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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

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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 “ →

Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, Disruption, Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, Quantum Computing

LDC Gas Forum in Chicago Disrupted

Posted on 2024/11/13 by unsalted
Two people hold a banner reading "Enbridge out of the great lakes! Shut down line 5 now!" in front of a hotel

Evil Enbridge out of the Great Lakes! Shut Down Line 5 NOW! A noisy disruption swept through the cocktail reception of the LDC gas forum in Chicago. The 3 day forum consisted of talks from directors and players in the oil and gas industry, hype-ing false solutions like carbon capture technologies, and how to keep expanding the oil and gas industry further while we descend into a world of deeply uncertain futures as climate change reshapes and ravages ecosystems on a global level and biodiversity rapidly declines.

A group of people entered the hotel hosting the conference and crashed the attendee’s welcome reception of the 2024 LDC Mid-Continent Gas Conference. A banner with the words, “Enbridge Out of the Great Lakes, Shut Down Line 5 Now!” on one side and, “Evil Enbridge, Fuck Off!” on the other side was unfurled at the cocktail hour reception. People sang, and chanted with a bullhorn, played instruments, and left messages for Enbridge and other gas companies inside the hotel. After causing a ruckus inside, the group walked outside to the bar’s patio overlooking the Chicago River, and less than one mile from Lake Michigan, to “greet” more LDC conference attendees with noise, banners, and rowdy jeers. One person was arrested by the pigs for allegedly trespassing and released onsite.

Notably present, Enbridge, the pipeline company responsible for moving tar sands from Alberta, Canada to its conglomeration of pipelines surrounding the Great Lakes region, known as the “Lakehead pipeline system” hosted talks and presentations as a major contributor at the LDC gas forum. Enbridge directors even gave a girl-boss presentation named: “Empowering Women in Energy: Tomorrow is Together”, in an attempt to say their industry of death and destruction is at least inclusive to women and anyone else who wishes a oil & gas fueled speedy demise to human existence on this planet
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https://unsalted.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/f14d0b23aeac719683052c5d37c1a5737786659e484a8cf7d009b753f0c6c4a8.mp4

Continue reading “LDC Gas Forum in Chicago Disrupted” →

Posted in Communiqués, GeneralTagged Chicago, Disruption, eco-defense, Enbridge, LDC Gas Forum

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

New Announcements-Only Signal thread in Chicago: Pesky Parakeets

Posted on 2024/08/21 - 2024/09/01 by unsalted
A flyer reading "follow pesky parakeets on signal messenger" with the username "parakeet.24", a QR code, and the description "for crowd-sourced announcements, on the ground updates, and information for the DNC and beyond." It features a nest of parakeets on a telephone pole.

For the DNC and beyond! Based on the Sunbird model used in Austin, Texas. We plan to post events, calls to action and support, and on the ground updates.

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Posted in GeneralTagged Announcements, Chicago, Events

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” →

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

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"

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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)” →

Posted in Free Palestine, General, Reportback, ZinesTagged Chicago, Free Palestine, Occupation, U Chicago, University Encampment, Zines

REPORTBACK: RAMADAN FLOOD ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Posted on 2024/05/08 - 2024/06/04 by unsalted

Chicago has amplified calls from the Palestinian resistance factions for mobilization against the Zionist entity and its enablers in the month of Ramadan and to mark six months since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Israel cannot prosecute this war of extermination without the financial support of the United States. Nor can it maintain the pace of destruction without massive American arms transfers. In light of this we level our attack on the reserves and industrial capacity of the military-industrial complex.

A short drive west from Chicago sits the Rock Island Arsenal, headquarters of the US Army’s Joint Munitions Command. The JMC produces, tests, stores, repairs, and distributes conventional weapons, chemical weapons, vehicles, and other materiel to supply the US armed forces – and for arms sales and transfers. A militarily designated strategic rail network (STRACNET) rail line crosses the west end of the island on which the arsenal sits, connecting it to other JMC facilities and the wider strategic rail network at large. This rail bridge crosses a section of the Mississippi River that frequently floods – as such, its steel supports on the industrial southern bank have seen better days. Continue reading “REPORTBACK: RAMADAN FLOOD ON THE MISSISSIPPI” →

Posted in Communiqués, Free Palestine, GeneralTagged anti-imperialism, Chicago, direct action, Free Palestine, Palestine, repost, Sabotage

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.

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Posted in General, ReportbackTagged Chicago, May Day, Reportback

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

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

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