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ANARCHIST NEWS & PRACTICE ACROsS sO-CalLED NORTH AMERICA TABLE OF CONTENTS What Anarchists Have Been Saying For Years...... 4 Unyielding Before Power And Its Repression...... 8 Milwaukee In Flames...... 10 March In Solidarity With Milwaukee Uprising...... 11 Welcome To The End Of The World...... 12 Open To Unorthodox Methods...... 15 A Rundown Of November 5th In Harrisburg And Some Reflections...... 17 Black Blocs And Butterflies...... 18 The Dreamers And The Provincial...... 19 Fighting Fascists And The Liberal Establishment...... 20 Autopsy Of An Election...... 23 Make It Impossible For This System To Govern On Stolen Land...... 24 NOLA Turns Up Against Trump...... 25 Salute To Jordan McTaggart From Anarchists In New York...... 28 Seeds In The Snow: Anarchists Mourn Our Dead...... 28 Destroy Gender...... 29 Top: Anarcha-feminist demonstration in Oaxaca, MEX The Untold Story...... 30 Interview With Firehawk Of Unstoppable...... 30 This Was About Unity...... 31 Interview With Prisoner On Rebellion At Turbeville ...... 32 Bottom: Anarcha-feminist counter-demonstration to planned misogynist rally in New York, USA Protest, Blockade, Banners To Resist CCA Shareholder Meeting...... 33 Blockade Of Correctional Officer Training Facility...... 34 A Fire That Cannot Be Contained...... 35 Report Back On September 9th Solidarity Demo...... 36 War Against DAPL And Planetary Annihilation...... 38 An Anarchist Perspective Of Resistance To LNG on Gitwilgyoots Territory...... 42 From Freeway Shutdowns To Cop-Free Zones...... 43 The ZAD, Destituent Association, And The Joy Of Pledging War...... 45 Sounding Out The Void...... 46 Explosive Attack At Headquarters Of Business Groups...... 47 Defend The Hood...... 48 Do Riots Work? Part II...... 49 Pickets Against Starbucks And McDonald’s...... 50 Combative October 2nd...... 51 Letter From Anarchist Prisoner Fernando Bárcenas...... 52 Some Disruptive Reflections On The Murder Of Compa Salvador Olmos...... 53 A Flourishing Movement And A Laboratory Of Repression...... 54 Action Round Up...... 58

British Columbia, CAN Columbia, in British sabotaged loader top: Log Front USA in Milwaukee, riot burned during anti-police middle: Car Front in Chilpancingo, MEX “disappearance” students’ the Ayotzinapa of Clashes on the anniversary bottom: Front MEX Oaxaca, across spreads as the summer’s revolt movement block police top: Barricades Back CAN in Montreal, riot during anti-police looted are burned and stores Cars are bottom: Back Resources...... 64 ANTI-FASCIST It’s Going Down has grown incred- dreds-strong black bloc tearing apart focus to solidarity on the other side of ibly since it’s inception. However this corporate stores in Washington D.C. the bars. Tennessee rebels describe new Anti-Fascist News [EN] Orlando Antifa [EN] growth is only a side effect to the mo- Cities across the U.S.—as well as Mon- challenges in this unique moment, and antifascistnews.net orlandoantifa.wordpress.com mentum building in the streets—the treal to the north—followed suit. With “A Fire That Cannot Be Contained” Antifa Dallas [EN] Philly Antifa [EN] eruptions of revolt that have spread this in mind, we have gathered several notes the qualitative step forward anar- antifadallas.wordpress.com phillyantifa.noblogs.org across the country at an escalating pace. pieces published or re-published on It’s chists in New York have taken, in con- Going Down over 2016 that we think text of prison strike organizing. Antifa International [EN] Rocky Mountain Antifa [EN] 2016 ended on a dark note, with many can best aid us moving forward. antifainternational.tumblr.com rockymountainantifa.blogspot.com of us mourning our friends who passed “War Against DAPL And Planetary Antifa Sacramento [EN] Rose City Antifa [EN] in December’s Ghost Ship fire, and anx- “What Anarchists Have Been Saying Annihilation” explores the blockade iously awaiting Donald Trump’s ascenst For Years” opens with a quick re-intro- tactic in depth, looking at the recent sol- rosecityantifa.weebly.com antifasac.noblogs.org to the U.S. presidency. Despite the many duction to several basic anarchist prin- idarity actions with water protectors in Atlanta Antifascists [EN] San Gabriel Valley Anti-Repression [EN] somber moments of the year, 2016 saw ciples for those who find themselves in North Dakota. Trains, highways, bridg- afainatl.wordpress.com sgvantirepression.com many beautiful moments of joyful re- the streets for the first time this year. It’s es and more were blockaded, elaborat- International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund [EN] South Side Chicago Anti-Racist Action [EN] sistance play out across the continent. followed by “Unyielding Before Power ing an anti-infrastructural perspective Fascist rallies were met with fierce con- And It’s Repression,” an uncompromis- that can inform our future practices. intlantifadefence.wordpress.com southsideantifa.blogspot.com frontations in Anaheim, Stone Moun- ing text in the face of repression. The final selections take on various tac- North Star Antifa [EN] Three Way Fight [EN] tain, Sacramento, Harrisburg—not to Next are two report backs from the tical and strategic considerations that northstarantifa.blackblogs.org threewayfight.blogspot.com mention nearly every city on Donald summer’s anti-police revolts: “Milwau- remain open questions in 2017. How Trump’s campaign trail. A teachers’ Northern California Anti-Racist Action [EN] Torch Network [EN] kee In Flames” and “Welcome To The can our actions move from the symbol- strike set off a massive rebellion across nocara.blackblogs.org torchantifa.org End Of The World” from Charlotte. ic taking of space and create cop-free Mexico, mirroring the Oaxaca insurrec- NYC Antifa [ ] “Open To Unorthodox Methods” is zones? Can we move beyond the punc- EN tion ten years before. The summer was an interview on the uprising in Baton tual demonstration format and take ac- nycantifa.wordpress.com marked with uprisings against police Rouge, as well as other local dynamics. tion in exciting and inviting ways? What One People’s Project [ ] murders—Baton Rouge, St. Paul, Mil- EN There appears to be no end to the rage would it take to regain even a slight waukee, Charlotte. Fall entered with an idavox.com over racist police shootings, and the amount of autonomy in our neigh- unprecedented strike in prisons across more prepared we are to contribute to borhoods? How do we engage with an the U.S. This strike involved a wide va- these eruptions, the better. increasing level of militancy amongst riety of tactics used by prisoners across people who still cling to statist politics? the entire U.S. and even spread to Mex- The next series of essays examines the We hope that you use this magazine to ico. Solidarity from the other side of dynamics of various anti-fascist actions open these critical conversations with prison walls was also remarkable, with against the far-right and Trump’s cam- your friends and accomplices. Not in accomplices in hundreds of cities step- paign events. Multi-directional con- order to distill the one true theory, but ping up to the plate with banners, noise flicts between rebels, fascists, cops, and to brainstorm and experiment in prac- demonstrations, attacks and more. liberals have become more visible as tice. protests against Trump’s campaign and A small encampment in North Dakota the far-right groups he inspires gain Once again, we close with a round up of grew to tens of thousands blockading momentum. actions and a list of links to further re- the construction of the Dakota Access sources. The round up presents its own Pipeline. The struggle exploded after We then take a moment to remember set of questions as well. Does creating police raided the camp, prompting fierce the comrades we lost this year with two lists of direct actions undermine the im- street fighting and solidarity blockades excerpts from memorial rallies. portance of other forms of organizing all over the continent. Just days later, the “Destroy Gender” applies an insur- that support those who attack? Does unforseen election of Donald Trump rectional critique to gender, both the quantifying actions exceptionalize these sparked widespread rioting in the U.S. traditional binary and Facebook’s fif- attacks, contrary to their aim of gener- Participants in several cities noted that ty options. “The Untold Story” and an alizing in everyday life? We take these the intensity of local outbursts was un- additional excerpt explore the strug- concerns with us into the future. paralleled in recent history. gles women, queer and trans prison- As always, check out the website for 2017 has already proved that there will ers face—and more importantly, their daily updates on when it’s going down: be no slowing down. The first days of inspiring resistance. “This Was About the new year saw rage boil over at the Unity” continues to highlight actions gasoline price hike as gas stations and undertaken by prisoners, in this case a stores were attacked and looted across series of hunger strikes across Michi- itsgoingdown.org Mexico. Donald Trump’s inaugura- gan. tion day was interrupted by a hun- Spontaneous sideshow during anti-Trump riot in Portland, USA Next, a report from Nashville shifts the 3 PRISONER SUPPORT PUBLICATIONS Atlanta Anarchist Black Cross [EN] Anathema [Philadelphia, EN] WHAT ANARCHISTS HAVE atlblackcross.org anathema.noblogs.org Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee [EN] Avalanche [EN/ES/FR] BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS antirepressionbayarea.com avalanche.noblogs.org Bloomington ABC [EN] Conspiración Acrata [Mexico, ES] AND WHAT LIBERALS NEED TO START HEARING bloomingtonabc.noblogs.org 325.nostate.net/?tag=conspiracion-acrata ORIGINALLY POSTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - DECEMBER 8TH, 2016 Cleveland Four [EN] Fire To The Prisons[ EN] On Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at es which propels this system forward ing attacks on the entire population as cleveland4solidarity.org firetotheprisons.org Texas A & M University, as FBI agents has continued to launch itself into basic social welfare programs are erod- CNA México [ES] Negación [Mexico, ES] monitored hundreds of protesters from overdrive. This year marked a horrific ed, unions are assaulted, and wealth abajolosmuros.org revistanegacion.espivblogs.net the tops of roofs, heavily armed riot po- turning point, as we officially hit the continues to flow into the pockets of Denver ABC [EN] Nightfall [Minneapolis, EN] lice clashed with demonstrators bent 400 parts per million carbon milestone. the rich. denverabc.wordpress.com nightfall.blackblogs.org on disrupting and shutting down an Now, many scientists and even govern- In the face of all of this, from a grow- Free Jeremy [EN] The Transmetropolitan Review [Seattle, EN] event organized by Preston Wiginton, a ment institutions are predicting drastic ing insurgent far-right, to the current 51 year old former student of the cam- climate change in our lifetimes as un- ecological collapse, broad attacks on freejeremy.net thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com pus and long time white supremacist. avoidable and weather patterns are cur- workers, the poor, the environment, and Free Marius Mason [EN] Unstoppable [EN] The event featured a talk by Richard rently already changing rapidly. Revolu- those most vulnerable, many ask: where supportmariusmason.org unstoppable.noblogs.org Spencer, a leading ideologue within the tion, in the sense that everything will be The answer is clear is the opposition? Free Red Fawn [EN] The Volcano [British Columbia, EN] growing “Alt-Right,” which attempts to turned upside down, is inevitable. The as day, but it isn’t in the halls of pow- re-brand fascist, neo-nazi, and white question is, what kind will it be? er, in the politicians, the leaders of the freeredfawn.com thevolcano.org nationalist ideas for the millennial gen- As ecological apocalypse defines the unions, or in the big NGOs. Instead it’s Houston ABC [EN] Wreck [Vancouver, EN] eration in order to create an all-white present, all signs point towards the in the rioters. The blockaders. The peo- houstonabc.wordpress.com wreckpublication.wordpress.com fascist “ethno-state.” continued growth of the wealth gap, ple in ski masks and in the streets. The La Solide [EN/FR] Wildfire[ EN] The clashes that erupted on the campus inequality in all aspects, and amassing ones on the front lines fighting with the are just the latest in a string of growing insecurity and precarity for workers and cops. The people attacking, defending, lasolide.info wildfire.noblogs.org confrontations between autonomous the poor. This is true in urban centers as organizing, building, and growing. Lucasville Amnesty [EN] revolutionaries and the racist far-right it is in Appalachia. On a base line level, We live in a time that is marked by not lucasvilleamnesty.org which is acting as an auxiliary force of wages have stagnated or fallen, poverty only increasing crisis and growing reac- Michael Kimble [EN] the Trump regime while attempting to and homelessness grow, gentrification tion, but also in explosive and insurrec- anarchylive.noblogs.org push it farther to the right. Suddenly, runs rampant, and overall conditions tionary mass resistance and refusal. At New York City ABC [EN] anarchists and antifa, who have been have continued to erode for many the same time, as it has never been so demonized and sidelined by the left Americans while the most wealthy have clear to so many, that the institutional nycabc.wordpress.com have been hearing from liberals and grown even richer. Moreover, repression and electoral left is utterly and com- NATO Three[ EN] leftists, “you’ve been right all along.” on the streets of the US continues to pletely, useless. freethenato3.wordpress.com But while revolutionary anarchist ideas ramp up, as the government continues The crisis we face is not only one of cap- are starting to have a broader currency, to amass more powers of surveillance Prison Books [EN] ital or industrial civilization, but that of many of the things that people are start- and spying, the prison population soars, prisonbooks.info PRISONER SUPPORT CONT. its oh-so loyal opposition, the left. ing to pick up on, we have been saying police kill on average around 3 people Portland ABC [EN] Support Nicole & Joseph [EN] Perhaps now, you’ll finally start listen- for years. per day, and law enforcement becomes pdxabc.org supportnicoleandjoseph.com more and more militarized. In short, for ing. And the stakes are only getting higher. Sacramento Prisoner Support [EN] Support Prisoner Resistance [EN] Far-right forces are growing, both here most people, things are getting worse, THE STATE ISN’T NEUTRAL supportprisonerresistance.noblogs.org in the United States and around the not better. Government has never been a tool to sacprisonersupport.wordpress.com world, but they are growing in the con- The coming to power of Donald Trump change people’s lives; it’s always been a Sean Swain [EN] Toronto ABC [EN] text of a drastic failure of both neolib- only signals an acceleration of all of force which organizes them for the in- seanswain.org torontoabc.wordpress.com eralism and socialist and leftist parties these realities. From Trump’s plan to terests of the wealthy and powerful. Support Eric King [EN] Toute Détention Est Politique [FR] which grew out of social movements push through more resource extraction A state is a collection of hierarchal ap- supportericking.wordpress.com toutedetentionestpolitique.wordpress.com like SYRIZA and Podemos, and the projects while seeing the finishing of paratuses that holds a monopoly of vi- Support Babygirl Gann [EN] Trans Prisoner Day Of Solidarity [EN] continuing fallout of a restructured the Dakota Access Pipeline, the further olence in a given territory and has the economy that has left behind literally growth of surveillance powers, attacks ability to enforce its power through babygirlgann.noblogs.org transprisoners.net billions of people. Moreover, industrial on women, queer people, immigrant policing. States exist to ensure that the production and extraction of resourc- workers, and Muslims, to broad sweep- 4 65 divisions that exist within society don’t order to preserve the social peace. is available to further ingrain this elec- make the overall power structure fall The State is designed to ensure the toral dissatisfaction and offer alternative apart. As Prole.info wrote in “Work ability to govern and police a territory proposals for social functioning before the Community Politics War”: through force and violence for the inter- system has its next go at recuperation in “No matter who is in government, govern- est of those in power; it is not a means two years when, “We’ve got to take back the House…” Part of this is to challenge NEWS INTERNATIONAL NEWS ment has its own logic. The fact that this in which our lives can be changed for RESOURCES society is divided into classes with oppos- the better. narratives around voting, to counter the Anti-State STL [St. Louis, EN] 325 [EN] ing interests means that it is always at risk ELECTORALISM DOESN’T LEAD myth that the civil rights and Black Pow- antistatestl.noblogs.org 325.nostate.net of tearing itself apart. The government is TO SOCIAL CHANGE er movements were about the right to vote, BC Blackout [British Columbia, EN] Anti-Développement [EN/FR] there to make sure that doesn’t happen. that democracy is the highest expression of The belief that the ballot box is the sin- human organization and freedom, and to bcblackout.wordpress.com antidev.wordpress.com Whether the government is a dictatorship gle best way to not only create change, or a democracy, it holds all the guns and undermine the psychic weight and value Conflict MN[Twin Cities, EN] Attaque [France,, ] but also hold on to gains made by ev- EN/ES/FR will use them against its own population that voting carries in this society. To vote conflictmn.blackblogs.org eryday people is a complete sham. It is attaque.noblogs.org to make sure that we keep going to work.” or not vote is not the issue, rather it is to El Enemigo Comun [Oaxaca, EN/ES] also a hallmark of liberalism and much Bite Back [EN] But liberals paint a much different pic- de-reify voting and properly situate it in of the left. Democracy is simply the our current context while suggesting that elenemigocomun.net directaction.info ture. They instead present a democratic window dressings we use to cover the the real work happens everywhere except Final Straw Radio [Asheville, EN] State as a neutral institution that simply Chronik [Germany, EN/ES/FR] dictatorship of everyday life. As Scott at the ballot box. thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org needs enough good people to become in- Campbell wrote in “Trumping Fear, chronik.blackblogs.org “If it didn’t have such real consequences, The Hamilton Institute[Hamilton, EN] volved in it. As someone wrote in “After Finding Safety in Resistance”: Chuang [China, EN] Bern: An Open Letter To The Newly from a step back electoral politics would be thehamiltoninstitute.noblogs.org “With tens of millions feeling burned by chuangcn.org/blog/ Disheartened”: laughably absurd. The notion of selecting Filler [Pittsburgh, EN] Trump’s election, and most of those not one person to rule over 320 million people CrimethInc. [EN] “There is an immense system of violence fillerpgh.wordpress.com resonating with the slower death offered by based on the fact they all reside in a single, and domination in place over us that keeps crimethinc.com Clinton, criticisms of the electoral system arbitrary territorial configuration is anti- Indigenous Action [EN] the wheels of this system running. While Contra Info [EN/ES/FR] are running rampant: the convoluted pri- quated, incoherent with the current world indigenousaction.org it appears we have a hand in shaping our mary system, the corruption of the Dem- contrainfo.espiv.net system and dictatorially unrepresentative.” Montréal Counter-Information [Montréal, EN/FR] lives, in reality there are clear systems of ocratic National Committee, the anachro- Disaccords As Scott Jay writes in “Jacobin’s Call for [Oceania, EN] control and management in place to make nism of the Electoral College, etc. Yet these mtlcounter-info.org a ‘New Party’ Means Only More Elec- disaccords.wordpress.com sure that the overall structure of this society objections seek only ameliorative change, Morgantown Ultra-Left Network [Morgantown, EN] toralism”: Earth First [EN] is not threatened. No matter who is elected, taking the current construct of governance morgantownultraleftnetwork.tumblr.com no matter what political party you join, the “Electoral strategies always seem to focus earthfirstjournal.org as a given. Plain Words [Bloomington, ] appearance of popular control, of democra- on funding and promoting themselves, EN “Rather than pointing to specific flaws Insurrection News [EN] cy, is a total illusion.” with just enough lip service to give them a plainwordsbloomington.noblogs.com within an oppressive framework, it is more insurrectionnewsworldwide.wordpress.com gloss of social movement relevance, but not Philly Anti-Capitalist [Philadelphia, EN] But a State isn’t a neutral coming to- constructive to acknowledge that the system much more. Instead of being a launching LibCom [EN] gether of human-beings; it is instead an actually worked as designed and provided phlanticap.noblogs.org point for social struggles, electoralism has libcom.org instrument of colonial and class dicta- voters will two physical representations of Proyecto Ambulante [Oaxaca, ES] been a one-trick pony whose only concrete torship. This is how the American State the core tenets of the United States. On one Noticias de la Guerra Social [Chile, ES] strategies feed directly back into itself and proyectoambulante.org has always been organized: side was the neoliberal imperialist and on noticiasdelaguerrasocial.wordpress.com not into something greater. Rather than Puget Sound Anarchists [Pacific Northwest,EN ] “America is a settler nation created out of the other the misogynistic white suprema- Rabble providing a strategy for propelling social pugetsoundanarchists.org [London, EN] colonies managed by imperial powers. As cist. As the saying goes, “No matter who movements, it is almost exclusively a jus- rabble.org.uk one of our founding fathers, John Jay put you vote for, they win.” The source of our Regeneración Radio [Mexico City, ES] tification for its own continuance. In the Rebelión de las Palabras [ ] it, ‘The people who own the country ought discontent, dispossession and death cannot regeneracionradio.org ES context of a country dominated by two par- to govern it.’” be resolved at the ballot box. Social con- vozcomoarma.noblogs.org ties, this often means at some level feeding Rififi[Bloomington, EN] structs of race and gender cannot be voted Recomposition [ ] The reasons that everyday working-class back into the Democratic Party, reluctant rififibloomington.wordpress.com EN out of existence any more than capitalism and poor people can’t get ahead in pol- to harm the only game in town.” Subversiones [Mexico, ES] recomposition.info itics is not because not enough people can be undone with the flick of a pen. Third Nowhere does this become more clear subversiones.org Squat!Net [EN/ES/FR] don’t get involved in changing or par- parties are nothing more than the system’s than with the campaign of Bernie Sand- squat.net ticipating within the State, but because pressure valves, designed to channel dissent- Warrior Publications [EN] ers, as it was used to march millions of the people that run this government ing energies into the electoral process where warriorpublications.wordpress.com subMedia.tv [EN] young, poor, and working-class voters have invested interest in keeping the they can be rendered non-threatening. Where The River Frowns submedia.tv back into the arms of the Democratic [Evansville, EN] status-quo. This has not been anymore “The illusion of choice and agency inher- Party after 8 years of being betrayed wheretheriverfrowns.com Tahrir International Collective Network [Middle East, EN] clear than with the election of Donald ent in voting are rather acts of disempow- by a President who ran on “hope” and Workers Assemble [Durham, EN] tahriricn.wordpress.com Trump, as the entirety of the political erment and surrender. Now that the dis- “change,” but delivered the opposite. Af- class lines up to work with a fascist in illusionment is spreading, the opportunity workersassemble.com ter Sanders was purposely destroyed by 64 5 the DNC, he then turned around and WE NEED TO BUILD A MOVE- system that is trying to kill them.” October 22nd: Noise demonstration in November 5th: Train tracks blockaded ty with #NoDAPL in New York, USA solidarity with the prison strike in and burned during demonstration in soli- campaigned for Clinton, and has now MENT OUTSIDE OF POLITICAL But in all of these struggles, their log- Minne- November 24th: Spontaneous demon- apolis and Portland, USA darity with #NoDAPL in Atlanta, USA even embraced working with Trump. PARTIES AND POLITICS ical and ethical conclusions come not stration in solidarity with evicted homeless October 23rd: Fires set, guards attacked November 8th: Banner hung in solidarity encampment in Regardless, most people in the United Electoral politics feeds off of grassroots through politics, the election of a poli- Vancouver, CAN and police property damaged in Goldsboro with #NoDAPL in Philadelphia, USA States wanted nothing to do with the social movements and struggles, not tician, or through the State – but in an November 25th: Locks glued at multi- prison in North Carolina, USA November 8th: Spontaneous eruptions ple banks in solidarity with #NoDAPL in election and didn’t even bother to vote. into them. As Scott Jay wrote: insurrection and overthrowing of these October 24th: Dakota Access Pipeline against the election of Donald Trump take Minneapolis, USA As the blog Where the River Frowns systems of power, exploitation, and po- “[E]lectoral activism feeds into electoral construction site blockaded with new en- place in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oakland, November 26th: Police attacked during shut- pointed out in “U.S. Elects President activism. It relies on itself to further itself. licing. campment in North Dakota, USA Olympia, and Pittsburgh, USA down of neo-nazi concert in Montreal, CAN So-And-So, with 10% of Americans It attracts people who are attracted to elec- In all electoral campaigns, we see the October 24th: Dakota Access Pipeline November 8th: Barricades burned against November 27th: Graffiti painted in soli- Strongly Supporting”: toral politics and generally does not attract opposite growing of what is needed construction site blockaded in Iowa, USA the election of Donald Trump in Tucson, USA darity with #NoDAPL in Philadelphia, USA “Estimates indicate that 128.8 million peo- people engaging in class struggle. It does not however. As “After Bern” commented: October 24th: Posters wheatpasted and November 8th: Incendiary attack on Confed- November 27th: Anti-fascist graffiti graffiti painted in solidarity with the prison erate History Museum in New Orleans, USA ple voted in Tuesday’s Presidential election, need, nor does it feed class struggle, except “Across the United States, the Sanders cam- painted in Portland, USA strike in Denver, USA November 9th: Combative anti-Trump which is 55.6% of the voting-eligible popu- to the extent that it might be able to take paign has raised over $207 million dollars. November 27th: Upscale businesses van- lation. However, if people who are typically advantage of the sacrifices of militants in October 24th: Starbucks vandalized in sol- demonstrations take place in dozens of cit- dalized in Montreal, CAN People knocked on doors, they put up stick- idarity with the prison strike in Denver, USA ies across the country. overlooked for reasons of age and felony order to declare itself a proper representa- November 28th: Anti-fascist graffiti ers, they organized rallies, and they made Trump supporter’s car Riotous anti-Trump status are included, the percentage drops tive of a social movement it did not create.” October 24th: November 10th: painted in Philadelphia, USA phone calls. vandalized in Denver, USA demonstrations continue in several cities, to only 39.6% of the total U.S. population November 29th: Dakota Access Pipeline This past 8 years we’ve seen a wide vari- “What if we had put all of that [wasted] October 27th: Barricades and some con- including Atlanta, Los Angeles, Oakland, having voted. Of those who voted, 59 mil- construction site blockaded again in Iowa, USA ety of social movements rise and fall, all time, energy, and organization in building struction equipment are burned while and Portland, USA lion voted for the winner–a mere 18.2% of November 30th: Train tracks blockaded in to be recuperated and cast aside by elec- something that wasn’t based around elect- resisting the police eviction of the en- November 10th: Dakota Access Pipeline the total population. According to a survey campment blockading the Dakota Access construction site blockaded in solidarity with #NoDAPL in Quebec, CAN toralism and crushed by the State. Af- ing a politician? What if we put that time, Iowa, USA from the PEW Research Institute from late Pipeline in North Dakota, USA November 30th: Anti-fascist demonstra- ter the economic crisis hit, we saw the energy, organization, and hundreds of mil- November 11th: White supremacist stat- October, of those who support a particular October 27th: Sabal Trail Pipeline con- ue vandalized in Montreal, CAN tion in Cambridge, USA spread of occupations of college cam- lions of dollars into building organizations candidate, only 55% or 56% “strongly sup- puses and the explosion of the Occupy struction site blockaded in Florida, USA November 10th: Dakota Access Pipeline Early December: Anti-fascist posters that can fight, win, and seize land? wheatpasted in port” their candidate of choice. This brings Movement. Obama, with the help of October 27th: Banner hung in solidarity construction equipment and police vehicles Berkeley, USA “For all the rhetoric of the Sanders cam- the proportion of the U.S. population who Homeland Security, fusion centers, and with #NoDAPL in Minneapolis, USA vandalized in North Dakota, USA December 3rd: Union Bank vandalized in paign, his use of language of Occupy and solidarity with #NoDAPL in Portland, USA strongly support the President-elect to a collusion of local police departments, October 28th: Bridge blockaded in soli- November 11th: Encampment blockades Black Lives Matter, both movements that darity with #NoDAPL in train tracks in solidarity with #NoDAPL in 10.2%.” crushed the encampments in a wave of Quebec, CAN December 6th: Anti-fascist posters the Democrats helped to crush under their Olympia, USA wheatpasted in Orlando, USA Moreover, whether in the Civil Rights violent repression. October 28th: Form8 Tattoo shop van- own heels, there was not a “political revo- dalized again in November 12th: Banks vandalized during White nationalist presen- or Labor movement, it was rioting, oc- San Francisco, USA December 6th: Several years later, we saw the explo- lution.” But moreover, those energized by anti-Trump demonstration in Berkeley, USA tation disrupted in Texas, USA cupations, and mass resistance and dis- October 28th: Police vehicles vandalized sion of the Ferguson Insurrection, Sanders are now free to be led directly into during demonstration in response to police November 14th: Graffiti painted in soli- December 7th: Incendiary attack on ruption that forced the state to grant which then quickly spread to Baltimore, the Democratic Party machine…” murder in Puebla, MEX darity with #NoDAPL in Philadelphia, USA ATM in Tijuana, MEX concessions, not the slow, long march Oakland, Charlotte, Milwaukee, and We need to build up strong, dynamic, October 29th: Demonstration in solidari- November 15th: Blockades in solidarity with December 8th: Locks glued at Rainbow through the institutions. Further- elsewhere. Other mass struggles, move- and grassroots organizations, crews, ty with the prison strike in New York, USA #NoDAPL spread throughout continent. Bakery in solidarity with Feral Pines who died more, the democratic process has only ments, and upheavals soon followed, in the Ghost Ship fire inBloomington, USA networks, and movements from the October 29th: TD Bank ATMs are van- November 16th: Train tracks blockaded in allowed rights, living standards, and from the #PrisonStrike, to #NoDAPL, dalized in solidarity with #NoDAPL in solidarity with #NoDAPL in ground up, not from the top down. Quebec, CAN December 9th: Graffiti painted during better conditions to slowly be whittled to the mass disruptions and riots that Kingston, CAN spontaneous demonstration in solidarity These need to be based in our neigh- November 16th: Anti-state banner hung away by more powerful forces backed followed the election of Donald Trump. October 30th: Police vehicles and white in with Feral Pines in Olympia, USA borhoods, workplaces, schools, and Seattle, USA by the State itself. In short, undem- Again, Scott Jay: supremacist statues are vandalized during November 16th: Banner hung in solidarity December 11th: Incendiary attacks on a ocratic means forced the hand of the communities, not in the halls of power. Mischief Night demonstration in New bank and a government office inOaxaca, MEX “[T]here are young people around the with the prison strike in Philadelphia, USA State, while over the decades as struggle We need to find ways to come togeth- Orleans, USA Multiple banks vandal- country who have risen up in rebellion November 17th: Fires set after police evict December 13th: receded back into politics, these gains er to amplify our collective power and October 30th: Port of Olympia offices are ized in solidarity with #NoDAPL in Mon- against the police killing them over the last rail blockade encampment in Olympia, USA were lost. strength, not piss it away in votes. vandalized in solidarity with #NoDAPL in treal, CAN few years. They probably did not bother to Olympia, USA November 17th: Citibank vandalized in What this means is exactly what anar- We need fighting movements with solidarity with #NoDAPL in Chicago, USA December 14th: Neo-nazi’s car vandal- ask themselves whether their actions were teeth, not pathetic attempts at taking a November: Twenty security cameras de- ized in Chicago, USA chists have been saying all along. That going to hurt the Democrats’ chances in get- stroyed in Montreal, CAN November 18th: Fascists attacked out- not only does the electoral path not lead seat at the table of power. side white nationalist meeting in Washing- December 15th: Neo-nazi attacked at ting reelected. They are living in completely November 3rd: Train tracks blockaded in concert in Minneapolis, USA to social change, to say nothing of ‘rev- DISRUPTIVE AND CONFRONTA- ton DC, USA different worlds, one where people fight for solidarity with #NoDAPL in Quebec, CAN Incendiary attacks on In- olution’ – but overall, the vast majori- TIONAL ACTION BRINGS PEOPLE November 19th: Anti-fascist demonstra- December 20th: their lives against a system trying to de- November 5th: Sabal Trail Pipeline con- tion in Mexico City, MEX stitute of Women office inMexico City, MEX ty of Americans reject the “democratic” INTO MOVEMENTS AND STRUG- struction site blockaded again in stroy them, another where people draw up Florida, USA December 24th: Incendiary attack on two-party sham that most liberals and GLES, NOT PUSH THEM AWAY November 19th: Anti-Trump demon- blueprints for national organizations with November 5th: Fascists and police at- strations in Denver, and Minneapolis, USA ATM in Mexico City, MEX the left cling to or think they can create tacked during counter-demonstration against no discussion as to who is actually going Liberals and much of the left claim that December 31st: Noise demos take place an alternative to within its confines. neo-nazi rally in Harrisburg, USA November 22nd: Another Citibank van- to build the thing. The youth in the streets confrontational tactics hurt us more dalized in solidarity with #NoDAPL in outside jails, prisons and detention centers have been less concerned about ballot access than they help, from breaking windows November 5th: Trump Hotel and FBI Chicago, USA across the continent. and more concerned about challenging the to blocking streets. But in reality, each offices vandalized during demonstration in Washington DC, USA November 24th: Banner hung in solidari- 6 63 September 9th: Guards attacked in Te- trucks looted during spontaneous eruption beville prison in South Carolina, USA and every time this plays out in the struggle is real; when there is skin in the more repressive. The ecological situa- cumseh prison in Nebraska, USA in response to the police murder of Keith September 28th: Anarchist prisoners be- streets and in our communities, it is game, something to fight for, and people tion, more and more dire. The economy September 9th: Guards attacked in Te- Lamont Scott in Charlotte, USA gin hunger strikes across Mexico. simply not the case. In fact, confron- are putting their bodies on the line, they continues to make us more and more cumseh prison in Nebraska, USA September 20th: Enbridge office vandal- September 30th: Noise demonstration at tation and disruption, in other words: often come out in droves. It is symbolic impoverished and precarious. The far- September 9th: McDonald’s vandalized ized in solidarity with #NoDAPL in Ham- prison in San Pedro Tlanixco, MEX physically fighting, brings more people and legalistic protest which is pointless right grows strong while “the left” in it’s ilton, CAN in solidarity with the prison strike in Oak- October 1st: Police station vandalized in in than sign holding or writing letters and doesn’t work and ends up turning institutional form, weaker and weaker. land, USA September 21st: Banner hung in solidar- Georgia, USA to the editor ever did. If anything, the many people away. The movement that we need doesn’t September 10th: Prisoners vandalize two ity with #NoDAPL in Bloomington, USA October 1st: Banner hung in solidarity wet blanket and attempts to control SELF-DEFENSE IS NOT THE look like a carbon copy from the past, units after mass demonstration is repressed September 21st: Dorm taken over by pris- with #NoDAPL and Charlotte rebels in things by protest managers and liberals SAME THING AS FASCISM nor is there a “scientific” program of rev- at Kinross prison in Michigan, USA oners at Holman prison in Alabama, USA Asheville, USA kills social movements, not combative olution that we can adhere too. We are September 10th: Noise demonstrations September 21st: Graffiti painted in solidarity October 1st: Banner hung in solidarity Fascism aims at creating an authoritar- actions which can be disruptive and at entering into territory that is new and in solidarity with the prison strike continue with anarchist prisoners in Mexico City, MEX with the prison strike in Minneapolis, USA ian State and to do so, it must crush it’s to take place in several cities around the U.S. times violent. different from any other time in history. September 21st: Police attacked and October 1st: Banner hung in solidarity enemies in order to build up its pow- September 10th: Banners hung in soli- stores looted during demonstration in re- with the prison strike in Mexico City, MEX We see this playing out in every so- er. If we are to stop them, we’re going What we do know is that we need a darity with the prison strike in Los Angeles, sponse to the police murder of Keith Lam- cial struggle and movement. The riots, to have to shut them down and smash dynamic, fighting, and combative move- and Tucson, USA ont Scott in Charlotte, USA October 1st: Starbucks and McDonald’s picketed in solidarity with the prisons strike blockades, and clashes with the police them off the streets, giving them no ment. We need networks of defense, September 10th: Banners hung in solidar- September 22nd: Graffiti painted in solidar- in Bloomington, USA in Occupy Oakland grew the size and platform and no quarter. support, and offensive capacity that can ity with the prison strike in Montreal, CAN ity with Charlotte rebels in Philadelphia, USA scale of the movement, and were them- October 2nd: Combative demonstration But as the far-right has grown as a re- not only fight in the struggles that lay September 10th: Graffiti painted in sol- September 23rd: Demonstration in solidari- selves informed by the Oscar Grant ri- against the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in actionary movement in the wake of the all around us but can begin to build new idarity with the prison strike in Chicago, ty with Charlotte rebels in Pittsburgh, USA Mexico City, MEX ots and students occupations of several Ohio and Tucson, USA Black Lives Matter movement as well as worlds. September 23rd: Graffiti painted in soli- October 3rd: University blockaded during years prior. September 11th: Banner hung in solidar- darity with Charlotte rebels in Minneapolis becoming a auxiliary force within the The left, as defined by the ‘rules’ of social student strike in solidarity with anarchist The Ferguson Insurrection inspired ity with the prison strike in California, USA and Seattle, USA prisoners in Mexico City, MEX Trump campaign, liberals and some of change and revolution and put forward September 11th: Graffiti painted in solidar- September 24th: Fascist confronted youth people across the country and led those within the left have repeated a by everyone from Marxist-Leninists to October 4th: Streets barricaded during to other uprisings and rebellions which ity with the prison strike in Montana, USA during anti-racist demonstration in New student strike in Mexico City, MEX flurry of idiotic statements about those Bernie-Bros to bumper sticker liberals September 12th: Dorm taken over at Co- Orleans, USA pulled in tens of thousands. Despite who risk everything to confront fascism. is over. October 7th: Streets barricaded again in “leaders” within the Black Lives Mat- lumbia prison in Florida, USA September 24th: Military base attacked Mexico City, MEX Overall, liberals argue that to use vio- We are the ones in the street. We are the with fireworks inChilpancingo, MEX ter movement attempting to endorse September 12th: Department of Correc- Demonstration in solidarity lence against fascism, or to shut down ones who are fighting. From indigenous October 7th: the Democrats, channel the movement tions vandalized in solidarity with the pris- September 24th: Power line sabotage is with the ZAD in Montreal, CAN fascists and give them no platform, is warriors, anti-fascist fighters, black lib- on strike in Seattle, USA claimed in Quebec, CAN back into politics, and reduce it to sim- October 7th: Lucasville prison vandalized actually just as bad as what the fascists eration militants, and anarchist revolu- September 12th: UPS boxes vandalized September 25th: Noise demonstration in ple reforms, the movement continues to in solidarity with the prison strike in Ohio, do – in fact, it’s the ‘real fascism.’ tionaries, we are all part of a growing in solidarity with the prison strike in Phil- solidarity with the prison strike in Washing- evolve and remain combative and dis- USA force that is building something new. adelphia, USA ton, USA ruptive over a period of several years. We think that in reality the total op- October 12th: Demonstration in solidari- posite is true. Since the election, hun- And we are the ones that will set the September 12th: Pipeline construction September 25th: Street fighting with po- ty with queer prisoners in Lansing, USA The national #PrisonStrike which was site blockaded in solidarity with #NoDAPL lice in solidarity with 43 disappeared stu- dreds of hate crimes have taken place, course of our own destiny, and out of coordinated by inside grassroots pris- in Vermont, USA dents in Chilpancingo, MEX October 13th: Form8 Tattoo shop van- as Trump’s win has embolden the au- this nightmare once and for all. dalized again in San Francisco, USA oners organizations and outside sup- September 13th: Incendiary attack on September 25th: Demonstration in soli- tonomous far-right like never before. Mobile slaughter unit sab- porting groups, was kicked off by waves police vehicles in Ecatepec, MEX darity with Charlotte rebels in Oakland, USA October 14th: In the wake of attacks on people across otaged in Oregon, USA of violent riots, uprisings, and clashes September 13th: Dakota Access Pipeline September 26th: Barricades burned in the US, that anti-fascist position that construction site blockaded again in North solidarity with anarchist prisoners in Mex- October 15th: Posters wheatpasted and with guards. graffiti painted in solidarity with the prison combative and militant action against Dakota, USA ico City, MEX In the struggle against the Dakota Ac- strike in Minneapolis, USA fascists is in fact community self-defense September 15th: Banner hung in solidar- September 26th: Guards attacked at Tur- cess Pipeline, a wide range of tactics October 15th: Noise demonstration in soli- – has never been stronger. ity with the prison strike in Denver, USA beville prison in South Carolina, USA have been used to defeat the project, darity with the prison strike in California, USA If you don’t want fascism, you’re going September 15th: Noise demonstration in September 26th: Pro-Trump Form8 Tat- from arson attacks against equipment, October 15th: Incendiary attack on Dakota to have to fight against it. Period. Those solidarity with the prison strike in Denver, USA too shop vandalized in San Francisco, USA to mass marches, to peaceful prayer Access Pipeline construction site in Iowa, USA that take on this fight are fighting in September 18th: Correctional Officers September 27th: Barricades burned during vigils, to attacks on banks. In the wake October 16th: Incendiary attack on GOP of- self-defense, and those taking risks de- Training Academy blockaded in Tucson, USA highway blockade in Michoacán, MEX of violent clashes between water pro- fice inNorth Carolina, USA serve our support. September 19th: Timber sale tree-spiked September 27th: Equipment burned during tectors, police, and DAPL security, the in Oregon, USA blockade of mining site in Chiapas, MEX October 16th: Incendiary attack in solidarity A movement that sells out those that with anarchist prisoners in Mexico City, MEX movement exploded as protectors were September 20th: Noise demonstration September 27th: Dakota Access Pipeline seen heroically risking their lives on the fight to defend it are not worthy of the October 17th: Anti-fascist banner hung in solidarity with #NoDAPL prisoners in construction site blockaded again in North front lines. Currently, thousands are name. North Dakota, USA Dakota, USA at prominent neo-nazi organizer’s college campus in California, USA still streaming into Standing Rock. WE NEED A SOCIAL REVOLUTION September 20th: Banner hung in solidar- September 27th: Guard attacked at Hol- ity with the prison strike in Hamilton, CAN man prison in Alabama, USA October 17th: Highway blockaded in Liberals and leftists claim that con- The political, ecological, and econom- Michoacán, MEX ic forces and crises aimed against us September 20th: Banner hung in solidarity September 28th: Graffiti painted in soli- frontational actions scares away people with the Rojava revolution in New York, USA darity with the prison strike in Lansing, USA October 19th: UPS lockers vandalized in from getting involved. But we find the means that time is not on our side. The Philadelphia, USA September 20th: Highway blockaded and September 28th: Guard attacked at Tur- opposite to be true. When people see a state continues to become more and 62 7 blockaded in solidarity with striking teach- with Waupun prisoners on hunger strike in August 30th: Anti-racist posters wheat- ers in Chiapas, MEX Portland, USA pasted in Sacramento, USA Late July: Logging operation sabotaged in Mid August: Police attacked and busi- August 31st: Energy Transfer Partners of- UNYIELDING BEFORE British Columbia, CAN nesses burned for several nights during fice doorlocks are glued shut in Dallas, USA Late July: Incendiary attacks on three Da- eruptions in response to the police murder August 31st: Police vehicles are vandal- kota Access Pipeline construction sites in of Sylville Smith in Milwaukee, USA ized during disruption of US-appointed POWER AND ITS REPRESSION Iowa, USA August 13th: Graffiti painted in solidarity PROMESA meeting in Puerto Rico FROM ICONOCLASIA - TRANSLATED BY SCOTT CAMPBELL - MARCH 4TH, 2016 August 1st: Anti-police and anti-racist with Milwaukee rioters in Atlanta, Denver September 1st: Banners hung in solidar- and New Orleans, USA On the repressive circus mounted by the of domination spread rapidly. Sabotage constant shadowing of compañeros car- banners hung in Tucson, USA ity with the prison strike in Evansville and August 14th: Anti-police graffiti painted Indianapolis, USA Mexican State and attacks of all kinds spread through- ried out by police in recent weeks using August 1st: Prisoners take over a dorm and set fires at Holman prison inAlabama, USA in solidarity with Milwaukee rioters in Min- Early September: Fires set during “…what is condemned about anarchists out the territory. In those moments of private cars, the intimidating telephone neapolis, USA August 1st: Prisoners vandalize the facil- demonstration in response to the police is not the violence, but their having tran- subversion of the existing order and the calls, the constant surveillance outside August 14th: Police station windows murder of Levonia Riggins in Florida, USA destruction of social peace—that is, the the home of some compas, the visits ity and fight with guards at Vanderburgh scended denunciations and conferences, County Jail in Evansville, USA smashed and anti-police graffiti painted Early September: Anti-fascist graffiti peace of the powerful—the repressive from ministerial police at the homes of during spontaneous demonstration in solidar- bringing disobedience, insubordination Venue hosting pro-police painted in Oakland, USA responses from the dominators were several compañeros involved in various August 1st: ity with Milwaukee rioters in Olympia, USA and the capacity for revolt to this point. event is vandalized in Bloomington, USA September 4th: Banner hung in solidarity not lacking. Monitoring, surveillance, parts of the anarchist movement, these August 15th: Dakota Access Pipeline What is condemned is precisely the fact August 2nd: Noise demonstration in soli- with the prison strike in Chicago, USA searches, arrests, and even attempts are part of the same story. construction site blockaded again in North of their standing up and walking from the darity with the September 9th prison strike Dakota, USA September 4th: A second Starbucks is point of a radical critique of power and an at disappearances, were what we lived Included in this repressive climate is the in Durham, USA vandalized in Georgia, USA August 15th: Graffiti painted in solidarity with in those days, in the years past. arrest of compañero Yorch Punk, one intransigent ethic of freedom; and, more- August 3rd: Prisoners set fires at Henry with the prison strike in Houston, USA September 6th: Graffiti painted in solidar- over, to do so until the very end.” The climate today is not so different of those who for years have inhabited County Jail in Indiana, USA ity with the prison strike in Lansing, USA August 15th: Road sign hacked with an- – Daniel Barret (Rafael Spósito) and beyond a campaign of harassment, “Okupa Che” in the Philosophy and August 3rd: Police memorial vandalized ti-police message in Denver, USA September 6th: Construction equipment what is happening today is a continua- Letters Department at UNAM. Last again in solidarity with the prison strike in is vandalized as the Dakota Access Pipe- When the unyielding have declared war August 16th: Luxury stores and cars are tion of the repressive actions the State Wednesday night, February 24, around Philadelphia, USA line construction site is blockaded again in on power with their daily, consistent vandalized in Montreal, CAN has directed against anarchists in recent 9:45pm, ten individuals with “military August 4th: Mt Polley mine blockaded in North Dakota, USA action, there is not much need for “pre- August 17th: Banners hung in solidarity years. Just read the stories about the appearances” forced compañero Yorch British Columbia, CAN September 6th: Fires set in Lincoln pris- texts” in order to attack the subversives. with the prison strike in New Orleans, USA on in climate of tension experienced during into a white truck without license August 4th: Women prisoners set fires at Nebraska, USA For power, the fact that anarchists are August 18th: Graffiti painted in solidarity the Informal Anarchist Symposium; plates, threatening the two people who Henry County Jail in Indiana, USA September 6th: Guards attacked in Nas- unyielding to power’s norms, that they with the prison strike in California, USA sau County jail in New York, USA just consult the statements from Oku- accompanied him with weapons. The August 4th: Banner hung in solidarity can’t be corrupted and don’t make alli- August 20th: A Starbucks is vandalized in pa Che and take a look at the anarchist morning of the 25th, at around 5am, with Korryn Gaines, murdered by police in September 7th: Multiple dorms taken ances, is enough of a reason to attack New York, USA Georgia, USA over by hundreds of prisoners in Holmes websites and independent media to get masked individuals burned an auto- them. It’s true, many times those who August 20th: Venue hosting a Trump cam- prison in Florida, USA a sense of these repressive actions. mobile belonging to UNAM Securi- August 6th: Anti-police graffiti painted in rule the world have to carry out “crimi- Philadelphia, USA paign fundraiser is vandalized and the mo- September 8th: Banner hung in solidarity ty and built barricades on the interior torcade is disrupted in Minneapolis, USA nalization” campaigns in order to attack This year seems to already be highlight- Anarchist graffiti painted in with the prison strike in Lexington, USA thoroughfare of the university, in front August 6th: various struggles, anarchists included. ed in the calendar of power, and we Montreal, CAN Mid August: Posters wheatpasted and September 8th: Guards attacked in Val- of the squatted auditorium. Hours lat- graffiti painted in solidarity with the prison However, other times these campaigns don’t say that with a prophetic voice, August 8th: Prisoners stage a hunger dosta prison in Georgia, USA er it was finally known that compañe- strike in Minneapolis, USA are much more than a campaign to the facts simply make it quite clear to strike at Berks immigration detention cen- September 8th: Democratic Party Head- ro Yorch was being held in the Federal August 22nd: Highways blockades are es- “discredit”; besides, who wants credit? us. For some months now (a little be- ter in Pennsylvania, USA quarters disrupted in solidarity with the Attorney General’s office located in tablished in solidarity with striking teachers prison strike in Bloomington, USA Do we need it? The vast majority of fore the start of the new year), the police August 8th: Anti-fascist graffiti painted in across the states of and the historic city center. But the system Chiapas Oaxaca, MEX the time, these campaigns are part of a forces of the Mexican State have been Indiana, USA September 8th: Gas terminal expropriated didn’t hesitate in starting up its ma- August 23rd: Anti-Hydro Line 735 ban- and shopping centers blockaded in solidarity strike of greater magnitude, form part carrying out acts of espionage, intim- August 10th: Dakota Access Pipeline con- ner hung in Quebec, CAN nipulative machinery, which forms an with striking teachers in Oaxaca, MEX of an overwhelming strike that the State idation and attacks against anarchist, struction site blockaded in North Dakota, USA important part in the repressive exper- August 23rd: Banner hung in solidarity September 9th: Over 50,000 prisoners plans to inflict. It is within this context libertarian and subversive individuals; August 10th: Banners hung in solidarity with the prison strike in Athens, USA iment of social pedagogy. In the after- are estimated to have been involved in pris- one can place recent events, part of and also against projects that, for pow- with the prison strike in Texas, USA noon, all the news outlets announced August 23rd: Salmon feedlot industry on strike activities, such as work or hunger power’s repression of the local anarchist er, constitute a real threat. Messages August 10th: Noise demonstration in soli- disrupted by indigenous warriors in British strikes, in over twenty states. the capture of an alleged “drug dealer” darity with the prison strike in Atlanta, USA or libertarian landscape, that is to say, in with a link sent to the telephones of Columbia, CAN Noise demonstrations in in the vicinity of University City, who, September 9th: the Federal District [Mexico City]. “common people”; emails sent to some August 11th: Graffiti painted in solidarity August 24th: Noise demonstration in soli- solidarity with the prison strike take place anarchist projects with attached links to give coherence to their circus, they with the prison strike in Philadelphia, USA darity with the prison strike in in numerous cities around the U.S. The subversive struggle in the region Atlanta, USA containing a malware product called Da pointed to as the leader of Okupa Che. August 11th: Train tracks blockaded in sol- has gained in strength and form in the August 24th: Mink freed from fur farm in September 9th: Banners hung in solidar- Vinci, acquired by the Mexican State Some outlets accused Yorch of pos- idarity with striking teachers in Michoacán, Ontario, CAN ity with the prison strike in a dozen cities past three years. In years prior, attacks from HackingTeam as a means to in- sessing marijuana, others of possessing MEX around the U.S. on power were carried out, in general, Late August: Posters wheatpasted and filtrate computers and telephones, are amphetamines, some of diazepam and August 12th: Dakota Access Pipeline graffiti painted in solidarity with the prison September 9th: Graffiti painted in soli- from the shadows, but they began to construction site blockaded again in part of these repressive actions, of the even cocaine. If Yorch drank, if he took North strike in Denver and Philadelphia, USA darity with the prison strike in Denver, New happen in the light of day as well. Op- Dakota, USA continuation of what the State has been drugs or if he was straightedge is some- August 27th: Coal train blockaded in York, Oakland, Providence, Seattle, and St position took the form of possible wide- August 12th: Police memorial vandalized Louis, USA doing to subversives for the past two thing that should matter little to us, as Bellingham, USA spread revolt, disturbances took on con- again in Richmond, USA Major disturbances occur years. But not just that. There is also the the strategy of power is more than clear: August 29th: National Energy Board September 9th: sciousness and attacks on the structures August 12th: Banner hung in solidarity meeting shut down in Montreal, CAN in multiple prisons in Florida, USA 8 61 Late May: Incendiary attack on North Olympia, USA tion in Phoenix, USA a campaign of criminalization, possibly is uncomfortable to power, hence the The tiger does not lose sleep over the American Fur Auction in Toronto, CAN June 26th: Fascists attacked during count- July 9th: Police attacked during demon- preceding a great repressive event. That criminalization in the news, as a way opinion of sheep; this is how we should May 28th: A grocery store is vandalized er-demonstration against neo-nazi rally in stration in response to the police murder of statement is not for nothing, just look to have a minimal justification for stu- move forward, without the opinions of and looted in the daylight in Montreal, Sacramento, USA Philando Castile in St Paul, USA at the context of the compañero’s arrest, dents and society “in case of an excessive others about us as anarchists imped- CAN June 26th: Pro-gentrification tour is dis- July 10th: Anti-police demonstration in which occurred at the end of an activ- use of force.” But this is not a separate ing our ability to realize our dreams, as May 28th: Confrontations with police rupted and participants sprayed with rotten San Jose, USA ity held at the squatted auditorium in issue, as it is indisputably linked to all we do not seek prestige; this is how we outside Trump rally in milk in San Diego, USA Hamilton, CAN July 10th: Police station painted during an- solidarity with imprisoned compañeros. of the monitoring, the visits by the fed- should advance against the wind, with- May 29th: The Mauricio Morales social June 27th: Anti-prison graffiti painted in ti-police demonstration in Carbondale, USA Adding to this the fact that the follow- eral ministerial police at compañeros’ out the repression of the State (selec- center is squatted in Tijuana, MEX Durham, USA July 10th: Noise demonstration outside ing day the director of the Philosophy homes, the harassment, the sending of tive or daily) being able to paralyze our June 2nd: Anti-gentrification demonstra- Early July: Banners hung in solidarity with jail holding arrestees from previous night’s and Letters Department called for the messages, making clear what they are struggle or keep us inactive or in con- tion in New York, USA Sacramento anti-fascists in Tijuana, MEX riot in St Paul, USA prompt eviction of the squat, the sus- preparing. Repression, like any other stant weariness; as such, like the tiger June 5th: Graffiti in solidarity with anar- July 1st: Banner hung in solidarity with Sac- July 10th: Anti-police graffiti painted in pension of intra-campus transporta- method, has a before, has its central who doesn’t lose sleep but stays wide chist prisoners is painted in Oaxaca, MEX ramento anti-fascists in Minneapolis, USA Philadelphia, USA tion, and in the afternoon of the 25th, moment, and has an after. The repres- awake, that is how we should advance Prisoners begin a hunger strike The Canada Day parade is disrupt- Anti-fascist posters wheatpast- June 10th: July 1st: July 10th: the announcement of a meeting be- sive strike is being prepared, practiced in the face of all adversities, generating in Wisconsin, USA ed with a flag burning inKingston, CAN ed and graffiti painted inBerkeley, USA tween the President of UNAM and the and justified, although all this is done in projects of freedom capable of subvert- June 11th: Old growth mill spiked in July 1st: Banners in solidarity with Sacra- July 10th: Pro-police flag stolen and Or- police to arrange the eviction. order to maintain a façade, as the State ing the relations of domination, capable egon, USA mento anti-fascists is hung in Berkeley, USA burned in Oakland, USA does not need to justify anything, it sim- of contributing to the spreading and in- June 11th: Banner in solidarity with anar- July 3rd: Explosive attacks on various busi- July 10th: Anti-fascist anti-police graffiti But this is not the first time they’ve chist prisoners hung in Elgin, USA ness associations in Toluca, MEX painted in Seattle, USA tried to do their worst to Yorch. Two ply makes use of its authority. But re- tensification of the conflict against au- pression is not just the repressive strike thority. Determination is what we have, June 11th: Anti-colonial posters wheat- July 4th: Vandalized American flag is hung July 10th: Anti-fascist graffiti painted in years ago, in 2014, Yorch was viciously pasted in Minneapolis, USA in Elgin, USA Minneapolis, USA beaten by a paramilitary group when itself, nor the arrest of compañeros, nor though many become disheartened and the kettling of a demonstration. The June 11th: Probation office vandalized in July 4th: Noise demonstrations outside July 11th: Blockades of train tracks in soli- they tried to retake the squatted audito- everything seems difficult. Bloomington, USA jails in Bloomington and New York, USA darity with striking teachers all over Mexico. rium, a group that was beaten back by a State practices repression in everyday There is nothing left but to send a greet- June 11th: In the following days, barri- July 5th: Prisoners stage a hunger strike at July 13th: Police memorial vandalized in large group of anarchist compañeros in ways, through the classroom, through ing of support to compañero Yorch cades and street fighting spreads through Waupun prison in Wisconsin, USA Richmond, USA December 2013. On this occasion, they the television, through the family; at Punk. All our solidarity to the com- the state after authorities attack striking July 5th: Spontaneous demonstration July 13th: Prisoners stage a hunger strike severely beat Yorch, burned him with a work, in the jails, in the psychiatrist’s of- pañero and to all compañeros facing teachers in Oaxaca, MEX against the police murder of Jerry Jai Wil- at Green Bay prison in Wisconsin, USA blowtorch, opened up his head, and em- fice; the repression the State practices is repression, imprisoned, and those who Early June: Banners hung in solidarity liams in Asheville, USA July 14th: Anti-police graffiti painted in bedded metal pellets in his skin. To the also in the power relations that prevail are on the run, transgressing the laws of with Oaxaca rebels in Tijuana, MEX July 5th: Banner in solidarity with Ryan Philadelphia, USA misfortune of those “reds”, the following in society, therefore, a fight against re- power. June 13th: Anti-prison demonstration in Ronquillo murdered by the police two years pression is a fight for the destruction of July 15th: Banner hung in solidarity with day a large group of compañeros again Against power and against all authority, Washington DC, USA earlier in Denver, USA power. Without abolition and without Oaxaca rebels in Pennsylvania, USA retook the auditorium, so their “failed social war without agreement or medi- June 13th: Anti-police graffiti painted in July 5th: Blockades take place across the city mediation, a precise attack against the July 15th: Demonstration in solidarity assault” did not last long, as we say. ation! Chicago, USA against police repression in Mexico City, MEX structures, the representatives and the with Oaxaca rebels in San Francisco, USA In any light, what has happened to June 14th: A car with a confederate flag July 5th: Construction site sabotaged in social relations that sustain this domi- Some anarchists from the Mexican region, July 15th: Streets barricaded for dance Yorch is nothing more than part of a sticker is vandalized in Olympia, USA Philadelphia, USA party in nation. February 26, 2016 Carbondale, USA plan to evict a space that in some way June 16th: Graffiti in solidarity with the July 6th: Anti-police graffiti painted inAt - July 16th: Banner hung in solidarity with victims of the Orlando shooting is painted lanta, USA those killed by the police in Bloomington, in Minneapolis, USA July 7th: White supremacist memorial USA June 16th: Politician attacked at vigil for vandalized in Austin, USA July 19th: Far-right Alex Jones punched victims of the Orlando shooting in Montreal, July 7th: Various right-wingers are con- during protests at the Republican National CAN fronted during an anti-police demonstra- Convention in Cleveland, USA June 17th: Explosive attack on Federal Com- tion in Olympia, USA July 21st: Invesco targeted with anti-ani- mission of Electricity office inOaxaca, MEX July 7th: Highway blocked and police sta- mal lab posters in Vancouver, CAN June 17th: Explosive attack on Banorte tion painted during anti-police demonstra- July 22nd: Anti-police occupation estab- bank in Oaxaca, MEX tion in Oakland, USA lished in Chicago, USA June 17th: Thirteen TELMEX telephone July 7th: Police and a jewelry store at- July 22nd: Police memorial vandalized in booths sabotaged in Mexico City, MEX tacked during demonstration in response to Philadelphia, USA June 19th: Street fighting escalates after the police murder of Philando Castile in St Paul, USA July 25th: Banners hung in solidarity with police attack highway blockade in solidarity anti-fascist prisoners in Denver and Minne- with striking teachers in Nochixtlán, MEX July 8th: Anti-racist graffiti painted inPhi - apolis, USA lapdelphia, USA June 22nd: Traffic blocked during demon- July 27th: Prisoners stage a hunger strike stration in response to police repression in July 8th: Anti-fascist posters wheatpasted at Lucasville prison in Ohio, USA Mexico City, MEX in Dallas, USA July 30th: Fascists attacked during count- June 24th: Large crowd attacks police and July 8th: Anti-clearcut banner hung in er-demonstration against neo-nazi rally in attacks many businesses following music British Columbia, CAN Buffalo, USA festival in Montreal, CAN July 9th: Police and a Trump supporter are Late July: Airports and shopping malls June 26th: Anti-police banner hung in attacked during an anti-police demonstra- Barricades in solidarity with Okupa Che in Mexico City, MEX 60 4 ers hung in Minneapolis, USA April 6th: Anti-police graffiti painted in April 28th: Trump supporters are at- March 15th: Anti-police demonstration Minneapolis, USA tacked and police vehicles are vandalized in Montreal, CAN April 8th: Anti-police graffiti painted in outside campaign rally in Costa Mesa, USA MILWAUKEE IN FLAMES Anti-police graffiti painted in Montreal, CAN April 29th: Trump supporters are attacked March 15th: Philadelphia, USA April 9th: Demonstrations in solidarity outside campaign event in California, USA THE NIGHT THE PIGS GOT BRICKED March 16th: Anti-prison demonstration with Texas prisoners in Austin and Kansas April 29th: Sarpy County jail vandalized SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2016 in Lansing, USA City, USA in Nebraska, USA It was a Saturday night. When we tion watching them cower. We listened us as if to shoo us along, but everyone March 17th: Prison vandalized in Quebec, April 9th: Noise demonstration at Hol- April 30th: Anti-police posters wheat- man prison in Alabama, USA pasted in Minneapolis, USA caught word that the BP on Sherman to the mayor and police chief on the turned around and ran at the squad car. CAN and Burleigh was in flames, we hopped radio admit they have no control over They whipped around and dipped off. March 18th: Voting booths blocked from April 11th: Demonstration in solidarity Late April: Anti-police graffiti painted in with Texas prisoners in Tucson, USA Bloomington, USA in the car and headed over. It had final- the situation. They lamented that the Everyone cheered. entering the city in Michoacán, MEX ly happened, like we all knew it would. criss-crossing streets of the neighbor- March 19th: Trump campaign headquar- April 11th: Log loader sabotaged in Brit- May 1st: Inmates begin work strike at We marched west on Burleigh and ish Columbia, CAN three prisons in Alabama, USA Police murdered another Black man. hood made it hard for the cops to ma- ters vandalized in Jacksonville, USA blasted Lil Boosie “Fuck the Police.” April 11th: Police and government offices May 1st: May Day demonstrations take His name is Sylville Smith. We drove neuver. Everyone sung along to the chorus March 19th: Noise demonstration at Le- clerc prison in Quebec, CAN are attacked during demonstration in re- place in hundreds of cities across the con- west on Burleigh from around Fon Du The next day a crowd of a few hundred and as we approached the gas station sponse to the police murder of Sandy Tar- tinent. Lac. Cars packed the streets, just cruis- gathered outside the burnt out BP. Still we noticed some nervous looking pigs March 19th: Confrontations with police zan Michel in Montreal, CAN outside Trump rally in Salt Lake City, USA May 1st: Police and their vehicles are at- ing and blasting music. Some people no cops in sight. An assembly of people posted up there. Now we were in the April 12th: Prisoners stage a hunger strike tacked during spontaneous eruption in Prisoners stage a hunger shot their pistols into the air. As we from the neighborhood argued about intersection of Burleigh and Sherman. March 20th: at Cotton prison in Michigan, USA Stockton, USA strike at Kinross prison in Michigan, USA drove closer the air became thick with what to do next. As I walked up, a com- More people masked up seemed to April 12th: Train tracks blockaded in May 1st: Police station vandalized during an- March 20th: Traffic blockaded outside smoke. A huge black cloud poured from rade said to me “It was a beautiful night manifest outta no where. Now we were Michoacán, MEX ti-prison demonstration in Philadelphia, USA Trump rally in Arizona, USA the flames. Hundreds of people were last night.” It was beautiful to watch deep. Now people were holding big ass April 13th: Brawls between anti-fascists May 1st: Graffiti is painted for Seattle reb- March 21st: Posters wheatpasted in soli- gathered in the area. people fight back against the occupy- stones and bricks. People felt powerful. and Trump supporters erupt outside cam- els in Minneapolis, USA darity with Holman prisoners in Philadel- paign rally in Pittsburgh, USA We went back the other way on ing forces. Not everyone thought that. A sheriff cruiser jetting up to the crowd. phia, USA May 1st: Hundreds of mink are freed from Burleigh and saw a group of about 50 A politician got up and started brow People let the bricks and stones fly. The April 14th: Police attacked with molotovs a fur farm in Ontario, CAN March 22nd: Graffiti painted in solidarity and fireworks during spontaneous demo in people masked up, smashing up huge beating people, telling them to pick up car got smashed up quick. Probably 15 May 3rd: Prisoners take over a dorm and set with Holman prisoners in Durham, USA Montreal, CAN cinder blocks to use as projectiles. They a garbage bag and get to cleaning up. huge stones came raining down on this fires at Alcorn County jail inMississippi, USA March 23rd: Graffiti painted and posters April 16th: Government buildings burned were heading east toward the intersec- They got heckled until they shut up. idiot before they could dip off. What an wheatpasted in solidarity with anarchist May 4th: Incendiary attack on Sacmag de during demonstration against education re- México office inMexico City, MEX tion of Fon Du Lac, 35th, and Burleigh. A few people said, “Fuck it we’re going asshole. Now the pigs came cruising up prisoners in Tijuana, MEX form in Chiapas, MEX We figured they might be going to the to the police station.” We poured onto in huge buses. Rows of riot cops filed March 23rd: Posters wheatpasted in solidari- May 7th: Noise demonstration at Holman April 19th: Anti-prison banner hung in prison in Alabama, USA Police Station right there so we darted Burleigh and headed west, gaining more out and formed a line at the intersection. ty with Holman prisoners in Philadelphia, USA Bloomington, USA over. The Station was boarded up with people along the way. It was broad day- The crowd lobbed bottles and rocks at March 26th: Prisoners stage a hunger May 9th: Anti-prison banner hung in Aus- April 20th: Homophobic preacher at- tin, USA no cops in sight. They had barricaded light, Sunday now. We got to the cop the line. People shot at them with small strike at Chippewa prison in Michigan, USA tacked by students in Los Angeles, USA May 9th: City Hall vandalized during themselves inside, fearing the wrath of shop to find them standing there with caliber pistols. Cops returned fire with March 27th: Anti-gentrification graffiti April 21st: Banner hung for the Stone painted in Philadelphia, USA demonstration in solidarity with Frisco5 the neighborhood. But when the crowd shot guns. We heckled them for a while bean bag rounds. A couple rebels got hit Mountain antifascist convergence in Bloom- hunger strikers in San Francisco, USA showed up they didn’t go for the police then shut down the major intersection with beanbags but walked it off. I could March 27th: Anti-police posters wheat- ington, USA pasted in Minneapolis, USA May 12th: Four banners against private station. People cracked open the beauty right there, held it for a while, then hear the bullets and bean bag rounds rip April 23rd: Police attacked by anti-fas- prison company CCA are hung, followed shop and liberated everything inside. A headed back west to the BP. It was just through the leaves of the trees over head April: Four ATMs are sabotaged in Tijua- cists while attempting to confront a white by protests and traffic blockades outside the rebel grinned as they walked into the the dress rehearsal for later that night. and ricochet off the ground around us. na, MEX supremacist rally in Stone Mountain, USA company’s annual shareholders meeting in street with a huge bouquet of red ros- We stood around for the rest of the I guess some kid caught a stray bullet April: Several dozen incidents of sabotage April 23rd: An encampment is formed to Nashville, USA es. Down the block the O’ Reilly Auto day, choppin it up with people. A few in the neck around that time. I have to to network infrastructure is reported during blockade the construction of a highway in May 15th: Teachers begin a large strike, a strike against Verizon across the U.S. San Miguel Tocuila, MEX parts store billowed black smoke. Then times cops tried to roll up, but teenagers admit that the cops looked pretty scary. setting the stage for the next month’s upris- the bank went up in flames. We sat chased them away. There were a lot of them. But it gave us April 1st: Sacred Stone camp established April 23rd: Incendiary attack on CORTV ing in Oaxaca, MEX against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North offices inOaxaca, MEX there in the middle of the intersection confidence when we realized that they May 15th: Rojava solidarity demonstra- As night fell the attitude changed. Peo- Dakota, USA Banners hung for Stone tion in and watched flames engulf every corner were scared as fuck. April 24th: Seattle, USA ple were ready for some action. A crowd April 3rd: Demonstration in response to Mountain anti-fascists in Sacramento, USA for what seemed like forever. The fire- May 19th: Rojava solidarity banner hung gathered and headed north on Sher- They didn’t know the turf and had never the police murder of Loreal Tsinijini in Ar- April 24th: Anarcha-feminist demonstra- in New York, USA men didn’t come for hours. man. We took a right and headed east experienced something to this degree of izona, USA tion in Oaxaca, MEX May 22nd: Incendiary attack on govern- Finally we watched as police in riot into the neighborhood toward the po- intensity before. They didn’t want to die April 4th: Inmates strike at seven different April 25th: Banner hung for Stone Moun- ment vehicles in Cancún, MEX prisons in Texas, USA gear escorted fire fighters to the front lice station. When we got there it was that night. As the crowd headed south tain anti-fascists in Minneapolis, USA May 22nd: Anti-fascist posters wheat- of the auto parts store. As soon as they the same scene as earlier in the day, only on Sherman the pigs kept sending in April 4th: Highway blockaded during April 26th: Misogynist preacher attacked pasted and graffiti painted inBerkeley, USA demonstration in Guerrero, MEX smashed open the door a massive plum with the younger people masked up. these armored vehicles called bearcats. in Arizona, USA May 23rd: Incendiary attack on Banamex of black smoke engulfed the whole col- Pigs sat there with shot guns looking They would roll up and just get hit with April 6th: Businesses are attacked and April 26th: Incendiary attack on a car bank in Oaxaca, MEX looted, fires are set and police are attacked umn of cops. Things continued like this scared. We did the same thing, held the bricks and then go back toward the dealership in Coacalco, MEX May 24th: Police and their vehicles are late into the night. A few of us sat in a intersection for a while and headed back line of cops by the gas station. Finally in response to the police murder of Jean- Pierre Bony in Montreal, CAN April 27th: Two officers attacked at Hol- attacked outside Trump campaign rally in parking lot a block from the police sta- to the BP. A cop tried to roll up behind the crowd of rebels got to a construc- man prison in Alabama, USA Albuquerque, USA 10 59 tion site on Center and Sherman. Tons the intersection to see which way the body fell to ground. I thought of the of stuff to throw at the cops was every police were coming. Cops combed the times they smashed my face in, bashed where. Another bearcat came barreling neighborhood as the militants dipped my head into the sidewalk and knocked ACTION ROUND UP down Sherman. It got showered with off down different alleys and gangways. out my teeth, stripped me naked and The following list of actions is shaped by many different factors. We prioritize direct actions over protests, and focus on the actions of explicit bricks and stones and a few orange bar- So many people were still out that the humiliated me, so I laughed as the in- anarchists as well as autonomous rebels. Most importantly, we had to hear about the actions themselves. This in particular forces us to examine rels. Next came a black van full of cops brick throwers were able to blend in. It jured cop was dragged away. not only our limited, primarily anglophonic perspectives, but the usefulness of communicating and quantifying actions online. For these reasons in riot gear. They pulled up right next was like what I imagine a protracted in- and others, this list cannot be considered comprehensive. Once again, for accessibility and brevity, colonial land names are used. Let an insurgency infect every city in to the crowd and rolled open the side surgency looks like. Militants knew the America. This is just the beginning. January 1st: Law enforcement attacked February 4th: Banner for Sean Swain Lake City, USA door, revealing a cop raising a gun, pre- terrain better than the cops, so we used We’re crouching in the alleyways wait- during sideshow in Los Angeles, USA hung in Bloomington, USA February 28th: Pheasants liberated from sumably about to fire a bean bag round. that to our advantage. ing with bricks. January 1st: Incendiary attack on luxury February 5th: Anti-fascist graffiti painted a fur farm in Oregon, USA Before he could even aim stones rained Fuck the Milwaukee Police forever. car in Montreal, CAN where far-right group planned to rally the Early March: Banner hung in solidarity down on the side of the van and the pigs They murder people, strip people na- next day in January 3rd: Line 7 pipeline sabotaged in Montreal, CAN with Anaheim anti-fascists in Tucson, USA closed the door and drove off. ked in the street, and harass kids on the Ontario, CAN February 5th: Far-right group chased March 1st: Demonstration in response to Now the crew headed west on center. playground. While we were on Burleigh away from their rally in Montreal, CAN January 9th: Police attacked and their the police murder of Akiel Denkins in Ra- It was time to slip away and blend into and it first cracked off I watched a stone vehicles burned during anti-government February 6th: Feminist counter-demon- leigh, USA the neighborhood. The crew headed up fall from the sky, hitting a cop square in demonstration in Chiapas, MEX strations against planned pro-rape rallies March 1st: Neo-fascists attacked outside alleys. Scouts were going ahead to check the head. I laughed and cheered as their January 12th: Colonial statues are vandal- that don’t pan out across the continent. an event in Portland, USA ized in Puerto Rico February 7th: Police attacked and motor- March 2nd: Anti-Trump posters wheat- January 15th: Government buildings van- cycle burnt during spontaneous eruption in pasted in Salt Lake City, USA San Francisco, USA dalized during demonstration in response March 3rd: Locks glued, anti-police and to the housing crisis in Portland, USA February 7th: Anti-gentrification graffiti anti-gentrification slogans painted and a OLYMPIA, WA: MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH MILWAUKEE UPRISING January 16th: New UBER headquarters painted in Chicago, USA camera is destroyed in Philadelphia, USA Communique vandalized in Oakland, USA February 11th: Fires set by prisoners at March 5th: Anti-racist demonstration in January 16th: Demonstration outside Topo Chico prison during riot in Monter- Los Angeles, USA On Sunday night, anarchists in Olym- tunity to sabotage parking meters others in the Northwest and across rey, MEX pia marched in solidarity with rioters as well, and covered the new condo the country take actions against the Skanska CEO’s house in New York, USA March 5th: Police cruiser attacked in January 16th: Metro blocked during February 11th: Rowdy demonstration for Montreal, CAN and rebels in Milwaukee. After Sylville on 4th with graffiti and wheat-paste. police on their own terms. The police demonstration against the police murder of Kayden Clark, a transman killed by police Smith was gunned down by the police The parking meters, new condos, and are not omnipotent, and they are not in Tucson, USA March 7th: Banner hung in solidarity with Noel Aguilar in Los Angeles, USA Anaheim antifascists in Portland, USA in Milwaukee on Saturday, residents downtown development are all part of an indivisible force; they have names February 13th: Rowdy demonstration for rose up and fought the police, burning an attempt to gentrify downtown and and addresses, cars and offices, fueling January 17th: Kinder Morgan rig disrupt- March 7th: Demonstration in solidarity with ed in British Columbia, CAN Gustavo Najera killed by police in Anaheim, down buildings and destroying police to exclude houseless people and oth- stations and warehouses. It only takes a USA Anaheim antifascists in Minneapolis, USA cruisers. We are saddened that an- er “undesirables” so that yuppies feel friend and a plan to put up some post- January 22nd: Noise demonstrations for March 8th: Banner hung in solidarity with the International Day of Solidarity with February 15th: Police memorial vandal- other person lost his life to the police safe shopping. We hope the vandalism ers or to slash some tires, and for each ized in Denver, USA Calais refugees on hunger strike in Boston, USA Queer & Trans prisoners in Minneapolis and white supremacy, but we are also makes them feel a little less safe, and cruiser that can’t drive that’s one less March 9th: Trump supporter’s house van- and Philadelphia, USA February 18th: Banner drop for anarchist inspired by the response in Milwaukee. we hope some people get free parking cop on the streets waiting to harass, prisoner Fernando Bárcenas in Blooming- dalized in Virginia, USA January 22nd: Graffiti is painted for queer We took to the streets to amplify their tomorrow. arrest, beat, or kill someone. and trans prisoners in Montreal, CAN ton, USA March 9th: Guards attacked in Lincoln prison in Nebraska, USA struggle, to make sure that the names The cop shop also got a visit and a As the quartersheet handed out to by- January 25th: Line 9 pipeline sabotaged February 20th: A pro-police demonstra- of those murdered by the police are makeover, with some cracked windows standers proposed: in Hamilton, CAN tion is disrupted in San Francisco, USA March 11th: Several hundred prisoners take over dorms and set fire to guard towers heard by all, and to remind Olympia and a new paint job. We expect that Late January: Super Bowl statues are re- February 24th: Graffiti is painted and “When the police kill, let us turn the at Holman prison in Alabama, USA that the struggle against the police is some pigs will be demoralized tomor- peatedly vandalized in San Francisco, USA banners are hung in solidarity with Fernan- cities into burial pyres for the dead.” do Bárcenas in Tijuana, MEX March 11th: Brawls between anti-fascists ongoing and everywhere. row when they show up for work and January 27th: Police vehicle vandalized REST IN POWER, SYLVILLE SMITH. and Trump supporters erupt outside cam- A crowd of around forty took to the see our hatred writ large across their during student walkout in Oakland, USA February 25th: Barricades burned and police attacked in response to police repres- paign rally in in St Louis, USA streets just before 11 PM, chanting walls. FUCK THE POLICE, FROM OLY TO January 29th: Pipeline construction site sion in Mexico City, MEX March 11th: Police and Trump supporters MKE. “All Cops Are Bastards! ACAB!” Peo- The march continued for about 30 blockaded in Vermont, USA are attacked and their property vandalized out- February 25th: Upscale businesses van- ple handed out spray paint, wheat- minutes, complete with flares, roman – a few uncontrollables January 30th: March and noise demon- dalized in Montreal, CAN side cancelled campaign rally in Chicago, USA paste, and posters, and soon 4th Av- candles, and mortars, and then every- stration at the city jail in Durham, USA March 12th: Confrontations with police February 27th: Posters wheatpasted in sol- enue was covered in posters declaring one safely dispersed into surround- January 30th: Several expensive cars are idarity with the ZAD in Philadelphia, USA outside Trump rally in Kansas City, USA “War Against the Racist Police State” ing alleys downtown. By the time the vandalized in Los Angeles, USA March 12th: Trump sign set on fire in February 27th: Brawls with white su- and anti-police graffiti. Many onlook- police mobilized a response every- January 31st: Anti-prison banners premacists at KKK rally in Anaheim, USA New Jersey, USA ers joined the march, and many more one had disappeared, leaving behind dropped in Mexico City, MEX March 13th: Police attacked during spon- February 27th: Demonstration in re- were supportive and appreciative. We a downtown covered with paint and January 31st: Incendiary attack on TEL- sponse to the police murder of Ernesto taneous eruption in response to the police marched up and down 4th Ave cover- posters. We hope this small gesture MEX car in Mexico City, MEX Canepa in Santa Ana, USA murder in Chester, USA ing walls, windows, and poles with our warms hearts in Milwaukee, and that February 2nd: An officer is stabbed while Police attacked during March 14th: Prisoners take over a dorm at February 27th: messages of rebellion and resistance. It’s Going Down evicting a homeless encampment in San spontaneous eruption in response to the Holman prison in Alabama, USA rebels there and elsewhere know that People took advantage of the oppor- August 15th, 2016 Francisco, USA police murder of Abdi Mohamed in Salt March 15th: Banner for Holman prison- they aren’t alone. We also hope that 58 cusations mentioned above), the anar- with the administration and its strate- of National Liberation. (Zapatismo was chists, thankfully, show much solidarity gies of co-optation and infiltration or originally an early-twentieth century peas- with prisoners. faced with other organisations, a work- ants movement inspired by Emiliano Zapa- ta Salazar, the main leader in the state of ing relationship with self-proclaimed 7. To stay on a shitty subject, could you Chiapas during the Mexican Revolution.) WELCOME TO THE self-managed groups who aren’t neces- recount what happened when a false com- Here are some thoughts by Carlos López munique was issued about the so-called sarily clear on their practices and aims. (see ’Towards the Unknown’) on the mat- death of a comrade in Mexico? This non- What are the issues? On what basis? ter. “An example of these inconsistencies event, a serious thing for me, provoked It seems to me that the defense of the is the EZLN where a clear contradiction END OF SUBMITTEDTHE TO IT’S GOING WORLD DOWN - SEPTEMBER 26TH, 2016 space against the elements that would is shown in that many anarchists, or anar- quite a few lively polemics, here and prob- cho-zapatistas, of alleged anti-authoritari- Nothing can close the window of mass tionary black proletarians, anarchists, were left undefended. Trash cans were want to seize it often prevents that the ably elsewhere as well. Also, a bit of time an posture, support and identify with this disaffection opened by the revolt in communist groups, street gangs and an- set on fire and police cruisers were has passed, do you have more info today question is asked on the basis of strat- army, of communist tendency and author- Ferguson. The unending tide of criti- gry working class elements. smashed with hammers. Elements in on the why and how (and who) of this egy. It’s necessary to do this as to have itarian structure. These anarco-zapatistas cisms leveled against the insurrection- At only 7:30 pm, on the night of Sep- the crowd attacked random cars, while somber story? a critical analysis of the organisation of are influenced by slogans such as “command the Informal Anarchic Days of Decem- by obeying”, and we say that command al- al movement, the pacifiers in the left- tember 21st, 600 marched to a church others smoked weed and rapped Lil’ The matter remains very shady, and the ber 2013.6 ways generates power and therefore there wing and “community” organizations, in downtown Charlotte. Just as the Boosie’s now famous “Fuck the Police,” members of the collective responsible the National Guard and the resurgent the anthem of the movement. will always be someone to obey, despite the prayers began, masked youth in the for the diffusion of this false info re- 9. What are, in your view, the most im- Zapatistas saying that “it is the people who fascist grassroots have given a staccato crowd interrupted. “Fuck this Jesus shit” When the line of riot police finally ap- jected responsibility… without having portant objectives that anarchists in Mex- command and the government that obeys”. structure to the rebellions, but have so they screamed. A clear demarcation was proached the crowd, under a hail of clearly established what happened and ico must give themselves? It is goes without saying that I do not refuse far failed to stamp them out completely. made between the elements that want- stones and some fireworks, they began explained their error. What this betrays, Developing a critical analysis of the ex- to acknowledge the worthy struggle under- No falsehood can reverse the intoxicat- ed the night to proceed into the disor- shooting more tear gas and rubber bul- is above all a lack of experience and of istent and some clearer anarchist posi- taken in 1994 by the EZLN against the ing effects of the truth. der of the night before and those trying lets. The crowd split into at least two State, earning hundreds of supporters all principles in the internal workings of tions in relation to the questions asked over the world for their cause; and it hap- No one can doubt the absolute strategic to keep it from reaching that threshold. sections, engaging in vandalism and certain collectives, which manifests in the radical milieu: social movements pened that many anarchists were captivated clarity of the insurgents on September Most of the crowd chased the police looting whenever possible for the rest through, among other things, an unre- (Zapatismo, autonomies, syndicalist by the “Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon 20th, who broke with the insane delu- away. A small group of cops sought of the night. strained poorly controlled use of social struggles, self-defense groups,7 etc.), Jungle”, but the disappointment of realising sions millions hold onto which deprive refuge in the Omni Hotel, which was A guy is in agony while his friend dabs his networks. One imagines that this could strong influence of the university mi- that an authoritarian practice continued them of basic fighting skills in light of attacked. Justin Carr, a demonstrator, eyes with a hoodie to stop the burning. I contribute to other levels… The lack lieu or “counter-cultures”, technology, to exist, despite the alleged libertarian dis- course, soon arrived.” racist police executions. In a beautiful was shot in the head. Blood spilled take someone’s bottle of water, make a hole of responsibility of certain individuals commerce, cooperatives and “self-man- 4. Coordination built by “democratic” and creative development on a common across the sidewalk. The situation had in the cap and flush his eyes. He pops back unfortunately leaves the way to all spec- aged projects”, management of collective unions of the SNTE (Unique Union of tactic from the last two years of revolt, changed. Hundreds ransacked the NC up to his feet, pulls something out from his ulations, especially knowing the degree spaces like the Che occupation. Because they rushed onto I-85, looted the con- Hornets store just around the corner. A Education Workers), a corrupt and bureau- pocket and yells, “Who knows how to pull of infiltration of anarchist milieus in for the most part of these questions, the cratic organisation. There develops all the tents of stalled semi-trucks and burned convenience store, a sandwich shop. a pin from a grenade?” Before throwing Mexico. positions and practices of anarchists tendencies of Leftism of Mexico. them in the middle of the interstate. We receive messages that someone has one of the police concussion grenades back 8. Could you also tell use some thoughts on separate themselves still too little from 5. In reference to the massacre of students SEPTEMBER 21 - DAY 2 been shot at the Omni Hotel. We park at a line of bike cops. “Yeah we got that the Okupa Che where international and the influence of the milieus of Leftists, on October 2th, 1968 in Tlatelolco in Mex- On the second night of disorder, it took and run toward the demonstration. Just as shit too!” After a few more rocks they bike informal anarchist gatherings took place reformists, etc. and occasionally leads to ico City. [ed. – An estimated 300 shot down only thirty minutes to unmask the ethi- we catch our breathe, tear gas is fired into away from us. The crowd cheers. some time ago? certain ambiguities. To strengthen the by military and police during a demon- contacts and regular exchanges with the stration 10 days before the opening of the cal polarization underpinning the entire the crowd. Flash bang grenades explode IT’S GOING DOWN IN UPTOWN There is a long history of battles be- comrades of Spanish speaking coun- Olympic Games, in a country wracked by Black Lives Matter movement. What is by our feet. To my left and right, masked The shooting of Keith Scott occurred tween the university, Leftist organi- rising social tensions. The event is consid- tries. To leave the university milieu to commonly described as one movement people are kicking and throwing back the in an area of North Charlotte, far away sations, and more-or-less self-man- ered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when which all the tendencies of anarchism is, in reality, at least two. Even this is a spinning canisters on the ground. I pull a from the cluster of financial towers and aged and anarchist collectives for the the government used its forces to outright still remain very confined and to con- simplification. The capillary structure t-shirt over my face. Hundreds of people economic powerhouses that Charlotte management of this occupied space suppress political opposition.] tinue on the direction the support of of power has likely produced 5, 10, 20 are cheering and jumping, a few are cough- is well known for. It’s remarkable to note of UNAM, the largest university of 6. ed. – Comrades from as far away as imprisoned comrades. bases of affective re-aggregation and ing. A young man with tattoos all over his that the riot on Wednesday occurred in the country, in Mexico City. This has Greece, England, U.S.A., Italy, and Chile attended the event, during which Cuban an- transformations all under the same slo- torso and hands looks to me and says, manifested in the past, and again more Footnotes the very heart of Charlotte and that the archist Gustavo Rodriguez was kidnapped gans. In any case, it is clear that there through his mask, “This is it! Welcome to 1. ed. – Reference to a series of insurrec- demonstrations that have followed con- recently, by very violent events (in Feb- by federal agents, tortured, interrogated and the end of the world!” In front of me, a gi- tions for ’Land & Liberty’ leading into the are forces invested in policy-friendly tinue to happen in this area. This sets ruary the anarchists there were attacked deported to the U.S.A. ant cloud of gas thinly veils a wall of police Mexican Revolution, of which the part-in- restructuring around diversity train- it apart from the rioting that recently by a very well armed Leftist group). If it 7. A complex “popular” movement recently ings, indictments, body cameras, review in riot gear. digenous (Zapotec) anarchist Ricardo took place in Milwaukee. On the second is evidently necessary to denounce these Flores Magon was an instigator and intel- emerged in the narco-state of Michoacán boards, etc. These factions – of which For an hour the crowd controlled the night of rioting in Sherman Park (Mil- attacks (which was done), it seems to lectual contributor. The rebellions were to struggle against the presence of several the organized BLM “chapters,” the left streets around the EpiCentre, utiliz- waukee) almost every business in the me equally necessary that the anarchist betrayed by reformists, and Magon died in cartels.. with quite an unclear articulation, wing groups, the churches, the student ing police barricades and dumpsters to area had either been burned, looted, or presence in such a large space poses nu- prison in the U.S.A. the strong influence of landowners who arm their agricultural workers… in which organizations, and the “white allies,” block the road. The rioters methodical- merous questions for us: it is situated 2. ed. – actually to date there has only been smashed with the only immediate tar- we certainly see an attempt at capitalist more or less comprise the base of – are ly destroyed the veneer and windows one confirmed fatality from actions they’ve gets being the police and media. In Up- in the university, implies a permanent recomposition of the regions, although the claimed. the obvious revisionist tendencies in a of the Hyatt Hotel and other business- town Charlotte everything was there to presence (notably during the night), to movement isn’t limited to this. historical sequence opened by insurrec- es over that time, while the barricades permanently be on the lookout faced 3. ed. – E.Z.L.N. is the Zapatista Army 12 57 in traditional marriages, and keep quiet biguous history, are authoritarian and tion and co-optation of movements. be destroyed, even the Nascar Museum. flash bang grenades to send the pacifiers wards our highway blockade. Everyone about our differences and reject them as alienating don’t exist here. Authoritar- For some time now, it particularly puts Of course the fact that the riot took running home for the night. Window starts scrambling up a hill towards what secondary seems to us fitting, appropri- ianism comes rather from the substan- emphasis on the repression of anar- place in a major financial center also smashers could expect cheers to accom- we thought was the street, but is actually a ate and coherent. All this implies a con- tial number of Marxist organisations. chists: there are arrests during all the meant that there were different limits. pany their courage. Hundreds of people light rail station. Finally we have enough frontation of ideas, the preparation, the In certain cases, this can come also from demonstrations, movements and im- Most urban centers have been totally were helping one another mask up, set rocks and we launch dozens from the rejection of the idealisation of other so- anarchist groups or collectives more or portant events (in addition to more tar- renovated to meet the new demands things on fire, kick back tear gas, make bridge down onto the cops below. One of cieties (of which many of us have a pen- less juvenile, lacking the experience and geted arrests), and often convictions. It of counter-insurgency that followed projectiles, and stay safe from the po- them must have had good aim cause a few chant for). It’s much more difficult that with vague principles. It seems to me is important to specify that the media the last great wave of rebellions in the lice. However, hostilities were not solely tear gas canisters land up on the bridge. the outrageous simplifications which we that the main problem remains the lack regularly insist on the danger that the 1960s. Everything that can be bolt- directed at the police and property, and We move on through a hotel, down sever- are used to on minority societies. And of assertion mentioned above. Many encapuchadxs (hooded ones) in the ed down is bolted down, cameras are to dwell on “racial” dynamics inside and al flights of stairs and back onto the street. the “anarchist anthropologists”, the uni- anarchists, for example, participated in demonstrations represent, and one saw everywhere, and people are funneled outside of the crowd is of grave strategic Windows drop everywhere. A 7-11 is be- versity thinkers and the new libertarian recent school teacher’s movement, with- many times over different tendencies of seamlessly via “smart” infrastructure importance. ing looted. Rocks tossed at bicycle-mount- “currents”, obsessed by the questions of out this participation being translated the Left reproach them by their own between various business and shopping 1. White rioters were more or less ac- ed police miss and smash windows behind race and difference, aren’t ultimately are by an important theoretical or practical account. The result of these politics is corridors. Throughout the night, scarce cepted by the majority-black crowd, as them. “Smash that shit, Smash that shit!,” big help to us in these questions. contribution: or a distancing regarding a certain stigmatisation of anarchists projectiles made it difficult to defend was also the case in Milwaukee. As an someone screams at the top of their lungs 5. It’s very interesting… This “demagogu- the strategies and reformist functions of for their “violence”… There are several against police incursions. In fact, with- influential participant declared, “Ev- as we come over a hill and see a bright- 4 ery” that you speak of, we find it over here the CNTE. tensions between groups around the out tactically experienced persons, there erybody’s black tonight,” after watching ly lit Bank of America lobby. The entire especially in the struggles on the side of There exists an enormous difference be- question of violent actions, a bit like may have been almost no projectiles at some white people participate in the block of it is destroyed. Police are more de- migrants or homeless people, or any other tween the aim of the “democratisation” elsewhere. And the same sectarian ar- all. This proved a major stumbling block riot. termined to disperse us now and we are a guments are sometimes used against “category” of which the struggle is generally of structure, very strong the Mexican by the end of the night when a barricade 2. White motorists were subjected to a little skittish ourselves. We’ve been holding those who carry them out. It’s true that related to the immediate needs rather than social movement (tied to their vertical- was not defended and a relatively small kind of “shibboleth,” being asked to raise space well for a few hours but our ability to the anarchist milieu, just as the rest of to more general aspirations. But even if we ity and control from above), and anar- number of riot police in an armored their fists and declare that “black lives do this is becoming limited. the social movement, is quite infiltrat- could believe that the inspiration of these chist aims. This can create confusion, golf cart where able to disperse a much matter.” For those who refused, their On September 22nd, three days after ed. This doesn’t justify the accusations struggles today is uniquely the Left, we and anarchists have the largest interest larger group of fighters who were un- vehicles were smashed or stomped. the shooting of Keith Scott, another of certain anarchists against the com- would be mistaken, since the autonomous in distinguishing themselves from it. In able to come up with anything to fight This did happen occasionally to black demonstration was scheduled to take rades, even if they may make errors or movement of the ’70s and after generally a general way, the small “self-managed” them off with. The golf cart was a ma- motorists as well, suggesting a general place in Uptown Charlotte. The ar- lack experience. centered its struggles on the issues of needs projects, cooperatives, and “socialising” jor material advantage for the police, anti-social current in the crowd, but the restees from the night before were still too (through rent or electricity strikes, activities occupy a very important place The most recent news to date is the ex- who were able to use it to transport riot overall tendency was to “racially” order locked up, reportedly at the requests auto-reductions [ed. – public collective in the movement. Of course, it poses the tended detentions (despite the absence cops very quickly. It played a key role the situation. of the National Guard. Congressman same questions and has the same limits of proof against them and the legal limit in breaking up a crowd that had been Robert Pittenger tells the news that shoplifting] inspired by humanitarianism, a. This mainly was occurring when as in France, even if one can’t bring them of detention) of Mario “El Tripa” López rolling together for hours. It gave them all of the protesters hate white people etc.), a tradition which we, anarchists, there was nothing to set on fire, no po- all together under the same banner, or and of Carlos, Fallon, and Amélie (ac- a mobile dimension that isn’t typically “because white people are successful.” are a few of those trying to take apart to- lice, no windows to smash. day. But it’s a tradition that doesn’t exist reject them all entirely. But it is certain cused of terrorism) [ed. – for more re- associated with riot control in the US, Right wing news outlets manufacture in Mexico, for instance. One wonders a that many conditions seem gathered in cent info, see ’Towards the Unknown’]. but is the norm in places like Greece or 3. Therefore, it seems that “race” was and exaggerate “racial” tensions which bit, as a result, what are the most prom- order for anarchist to be able to develop Mario González was sentenced in Jan- Catalonia. Developments like this must used as a vector for determining ethics. were minimal or nonexistent. Left wing inent tendencies in the radical milieus in in an important way in Mexico. What uary to five years and nine months of be countered in the future. Toward that We’ve been holding the intersection by personalities deliberately and naively Mexico? Do the anarchists have lots of remains to be seen is how. mandatory imprisonment for “attacks end, we submit: these golf carts are the Hyatt for over an hour, setting fires surrender agency to the police, reposi- theoretical space to move and create, or is 6. Exactly! There is the Mexican state on the public order” [ed. – i.e. rioting; like any other, have normal tires which and destroying the hotel. Two masked tioning the insurgent party as a mere the terrain already, as it is here in France, who in this moment appears to have un- he is now free]. Eight [other] comrades can be punctured and are window and kids start moving a large piece of concrete protest movement shamefully victim- undermined by tendencies barely critical derstood that anarchism is in process of arrested during the commemorative doorless leaving occupants vulnerable into the crowd so that it can be broken up ized by an excessively militarized ene- 5 of authoritarianism? quickly developing, and one saw quite a march of October 2nd are awaiting to attack. They are mounted with a loud into projectiles to use against the police my. It’s a difficult topic. What you say is few instances of anti-anarchist repression their sentencing. It’s clearly a matter noise cannon and fit up to 5 fully out- charge that seems imminent. A woman Hundreds gathered and managed true, and at the same time the prob- pile up on each other these last months. of making examples. These cases add fitted riot cops (if 1 or 2 stand on the starts shouting to no one in particular to briefly shut down I-277. Police lem of the relevance to participate in Could you give us several clarifications to the already very numerous cases of back). that “these white people are not with us launched tear gas and rubber bullets movements and those of methods of and briefly summarise all these matters? militants from diverse tendencies that QUICKLY, ON INTRA-CROWD and need to leave.” She walks over and into the crowd. Clergy, lawyers, leftists, intervention is always posed to anar- We speak of the climate that this repres- are regularly imprisoned or assassinat- DYNAMICS pushes the piece of concrete out of their and others used physical force and in- ed. Nothing indicates a priori that this hands. A large group sees this and encour- chists. What is quite embarrassing, in sion establishes among the comrades? And On the night of the 21st the crowd timidation to insure the relative docil- repression affects the growth of the ages the kids to pick the concrete back up. my mind, is rather that which currently especially, do you think that this repression seemed to be almost entirely unified ity of the crowd, at times shoving and movement, even if it can weaken cer- While she keeps yelling to leave it, a black occurs a bit everywhere in the world: a affects the growth of the movement, or the in its objective: Occupy spaces outside ejecting people wearing masks, throw- tain groups. The country is used to a man picks up the piece himself and starts barely critical active participation, the opposite? of police control and loot and destroy ing bottles, or even cursing at the police. high level of repression, and individuals breaking it. The police tear gas and clear lack of highlighting of our practices and There were so many cases in 2013 that everything in them. With Uptown Here, counter-revolutionaries, reaction- who frequent the revolutionary milieus the area. clear aims. It seems to me that Mexican it would be long to list them. Mexico is Charlotte being nothing more than a aries, pacifiers, and reformers hope to understand these risks. On the whole, anarchists have a fair bit of room to a true labratory of repression, and the glorified shopping district, there’s real- THE NECESSITY OF THE PARTY outmaneuver the insurrection and to despite their disagreements (and the ac- move: organisations that have long am- state has a long experience of infiltra- ly nothing to spare. It took only a few Riot police charge down the on-ramp to- crush its revolutionary horizon. This 56 13 should be impossible. ed the balance of forces for the coming we can and smash what is within our archist movement, a certain admiration indigenous populations, they are rarely nous world. This is filled by many more The experimental powers and rhythms week. Is it too impossible to imagine a reach. Living and fighting together. The for the movements of armed struggle critical of nationalism, or the concepts of contradictions and issues that don’t give that are splitting America open, expos- collective of herbalists and acupuncture powers established in the breakdown of of the guerrilla variety. These move- a “people”, of “nation”, of spiritual lead- a hint of these texts. We only rarely ing it to uncertainty and transforma- students organizing a temporary clinic, apparatuses must be made irreversible, ments were very strong in the ’70s-80s, ers or earthly leaders, who are however mention the infiltration of ideologies in tion, must compose themselves into advertising treatments for tear gas, pep- or else new controls will emerge which and continue to exist, several which are very often present in these communities. the communities (socialism, Marxism, a plane of consistency. There should per spray, rubber bullets? What recent- are less attackable, more obscure, more active in the country. We sometimes We know that numerous comrades, from etc), the relationships with “modernity” have been space and time established to ly-evicted apartment complex could resilient. The most dedicated cannot find, in certain communiques of activ- South America to Canada, are implicated and the outside, their long tradition of meet and to discuss. We need churches, have been taken over and transformed satisfy ourselves with riots alone. ist groups, some pronounced militarist in their struggles, but don’t always demon- organisation (and the phenomenon of parks, radio stations, collective houses, into a laboratory of revolutionary po- Truth is in revolt. emphasis a bit problematic for some strate a critical attitude towards these con- bureaucratisation of their structures), tential? These skills, powers, capacities, anarchists. But in the majority of cas- ceptions. Is this also the case in Mexico? the forms that take the universal ten- centers, businesses, or any place that can R.I.P. host a public event to combat the idiocy and tools do not develop overnight. es, these communiques more resem- And could you tell us more on this subject? sion between people and community Keith Lamont Scott of the reformers and the police. Perhaps It is clear that something is growing ble those coming from [anarchists in] I think that there is a lack of critical re- (the important departure of youth to- a false organizational front group could between the No Dakota Access Pipe- and Greece or elsewhere. The case of ITS is flection among many anarchists, of all wards the US, including in Zapatista have made a bold statement to the press line blockade, the ongoing nation-wide Justin Carr a bit different: like they clearly say in a tendencies, on what could be encom- communities, for instance, the aspira- calling for deeper and bolder forms of prison strike, and the movements and AGITATORS INTERNATIONAL recent interview with Contra Info, they passed in certain community demands. tions, the forms, the “deviances”, etc.) don’t claim to be anarchist. And the disorder. Perhaps a small band of ded- uprisings against racially-motivated September 2016 It seems to me that it is too common, I think that the demands focused on icated people could have extended the police killings. There has been a great possible comparisons stop there. that this exists for a long time in the culture, costumes, traditions, very pres- imagination of the rioters with a well outburst of protest energy since Fergu- It doesn’t seem to me that the social vi- movement, and that it touches the fair- ent in Zapatismo and in the struggles timed disruption of a news station – as son, and especially since the beginning olence known to the country actually ly taboo question of demagoguery: the of the communities, often obscures am- occurred during the 2008 Greek insur- of the year. We must continue to elab- evolves the practices of the social move- need to get closer, to be involved in the biguous notions for those who are at- rection – or with a highly destructive orate on and intensify the insurrection- ment or of the anarchist movement struggles, often meaning a casualness tached to individual freedom: religion, flash mob they could have renegotiat- ary process, to build what we can, where (taken as a whole) towards being more concerning our own conceptions, a lack practices tainted by authoritarianism violent. These consequences are, how- of affirmation of what we are and what (concerning age, status, for example), ever, important: infiltration, weakening we want, under the argument of open- detainment of people in frameworks or quasi-devastation of the centres of ing, of solidarity with the oppressed, and defined practices. In Juchitán, in the struggle in certain parts of the coun- to not shock people, etc. It is essential, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where a very try. The insurrectionalist practices have in my mind, to refine our analyses and strong struggle is taking place against only recently known a certain populari- our positions on this theme: to know the wind turbines, several demands of ty, in the poor neighbourhoods of Mexi- what we support in the struggles and the Popular Assembly of the Juchitán co City for instance. There are probably, the demands, and what seems to be People are very conservative: strength- at least in part, a very logical response contrary to us to the idea of freedom, ening (Catholic) religious practices, to the military occupation these neigh- emancipation, etc. Indigenous commu- wearing traditional Zapotec clothing. borhoods (and the country in its entire- nities make up perhaps the avant-garde And their seeing in the Muxes (trans ty) are known for, where it is practical- of the Mexican social movement. The people) the testimony of an astounding ly impossible to go for a walk without fact remains that numerous demands, freedom of morals, that reveals a very finding yourself in front of units of di- conceptions and workings are prob- limited analysis of Zapotec society to verse and varied armed forces. And per- lematic: identitarian demands, forms of us. I don’t believe that the objective is to haps also to the recent establishment traditional authority, idealisation of the leave out indigenous struggles or to de- of narco-trafficers from cartels, who community, internal inequalities, etc. nounce, with a very intellectual venom, enormously weaken social links, make Whether many hope to hide them or the peculiarities of communities. difficult collective struggle and favour only mention them quickly to minimise Its necessary to know them, to under- clandestinity. The practice of violence the effects doesn’t change much. stand them. The processes that unfold is part of the Mexican social movement, The virtual absence of critical texts on are interesting, like many practices, and even more so indigenous commu- Zapatismo [ed. – culture of acclaim activities, understandings. Many com- nities. Armed communities are far from around the Zapatistas3], for a move- rades who struggle there demonstrate the exception. Their very solid ’forma- ment of such a large scale, that many an impressive courage and persistence. tion’ is born from diverse experiences know from experience (the communi- But more of a critical perspective (that (colonisation, the Mexican revolution, ties welcome many people), that in gen- we invoke everywhere else) is essential. guerillas, etc) which makes their prepa- eral publishes texts of weak theoretical At least we don’t want to continue to ration and their capacity for action truly and analytical content, says a lot about visit communities where it happens impressive. Which is why comrades fre- it. Or the European analyses of differ- that we, anarchists, are quietly served by quently visit them and draw teachings ent indigenous struggles, often strongly women, where we kindly assist elder’s from them. tinged with essentialism, and which dis- councils (which in the demagogic lan- Fires set during anti-police riots in Charlotte, USA 4. In fact, in regards to the struggle of play schematic readings of the indige- guage transforms into “assemblies”) or 9 55 A FLOURISHING MOVEMENT OPEN TO UNORTHODOX METHODS AN INTERVIEW ON THE BATON ROUGE UPRISING & A LABORATORY OF REPRESSION FROM RIGOLE RISE - AUGUST 30TH, 2016 On July 5, police in Baton Rouge shot and was a much more conflictual situation rally in 2008. INTERVIEW WITH A MEXICAN COMRADE in which almost twice as many people FROM DES RUINES - TRANSLATED BY RETURN FIRE - JUNE 21ST, 2016 killed Alton Sterling in the parking lot of After the rally left the capitol, and once the Triple S convenience store. For many were arrested. That Saturday was when there was no more programming left 1. Can you introduce yourself? lationships between individuals and by ment is large and active, that knows a nights after there were sizable gatherings protest tactics shifted from hanging to hold people’s attention, hundreds of I align myself with an anarchism of re- a discourse of rupture. strong history of local resistance or at the site and marches and clashes with near the Triple S to rallying outside the people defied the peace marshals’ or- volt, of rage and action that leaves full 2. From here in France, we often hear guerrilla movements, there exists a real the police. When did you first go to Baton BPD First District Police Station and ders to remain on the sidewalk, moving scope for individual autonomy that, in more spoken about – and contacts are dynamism, of experience, a strong in- Rouge, what was the vibe, and what was marching down Airline Highway in an instead to take Interstate 12. About a general, [organised] structures know equally more numerous from – Chilean, volvement of individuals on the ground. your reading of the situation and composi- attempt to block Interstate 12. block from the on-ramp is when the how to stifle so well. I have many doubts Argentine or North American anarchism. It seems to me that the primary speci- tion of the crowd? Saturday’s march to I-12 was the first confrontation in the videos and photos about organised anarchism and difficult Can you try to identify some specificities ficity of Mexican anarchism is to be in I first went to Baton Rouge that Thurs- big march of the weekend. Unlike Sun- took place. Blocked from the interstate relationships with it. In theory, I think and similarities of the Mexican movement its ties to communitarian struggles, in day, two nights after Alton was killed. day it was not well-promoted on social by tanks and riot cops, people tried in- that an organisation with clear anar- with these other countries? particular the region’s indigenous peo- At that point the rallies were still in media, nor was it sanctioned by the stead to hold an intersection. This was ples. With the recent furthering of the chist principles (like the Spanish CNT After the Magonista’s defeat,1 the insti- their first phase, a kind of block-party police. There also weren’t many out-of- complicated by the number of self-ap- process of indigenous autonomy in the [ed. – National Confederation of La- tutionalisation of the Mexican Revo- outside of the Triple S. At times there towners or professional activists, which pointed leaders frantically telling the majority of the regions of the country, bour, anarcho-syndicalist trade union]) lution and the integration of the labor were about a thousand people attend- might explain the lack of attention it re- crowd to get on the sidewalk and be these ties are strengthening. Which can be a good tool. In practice, it’s obvi- movement in the ’20s, the Mexican an- ing these rallies, which would run late ceived on social media. There were a few peaceful. These folks had a demoral- poses quite a few questions. ously more complicated. In any case, it’s archist movement of action had more into the night. It definitely helped that activist groups, however, though mostly izing and panicky effect on the crowd, an eternal debate and there have always or less disappeared. There was a cer- 3. We can easily affirm with certainty, the owner of the Triple S was very sym- the more militant-type. The Revolu- contributing to how easy it was for the been points of contact between tenden- tain libertarian revival from the ’90s, then, that the anarchist movement in pathetic to what was going on, as were tionary Communist Party was there police to pick people off. cies, more than we usually say. particularly through the punk scene. Mexico is a young movement. I imag- several other nearby businesses. hawking their endless supply of papers. In general, the movement was most In any case, I think that the existing The anarchist movement today consists ine that this implies both some qualities The mood at these gatherings was There was also the New Black Panther vibrant when crowds were working organisations offer an anarchism that’s of a fairly large number of collectives, and some faults. We could, for instance, tinged with anger and rowdiness, but Party, decked out with their fatigues together to overcome a clearly-defined dusty, distant from action. As for me, I mainly in a few big cities. Libertarian lament the lack of critical or theoretical with respect to the environment, which and shotguns, making the police uneasy. obstacle — whether it was blocking therefore remain committed to evolv- thought and practices are developing analysis, which probably must be felt in was a black, low-income neighborhood. By all accounts the cops totally reversed an interstate, defending a parking lot, ing, according to affinities with groups very rapidly and evoke a lot of interest. practice. But on the other hand, Mexico Fireworks were lit. Cars peeled out in their approach on this march, driving or keeping the riot police-lines at bay. or conscious individuals, in maintaining As for the difference with other coun- being a particularly socially violent coun- the intersection. Graffiti and anti-police their SWAT tanks into the crowds Sometimes this process was compli- an affirmed libertarian position, within tries on the continent, the production try, the level of violence that comes from memorials for Alton went up. Home- and, with AR-15’s drawn, tackling and cated by arguments about the “right social movements if there should be this of theory here is still very weak, with- the movement is very symptomatic of this. town-hero Lil Boosie’s anthem Fuck the arresting as many people as they could. way to protest,” but after dark this was We could take as example the group In- work. Generally speaking, I consider out doubt due to anarchism oriented Police could usually be heard coming That night hundreds of people gathered rarely a problem as many ideologues dividualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje that many current professions of anar- towards action being relatively new, the from somewhere. at the Circle K across from the police wouldn’t come out past a certain hour. (ITS) which claimed assassinations of chist radicalism are often smokescreens difficulty of getting a hold of materials, During the first few nights the police precinct. Dozens more people were ar- Seemingly our capacity for action con- scientists,2 or several attacks signed by the allowing them to make surprising leaps the absence of spaces to meet (they can were nowhere to be seen. By the time rested as riot cops repeatedly lined up tinued to grow insofar as crowds were FAI or [the Mexican chapter of] the CCF from the basic principles, and to display be counted, for the country, on the fin- I’d arrived it was dawning on lots of and rushed the crowd, targeting those open to unorthodox methods, while of which the level of intensity is probably a beautiful demagoguery in the dis- gers of one hand). There are many ex- people that the cops were playing a who were more outspoken. That said still paying attention to the more practi- higher than in the rest of the world. Thus, course and historical interpretation of changes, discussion, and relationships kind of containment strategy; by being almost everyone’s charges from both cal concerns. During these moments of we find ourselves with an inverse situation their own movement. between individuals and collectives of in a friendly neighborhood the crowd’s Saturday and Sunday have since been creativity and courage our line of ques- to many countries, where the practical While the re-appropriation and critical different tendencies (anarchist and an- mood was tempered, that is so long as dropped. tioning might’ve been posed as: what is experimentation is much more developed most practical and possible at a given revaluation of anarchist history – the ti-authoritarian): at the same time be- the cops didn’t make an appearance, a To get back to your question, the pro- than the more theoretical and sometimes moment; what is going to increase our struggle against the demagogic dis- cause the state of mind is very positive sacrifice they were more than willing to test on Sunday was very interesting, detached. Could you share your feelings on power in relation to the cops’. courses – are important issues, not in and open, and also, in my opinion, be- make until things cooled down. although probably not in the way the the aim of leaving people in total doubt cause the lines of these groups are still this with us, and try to describe the recep- On July 10 there was another major pro- community leaders, police and city of- Finally, on July 17, a Missouri man (which is what so many professionals very vague. Relatively often, there are tion that armed-struggle-ist theories could have amongst comrades? test, leading multiple confrontations with ficials who organized it intended. The Gavin Long shot and killed 3 cops in Ba- of pseudo-deconstruction do so well), positions or actions that one could find ton Rouge. Did this mark the end of the It is certain that the practices suffer police and instances of excessive force. day’s events began with a sanctioned but rather to clarify strong collective to be very surprising in a country where events there? Has the flooding in Louisi- from the lack of theoretical analyses. It Were you in Baton Rouge then and if so march to the capitol, followed by a rally. and individual perspectives, to struggle an anarchist presence is more rooted, ana since then had any overlap or inter- seems to me to be a fundamental point, what can you tell us? Nearly two thousand people came — with more relevance and sharpen our and sometimes very ambiguous things. section with the Sterling protests that you even if things evolve and improve. There Before talking about Sunday July 10, it’s probably the largest anti-racist march weapons. These objectives can only be In a country where the struggles are or rally in Louisiana since the Jena Six know of? achieved through trusted libertarian re- part of daily life, where the social move- remains, in Mexico, including in the an- worth mentioning that the day before 54 15 Anti-police demonstration in Baton Rouge, USA Street fighting after police attack on striking teachers in Oaxaca, MEX

SOME DISRUPTIVE REFLECTIONS ON THE MURDER OF COMPA SALVADOR OLMOS Excerpt We write this after reading the “State- saying what we think, as there are very In closing, it’s more than obvious that ment from the Huajuapan Libertarian few who raise their voices and this hin- the “justice” the state distributes is to Bloc on the police murder of com- ders the possibilities of anarchist ten- pacify us and maintain the current or- pañero Salvador Olmos ‘Chava’” as dencies in Mexico. der of things. Surely the relatives and we believe given the escalation of the As other compañeros have mentioned those close to Salvador will be sub- war and advancing repression on anar- – and we also argue – anarchism in jected to the same ruses as ever; ac- chist/libertarian settings it is necessary Mexico has been dragging the burden cording to reports there have already to clarify our positions in the interest of leftism inherited from the popular been arrests of some police “allegedly of identifying the enemy’s multiple struggle and from its rapprochement responsible”, surely his relatives will be Gavin Long’s action has definite- upon the opportunity to amp up the this is being used as an excuse to lock forms, as they are often reduced to with reformist anti-capitalist factions dizzied by legal defenses, bureaucratic ly changed the atmosphere in Baton pro-police pageantry and repress any up people in North Baton Rouge. That criticisms of “government injustices” (armed or not), mixing our ideas with paperwork, human rights, etc. In the Rouge. As capitol of Louisiana, Baton counter-narrative. said Livingston Parish was one of the or simply “to believe that evil is em- their statist, democratic and citizenist end it will be the same empty promises Rouge and the neighboring parishes are worst flooded areas, so who knows, bodied in a person or politician” and perspectives. as always. We say this with respect for As for the flooding, this intersects with not the reality that it is the entire sys- the families and friends, but it is the home to a lot of the state’s most racist maybe the police who hail from that For us, it’s absolutely reprehensible to everything else that’s happened in Lou- tem of rulers and ruled who together truth, there is not just one officer or a request, through acts of dissent, that populations whose sentiments played a isiana, but in ways I have trouble speak- area are finally learning what it feels like actively participate in the maintenance group of police who are responsible, the state do its job. If we lay claim to big part in passing America’s first Blue ing to, partially because it’s so recent to be totally screwed over by forces be- of the capitalist social order. the one responsible is the state and the old slogan “Death to the State,” Lives Matter Bill back in May, which and my knowledge of Baton Rouge is yond their control. the state is the entire cast of charac- Let it be clear! The following words why are we asking it to do its job well? makes targeting police a hate crime. ters who participate in its functioning pretty limited, but also because the full In a broader sense, it’s also worth noting are in no way aimed at tarnishing the Or if the state did its job well, if it gave (from the lowest ranking cop to the Nearly half of the BRPD itself is implication of everything that’s hap- that in quick secession, a large Ameri- memory of compañero Chava or us “security,” if the police were honest president of the republic) and the ser- manned by residents of neighboring pened in Baton Rouge this summer is can population just experienced first- to start polemical bickering, nor to and only arrested the “real criminals,” vile and uncritical attitude of society. Livingston Parish, an overwhelming- so tremendous. hand three of the most paradigmatic cause fighting amongst ourselves, this if it looked after our access to health- That’s why the only justice to be had ly white area known in the recent past phenomena of our times: an anti-po- is above all a reflection from com- care and food with ever-increasing so- What I do know is that there are peo- is to continue the compañero’s strug- pañeros for compañeros and we hope cial welfare programs, if the governors for KKK activity. Even the cops who ple who stepped up during the protests lice uprising, a mass-shooting, and a gle, the only true justice is that which it is taken as such. were honest and fulfilled their cam- actually live in Baton Rouge Parish are who are now stepping up to provide climate-related catastrophe. Taken to- comes from our own hands. The rest, paign promises, if they created all pos- mostly from the white neighborhoods. gether we have a neat diorama of the ex- that which comes from the state, will relief for those who got flooded. A lot sibilities to meet the demand for em- Very few police have any ties to North istential disaster capitalism has thrown The graffiti [We *want public works, not be an attempt to assuage feelings with of this involves facilitating the transfer ployment and the smooth flow of the Baton Rouge (the site of the protests), us into. For those of us actively looking remodeling of façades] done by the legal arguments, an illusion. Because of volunteers and resources to effected economy, with good salaries, well-built compañero and the arguments sus- of that, and though many don’t like to aside from the larger economic interest areas without having to go through the for a line of flight from this catastrophe recreational spaces, if they filled the they have in maintaining an atmosphere — especially in the South — the events tained in the statement we mentioned hear it, the struggle should be blow for inefficient bureaucracy of some of these reveal a lack of analysis and depth potholes or paved a road, would we be of terror there. unfolding in Baton Rouge are very in- blow. relief organizations, such as Red Cross. within settings identified as anarchist. moving towards fulfilling the slogan of structive. Given this context, Long’s attack has no Curfews due to flooding have also been Even knowing that different tenden- “Death to the State”? Contra Info doubt entrenched the police and their imposed, and there are rumors that cies exist within anarchism – many of Transl. Scott Campbell sympathizers, who’ve already seized them questionable – we will not stop * August 18th, 2016 16 is a banner for the “political class” and never serves their false mask of pluralist agement, on horizontalism and mutual a strategy of control that foments fear and tolerant democracy. aid. We will fight from each one of our through its cynicism and shameless- For the Combative Anti-Capitalist Co- trenches, coordinated and together, for A RUNDOWN OF NOVEMBER 5TH ness, it is essential to create ethical and ordinator it is important to forge links other ways of living, for social revolu- political distance from the institutions of committed efforts and interaction tion, for freedom, for anarchy. Here we IN HARRISBURG AND SOME REFLECTIONS of power, from political parties, from with similar collectivities and individu- are, here we continue, and here we await SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - NOVEMBER 10TH, 2016 business owners and from the “political alities who don’t sell out to the highest you and tell you: Cheers and freedom! This account and the reflections that follow line, bottle rockets exploded in the air, Thoughts and Reflections class”. It is indispensable that lines of political bidder; who continue resis- For the freedom of political prisoners! are only a glimpse of the events that took and police barricades were dismantled. While talking after the demonstration, rebellion and resistance are emphasized tance outside of the state, of capital and For autonomy, self-management and place in Harrisburg on November 5th. I’m This continued on and off for hours as some points came up about things that that continue building autonomies of its institutions; who condemn the self-determination! not interested in or able to cover the whole tensions rose and fell, responding both could have been done differently, ideas so as to not fall into their institutions’ wheeling and dealing of collectives who of what took place; instead I’m putting to our own energy as a crowd and to the Against all forms of domination! for how to be more effective in similar games, as happens when people run for call themselves “revolutionary” or “left” forward how I experienced the day (plus actions of fascists and police in front settings in the future, and criticisms of Freedom now for Fernando Sotelo, Fer- office or public positions, that weave but who in reality only play with the a few rumors I heard), what I learned, of us. At one point some masked ones both ourselves and the crowd in gener- nando Bárcenas, Abraham Cortés, Mi- national and international solidarity, system. We believe we should get coor- and some thoughts that came out of con- began breaking up the cobble stones to al. Two themes came out of our discus- guel Peralta, Roque Coca! that tear down the walls of all prisons, dinated, as our name suggests, so that versations following the mobilization. The make smaller rocks to launch at white sion: communication and cover; neither that strengthen the storm and turns it together resistance against the state and Information Commission, Combative reflections and critiques apply to myself supremacy, but were dissuaded by local was completely separate from the other. into utopia. So that the struggle in the capital grows, to build viable alterna- Anti-Capitalist Coordinator (CCA) and those I was with as much as they do to pacifists. streets is not coopted by the state and On the 5th, communication between tives based on autonomy and self-man- anyone else who was in attendance. A lone fascist near the demo was each other and with passersby who November 5th in Harrisburg, PA punched and beaten by masked people; might be interested in fighting against LETTER FROM ANARCHIST PRISONER FERNANDO BÁRCENAS Excerpt Before I got to the meetup spot, a friend police quickly stormed the fight and ar- white power and white nationalist rested an antifascist. This again roused I’ve heard rumors about an amnesty We don’t need amnesties because we from themselves. told me that a fascist livestreamer or groups could have been better. There promoted by some political parties don’t want or need laws to govern our photographer was present and was anger against the police but no concert- was little in the way of chants, speeches, That is why we burn their facilities, we ed response came from us as a whole. and institutions and believe it is neces- lives; the mirage of progress makes us sabotage their communications and filming people. When he was pointed fliers, or graffiti that communicated to sary here to clarify my stance reject- believe that the state and government we attack the symbols of their societ- out and confronted, he punched an an- As the fascists packed up and filed off people outside the demonstration why ing all forms of manipulating people’s are necessary and therefore we don’t ies. We storm their cities because ur- tifascist, got jumped right away, and left. the capital stairs, everyone could be we were there. Even though they told energies just to maintain order. Some directly notice the signs that we are banization is the highest altar to mass By the time I got to the spot, people heard cursing the neo-nazis and cheer- people not to throw stuff at the cops, believe that an amnesty could address becoming complicit in the slaughter of incarceration, to the privatization of were just about to march. A few blocks ing their departure. Some people began the crew of clowns did more to send a people’s concerns, shattered into our peoples… economic resources. Public transit is of walking and chanting brought us to a proclaiming a victory, others grumbled message (whether I agree with it or not) pieces by the imposition of wealth at We want to see the insurrection spread a symbol that reminds the marginal- police line behind some wooden barri- and started to mill around. Some bloc’d than many others there. I’m not saying the cost of economic slavery. We don’t everywhere that destroys centralized ized that they are not welcome in the cades. The fascists weren’t scheduled to up people chanted their intention to that the demonstration was complete- want “to leave” one prison to enter an- power, the common yoke that all of us great urban centers. The rate hike for arrive for another hour. People milled find and fight the fascists and began ly silent and inscrutable though; there other. We want to be truly free, out- poor carry on our backs. the metro, the monopolization efforts about and a few announcements were marching. Moving slowly at first, the were some banners, signs and at least side of their virtual realities, and if that march blocked streets with trash and one instance of anti-fascist graffiti. It’d We salute acts of insubordination to by this same company to capture the made on the bullhorn. More and more means destroying their society, we will newspaper boxes; after turning onto be great to see more communication the international standards of living entire city’s mobility market with its police arrived in riot gear and on horse- do that believing that something new a large street, those at the front of the directed at potential accomplices and that seek to turn us into efficient piec- Metrobus prototype, are signs of the back, strengthening the “thin blue line” should be born to forever bury this march saw the fascists in the distance supporters. Often this kind of commu- es of their machinery. complete privatization of cities. between us and the steps of the capital rotten civilization that forces us to be Prison is the common space for all in building where the white power rally and picked up the pace. Those behind nication can add to the kind of “cover” automatons and gears of machinery… We, the marginalized, we are the ones them called for the march to stay tight, that I’ll talk about a little later. who bear the weight of this society, this era of technology, which is why we was set to take place. Slow moments “Political struggles” don’t matter if unaware that there was an opportu- and as we are no longer needed in should build paths and routes that will passed uneventfully. Internal dialogue also fell short in my they’re not part of the permanent nity to finally bang on the neo-nazis. their technological society, they justi- help us live at the margins, reinvent- Eventually a man in a confederate flag opinion. As masked people, we didn’t conflict that exists everywhere. They The mix of fast and slow marching led fy our massacre through informal wars ing our lives daily and taking ourselves t-shirt appeared on the steps and with come together to coordinate or try to do can imprison us but they will not stop to riot police moving into the street on drugs in places where, curiously back. the help of the cops set up a PA for a bit things that can’t be accomplished by in- the revolt. Angry neighbors go into the fast enough, stopping the head of the enough, people have traditions and At war until we are all free. less than an hour. People were becom- dividuals or small groups. If communi- streets to reject development projects march. From there, those at the front communal ways of life different from ing more agitated, screaming at the fas- cation during the march at the end had that cause evictions and forced dis- Fernando Bárcenas decided it was best to cut losses, leave those of the state. cist and the police. As the anger in the been better, it’s possible that we might downtown and disperse. The march placement for thousands of families crowd was rising and more fascists ar- have been able to actually lay hands on who don’t have sufficient means to changed direction, rushing down small- rived, including klansmen, members of the fascists as they were leaving. It’s true get by when public space becomes We can’t entrust * our lives and that er streets and throwing trashcans into the National Socialist Movement, Key- that beyond the friends I arrived with privatized. The privatization of water of our loved ones to the state/mafia, the street as cops closed in, eventually stone United, and the Traditionalist I didn’t know many people present, but is another clear sign reflecting how they are responsible for the genocide dispersing. I don’t think anyone from Worker’s Party, I saw people losing pa- even if we are unknown to each other, it the powerful truly regard us. Modern and slaughter that we breathe daily. As this short march was caught, although tience. Although never in a coordinat- doesn’t mean we can’t propose plans, let slavery, deranged and sweetened with anarchists, we are carrying out a war I heard one or more people who stayed ABC Mexico ed or unified way, eggs, rocks, full soda each other know what cops and fascists luxury items, drugs, and other capital- against power, against all that tries to behind at the steps of the capital were Transl. Scott Campbell cans, and vegetables flew at the police are doing, or just talk in general. ist aspirations. delimit individuals and distance them October 23rd, 2016 arrested. 17 Cover was another topic that came up BLACK BLOCS & BUTTERFLIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE as something we would like to see more Excerpt of. By cover I mean the amount of ac- ANTIFA ACTION IN SACRAMENTO ON JUNE 26 tivity, energy, sound, and anonymity The medic teams decided to approach gitimizes the State, supporting one COMBATIVE OCTOBER 2ND that make a crowd feel safe and exciting people while in full black bloc to let another in ways they have never in- ON THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION AND AUTONOMY OF SOCIAL PROTEST to take direct action from within. The them know we were there and avail- tended to do for us. That girl and many able in case someone needed medical others will remember the black bloc as FROM RADIO ZAPOTE - TRANSLATED BY SCOTT CAMPBELL - OCTOBER 9TH, 2016 cover waxed and waned throughout the assistance. There were just a handful being gentle and kind, offering water day. Something that seemed to make Forty-eight years after the Tlatelol- sands of people. It also seeks to admin- to deploy thousands of police from vari- of us, each with a variety of supplies in- and help and dancing together in cele- co massacre we continue demanding ister social protest, to institutionalize ous agencies: transit, riot police, “intelli- the energy intensify was sound. Drum- cluding nitrile gloves, gauze, duct tape, bration of shutting the rally down. justice for the murdered, disappeared, and mediate it, to make it a spectacle gence” (sic), who from 1pm on, gathered mers, chants, fireworks, and the person instant ice packs, and milk of magnesia These events have shown me that the banging on that stop sign with a flag mixtures for pepper spray or mace. I persecuted, tortured, defamed, and im- or better yet an anniversary meriting around the “Antimonument to the 43+” struggle is tangibly real. It is not just an really added to the feeling of power we spoke with a girl no older than 20, her prisoned, as even though the killers and commemoration. It has tried to do this to “surveil” and to try to intimidate the abstraction to theorize or read about, eyes filled with terror: “I’ve never been masterminds have not been tried and with the “October 2 March” through its march. felt in the crowd. When the police bar- but a concrete representation of our to anything like this before, it’s scary. punished, those compañeros who fell in “committees” and its officials, encour- ricade was broken, people moved ban- fight for liberation, and our work is not The march headed to Tlatelolco and I saw a flyer that said Nazis were go- the militant struggle remain present in aging and supporting a “march” that is ners to line the whole front of the demo, over when the demo ends. There are tried to pass by the Palacio de Bellas ing to be in Sacramento and people which made those of us behind them legal teams preparing for repression the popular and social struggles today sympathetic to the government itself, Artes and the Eje Central, but police were going to shut them down.” She feel both more protected and anony- and harassment, people to articulate as part of our memory, solidarity, guid- with controlled media coverage present- surrounded the march at the Hemiciclo seemed nervous about even the idea our narrative to others, fundraising for ance, dignity, strength, inspiration, rage ed to the world as an example of demo- mous; it seemed that more throwing of there being medics for protesters, a Juárez, preventing its advance. When medical bills, plus numerous shows of and courage. Today, no one doubts that cratic plurality. took place then too. Holding even taller, not like we were highly trained or any- trying to continue along the Alameda, solidarity from across the country and who planned reinforced banners, and/or having ban- thing. Those new to the struggle and it was the Mexican state But it doesn’t fool anyone. Many social police began beating and arresting sev- world. Providing hospital support was ners both in front of and right behind seasoned veterans alike share similar and carried out that mass murder, just organizations, collectives and individu- eral compañerxs, which quickly led to an incredibly powerful and inspiring us, would give even more cover to pro- concerns about safety. as it did with the disappearance of 43 als throughout the country don’t accept a confrontation with the police and experience, albeit very exhausting and tect the people throwing stuff from the teaching college students on September the institutionalization of protest and the rescue of the compañerxs who had emotional. I watched when one com- 26, 2014, as from Tlatelolco to Ayotzin- many high-grade police cameras that When I was finally falling asleep that rade was discharged from the hospital continue pushing the struggle into the been detained. Given these repres- * apa one can trace a historical continuity were watching us. Bringing more things night, after footage of the madness and stopped to visit another who was streets, with political autonomy and sive acts, the march decided to change to throw, talking more to people who traveled throughout international also stabbed, turning my head to wipe that affirms the totalitarian character of “remembrance” as action. Faced with its route and to head to Tlatelolco via happened to walk by the demo, making news sources, I thought of the terri- away the tears I couldn’t stop from the state that today we can characterize the authoritarian power of the state, Avenida Reforma. Police commanders fiery speeches (that also communicate fied girl from that morning. I hoped escaping. We’ve all seen and gone as “narco and terrorist.” we devise not just several means of re- were forced to allow the free movement our ideas), filling the area with antifas- she was okay. The media will always through some intense shit together, For decades, on every October 2, thou- sistance and rebellion, but we also build guaranteed by their hypocritical con- cist posters and tags, surrounding our- paint the black bloc as violent out- and we must never lose sight of this sands of people from all over Mexico other forms of organization and auton- stitution and the thousands of police selves with banners, and having sound side agitators, opportunists hell-bent less sensational side of revolutionary take to the streets to protest against the omy, from Tlatelolco up to Ayotzinapa. were met with rage, courage and dignity on bringing the ruckus. They can’t see activity. and music all contribute to a feeling that crime and to remember the fallen, they These came from before and will con- as the march was able to advance along what happens behind the scenes. They we’re powerful and builds our capacity raise their voices and point to the state tinue on moving forward. As such, we Reforma, though surrounded by hun- won’t show what we do in our everyday It’s Going Down up to do even more. and its institutions as “the murderers of not only create historical justice for our dreds of riot police, security forces and lives that wrests power from and dele- July 6th, 2016 See you in the streets Tlatelolco”; at the same time, year after compañeros who have fallen in the long the occasional hired goon. year, the government’s crimes mount, night of rebellion, we continue fighting The combative march brought together from the “dirty war” of the 1960s for the 43 disappeared from Ayotzin- more than 400 libertarian, anarchist, through 1980s, to the Aguas Blancas apa and soon we will achieve freedom and antifascist compañerxs who were and Acteal massacres, to the “war on for our political prisoners: Fernando able to get to Tlatelolco to remember drugs” and the most recent massacre Sotelo, Fernando Bárcenas, Abraham the fallen from October 2, 1968 and to in Nochixtlán, as well as the thousands Cortés, Miguel Peralta, and Roque demand freedom for political prisoners. of disappeared, political prisoners, dis- Coca, kidnapped by the “terrorist Mexi- The punitive, fascist police operation placed and exiled. We affirm that for all can narco-state.” enacted by the Mexican state did not these crimes, the culprit is the “terrorist This past October 2, there were two stop us, did not scare nor threaten us, Mexican narco-state”. marches in Mexico City, one that is we never doubted that the march would As such, it’s ridiculous to demand jus- increasingly institutionalized and that arrive at its planned destination. We tice from the murderer, it is ingenuous took place “without incident”, calm, did it in the memory of our murdered and in some cases perverse, to ask for uneventful and for which there was no compañerxs and for the freedom of our justice from Mexico’s legal institutions, “security operation” mobilized for it. It prisoners. They would had to have beat- because in its historical configuration, wasn’t needed, as that march was of lit- en and arrested all of us in order to keep in its forms of exercising power, in its tle importance to the state. The other, us from getting to the Plaza de las Tres daily political practices, the terrorist which was called for by the Combative Culturas. narco-state murders, persecutes, dis- Anti-Capitalist Coordinator, led the In the current national context where appears, tortures and imprisons thou- federal and Mexico City governments Anti-klan demonstration in Stone Mountain, USA impunity for the Mexican state’s crimes 51 As should be clear, shared tactics have PICKETS AGAINST STARBUCKS AND MCDONALD’S little relation to a shared project—and often enough the opposite is the case. Communique The re-emergent far-right in Europe Responding to the Free Alabama action sprees, ranging from the civ- (and more often in the U.S. as well) Movement’s proposal (in “Let the il rights era to recent animal rights Crops Rot in the Field”) and the call struggles. The successful examples THE DREAMERS has found itself capable of breaking windows and torching refugee hous- for an October 1st day of solidarity seemingly depended on focused tar- ing, while various authoritarian factions with the prisoners’ strike, we picket- geting and moving up the food chain ed and flyered three Starbucks and a from smaller to larger targets, pick- AND THE PROVINCIAL have joined popular uprisings from SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - APRIL 15TH, 2016 Kiev to Cairo. Many have observed that McDonald’s across Bloomington over ing up victories along the way. If the this decade’s revolts appear to belong to two days. We asked for customers to goal is building momentum against the Western Pennsylvania has a split. There Immediately upon reaching the line of white life. a single trajectory, but the conclusion boycott in solidarity and tried to cre- system of forced labor inside prison are those who seek a better existence attendees flag bats and impassioned en- The slave catchers (police) were also that we are all partisans of insurrection ate at least a minimal hassle for the lo- by forcing companies to cut ties, we for all. Dreamers, who see possibilities ergy met the domes of Make America targeted in this attack and will con- together is a false one—even if some re- cal owners. We agree with FAM that it should consider starting with a specific beyond the Giant Eagles, condo de- Great Again (the slogan worn proudly tinue to be as long as they continue to fuse to admit it. is easy and simple to target those who corporation of a certain size – not so velopments, politicians, the gossip of on Trump hats). Fists hit those who serve as an institutionalized oppressive This thinking is best represented by the profit off the prison system, with so large that its profit margin is untouch- the nightly news on what black person love to see nothing less than walls put force that seeks to uphold the current recent video A Resolution, which is a many corporations plugged into the able, but big enough to have branch- did what. They saw a way out of the between our brothers and sisters. That ruling order, lock people up, and deny short propaganda film that calls people circuits of state violence and control. es or locations in many places. Whole cyclical grip of unchallenged rhetoric, particular sinister smirk and chuckle free existence – which is to say as long to action, but shies away from putting Particularly during moments of crisis Foods, for example, was recently the pounding narratives that regularly that is given by bullies who look down as they are police. Each officer had a de- forth any position. Simply anyone fight- – like now, during the ongoing strike – forced to announce an end of its use kill people because of identity, religion, at others as meager and incapable were cision to make when they formed a line ing “for freedom” or “for the Earth” should this is a useful fact. But as a long-term of prison labor. class, gender. Such deaths are often not maced away with pepper spray. On and between the White Supremacists and join up together and get organized. The strategy, we have concerns, and would We are not sure of this path, but it was seen as murder because the structural off for three hours white supremacists the crowd of Anti-Fascists. It comes as omission of any discernible ideological like to propose a focused discussion to a part of our conversation during the institution of white supremacy and cap- were beat as the celebratory roar of the no surprise that they chose to form and grounding is further complicated by the FAM and the broad solidarity move- actions, and we’re offering it as a small italism have shielded them from contest crowed reverberated off the tunnels of face off with rebels. They had a decision inclusion of footage from movements ment in order to tighten this approach. contribution to the ongoing discus- with an intentionally despicable educa- the convention center. to make when they arrested three com- that took a heavily right-wing character. With actions against so many potential sions and solidarity in support of the tion system and apathetic, individualis- Marching bands, colorful signs, chants rades. That is why they were maced and We must be absolutely clear: we are not targets or even against a single mas- prisoners’ struggle. We will appreciate tic culture. of “No Trump, No KKK, No Fascist hit. sive target (McDonald’s), it’s hard to other ideas or responses, and especial- simply advocating for certain tactics, we A pervasive discourse that makes excep- USA” tangoed with the black flags of Negative actions like this are the lived imagine gaining much momentum let ly more actions! intend to see the end of domination. tional the wealthy white man above all anarchy to unleash a chaos some inter- act of being present with our capabil- alone concrete victories. Footnotes has plagued this region. To live in this net denizen would later characterize as ities. Pittsburghers like the rest of the There are many useful historical ref- 1. See “Why We Don’t Make Demands” by It’s Going Down land is to be ruled by this marker, to see “Feral, frothing, rabid and violent“. To planet have it within to bring closure to CrimethInc. erence points of boycotts and direct October 2nd, 2016 ones self in contrast to this and make me it was much more disciplined than a traumatic era of racism, policing, class 2. See “Theory of Destitution”To Our every opportunity to find validation and that but still wild. Spit landed in the based society, slavery (in the modern Friends by the Invisible Committee security alone. Class unconsciousness faces of one Trump supporter giving a form of prisons). An unknown freedom and racism make for an easily manage- Nazi Salute as others drowned him out is made within this negation. able population by politicians. with chants and protest placards. In short: Nobody has ever needed some That is the provincial. The way out was to The Secret Service was made to shut man yellin and telling us what to do! the doors to the event as attendees were meet together. Past all the patriarchal call to arms of turned away. Our movement proved ca- As news that the evangelizing force that the right, the kitschy politicking of sen- pable of social self-defense. At the end has been encouraging and embolden- sibility as a tool of suave leftism exists a of Trump’s speech the crowd exited, ing Right-wing politics of white con- structural reality that neither the right they were met with a gauntlet of trips venience, entitlement and supremacy nor the left truly want to change; poli- and berating, more fights broke out, across the nation was coming to town tics seek to manage our movements and more police, more policing. Heated ar- rang, rebels across this city held a ne- life. To act with dignity and autonomy guments cleared the air of what people cessity to act. Like Ferguson, St. Lou- was to do what needed done. In partic- really thought as civil unrest was real- is, New York, Anaheim and countless ular some 4,500 jagoffs were dealt with. other cities accomplices were found in ized. This city is unexceptional in its white resistance to White Supremacy. The Trump crowd was judged by what supremacy but unfuckingbelievable in its material actions were: attending a An anti-fascist contingent was man- its resistance. ifested as a way of locating sanity, white supremacist rally. The only ethical In solidarity, love and rage, self-defense and autonomy. A quick response to this decision was confron- boisterous march to David L. Law- tation, eviction, and to grant a denial, uncontrollable /// ungovernable rence Convention Center found a vis- perhaps for the first time to those who One of many Pittsburgh Anti-Fascists have have the golden ticket – a wealthy Upscale store vandalized in Montreal, CAN ceral repulsion to organized racism. 19 TRUMP IN SAN JOSE FIGHTING FASCISTS AND THE LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT DO RIOTS WORK? SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - JUNE 10TH, 2016 PART II: BLOCKADING POLITICS On June 2nd, we and a large number played political affiliations. surrounding chairman Bob Avakian) ORIGINALLY POSTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - APRIL 19TH, 2016 of people protesting a rally by the pres- was there to opportunistically attempt Despite all attempts to paint the vio- Written almost a year ago, “Do Riots multaneously reinforces their power. I If we set our sights on the social order idential candidate Donald Trump in lence of the day as the work of Mexican to hijack the rally and disseminate San Jose clashed with his supporters, their recruiting materials. This attempt Work? Exploring New Frontiers of Re- refer to this as politics. To take action in it’s entirety, the tactical maturity will and other Latino undocumented immi- cuperation” attempted to clarify a mis- that seeks no concessions or even rec- follow. There is no reason to remain de- delivered many righteous beatings, tore grants through the use of racist language ultimately fell flat due to their contra- up and set their racist paraphernalia dictory chants and pointless verbal de- conception of the so-called ‘post-Fer- ognition from power, that advances our voted to pacifist tactics when one stops like “thugs” and “illegals” by Trump him- guson era.’ It addressed the tendency own position in a material way, is some- appealing to the state or the ‘masses.’ on fire, and rioted at a scale that hadn’t self and other media sources, a casual bates with Trump supporters, and was 2 been seen in city for almost 20 years. mostly ignored once the crowds began to frame riots as a means to achieve times called destitution. Of course, the importance of desitition glance at the imagery and footage from reforms as a response to pacifism, and What began as an attempt to impose that day reveals a quite different story. to enlarge. A typical anarchist reaction to the ac- is about more than tactics, it is about claimed that doing so actually forecloses tions carried out by these activists usu- making insurrections irreversible. How yet another demoralizing peaceful rally Not only were there large numbers of From the get go, unapologetically pro- revolutionary possibilities. Since then, was taken over by people who refused Mexican and other Latino protesters, fane chants such as “America was nev- ally involves suggesting less controlled, else could order be restored, without the task of further elaboration has prov- more confrontational actions instead— the legitimacy of politics? Undermining accept idly standing by and chanting especially youth present among us, but er great! Fuck Donald Trump and his en itself more crucial than expected. while fascists shat on us boldly and also considerable numbers of black, hate!” and “Culero! Culero! Culero!” but as discussed in the original piece, this legitimacy is the only way to pre- without fear. We were a big enough brown, indigenous, Asian, and white were pitted against the polite and di- Referring specifically to rioting missed this doesn’t truly get to the heart of the vent a return to normality. Satisfying crowd to leave SJPD unprepared to protesters, including women, queers, simpassioned chants from the Silicon the opportunity to address a related matter. More destructive actions can demands—or, all too often, simply the respond to the size and speed of our and Muslims who directly participated Valley Rising contingent, which had development. In the past year or so, ri- still be captured by politics if politics it- promise to satisfy the demands in the fu- rapid maneuvering, which at its peak in rioting. appointed itself as the regulator of the oting has not spread nearly as much as self is not confronted. However, the fu- ture—can easily halt revolt in it’s tracks. ‘disciplined militancy.’ Christmas 2015 ture depicted in “Do Riots Work?” has swelled to about 400 to 500 people. By The mood and movement of the crowd protest (more on that shortly). These When we find ourselves in these situa- and large, SJPD lost control of the area profane chants were instrumental in al- in particular was marked with several not yet come to pass: rioting and it’s as- tions—in riots, in blockades, in upris- and the resulting violent clashes were actions by organizations such as Black sociated tactics (property destruction, near the Convention Center for several the culmination of the efforts of differ- lowing the militant protesters to push ings—we don’t simply get to choose the hours while it attempted to corral and back against the attempted pacification Seed and various Black Lives Matter street fighting, looting) have not yet character that it takes. For this reason, ent actors such as ourselves that came chapters that spectacularly shut down entered the mainstream tactical array of contain us. By the time streets were together with a desire to unapologet- of the atmosphere, and in practice, re- we must find ways to intervene in these cleared later that night, 4 arrests were ject the hollow and superficial “no hate” highways, airports, bridges, and more. activists in the United States. political movements to push the ten- ically and militantly protest Trump, Activists carry out bigger and more made by SJPD with the help of mutual and to break free of the elaborately rhetoric they were trying to impose on While anarchists in the United States sions at anti-political fault lines with- aid from other local police departments. the rally. impressive disruptions that mirror the are familiar with a left that represents in these events. Politicians of all sorts orchestrated attempts to keep us paci- uprisings following the acquittal of As of this writing an additional 3 peo- fied. What’s significant is that the riot It’s unclear which particular incident the pacifist middle ground between must be resisted and their programs ple have been arrested, all of which are George Zimmerman or the murder of themselves and the far right, it appears sabotaged, laying bare their attempts to not only marks a violent clash with the kicked things into high gear, but by Mike Brown, but remain within the juveniles, and additional arrests are be- vulgarly racist, misogynist, and capital- large, it was the result of the aggressive more likely that it’s function will evolve preserve life as we know it—while sow- lieved to be imminent. Our collective traditional political framework. While to capturing tactical escalations within ing the seeds of destitution. ist pig that is Donald Trump, his sup- and arrogant racist Trump supporters some see this as a “refinement” or evo- actions for which we have no regrets the political terrain. Instead of, or even We also need to operate outside of them porters, and the Republican Party, but engaging with the crowd of protesters. lution of the latter spontaneous actions, were seen and heard around the coun- complimentary to, fighting against es- to maximize our potential. There is no in addition, (we would argue more sig- They leveled racist insults (“illegals,” it could more accurately be described try and world, and have drawn the con- calations of militancy, it will attempt to denying the material consequences of nificantly) is a break with the San Jose “niggers,” “terrorists,” etc.), made fascist as the capturing of what was previous- demnations of the people we’ve always make those actions legible to power, to attacks or blockades regardless of their liberal establishment which up until gestures, threatened violence, and felt ly uncontrollable. Instead of agitated known to be our enemies and that of explain them politically. political nature. A shut down highway this point had secured the South Bay entitled and safe to enter large crowds crowds chucking proverbial wrenches people who pretend to be our friends More and more are becoming frustrat- is a shut down highway, a burnt police as its impenetrable fortress. The estab- of angry people while aggressively in- into the gears of the nearest capitalist and allies in fighting for a better world. ed with the plainly ineffective rallies and station is a burnt police station. When lishment had been able to achieve this sulting and in some cases, initiating vi- infrastructure, activists carefully craft parades, it would be a mistake for the activists carry out their theatrical ac- Contrary to the racist tropes deployed remarkable feat of governance despite olence against us. Once the grip of the a spectacular event for mass consump- left to forfeit its own legitimacy so eas- tions, it could be an opportune moment in the narratives of publications such as the city being home to large numbers of police and peace-police loosened, all tion. The latter follows the activist logic ily by abstaining from militancy which to paralyze another node of the me- that of the New York Times, which attri- people of color, immigrants, and undoc- hell broke loose which lasted for several of consciousness-raising through me- has become increasingly popular. Con- tropolis. Not because our struggle is the butes the violence of the day primarily umented people and the massive waves hours. dia-centric protest, perhaps inherently ceding a moderate amount of damage same, but to spread the fires of revolt. to Mexican youth associated with the of rent increases, displacement, and It is quite significant that these events so. These actions interrupt the function- is a small price for preserving the social Norteños and Sureños gangs (though gentrification that the booming tech in- represent a breakdown in the highly ing of society only as required to draw A SHORT POST SCRIPT control of politics. members were present and overcame dustry has leveled against them. refined local and regional machinery attention to their grievance or cause. Whilst the primary focus of both es- their antagonism to unite during the I therefore propose the following hy- Things initially began slowly with small of pacification and counter-insurgency The nature of demands has been more says dealt primarily with recuperation protest), the crowd that clashed with pothesis: it will be worth more in the pockets of people arriving at the ral- that had successfully until this point, thoroughly explored elsewhere,1 but of confrontational tactics from the left, Trump supporters was quite diverse long run to push the analytical frame- ly point near the Convention Center maintained a consistent climate of so- put simply: any engagement with those there are more reasons to dis-identify and varied in terms of their race, gender, work of destitution rather than trying shortly after 4pm. True to form, the cial peace in the face of increasingly in power to address our problems si- tactics from motivations. sexuality, religion, and explicitly dis- RCP (a vanguardist cult of personality deteriorating social conditions facing to escalate from within a political logic. 20 49 communities of brown and black peo- location further away from the Conven- tice, completely rejected their politics of ple, immigrants, and other working tion Center), and used a title similar to dignified and respectable passivity. class people. the more widely shared Dump Trump Pieces such as the one published by Sil- DEFEND THE HOOD This machinery which at it’s core is event page. The organizers proudly an- icon Valley Debug, insist mainstream FROM SUBMEDIA - DECEMBER 21ST, 2016 the seamless integration of the politics nounced that “monitors” (which includ- media have misrepresented the situa- In 2016, numerous attacks were launched freedom, of sharing and gifting, of rela- repression, the principal method of of Democratic Party, the local busi- ed the Brown Berets with their ironic tion, that this was all the work of “a few at diverse symbols of gentrification in tions outside of work and leisure, of the pacification. To keep us in inaction, im- ness unions and policy organizations masking of their faces with bandanas) bad apples on BOTH sides,” or that the the Montreal neighborhoods of Hochela- joy outside of consumption… prisoned in an imaginary where we can’t (Working Partnerships USA, South would be present at this rally to keep violence cast the city, in its totality, in everyone in line. ga-Maisonneuve and Saint-Henri. We 2. I think it’s worth being explicit about take anything or stop anything from Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, SEIU, negative light. At another press confer- wanted to give space to the people involved how the struggle against gentrification happening. etc.), non-profits, colleges, universities, As Thursday afternoon drew near, ence held by so-called “local community so that they can explain a point of view, is inevitably a struggle against the po- 1. What’s special about direct action and community groups into the milita- many posts were made on these event leaders,” Salvador “Chava” Bustaman- that corporate media consistently ignore or lice. The main tool that the city has to is that you finally do away with the rized security and counter-insurgency pages by various individuals (some affil- te urged Latinos to “do it the way that misrepresent. subMedia has obtained an move forward with its project of social ultimate mediator, the State, by acting apparatus of local and regional govern- iated of SV Rising or supporters of the hurts them — deny them our vote.” He exclusive interview with two anarchists in- cleansing is the police and the pacifica- directly on the situation. Rather than ment and police, immigration authori- campaigns of Hilary Clinton and Ber- failed to issue a similar prescription for volved in the actions. tion of residents. This reality is at the giving agency to the city, in demanding ties, and the Department of Homeland nie Sanders) making recommendations achieving broad social change for un- Security. This machine is comprised of What does it mean for you to fight against heart of the reflections that orient our something of it, we want to act for our- or demanding the protests adhere to a documented immigrants, whom lacking a complex web of elected officials, paid gentrification? actions. The pacification takes different selves against the forces that gentrify the certain orderly and respectable format, the legal right to vote are apparently to political staffers, non-profit workers, rally at a certain location, or follow a be relegated to the political sidelines and 1. Before anything else, we’re just forms: it’s the installation of cameras, neighbourhood. The State is afraid of and on the ground activists, all connect- particular marching route. In the words further disempowered. All while the talking for the two of us, not for anyone the management of parks and streets, people refusing its role as the mediator. ed through formal and informal rela- of the people making the posts, this was threat of elections installing a president else who participated in the action. We but also it’s the imaginary created by Why choose a strategy of direct action out- tionships between the different political all to prevent rioting and violence. that will carry out the deportations of don’t want to represent anything. bullshit narratives like “social mixity”. side of a context like those created during The public consultations, the studies entities listed above. Many of these en- Back at the Trump protest, once the up to 11 million undocumented people 2. I don’t want to limit myself to fight- social movements? and projects of affordable housing are tities and institutions are staffed by and SV Rising rally was over at the park, is at its peak. Others such as prominent ing against gentrification, which I see as 2. Because we don’t want to wait for the all just a facade: during this time, the serve primarily constituents of people they began marching towards the Con- immigrant rights activists and frequent an intensification of the misery of cap- ‘right context’. We think that it’s through social cleansing advances and more and of color, and function to channel the vention Center with full coordination invokers of revolutionary imagery and italism. And I’m against capitalism in intervening in fucked up situations in more people are evicted. If these means rage and discontent of local populations and escort from a squad of SJPD mo- language have openly stated their will- all its forms. I struggle against gentrifi- the world that we live in that we create of pacification don’t work, the city has into an endless array of dead-end cam- torcycle police. They entered the Con- ingness to cooperate with and provide cation because it effects my life and the contexts. The fact that this world is hor- recourse to repression, that’s to say, the paigns, photo-ops, petitionary efforts, vention Center from the San Carlos St. information to the police because they lives of many people, but also because rible is in itself a ‘good context’. Revolt is police. It’s the police who evict tenants, and annual parades like the heavily side, marched through the facility, and have “nothing to hide.” it’s a context that allows the exchange of always worthwhile, every day. prevent the existence of squats, etc. Ev- policed (both by uniformed cops and exited on Market St. apparently as an These responses betray the strong sense ideas and practices, to nourish a larger ery form of offensive organization that 1. I think that’s important to emphasize, self-appointed civilian peace-police) expression of symbolic defiance for the of paternalism and condescension that perspective of anarchist struggle. I’ve refuses the mediation attempts of the I don’t believe in waiting for social move- May Day march. consumption of the crowd. Once this these establishment liberal groups and been inspired by anarchists in other cit- municipal authority will one day be ments to act. Acts of revolt have many To illustrate how this machine operat- contingent joined the rally, large num- non-profits harbor towards the commu- ies who have anchored their struggles faced with the police. So it’s also im- impacts, even if they’re not inscribed in a ed on June 2nd, we need to go back to bers of people wearing SEIU or other nities they simultaneously celebrate and in where they live. They’ve managed portant to develop our capacity to de- social movement. And also, when the next Tuesday, May 31st, when a Facebook SV Rising affiliate organization t-shirts through the application of identity pol- to make certain neighbourhoods dan- fend initiatives against repression. moment of widespread revolt comes, we’ll event titled Dump Trump San Jose and signs began dictating chants and itics, claim exclusively represent, while gerous for the authorities and not very be better prepared to participate. popped up before the time and venue policing the rally. At this point, as more paving the path for state repression and welcoming for capitalist businesses. I Without necessarily throwing aside com- Lastly, what do you say to those who say for the Trump rally were announced, youth and other people not affiliated criminalization of these very same com- would like for the police to be afraid munity organizing, many anarchists pre- that gentrification is an inevitable process? and began gaining traction. Later, an- with them began joining the crowd, munities with their condemnations, of being attacked when they patrol fer the method of direct action. Why? other event page titled Manda A Don- the chants of the SV Rising contingent hypocritical espousals of non-violence, Hochelag, for small yuppie businesses 1. We don’t have demands. We didn’t 1. Gentrification is a process of capital- ald Trump A La Chingada! was also cre- were increasingly drowned out and and at times, open snitching. The mes- to hesitate before setting up shop here do this action to put pressure on power, ism and colonialism, among others. It ated by a local musician associated with ignored. Not long after that, the skir- sage embedded in the respectability because their insurance premiums will so that they grant us certain things. For makes itself seem inevitable, and maybe Silicon Valley Debug. On Wednesday mishes broke out. politics that frames their political ide- be super expensive, for people to think sure people should have access to hous- it is, but it’s nonetheless worthwhile to afternoon, another event was created by ology is one that is first and foremost about how if they park their luxury ing, but I don’t think that we should struggle against it and to not let our- In the aftermath of the riot, most of Silicon Valley Rising, a coalition lead by concerned with the subjectivity and cars in the neighbourhood overnight, wait for the State to respond to the de- selves be passive. In a world as unlivable the San Jose liberal establishment has Working Partnerships USA and South approval of the white supremacist op- they’re risking waking up to them being mands for social housing that have ex- as the one we’re in, I have the feeling been quick to thoroughly apologize for Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, and pressor with the naïve (or intentionally trashed, that as soon as graffiti or post- isted since the 80s, in a neighbourhood that my life can only find meaning if I and issue strong denunciations of the other local business unions, non-prof- perpetuated) notion that we’d cease to ers are cleaned, they’re back up. undergoing gentrification. I’m more fight back. violence of that day. Many pieces have its, and community groups (includ- made use of patrimonial language to be oppressed and exploited if we just And if we want these people to be interested in seeing what it would look 2. At best, the process of gentrification 1. ing SEIU, NAACP, Rainbow PUSH chastise those who engaged in violence, look and act like respectable subjects for afraid, it’s because we want the space to like for people to take space and defend will move elsewhere, if a neighbour- Coalition, Silicon Valley Debug, etc.). and to forward the usual range of liberal the white supremacist patriarchal capi- experiment with other ways of living, it, without asking. I’m not interested in hood resists. And yet, struggling against Unlike the two former events, which rhetorical tools in an attempt to explain talist political system. This also grants and cohabitation with them isn’t pos- dialoguing with power. capitalism and the State opens up pos- named the San Jose Convention Center away the fact that so many of the people them the perfect excuse for their poli- sible. Their world will always want the sibilities that otherwise wouldn’t have 2. Dialogue with the municipal author- as their rally points, this event called for they claim to represent as their faithful tics, decade after decade, failing to pro- destruction of other worlds, those of existed. ities is, along with the threat of police a rally at Plaza de César Chávez Park (a and obedient constituents, had in prac- duce any meaningful social change by 48 21 attributing this failure to not achieving and the plain on which their long-term Guevara t-shirt wearing “community are here because we feel life differently for insurgence, to “do something”. So, between the throwers and ourselves, the sufficient degree of respectable and manipulations and gas lighting take organizer” on our throats until we qual- in a demo, because we love the butter- going to demos, and seeing ourselves because the demo makes it possible to orderly masses to get out the vote or pe- place. They shroud themselves in the itatively change how we relate to one flies in our stomachs and our wildly become protagonists of this rebellion. reduce this distance. It is us too, we are tition the centers of power for change. symbols and imagery of past violent another in a manner that goes beyond pounding hearts, adrenaline rising. No longer having in our minds this there, we are them, we are accomplices, For them, the bitter lamentations of vi- people’s struggles and uprisings, only just displaying symbols, enacting the We also wish to avoid that the demo far off imaginary where others attack. we desire this, our being-spirit is in the olence are in truth the lamentations of to tell us violence is never legitimate correct identity-based performances, only replies to itself and is contained to Demos have opened up our possibil- rock that smashes. the threat of imminent irrelevance and a or effective, all while the violent social and longing for an abstract nebulous its own temporal-spatial limits and au- ities, have allowed us to face our fear We would lastly like to question the of- desire to return to the comfortable sta- war waged against us daily continues to concept of changing the world that we tomatisms. We wish to avoid forgetting of cops, perhaps slowly, over the years, ten-repeated strategy of calling a demo tus quo where their symbolic rituals of claim millions of lives. can’t even imagine ourselves living and it the following day, because we have but always surely. To better understand in the week following a successful demo, disempowerment as the path to libera- We reject the slow death that is liber- experiencing firsthand. other things to do. We wish to carry the terrain, how the cops move, how to up until the last demo no longer kindles tion can resume uninterrupted. alism with its array of institutions, po- Fighting to free ourselves of the hierar- the demo within us, to think about it, heal ourselves, when to run and how enthusiasm and is ferociously repressed. What these liberals are incapable of ever litical parties, non-profits, opportunist chies and domination of white suprem- to talk about it with friends, to see what to stay calm. Where to hit, and how Because we feel it in advance, it was said, doing is deeming or acknowledging that pacifiers, and willfully naïve dupes. To acy, capitalism, patriarchy, and the state we would like to do the next time the to see every bank, bourgeois car, and that the demo of December 18th would violence that isn’t carried out or sanc- us, they are part of the forces that must cannot be waged on the chessboard opportunity presents itself, to always be government building as a target. To no be less strong, that it wouldn’t have the tioned by the state (with its monopoly be overcome to achieve liberation, and and within the confines and safety of alert. To not forget the feeling and exal- longer only see police as executioners, same possibilities as the last. And some on legitimate violence) can be political we will never forget their shameless be- state-approved activity and its institu- tation possible when we give ourselves but as targets and beings that we can of us did not go to this demo; we gave and liberating (except when it’s carried trayals, snitching, and rubberstamping tions. We need to seize the resources the chance, if we let ourselves actualize fight. The moment when we ceased to power to the self-realizing prophecy out in far away places or times that of our criminalization and repression. and space to put into practice liberat- what we know we’re capable of when we only be those who watched. And even, that the third demo wouldn’t have the have long since past, of course). Thus, To all those who chose action over ing social relationships based on real prepare well. We don’t want to return the moment when we looked at others, scope of the second or even surpass it the violence of institutions like the masochism, your bravery and acts of solidarity, self-determination, equality, to demos as if we don’t believe in them. but when this was an active look. We in intensity. police, prison system, patriarchy, and and shared power. We cannot do this were no longer spectators. If we didn’t defiance sustain us, and breathe hope Because by continually not believing in And until the next demo, we aim to bet- capitalism is normalized and treated when everything about the sanctioned pick up the stone, we nonetheless felt into our alienated lives. It was an hon- them, we bar ourselves from the possi- ter plot the intentions that bring us to as invisible while the autonomous vio- paths that are laid before us are directly the euphoria of the gesture as the glass or to stand with you in the streets, to bility that the demo will be virulent and walk against the flow of traffic. lence of people subjected to a lifetime of experience the power of directly acting counter to ever realizing that. We need combative, that it will only be a parade shattered. There was no longer distance systemic white supremacist oppression on the world surrounding us based on to build the collective strength and re- of the normative order, whose dissent- and humiliation, who for once, refuse a collective rejection of submitting to sources to protect and take care of each ing role permits the maintenance of or- EXPLOSIVES ATTACK AT HEADQUARTERS OF BUSINESS to endure yet another insult from the other, and to move towards building a racist humiliation, and to feel the joy der. We don’t want to be fearfully lead GROUPS Communique belligerent racists standing before them of singing and dancing together in the different world. A world not created by cops who are better prepared than is deemed beyond unacceptable. For the In recent weeks, the social war in the That is why on Sunday, July 3, we de- streets when for a time, the pigs couldn’t through charity, coercive authority, pa- us anymore, with our bags too heavy to liberal, even those explicitly espousing ternalism, and resignation to the col- Mexican region has reached new lev- cided to place explosives at the head- do anything to stop us. The warmth of run and our hands and ears frozen by els of deepening conflict immersed quarters of business associations non-violence, the issue is never violence lective pathology of symbolic moralism that laughter and howls joy still radiates cold because we forgot a hat and gloves, in the insurmountable contradiction (CANACINTRA, COPARMEX, CCE) itself, but the particular violence of the and pre-approved lip service as solidar- off the asphalt and concrete of San Car- the too-recognizable clothing we wear between life and capital. In this set- causing some damage but, above all, oppressed with its frightening and un- ity. We seek to embody a form of soli- los St. despite the there being no visible everyday. We want every demo to cre- ting of widespread conflict, the path is announcing that the revolt centered controllable dimensions, which can’t be darity whose very practice destabilizes opened for capital, with all its terrorist in Oaxaca has spread, and that the fire signs of that day, except for now, in our ate an unquenchable thirst for the next, easily channeled into state-sanctioned and destroys hierarchies, exploitation, arsenal, to besiege territory and natu- will hit their mansions sooner rather memories. We will never forget those because we are ready, because we are forms of pacified symbolic protest and relations of dominance, and the violent- ral resources, to devise austerity mea- than later. In turn, with this we salute moments where we were no longer pas- just waiting for the space to attack again sures, in short, to attack our means of the other boycott and sabotage ac- petition-based politics for their masters. ly maintained social peace imposed on sive spectators in our lives, and each in with the weapons that we are sharpen- existence, attacks that in spite of re- tions that occurred in this country’s us. Ultimately, liberal ideology when es- our own way, took action in the face of ing every day. gional differences, come together in a city in recent weeks, as well as those poused and practiced by a manageri- the aggression and entitled hubris of The struggle before us is immense and state-capital strategy on a global scale. to come: strikes in the schools, street We have also asked ourselves: why is blockades by parents and teachers, al class of people of color who’ve been white supremacists. We will never allow seemingly unwinnable. Yet, the idea that Incidents of growing confrontation in it that we feel so called to by demos? the picket line on Insurgentes at Uni- thoroughly integrated into the institu- them to convince us this was just some San Jose, with its well-oiled machinery the Southern Pacific Mexican region: Why not concentrate our energy on Michoacán, Guerrero, Chiapas, Oaxa- versity City. tions and logics of the white suprema- senseless violence that “has no place in of pacification and repression, would ca, confirm the possibility of rupturing No possible solution exists for the op- cist establishment, serve as the agents of the democratic process,” or that what be the site of such a powerful violent ninja-actions? Why wait for the next demo if we can do actions in the night social peace and widespread paraly- pressed within institutional margins ex- protecting and reproducing that power we experienced wasn’t significant and autonomous response to the white su- sis: barricades, pickets, occupations, cept uncompromising struggle against structure, and work to obscure the meaningful beyond just roughing up premacist establishment and its dutiful with our trusted friends…? Because the sabotage, expropriations, in short, the state-capital that enables an open- shared memory of violent social strug- some deserving Trump supporters. liberal caretakers seemed impossible on demo has something of its own that direct attacks on the free circulation ing for widespread insurrection which, these actions don’t; the demo is open, of merchandise. We affirm that these establishing a dialectical relationship gle by hollowing it out of its content The future we want to fight for is not June 1st. We yearn to see you again in the demo is public. In the demo there struggles do not belong to any unions, between spontaneity and organization, and reducing it to unthreatening sani- one of “diversity,” token representation, the streets, to share more moments like are those we don’t know, who desire to parties or NGOs, they are the genu- puts social peace in checkmate in the tized symbols. They act as the softer and empowerment through consumption, these together, and to perhaps one day, ine and necessary expression of rage Mexican region and spreads across the be there. Like us at one point, who were more empathic faces of the same power unshakable calcified identities, dog- make a world arising out of standing and contempt for the dictatorship of entire globe. alone and who came to demos. And structures and systems of oppression by matic and nostalgic adherence to failed and fighting together and for each other capital, those in the struggle asserting Death to the State/Capital! Freedom who saw the distance between those their refusal to be obedient workers, feeding us a preprocessed diet of passive ideologies, or symbolic reverence for a permanent. for the Prisoners of Social War! who throw rocks and ourselves falter. civic citizens or professional politicians disempowerment dressed up as gradual different social existence that will nev- In solidarity, Contra Info Ourselves, who were there because we or activists. social progress. Maintaining the veneer er come. We will continue to have the Transl. It’s Going Down Your co-conspirators didn’t find any other space in our lives of social peace is central to this process, jackboots of the police and the Che * July 11th, 2016 22 SOUNDING OUT THE VOID AUTOPSY OF AN ELECTION REFLECTIONS ON THE NIGHT-DEMOS OF DECEMBER 2015 SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - DECEMBER 1ST, 2016 FROM MONTREAL COUNTER INFO - MARCH 31ST, 2016 We are still reeling; reality feels disjoint- political difference and find solutions. science, and rationality have always con- ed, vertiginous. A fascist will run this Underneath this shredded veil, the on- tained political assumptions. Truth is The three night-demos of this past No- of those we hate, in the infantilizing and Already, we crave to see the demo as a country for at least the next four years. going truth of civil war emerges again: a never neutral. We should not be nostal- vember and December left a mark on numbing response of the Media that space of exploration. To try a little to That distant shadow looming on the variety of different worlds and forms of gic for an era of democracy, rationality us, a call for reflection. This is what we will only ever see us as violent imbeciles imagine beyond the gestures already horizon was not so distant; it was just a life, incompatible with each other. and science which depended on white propose to share with you in the follow- – not really dangerous. And worse still, learned – breaking windows, throwing trick of the light, or perhaps a media-in- It is not the first time that a fascist has supremacy and patriarchy. Instead, in ing pages. they reflect to us a mirror image that rocks at cops, putting up graffiti, dis- duced fog that obscured it. When the been democratically elected. This is one the midst of civil war, we might begin Before and after these three demos, we strips away our power. This brings us to tributing flyers, shooting fireworks, etc. fog lifted it was upon us already. In this of the problems with posing democracy to craft different worlds, with different were able to follow the unfolding of think that these demos, these moments And for us, this doesn’t necessarily imply way the onset of fascism is like climate contra fascism. Instead of automatical- regimes of truth. conversations – those that happened of revolt that we open, can only be for starting to seek new gestures, but per- change: the gradual rise of oceans seems ly taking the side of “democracy” and A final note on social networks: since between friends as much as those we us. If they are directed as messages for haps to find in these gestures, repeated to bear consequences only in some dis- joining in a popular front, we might the election, pundits scrambling to ex- heard by chance in bars, living rooms others, they become meaningless. a thousand times by all kinds of people, tant future, until the dikes break and conceive of this historical moment as plain their own ineptitude have pointed and in the street – the furtive or noisy We refuse to fill the void that we felt a little more than their habit. To reflect flood waters rush in overnight. So, there a global war with three players. There to the partisan echo chamber of social course of a feeling that seemed to be with more demands addressed to those on the intentions behind these gestures, is a sense of disorientation, and it might is liberal democracy governed by a cy- media. Algorithms determine what shared by many people: a feeling of we wish to destroy. We don’t want to looking for their unique meaning each take us a moment to find our bearings bernetic neoliberalism, the regime that news we see, what political ads show emptiness. After the 200 person black wait for the next mass movement to at- time. Even if it is only in search of tak- in the rising waters. has managed the past four decades. up in our web browsers, which friends’ bloc, after the broken windows, we tack this world that does violence to us. ing pleasure in them, a feeling of eupho- But we cannot take too long. A racist, There is reactionary populism governed comments we see on Face – book. The heard “what else?” insistently. To the We aren’t here to sacrifice ourselves for ria in the action. Making these gestures misogynist autocrat has control over by strong-man posturing. And there is confirmation bias is cybernetically point where, when we asked friends if “the cause”, nor “because we have to”. In active, and not only reproducing them the surveillance and policing apparatus- a third, heterogeneous array of resis- enhanced: we see and hear facts that they were going to the third demo on these demos, we draw strength from the as images of themselves. Further, what es that have been built up over the past tances, those struggling against police confirm what we want to believe, not December 18th, the majority answered feeling of deciding to live in the city dif- this implies for us is to take demos seri- two decades, and he has a long list of and prisons and pipelines. Liberal de- simply because we ignore the rest but that they had other things to do, like ferently. We take control, with the sense ously, to prepare ourselves for them be- enemies. Migrants and muslims, wom- mocracy has been dealt a blow, and the because it doesn’t show up at all. As having dinner at a friend’s house. of chaos making us alert, the feeling fore they are even called. Knowing that en and transfolk, queers and the poor jackboots might soon hit the street. It is usual, though, the pundits miss the there will be others and we are already So today, and in the past few months, that we are learning to navigate because will be targeted by government forces frightening, but liberal democracy was point. What is most worrying is not ready, already charged up, like springs we continue to ask ourselves what push- it is the enemy of order and the nor- and newly energized neo-nazi thugs. never that kind to us either. the fracturing of incompatible worlds only waiting for the moment of release. es those close to us, those who share the mative universe. In these moments of Police will receive more weapons, more There are some interesting elements to but the algorithms and the companies same desires to tear up the world and to chaos we no longer hear the trendy slo- What this also means for us is to avoid funding, and more legitimacy. Politi- this. For all of his racist demagoguery, behind this sorting. The truth used to nourish our rage, to chill with friends as gans repeated until they lose meaning, falling into this trap of living demos as cal enemies will be targeted. Times are Rush Limbaugh pointed at some deep- appear objective and universal, while we always do, rather than to seize the but bursts of destruction, fireworks and pressure valves; moments where we feel dark. But wringing hands and profess- er truth when he denounced the use of in fact it was determined by scientists (rare) opportunity for a wild unleash- the howling that echoes them, windows like we are acting against the forces of ing shock is not enough; our task now is “fact-checks” by media outlets: “It allows and political leaders and media outlets. ing. This brings us to more questions: shattered by rage and hammers. We feel this world and which then permit us to be truly contemporary, to understand them to fool you into thinking they have Now, however, the truth is personal- how can we think of these demos out- the force of overturning this order, for to forget, to feel better so that we re- the new realities of the moment and not an objective, nonpartisan staff or per- ized, custom-tailored to meet our own side of the moments of strike which the time that it lasts. turn to school and work. We want the hold tight to empty myths. Remem- son analyzing everything the candidates expectations, and controlled by com- often push people to prioritize demos And if there is a feeling of emptiness demo to overflow into our lives, for it ber, though, that fascism also relies on are saying, and telling you what they’re puter algorithms created by private cor- over dinners? What can our place be that lives with this furious and ecstat- to be contagious and animate our daily myth, and the myths of the fascists are saying is true, or what they’re saying is porations. Deleuze’s warning on societ- in these demos outside of social move- ic jouissance, it’s because we know that gestures. For it to light fires in our lives equally fragile. false.” His words echo Judith Butler’s ies of control remain important: what ments? What place do these demos take we seek to destroy more than windows. so that we can then imagine a network LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IS OVER discussion of truth: “Each society has matters in mechanisms of control is not the instances of control that are affect- in our daily lives? We can’t be content with the image of of destructive and subversive actions; a Liberal democracy has been dead for its regime of truth, its “general politics” web of rebellions that we give name to ed (a particular advertisement shown What is at the heart of our reflections, destruction. We don’t want to bask in some time, but November 8, 2016 saw of truth: that is, the types of discourse and tie together. So that we manage to or not shown) “but the computer that this feeling of emptiness, we have felt in in the spectacle of our own radness. We its most violent death throes. Its de- which it accepts and makes function make sense of all these spasms of resis- tracks each person’s position and effects all its force. These phrases repeated ad couldn’t, it rings false. This void, we feel mise has been a long time coming. This as true; the mechanisms and instanc- tance, without waiting to embed them a universal modulation.” nauseam: “but where are we going with it at our fingertips, because at the end, is not to say that the election was not es which enable one to distinguish in a social movement. For us, the demo this?”, “what are these demos embedded we are left bored. At the end, you’ve democratic—this is beside the point. true and false statements, the means PROGRESS IS DEAD can be a celebration that overturns and in?”, “it’s not by breaking windows that broken a window but this changes What finally ruptured was the appear- by which each is sanctioned; the tech- McKenzie Wark describes this moment subverts lived time, that drags us out we harm Capital”, “the State isn’t shaken nothing; nothing but a sort of catharsis, ance of a general consensus that politics niques and procedures accorded value as the death of liberalism, and with it from the banality of daily life. We burn by our nocturnal destructive wander- finally hurting something other than should take the form of rational debate, in the acquisition of truth; the status the death of progress. This, too, is not together, running where we wish in the ings”. The void, we feel it in the absurdi- ourselves. So how can we go further argumentation, and compromise; what of those who are charged with saying a bad thing. Economic progress has not streets and sidewalks with speed and ty of gestures engaged for anyone other than breaking windows, how can we broke was the Enlightenment-based what counts as true.” While Trump has generated the larger cake that we all determination, and we violently repel than ourselves, in the ridiculous silence nourish these signs of power within us, conceit that we all share the same world, certainly mastered “post-truth politics,” split or new forms of jobs; Trump sup- against the world? cops as soon as they approach us. We that we can have conversations across we know that discourses of objectivity, porters recognize that there is no future 46 23 for them in business as usual. As Wark against Trump, when they have been The good news is that it seems less like- be filled with collective life. But for this, Of surviving a collision.” be reshaped and concretized around the says: “the old working class cannot be content to sit by the sidelines during ly than ever; voter turnout hit a 20-year a different series of questions must be We need to get away from the exhaust- substantial situation in which we face articulated to a progressive project, even ongoing attacks on other communities; low this November. Trump was elected placed at the forefront of anti-police ed debate around ‘riots versus peaceful the world together, here and now. a merely liberal one, because the growth a commitment to build power in the by a quarter of eligible voters. Only cyn- struggle: marches’, ‘violence and non-violence’, A police-free zone is not a model or a and development of the economy will streets and not in electoral politics; a ical politicians and true believers still On the one hand, logistical questions— ‘safety versus risk’, etc. Our time is much program, it brings no pre-formed uto- only push them (or their offspring) willingness to connect Trump with the keep faith in democracy. what resources would we need to hold better spent getting organized in the pia into being. It is an opening of the further into marginality.” It is not mi- police, and to stand resolutely against Whatever happens on the national out? who can cook for two dozen, for a places where we already live in ways possible that clears a space of encoun- grants and trade deals that are taking both. political level, the next four years will hundred? who knows how to effectively that can make pushing for experimen- ter, of intense inhabitation, an ‘under- our jobs, of course, but automation and I had another encounter which felt so be catastrophic. We should expect to circulate info throughout the immedi- tal police-free zones a plausible poten- commons’ ripped from the hands of the general law of capitalist accumula- familiar that I couldn’t help but recall see reproductive care and health care ate and remote parts of town? how can tiality. And anyway, from the moment the pacified metropolis, for as long as tion, but the problem remains. Howev- past struggles against fascists. As friends gutted; a continued increase of white we safeguard our need for anonymity, we take hold of such a zone, questions it can be held down. If the abolition of er the death of progress opens up other were chanting “no more presidents” supremacist organizing and street vio- resist the trap of the media spectacle, that right now are too-often answered police is to become more than a slogan, possible futures. Let us not forget all of A man came up to me, pleading. He lence; raids and attacks on immigrant and still evade the wingnut caricatures by reference to sterile ideological oppo- its preparation must begin with small the horrors visited on workers, deviants, wanted us to lay aside our differences communities; state targeting of Mus- thrust upon us by the state? if one such sitions, or else by sorting people accord- realities. black, brown and queer bodies and the and agree that none of us want a fascist lims and refugees, and more. And, of zone were able to be held for a longer ing to their ‘structural identities’, tend to environment in the name of “progress”. president. “After we get him out, you can course, the catastrophes of late capital- duration, how could it propagate itself? Colonization was “progress”; The Da- continue to fight for total freedom. But ism will continue; the financial crises So-called ‘technical’ questions like these kota Access Pipeline is “progress”; the BATON SONG: THE ZAD, DESTITUENT ASSOCIATION, first, no fascist president!” I don’t know are not over, the climate continues to cannot be detached from social ones: TPP was “progress”; drone strikes on AND THE JOY OF PLEDGING WAR Excerpt what he expected us to do, or how he warm with increasingly disastrous con- how will we negotiate the ethical differ- wedding parties and mass deportation expected to drive Trump out of office, sequences. If there is hope, it lies in the ences between us once the cops ceased After winning 55% support for the ing parts or factions each defined via of migrants under Obama’s administra- airport in a widely-contested referen- mutually contested claims over the but it could only result in some other expansion of existing struggles. to play a role? if we had to defend the tion were “progress”. political figure in power. The appeal to dum earlier this year, the French gov- management of the whole, but rather LIVING AND FIGHTING zone against police, who on our blocks ernment promised an eviction of the as the intensification of asymmetrical NO POPULAR FRONT electoral politics has already begun, and And today, there are struggles all around would we find ourselves standing along- ZAD “this october, or this autumn”. In differences that were already there once Democrats regain their footing I ended up in the streets of Oakland us. The struggle against the construc- side? The degree of trust and shared defiance of the government’s threats, within the way we live, which the ‘sav- we will start to hear urgent calls to or- tens of thousands answered a callout age peace’ of the State only ever man- on the day after the election. It was the tion of the Dakota Access Pipeline has vision existing between folks who find ganize for the 2018 and 2020 election to travel to the ZAD with wooden ba- ages at best to attenuate, but never best place to be on that day, with such a brought more people together in more themselves positioned differently by po- cycles. I remember the Bush years, and tons, with which to make a visible and extinguishes. strong culture of resistance to the rac- fierce resistance to capitalist infrastruc- lice violence will play an important role collective sign of their determination the ways that global justice organizing ist & capitalist hell we inhabit. There ture than anything else in the US in re- here. If those most targeted by police to defend it. Upon arrival,they plant- turned into anti-war mass movement, What might those* of us engaging were thousands of people, and a sense cent history. The camps there are worlds lynching have the impression that the ed their batons in the ground, and which was then seamlessly integrated pledged that if the territory should with infrastructural struggles in North of strength and anger and conviction. I in their own right, worlds that, for all white folks aren’t serious about defend- America draw from this gesture of into Democratic electoral campaigns. come under attack, they would each heard many things I agreed with: a frus- of their flaws and internal conflicts, are ing the space, if our contingency plans war? We cannot let the same thing happen. return, collect their baton, and wield it tration that white liberals only came out taking form against this one. The pris- aren’t adjusted appropriately to the de- against the ZAD’s enemies. As infrastructural struggles such as gree of organization and the density of NoDAPL and Mississippi Stand con- bonds between the different crews of tinue to attract more newly-disaffect- ANTI-COLONIAL & ANTI-FASCIST ACTION: “MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS Regardless of how* one feels about the folks going into it, then runs the risk ed Sandernistas (a development we SYSTEM TO GOVERN ON STOLEN LAND” Excerpt ZAD, at a purely formal level it is cer- should welcome), the latter’s occa- of feeling more like a Custeristic prov- tainly possible to read this demo as an sionally fanatical insistence on non-vi- For those of you surprised at the re- if our bodies are the land desecrat- to govern the country, and must put ocation of the cops than an experiment admittedly-very-large but ultimately olence and symbolic ‘stunt activism’ sults of this tumultuous spectacle, ed with each cycling of our abuser. In power in the hands of the people in the in defending a space expressive of a real symbolic show of force, not funda- can make trust and shared understand- mentally different from your garden welcome to the “America” that we the case of electoral politics the cy- streets.” – Lorenzo Komboa Ervin desire for collective life. ing between newcomers and more have always known. This is the blinding cle isn’t challenged and neither is the variety leftist protest march or politi- seasoned warriors difficult. In such a Still, our separation will not be over- cal festival. “greatness of America” that today is abuse. Only the degree of which the As reformists were* more interested context, it is important that we find invigorated by the islamaphobic an- veil covers the wounds is of concern. in prolonging the agony, we started come prior to engaging in such exper- ways to resist reproducing the pacifist vs. radical binary, which condemns us ti-immigrant nationalist right. The matter is not seeing the abuse, bracing ourselves with the under- iments. And yet, to tear a block or a Here we wish to suggest that in the * to marginality, makes us more easily it’s seeing the effect which moves the standing that the suffering is going to whole neighborhood away from the 40,000-strong Baton Song pledge zone of comfort to nearly unsettling. at the ZAD we can see much more targeted, and reduces the overall po- But this is two sides of the same coin. get worse. This was not to resign our forces of order and begin experimenting tential for ungovernability and disrup- * This process is highly objectifying, and than the contours of a familiar leftist Trump’s fascist, islamaphobic, anti-im- power, but as an assertion of our ability with collective forms of life, we actual- tion. Clearly the question cannot be many of us play into that role, as con- protest march. Everything appears as migrant, anti-black, anti-indigenous, to heal on our terms. We started pre- ly needn’t share the same experiences solved by tactical compromises—most cerning that being objectified is, the if, by severing the two elements of and misogynist actions and attitudes paring our spirits, minds, and bodies of those forces we seek here to exclude of us won’t be going down for volun- alternative is to be rendered invisible, the classical theory of the social con- represent a system, not just one per- with this understanding. We recon- (police, prisons, etc.). As was pointed tract, Zadists and their supporters per- tary “non-violent arrests”. Nor can we unknown, and non-existent. But re- son or party. nected to the understanding that we formed a “pact of association” against remain content with the liberal notion sistance struggles become emaciated out elsewhere: of a ‘diversity of tactics’, whereby our There’s a discourse regarding a lesser never had a choice but to fight. That subjection, rather than for it. In its re- when only fed on a diet of recognition. separation into radicals and pacifists is evil and a diatribe about hope some- colonization has always been war. “A police-free zone is not a ‘new world’, it is fusal to countenance the state refer- This is something the ongoing global ultimately reinforced through a polite where in there, but these themes have merely the collision of many. Many worlds endum’s electoral majority, what is at struggle against fascism knows very indifference to one another. been beaten into our flesh so that our smaller than that of police order and gov- issue is an irreducibly partisan pledge. well. Such a gesture is best understood not skin has lost it’s ability to scar. It’s as Indigenous Action Media ernance individually, but that perhaps to- Ill Will Editions “We must make it impossible for Trump as a splitting of a totality into compet- November 9th, 2016 gether are capable of defending themselves. October 10th, 2016 knee-jerk impulse which, for all its his- at the massive autonomous territory tion against the State. If the horizon of on strike that took place in September highways and burning pipeline con- NOLA TURNS UP AGAINST torical rationale (highways were often at Notre-dame-des-landes in West- ‘abolitionism’ in our context remains a was the largest organized action in US struction equipment, but also the pow- Communique instruments to deepen segregation), is ern France (known as the ZAD or the question mark at present—if its utility prisons in history; repression continues, er of feeding each other, of inhabiting a TRUMP beginning to feel like a flat routine. In Zone-to-defend) can tell you, the fact has not been sapped by liberals like An- but so does organizing, between prison territory, of building worlds capable of The day after the election a crowd Chicago, things reached the point that that police don’t enter the ZAD shapes gela Davis and co.—then let it point to rebels on the inside and accomplices on withstanding the collapse of this one. gathered around one of this cities more odious monuments: the statue when the first Alton Sterling demo took the experience of being within it in an the struggle in Oaxaca, which is living the outside. It is the power of disarming the police, and obelisk of General Lee. The choice place a week and a half ago, the police essential way. The problem cuts two abolitionism. For the barricades that The relationships built there have the not through policy, but through mak- of locations, while perhaps tactical- all-but-invited us to take over the I-94, ways, of course, since the mutilated dot the map of the region have the po- potential to continue and grow. The an- ing it materially impossible for them to ly questionable, did serve to link the knowing that at most we’d be out there structures of behavior and association tential to rid their territory not only of ti-police movements of the past several govern. It is the power of disrupting the election with the larger apparatus of a few minutes before leaving and going we have internalized as governed sub- the pestilence of police and politicians, years have set a new bar for resistance in surveillance apparatuses that Trump’s white supremacy. This would become home. Our impression is that the situa- jects do not spontaneously disappear they carry within them the potential to this country; highway blockades, burn- regime will attempt to use to control us. a reoccurring theme throughout the tion isn’t altogether different elsewhere. when the police withdraw. Even small abolish the economy as well. ing barricades, and looting are now on It is the power of networks built to sur- night. The more our methods become calcified experiments such as the one in Carbon- To defeat and then depose the police, to the table. And the protests that erupted vive ICE raids and to keep people out After a number of speeches, some and predictable, the more easily they are dale the other night reminded us at cer- abolish the economy—this would the after Trump’s election were unprece- of detention centers, to confront white rousing, others tedious — as well as governed, assimilated, and neutralized. tain moments that hostilities within our horizon of a superior abolitionism, or dented; no president has faced so much supremacists in the streets and to care some monument redecoration, the crowd was on the move. Fireworks But even more importantly, the more communities will continue to surface in better yet, what a friend has elsewhere resistance before even taking office. for each other while we do it. contexts of reduced state presence. Yet trumpeted our rejection of both Trump our gestures fail to become worthy of preferred to call “demolitionist desire”. People’s willingness to go toe-to-toe We cannot afford to wait until the and his cabal and the entire charade of there is no mistaking the feeling one has the thought-event of the police’s desti- But we’re not there yet. We’re nowhere with the police, to eschew the politics next election cycle; we need to act now, electoral politics. Revolutionary slo- when navigating a car or bike through tution (i.e. their having been momen- near the level of organized struggle seen of respectability in favor of confronta- carefully but decisively, to sabotage the gans were scrawled across the sup- the circuitous barricade architecture tarily stripped of any veneer of legiti- in Oaxaca. To propose passing from tion and conviction, reveals their deeper mechanisms of policing and repression plicating walls of the city’s Central that marks the outer edges of the ZAD, macy, through the exhibition of the raw the highway shutdowns going on now understanding of the situation: there is before they are further activated. Cops Business District: silent and sterile no and feeling the weight of the air change violence that it served to conceal). For to the highway barricades seen down no democratic remedy to Trump’s fas- can’t patrol with fat tires; lists of Mus- more. Several Police cruisers, too slow as you pass inside, just knowing that or stupid to move aside, themselves legitimacy can be stripped without the south would require a quantum leap cism, there is only the power we build, lims and “criminal immigrants” won’t at least for a while, at least here, we became canvases. The facade of a force of the police being truly deposed. in our organization that is difficult at together. work if they’re polluted with false reg- needn’t worry about police checkpoints, Chase bank was crumpled inwards and For the latter to happen, we must man- present to imagine, if it were even de- This is not a power of organizations, istrations or hacked. There are a mil- stop-and-frisks, and all their attendant with it any lingering doubts about the age to articulate concrete forms of living sirable (the highway might, after all, be of mobilizing masses, of membership lion different ways to fight, but fight forms of everyday terror. The feeling is nature of capital’s relationship to the in which they exert no force, nor shape the least habitable space in the metro- lists and get-out-the-vote drives. It is we must. There is no longer any point state — in spite of the best efforts of palpable: it feels like an opening of the the economy of meaning around us. For politan fabric). a power of action, of choosing sides, in struggling to control a system that millennial peace police to yoke and ob- this to happen, we must do more than possible. is hostile to our existence; there is only For now, we propose a diffuse experi- getting organized, and sabotaging the scure folks insurrectionary impulses. abandon any residual reliance upon In a different context, whose fate is no the matter of elaborating our survival, ment with cop-free-zones in spaces we fascist machine by any means necessary. and faith in the police. We must create less uncertain as we write this, dozens creating a multiplicity of worlds that are stand a better chance of holding down It is the power of finding new spaces * open-ended experiments in relating to of barricades remain in force across all incompatible with fascism and capi- and inhabiting, such as blocks in our of encounter, of building friendships one another where they aren’t. the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, as teach- talist disintegration. If we do it right, we neighborhoods. The latter presents the and relationships with others who will ers and comrades of all ages push into might help one another survive not just DEMOLITIONIST DESIRE incomparable advantage that it can ac- be targeted by the police and white su- It’s Going Down their second month of frontal insurrec- Trump, but the ongoing disaster of this As anyone who has ever spent any time tually conceivably hold and materially premacists. It is the power of blocking November 10th, 2016 world.

Barricades after police attack on striking teachers in Oaxaca, MEX Anti-Trump demonstration in Atlanta, USA 39 FROM FREEWAY SHUTDOWNS TO COP FREE ZONES A REPORTBACK AND A PROPOSAL FROM ILL WILL EDITIONS - JULY 22ND, 2016 “[B]eneath the surface of that idea – that While this first experiment was modest the level of practical methods. truism, black lives matter – is an unset- in its scale and intensity, we think that We have the impression that the cur- tling challenge. What would it mean to experimenting with police-free zones rent tactical menu (freeway blockades create a world, or at least a space, where has a strong potential for resonance in and generally-pacified protest marches) that actually was true?” the current North American context. It actually fall short of what makes sense A COP-FREE ZONE IN CAR- is less Carbondale’s specific event and to people right now. Both on social me- BONDALE rather the broader proposal that we dia, in everyday encounters we’ve had, wish to focus on below. On Friday night a couple dozen folks as well as in recent demonstrations converged on the local autonomous in- SENSE AND TACTICS among some of the newer Black activ- foshop in Carbondale, IL for an illegal While recent weeks have seen thou- ist cadres, folks right now seem to be Top left: Clouds of smoke rise over a pedestrian overpass while cops and anti-police rebels exchange dance party in the street. In addition to sands of people blockading traffic and much more interested in talking about volleys of flash bangs and rocks, respectively in St. Paul, USA locals, cars arrived from Bloomington, freeways across the USA, the tactical the abolition of police than its reform Chicago, and St. Louis to participate. impulses and the actions attempted in or ‘community control.’ We see this as a The plan was to throw an unpermitted this cycle of anti-police struggle have significant ‘ideological’ development (to speak loosely) that is encouraging, but Top right: Barricades burn during a solidarity action for anarchist prisoners in Mexico City, MEX street party with free food and loud mu- largely rehashed what we saw in the sic, and as things progressed and energy summer and fall of 2014, without in- which has so far failed to have any ma- rose, to block off the street and visibly venting or experimenting with anything terial consequences at the level of new polarize the space against state violence all that new. practices. If we don’t want ‘better po- licing’ but rather to have police out of Bottom: Graffiti painted in Pennsylvania, USA with large handmade banners declaring When we think strategically about our lives, what sorts of experiments can it a cop-free zone. tactical issues, it is important to recall respond to this collective need? What The event proceeded more or less as that the relationship between sense and does it mean to give this theoretical and planned: a collective cook-out transi- gesture is a dynamic and fluid one, one effective destitution of the police a prac- tioned into a dance party, furniture was which camps on a shifting soil of forc- tical face, one that corresponds to our dragged into the streets and fireworks es and events. Sometimes thought falls currently low levels of material orga- were set off, until banners painted ear- short of the tactics and gestures that nization? This is the question that the lier in the evening were finally strung we’re engaging in, and we find ourselves current cycle of struggle is attempting up across the two lanes of the street demanding things we already possess, to ask, and it’s one that calls for a prac- and the block was taken over. Several or framing things through terms or tical answer. police SUV’s circled at a distance but oppositions that the movement has avoided any direct contact for almost already surpassed at a practical level. At the same time, a cruel but appar- the entire evening. By the time they fi- Other times, thought runs ahead of ently inexorable logic seems to ensure nally approached the block on foot, the our tactical repertoire, such that every that virtually irrespective of its initial party was already being slowly wrapped effort to elaborate a practice that feels ‘radicality’, the more a certain tactic gets up and a large contingent of friends appropriate to the effective declension repeated, the more its impact tends to and locals had just bounced to go lake of hostilities and the ideas that folks are become purely symbolic. swimming. A decision was made not to thinking about seems to fall short. The Washington Post reports that in enforce the blockade, yet after the street Our sense is that our present situation some parts of this country over half was cleared for two minutes and the resembles the latter scenario, where of the demos in the past two years police left, it was promptly re-blocked thought runs ahead of the gestures we’re have blocked freeways. While it once with furniture as loud jams continued seeing. The current cycle exhibits both a pushed the limits of the thinkable and to sound out into the night for another rupture in thought (since the 2014 cycle broke open a new terrain of struggle, hour until the last people left. of struggle) as well as an exhaustion at the freeway blockade has become a

43 the networks that facilitate its produc- The NoDAPL camps are part of the interactive mapping project begun in 2009. tion. Infrastructure itself is a dominant experiences through which protectors As a collaborative initiative, Empire Logis- force of governing that underpins in- are developing their collective abilities tics maps the global supply chain through dustrial culture as a whole. Not only to both foster and endure the present research that articulates the infrastructure does it facilitate capitalist commodity apocalypse. What gives the NoDAPL and ‘externalized costs’—human, economic, social and environmental—of the interna- flows, it also embodied in everything encampents their strength isn’t just tional flow of things.” You can find key rail that produces life and who we are as in- their ability to physically interfere with intersections, ports, warehousing distri- dividuals, as groups and a society. Land the pipeline project from time to time bution sites, etc with detailed information use, the way we feed ourselves, how we in spectacularized clashes. What gives it such as tons shipped per year to really get are organized spatially and relate to one it’s punch and its ability to disrupt the the most bang for your buck (or the most another, the way we ensure our eco- enemy’s infrastructure in a sustained buck for your block?). nomic well-being are all entangled with way is the life it has produced. We risk People of the Pines is the insider’s account infrastructure. framing our struggles as only reactive of the amazing events at Oka and Kahn- Not only can blockades “shut down the if we fail to point out that in struggle awake in the summer of 1990, written by world”, they also open up space for a new we can create a different, better world. two journalists who lived at the warrior en- The camps of NoDAPL are producing campment in the final weeks of the military one to be built, or in the case of colo- siege. nized peoples, a world restored. We can a way of life that is worth living and one Petropolis is an interactive map that doc- look to many of the indigenous block- that is worth defending. uments the oil pipeline infrastructure ades or occupations of the last several We hold evident that blockades are a throughout North America with particular decades for the examples of ceremonial, crucial tactic in our war against plane- attention paid to the Chicagoland area. The culinary, and other socially reproductive tary annihilation. We hope that this text map serves as a valuable research in locating practices that point toward new ways of has demonstrated this. With this tacti- possible targets and shows the type of re- Top left: March against a scheduled KKK rally that is eventually cancelled due to prominent anti-fascist living which are themselves produced cal imperative, we call on all warriors search that local struggles could engage in. presence in Pelham, USA through resistance. Similarly, we see the and revolutionaries around the world to Power is Logistical, Block Everything!, In- revitalization of warrior culture being immediately orient themselves around visible Committee: Much of the analysis in expressed at Standing Rock and other blockading infrastructure. Collectives the “Power Resides in the Infrastructure of moments of indigenous revolt to be in- must research infrastructure to find the World” section is owed to (if not direct- Top right: A police car is vandalized during clashes outside a Trump rally in Costa Mesa, USA dicative of a broader possibility of life the most vulnerable chokepoints and ly plagiarized) from the chapter “Power is without the state or capitalism. We can get organized to block them in effective Logistical, Block Everything!” in Invisible also see a new world being forged in the ways. Those without fighting comrades Committee’s book, “To Our Friends” March in solidarity with the uprising in Oaxaca takes to the streets in San Francisco, USA social experimentation and land-based can still contribute by engaging in lone Warrior Publications: Gord Hill (Kwakwa- Bottom: communal living found in occupation/ wolf acts of sabotage. ka’wakw nation) runs this fabulous website that seeks to function as an historical ar- blockade of the international airport in Be Safe. Get Going. chive of Indigenous anti-colonial struggles Notre-Dame-des-Landes, where peo- FURTHER RESOURCES and resistance, and to provide analysis of ple raise animals, grow food, and live, these struggles. build, and defend their land together. Plan your action! Empire Logistics is an

AN ANARCHIST PERSPECTIVE OF RESISTANCE TO LNG ON GITWILGYOOTS TERRITORY Excerpt In late August, a crew of women of any further destruction of their land, Tsimshian, Haida, Nisga, and Gitxsan as Petronas and Pacific North West Struggle is always* strengthened by bloodlines initiated the defense of Lax LNG (PNW LNG) are planning on a de-centralized and broad attack, U’u’la (Lelu Island) and the Flora Bank1 building a $11 billion liquefied natural solidarity can also include resistance from LNG industry destruction. The gas (LNG) plant on Lax U’u’la, which is to industrial developments in your Gitwilgyoots Tribe Sm’ogyet Yahaan at the mouth of the Skeena river near own backyard (Site C Dam, the Trans (hereditary chief) and Ligitgyet Gwis Prince Rupert, BC. Mountain and Line 9 being just a few Hawaal (hereditary house leader), and examples). These projects are also fa- their families began a defense camp cilitated by the bureaucrats who work on Lax U’u’la, which is Gitwilgyoots If we wish to see victory* in this strug- gle against petro-corporations and the for the governments and companies traditional hunting and fishing territo- and who’s offices are located in urban ry. They were also joined by various sig- Canadian state we must continue to provide solid material support. We also centers. In the past, solidarity has been nificant hereditary people from other shown through noise demonstrations Tsimshian tribes, and a motley crew need to proliferate social agitation and disruption of daily life in the population and other actions against these offices of native and non-native outside sup- and company infrastructures. porters. centers throughout this region and beyond. Montreal Counter-Info This camp has been set up to prevent Febrauary 11th, 2016 SALUTE TO JORDAN MACTAGGART FROM ANARCHISTS IN NEW YORK Communique means massive losses: the trucking indus- lation. Everything is oriented around There is no railroad terminal, port, or continuous movement and anything trucking distribution facility without When anarchism was born, it was born the inescapable draw of a free life. of us who remain to keep the revolu- try alone is worth $65 billion dollars and employs over 260,000 drivers.” not in circulation cuts profits, it is a the oil infrastructure used to power as a borderless struggle and as a strug- We are here to say goodbye to Jor- tion going. sitting waste. From the perspective of the train engines, trucks and barges. gle for a free world. From its inception dan MacTaggart (also known as Ciwan For the sacrifice you have made we – The Economics of Insurgency, as a political theory its proponents Firat). He was an american anarchist deepen our commitments to the Thoughts on Idle No More & critical those that blockade, this emphasis on Inversely, there is no way to build pipe- moved across territories to engage and YPG fighter who gave his life for struggle here, infrastructure the quick and never ending flow of com- lines without the railroad terminals, in the struggle, connected with com- modities multiplies a blockages power. trucks and production facilities used to the liberation of Manbij: a key point in to fighting for the revolution in Rojava, The police even attested to this point: rades, and fought alongside those who the struggle for Rojava and a city un- Pipelines are one of many components forge or transport pipeline equipment. struggled for liberation as virulently as and to acting on all fronts of this battle “First Nations have the ability to paralyze der the oppressive rule of Daesh. of critical infrastructure. Because of the BLOCKADES SHUT DOWN THE they did. with the dedication you have set. this country by shutting down travel and We salute you as a comrade who deep- volume of product (gasoline, natural WORLD: LEVERAGING POWER, Biji Ciwan Firat trade routes, It is a difficult situation no In New York we struggle on the backs ly knew the struggle we face here. gas, crude oil) they transport, they are a BUILDING NEW FORMS OF LIFE of giants, yet still for a hundred years, Biji Rojava matter how we view or address it.” We salute you for recognizing the im- vital part of the capitalist economy and against a massive state that never When one enters the NoDAPL camps, portance of Rojava in our international Long live the anarchist fighters – Chris Lewis, commissioner of the stopped its colonial, imperial incur- it’s why during war, they are often sub- they are greeted by over 200 tribal flags struggle and for making the ultimate Long live the revolution Ontario Provincial Police sions. Rojava has pried open the hege- ject to attack. Since World War II, the whipping in the gusty prairie wind. sacrifice to help keep the revolution- monic monster of the state and illumi- –Anarchists of New York Historically infrastructure has been a Air Force has been developing the idea ary struggle alive. Over a thousand tents, teepes, long- nated the possibility of liberation in the major component of anti-capitalist so- of “infrastructure warfare,” seeing civil houses, wigwams, trailers, and other We will never forget that when you lay struggle of anarchists worldwide; not It’s Going Down cial movements. For example, Timothy and industrial infrastructure (bridges, structures line the distance. People ride on that field injured, you asked those just anarchists but all those who feel August 23rd, 2016 Mitchell argues that the coal industry railroads, pipelines, etc) as valuable tar- on horseback in every direction while was the condition of possibility for the gets for bringing its opponents to their Communique children play and elders sit in quiet SEEDS BENEATH THE SNOW: ANARCHISTS MOURN OUR DEAD workers movement to be as successful as knees. discussions around fires. The camps On Saturday night, the snow-swept We do, however, know that is inevitable not be leashed and captured by the in- it was. As soon as the switch to oil was During the Idle No More movement’s are full of builders, thinkers, and dwell- statue of the revolutionary Emiliano that those of us who struggle, who re- effectual Worker’s Party whose capit- initiated, you no longer had large num- January 16th Day of Action, Indige- ers that have put their arsenal of skills Zapata on Lake Street in Minneapo- volt against the crushing daily violence ulation to neoliberalism paved the way bers of unskilled proletarians making nous demonstrators stopped passenger together in producing communal life lis was cast in the light of emergency of the state, capital, and all existing hi- for the rise of the reactionaries. DIY the economy run. Instead, inanimate in- railway traffic lines between Toronto, on camp. Protectors have built heated flares and surrounded by a black-clad erarchies, will be put in the crosshairs spaces and projects of reclamation will frastructure was created to facilitate the Ottawa and Montreal. Others stalled gravel showers for bathing. People sew crew, as anarchists held a memorial of repression. We know that those of continue to seize the structures left new oil industry. When infrastructure major highways and rail lines in parts of together large pieces of canvas on in- observation for our comrades fallen in us who seek to build new worlds in the gutted and abandoned by globalization itself did not take the place of masses Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, and dustrial, foot-pedaled sewing machines recent weeks. cracks and unstable edges and bound- and deindustialization, and fill them of workers, the oil industry required far Manitoba, including Portage la Prairie, to construct teepees and yurts. Others aries of the old, will face all the dangers with those displaced by gentrification. We gathered to mourn three trage- fewer jobs and those that did exist tend- which a CN Rail spokesman described chop and mill wood. Some operate of the current world’s collapse, and of We will improve the security of these dies—the death of Michael Israel and ed to be more highly skilled. as a “critical link” in its network (do drones to surveill police and construc- those who try to cement it together spaces, both from accidental fires and other freedom fighters in Rojava, the An analysis of supply chain capitalism your homework: maximize damage/ tion operations. Schools, communal again in blood and terror. We are born collapses, and from far-right and state murder of Guilherme Irish by his na- is necessary to understand the condi- risk). Demonstrators also gathered in kitchens and libraries operate in retired in the history of the Haymarket Mar- attacks. Every day we wake and draw tionalist father in Brazil, and the doz- tion of Earth today and the dilemmas Windsor, Ontario at the Ambassador surplus military tents. Water Protectors tyrs hanged for resisting the industri- breath, we strive to undermine and ens of dead friends lost in Oakland’s it faces. Supply chain capitalism refers Bridge to Michigan, shutting down scheme, conspire and plot their next alist’s police, of Suga Kanno strangled attack the systems that murdered our Ghost Ship fire. to commodity chains based on sub- traffic through North America’s busiest missions around fires at night. Com- by the Empire of Japan, and of Carlo comrades and friends. contracting, outsourcing, and allied ar- border crossing for trade between Can- mon life is chaotically organized (there Giuliani shot down by the Italian cops. In memory of Michael Israel, of Guil- At the Zapata statue,* anarchists gave rangements in which labor, capital and ada and the U.S. with 10,000 trucks on are no hierarchical leaders determing We inherit a flag stained black in the herme Irish, of Denalda, Feral, and all eulogies to our fallen comrades, read nature are mobilized in fragmented, average passing daily. These anti-infra- camp operations), but in an effective, remembrance of our dead, in the ne- other victims of the Ghost Ship fire, passages in commemoration, and but linked economic niches. Such sup- structural actions suggest a conscious self-determined way. gation of their killers, and in the prom- we remember the verses of the Greek poured out whiskey in celebration of ply chains connect seemingly indepen- link between resitance to threatened ise to never surrender. poet, Dinos Christianopoulos, echoed As we have seen with the Oka Crisis their lives. dent entrepreneurs through expansive lands and blockage of circulation. and several other indigenous rebellions, The tragedies of November ended our in the Mexican counterculture: “They transportation infrastructure, making comrades’ lives, but not the visions tried to bury us; they did not know we Supply chains are vulnerable: every sup- blockades can help leverage negotiat- it possible for commodity processes ply chain is now reaching such a level of ing power for Indigenous people over As anarchists, we do* not make a fetish they lived for. The Revolution in Roja- were seeds”. to span the globe. Known in industry out of death, in the way that fascists, specialization that if one of them disap- their lands. When planned strategical- va carries on the fight for autonomy terms such as Toyotism or Just-in-time armies, and nations do. We do not pre- peared that would be enough to para- ly, blockades can physically block the as the Syrian regime batters its Op- Production (JIT), this is the nature of fer our comrades, friends, and lovers lyze the whole chain. In the absence of shipments of vital materials for the position, the Erdogan regime attacks the modern economy. Each particular as cold and stern memorials, or as rose standing inventories, a blockade of just specific mega-infrasture projects that Kurds on both sides of the border, and flow in a supply chain is a moment of colored memories revived in the haze a few days could effectively paralyse sev- call so many people into resistance. As foreign powers, confident in the YPG’s the overall reproduction of capitalism of sentimental poetry. We prefer them defeats of Daesh, prepare for their in- eral production sites and retailers. The was earlier noted, a large shipment of and its society. To physically block these beside us, creating with us the spac- evitable betrayal of the revolutionary economic cost of even a week of such frac proppants was blocked in Olympia flows of commodities, is to attack the es and struggles of our liberation and cantons. The rightist coup in Brazil will co-ordinated efforts spread across the for six days, enough to pose a threat to system as a whole, for most of what fighting alongside us in defense of our be opposed every inch of the way, and Conflict MN so-called United States would be crip- the stability of business for Bakken Oil accounts for global commodity produc- lives. We do not ask for martyrs. the popular movement against it will December 18th, 2016 pling and impossible to control given sites. Blockades attack the global system tion is submitted to the logic of circu- current police and military resources. of capitalism by immediately disrupting 41 REMEMBERING THE WIDE- Bridge and Routes 132, 138, and 207 to evict the Mohawks from their occu- SPREAD SUPPORT FOR THE were all blocked creating substantial pation and proved to be very effective in OKA WARRIOR disruption to traffic. When the Kahn- securing their victory to protect their Much of this section was straight up awake-manned barricades at the Mer- burial grounds and pines. cier Bridge were removed, protesters DESTROY GENDERFROM FILLER - APRIL 6TH, 2016 jacked from Warrior Publications which is POWER RESIDES IN THE INFRA- paraphrased from the books, “People of the at Kanehsatake knew that they had STRUCTURE OF THIS WORLD GENDER AS GOVERNANCE (man/woman, etc). These norms are reactionaries. Revolutionaries need to little hope of continuing the struggle Pines” and “Entering the War Zone” As argued in The Invisible Committee’s Gender is a hierarchy, one of the ap- regulated by stricter interpretation for push beyond half-measures, beyond re- without such an important negotiat- “Putting up those barricades, we devel- text, To Our Friends, Power no longer paratuses of governance, that differen- women, and with harsher punishment form, concession and rollback, and push ing item; they had lost an important oped a stronger sense of pride. Protecting operates on the level of representation tiates and categorizes bodies/people. for transgression. Gender is what tells for breaking from the normalcy of dai- resource. what was left of our territory, we regained or institutions (President, King, Pope, Bodies are categorized into genders women that we are not enough or too ly life. We must push for insurrection a sense of history…. putting up those bar- In northern Ontario, Anicinabe near General Secretary, etc). “The real power based on one’s appearance, behavior, much anything and everything. Gender against all governance. ricades, protecting our land– that gave us Longlac (Long Lake) blocked the structure today is in the material, phys- economic/social/cultural position, and regulates our movements (“it’s not safe The Coming Insurrection states, “The power. I became a warrior because it gave Trans-Canada Highway in early Au- ical and technological organization of others. The categories are stacked in at night”) and our capabilities (“that’s goal of any insurrection is to become me a chance to make up for a history that gust. On August 13 they also blocked the enginereered, configured, purposed a hierarchy, where men and men’s la- not what women do”, “women shouldn’t irreversible.” To be irreversible means cheated us out of our territory…there was Canadian National Rail for about 1 world.” Power is exercised through bor are more valued than women and do this or that”). Gender creates our the roots are dug up and patriarchy, a coming together, and I wanted to be part week (costing an est. $2.6 million in the global capitalist economy which women’s labor (domestic work, youth/ anxieties/desires to be “manly” and and all forms of hierarchy, are disman- of that.” lost revenue each day). This blockade is arranged through an integrated in- elderly care, psychological/social work, “womanly”, to meet the capitalist ideal tled. In more real terms, it means that was soon followed by blockades on – Anonymous Mohawk Warrior frastructure of production clusters (a food service, retail, all jobs based on of easily identifiable, categorizable, and we have communities and spaces that nearby Canadian Pacific railways by the (People of the Pines, 281) geographic concentration of intercon- emotional labor, etc). predictable bodies and actions. Gender aren’t just safe, but dangerous to those Pic Mobert and Pays Plat bands. When nected businesses, suppliers, and asso- governs the social sphere. To really understand the power of Gender uses its categories to play a who oppose our desires and our spaces. court injunctions were obtained by rail- ciated institutions in a particular field), widespread anti-infrastructural soli- part in governing the social sphere to Governance and gender define all as- Not just a reading group safe space, but way officials, another blockade would transportation networks and standing darity with Indigenous land struggles maintain social reproduction. It creates pects to the hierarchy of civilization. reclaimed territories capable of provid- be set up by another band. armies of police. From the mine and it would be mistaken to not study the a gendered division of labor, between Governance is the regulation, normal- ing for the needs of the working class/ In mid-August, a railway bridge in refinery to the railroad and port; from Oka Crisis. During summer of 1990, masculine and feminine, “man’s work” ization, and (re)production of bodies/ women/the excluded (free from gen- northeastern Alberta was set ablaze. the distribution facility to the trucking The Oka Crisis was the top story in and “women’s work”. Women’s work people and territory. It does so through der/gendered violence). These spaces In late August, just after hours after route; from the loading docks to the Canadian news. It was a crisis that par- is valued and paid less, and for much prisons, police, surveillance, borders, can’t simply be given to us by a higher RCMP cleared railway at Seton Lake, shopping mall; through the information alyzed an entire province, gripped the domestic work not at all. The valuing gender, work, evictions, school, racism, power. Through occupations of the bor- BC, a fire caused extensive damage to and energy that circulate through wire nation’s imagination, and forever trans- women’s labor less than men’s attempts debt, xenophobia, etc, creating a class of derlands and sites of production, or less Seton Portage railway bridge. networks and broadband fibres; these formed the politics of aboriginal people to make working class women reliant those who benefit and a class of those formal territories of resistance, such as are nodes that power “flows” through. in Canada. The armed warriors at both In response to rail blockades, a CP Rail upon men economically. The forced re- who suffer. friends who have each other’s backs, we Kanehsatake and Kahnawake fighting official, John Cox, stated: Shiri Pasternak noted: liance on heterosexual relationships is DONE BE TO IS WHAT? will make or take the commons back. to protect a sacred burial site from the “Virtually all our transcontinental traffic “The real role of right wing alarmists in as old as civilization and class society. Everyone in the milieu knows to make NO TUCKING, NO MASTERS development of a golf-course, inspired has been disrupted. We are at the mercy the Idle No More movement: to maintain Women are coerced, structurally and total destroy, abolish whatever, to Our insurrection against gender cannot widespread support and solidarity from of individual bands & whatever decisions the economic status quo, because territory interpersonally, into relationships with smash this or that. Gender is but an- stop with just gender self-identification, Indigenous people throughout Cana- they make” (Entering the War Zone, p. is capital. Land is money. And the circula- men for the sake of survival, and the re- other apparatus to be smashed, burned, or with a new list of terms for everyone da. Protests, occupations, blockades, 147). tion of goods, resources and energy through production of civilization. As “Against and scattered. To destroy an apparatus, to learn to respect. Insurrection must and sabotage actions were carried out, In early September, after military ad- territory is the very essence of capitalism the Couple-Form” puts it, “rather than we must destroy its roots. But first, the push beyond these limits to a free-play indicating the great potential for revolt vances into Mohawk territory, 5 hy- today… The fact is that critical infrastruc- an essentialist concept, the category of soil that covers and protects the roots. of actions, behaviors, sexuality, etc. amongst Indigenous peoples. dro-electric towers were felled in south- ture in Canada is at the mercy of Indig- woman stems a gendered mode of ex- The police, racists, misogynists—patri- Where doing or enjoying one action or By late July, Indigenous barricades had western Ontario. A railway bridge was enous peoples, who are more rural than ploitation and relegates certain types of archs of all varieties—this is the soil we another does not categorize you into a been set up on seven roads and railways also set on fire in the same region. Canadians and have access to important labor to a private, unwaged sphere.” The must dig up. limiting role. sphere of reproductive labor. in British Colombia, initially just in In southern Alberta, Peigan Lonefight- arteries for economic flows: transportation Easier said than done. Confronting To be free from governance entails be- support of the Mohawk warriors, but ers began diverting the Oldman River corridors, energy sectors, and sites of natu- Economic exploitation is not the only police requires militancy (vigilance + ing free from gender. Being free from later mutated into a negotiating tactic in away from a half-constructed dam. On ral resource extraction…This vulnerabili- way gender governs us. On a social lev- awareness + tactical knowledge), but gender entails being free from categori- a determined effort to seek justice from September 7, dozens of police escorted ty is deadly to the logistics industry. el, gender sets standards and norms for militancy demands the kind of commit- zation, normalization, and exploitation the provincial government. The block- provincial employees and heavy equip- Logistics is a business science concerned our bodies and behaviors. Bodies get ment and preparation many aren’t ready of governance. put into categories based on second- ades wreaked havoc on the tourism and ment to repair the dyke which had been with the management of goods and infor- for. In most ‘progressive milieus’, going – Lena Kafka forestry industries of central British breached by the Peigan. Warning shots mation through global supply chains. As ary sex characteristics, voice, behaviors, on the offensive is seen as hasty, ill-ad- Colombia, halted freight train circula- were fired and a 33-hour standoff oc- the World Bank has declared: ‘A com- dress/aesthetic/ethnicity, etc. These vised, or at worst, as reactionary. Rev- tion in the interior of the province, and curred. petitive network of global logistics is the expectations vary based upon social/ olutionaries know that those who wait brought losses of $750,000 a day to BC cultural situation and position. Gender In the end, the widespread campaign backbone of international trade’…For an for the state’s offensive to hit them, who Rail (People of the Pines, 281). industry dependent on maintaining open regulates bodies into certain norms to wait for some tragedy to use as leverage of blockades, sabotage and occupation be interpreted into certain categories At the peak of the crisis, the Mercier served to put extreme costs on attempts channels for capital circulation, a blockade and justification for reform, are the real 40 29 ly morning to protest against the con- Kahnewake CP Rail Blockade, No- To be against pipelines is to be against troversial pipeline along Highway 132. vember 30, 2016 the very world we inhabit. No struggle Later, 150 students from Kahnawake Mohawks from Kahnawake prevented that sets out to permanently destroy THE UNTOLD STORY Survival School, the local high school, freight trains carrying oil or other dan- the possibility of all future pipelines im- FROM ANARCHY LIVE - SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2016 blocked the highway. gerous materials from passing through posed on this Earth can ever be success- The web has been abuzz with informa- successfully locking themselves in and out their cell and attack the police. Mandan, North Dakota, BNSF the territory on a Canadian Pacific Rail- ful without radically transforming the tion about the recent riots here in Ala- everyone else out. The queer prisoner • Also in 2012 at Holman prison, queer Rail Blockade, November 15, 2016 way line for 24 hours. society that produces them through its bama at Holman prison – the stabbing started calling these guys on this and energy needs. prisoners formed the “Gay Militia” as a 400 protesters put a pickup truck and “We as the Mohawk people have a duty to of a warden and correctional officer, the called them pigs, Uncle Tom, etc. all prison gang for the protection of them- tree branches on BNSF Railway tracks protect mother earth, and we will continue The DAPL will cause irreparable dam- fires that were set, the overcrowding, while brandishing a knife. selves against homophobes. Tuesday near a pipeline work staging to defend our mother earth for the coming age to the Missouri River, which 10 etc. – but what has been left out of this And this is not the only instance of • At Donaldson prison in Alabama, area, about an hour away from the large- generations as our ancestors did,” million people depend on, including narrative is that the catalyst for the riots queer resistance against the pigs: queer prisoners form F.A.G. as a scale camps resisting the Dakota Access people from 10 states and 28 different was a fight between two queer prison- – Kahionwinehshon Phillips, Mohawk • In 2012, a stabbing of a guard in the self-defense organization. Pipeline. The railroad says trains were indigenous territories. The DAPL is ers about queer relations. After quell- AGAINST PIPELINES AND THE an insanely destructive project, but it is segregation unit at Holman was taking • In 2015 at Holman prison, a queer delayed three hours. A group of pro- ing their beef, a pig and the warden at- WORLD THAT PRODUCED THEM just one of a million examples of how place while showers were being done, prisoner set fire to a guard in the segre- testers also blocked access to the yard tempted to intervene and was stabbed. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) land and life are commodified and how and Fredricka, a queer prisoner’s, cell gation unit. by disabling a car between the road and No one wants to mention that out of the door hadn’t closed and she ran out the railroad tracks, by slashing the tires and is a major infrastructure project that our lives are arranged and controlled The history of queer resistance is long six prisoners who were charged with the cell, down the stairs and into the con- dismantling part of the engine. They will connect the Bakken Oil fields of through oppressive and authoritarian and beautiful. It didn’t start with Stone- stabbings of the warden and correction- trol unit. She kicked the pig down who filled the vehicle with tumbleweed, and North Dakota to domestic and foreign politics. It is emblematic of the system wall. al officer, four are queer. Historically, was in the control unit, handcuffed him the Morton County Sheriff ’s Depart- consumers. In the last ten years we have that promotes the insane myth that attempts have been made to write queer and opened some of the segregation cell In Solidarity, ment alleges they tried to start it on fire. witnessed an explosion in domestic measurable economic productivity and energy projects. Energy independence infinite growth are the purpose of hu- resistance out of history. But, despite all doors, allowing other prisoners to come Queer Resistance Bellingham, Washington, BNSF Rail is a national security issue: The U.S. man organization and is a continuation the attempts, queer folk have refused to Blockade, November 15, 2016 allow these stories to go unknown. Govt knows it cannot rely on oil from of the colonial genocide that began over INTERVIEW WITH FIREHAWK OF UNSTOPPABLE Excerpt From 1:30 p.m to Sundown, railroad politically unstable regions such as the 500 years ago. What I think most people refuse to ac- How does women’s/femme participation most vaguely political literature. So tracks were blocked by a large group of Middle East. America’s dependence on How they are developing it is similar to knowledge is that prisons are extensions in the prison strike differ from men’s fa- unfortunately the biggest challenge people that started as a demonstration, imported oil as a primary source of en- how our everyday lives are managed: It’s of patriarchal control. Male prisons are cilities? Are there differing challenges? has been getting word about the strike including a symbolic lockdown by a in to women and transwomen. ergy proved to be a weakness that could the development and hierarchicaliza- hyper-macho environments with very The women and transwomen we’ve married elderly couple. hierarchical structures and class divi- spoken with have been excited by the Even for those women and trans- be exploited to influence or subvert tion of space by power, it’s the constant sions. In the prisons, queer prisoners rebellions and many have engaged in women who do know about the strike, Montreal, Canadian National Rail- U.S. foreign policy, has disrupted the surveillance and intimidation, the occu- have taken on a submissive and passive some way. Three women in Washing- there’s some uncertainty at how much way Blockade, November 15, 2016 economy, and has transferred billions pation of roads and neighborhoods by ton refused to work on September 9th support they’ll receive from outside persona, because they themselves are Fifteen non-native militants blocked of dollars to foreign national treasuries armed police. The world of the pipeline and were promptly thrown in the hole. supporters and among other prison- hostile to U.S. global hegemony. not immune to all the psychological An entire unit in Colorado refused to ers. For some, there is some hesitancy the Canadian National railroad tracks is in systemic racism, in social isolation, bullshit that society teaches about gen- go to the chow hall on September 9th in participating for fear that they will in Pointe-Saint-Charles around 4 PM. “At a time of such great challenge for the wage system, in prison. It’s in the der, sex, and class, and how that gender at the same time that the prison shut be the only one or that they will face The action lasted for around twen- America, no single issue is as fundamen- suicides, addictions, rapes. It’s in the should be lived – you know, ‘females are down all work operations in anticipa- serious reprisals. ty minutes, during the busiest time of tal to our future as energy. America’s de- explosions and massive spills. The pipe- tion of a strike. Women in a prison in weak and only to use, and control.’ The Are certain tactics more common train circulation in Montreal. pendence on oil is one of the most serious line is there in the rising tides of climate California refused to go to work for a amongst women/femme rebels? queer prisoner is on the bottom of the number of days. And two transwomen Kahnewake People’s Fire/CP Rail threats that our nation has faced. It bank- change that’s swallowing small island Generally, women/femme and men social ladder, just above snitches. The life in Washington refused meals in protest Blockade, November 16, 2016 rolls dictators, pays for nuclear prolifera- communities and coastal villages. It’s in for the transmisogynist harassment rebels share similar tactics. Although of the queer prisoner is one of gross dis- it often goes unnoticed, women pris- Canadian Pacific Rail and AMT com- tion, and funds both sides of our struggle the drought and forest fires that have respect, violence, and oppression, from they’ve been receiving by guards and against terrorism. It puts the American been incinerating the forests and wild- other prisoners. The largest difference oners have a history of taking over muter rail blocked for 24 hours by Mo- prisoners and pigs alike. Most prisoners we’ve noticed is that women/tran- cellblocks like in the 1974 August Re- hawks. people at the mercy of shifting gas prices, life of Georgia and the Carolinas for look at being queer as an abomination, swomen’s participation in the strike bellion and 1975 riot at a North Car- stifles innovation and sets back our ability seven weeks straight, and in the hurri- olina prison. Twenty-two women at an “We should be defending ourselves every as something nasty and weak. seems to be less sustained than some to compete.” canes and tropical storms that are tear- immigrant detention center in Berks way we can. The train blockage here was of the men’s facilities. – Barack Obama, January 26, 2009 ing apart cities with more ferocity every But on March 11, 2016, that narrative County, PA have been on a sustained a great success. A train did come at 2.00 was shattered after queer prisoners This is probably due to the challenges hunger strike since August of this year. year. No DAPL is the event that has in sharing information with women/ am. Warriors lit flares and turned on Pipelines are pieces of critical infra- went on the offensive against the pigs. We should not assume that women structure produced to satisfy the ener- allowed us all to meet; to find a com- transwomen prisoners. Much of the and transwomen are more passive. bright lights and went on the train to kind- mon struggle and the means by which One queer prisoner went from dorm to outside support efforts and resources gy needs of the global capitalist world. Other tactics include mutual aid and ly ask them to reverse. They did. The pas- we confront and attack the system that dorm inviting, exhorting, and encourag- have been directed towards cis-men in emotional support, particularly con- sengers who work in Montreal made other There isn’t a way to have operating free- men’s prisons, often because of preex- is destroying the planet and all that is ing prisoners to come out of their cells sidering the psychological assaults arrangements to get to work such as buses. ways, stores full of the latest electronic isting relationships and contacts. But women experience by guards and pris- sacred. It is one way that some avenge and join in tearing the prison down. another large obstacle has been that They supported what we were doing.” gadgets, military occupations of foreign on programming. countries, or Super Wal-Marts full of their ancestors, and produce, with all of One dorm refused and placed a lock mail-room staff at women’s prisons – Anonymous Kahnewake Mohawk It’s Going Down food grown by wage slaves in the glob- the others, a new way of thinking and and chain on their dorm’s cell door, have particularly repressive and quick Warrior to ban materials, sometimes even the October 8th, 2016 al south without the oil infrastructure. doing that breaks the prevailing stupidity. 30 39 DISRUPT THE FLOWS THIS WAS ABOUT UNITY WAR AGAINST DAPL AND PLANETARY ANNIHILATION A WAVE OF PROTEST SPREADS THROUGH THE MICHIGAN PRISON SYSTEM FROM SUPPORT PRISONER RESISTANCE - APRIL 20TH, 2016 SUMBITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - DECEMBER 6TH, 2016 Over the last month, thousands of pris- for @SpecialOlympics. Employees Levi got together in unity to stand together Hundreds of demonstrations have oc- spotlight, signaled an intensification of major artery for CSX thoroughfare oners at three different prisons in Mich- Bender & Adam Pancheri won best cos- against the severe prison conditions. It curred across Turtle Island to express the struggle, and raised the bar for what into and out of Atlanta with a wide va- igan have taken part in mass protests tume!” was a two-day event. On Sunday, nearly solidarity with the Oceti Sakowin and appropriate solidarity should look like. riety of industrial products and goods against the conditions of their confine- These protests are happening simul- the entire population (over 1200 persons) their fight for sovereignty against the It inspired revolutionaries, environmen- passing through along the rails: Auto- ment and as a demonstration of their taneously with work strikes in Texas came out of the housing units and stood on development of the Dakota Access tal activists, and indigenous groups into mobiles, Coal, Gas Tankers, lumber, collective strength. Prisoners at Kinross prisons as well as ongoing resistance in the basketball court. No one was allowed Pipeline (DAPL). These actions ex- taking action in their own localities. military equipment; nearly everything Correctional Facility began the wave of Alabama prisons, which recently saw a to play ball. That first day was to show our pand the struggle, by de-cententering The following is a short summary of you could imagine being transported protests on March 20th and 21st with series of riots at Holman Correctional unity. We looked like a solid wall made of the area in which conflict can occur actions that have followed the Sacred via train has been seen travelling on 1,000 of the prison’s 1,300 prisoners and where prisoners are currently call- bricks. I viewed it as a start of something and help transform supportive people Ground camp. these tracks. Barricades were erected refusing meals. The strike then spread ing for a work stoppage on May 1st. All greater to come. from afar into active participants rath- out of tires, scrap lumber and railroad to Chippewa Correctional Facility, also of this is happening in the lead up to a The next day, no one went to the dining Kahnawake/Montreal, Honoré Merci- in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on er than passive social media spectators. er Bridge Blockade, October 28, 2016 ties and other junk laying around the call by prisoners across the country for hall, unless persons had medical condi- #NoDAPL solidarity has mainly con- edges of the yard. Operations came to March 26th through 28th where at least a national prison strike on September tions. This was not a protest because we In response to the siege and violent sisted of rallies, marches, vigils, lock- a halt with several engines trapped at 800 prisoners refused meals for the en- 9th, the anniversary of the Attica Re- submitted no formal complaint. This was eviction of Sacred Ground, Mohawks downs at banks or intersections, graffi- the yard lead, and the mainline being tire weekend. Then, on April 12th, pris- bellion. about unity. The first and most difficult in Kahnawake territory erected a block- ti, speakouts, and in more recent cases jammed up, preventing any passage for oners at a third facility, the Cotton Cor- step. ade and shut down an onramp for 2 As of yet, the protests in Michigan do vandalism at pipeline financiers as well trains needing to pass through Atlanta. rectional Facility, joined in with about hours on Highway 132. Mercier bridge not show any obvious signs of being I really did not have great emotions over as the blockage of transportation cor- Members of the crowd of protectors lit 660 prisoners refusing meals.According is an extremely vital commuter link connected to the other rebellions go- the first day, because I am looking to- ridors essential to interstate commerce a major fire before dispersing, igniting to the media, the protests are sparked providing the only access across the St. ing on in prisons in other parts of the ward the end result. Yet what spark me, and resource extraction. This text seeks the creosote soaked railroad ties below by problems with food quality, but ac- Lawerence River from the south. An country. As people on the outside who and behoove me was the unity. It showed to catalog the recent gestures of block- the blaze. Significant fire damage was cording to the prisoner whose report- estimated 30 million vehicles use the want to see an end to prisons, it is our me the power in unity. An act I want to age and elaborate on why spreading an done to the tracks, requiring a day of back is below, “this was about unity.” bridge every year, with about 1.4 mil- job to connect them. By creating as be involved in in the future. Because it anti-infrastructural approach, with ma- repair and rebuilding, further blocking According to the Detroit Free Press: lion of them being trucks used for in- many points of contact as possible be- showed me that unity, without a demand, terial blockades along major transport traffic through the yard. dustrial/commercial purposes (about “Both protests were characterized by ex- tween prison rebels and rebels on the can bring an oppressor to the table with networks and clusters of production, 4000/day). Olympia, Washington, Blockade of tremely high participation rates among outside and by sharing news of their the hope of compromising in the interest may be an important weapon for lever- Union Pacific at Port of Olympia, No- inmates, which disturbed Michigan Cor- revolt, we create the possibility of help- of self-preservation. The oppressor rather Kahnewake, Canadian Pacific Rail aging power in the fight against pipe- vember 11-17, 2016 rections Organization officials and also got ing to spread prisoners’ protests, riots compromise than have disruptions. lines and their world. Blockade, November 3, 2016 A blockade was erected along a private the attention of the prisons’ administra- and other forms of resistance. Also, by The idea of not going to the dining hall Mohawks close Canadian Pacific tracks RECENT ATTACKS ON LOGISTICS rail line operated by Union Pacific out- tion, Gautz said. ‘It’s definitely something taking action in solidarity with prison came from Minister Louis Farrakhan’s for 5 hours at Adirondack Junction in Sacred Ground, also known as “Front- side of the Port facilities, in solidarity the facilities took seriously,’ Gautz said. ‘It rebels, we create multiple zones of con- reminder of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last Kahnawake Territory to show further line Camp” or “1851 Treaty Camp,” with Oceti Sakowin. Protesters essen- is unusual in a high school or a prison, be- flict and prevent the prison walls from speech. Dr. King stated, when a business solidarity with Oceti Sakowin. Their was established on October 23rd, 2016 tially halted interstate commerce for the cause there are different groups or cliques confining the prisoners’ resistance. We does not treat you right, then the people statement also says that the women as the only camp in the direct path of Port and other local business customers that form, to have everybody on the same never know when our small acts of sol- must show unity and redistribute the pain, have identified a link between the trains the DAPL. Without evicting Sacred (e.g. Mottman Business Park), includ- page. It takes some coordination.” idarity might echo back and add neces- through economic withdrawal. We recog- that travel through Kahnawake on the Ground, the DAPL could not be com- ing a train shipping fracking proppants When the strike spread to a third facili- sary energy to an ongoing rebellion. nize that Trinity, the food service provid- CP rail and the origins “from Standing pleted, and evict it they did. Hundreds bound for North Dakota’s Bakken Oil ty, The Detroit Free press reported that Below are some reports from prison- er, is a business, and that each meal is a Rock of the Bakken crude oil that is ex- of riot police fired tear gas, sprayed pep- Fields (the same oil set to flow through the MDOC suspects that “the protest ers in Michigan, two of whom were dollar in Trinity pocket. Thus, not eating tracted from North and South Dakota.” per spray and beat Water Protectors the Dakota Access Pipeline). The at Cotton may have been instigated by a involved in the protest at Kinross and for an entire day was a form of redistribut- with batons, pushing them south out Atlanta, Georgia, Rail Blockade and blockade became an indefinite camp, prisoner who was transferred there for give a striking report of prisoner unity, ing the pain. I got great pleasure of doing of the construction zone. Numerous Sabotage of CSX Transportation staying for almost a week before being assaulting a prisoner who chose to go including details not found elsewhere. that. Because at least 1200 persons learn arrests were made, but the Water Pro- Rail, November 4, 2016 violently evicted by riot police from to the chow hall during an earlier food The other provides an analysis of the a lesson that could be shared with others tectors did not go without a fight. Barri- A solidarity march made its way to three different jurisdictions. Fires were protest at Kinross Correctional Facility situation based on his experience in anywhere in the world. cades constructed out of trees, plywood, the CSX Hulsey Yard in East Atlanta, set on tracks leading through down- in the UP, Gautz said.” On March 20th, Michigan prisons. In the future, our movement must be be- automobiles (war ponies), and tires occupying it for 6 hours. The Hulsey town Olympia. as at least 1,000 prisoners at Kinross From a prisoner at Kinross Correction- yond prison conditions. It must be based were set ablaze. At night, rocks and mo- Yard is a major intermodal terminal, Kahnewake, Highway 132 Blockade, were refusing meals, the MDOC had al Facility, April 14, 2016: on repairing the capture and releasing re- providing rail-to-truck and truck-to- this to say: lotov cocktails were thrown. The images November 15, 2016 “In regard to the March 2016 events. The form men back into the community. This of the battle captured the international rail transloading services. It is also a Nearly 200 people gathered in the ear- “Chippewa Corr. Facility raised $2,164 religious groups and street organizations must be the next step. 38 31 It is my prayer that my experience will be the demo and about drug activity in the population.” helpful to others.” prison. I was included. After a week went From a prisoner at Alger Correctional From a second prisoner at Kinross Cor- by and some changes were made they were Facility, April 15, 2016: investigating who was responsible for or- rectional Facility, 14 April, 2016: “The prisoners at old Hiawatha Tempo- ganization of the demo. Their answer to “Without putting any names or pinpoint- rary Facility, now the new Kinross Correc- the problem was to retaliate against us by ing specifics we as a whole (General Popu- tional Facility (KCF) took action against transferring key representatives t oother lation) were tired of the living conditions, the terrible food the new private food ser- prisons in the state of Michigan. Even our the way officers treat us, and the food vice contractor, Trinity, is serving us. Chairman. It was a tactic to intimidate us that Trinity was serving us. All our com- and make sure we don’t do it again. But it On 20 and 21 March, Sunday and Mon- plaints and cries for relief fell upon deaf does not move our leadership. When one day, prisoners, about 1,000 (out of no ears. First, a peaceful stand off would take leaves another replaces him. more than 1,200) either refused to eat in place on the 20th of March 2016. All we the chow hall and/or all requested a sub We had a new election and I was nomi- were to do was to stand at attention for (vegetarian) tray, which wreaked havoc nated the Chairman again. I don’t know 35 minutes on the recreational commons on the system, either way. If they don’t go where this journey will lead us but we will area then disburse at the same time. In to chow and swipe their ID card, Trinity unite and rise again. They have struck sequence. We were closing our yard 10 doesn’t get paid. If they all request subs, not down some of our brothers but we won’t minutes early. There wasn’t a soul left on only does Trinity have to come up 1,000 abandon them. We may get weary but we the yard. The officers were stunned. As the subs when normally they might have 50 will find rest for the journey. We will keep shit was changing 2:45pm until 3:20pm prepared, they have to toss the 1,000 reg- hope alive that someone out there will hear they were witnessing the biggest peaceful ular trays they’ve already prepared. This our cries of affliction. Some of us realize demonstration in years. Every organiza- was a successful nonviolent action no mat- that we don’t deserve the life we live but it Top left: Prisoners set fires after taking control of their dorm at Holman prison in Alabama, USA tion, every gang, every white, black, and ter which way it actually went down (the isn’t up to us… latino renegade participated. reports I’ve received, the press and oral, On the 21st of March 2016 no one went Until then we are waiting to see if they are vary and our news channels, local, ABC, to the chow hall. Everyone sat in and ate going to prove good on their word. If they CBS, NBC, FOX and PBS were blocked Top right: Graffiti painted during anti-gentrification Halloween march in Montreal, CAN together. Whoever didn’t’ have they re- don’t put some of the key issues in play by on those days and the MDOC is trying to ceived from the fellow inmate. And this the time the heat hits this place is going to keep all newspapers with articles on this was coming from one of the supposedly blow up in violence. action out of these prisons). No prisoners violent prisons in Michigan. It lets you The thing about me is that I never took an were hurt and Trinity took it in the pock- know that we are fed up. And we were oath to join a gang but I’ve been part of etbook. Compared to what recently went Bottom: Barricades burning during eviction of Sacred Ground camp in Standing Rock, USA willing to unite for one common good. the Brown Movement all of my 30 years down at Holman in Alabama, this was a Every Wednesday we (Prisoner Block in. My life has been dedicated to serve my great success! Or the action in Tecumseh Representatives) meet with staff to discuss Latino people, but what happened here let State Correctional in Nebraska, for that our issues that effect the general popula- me know I am now devoted to the whole matter.” tion. On this particular day, no staff mem- ber showed up so we adjourn the meeting INTERVIEW WITH PRISONER ON SOUTH CAROLINA and walked out. The officers came running REBELLION AT TURBEVILLE Excerpt after us to get us back to the meeting. The What facility erupted tonight? the prison strike, etc? look of concern on their face was priceless. I think it was a tactic by staff to see where It erupted at Turbeville C.I. in SC. The strike news got us holding some our minds were at but it backfired. That Tough guard got mad because prison- long overdue conversations. The spirit day Warden Duncan MacLaren, Depu- ers didn’t obey a command. of Attica is in the air. ty Warden Hardwood, and Deputy Da- Why did things pop off? What happened? How can people support you? ley thoroughly discussed the changes they When the guard reached for their Help us by standing up for us in places were going to make immediately. Why mace, they were surrounded and beat we can’t go! I’m here for the people, did it take a demonstration to get them to up. the most oppressed…all the prisoners do their job? Who isn’t paying attention How did the guards react? that feel as I do. to daily activities? How relax could these When the other guards arrived like officers be that 1200 inmates could plan, they were going to jump on the prison- design and carry it out right under their ers, everyone stood up and ran them noses? Poor security. That is the reason out of dorm. why this place is so violent. How does this fit into everything else Several inmates were questioned about It’s Going Down already happening in the facility around September 27th, 2016 32 we have the opportunity to make de- ATLANTA: REPORT-BACK ON SEPTEMBER 9TH liberate and well-considered proposals SOLIDARITY DEMO Excerpt PROTEST, BLOCKADE, BANNERS TO for a society without police. In NYC we intend to put our organizing efforts to- There are those who wish to ignore, In solidarity with prisoners risking their wards this purpose: creating the foun- to defend, or to hide away the torture, lives for their dignity, a roving picket RESIST CCA SHAREHOLDER MEETING dational groups that can help people slavery, and isolation that occurs in this mobilized in Atlanta to bring the strike SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - MAY 22ND, 2016 country under the comforting banner directly to those who benefit the most evade prison society, while building re- of Justice. from their free labor. A feisty group of protestors took on At least four banners were dropped the as PIC-abolitionist resources and in- sources based on mutual aid outside the the annual shareholder’s meeting of morning of the demonstration along formation about solidarity with prison state apparatus. For example, some of We do not understand them, and they Marching behind banners and a sound do not understand us. system, picketers stopped at the loca- the Corrections Corporation of Amer- Nashville area highways dissing CCA’s rebels. Our strategy was to try to meet us are in the process of creating a Rapid tions of multiple prison-profiteering ica (CCA) in Nashville on May 12th. racist prison profiteering. folks where they’re at while offering info Responders Network for people who The practical destruction of capitalism requires that we continue threading corporations including Wendy’s, Mc- Among the 50 to 60 people who gath- on more radical perspectives on resis- can’t or don’t want to call 911, in turn Also, CCA employees arrived at the together practices of revolt and au- Donald’s, Starbucks, and major prison ered were former prisoners from CCA headquarters that morning to find that tance to incarceration (whether public removing their reliance on the authori- contractor Aramark. After disrupting tonomy, that we continue to sense out facilities, religious radicals, members their elegantly flowing fountain was or private). It remains to be seen how ties that hurt them when they are most business-as-usual at the Wendy’s, a the new realities emerging from our of peace and justice groups, and a large stained blood red. They shut it off, but effective this will be. vulnerable. movements. It is absolutely clear to us renegade police officer attempted contingent of rural queer and trans to use his cruiser to run over demon- the grim spectacle of the bloody pool Another set of questions arose around We will build our connections with that as we continue to get organized, folks, including many anarchists. strators who refused to get out of the was unavoidably visible to all of the en- the extremely mild response of the each other based on principles and that is, to give greater substance to our situation, to make it seem and feel street. In the McDonald’s, staff and One contingent held a steady presence tering shareholders as well as protesters police. In the aftermath of the Fergu- strength of character that cannot be patrons erupted into applause, shout- by the entrance to the meeting at the and passersby. Interested parties might son and Baltimore rebellions, police broken by counterinsurgency of reac- more and more real, that we will en- counter other forces which are either ing “black lives matter,” dancing in the CCA corporate headquarters, con- wish to note that dyeing fountains as a departments around the country have tionary forces less acute than us. We doing the same, or which are organiz- lobby, and demanding $15 an hour fronting shareholders and employees complement to anti-corporate protests responded in quite divergent ways. will esteem each other’s efforts publicly ing to preserve the current stupidity. from their bosses. None were scan- as they entered and exited, and hearing is very easy, quick, visually striking, and While some intensify their militariza- while also engaging in critical thinking dalized when demonstrators helped This deep ethical polarization, this from a number of speakers discussing hard to undo. tion and immediately deploy maximum themselves to free drinks and fries, about the repercussions of our actions. struggle between competing ideas of private prisons and exploitation. An- force against any potentially disruptive slashed cushioned seating, and cov- Some of the questions this demonstra- This will allow us to continually evolve life and happiness, signals the end of ered restaurant equipment with stick- other rowdy crew marched to a nearby tion raised for us: activity, others are taking a page out of and in turn resist recuperation by the the democratic fiction, the end of “so- major road and disrupted traffic, block- the “community relations” playbook, at- ers decrying prison slavery. As antagonists in middle Tennessee, an state and its lackeys. ciety.” Even the rich agree: there is no aded the road leading to the CCA head- tempting to cultivate a friendly and pro- area of the country not noted for ac- Most importantly, we will never yield one world and there never has been. quarters at two different intersections, free speech image as a means of mini- For at least forty years – since the last Demonstrations of complicity and sup- tive resistance – not in this century, at and never be cowed by state interven- * and confronted police before marching mizing conflict. The Nashville Police great assault on capital was defeat- port for the strike have echoed across least – how much should we prioritize tion/intimidation or reactionary forces back to rejoin the rest of the protest. An Department is definitely on this page. ed – crisis management has been the the continent and even the world. We cultivating ongoing relationships with vying for power or reform. It is clear activist shareholder from Prison Legal From the very beginning, the police preferred technique of governmen- hope to see these groups continue to others with whom we share (at least from the general trends in anti-prison/ News returned to the demonstration summoned to the scene quite earnestly tal control. Islamic terrorism, spree amplify the struggle against prisons. some) political ground at the expense of police organizing that those involved and reported on the proceedings inside, tried to convince us that shootings, illegal immigration, and We anticipate that the striking pris- a wider range of tactics, versus pursuing we’re on your in social movements are moving in a black revolt have all been used to jus- oners will feel more confident in their and energetic protesters harangued the confrontational action regardless of the side, we understand where you’re coming more liberatory direction, and thus a tify a regime of increasing police mili- actions knowing the solidarity that ex- profiteers as they left the parking lot. social cost? from, we support your right to protest more militant one. Meanwhile, those tarization, preemptive containment in ists on the outside, and that some who Attendees at the demonstration dis- (peacefully), we just need y’all to get out ghettos and jail cells, and the redevel- did not fight this weekend will consider This demonstration revealed some of subjugated by the most oppressive forc- tributed literature about CCA’s slimy of the road. In fact, it would help you get opment of city space in the name of fighting in the future because of this. the tensions among folks from different es of the state and capitalism are ready profiteering from racist mass incarcer- your message across more effectively if safety, resilience, and economic hyper We recognize that the free sharing political perspectives who are interested to buck the system. As anarchists, the ation, their role in promoting policies you weren’t annoying these ordinary folks productivity. Retired drones from the of potential – the liberation of life – in challenging prison profiteers. When current outlook calls for us to turn our that maximize sentences and destroy who’re just trying to get to work by block- war in Iraq hover over Baltimore while is bound up and directly implicated a member of a local peace and justice convictions into action and our ideas communities, scandals around corrup- ing traffic! C’mon, y’all, pleeeease? Terra Bella – one of Google’s latest in the ability of prisoners to catalyze group attempted to lead a chant of “Hey into reality. fancy purchases – plans to deploy sat- tion, riots, and deaths in their facilities One of the funniest moments of the crises inside the prison system. Their hey, ho ho, private prisons have got to Until all our free, none our free! ellite cameras across the entire plan- over the last year, and the particularly demo took place when a police sergeant success is tied to our ability on the go!”, others edited the chant to “ALL et. The existential ruin necessary to outside to initiate mass confrontations terrible conditions in CCA prisons that pleading with blockaders to get out of Burn down the american plantation! prisons have got to go!” While most of organize this much suffering has left with carceral infrastructures and their stem directly from their profit motive, the road was told that the person they - NYC Anarchist Action the feedback the blockaders heard from no one unscathed. In all of this, prisons proxy operations in retail and industry. as minimizing expenses on health care, were pleading with was an anarchist. function not only as the camps which other protesters was positive, we’ve also In these moments of struggle, posi- food, and other basic necessities trans- contain and repress surplus proletari- heard informally about some blow-back Cop: “So that means you don’t recognize tions have been taken which have be- ans unable or unwilling to be integrat- lates directly into more money for their any legitimate form of authority, more or gun to constitute parties grasping for from peace and justice liberals who ed into the dominant form of life, but shareholders. Protesters also promot- new ideas, tools, and strategies for or- would have preferred a tamer protest. less?” also as productive centers constantly ed the upcoming national prison work ganizing inside of and against the pres- Protestor: “Yeah, basically.” churning out passive tolerance and stoppage planned for September of this In the flyers and literature we produced ent apocalypse. spiritual destitution amidst a civiliza- year, handing out hundreds of copies of for the demonstration, we tried to strike Cop: “Well, believe it or not, I’m actually tion in decay. “This is a Call to Action Against Slavery a balance, including links and referenc- a lot more in line with that than you might It’s Going Down in America.” es to Prison Legal News and the an- think. No, really! But still, even so, you’ve * September 12th, 2016 ti-CCA divestment campaign as well got to agree that we at least need to have 36 33 SOME rules, right?” of us facing police departments that disrupt traffic and daily life around it, For those of us who cut our teeth at the are desperate to avoid Ferguson-type to connect with others who’re outraged A FIRE THAT CANNOT BE CONTAINED Miami FTAA or SHAC campaign pro- explosions, whose counter-insurgen- about prison profiteering and to expand SUBMITTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - SEPTEMBER 14TH, 2016 tests, this is not the kind of interaction cy strategy relies more on minimizing the range of tactics we felt entitled to The prison strike noise demo in New american flag was burned, barricades available and most efficacious in the we’re accustomed to having with police! arrests and positioning themselves as use. We also began building towards York City reinvigorated the revolu- were rolled out, and flares were lit. Pass- moment, towards the final goal of total We were able to block or delay traffic defenders of (peaceful) free speech, we the September national prison strike, tionary movement and demonstrated ers-by echoed chants of ‘Fuck the police’ annihilation of the status quo. On the right around the corner from our target may be able to plan more ambitious co- which we hope will catalyze thousands the strength of our new organization- and young people joined the march. other, the state itself is digging its own for well over an hour, and directly and ordinated actions and disruptions than of people both inside and outside the al forms. We saw independent groups, At one point, a roll door swung open grave. With every egregious act of vio- bodily defy explicit police orders with- we’d anticipated possible. prison walls to take action against all committed to prison abolition, congre- and people inside a gym clapped and lence and every dismissed conviction of out any arrests. This has us wondering We don’t have any illusions that CCA of the institutions and individuals that gating in the streets to escalate actions cheered as protesters passed. These acts a killer cop, they affirm to those watch- about the most strategic way to use or its shareholders give a hoot about keep incarceration, capitalism, and against state repression. However, this of solidarity further fueled the energy ing that their sole purpose is the main- this unexpected capacity for disruption us. But we were able to embarrass and white supremacy running day after day. was not simply a matter of anarchists of the crowd, with only one set of de- tenance of oppressive relations and in- with minimal consequences. For those harass the attendees at the meeting, to leading the march; rather, it was inde- tractors capable of bringing the energy stitutions. The wider acknowledgment pendently formed revolutionary groups down remaining: the liberals. However, of the irredeemable nature of the con- militantly resisting against oppression the usual complaints of liberals in the temporary plantation was evidenced in and raising the standard of rebellion in crowd such as ‘You’ll get us in trouble!’ the recent occupation of City Hall Park, the city. As we well know, the stakes of and ‘This is a shame!’ were completely which was held under the banner of po- resistance are a matter of life and death. disregarded. The rampant liberalism lice abolition, rather than the typical The choice between movement or mor- that has dominated NYC marches for liberal promotion of reformation. tality, dignity or slavery, and life or death, so long was totally eclipsed and the With the prison strike underway, a was reflected by the actions of those in ‘peace keepers’ quickly found themselves historic event initiated by the Free Al- the prisons. In the streets we wished to without their usual ability to dominate abama Movement and anarchist pris- display our commitment to destroying and stagnate. As expected, the militant oners inside, we have a unique oppor- elite society and our actions shed light discourse and action resonated directly tunity for action. The challenge we face on the growing anarchist movement in with the prisoners and those who need today is how to make the contemporary NYC which is preparing itself for the no explanation of modern slavery. underground railroad. The prisoners revolutionary challenges ahead. In addition, the police were baffled to inside are calling for the end of prison The connection between the hundreds an embarrassing extent. The two squad slavery, and putting their lives at risk, gathered outside of Brooklyn’s Metro- cars that showed up at the noise demo not just for themselves, as Lucasville BLOCKADE OF CORRECTIONAL OFFICER TRAINING ACADEMY Communique politan Detention Center (MDC) and were completely disrespected and the prisoner Keith Lamar pointed out, but On September 18, in solidarity with the Strike Solidarity” and other signs, while ber of administrative offices may be those imprisoned inside was palpable. force couldn’t pivot fast enough to keep for all the people swept up in the state’s national prison strike now in its second pumping some great Fuck the Police weak points where we can aim to make As chants were belted, banners were up with turns of the march or defeat dragnet, struggling towards the goal of week, a group of anarchists and oth- tunes from a mobile sound system. On the system immediately unworkable ers blockaded the road leading to the the count of three say ‘fuck the police’ on the ground. unfurled, and everything from frying the barricades. The Brooklyn-Queens a liberated society. Still, the question re- pans to car alarms were used to make Expressway (BQE) was taken for over mains, where do we as a revolutionary Correctional Officers Training Acade- – 1. 2. 3. In the context of Tucson’s recent his- my in Tucson, Arizona, occupied Toho- Some local residents in the extraor- tory of directly disruptive actions, in- music of liberation, those on the inside twenty minutes before a squad car fi- anarchist movement fit into this puzzle? no O’Odham land. dinarily wealthy area surrounding cluding multiple interventions against pounded on metal, flicked light switch- nally caught up, which was easily side- UNTIL THE SMOKE CLEARS All prison guards in the Arizona state COTA called the police upon reaching police-Border Patrol collaboration, es, and displayed cellphones in an im- stepped with a swift exit. In the end, ev- It is clear that we have the advantage prison system must attend the 6-week the barricades despite being offered a blockade of the G4S bus depot, passioned response. Demonstrators eryone made it home safely to continue of being able to operate outside prison training at COTA, and this action was clearance. We decided to bail with and the wildly successful blockade of banged in reply on a metal roll door, the celebration of resistance. timed to impede the arrival of the in- the blockade still intact, successful- Streamline buses which immediately walls. Any solidarity and support we echoing their rhythms. A few cops at- coming class. Participants built bar- ly avoiding any police interaction. For prevented jail time for 70 people in A MATCH LIT FOR THE FLAME can give is exponentially magnified in- tempted to quell the crowd with their ricades of chained together pallets, future reference, COTA is located Border Patrol custody, we hope that How did this happen in a city notorious side. As anarchists of New York, we will furniture and tires, adorned with ban- at 5601 West Trails End Road and is today’s experiment in direct interfer- car megaphones but their pathetic tools for it’s standing army of 40,000 police intensify our support for the Free Ala- ners reading “Free the Prisoners, Fire only accessible from the east end of ence while actively seeking to avoid of pacification were no match for the and its wealthy, stultified leftist liberals? bama Movement, the Free Ohio Move- the Guards” and “No Pipelines, No the road, which dead-ends at a gated arrests can also be an offering on how fire of the people. The booming sound Prisons.” Other banners were strung community. So, fuck everyone on that more of us can fight back and get away On the one hand, over the last few years ment, IWOC, and all those groups caused by both the inmates and those across the road, including one bearing stretch, right? with it in the future. multiple anarchist and other militant directly working with the rebels inside. outside completely dwarfed that of the only the names of Marcia Powell and In trying to disrupt the smooth func- In complicity with prison rebels and groups have been building deliberate- This intensification may come in many Mariam Abdullah, both of whom were cops and they quickly gave up. It was tioning of COTA, we aspired to find outside insurrectionaries fighting for ly and concertedly: some cutting their forms, from direct discussions to direct killed in the Perryville women’s prison. points beyond the prison walls them- lived liberation, right now. soon made even more clear from the teeth in the streets, others in discus- actions. The only constant will be our We remember them and will not stop selves where we can directly interfere meager outpouring of guards that they fighting to destroy the institutions and Against colonial prisons, police, bor- sions and organizing projects. Regard- fierce dedication to the war against the with prison operations. Training facili- ders, and the world they protect. were overwhelmed and outnumbered. individuals responsible for taking them ties, sites of logistical infrastructure less of the strategy, the important point state and its ultimate death. from us. We will escalate and we will win. As the demonstration morphed into such as prison bus depots, manufac- is that these groups are all coming up Being in the unique position of having a Further down the road from the barri- turers and distributors of law enforce- a march, the passion of that moment under the banner of revolution: their political position that has advocated for cades, another group blocked the road ment weaponry or other supplies, It’s Going Down erupted in the streets. Immediately an with a large banner reading “Prison cameras in the streets, and any num- September 19th, 2016 purpose is to act on whatever front is social organization without the state, 35