STATEMENT FROM 12 OF 61 RICO CO-DEFENDANTS: Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized
Solidarity is our shield, anarchy is our sword.”
A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF -Water Main Cemented
For Palestine.
To rebels everywhere.
With deepest love and ancestral rage,
We gathered with heavy hearts and humble hands holding a promise for a world safer from white supremacist, settler-colonial violence. Those who declare war on original peoples and pillage sacred life and land will face retribution. There has been a great fire building, may it overflow and take all enemies of life with it. May it create fertile grounds for victory against violent occupiers.
We took it upon ourselves to make sure these fascists could not gather. Rather than the constant reactivity and rigidness of mass protest spectacles, we wanted to hit them where it fucking hurts.
On November 5th, the Zionist fascist scum, “Friends of the IDF,” who represent the interests of wealthy American capitalists in their direct support of the settler colonial state of Israel and its continued campaign of genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people, attempted to hold a fundraiser gala at Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California.
The IDF are known to kidnap, torture, kill, and rape Palestinians, as well as disrespect the bodies of martyrs. They are among the most deplorable people to ever walk the earth.
Despite reports and appe arances otherwise, this fundraiser was effectively shut down within the first hour. Donor attendees began hurriedly leaving in a steady stream at the start of what was planned to be a full evening of blood money raising. This disruption, however, was not achieved by the tame, above-ground rally being safely contained by both the police and the rally organizers themselves, at a far distance from the unbothered attendees. These symbolic and futile attempts to shame and appeal to the moral conscience of individuals who have no shame or conscience, will always fail.
You cannot do damage to the Zionist project by merely engaging with its facade; you must strike at its soulless heart. You must strike at its veins (supply chains, logistics, cash flows, infrastructure).
While the liberals were congratulating themselves for having their nonthreatening photo op parade out in front of the gala, our people were out of sight at work on the veins of the building. Palestinians have suffered decades of Israeli soldiers and settlers restricting and destroying their access to water, often bricking up or concreting any water source not directly under strict control of the occupation forces, cutting off Palestinian access to the Jordan River while draining it to near extinction for settlement mono-crop agriculture, shooting holes in Palestinian water towers, bombing Gazan water treatment facilities, poisoning Palestinian springs and enforcing water apartheid in order to exert total control over Palestinian life. We decided to give these Zionist bootlickers a taste of their own medicine.
We cracked open the water main for the building housing the gala, switched it off, and filled the box with fresh concrete. This form of sabotage is quick and incredibly easy to replicate, and the tools are quite cheap. It also renders the building in question completely uninhabitable and unusable. We had a good laugh imagining these fascist motherfuckers driven out of the gala by the stench of overflowing toilets, unable to raise any more money for genocide. As we did we were reminded of how Israeli settlers flood Palestinian olive groves with sewage, poisoning food sources, destroying livelihoods.
There are specialized tools that can make this job easier to perform and faster.
1) Water main shut off tool< /p>
2) Irrigation lid tool / large screwdriver
The steps are as follows:
1) Lift lid off water box
2) Identify the valve, usually rectangular
3) Turn valve to be perpendicular to the pipe
4) Add a lock to the available hole
5) Fill hole with concrete
6) Put lid back on
At 6:40 PM, just 40 minutes into the gala, we put an end to things before they even began. No auction, no speeches, no propaganda screening, thus cutting off one stream of funding for genocide and apartheid. Donors began sneaking out of the backdoor of the space around 7PM, escorted by fascist police and private security. Around 7:10, a utility truck arrived to attempt a repair. They failed to do so, as our successful sabotage held. The building was evacuated. The Zionists ran home with their tails between their legs, their facade of security and impenetrability proven vulnerable.
We hope that this will inspire other autonomous actors to strike at the infrastructure of genocide everywhere it can be found. Continue reading “A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF -Water Main Cemented”
Site of Replacement 3rd Precinct in ‘minneapolis’ Vandalized to Honor 2020 Uprising and in Solidarity with Palestine
On November 2, 3 years 5 months since the colonized and enslaved masses of these lands brought the u.s.a. to its knees, the local administrators of settlerism in occupied Mni Sota Makoce–city council of so-called ‘minneapolis’–voted to approve a replacement site for the 3rd Precinct.
Located half a mile away from that fateful intersection where a three-day siege ended in beautiful triumph over the anti-Black pig power structure, the new precinct, at 2633 Minnehaha Ave, is being rebranded as a “Community Safety Center.”
Inspired by BRB on the west coast, Anti-Colonial Action Brigade (ACAB) paid a visit to the site early morning November 6. We tagged the building with ‘MNI SOTA TO GAZA,’ ‘OFF THE PIGS,’ ‘ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS,’ ‘FREE PALESTINE,’ ‘UPRISING 2 INTIFADA,’ ‘FUCK THE POLICE,’ FUCK ZIONISM,’ ‘FUCK 12,’ ‘DEATH TO AMERIKA,’ and smashed one window.
And finally, we are hoping to begin applying what we have learned from the Palestinian Resistance. What they have done in elevating anti-colonial struggle is both new and very familiar. Al-Aqsa Flood does not merely resemble the formidable traditions and histories of Indigenous and Afrikan resistance in this hemisphere. It has the potential to revitalize a living practice of militant attack from below, a total uncompromising hostility towards this genocidal settler empire.
When we look at it like that, Palestine is not so distant. Their war is our war. Death to zionism means death to amerika means death to the entire neo-colonial strangehold on the Third World.
With the prison break and guerrilla attack of October 7, the Palestinian Resistance has offered up a simple yet timeless lesson, brought to us through the blood of their martyrs over decades of protracted war: slaveholder-settler society must never know ‘safety.’
Whether in Palestine or in occupied Turtle Island, there is truly only one solution: Intifada, Revolution.
–Anti-Colonial Action Brigade
Concrete Company Identified
Ernst Concrete is the concrete company working on cop city. They have just begun. Let them know what you think of that at their offices in Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, or Ohio.
A handy map of all of their locations can be found here: www.ernstconcrete.com/locations/
Main Phone:
937-233-5555
Email:
info@ernstconcrete.com
Corporate Headquarters:
3361 Successful Way
Dayton, Ohio 45414
1-800-353-1555
Georgia Corporate Headquarters:
553 Seaboard Industrial Dr
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
770-995-9098
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“Alameda County” Courthouse Attacked for Palestinian Martyrs
“It is never possible to balance liberatory violence with the conditions of struggle. The process of liberation is excessive by nature. In the direction of overabundance or in that of deficiency. Where have we ever seen a popular insurrection hit the bullseye, clearly distinguishing the enemies to kill? It is a blow of the tiger’s claws that rips and does not distinguish.”
Alfredo Bonanno
We smashed seven windows at the “alameda county” courthouse tonight. This attack is for the martyrs of Palestine. Every “american” soldier, cop, court, and prison is a target. Freedom to all Palestinian prisoners! Freedom to all prisoners of “america!” Put the sword against the sword! Let the olive branch fall, long live the hammer! Bring the war home! Death to “israel!” Death to “america!”
anarchists
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/02/18860018.php
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Fuck Democracy!
The process of a smooth running democratic election period hides itself in an illusion of peace, overshadowing the violence of democracy itself.
What would a democratic election that does not run smoothly do?
In 2020 three individuals set fire to USPS trucks to condemn democracy itself amidst an uprising. During their spree they set fire to police vehicles, mail drop boxes, USPS trucks, left leaflets of a deranged political nature, and eventually were identified due to GPS, their vehicle being caught on camera, their self-posted videos to social media, one person using their credit card to buy things like a gas can and gloves, saying the exact wording of the leaflet in a personal Instagram post… the list in the federal affidavit goes on. They have since been charged and sentenced, and will be released within the next two years. Sadly one of them(Vida “Lyfe” Jones) turned snitch on their co-defendants.
While we may never know how many ballots were in those USPS trucks or mail boxes, and we may never know how much effect this has on the democratic process, it brings to mind bright possibilities in thinking about the otherwise depressing period of elections.
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Bay Area Halloween Bingo Card
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Gallons of rotten food left in LS3P elevator in Savannah
LS3P is the architecture firm contracted by the Atlanta Police Foundation to design Cop City, with offices in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. On Wednesday September 6th, the day after Fulton County indicted 61 forest defenders on ridiculous racketeering charges, we took it upon ourselves to remind LS3P that the fact that they are profiting from the political repression of forest defenders will not be tolerated or forgotten.
We assembled during LS3P’s business hours and walked straight into their Savannah office on Congress Street in broad daylight. We read them our indictment of their involvement in the Cop City project so there was no mistaking why we were there.
A few people in our crew staged a die-in while others read the letter.
Inspired by the actions of forest defenders who scattered rotten shrimp at an Atlanta Police Department recruitment event in Manhattan, we decided to pull our own shenanigans. As we left, we dumped many gallons of rotting food in the elevator, leaving it to LS3P to explain the stench as the elevator circulated the putrid smell to every floor of the building LS3P shares with other businesses.
This entire action took less than five minutes. LS3P employees threatened to call the police, but we never saw a cop in the process.
We dream of a world without political repression where we can change the systems we live in without risking the violence of the police and prisons. But as long as repression against strong movements is as inevitable as the decay of our food scraps, we will be here like the microorganisms that turn death into new life, using it to grow our power.
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The “Stop Block Cop City” post has been removed – Admins
We believe that it’s a stretch to say that the quote from the discourse submission
“Tire fire barricade at the AirBnBs! Throw a molotov at the PowerPoint Presentations! Dump a smelly bucket of shrimp on the peaceful protest! We’re going to Stop Block Cop City!!”
could be considered as a genuine threat to firebomb activists, prevent them from doing the NVDA, or any genuine sense of threat.
It reads as an obvious comedic exaggeration from someone spewing hot air.
We removed it because do not want this silly discourse rhetoric that flagrantly incites comedic violence in the manner of empty words to continue to permeate a counter-information site that has been often not so empty.
We are going to start having editorial standards about what discourse is posted here to ensure that posts relating to physical activity do not get drowned out.
We do however think this image is funny:
If you really want to STOP BLOCK COP CITY then crew up and make it violent, go and throw down, or don’t and continue doing whatever you are doing.
Just shut the fuck up about how this proposal sucks.
There has already been a fairly comprehensive zine/handout written about Block Cop City, called “Every Compromise In Defense Of Mother Earth”.
This writing/zine felt important because it intervened in order to give us a departure with which we can move, a point to intervene, and to clarify a positioning of some anarchists.
Now shut up and do something instead of masturbating about your cool hatred of the normal, not-new, age-old, revisionist, liberal, activist, manipulative bullshit.
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RECIPES is a new page and a new category!
More Rocking While You’re Talking, Also Maybe Destroy Something
We love you all so much <3
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Beginners Guide to Spray Paint Vandalism
tl;dr Rustoleum 2x is the best widely available spray paint. Wear nitrile gloves. Don’t get paint the day you paint, leave your phone at home, and be careful not to run out of room and make typos. You don’t need to rush. Continue reading “Beginners Guide to Spray Paint Vandalism”
A response to “Stop Block Cop City!”
threatening to fire bomb stop cop city events fucking sucks and you should really reflect on your commitments if your response to people organizing to disrupt construction of cop city is to send them violent threats on the internet.
the fact that you showed up to an event clearly advertised to get normies involved in disrupting the destruction of the forest and expected to be catered to as the epic radical anarchist militant that you are is squarely on you.
you know what has to be done to stop cop city, you’re not new, why are you wasting your time with intro presentations?
attacking ‘revisionists’ didn’t work for the red guards and it won’t work for you either.
get your head out of your ass and stop cop city.
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How To Have A Fun Night To Forget Zine
Everyone shut up and go set some shit on fire, or destroy something, break a symbolic fucking window even.
Fuck the NVDA proposal, but also go out into the night and attack something.
If you don’t know how, go to warriorup.noblogs.org, or scenes.noblogs.org, or notrace.how.
The time spent on inflammatory hot gaseous air is inspiring, but only when it is accompanied by the spark of action capable of igniting that air.
Ideological positions on attack mean much less to me when it is fetishistic and valorizing.
Set some shit on fire, or contribute in ways more concrete than words towards those attacking or trying to attack this world.
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Caterpillar bulldozer Arson in Solidarity with Palestine
Atlanta firefighter and truck shortages prompt the city to temporarily close 3 fire stations 🤔 🤔 🤔
The city of Atlanta has temporarily closed three of its more than 30 fire stations because of truck breakdowns and a shortage of firefighters.
Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Roderick Smith told a City Council committee of the closures on Monday.
Smith told the committee that the department had 17 fire trucks out of service on Monday, including eight of 31 fire engines and nine of 15 ladder trucks. Many of the trucks are being repaired, but those repairs can take months.
Some other trucks, while still running, don’t have their full capabilities.
“Right now I think we’re down to two or three fully operational ladder trucks in the whole city,” said Dustin Hillis, chair of the council’s Public Safety Committee.
While Hillis described the fire truck fleet as being “in shambles”, Smith told council members the situation while serious, is “not in a dire space right now.” He said the city is working to replace its reserve fleet.
The chief said Atlanta has 11 fire vehicles that have been ordered but not delivered because of manufacturing backlogs. Some of those trucks could be delivered by the end of the month.
Council members are considering a proposal to spend $16.4 million to buy 12 more fire engines, two ladder trucks, a platform truck and three other vehicles. But Smith said new orders of specialized equipment may not be delivered for as long as three years.
“The goal is to aggressively order as much equipment as possible, but we have to figure out the funding,” he said.
Smith told WANF-TV that the department will continue to close different stations to offset the equipment shortage.
From Mainstream Media
ATTACK! A Thousand Pinpricks & 12 Tips Against DNA
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ATTACK! &
A Thousand Pinpricks
As our world is becoming more and more a huge machine, as the veins of domination are getting more filigree, covering the whole territory with a net, then – if we want to attack – we have to be able to detach our glances from the most obvious and to try to include in our analysis of the ongoing developments the possibilities which we want to give ourselves. The more complex the world, the more vulnerable it is to disorders. These hubs and the connections between them, that we find nearly everywhere exposed, are the raw points to be cut. In a moment when even the air is burning it doesn’t make sense to set a fire where the flames are dancing already and where all eyes are focused. The radio silence, the breakdown of communication, the interrupting of command chains, these– and even much more – are the possibilities which we can find, if we are searching for points to attack with a creative and analytical look
Recipes From BOAK And Beyond
[DOWNLOAD LINK] The Military Improvised Munitions Handbook is mostly outdated, however it can still be resourceful for timers, delays, and construction.
[ARCHIVE.ORG LINK]
[DOWNLOAD LINK] “The Anarchist Arsenal” Improvised Incendiary Explosives Techniques is also mostly outdated but can be resourceful for timers, delays, and construction.
[ARCHIVE.ORG LINK]
[DOWNLOAD LINK] Remotely activated device using cellphone/alarm clock/clock courtesy of BO-AK
(Combat Organization Of Anarcho-Communists) [website onion link // noblogs website NOT ONION ]
This device was successfully used in an attack on a railway bridge by BOAK/ACCO.
It was claimed in the following communique with links to guides on constructing the components of the device used
telegram: https://t.me/boakom/89:“BOAK/ACCO takes responsibility for the attack on a railway bridge leading to a military facility.
The attack took place some time ago. Unfortunately it wasn’t 100% effective but this experience will be taken into account in preparation for our next attacks. And to make it not only useful for us but for the whole partizan movement we decided to share it.
About 10 kg of permon (igdanite (ANFO) with aluminium powder) been stuffed in a metal case (paint bucket). We’ve used an interim detonator to ignite permon ~1 kg of ammonal-3 (ammonium nitrate, sugar, aluminum powder) in a plastic case (mayo bucket). To ignite ammonal we’ve used ~10 g triacetone triperoxide (TT) in a paper case (cylinder made of paper wrapped in duct tape).
To place our detonator right in the middle of ammonal charge we’ve put a paper tube (a little wider than TT detonator) through the hole in the lid of a plastic bucket . This way two tasks are being accomplished: we can place ammonal in our container beforehand while isolating it from the external environment (it is hygroscopic). And secondly, we can place detonator with TT at the very last moment, mitigating risk.
For detonation we’ve used the ignition device made of a lamp bulb. There was a backup initiator with an alarm clock on a mobile phone, but the ignition itself was conducted with a phone call.
And also for an additional amplification of the blast we’ve placed 2 open 5-liter jugs full of an incendiary mixture near our igdanite charge – for a thermobaric effect due to the volumetric explosion of petrol fumes.
From the downsides – we knew of a low brisance of igdanite, but hoped that if placed under the bridge pillar it might be enough to collapse it. As it turned out – it wasn’t. It should have been placed in a more closed volume.
We think it’s important to note that this action was purposely carried out at night to mitigate risk for casual passersby – the bridge runs over the road, and far fewer vehicles are on the road at night, we’ve waited for such a moment when no one was there.
We won’t publish the bridge’s location in hopes that it might eventually collapse during further use.
However we call on all railway workers, who are against war, so sabotage military contracts and to refuse going to military facilities – stop being a cog in the war machine, ensuring its smooth uninterrupted work of killing people.Also, we want to remind, that the best help in struggle — to take part in it. But if you can do it personally, you always can support Revolutionary Anarcho-Fond, which works to support partizans-begginers with money for petroleum, ammonium nitrate and so on 🙂 “
[DOWNLOAD LINK] A video showing the basics of a simple electrical fire ignition
“Sometimes there are situations where it is necessary to remotely set fire to something in a safe area, such as during an experiment. For such cases, you can make a device – electric ignition – with your own hands. To make an electric ignition, you will need two cores made of a USB cable. They need to be exposed on both sides. One wire must be separated from the bundle of wires and attached to the other side, after which an ordinary match is placed between the wires. Such an electric match can be lit from two 9-volt batteries. A current of more than 5 A flows through the small wire, which heats it up and lights a match.”
The video uses tape.
Tape has been advised against (yet is used in many designs) due to it’s potential to collect DNA. (However, you should be wearing gloves, mask, hair covering, and wearing new clothing that covers you head to toe when handling items, so there presumably should be as little as possible DNA that could be collected by the tape.)
alternatively you can superglue or wrap the wire securely around the head of the match or attach with alligator clips.
[DOWNLOAD LINK] A video guide in making black powder.
Don’t get too carried away, often it’s best to keep your methods of destruction simple:
pour gasoline on something, light it on fire, run away.
A million walks….. Do you dream like this? – Poem/Ramble
I take a walk to the park and I follow it down to the creek, the desert, the forest, the river, the lake, the sea, the pollution from industrial waste billowing from factories, and pouring into every water way, radiation unveiling across a barren landscape, a dam blocks salmon runs and destroys ecosystems downstream. I pass clear-cuts long done, the deserts feel hotter littered with mining and oilfields, the forests dryer logged and carved, another wildfire burned a section of forest and opportunistic loggers took what survived, in the desert a mine takes the earth beneath, I take a swim in the sea, the coral reef is bleached. The runoff of industrial civilization hurts my skin.
I can’t find any water that is safe to drink.
I head to dry off in the sun beneath power-pylons, stretches of concrete suffocating the earth as far as the eye can see, skyscrapers, houses, and offices buzzing and pulsing with the luxuries provided by the bass-rhythm of Eco-domination. The wind turbines, solar panels, dams, and nuclear energy rely on mining the earth of rare minerals and expands the infrastructure of an Eco-dominating way of life. The electric power of this infrastructure is a capitalist good, while simultaneously expanding extraction, consumer goods, surveillance, military tech, societal control, policing, prisons… my head buzzes.
It turns night and I head off to rest.
I build a fire and I realize I cannot see the stars. They are blocked by the light of a million lights. I watch the trains passing from the top of a tree. Every 3rd train is carrying oil, every single one is another capitalist good, ever so often there is military equipment.
The goods from these trains are loaded onto trucks and propelled across the highways, or put onto ships or planes for their destinations.
I think about how climate collapse doesn’t have to be measured by the instruments that only those in domination possess, it is clear that the ecosystems are collapsing and have collapsed or murdered to the rhythm of industrial technological domination.
My head reels, I sit down for a moment, in the distance I see prisons, jails, police flutter around like flies to a carcass, the cops murdering the 100th person this year is in the newspapers in the boxes on the street. I see a monument to colonialism, history of indigenous genocide, the plantation scars of slavery, cars with white supremacist bumper stickers pass me. I hitch a ride with the next friendly looking face, we pass the southern border wall and I stare off into the distance thinking of everyone who has been forced to die crossing, and people forced into concentration camps.
The driver says that another trans kid died the other day, the driver misgenders her and I never learn her real name. I think about how often this happens, and how it doesn’t really matter if it was a hate-crime murder, or due to the suffocating environment of the violent imposition of gender, or a tortured life of maladjustability, they’re the same cause of death: this gendered nightmare.
Throughout all this I fall into daydreams of planes falling out the sky into buildings, nuclear reactors melting down, trains crashing and exploding in the yard, a blackout, electrical substations overloading, a checkpoint on fire, a precinct explodes, an oilfield burns, a billion dead government employees, politicians heads exploding, CEO’s trapped dying in a house fire, a bridge collapsing, a nazi bleeds out in the street, I watch the life leave a transphobes eyes, dams falling beneath their own weight, a ship capsizing, a fascist meeting is barricaded from the outside and everyone burned alive, a car filled with explosive is driven into an active session of congress.
I purge these daydreams with what I am capable of expressing.
Do you feel yourself in the misery of an authoritarian world of domination, only escaping with daydreams of violence?
If not, be honest with me, upfront, because I am hopeless, bitter, angry. I’m not interested in positivity.
I want to be free, I want authority and domination to feel pain, fear, to recede.
I want this world to receive blows at the hand of an anarchist insurgent force.
I want to enact revenge, vengeance. I want to strike at authority and domination.
I want to be arm in arm engaged in destroying the world that we live in.
I’m nauseous of the positivity. I’m disgusted with the hope. I find despair in those who find comfort. Continue reading “A million walks….. Do you dream like this? – Poem/Ramble”
some cop city supporters aligned with israel’s genocide of Palestinians
Atlanta City Council: passed a pro-israel resolution [onion link] [wayback machine archive]
Andre Dickens: tweeted about “horrific acts of terror on the people of Israel” [onion link] [wayback machine archive]
Arthur Blank: donated $750,000 to israeli colonial hospitals [onion link] [wayback machine archive]
Bank of Amerikkka, Citi, JPMorgan Chase: letting israeli employees (but not other nationalities) work from home [wayback machine archive]
Emory University: presidential statement about “Hamas terrorist attacks” [wayback machine archive]
Hilton Hotels: canceled a pro-Palestine conference in houston [wayback machine archive]
PGA Tour: statement about “indefensible terror attacks” on israel
Porsche: special pro-genocide war message on their israeli website [wayback machine archive]
list of cop city donors used as a reference for this post [onion link] [wayback machine archive]
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