How many times do we have to fucking say it?
CrimethInc’s ass quality excuse for an anarchist publication has been posting absolute garbage as of late but for fucks sake, DON’T DEADNAME TORT!
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How many times do we have to fucking say it?
CrimethInc’s ass quality excuse for an anarchist publication has been posting absolute garbage as of late but for fucks sake, DON’T DEADNAME TORT!
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Ho ho ho and Merry Christmas!
This year we’re writing you to let you know that we made our list, checked it twice, and Nationwide Insurance has been fucking naughty! We know when you’ve been bad or good, and we know that Nationwide has been very, very, very bad. Nationwide is the primary insurance for cop city, and the project can only continue if Nationwide continues to provide insurance.
So this holiday season we headed to Texas to deliver some coal to Jonna Hamilton, senior legal counsel for Nationwide. Start your new year off right Nationwide, drop the contract!
– Santa and his elves
P.S. Find a cop city supporter, take action, and next year we’ll all get the best present: victory!
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On Friday night 12/21, a Chase Bank located near Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn apartment was shut down with ample amounts of superglue in its door lock and card reader. Its windows and walls were redecorated with “Stop Cop City” and “Free Gaza”.
PROYECTO FÉNIX – Σχέδιο Φοίνικας (traducido al español) from La Salute e in Voi on Vimeo. [ARCHIVE.ORG https://archive.org/details/proyecto-fenix-sub]
the following has been translated from spanish to english using machine translation
if people desire translating the video from greek/spanish to english they should submit it here or upload to archive.org
the original in spanish follows
Extracted from other counter-information pages. The video in Greek was published in 2013 and translated into different languages in the following years. Remember that currently all the members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire are in the streets, comrades Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai remain imprisoned in Italy and again convicted of explosive attacks several years ago.
You can read more about the trial for Proyecto Fénix in Refractory Publication.
FÉNIX PROJECT (translated into Spanish, 2015)
The “Phoenix Project” was born as a gesture of solidarity dedicated to Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai, of the “Olga FAI/FRI Nucleus” who took responsibility for the armed attack against Roberto Adinolfi, nuclear entrepreneur of “Ansaldo Nucleare”, and also as an international attack initiative, starting in Greece with the placement of an explosive device against the Director of the Korydallos Prison.
The expansion of the actions framed within the project is developed throughout the length and breadth of different territories where the insurrectionary practice passes from theory to action, in absolute consequence with the words of those who declare war against all Authority and Power. At the same time, it is an incandescent revolutionary focus that urges dialogue and debate between different individuals organized in an informal and diffuse way that shape the permanent and minority attack.
The practice of anarchic internationalism is one of the foundations of the project, it is the moment where the autonomous attack finds a common ground that unites, nourishes and enhances different realities and tensions, pointing out and calibrating in its soul the persistent confrontation against the existing.
Each instance of sabotage and coordinated insurrectionary action in the Phoenix Project means assuming a projection of struggle and combat that challenges the peace of the citizen order without truce or mercy, making it understood that each place is a point of conflict, and that the expansion of the attack only depends on our capacities and wills.
In this version of the video we add the rest of the actions from the Ninth Act (Mexico) to the Fourteenth Act (United Kingdom), which continued to shape and pulse the project during 2014. During 2015 three actions have been carried out within the framework of this international attack initiative, in Greece the group “Combative Anarchy FAI/FRI” claims responsibility for an arson attack against Microsoft offices, in the Czech Republic the “Poetry of Fire Cell FAI/FRI” takes responsibility for an arson attack against a police vehicle and they start the campaign “We will destroy repression”, while in Chile an incendiary device is activated in an animal exploitation headquarters and is claimed by the “Anarchist Cell of Incendiary Attack “Fire and Consciousness” FAI/FRI”.
During the latest arrests in Greece, the police linked Christos Rodopoulos to the parcel bomb sent to Dimitris Mokkas, the prosecutor in charge of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire case, and continued the investigation and prosecution of comrades Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis, who were arrested and accused of participating in the sending of the parcel bomb against Dimitris Xorianopoulos. Both actions are part of the project, act six and four respectively.
We send our absolute complicity and brotherhood with the comrades of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire in Greece, we salute the victory of their hunger strike, and the permanent attitude of confrontation in front of the jailer, without giving an inch or bowing to the Authority. To comrade Anggeliki Spyropoulou, who despite the repressive advances, remains dignified and in the face of the enemy.
THE STORY OF THE PHOENIX CONTINUES TO BE WRITTEN…
NO TRUCE OR RETREAT!!
FORWARD, ALWAYS ON A WAR FOOTING!!
NOTHING IS FINISHED, EVERYTHING CONTINUES
some anarchists
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In 2014, after an anarchist comrade published a critique of the CCF’s behavior in the Koridallos prison wing they shared, five members of the CCF severely beat him with sticks, breaking his limbs. The project Act For Freedom Now! later published a zine containing the criticism of the CCF’s behavior as well as several reactions of disgust to the beating from many anarchist prisoners. You can read it in full here.
“The use of physical violence as a means of imposing opinions within the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement is exactly the consequence of transforming cafe discussions and personal hostilities into political texts, whether due to mental ankylosis or vanity. The verbal violence which for years now has been tolerated and reproduced by the anarchist movement uproots basic anarchist values such as mutual respect and understanding, has paved the way for the application of such practices.
To conclude, the matter for us is not to cite another black page in the history of anarchist struggle, it is not to isolate political tendencies or anarchist organizations, but to delete once and for all behaviour that denegrates the substance of our struggle. And of course, let’s not pretend to be sacred virgins, most of us have been involved in incidents of endo-anarchist violence.
The CCF-imprisoned cell have given us an example to avoid, which simply reveals the development of a culture of violence. Let’s go beyond it.”
– SOLIDARITY TO ANARCHISTS GIANNIS NAXAKIS AND GRIGORIS SARAFOUDIS
AND THE STORY OF THE AMBUSH SET UP AGAINST OUR COMRADE AND FRIEND GIANNIS NAXAKI 2014
In years past, a handful of projects in the US translated and spread the writings of the CCF, without contextualizing them within the broader social war in Greece. These texts seem to have circulated so widely in anarchist circles, and in particular nihilist ones, due to a fetishization of the group’s militancy while glossing over the ways in which the proposals presented in their writings conflict with informality, not to mention their authoritarian behavior. Anarchists have continued to romanticize the CCF, stemming from an alienated and shallow relationship to this history and predictably fostering bombastic Internet sloganeering. It is beyond time that this stops.
To our knowledge, only two texts published in North America have articulated their own critique of this authoritarianism. Both are addressed to our context to warn against following a similar path.
(2023, excerpt)
The experience of the insurrectionary anarchist movement from the mid-2000s to our current time also contains two other lived lessons which it already seems most of the comrades in Atlanta have absorbed but bear repeating: the importance of discourse, sharing ideas, and the ability to give and receive feedback and criticism in good faith from people in the struggle locally and abroad if the channels of communication are open; and the vital importance of maintaining an experimental, informal and joyful approach to even the most militant projects of resistance. In the past two years of supporting the struggle against Cop City from afar I’ve been really amazed by the wider strategy of the movement to maintain complexity, spontaneity, informality and humor. The tendency to overtly specialize and militarize can be a pitfall of the clandestine struggle and is especially important for us to avoid. Those who strike at the machinery of power beneath cover of darkness are intelligent, blessed, and brave, braver by far than any cop, but they are not above the rest of the movement. As our old adage goes – revolt needs everything. There are important experiences to remember lived by some informal anarchist groups from the last fifteen years, such as the transformation of the imprisoned cell of Greece’s Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF) from one of the most intransigent and visionary revolutionary groups on the planet into, by some accounts, little more than a prison gang who spoke of themselves as the only true anarchists of action, as well as the disturbing spiral of the Mexican eco-extremist group ITS (or Individualists Tending Toward the Wild in English) into a death cult supported only by internet fanboys. While some may wisely choose the path of assassination and bombing when necessary, we are not agents of Death. Many of our ancestors on the anarchist path have chosen thus, and we welcome Death as a part of the great cycles of life – but anarchy is lived joy, freedom, chaotic harmony. A friend shared a picture last summer from a party somewhere in the Southeast that expressed it better than I can: “This Life is a Miracle. All Love is Possible.”
(2016, excerpt)
Around the same time as the anti-police insurrection that took place in Greece in December 2008, a different beginning for this tendency was taking place. The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (CCF) developing out of the youth culture in the city centres of Athens and Thessaloniki, began waging spectacular attacks. And since this time, nihlism and cynicism towards revolutionary activity (unless it is coming from nihilists) has become the dominant philosophy for taking these kinds of actions. All around the world now, actions claimed under the banner of FAI/IRF and CCF are being framed as the only real anarchist activity, with websites like 325.nostate.net acting as a sort of ideological platform for actions and statements taken out of their social contexts. As has been pointed out by comrades in Barcelona [1] this tendency has a number of problems associated with it (even from an insurrectionary perspective), due to its romanticization, and the arrogance of the statements it’s cells make, cuts itself off from critique and further development.
Continue reading “Anarchists in the US need to stop romanticizing the CCF”
I submit this for the technical advice in response to the publication from the 70’s
Communique #2: Sabotage of an extra-high voltage pylon in France/
Grand Est
Indymedia Lille, February 12, 2023
In December 2022, in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoner Alfredo Cospito, we sabotaged an EHV pylon and partially removed its bolts (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/27/france-grand-est-attack-against-nuclear-infrastructure-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/). The sabotage of a high voltage line is not without risk and, even if it is done without error, there is always some risk. However, we found this risk acceptable and the action entertaining. Since direct action is always an attempt to motivate and inspire other contexts, we had already announced our intention to give some technical advice:
Choice of target: When choosing the mast, make sure that the insulators (the ceramic coils to which the cables are attached) are vertical! A diagonal or horizontal position indicates a tensile load in the corresponding direction. Choose the most isolated location possible. Make sure that there are no people between the object and the nearest pylons (e.g. busy roads crossing the line). Choose your escape route so that it cannot be blocked by the falling line.
Risk assessment/mitigation: It happens occasionally (although rarely) that electricity pylons bend or fall, even without sabotage. This can happen, for example, due to storms, the weight of snow, or simply material fatigue or inadequate maintenance. The result is a risk of premature collapse of the mast. This risk increases with each screw loosened and exponentially with each foot completely unscrewed. It is up to you, as a group, to decide how far you want to go. In all cases, plan the action taking into account the possibility of the mast falling while you are still there. Both at the base of the mast and where the cables touch the ground, there is a potentially lethal amounts of electricity on the ground within a certain radius! Move away from the object as quickly as possible in the opposite direction of the fall. Ensure that your body remains in contact with the ground at all times (grounding), walking with small “shuffling” steps. Make sure that the weather conditions are favorable. Do not perform this action in strong wind, heavy rain or snowfall!
How to proceed: During the reconnaissance of the target, we noticed with some annoyance that the threads of each screw were destroyed by drillings (photo). An anti-sabotage measure of RTE, which we do not know if it applies to all EHV lines or only to this one. In retrospect, we can see that it is certainly more tiring, but that it is still possible. For the screws, we concentrated on the ones that connect the mast to its foundations (50 mm key). On the inside, a short handle of about 20-30 cm is enough, as it otherwise gets stuck in the structure of the foot. On the outside, you will need a strong tube extension to increase leverage. For ease of transport, it is recommended to use several tubes that fit into each other. For some screws, we needed up to 2 meters of leverage. Before the actual action, we sprayed the screws with penetrating oil (WD 40) and let it work for several hours. We repeated this process at the beginning of the unscrewing. The last few screws were significantly more difficult to remove, which we interpreted as a sign that the mast was already starting to sag. For this action, you will need at least 2 to 3 people. You can count on about 3 hours per foot (16 screws each). If you find a pole with undamaged bolts, it will probably go faster.
Traces: It is almost impossible to work for several hours in the same place without leaving many traces! Check regularly during the work if your body is still completely covered (e.g. between sleeve and glove). In any case, get rid of your clothes and shoes after the action. Keep your workplace clean and store your tools in such a way that you do not leave anything behind inadvertently, even if you have to stop the work before it is finished.
Alternatives: since our intervention, other actions of sabotage of high voltage lines have taken place in France. In Salindres (Gard), a pylon whose line feeds an ARKEMA chemical plant was sawn down on 21.12.2022 (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/02/salindres-gardfrance-sabotage-of-an-electric-pylon-which-supplies-the-chemical-center-of-arkema/) and in Vitrolles (Bouches du Rhône), a few days later, two fires under an EHV line caused power cuts at the Marseille-Provence airport and at AIRBUS Helicopters (https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/01/vitrolles-bouches-du-rhonefrance-the-sabotage-of-high-voltage-lines-cuts-power-to-the-airport-of-marseille-and-airbus/).
“These arsonists have also put an end to the rumor that a burning electric pole is beautiful, but it does not cut off the electricity!” reads a summary published on nantes.indymedia (https://nantes.indymedia.org/posts/81876/et-tombent-tombent-les-pylones/) of the action, for which there is no communique to our knowledge. We would like to dwell on it a bit: in our view, there are basically two different methods to effectively sabotage an EHV line by fire. The first is to attack the mast itself by fire. For this, the metal structure must be heated to more than 1200° C for a certain time. A normal fire is not enough! In order to damage the steel in its substance, it must be brought to incandescence, as is the case when forging with charcoal and a huge supply of oxygen. Once heated in this way, the stability of the steel remains compromised even after it cools. This is what happened, for example, during a very-high-voltage sabotage in the southern Meuse region in 2017. To liquefy the metal and thus make the pylon collapse, a temperature of about 5000° C is required, as would be the case for example with the use of thermite. The other method, which was probably used in the present case, is to generate an extremely high flame, which goes from the ground to the cables. The fire has the property of conducting electricity and can thus cause a short circuit. This results in an immediate power failure, but the damage to the structure is relatively small.
We were particularly pleased with the detailed description of the action in Salindres (Gard), attached to the communique. Although this method has been used successfully hundreds of times since the 1970s, we opted for another method for safety reasons. In other words, we simply did not dare to pull down the mast! We are fully aware that the communique we issued early on increases the risk that the damage will be discovered and repaired in time by RTE. However, the priority of our intervention was – in this case – to support the struggle of our comrade Alfredo, which required public communication.
Rage,
Transmissions and
Riots
Pylon Disconnection Service of all kinds.
From Act For Freedom Now
Continue reading “3 recent instances of power pylon sabotage with technical advice”
A publication acting as a meeting point for comrades of the Conspiracy of Fire Cells from all over the world, consisting of personal stories, letters of solidarity and information about groups, etc., aimed at the constitution of a ‘Black International’ of imprisoned anarchists.
1 – How we came up with the concept of “Black International” editions
2 – A few words…
4 – International call of the CCF
Part One: International solidarity of imprisoned comrades, insurrectionary groups, projects and self-organized counter-publishing projects
7 – Gabriel Pombo da Silva
10 – Juan Carlos Rico Rodríguez
11 – Caso Bombas + Chile section
20 – FAI / CCF / FRI / ELF Russia + blackblocg.info
24 – Werner Braeuner
24 – Davide Delogu
25 – Francisco Pancho Moreno
26 – Marco Camenisch
27 – Zerman Elias
28 – Thomas Meyer Falk
28 – Braulio González
29 – Luca “Billy” Bernasconi
31 – Jock Palfreeman
33 – Federico Buono
36 – Claudio Lavazza
Part Two: Solidarity with CCF after some members attempted to escape on the 12 December 2011.
37 – Words from Edizioni Cerbero + Parole Armate
37 – Words from Mono
38 – Words from Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras
40 – Words from 325
Part Three: Presentation of self-organized international internet and publishing projects of counterinformation
41 – Contra Info
42 – Actforfreedomnow / boubourAs
43 – Entropía Ediciones
44 – Parole Armate
44 – Culmine
45 – This is our Job
46 – Viva la Anarquía
47 – War On Society
47 – Conspiratión Acrata
48 – 325
49 – Black Blocg Collective
49 – Edizioni Cerbero
Part Four: Letters of comrades to whom this publication is dedicated
53 – Eat & Billy
54 – Luciano Tortuga
63 – Mario “Tripa” Lopez
65 – Felicity Ryder
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From The Struggle Is Our Inheritance
An interesting example of popular sabotage was born in Minnesota during the late 1970’s. It was here that a group of farmers in Western Minnesota perfected the art and science of toppling high-tension electrical towers. After federal agents began investigating these incidents, the farmers would only reply, “Hmpf…Must’ve been those bolt weevils.”
The trouble began when United Power Association and the Cooperative Power Association were looking to exploit coal reserves in North Dakota and needed a 453-mile transmission line through Minnesota farmland to the industrial center of the Twin Cities. As is typical, poor people were screwed so that rich corporations could benefit. Most of the electricity would be used by industry, not people. The utility corporations chose to plan power lines through land belonging to poor farmers rather than huge corporate farms.
What these corporations did not expect was opposition. And that is just what they received.
Virgil Fuchs, one of the farmers, became aware of what this would mean for the small farmers. The plans would require strips 160-feet wide cut through their fields, and 180-foot pylons erected to support the wires. The health problems associated with electromagnetic pollution (from the currents running through these power lines) were also a concern. It was already known that electrical lines lower conception rates and milk production in dairy cows. And the state’s own guidelines warned farmers against refueling their vehicles under the transmission lines and warned school bus drivers against picking up or discharging children under them.
Fuchs went knocking door-to-door at his neighbors’, informing them of the plans. Soon after, corporate representatives were on his tail trying to get farmers to sign agreements, but not one farmer signed.
Local townships soon passed resolutions disallowing the power lines, and county boards refused to give permits for the power line construction. The corporations planning the construction ignored the local concerns and turned to the state. The farmers also turned to the state looking for help from their “representatives.” The state’s Environmental Quality Council responded by holding public hearings. The public opinion at the meetings ran overwhelmingly against the power lines, but these unfavorable testimonies were left out of the transcripts.
Throughout the years 1974 to 1977, farmers tried lengthy and ineffectual legal channels such as these to block the construction. They were only permitted to request that the construction happen on someone else’s land, rather than their own.
Not surprisingly, the state granted the permit for the construction in 1977. One county attempted to sue, but the case was dismissed. At the very least, government representatives promised they would let the farmers know when construction was to begin. But again, they lied.
When surveyors showed up in Virgil Fuch’s fields, he fought back. He drove his tractor over the surveyors’ equipment and rammed their pickup truck. Farmers from across the counties began gathering and planned to fight the surveyors any way they could. Such tactics included getting permits to tear up roads, and running chainsaws or other loud equipment so that the surveyors couldn’t communicate. The network of farmers that had formed through legal battles helped to increase the resistance to the construction. When surveyors would show up to begin work, hundreds of farmers would block their way.
Even the local sheriff was sympathetic. “In my opinion this is a situation that began with the Environmental Quality Council, at the request of the power companies, and that’s where the problem should be remanded for resolution. I will not point a gun at either the farmer or the surveyor. To point a gun is to be prepared to shoot, and this situation certainly does not justify either. It does justify a review of the conditions that bring about such citizen resistance.”
It also seemed as if Philip Martin, the head of United Power Association, sympathized too. He had grown up on a farm and had even known Virgil’s mother. He had said of her: “She reminded me somewhat of my own mother.” But that did not stop his decision that would affect so many small family farmers.
It seems to make sense why Martin was so upset. In North Dakota, they had only faced one protester and dealt with him quickly. In Martin’s own words: “The law enforcement there initiated the action to put him in prison, or jail. And pretty soon he said, ‘I’ll be a good boy, I won’t do any more,’ and they let him out, and we built a transmission line.”
However, in Minnesota: “The law enforcement refused to enforce their own laws. We could go out and try to survey, and they would simply pull up all our stakes, they would destroy everything we had out there. And there was never anything done.”
The farmers continued to file lawsuits, which ended up going to the Minnesota Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court decided against them. This act radicalized many of the farmers.
More than 60 percent of Minnesotans supported the farmers against the power line. However, they were outmatched by the power companies’ lawyers and technical experts. In the end, state government and the courts took the companies’ side.
In the winter of 1978, the confrontations in the fields would span weeks, and governor Perpich sent in nearly half of the highway patrol. Many of the cops who had been sympathetic turned against the farmers and told them that they couldn’t assemble, couldn’t drive on county roads, couldn’t stop on township roads, etc. When confronted about this, cops stated, “We will do whatever we can to get that power line through.”
In August 1978, a 150-foot steel transmission tower came crashing to the ground. Upon inspection, authorities found that the bolts of the base had been loosened. Over the next few weeks, three more fell down. Guard poles had been cut in half, step bolts had been cut three-quarters through, bolts at the base were loosened or removed, and insulators were shot out.
Minnesota Public Radio reporter Greg Barron visited West Minnesota and described the situation as nothing short of “guerilla war.” Helicopter crews patrolled 170 miles of power lines, and squad cars combed the countryside. The governor eventually called out the FBI to help conduct heavy surveillance.
Seventy-two arrests were made in just one county. Six of these were for felony charges. Everyone refused to testify against the farmers arrested. The only information the cops got from farmers was the response, “Hmpf! Must be the bolt weevils.” And even though two farmers were eventually convicted of felonies, they were only sentenced to community service.
An interview with dairy farmer Tony Bartos revealed the sentiments of most the farmers:
“Yeah, I go along with it. I wish a few more would come down, and I think they will, as time goes on. They shouldn’t have did this to us in the first place. We’ve did everything we could lawfully. We went to Minneapolis, got lawyers, went through the courts. But either the judges are paid off, or they just don’t realize what’s going on out here. I think there’s a lot of different laws and ways you can look at it. There’s moral laws, too. I don’t know, I don’t figure it’s wrong what we’re doing out here. Sure people think you gotta stay with the law, but what is the law? Who makes it? We should have more of a say with what goes on in this state too, you know. They can’t just run over us like a bunch of dogs.”
The power line was constructed, and operations began in 1979. Despite this loss, an impressive wave of sabotage continued to hit the power line. Within only two years, fourteen towers were toppled, and over 10,000 insulators were shot out. The project could only continue after the energy corporations turned ownership over to the U.S. government. This was a direct result of the economic losses caused by sabotage and the costs of security. Even with this turnover to the State, a fifteenth tower was toppled on New Year’s Eve in 1981.
Many lessons can be drawn from the experiences of those who fought against this project. Legal channels only revealed that in the eyes of the State, industrial development would always take priority over the healthy and livelihood of its citizens. As a result, a social struggle manifested and directly attacked the source of the problem. Sabotage proved to be far more costly to the energy corporations, and direct action was a manifestation of public sentiments, especially the sentiments of those most ill-affected by the project.
His sister-in-law wrote that the family is set on getting him into the Shepherd Center in Atlanta for rehab. “They are world-renowned and specialize, among numerous neurological disorders, in the treatment and rehabilitation of brain injuries,”
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During the weeks before the Block Cop City nonviolent direct action I anonymously emailed Ernst Concrete.
In that email I stated that I could release publicly the information of their employees.
I provided links to what has happened to the equipment, facilities, and homes of contractors in the past.
I provided links of doxxes that have been published of prior contractors.
I also provided a partial list of their own employees information to them to prove that I had the means and capability to publish them.
I provided them with three options:
1. Publicly stating that they are no longer involved with Cop City and that they have dropped the contract by November 18th
2. Pay $100,000 usd and I will not publish the personal information (which would not stop anyone else from doing the research and publishing)
3. Continue to work on the project
I do not know if this had any influence on the decision to publicly announce their removal.
I did this to experiment if a tactic of providing alternatives directly to contractors would be successful.
I do not know if this has been done in the past.
More experimentation would be necessary in order to produce more conclusive results.
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This week, more construction activity was observed at the Cop City site. Notably, some contractors have been hiding their logos to make identification more difficult, as seen in this photo:
ERNEST T LOPEZ COMPANY
[Private residence owned by Donna Bryson, source: https://app.regrid.com/us/ga/gwinnett/lilburn/45903]
ZIDEN INC
Atlanta Paving & Concrete Construction, Inc. was spotted this week pouring concrete for cop city. They tried to cover their logo, because they don’t want to be held accountable for their actions.
Their office is located at:
2775 Mechanicsville Rd
Peachtree Corners, Ga
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Amorós critiques the hidden activist ideology in insurrectionalism through the figure of Bonanno. Bonanno has had significant influence in the US, and all over the world, for that matter, but we are not interested in tracing his influence in particular.
Amorós accurately pinpoints the vague echo of such a line in the commonplaces of insurrectionalism. If the masses were not revolting, it was up to a more advanced group to revolt first. From these ideas, it is not far to say the group that attacks has the consciousness that the masses lack, and that they are not only revolting first but *for* them, so that they may see the open possibility of revolt. The vanguard no longer leads, it attacks first. Is it not still a vanguard?
The acts are technique, reduced to what can be easily done and reproduced. And reproducibility is perhaps what has gotten the US milieu to make the most reproducible acts (window smashing, for example) into its currency.
[…] the least we can say is that we have yet to see insurrectionary acts be anything more than themselves—anything more than reproducible. Those who imitate them are influenced by the same simplistic ideas. The masses remain motionless.
If North American insurrectionaries were to undertake and explain their actions differently, as something done for their own satisfaction, or from an advocacy of destruction for its own sake, we would no longer consider this critique relevant. But to continue to suggest that revolt will spread because easily reproducible actions do deserve a skepticism like that of Amorós. His critique of the mutated vanguardism of insurrectionalism is that its “activism not only substitutes for such struggles, it also sets itself up as the radical spectacle of such struggles.” We would only say that we are even more skeptical, because we have no idea how revolutions are really made, or if a revolution is what we want as opposed to a more comprehensive undoing of the world as we know it. To Amorós’ anti-vanguardist, Situationist-influenced critique, we add our nihilist one: we don’t even know if the conscious masses are possible.
We could therefore call many if not all of US insurrectionary anarchists activists, if only because their adherence to the simple idea of taking action is ideological. That ideology, the faith in action as opposed to waiting (there is a difference between waiting for the masses and waiting because conditions are uncertain), should be called activism, shouldn’t it?
[…] How funny; how painful; how apt. Because US anarchists know DIY so well, they traded up from collectives, skillshares, and puppets to insurrectionary acts, without knowing that the realness they were reaching for, and would soon be claiming and demanding of everyone around them, was merely a riskier variant of, not a real break with, all of their activism so far.
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“This is a small and incomplete outline of what questions you should ask yourself, and what obstacles you may encounter when you are trying to have a fun night to forget. Most importantly – how will you emerge from the shadows and disappear back into them without a trace?“
Nationwide is the insurance provider for Cop City in Atlanta. They are a target that both exists everywhere and would be difficult for Cop City to replace if they pulled out. Their locations can be found on their website or at uncovercopcity.blackblogs.org. Use Tor, preferably with Whonix or TAILS. Insurance agents see the world as a calculation of risks and profits. Our hatred for the State and Capital is beyond measure. Consider this an act of God.
For Alfredo Bonanno, Alexis Grigoropoulos, Frantz Fanon, Tortuguita, and Palestine.
Just off Tara Boulevard and Poston Road is a construction site full of dirt that the Clayton County Board of Commissioners hopes will bring millions to the city.
Members of the board say when the development is complete it will be a place where the community can live, work, and play.
However, the project temporarily hit a speed bump shortly before Thanksgiving after more than 20 pieces of construction equipment were vandalized.
According to the police chief, a detective on the case reports a contractor whose equipment was damaged also works on the training center, which has allegedly been the impetus for numerous acts of vandalism.
News confirmed the contractor works on both projects. [Brent Scarbrough]
During an August news conference, Atlanta Police showed pictures of vandalized equipment from the same contractor that saw their equipment vandalized at the Clayton County site. [Communique Of Attack On Brent Scarbrough Site Mentioned In Press Conference]
News also found websites by those opposing the training center listing the contractors working on the training center and providing additional details about the business.
[https://www.srycampaign.org/]
[https://sceneshosting.blackblogs.org/]
[uncovercopcity.blackblogs.org]
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“When this incident occurs it not only impacts the contractor but the people working for him,” Turner said.
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