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The City of Lacey recently announced plans to construct a $43 million police station and training facility in a forest next to Lacey City Hall and the Lacey Library. They believe that they will construct this quickly, with public support and without incident. They are wrong. This article outlines the broad strokes of the project, the anticipated timeline, the primary actors, the beneficiaries, and some initial thoughts towards a strategy of resistance. The City of Lacey, along with the Lacey Police Department, and the various contractors standing to make a profit on expanding the racist and murderous policing system, will quickly discover that construction will not be smooth or fast. They will discover what the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation have been learning for the past three years: the spirit of 2020 is alive, and everyone still hates the police. They should learn from the political suicide of Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, the near bankruptcy of the Atlanta Police Foundation, the millions of dollars of sabotage, vandalism, and arson that have dogged the contractors of Cop City in Atlanta, and the ongoing public humiliation of supporting an unpopular, unviable, and doomed project. People who believe in joyful and free lives, who want to live in peace and repair the earth, will do what is necessary to stop the expansion of a racist, militarized police force.
Continue reading “Lacey Washington Building New Police Station”
In the past several weeks, we used hammers and knives to sabotage multiple Waymo self-driving vehicles in San Francisco. We attacked Waymo in solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Google, together with Amazon, has a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to “Israel” and its military as part of Project Nimbus.
As anarchists, we oppose the proliferation of this dystopian technology on our streets. Each car is a mobile 360-degree surveillance camera and Waymo has already turned over footage to the police. We have a unique opportunity to attack this industry in a critical time and place. In November, Waymo’s competitor Cruise was forced to recall its entire fleet after one of its cars struck and dragged a pedestrian. A Waymo car recently hit a cyclist, too. The stock market bubble for self-driving cars has dropped 95% in the last several years and Waymo has lost $15-20 billion since it first started. Waymo is currently only operating its robotaxis in San Francisco and Phoenix but wants to expand to Los Angeles and Austin. Google Glass was successfully stopped due to the losers wearing them getting assaulted and robbed. Let’s do the same thing to self-driving cars!
Ambushing self-driving cars requires patience and picking a good location, but these are good skills to practice. Find a park or other spot without cameras to lie in wait for a car to pass by. Check if there are passengers in the back seat and decide ahead of time if you want to avoid these cars. If you decide to proceed anyways, act quickly. Placing a traffic cone on the hood of a self-driving car causes its hazard lights to start flashing and prevents it from moving. Windows can be smashed, tires can be slashed, and LIDAR sensors can be painted or otherwise disabled. The company monitors the status of its vehicles, so attack and get away quickly. Keep in mind that it is especially important to conceal your identity while doing this. These cars use sophisticated cameras to record their surroundings.
Against the Zionist state, its contractors, and their technologies of surveillance!
Solidarity to comrades in Atlanta fighting repression!
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One APD vehicle was burned overnight as an initial response to the repressive operation of February 8, which involved three house raids and the arrest of John “Jack” Mazurek, who is being held without bail.
We wish to dispel any notion that people will take this latest wave of repression lying down, or that arresting alleged arsonists will deter future arsons.
Jack is accused of participating in the arson attack of July 1, 2023, when eight APD motorcyles were burned at the current police training center that Cop City is intended to replace. The group that claimed responsibility for that action called for the movement against Cop City to develop into an urban guerrilla struggle. This is still the only sensible course of action for anyone in Atlanta who considers themselves a serious revolutionary.
In light of recent arsons of construction equipment belonging to Cop City contractor Brent Scarbrough, the police needed to make a move to reassure their contractors and funders. Let’s not panic or be discouraged; we have them on the back foot. We will answer their aggression by keeping up the pace of attacks.
The cop car we burned was part of the APD’s “take-home car” program. There are at least 40 (well… 39) cops around Atlanta with patrol cars parked right in front of their houses. The opportunity to have a shiny new take-home car is reportedly the number-one reason for police retention. It is also intended to act as a crime deterrent in the neighborhood; we think that’s funny. This particular car was in Lakewood, the same neighborhood where two of the house raids took place. Our message is simple: if our comrades cannot sleep soundly in their homes, neither can the pigs.
We are not special. Our skills are not overly technical or advanced, and our tools are simple to acquire. If you are reading this, you are capable of doing what we do. We all have something to lose; it is simply a matter of living out our beliefs or submitting to the police state. Inaction is a choice just as much as action, and we all have to live with the choices we make.
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Metro Atlanta is now the sixth-largest market in the nation for data centers. But data centers have huge energy demands, so Georgia Power wants to add more electricity capacity, most of which would be powered by fossil fuels.
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Just months after placing the country’s first new nuclear reactor in decades into service, the company said it already needed to make more electricity, and fast.
Georgia Power said a wave of economic development of “unprecedented magnitude and speed” is heading for the state. To meet the coming demand, it wants to add huge amounts of new capacity, mostly powered by fossil fuels.
Incoming electric vehicle and battery factories have significant electricity needs. But in hearings this month, Georgia Power revealed the vast majority of its forecast demand crunch — roughly 80 percent — is driven by different kinds of facilities: data centers.
Whether you’re browsing Instagram, uploading photos to the cloud or using artificial intelligence, our digital lives are powered by data centers. But the often-stark warehouses packed with computer servers are electricity and water hogs, nearly as insatiable as the market’s demand for the facilities themselves.
“Humans are addicted to technology,” said Raul Martynek, CEO of DataBank, which has five planned data center campuses in metro Atlanta. “Unless that changes … you’re going to need more data center capacity.”
An analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found at least 18 data center campuses are either in development or preparing for sizable expansions across Georgia, mostly near Atlanta.
For years, local and state officials have courted the industry, pitching Georgia’s cheap land, substantial tax incentives and abundant access to power and water. Not only does Georgia provide tax savings to developers of some of the biggest data centers, local governments have doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in additional property tax breaks.
But the facilities themselves create few jobs and demand to build here is so strong, critics contend generous giveaways aren’t needed, especially when ratepayers may fund added power capacity.
“(Data centers) are generally not seen as one of the best businesses to attract,” said Nate Jensen, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies economic development strategies. “It’s just eye-popping dollar numbers because they’re investing so much capital.”
Metro Atlanta is now the No. 6 market in the U.S. for data centers, which are not only growing in number but vastly increasing in size.
At the end of 2019, metro Atlanta’s entire multi-tenant data center market totaled 142.6 megawatts (MWs), according to real estate services firm CBRE. Now, at least eight individual data center campuses are under development in North Georgia today with potential power capacities exceeding 150 MWs, the AJC found.
As data centers get larger, they also get more expensive, with some costing billions to build. But the servers are often built overseas or by companies based elsewhere, meaning the centers’ local economic impact is far lower than other huge corporate expansions.
Despite their mammoth size, proponents argue data centers don’t burden the infrastructure of their surrounding communities. A million-square-foot facility usually only employs a few dozen workers, while similar industrial developments might employ hundreds and generate thousands of truck trips to wear down nearby roads. But some communities are already exploring costly water and sewer expansions in anticipation of more data centers.
Many of the world’s largest companies, from Amazon to Facebook to Microsoft, operate in-house data centers, while other companies house servers they rent to other firms.
Vantage Data Centers, developer of a sprawling Douglas County server farm, announced it has received more than $8 billion in equity investment since September. Qualified Technology Services is not only expanding its Fulton County campus but spent $154 million last year to buy 615 acres in Fayette County for one of the world’s largest data center complexes.
Bill Thompson, a vice president at DC Blox, another developer with two Georgia projects, said companies see markets like Atlanta as a new gold rush.
“There is a literal race going on,” he said.
For decades, northern Virginia has served as the country’s preeminent data center market, buoyed by the military and federal government.
But its grip on the data storage sector loosened after a flood of servers stressed its power grid. Companies, looking elsewhere, have found Georgia a willing host. Continue reading “Georgia Welcomed Data Centers. Now It Needs More Power.”
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A “cybersecurity incident” that caused a widespread system outage Sunday is still impacting several Fulton County government services on Tuesday.
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here’s a zine that shows the connections between cop city and what’s happening in pal right now. hope you’re keeping well. from the river to the sea, & from the atlantic to the pacific, one day we will all be free!
link explaining how to fold 1-sheet zine
(cut along dotted lines after folding)
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Darion Ray Sexton was just sentenced to 39 months in prison for allegedly throwing molotovs at an anti-gay, anti-abortion church in Loveland Colorado.
I want to highlight some lessons here so others don’t get caught up. This is written with love and respect for Darion’s tremendous bravery, as well as everyone else fighting for a better world.
#1 Any action using fire, explosives, or firearms will get the FBI and ATF involved.
This means increased scrutiny and investigative resources compared to local police. Weigh the risks of your tactics and consider alternatives if the risks are too great(if the risks outweigh the choice of target, your skills, or comfort). Any action targeting a place of worship will receive increased scrutiny and possible hate crime enhancements as well, even if the target is a hate group.
#2 Don’t leave tracks.
“investigators found footprints in the snow near the church that led into a nearby neighborhood and to Sexton’s house.”
Avoid leaving footprints that investigators can trace back to your location (this can be done using multiple modes of transit, going through well trafficked areas, walking on hard compact surfaces, going an unconventional and confusing route, changing shoes etc.). Leave your phone at home so not to leave digital tracks. If your phone is usually off, turn it off, otherwise leave it on as if you were home sleeping.
#3 Burn your bloc
“A doorbell camera at the church showed a masked person throwing a device at the front door, the complaint says. The person in the video was wearing similar clothing to clothes recovered from Sexton’s house by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Investigators also found that a plastic bottle found at Sexton’s home was similar to one found in the church basement.”
Dispose of and/or destroy anything in your possession related to the action as quick as possible, without drawing additional attention to yourself. Anything worn or used needs to go. If you can’t afford to throw away a pair of shoes, consider wearing black grocery bags (or better, socks to obscure tread pattern as well) over your shoes for the duration of the action.
Wear inconspicuous clothes for the action that you have never worn before. A NRA hat may get you out of a stop(being stopped in the vicinity at all will make you a suspect). Thrift stores are your friend, but heed warning #4.
#4 Space out action related purchases
“surveillance video from a Loveland liquor store two days before the fires showed a man who looks like Sexton buying Admiral Nelson’s Premium Watermelon Rum – the same type of broken glass bottles found at the church, the complaint says.”
Action related purchases should always be made anonymously. This almost always means using cash. There should be a temporal delay(and a distance from the crime and you) between purchase and action that takes into account the severity of the action, how high or low profile you are, and the surveillance capabilities of the store you are purchasing items from. If you can dumpster supplies, that’s even better.
As a general rule, big box stores like Target and Walmart have more sophisticated surveillance systems that store higher quality video for longer. A smaller shop is probably only keeping video footage for 7-30 days, but it is hard to know for certain.
See this post for more info on reducing your tracks: https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/04/27/minimizing-dna-traces-during-riotous-moments/
Hurry comrades, stop cop city, but don’t get caught.
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Investigators are looking into the cause of several fires at a construction site early Friday morning in southeast Atlanta.
The fire reportedly started around 5 a.m. at what appears to be new townhomes being built in a community called Empire Zephyr.
The equipment pictured is owned by Brent Scarbrough, the contractor for the police training facility, Cop City.
The regional president of Empire Communities, Paul Corely, sits on the board of the APF and the company contributes financially.
Crews were called to 543 Burroughs Street NE for a reported fire just before 5 a.m. The Atlanta Police Department says officers responded and found several pieces of construction equipment on fire. The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department also responded, along with the FBI and ATF. The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) is a federal agency that works with local law enforcement to investigate arson among other crimes.
Atlanta Fire Chief Roderick Smith and Police Chief Darin Schierbaum held a news conference on Friday and called this an arson attack. They said four pieces of construction equipment were damaged by this morning’s fires at the construction site, and early indications are that these fires are connected to the protests of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center.
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I recently spoke to some people who were confused by the “feller buncher communique“, so it seems a refresher is in order. There are many people who participated in the movement to defend the forest, even those who lived in the forest for a time, who never fully learned about the plans to clearcut 155 acres to build a gigantic soundstage complex between the South River and I-285. This area has been under imminent threat of destruction since permits were granted in 2021, AND THE DESTRUCTION IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!
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Here’s a map from 2021:
Description of the expansion fro shadowboxstudios.com: Shadowbox Studios Atlanta – Phase II: Immediately south of its existing Atlanta studio, the Platform is developing a 1.2MM square foot expansion on a 155-acre parcel. Upon completion, the two phases will function as a single integrated campus totaling in excess of 2MM square feet.”
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Much of the confusion comes from the focus that was placed on the 40-acre parcel that is the focus of the South River Watershed Association’s “Stop the Swap” lawsuit. This is the land that largely overlaps with Intrenchment Creek Park (ICP), aka Weelaunee People’s Park, and it is land that many people have a first-hand experience of defending. Before it was closed to the public, it was a more strategic area to camp in due to its gray-area status as an arguably public park and its immediate proximity to the Cop City site. But Millsap sold Blackhall Studios in 2021, retaining the rights to the name Blackhall and ownership of the 40-acre parcel, and the soundstage complex eventually rebranded as Shadowbox in 2022. Since the sale, it’s been unclear what Millsap’s plans for ICP are. He obviously hated protestors living on “his” land, and the feeling was mutual, but this was never the main area under threat. Shadowbox Studios has had permission to cut the other 155 acres of forest for the past three years.
When APD Chief Schierbaum claimed that the equipment targeted on January 16 belonged to a Cop City contractor, I was skeptical. But since that press conference, I have independently verified that both Brent Scarbrough and Brasfield & Gorrie are directly involved with the construction work on Shadowbox property. It appears that our adversaries have consolidated forces. Just as the APF has ramped up construction activities for Cop City in the past week, Shadowbox Studios is also moving forward with tree-clearing and construction. Since the January 16 arson, they have only doubled down, bringing a dozen new pieces of heavy equipment to a small area just off the ramp that goes from Exit 52 of I-285 West onto I-675 South. They installed a fence, multiple cameras, and a police guard.
The Atlanta Police Foundation, Shadowbox Studios, Brasfield & Gorrie, and Brent Scarbrough have all decided that the risks of continuing (albeit with increased security) are tolerable; it’s up to us to prove them wrong.
Last week, when some courageous people saw the destruction of the forest happening before their eyes, they took swift action to stop it. But we must acknowledge that ever since the movement effectively ceded ICP in March 2023, we’ve all been dropping the ball. We cannot just wish one or more guerrilla groups capable of a sustained on-the-ground struggle into existence; we have to become them.
-some anarchist who still gives a shit about the forest!
Continue reading “Urgent Updates, and a Refresher on the Shadowbox Expansion”
English subtitled version of the film giving the account of the early part of the Phoenix Project, international project of sabotage and attack with over a dozen hits in a variety of different countries.
Dedicated to Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai, Olga Cell FAI/IRF, who took responsibility for the laming of CEO Roberto Adinolfi of Ansaldo Nucleare.
“We are here, where everything starts now.”
The Project of ‘Phoenix’ is the unfolding of a hidden map marking one of the routes to the Atlantis of practical theory. An unknown and lost continent that exists beyond the edges of the burning cities of the interzone. Created through action, dialogue and ideas and organised informally with anarchic principles of permanent autonomous attack, revolutionary solidarity and internationalism. A sequence of attacks by different radical direct action groups around the world, breaking the silence of isolation and striking back again against the prison societies of the techno-industrial system.
The imprisoned members of CCF are charged with instigation for the attacks, Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis were arrested and charged for act #4 in the project, sending a parcel-bomb to the former commander of the anti-terrorist agency, Dimitris Xorianopoulos, whilst Christos Rodopoulos is reportedly accused of the mailing of the parcel bomb to Dimitris Mokkas, chief prosecutor in the CCF case, as act #6.
The Phoenix project is now renewed through the 2015 attacks in Chile, Czech Republic and Greece, with the comrades within the territory of Czech Republic initiating the campaign “Let’s destroy repression“. The story of the Phoenix continues to be written…
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
NOT A MILLIMETER BACK
NINE MILLIMETERS TO THE COPS’ HEADS
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DN Note: Eternal gratitude to the comrade who sent a copy of the English version of video our way that dissapeared from cyberspace.
Below we translate the article from the reposting of the Spanish version of the video that inspired us to repost the English version.
Nothing is over, everything continues…
Machine translation to english following original spanish
Machine translation of linked article to english is provided as pdf below
Compañerxs, les hacemos llegar una publicación que hemos hecho acerca de la campaña de ataque Switch Off!. Creemos valioso que esta campaña sea difundida y se dé a conocer mucho más, por lo efectiva que ha sido y por los planteamientos que de ella se desprenden. Sin más, esperamos que pueda ser difundida por sus medios. Saludos anárquicos.
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Hace un año en Europa se ha iniciado una campaña de ataque contra empresas e infraestructuras que alimentan la catástrofe ecológica en todo el mundo, titulada Switch Off!, que en español quiere decir Apagar. Grandes y pequeñas acciones se han posicionado en ofensiva desde la preocupación y necesidad de enfrentar un evidente colapso ecosistemico provocado por la maquinaria capitalista global que destruye todo a su paso.
La intencionalidad de la campaña está en “atacar al sistema de forma sostenible”, situando la acción directa en un contexto en común a traves de la comunicación anonima de unas con otras, invitando a armarse con medios propios y pasar a la ofensiva contra las infraestructuras productivas y con ello la propiedad, sin caer en falsas ilusiones discursivas, institucionales y/o tecnológicas, “dejando en claro que no puede haber una alternativa verde capitalista, ni paz con las condiciones existentes”.
Para ver la publicación completa con la cronología, comunicados y una reflexión final sobre las campañas y la perspectiva ecologista visita el link: https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/17/acerca-de-la-campana-de-ataque-switch-off/
Por más campañas igual de peligrosa.
¡Que en todos los rincones del planeta se apague el sistema que destruye el planeta!
Informativo Anarquista
Comrades, we send you a publication that we have made about the Switch Off! attack campaign. We believe it is valuable that this campaign is spread and become much more widely known, because of how effective it has been and because of the the approaches that emerge from it. Without further ado, we hope that can be disseminated by their media. Anarchic greetings.
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A year ago, a campaign of attack began against companies and infrastructures fueling the ecological catastrophe, Switch Off!, which in Spanish means to Turn Off. Large and small actions have positioned themselves on the offensive from the concern and need to confront an evident ecosystem collapse caused by the global capitalist machine that destroys everything in its path.
The intention of the campaign is to “attack the system in a sustainable way”, placing direct action in a common context through anonymous communication with each other, inviting people to arm themselves with their own means and go on the offensive against productive infrastructures and with it property, without falling into false discursive illusions. institutional and/or technological, “making it clear that there can be no green capitalist alternative, nor peace with existing conditions.”
To see the full publication with the chronology, press releases and a final reflection on the campaigns and the environmental perspective, visit this: [view/download PDF]
For more campaigns just as dangerous.
In every corner of the planet, the system that destroys the planet must be shut down!
Informativo Anarquista
Two articles also related:
Switch Off! – the system of destruction
The cost of the Atlanta’s public safety training center has jumped by $19 million, according to city officials, after increased security measures, litigation and a spike in insurance rates have added additional financial obligations. The overall cost of construction has increased from the originally stated $90 million to more than $109 million.
The elevated price will be covered by the Atlanta Police Foundation and its donors.
The mayor’s office said that a large chunk of the increase is for heightened security measures at the site, companies involved in the construction and individuals tied to the center that have been threatened or targeted.
So far, there have been 23 instances of arson related to the project.
“Because of these actions we’ve had to increase our outside security by $6 million,”
“That does not include APD ofcers who are on 12-hour shifts covering the actual site.”
The attacks have also caused insurance on the project to increase by $400,000
“This isn’t any shocking news, in terms of price being more than anticipated,”
“What’s been kind of different about this is the type of increases we’ve been seeing. We’re seeing increases from things we traditionally don’t see (like) additional security and insurance.”
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To Shadowbox Studios,
You dumb motherfuckers left your feller buncher near the highway where everyone could see it lit the fuck up in the night sky. You’re all fucking losers and we hope the extra rain sank its lifeless corpse so deep in the mud that it takes weeks to get it out.
To everyone else,
There is still a forest to defend, and some of us intend to do so with or without a “movement” to back us up. There is more to the Weelaunee forest than the section that is fenced off and under 24/7 police occupation. We vowed to defend the forest from Blackhall too. No matter what the project is, anything destroying forests must be met with the same rage, hostility, and violence. Weelaunee is our home and we will not abandon it.
Fuck a feller buncher. Fuck Shadowbox Studios. Hollywood will burn wherever it decides to go, as will the pigs trying to protect it.
Pictured below is a visual representation of the region of woods under threat. There is still much to lose, but also many opportunities to strike. Take them.
For Tort, who brings rain to cover the tracks of saboteurs everywhere, who brings them quick wits, good luck, and eternal protection in the treeline of the ever-abundant and growing forest. We will never forget you, and nothing will ever extinguish the fire you set in our hearts. May it spread everywhere and always.
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