Category: Communiques
US Naval Officer office in central North Carolina Vandalized
In solidarity with the ongoing Palestinian uprising we vandalized the building of a US Naval Officer office in central North Carolina. We painted the doors with the message, “Free Palestine” and smashed the windows. We stand with all the oppressed people of the world who fight for liberation, and recognize the violence of the colonized cannot be equated with the violence of the colonizer. We don’t believe there is a state solution to colonization, and while there are many things we don’t know we are sure that the US war machine is and always will be one of the main roadblocks to freedom all over the world, and so it is on us, in the belly of the beast to do what we can to attack it.
Free Palestine, USA out of everywhere
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Windows Smashed at Military Recruiters’ Office in Daly City
On Indigenous People’s Night, we smashed all nine windows at the military recruiters’ office in so-called Daly City, California (Ramaytush Ohlone territory).
We dedicate this action to Jennifer “Ganda” Laude, a Filipina woman who was murdered by transphobic U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton on October 11, 2014. We acted in response to a call by Filipino/a/x comrades asking anarchists in the United States to memorialize Ganda and attack U.S. imperialism. We know that this one action alone is not enough, but we hope that it encourages other anarchists to attack in Ganda’s name as well. For comrades in the Northeast who have the skills to do the research, Pemberton grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts and may have returned there after he was pardoned by Duterte in 2020.
We extend our solidarity to all anti-colonial struggles around the world. Solidarity to Palestinians resisting Zionist settler-colonialism! Solidarity to Haitians resisting yet another U.N. intervention! Solidarity to Weelaunee forest defenders! Death to America!
Originally Published On IndyBay
Logging Equipment In Camden County GA Destroyed By Arson
Several pieces of logging equipment were destroyed by fire on Highway 110 near Highway 40 in late September.
From Mainstream News
Yet Another Brent Scarborough Machine Destroyed
On the night of October 1st, the Brent Scarborough site across from the penitentiary was visited for a third time and an excavator was burned.
They still have overnight security but we didn’t run into them. We know people are afraid. We are afraid too, but we move through fear by taking action. Hearing a machine explode as you walk away is actually really freeing.
The upcoming mass action has set us a deadline. We have from now until November 13 to stop the “movement’s next phase” from being defined by NVDA. We honor our dead by following their struggle through to the end. Start making your way to Atlanta or take action where you are.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Plumbing Sabotaged at Nationwide Office
In Hilton Head, SC I dumped half a bag of fast drying concrete (“quikrete”) into the toilet of Jeff Ware Insurance, a subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance. I agitated the mixture with the plunger to make sure it all got wet and then I flushed the mixture. It was already starting to back up when I left. if everything goes as hoped, the rest of the concrete will dry in the pipes of the building, causing thousands in damage to the system.
As of February of this year, Nationwide provides coverage for the Atlanta Police Foundation. I took this simple action to encourage them to drop Cop City. I strongly encourage others to copy this action. Other Nationwide subsidiaries near you can be found here: https://agency.nationwide.com/search
A Note on the Upcoming Block Cop City Action:
I am going to be there. Greetings to the wild ones who will also come. I just do not believe the entire weekend will go off without chaos. while I do not intend to go against the intentions of the main event organizers, and I hope the big action goes according to plan, but if the police freak out, I want to be there to see what happens next.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
A hundred queer anarchist criminals turned a golf course into a public sex forest.
Blue flashing lights pass by, oblivious to our collective trespass. A hole in the fence, hotties passing through, passing into each other. A new world cums into being, a rupture on the leisure pastures of the rich. Cruising utopia, at least for a night. Queers writhing over each other, defiling one another. Sweet melodies accompany soft caresses, the sound of piss gurgling beside a couple kissing. Determined fuckers splayed out on tarps. The line between criminality and sensuality? Sorry she’s not in tonight.
We perverted Chicago’s Marovitz golf course, had a great night doing it. Imagine the next day, a confounded golfer cautiously lifting a damp towel between two fingers, realizing all at once, their eyes passing over the sex litter drying on the sunny green.
We did this for ourselves, but also to express solidarity with the intractable freaks who held down the Weelaunee forest. Since the very first fiery attacks carried out by queers in defense of that place, we’ve laughed and cried and raged with our feral siblings. If we only defend, we end up with our backs against the wall. All it takes is some boltcutters, encrypted messaging, and trusted friends to open up new fronts in the war for the wild. No more empty rhetoric around ‘territorial struggle’ without a total re-imagining of the terrain. We carved the chaos star into the sand bunker to remind that the forest is a propulsive utopia, spreading in all directions!
xoxo
an autonomous extra-curriculars committee at bb!23
A CALL TO WAR AGAINST THE PIPELINE
a fortnight ago, by the light of the full moon, a small group of friends set fire to a large excavator and a second small machine that were being used to build the mountain valley pipeline near teels creek.
we came prepared to burn up to six machines but unfortunately found only two at the site we chose. mvp has dozens or possibly hundreds of unattended machines on their construction sites on any given night; they are working at a breakneck pace in an attempt to complete the pipeline by the end of the year. a map of the pipeline showing incomplete water crossings can be found at tinyurl.com/mvprfuckers.
we believe that mvp is financially precarious and can still be stopped through relentless destructive actions, alongside the scaling-up of the existing campaign to cause disruptions and delays. to this end, we call upon like-minded individuals and groups to travel to so-called virginia and west virginia to inflict maximum economic damage against mvp by any means at your disposal. we must demoralize the enemy and prove that their project is doomed to never be completed.
people in the area have campaigned against this pipeline for eight years. while they allowed most of the pipeline to be built, they successfully used lawsuits and aerial blockades to delay construction indefinitely in key places like water crossings and national forests. however, the campaign has no further legal recourse after the remaining permits were forced through by congress in june. the mvp can no longer be stopped through walk-ons and lockdowns, nor by low-key monkeywrenching like adding bleach to engine oil. we are not asking everyone to stop using existing tactics, we only ask that people expand their imaginations and really consider how they can be most effective given limited resources of time, money, personnel, and energy. we like working with fire because it’s straightforward to use and makes it so easy to completely destroy machines. plus, accelerant is a hell of a lot lighter than concrete.
we have seen campaign after campaign fail to stop pipelines over the past decade, and we cannot afford to keep losing. we send our warmest greetings to jess reznicek, who is currently in prison for her courageous acts of arson and sabotage against the dakota access pipeline. we regret that her methods have not yet been taken up widely in the anti-pipeline movement. warriorup.noblogs.org and tension.noblogs.org are good starting points to find information on various arson and sabotage techniques.
we hope locals will step up their game, but the mvp is not just a local struggle. catastrophic climate change is already here. no one in the northern hemisphere has been unaffected by wildfires, flooding, or extreme heat this summer alone. while we are glad that this monstrous civilization has already ensured its own demise, we would love to make it possible for something to exist after. the only way to stop the deterioration of the climate from getting exponentially worse is to immediately halt the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure, and to shut down and dismantle existing infrastructure. wherever you live, there’s a pipeline near you that you can go shut off yourself.
if you have not yet begun to fight, there will never be a better time to start than now. the hour is late, and the risks of taking action far outweigh the risks of doing nothing. inaction is suicide. of course, we must always take precautions to avoid identification and capture, so that we are able to attack repeatedly. we don’t want to only act “once in a blue moon”! we’ll be back for more soon. will you join us?
blessed is the flame.
doom to the pipeline.
another end of the world is possible.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Olympia: Night Time Attack on Cop City Funder Subsidiary
On the night of September 9th a small band assembled to carry out an attack on an Arby’s in Westside St̕č̓as (so-called Olympia). The crew convened in the shadows near the target. Anxious at first, a shooting star blesses our action and we don the black masks. We briskly walk to the target, confirm we are still in, set a thirty second timer, tag it and smash the windows and disperse. In, out, no arrests.
This target was chosen as CEO Paul Brown of its owning and franchising company, Inspire Brands LLC, sits on the board of directors of the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) who are behind the funding and political push for the urban warfare training ground and mass deforestation project known as Cop City. We take this small action against Cop City and its world and send love to those resisting the beast of police militarization in ATL.
Also, just in general, fuck Arby’s.
Targets are everywhere, take aim and strike.
And remember, It’s Easy to Attack!
(A)
Originally from Puget Sound Anarchists
RAIL SABOTAGE AT JULY 2023 WOA
During the last week of action in Atlanta, some of us sabotaged various parts of Norfolk Southern’s rail infrastructure on the outskirts of the city. Norfolk Southern is one of Cop City’s funders.
1. We set fire to a signal box by cutting the lock with bolt cutters, stuffing the box with dried pine needles and trash, and lighting a road flare.
2. We disabled another signal box by cutting the lock with bolt cutters, lighting two fireworks held together with tape, and shutting the door of the box with fireworks inside.
3. We connected the rails with a set of jumper cables to signal a blockage on the track to be cleared.
The actions were simple and unsurveilled. More experimentation is needed to see if this actually stops or delays trains. That is the main reason we have waited until now to claim this action. But it certainly cost Norfolk Southern money, and that’s better than nothing. Our original intent was not propaganda of the deed, but to cause economic harm. However, in light of the recent RICO charges, we realized that people might need a little encouragement on how to respond. Norfolk Southern owns and operates many railroads across the country east of the Mississippi.
The best defense is a strong offense!
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Claim of Responsibility for Asheville Arson
there were a lot of so-called anarchists at the acab bookfair but we’re not sure what you nerds do besides read books. we dont know how to read so instead we burned those cop cars. even though they were parked right behind the police/fire station nobody noticed until it was too late and the cars were “completely destroyed.”
we were just gonna leave it unclaimed because it seemed funnier that way, but we were just thinking about how cool march 5th was and we remembered theres a whole movement about it! there were 200 of us there that day, what are the rest of you up to? theres freakin pigs everywhere and their cars are extremely flammable. burning a cop car might be the easiest thing you’ve done in your life, it was for us.
-march 5th movement
Submitted Over Email
Vertiv Corporation Trucks Set On Fire – Milwaukie OR
Last week, to commemorate the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, under the cover of darkness a small incendiary device was placed on the wheel arc of a Vertiv truck located on the edge of a sleepy office park in Milwaukie OR. The delay was lit before we disappeared back into the forest
Vertiv Corporation develops critical support equipment and services for commercial IT systems—technology that is utilized by United States military in addition to state and federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and ICE. Vertiv is part of the broad corporate infrastructure of state repression that condemns us all to a world of mass surveillance, borders, and militarized police
AGAINST COP CITY
This action was inspired in part by the continued militancy and creativity of the movement to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta GA. Cop City is a testing ground for other law enforcement agencies across the country to construct similar facilities—continuing a broader trend towards the militarization of policing and domestic counter-insurgency. For their part, Vertiv is a supplier to the Atlanta Police Department. Just in the year 2023 alone, the APD paid Vertiv $168,315 to utilize their technology.
Cop City is everywhere, so our resistance will be everywhere. March 5th was our call to war…
For Tort
For Rayshard Brooks
March 5th Movement (M5M)
Submitted Over Email
Fleurus (Belgium): cop and military collaborator loses 10 vehicles
[As a reminder, the logistics group UPS (United Parcel Service) is the holder of the North American Department of Defense’s contract to transport packages around the world, and has been for decades (along with FedEx & Polar Air Cargo), making it, for example, the preferred logistician for military personnel at American NATO bases in Europe. It’s also one of the major companies currently donating to the Cop City project in Atlanta; and it’s also a zealous recruiter of US veterans and army reservists, whose “skills” and “values” UPS proudly claims to share in its promotional campaigns].
Fleurus: ten vans set on fire on a company site
Belga/DH, August 16, 2023 (excerpt)
On Tuesday evening, shortly after 11 p.m., firefighters from Jumet and Charleroi (Hainaut-Est zone) were mobilized in Fleurus, on Avenue de l’Espérance, in the zoning area. They were alerted to a van on fire near the hangar of a company [the UPS group’s subcontractor].
On arriving on the scene, firefighters were confronted with ten vans, all aflame. The loading bay was also affected. According to initial information gathered at the scene, an individual had set fire to one of the vans before fleeing, and the flames then spread to the other vehicles parked next to it.
Surveillance cameras at the scene revealed the presence of a suspect carrying a jerry can. “He has still not been identified, and this is not going to be easy at all, given that he was wearing a hoodie and we can only see his eyes,” said the Charleroi public prosecutor’s office in the early afternoon.
IDK WHO TIQQUN IS
but me and my friends were tiqqun a walk and came across a nationwide insurance salesman’s office and we messed it up with rocks and paint. nationwide is insuring cop city.
less talk more rock!
death to cop city by 1000 cuts
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Atlas office in Williston, VT Vandalized
July 9
We had heard an Atlas executive claimed that they were no longer involved with Cop City, but Atlas had been silent in the media. On July 9, we left a little message in red spraypaint for the people at Atlas Technical. Drop Cop City and Tort Vive were written all over two work trucks and the front of the building. The next day, Atlas made a statement to a reporter confirming they were no longer involved in the project. From the Connecticut River to the South River, any contractor who chooses to work with the APF will have to answer to bold people who are sick and tired of the system.
– Green Mountain Sacred Deliquents
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Chase Bank Attacked In Michigan
here in so-called southeast Michigan, it was too freakin hot on the night of the 4th so we decided to take to the streets for mischief, and what did we find but a Chase Bank with plenty of good-sized windows and atms!
we decided to redecorate. we glued the ATMs shut and spray-painted the windows, and used acid-etch paint to write messages of resistance like DROP COP CITY and VIVA TORTUGUITA!
we think that your stupid bank looks MUCH better now. down with beige minimalism! up with the spirit of resistance!
it was the best fourth of july we’ve ever spent.
chase, if you don’t drop the Cop City project, we will rain down more destruction upon you and your buildings.
death to america!
death to banks everywhere!
STOP COP CITY!
– Submitted Anonymously Over Email
20 machines across 6 sites of the construction of the mountain valley pipeline were sabotaged – Appalachia
An invitation and reportback from a productive fourth of july party
On the fourth of july, 20 machines across 6 sites of the construction of the mountain valley pipeline were sabotaged, using a variety of means to render them inoperable. Machines are often left unguarded, and when they’re not, the security are just prats. It was easy and fun. We gave a big cheer when these machines were seen being hauled off the mountains back to the industrial hellscapes they come from.
I have loved these mountains my whole life, and truly am a part of the forests. Mountain Valley Pipeline has been fought ferociously by locals every step of the last 5 years, but we need help. People have locked themselves to equipment and had their bodies maimed by police. People have precariously lived in treetops for years (literally, 2 and a half years at yellow finch). But MVP, supported by Joe Manchin and the full power of the US government does not care about the trees, the deer, the woodducks, the candy darters, or any one of us. Lockdowns and treesits are not enough anymore. I am inviting the full power and creativity of the movement to do whatever it takes to stop these fuckers from killing us all. Doom to the pipeline!
Check out the many resources on warriorup.noblogs.org, especially the following:
https://warriorup.noblogs.org/post/2017/12/03/making-delay-devices-for-arsons/
https://efmechanicsguild.wordpress.com/
https://warriorup.noblogs.org/post/2017/12/01/without-a-trace/
https://warriorup.noblogs.org/post/2017/12/03/a-recipe-for-nocturnal-direct-actions/
Originally Posted On UNRAVEL
Brick thrown at UPS Store Window in Solidarity with #StopCopCity
On Saturday morning, July 8th, a brick was thrown at the front window of the UPS Store on Telegraph avenue in solidarity with the campaign to Stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee forest. The action took only a few minutes total. The window was shattered into a cobweb pattern.
This action also was done in solidarity with others in the Bay who have attacked the property of companies and banks invested in the Atlanta police training facility mega project. For example, the recent string of ATM smashing last week were inspiring to learn about.
Hella companies are invested in the destruction of Weelaunee forest and building Cop City ((Home Depot, Chik’Fil’A, UPS, Bank of America)). They have buildings, warehouses, storefronts all over the Bay Area. These are physical sites that can be easily vandalized, smashed up, or made inoperable in other ways. With a few more people and a lookout, the entire UPS store front this morning could have been smashed out within five minutes.
410,757,864,530 broken windows for Weelaunee
Originally Published On Indy Bay
Bank of America in berkeley hit with STOP COP CITY tags and ATM screens smashed
LAST NIGHT AT 1AM THE BANK OF AMERICA ON COLLEGE AVE IN BERKELEY WAS ATTACKED IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP COP CITY AND WEELAUNEE FOREST DEFENDERS.
THREE ATM SCREENS WERE SMASHED WITH HAMMER IN FRONT OF THE BANK AND “STOP COP CITY R.I.P TORT” WAS SPRAYED ON THE WALL IN BLACK PAINT.
THIS IS AN EASILY REPRODUCED ACTION. THERE ARE BANK OF AMERICA BUILDINGS ALL OVER.
FUCK THE POLICE
NO COP CITY ANYWHERE
410,757,864,530 SMASHED ATMs FOR WEELAUNEE
ฅ(^•ﻌ•^ฅ)
Originally Published On Indy Bay
Reportback On 2 Attacks On Atlanta Police Department Infrastructure
one week ago there were two coordinated attacks on atlanta police department infrastructure
-current apd training facility: 8 motorcycles destroyed
-apd cruisers on memorial drive: 3 cruisers smashed
both actions had equipment issues. check your materials.
we took action because the police see everyone associated with the movement to defend the atlanta forest as an enemy combatant whether or not they participate in brave decisive actions like that at the cop city site on march 5.
we took action after non combative demonstrations at cadence bank and home depot. the police attacked those demonstrations with no cause, as they do wherever or however the movement gathers. there can be no separation of time and space for tactics when the police have turned society into a warzone. despite this, we dispersed our activity as much as possible across their area of control.
to address the referendum. we encourage thsoe who are pursuing a strategy of referendum to continue supporting all methods to stop cop city. while signatures are collected, the forest is being destroyed, the police are still killing. we cannot wait. if the referendum fails, actions like ours, and bolder, will be the only means available.
to these ends, we announce the march 5 movement (m5m). we are inspired by the brave actions of forest defenders on march 5, and reflect on the shortcomings of the march 5 action. we see that mass daylight actions are not possible for now, but the struggle must advance and escalate.
we encourage anyone who agrees to pick up these methods and claim actions in the name of m5m if they seek to disrupt the logistics of those who destroy the earth and dignified life on it.
we have shed enough tears and acted soley in revenge for too long. we encourage a revolutionary guerilla movement as a path forward.
save weelaunee
save the world
-m5m
Submitted Anonymously