On the evening of Sunday, February 25th, we, along with around 80 others gathered in downtown Tuscon to act against the construction of Cop City and in solidarity with the resistance to the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The demonstration was short and required less than 100 people. Within minutes of departing, the crowd vandalized and smashed all of the windows at two banks near Presidio Plaza, Wells Fargo and PNC. The former was targeted for its support of Cop City and the latter for its support of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. We briefly stopped at the courthouse, writing slogans and Tortuguita’s name, before disappearing into the night.
It was obvious that we took the police completely by surprise. The Tuscon PD underscored their incompetence by arresting random passers-by and failing to respond meaningfully in any way to the demonstration.
Actions like these are easy to replicate. We are ordinary people with ordinary skills; slightly organized, with a bit of audacity.
We commend the efforts of those in Scottsdale the following day at Nationwide’s regional Headquarters, those who locked-down at the mansion of regional executives, as well as the autonomous actions of all those who targeted and will target Nationwide and their subsidiary offices in Tuscon, Santa Cruz, New York, and other cities around the country.
Regarding the recent raids and arrest in Atlanta, we hope that this weekend serves as a reminder to both the public and the circus of federal and local agencies targeting the movement: the tenuous we-got-our-man assurances of Schierbaum and his department will not fool anybody. Like our friends, their enemies are everywhere.
COP CITY IS EVERY CITY
COP CITY WILL NEVER BE BUILT
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