Several pieces of logging equipment were destroyed by fire on Highway 110 near Highway 40 in late September.
From Mainstream News
Logging Equipment In Camden County GA Destroyed By Arson
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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.
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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)
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Quotes From Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum At The Police Press Conference About Tactics Used
“Fire attacks are being conducted by a very small group of individuals who are using violence, intimidation, and fear to stop the construction““The intent behind every one of these attacks was destruction beyond what occured”
890 memorial drive with the picture of a road flare “What we have here is the use of a potential destructive device”
180 Southside Industrial Pkwy “You see the device, the uhh, suspected potential destructive device. We believe this holds accelerants with an improvised ignition device ontop of sponge, a wick of a uhh, that this there, and then a book of matches. […] had these vehicles been set on fire the entire precinct would’ve been ignited”
From A Press Conference
The reproducibility of attack and informal organization- October 2016 – Belgium
One can not fight authority with authoritarian forms of organization. Reproducibility as a method then requires not only the identification and use of tools within reach of all, but also a whole work of identification of the enemy. […] I find it difficult to imagine how a real propagation of sabotage can be achieved if, for example, in the struggle against the construction of a high-voltage line, the comrades identify only the institution that has financed the construction as the target of the struggle. Reproducibility becomes possible when, precisely, the view shifts and identifies the hundreds of pylons, scattered along the new line, as potential targets for sabotage. […] the propagation of attack also requires making available and sharing knowledge of the instruments of attack.
From Avalanche Anarchist Correspondence Issue 9
Continue reading “The reproducibility of attack and informal organization- October 2016 – Belgium”
Reproducibility, propagation of attack against power and some related points Avalanche Issue 8 PDF/READ VERSION
“The propagation of sabotage had nothing accidental about it, it was due to the simplicity with which this symbol of domination was attacked and the facility by which certain means could be acquired, this means: reproducibility. […] Concretely, reproducibility means that acts of sabotage are realised with means (incendiary devices bombs, explosive weapons or other tools) that can be easily made and used, and that can be easily acquired by anyone. The intention beyond this is that sabotage might be in reach for anyone, that each person might get access to attacking what is oppressing him or her and that one doesn’t have to go looking for an already formalised (or sometimes spectacularised) group to learn how to do thing. […] Concerning the attack against the structures of the State and Capitalism, but above all against Power, we desire a propagation of attack, of sabotage and of the insurrectional perspective. What we are looking for, is the intensification of the social war day after day. That every person who feels the need to attack the State, Capitalism and Power does so, getting, above everything else, out of the idle position of spectator or of the immobility due to a lack of means.”
Reproducibility, propagation of attack against power and some related points
“The media image of the ‘terrorist’ works together with the police to defend social peace. The citizen applauds or gets scared, but always remains a citizen, that is to say, a spectator. The ‘armed struggle’ presents itself as the superior form of social confrontation. The one who is militarily more representative – according to the spectacular effect of the actions – therefore constitutes the authentic armed party. The State from his side has every interest to reduce the revolutionary threat to some fighting organisations as to transform subversion into a pitched battle between two armies. What domination fears is generalised and anonymous revolt […]”
“One thing is that anarchists have weapons, a much different thing is to be an armed group. […]”
On the 11th of March 2009, a video with the title 19 seconds of social war was anonymously uploaded to the web. Three anonymous fighters with their faces covered show the easiness and efficiency with which it is possible to attack those who destroy your life. To attack a bank in a few seconds, two hammers, a spray can and determination are enough. Maybe at the moment, the most notable aspect of the video was the acceptance it got on youtube, it was enough to look to the comments to have an idea of this. But actually, the most notable in our opinion, was the wave of sabotage actions that happened in the Mexican capital (and certainly also in other regions) after the spreading of this video. The propagation of sabotage had nothing accidental about it, it was due to the simplicity with which this symbol of domination was attacked and the facility by which certain means could be acquired, this means: reproducibility.
For long time, the majority of sabotage actions which flooded anonymously and informally – or some with claims – Mexico City and other regions of the country shared a characteristic that went beyond any claim. This characteristic was that the attacks were realised with easily reproducible means that are therefore accessible for any comrade, or for anybody who feels the need to attack what is oppressing and exploiting us. Also today, many attacks are realised in this way, which is strengthening their propagation.
In an insurrectional and informal struggle project that intends to propagate itself on a, let’s say, social level, but also amongst comrades, an as necessary as indispensable element is reproducibility. Concretely, reproducibility means that acts of sabotage are realised with means (incendiary devices bombs, explosive weapons or other tools) that can be easily made and used, and that can be easily acquired by anyone. The intention beyond this is that sabotage might be in reach for anyone, that each person might get access to attacking what is oppressing him or her and that one doesn’t have to go looking for an already formalised (or sometimes spectacularised) group to learn how to do thing. Reproducibility is about the individual himself or herself finding the means to act, meeting up with comrades in affinity with who he or she shares knowledge, discussing things trough and stepping on to action.
When we speak about informality, we are not only speaking about it as an organisational method of the anarchist struggle, we are also speaking about it as a means by which the individual acquires absolute autonomy and therefore doesn’t have to submit to the ideology of a group – groups that are often of authoritarian colours, but go well camouflaged as “libertarian” or “autonomous” and insert themselves in this necessity to pass on to the attack, taking over anarchist projects or individuals to later on submerse them in a logic of submission to a central apparatus. But it is precisely through discussion, thinking and critiques that the individual meets the need to converge with other singular individuals, or with other collectives that themselves are consisting of individuals.
Reproducibility also encourages the radicalisation of the individual or collective acts of attack, extending to the maximum the autonomy amongst individuals and collectives, generating, when one desires, an informal coordination in which, outside of the logic of dependency or acceptance, one could also come to share the knowledge of each comrade concerning sabotage.
Some particular realities
Gasoline, glass bottles, burned oil and rags are easily acquired. Also other materials with which one can attack the system and its cops can be easily found. For us, all means that are in accordance with the ends are weapons that can be directed against power. Maybe some are more destructive than others, but no any means gets ideological overrating over another. Continue reading “Reproducibility, propagation of attack against power and some related points”
Person charged and awaiting trial after shooting an electrical substation and spray-painting messages relating to the Dakota Access Pipeline – Ray, ND
July 12th, 2023
A Canadian is facing federal charges after authorities alleged he shot a gun at an electricity substation in western North Dakota.
A person appeared Wednesday, July 12, in U.S. District Court in Bismarck on one count each of destruction of an energy facility, “possession of a firearm by an illegal alien” and “possession of ammunition by an illegal alien.” His trial is scheduled for September.
The charge stems from a May 13 incident at the Wheelock substation in Ray, North Dakota. Employees said they found multiple rifle bullet holes in the substation operated by Mountrail-Williams Electric Co-op and Basin Electric Power Co-op, according to a criminal complaint.
The word “DAPL” and other symbols were spray-painted on rocks outside the power station, according to court documents.
No one was injured in the shooting.
DAPL is an acronym for the Dakota Access Pipeline, a nearly 1,200-mile pipeline that carries oil from western North Dakota to Illinois. Construction of the pipeline attracted protesters in 2016.
“Law enforcement also determined that approximately 15 bullets penetrated and damaged substation transformers and numerous electrical apparatuses,” the complaint said.
The bullets caused $100,000 in damage and resulted in 243 customers losing power, the complaint said.
He initially was charged with felony criminal mischief in Williams County District Court, but the charge was dropped Tuesday so federal prosecutors could pursue their case.
He remains in custody at the Williams County Correctional Center.
Originally Posted On Unravel
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
Oakland CA, a brick was thrown into the front window of UPS Store in solidarity with #StopCopCity and defense of Weelaunee forest
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
Two More Machines Burned at Brent Scarbrough Site in Atlanta
Two More Machines Burned at Brent Scarbrough Site in Atlanta
Dear Brent Scarbrough,
Happy Fourth of July! Today we decided to celebrate our independence from your destruction of the land for Cop City by torching two of your machines, a steam roller and a front end loader, in broad daylight across from the federal prison in Atlanta (the same site that was hit three months ago). We noticed that you only have overnight security there, and we just wanted to let you know that you and your machines will never be safe, night or day. If you thought it was chill to clearcut 80+ acres, you were wrong and you will fucking pay. You may have thought you were done with us, but we will never be done with you.
For all the trees you’ve killed, for all the owls, snakes, frogs, squirrels, snails, slugs, birds, fish, deer, and coyote you’ve displaced, for all the unmarked graves you’ve disturbed, and for our fallen comrade who was murdered while you were contracted to clear-cut the forest, we will wage a campaign of violence and destruction on any and all contractors who participate in cutting down the forest or building Cop City.
We wonder how you and Tina sleep at night (at this address hyperlinked)?
We are vengeful wingnuts with nothing left to lose.
Fuck around and find out.
#NeverForget #DeathToAmerikkka
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Atlanta police vehicles vandalized, motorcycles near academy set on fire overnight
Three police vehiclesvandalized, and several police motorcycles were set on fire overnight.
Officers were dispatched around 1 a.m. to 890 Memorial Drive regarding damage to vehicles.
Upon arrival, they discovered three APD vehicles with broken windows. The Path Force Unit is located at that address.
Atlanta Fire and Rescue responded to a multi-vehicle fire inside a parking deck at 180 Southside Industrial Parkway around 2:20 a.m.
Several motorcycles were set on fire inside a parking deck near the Atlanta Police Training Academy on Southside Industrial Parkway.
Found On Local News
Bank Of America Buildings and ATMs across California attacked
On Friday night (6/30) into Saturday morning (7/1) a total of four Bank of Amerikkka buildings in the Bay Area were vandalized, and a total of five BofA ATMs were smashed in solidarity with the Stop Cop City campaign and struggle to Defend the Atlanta Forrest.
Two BofA buildings in Oakland were tagged with the message “Stop Cop City / ACAB”
Two ATMs on 50 California in San Francisco were sprayed with graffiti that said “Stop Cop City” and the screens were hit with hammers and shattered.
Three ATMs in front of the Bank of Amerikkka in Concord on Sun Valley Blvd. were also smashed with hammers and sprayed with a message in solidarity with the fight against policing and Cop City in Atlanta.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
How To Survive The 9 To 5 – Monkeywrenching & Forest Defense in North “Georgia”
https://ellipsism.noblogs.org/files/2023/06/How-To-Survive-The-9-To-5.pdf
Originally intended to be a zine, expanding to a short book, How To Survive The 9 To 5 focuses on direct action in wilderness and woodland areas and Land defense – specifically in North “georgia”. Deeply influenced by the movement to Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest, this writing aims to aid in compiling information useful to this fight; covering topics on basic camping know-how, the local flora and fauna, natural building and skills, security and defense, and some useful tips and tactics for direct action.
In the fight for the defense of the Land, the compilation, sharing, and study of knowledge here is necessary, not only for our own safety as a movement but also for the very safety of the Land itself. We must dedicated ourselves daily to knowing and understanding the Land and how we can establish our relationship with it, which in turn means we will be able to work with it for its defense. The Forest and the Land will defend itself and we must work in solidarity with each other and it in this struggle.
This writing is not all-encompassing but hopes to work as a basic field guide, that can be expanded upon further through your endeavors and works well as a reference.
The guide can be found at the newly starting Ellipsism noblogs.
Feel free to distribute and share this writing and keep security in mind when doing so.
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
Brent Scarborough Machines Sabotaged
Dear Brent Scarborough,
I Bet You Thought You Were Safe With All The New Security Measures You Put In At Your Headquarters Site! We Saw The Empty Lot Where You Used To Store Machines… And The Big One Right Next Door.
We Saw The Bright Lights, Tall Fence, And Trees Clear Cut Twenty Feet From Every Edge Of The Lot. It Was A Quick Walk From The On Ramp Of Exit 41. A Row Of Trucks Obscured Our Car So We Only Had To Carry Our Supplies About Half A Mile.
You Ought To Pay Your Security Guard More… He Was Asleep On The Job! We Climbed Over The Barbed Wire Fence With A Ladder And A Carpet Square & Taking Note Of The Machines Fifty Feet From The Fence And Cameras On Every Pole. Sneaking Between Equipment And Around The Useless Security Truck, We Finally Reached A Row Of Many Large Machines. Each Of Us Carried A Gallon Of Muriatic Acid, A Substance You Should Know About If You Don’t Already. We Poured The Corrosive Acid Into The Oil Tanks Of Three Machines. Have You Found Which Ones Yet? If Not, You Will Soon.
Dear Reader,
Are You Interested In Similar Activities? We Made A Handy Little Graphic To Help.
![Muriatic Acid (aka Hydrochloric Acid, HCl)Highly corrosive, eats away metal. Also used for home cleaning and pool maintenance (significantly diluted). Obtain from pool supply stores, ~$10/gallon. Pour onto cars, equipment, machines, etc. to cause permanent damage. Add to oil or gas tank, or pour over engine block. [diagrams of oil caps on heavy machines] Diagrams from Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Full text at warriorup.noblogs.org SAFETY: Wear goggles, a respirator, long sleeves, and thick rubber gloves Pour below eye level if possible Use slowly and carefully… this stuff is highly toxic, no joke](https://scenes.noblogs.org/files/2023/06/Untitled-2-page-001-791x1024.jpg)
Highly corrosive, eats away metal. Also used for home cleaning and pool maintenance (significantly diluted). Obtain from pool supply stores, ~$10/gallon.
Pour onto cars, equipment, machines, etc. to cause permanent damage. Add to oil or gas tank, or pour over engine block.
[diagrams of oil caps on heavy machines]
Diagrams from Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Full text at warriorup.noblogs.org
SAFETY:
Wear goggles, a respirator, long sleeves, and thick rubber gloves
Pour below eye level if possible
Use slowly and carefully… this stuff is highly toxic, no joke
Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments
In our experience, most of us in North America aren’t in the habit of thinking very much about DNA traces. Information about how DNA traces are created or prevented is limited to several myths that are passed around. That said, you can be pretty certain that whenever arson is involved, a DNA forensics team will be involved too. For example, an arrest was made recently for a Jane’s Revenge arson after DNA was recovered at the crime scene. We want to briefly summarize some practical considerations. By arming ourselves with some preparation and an accurate understanding of how DNA is transferred, it is possible to drastically limit the amount of DNA we leave behind. Although DNA is something we should always keep in mind when planning our participation in a riotous moment, we don’t want people to feel overwhelmed by this information. Actionable knowledge empowers us to avoid the dual traps of recklessness (acting as if DNA doesn’t exist) and immobilization (as if leaving traces and their analysis in a laboratory is inevitable).
As noted by DNA minimization protocols in the CSRC Threat Library: “We are constantly shedding DNA in various forms; skin cells, hair, saliva, blood, and sweat are all sources of DNA, and unlike fingerprints they can never be reliably removed from an object once contaminated. DNA minimization protocols are intended to enable the manipulation of objects without leaving DNA traces on them. As you would expect, these protocols aim to eliminate skin cells, hair, air-born saliva particles, blood and sweat making contact with the objects. The chemical destruction of DNA is often also involved.” To prevent or at least significantly limit leaving DNA traces, it is necessary to wear new gloves, a face mask, a hair net or, even better, closed headgear (e.g. a swimming cap) and washed clothes with long sleeves and pant legs to cover as much skin as possible.
In the context of a riotous moment, there are several things to prepare for:
- Either smash it or burn it – not both. Smashing something can sometimes involve a lot of contact with the object, which risks transferring DNA traces to the object in question (especially if you have to climb onto it). Sustained fire will destroy DNA traces, but for an object that is first smashed and then burned this is no guarantee; the parts of the object that have been touched may not be sufficiently heated by the flames to destroy all traces. In the context of a riot, this means that people with incendiary intentions should try to take initiative early, before people with smashy intentions hit up a given target. A scenario that is less than ideal: a crowd smashes up a car, perhaps someone touches the car with gloves that have been worn many times (and so have accumulated DNA on them) or cuts themselves on the broken window, then a few minutes later someone torches the car. An ideal scenario: the car is burned first, which requires no smashing – either an accelerant bottle is placed under the front tire (faster, under a minute) or firestarter cubes are placed on the front tire (slower, about five minutes). It is sometimes necessary to break either a window or a door to gain access to a building, but machinery and vehicles can be burned without any smashing by positioning accelerant in the right location.
- Wear new impermeable gloves which you’ve never previously touched, and put them on last once you’ve already changed into black bloc. This is because you want to avoid any skin, hair or sweat on the outside of the gloves, which could then be transferred to any objects you touch. Always handle tools that you are bringing with such a new pair of gloves, even if you don’t plan on ditching the tools. Take care that the tools you are using, and especially the projectiles you are leaving at the site, have been free of your DNA from the beginning, and transport them carefully. Dishwashing gloves are excellent for preparing for the action (when standing out doesn’t matter). For during a riot, you can use work gloves that have a thick impermeable coating on the palms and fingers. Have an extra pair that you can change into in case you mistakenly touch your face or something similar.
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If you’ll be using a hammer, practice breaking windows in a controlled environment before the heat of the moment. Blood is a very obvious source of DNA to even the most incompetent investigator. The main thing is to make sure that your hand or arm never passes beyond the window, which requires that you generate force from the wrist rather than the elbow or shoulder. A quick wrist flick generates sufficient force with a properly weighted hammer.
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Be careful to not have anything that can fall out during the ruckus – closed zippers are your friend. Be especially cautious if rummaging through bags or backpacks.
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Any clothing used during the riot should not be recovered by the forensics team if it can be avoided. The days of leaving a giant heap of black hoodies in the middle of the street should come to an end – clothing will generally have DNA traces on it. Ideally, you would take clothing far enough away to be able to dispose of it properly (either burn it or put it somewhere where if it is found, it won’t be considered as related to the riot). A judgement call will be required when deciding whether to try to carry the clothing far away or whether to hide it somewhere on your dispersal route. If searched, black clothing may be enough to lay charges but is unlikely to result in a conviction by itself. Any identifiable clothing or other items in the bag could be more incriminating, so you’ll need to assess the risk of a bag search and weigh it against the goal of keeping your rioting clothing out of the hands of the police. Objects that cannot be concealed in a backpack (like large shields) can be hidden, or coated with bleach (which has around 10% sodium hypochlorite – see further reading) or burned with accelerant that is placed on the exit route ahead of time (in plastic bottles that will burn, not in a jerry can).
- Don’t use tape to construct firework molotovs. Tape is a magnet for DNA. Rather, use plastic zip-ties to secure the firework to the bottle. Ideally there should be two fireworks for redundancy, to minimize the likelihood of an unexploded molotov being recovered. Moreover, take DNA minimization precautions when constructing and transporting the molotovs (again, see further reading). This is especially important if they have to be ditched before being used. Fireworks on their own will likely be equally effective at keeping police at bay without risking the same level of repression that molotovs entail – care should also be taken to not leave DNA traces on firework casings. Traditional molotovs (using a glass bottle) need to hit a hard surface to shatter and so are unreliable when thrown inside of buildings. For example, at the site of the first Jane’s Revenge arson, DNA of three individuals was found on an unexploded molotov, the window glass, and a lighter (criminal complaint available here, use Tor Browser).
For further reading, see Strategies for Countering Police Access to DNA Data, and the DNA topic at CSRC.
-Submitted anonymously over email
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Santiago, Chile: Arson attack against telecommunications antenna
Posted on 2022/06/13 by darknights.noblogs.org
Attack carried out on the night of Sunday, June 5, 2022.
“Certain human cultures have been waging war against the Earth for millennia. I chose to fight on the side of bears, mountain lions, skunks, bats, saguaros, cliff roses and all things wild.”
Bill Rodgers.(Avalon), ELF member
It has been 13 years since our comrade Mauricio Morales, the punky, left his earthly life in the midst of the offensive that with courage and will he raised against the tortured bastards of the gendarmerie school. Unfortunately, the explosive device he was carrying started earlier than expected, generating the consequences already known by many. We embrace punky and his actions from the depths of our irreducible spirit, meeting him on different fronts: against prisons, capital, speciesism and civilization.
It is in this last front, responding to the call to raise the memory of punky in this Black May, is that we have decided to attack a telecommunications antenna of the Entel company, located on a hill in the commune of Puente Alto, in the capital of the territory dominated by the Chilean state. We are and will always be against the advance of technology and the digitalization of our lives. The existence of these means the exploitation and devastation of the ñuke mapu, the extraction of its minerals through the genocide of wild species in pursuit of the filthy commodities needed by the warriors to reproduce their cursed existence. Antennas like this one erode their natural environment, both at the time of their installation, as well as in the recurrent maintenance they require. Moreover, the effects on the different beings produced by a world overloaded with electromagnetic waves through these antennas and new technologies such as the 5G network are doubtful. We are not scientists nor do we pretend to prove that they do harm, but the invitation of our instinct to destroy them is enough for us.
We know the winkul, we are not alien and we will never be alien to the wild and free life that lives there. We identify with the insects, the earth, the plants, the animals, the birds. We set out to fly like them and direct our sights to the target. We attack without hesitation, claiming with dignity the destruction and sabotage against the power, its authorities and the gear of domination that spreads thanks to the murderous civilizing progress. We studied the place, we understand the risks of actions in nature, so we made sure that the necessary firewalls were in place so as not to affect wildlife. And so it was, in an act of consistency and thanks to a timed incendiary device, all the electrical connections of the antenna were destroyed by the restless fire of our free piukes. The company is still unable to resume operations in the sector, which fills us with joy.
Our proposal is the proliferation of all actions for total liberation, defending and conserving the Earth, rivers, lakes, seas, hills, forests and all beings that live in balance, through autonomy and weichan. We do not allow ourselves to be deceived by these legalistic-reformist-democratic times, lukewarm without spirit, waiting for the moral sense of the exploiters of the Earth. We call on the sisters and brothers of the pikun mapu to take a stand and to let their imagination fly to defend the foothills and the island hills of this part of the territory that still resist the onslaught of the prison-civilizing-capitalist society. All action is possible with study, organization, daring, courage, will and self-care. May our patience not be passive, but the correct planning of the offensive.
We make an accomplice salute to all the active cells and street actions that have raised the memory these months, strong and proud we feel dialoguing in action.
We also echo the call for the release of Marcelo Villarroel, we also act in solidarity and against the convictions of the nefarious military justice.
We salute all long-sentenced anarchist prisoners.
Freedom for Marcelo, Juan, Mónica, Francisco and Joaquín!
Freedom for Mayo, Kuyi, Jalea and all the comrades kidnapped by the state in the last few weeks!
Comrades Luisa Toledo, Santiago Maldonado, Emilia Baucis, Pelao Angry present!!!