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Vengeance from Oakland – ¡Viva Tortuguita!

Posted on January 21, 2023 by scenes

On the night of January 20th 2023, 30 mournful anarchists took vengeful action against our enemies for the murder of Cami/Tortuguita in the Atlanta Forest two days prior. We shattered dozens of windows along the glass facade of a Bank of America building in downtown Oakland, destroyed the ATM’s, and repainted the walls with people’s messages of love, memory, solidarity, and rage at the assassination of our comrade before lighting the place up with molotov cocktails.

Bank of America is an enemy of the people and life itself. They currently fund the construction of cop city in Atlanta, the same project that threatens the forest that Tortuguita died defending. They deserve no place in our landscape. We destroyed quickly but tirelessly. Like the peasants in the Jacquerie, the Luddite wreckers, or the Haitian revolutionaries, we seek liberation in the most obvious way: the destruction of what we know is the cause of our suffering. And if we destroy much, it is because we have suffered much. “Vengeance! Vengeance!” is our war-cry.

To our enemies who seek to liquidate our lives and the earth: you will not murder us with impunity! We will strike back, each time more fiercely than before. The more you take from us, the more we have to fight for—the less we have to lose.

To our fallen comrades: your deaths will never be in vain! We will avenge you one thousand times over! Your blood is our blood. Your lives light the path of our struggle, and this is only the beginning.

We support Tortuguita whether they shot at the pigs or not. A shot fired at police is an act of liberation.

TORTUGUITA VIVE, LA LUCHA SIGUE

MARTYRS NEVER DIE

THE FLAME OF ANARCHY BURNS BRIGHT

COP CITY WILL NEVER BE BUILT

FOR A WORLD FREE OF MONEY, COPS, AND PRISONS

FOR A WORLD FILLED WITH TREES, ANIMALS, AND LIFE

WEELAUNEE PEOPLE’S FOREST FOREVER

Onto a wall with two workers in yellow vests standing aside it, several messages are tagged in spray paint. From left to right: A three arrows symbol is tagged in black. "For every 1" (remainder of the tag is covered by grass.) "TORTUGUITA RIP" is tagged in black, and a red circle-A symbol next to it. "FTP" is tagged in white. "ACAB" is tagged in black. "MARTYRS (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in red. "FUCK OPD" is also tagged in red. "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" is tagged in black. "FUCK" (remainder covered by grass.) is tagged in black below it. "BE GAY DO CRIME (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in pink. "FOR" (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in red. A light blue message is tagged next to it, but it is too blurry to make out.
Onto the sign for a Bank of America bank, "KILL COPS" is tagged in gray spray paint.
Onto a wall, "Tortuguita RIP" and "ACAB" are tagged in black spray paint. "FTP" is tagged in white spray paint. "ACAB" and an anarchist circle-A symbol are tagged in red spray paint.Onto a wall, "FUCK OPD", "FOR TORT", and an infinity sign is tagged in red spray paint. "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" and "FUCK YOU" are tagged in black spray paint. An anarchist circle-A symbol and "BE GAY DO CRIME KILL COPS BE FREE" are tagged in pink spray paint. "FUCK COP CITY" is tagged in white spray paint.
Onto a glass door and several windows, "Little turtle lives" is tagged in light blue spray paint. "FTP" is tagged in black spray paint directly below it.Onto a concrete wall, "FTP" is tagged in red spray paint. "no war but class WAR," "KKKOPS KILL," and "KILL COP CITY" is  tagged in black spray paint.Onto a concrete wall in front of grass, A LIFE LIFE FOR A LIFE" is tagged in red spray paint.Onto several smashed glass doors, "Little turtle lives" is tagged in light blue spray paint.

Submitted anonymously over email

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