah of Basel al-Araj” →

New Zine: UCHICAGO REPORTBACKS AND LETTER TO THE ENCAMPMENT (updated)

Posted on 2024/06/03 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted

Various tents are pitched on the campus of University of Chicago, behind plastic orange construction fencing and a sign reading "Free Palestine"

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

here’s a zine reportback of various encampments on University of Chicago’s campus.

Printable version here

Full text below:

29-30 April 2024
Northwestern University 2.0???

Uchi’s encampment has been very disappointing. For starters, the community agreements are not community agreements. They are rules. One silly thing that they have decided for the quad is that no one can smoke or vape when it’s the norm. They have also decided to declare that people will not engage with any form of authority while they behave as such. Organizers and marshals have formed an internal divide within the encampment. On day one of the encampment, members decided to take down the israeli multi-flag display, and marshals chased them down and took pictures of them. It says on the community “agreements” that people are not supposed to take pictures of others without consent. Does that only apply to people who do what they say? Zionists eventually put them back up with UCPD guards. If marshals are supposed to “keep the camp safe,” wouldn’t it have been a great time to block them from taking the flags down? Continue reading “New Zine: UCHICAGO REPORTBACKS AND LETTER TO THE ENCAMPMENT (updated)” →

Anarchist May Day Parade Storms Through Fulton Market, Chicago

Posted on 2024/05/08 - 2024/05/08 by unsalted

On May 1, 2024, a group of rabble rousers and freaks took part in an anarchist May Day parade that stormed through the Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago. Before leaving Union Park, people danced around a May Pole in costumes, shared food, laughter and music and then hit the streets. The group of about 80 people was tailed by at least 30 squad cars as many people chanted, danced and re-decorated the highly gentrified neighborhood.

This action came together in the midst of four of Chicago’s big universities hosting occupations in support of Palestinian liberation as the Genocide continues.

Walking down Randolph street towards the original Haymarket Square, the group antagonized gentrifying zionists as they sipped their wine in the outdooor restaurants along the boulevards. The group brought noise and commotion to the Google building, Chase Bank, Starbucks and global headquarters of McDonalds — all four companies having known ties with Israel. The march culminated in a stand off with dozens of cops in front of McDonald’s Hamburger University, where some protestors were brutalized and arrested.

The cops continue to serve and protect the genocidal actions of the Israeli Occupation Forces and the US government while children die. But, a collective rage is bubbling and comrades all around the world are coming together to fight. Find your people, dance in the streets, create ruins and do everything you can to wreak havoc.

This action is dedicated to the Chicago anarchists, Haymarket Martyrs and all those who have lost their lives in Palestine.

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

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/

Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info.

Noise Demo Outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago

Posted on 2024/01/02 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted

A crowd marches in the street holding banners reading "criminals are better lovers" and "fire to the prisons" with images of a burning cop car, ak-47, and circle-a

In 2024, as always, it’s time to call for the abolition of police, prisons, and prosecutors.

Side note: the looks we got from average people celebrating new year’s eve by bar hopping in downtown Chicago once we pulled out the “Criminals are better lovers” banner was PRICELESS. Sadly, not pictured here. Continue reading “Noise Demo Outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago” →