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New Zine: Birds of a Feather, Destroy a Flock Together

Posted on 2025/03/27 by unsalted
Cover of the zine 'birds of a feather destroy flock together". The title is in stylized text above a photograph of a flock of birds on powerlines

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WHAT IS FLOCK?

Flock Safety is a mass surveillance start up based in Atlanta, Georgia that promises law enforcement and private business AI surveillance, license plate reading (LPR) technology, and real time alerts. Founded in 2017, the company now claims presence in 4,000 cities across 42 states. Flock LPRs compile unique identifying car information – License Plate, Make and Model, Color, Unique Alterations, and Frequency of Visits – then stores this data for 30 days. LPRs are leased to police, businesses, property managers or Home Owner Associations; these clients receive up to date hardware, maintenance and custom applications such as Hot List Alerts which allow them to track any vehicle(s) they desire in real-time. Flock boasts about its ability to identify a “vehicle fingerprint” which it claims includes color, make, model, bumper stickers, roof or bike racks, after market wheels, major scratches or dents, etc.

Standard Flock cameras cover 1.5 lanes of one-directional traffic up to a distance of 75 feet. They use a 16mm 1/2” lens with an IR filter, meaning the field of view is quite large but low-resolution. For night surveillance, they are outfitted with 6 LEDs that flash infrared light into the field of view. They use solar panels for power and an LTE modem for sending and receiving data.

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Posted in General, ZinesTagged abolition, anti-repression, call to action, direct action, Sabotage, security culture, Zines

#FreeCaseyNow: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement

Posted on 2025/01/01 - 2025/01/01 by unsalted
A noisy background with a newsprint image of a white man with a goatee, short shaved hair and glasses, who is presumably Casey Goonan. Text at the top reads "empty the prisons" and at the bottom "free casey goonan"

#FreeCaseyNow: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement

Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades. The impact they’ve made inside is prevalent, as indicated by statements from their comrades Stevie Wilson and Hybachi Lemar. They’ve always pushed to ensure an understanding of Black struggle and revolt as central to their abolitionist work, and through understanding the totality of anti-Blackness the importance of an anti-police and anti-prison perspective was brought into any and all of their efforts towards liberation.

In June of 2024, they were arrested by a task force comprised of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in connection with an alleged direct action which took place in solidarity with the UC Berkeley encampments which had been brutalized by police and zionists earlier in the year* . If convicted, they could face up to 20 years in prison with a minimum sentence of 5. The investigation and court proceedings are currently ongoing but a non cooperative plea deal is pending in which Casey will plea guilty to one charge to allow additional charges to be dropped. This plea deal does not include information or testimony against anyone else.

While Casey has received a great amount of support from decentralized community in New York, Chicago, California, and elsewhere, the pro-Palestine movement needs to be publicly and actively supporting them. Right now, their primary accomplices are those who personally know them, those who prioritize prisoner support, and fellow anarchists. Despite vague assertions of the interconnectedness of repression and struggles between the American policing and prison apparatuses to that of Israel, there has been little material manifestation from that understanding within the US pro-Palestine movement. Meanwhile, coordinated struggle between prisoners and outside militants has been a key point of success for Palestinian liberation.

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Posted in Call to Action, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged abolition, anti-repression, call to action, Casey Goonan, counter-repression, Free Palestine, prison abolition, prisoner support, Solidarity

6 Flock Cameras Smashed In Traverse City, MI

Posted on 2024/08/09 by unsalted
File photo of a Flock Camera installation. A solar panel sits atop a pole, with a cable connecting it to an oblong, black camera mounted lower on the pole.

On Anishinaabaewaki in so-called Traverse City, Michigan 6 Flock cameras got the crap smashed out of them as vengeance for Flock’s massive contribution to the security state. Quick tips for mapping them in your town: Street-facing Flock cameras always look the same – a roadside black camera body with a solar panel attached above it. If you see one in your town there are absolutely more. They most often come in pairs with each facing different directions on the same road. They are found mainly at choke-points and main thoroughfares in cities. Shout-out to the TC3. It’s smash Flock fall, baby. See ya out there.

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Posted in Communiqués, GeneralTagged abolition, direct action, Sabotage, Traverse City

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.

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Posted in Free Palestine, General, ReportbackTagged abolition, Chicago, direct action, Free Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, repost, U Chicago

New Zine: Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…

Posted on 2024/06/03 by unsalted
Cover of the zine "Red Flags: Before You Join That Org...". An illustration of a small crowd at a protest, with their speech bubbles combining into the title of the zine, as they observe vanguard party members distribute literature, hold signs, and attempt to lead them with a megaphone. The subheading reads "A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can do Instead".

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Ever since October 7th, authoritarian communist groups and vanguard parties have had a fresh crisis to use for their predatory recruiting and fundraising. More experienced people know to avoid them, but this doesn’t matter much. They depend on recruiting newly radicalized people, energetic and inexperienced, and without existing connections to other radicals that could warn them off.

This zine is an intervention. Written for people newer to radical politics, it outlines red flags to look out for, provides some history of the most well-known authoritarian communist groups’ harmful behavior, and offers a few alternatives to joining them. Give this to the new people you’re seeing join movements, it could help them avoid lots of grief and serious harm.

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Posted in General, ZinesTagged abolition, Distro, Zines

June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds – Call for Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and Long-term Anarchist Prisoners

Posted on 2024/05/12 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted
A Poster for June 11th Solidarity. It reads "June 11th, An International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and Long-term Anarchist Prisoners. There are no separate worlds. JUNE11.org" It is black and white with abstract and floral patterns.

Originally published on https://june11.noblogs.org/2024-call/

 

We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not separate from that of destruction. Prison is not separate from the “free world.” Means are not separate from ends. Bridging these divides is a shared curiosity and commitment; bridging these divides is solidarity. This is not to flatten or oversimplify diversity and differences in circumstance, intensity, and consequence. Rather, that these different pieces are held together like organs of the body held by connective tissue. So we consider: how do we strengthen this connective tissue? How do we remain strong, yet supple and flexible? Bridges, connection, must also be built through time, especially in a world that moves too fast, from one crisis to the next. June 11th aspires to be one of these bridges: to build solidarity across borders, between movements, and among generations. Remembering and supporting long-term prisoners, as well as carrying on shared struggles, are two ways to strengthen this connective tissue. A stronger connective tissue will, in turn, bolster us against further repression.

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Posted in Call to Action, GeneralTagged abolition, call to action, June 11, prison abolition, repost, Solidarity

New Zine: Peace Police are Police

Posted on 2024/03/12 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted
Cover of the zine "Peace Police Are Police", featuring the title and a simple illustration of a high-vis vest labeled "Peace Police"

How Protest Marshals Sabotage Liberation and Protect the State

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Posted in General, ZinesTagged abolition, anti-repression, counter-insurgency, counter-repression, direct action, Distro, Zines

Chicago Police Department Recruitment Posters Defaced

Posted on 2024/01/20 - 2024/01/20 by unsalted
https://unsalted.noblogs.org/files/2024/01/2631f9f37fab82234680c25ac041783ffe39cd8e9679e8974a495a72acab6613.mp4

Art project to deface Chicago police department recruitment posters the night of Tortuguita’s death anniversary.

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Posted in Communiqués, GeneralTagged abolition, Chicago, direct action, RIPTortuguita, 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

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.

A banner reading "fire to the prisons" with images of a burning cop car, ak-47, and circle-a is hung from a steel girder and a traffic light near a building.

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” →

Posted in General, ReportbackTagged abolition, Chicago, noise demo, prison abolition

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