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Anarchist News & Practice It’s Going Down 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 Chilpancingo, MEX Seeds In The Snow: Anarchists Mourn Our Dead.......28 Destroy Gender.......29 Oaxaca, MEX Oaxaca, The Untold Story.......30 Montreal, CAN Montreal, Interview With Firehawk Of Unstoppable.......30 This Was About Unity.......31 Interview With Prisoner On Rebellion At Turbeville.......32 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 Milwaukee, USA Milwaukee, .......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 British Columbia, CAN Columbia, British 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 Clashes on the anniversary of the Ayotzinapa students’ “disappearance” in “disappearance” students’ the Ayotzinapa of Clashes on the anniversary Car burned during anti-police riot in riot burned during anti-police Car Cars are burned and stores are looted during anti-police riot in riot during anti-police looted are burned and stores Cars are Letter From Anarchist Prisoner Fernando Bárcenas.......52 Log loader sabotaged in sabotaged loader Log Some Disruptive Reflections On The Murder Of Compa Salvador Olmos .......53 Barricades block police movement as the summer’s revolt spreads across across spreads as the summer’s revolt movement block police Barricades A Flourishing Movement And A Laboratory Of Repression.......54 Action Round Up.......58 Front top: Front middle: Front bottom: Front top: Back bottom: Back Resources.......64 It’s Going Down has grown incred- tion day was interrupted by a hun- Next, a report from Nashville shifts the ibly since it’s inception. However this dreds-strong black bloc tearing apart focus to solidarity on the other side of growth is only a side effect to the mo- corporate stores in Washington D.C. the bars. Tennessee rebels describe new mentum building in the streets—the Cities across the U.S.—as well as Mon- challenges in this unique moment, and eruptions of revolt that have spread treal to the north—followed suit. With “A Fire That Cannot Be Contained” across the country at an escalating pace. this in mind, we have gathered several notes the qualitative step forward anar- pieces published or re-published on It’s chists in New York have taken, in con- 2016 ended on a dark note, with many Going Down over 2016 that we think text of prison strike organizing. of us mourning our friends who passed can best aid us moving forward. in December’s Ghost Ship fire, and “War Against DAPL And Planetary anxiously awaiting Donald Trump’s “What Anarchists Have Been Saying Annihilation” explores the blockade ascent to the U.S. presidency. Despite For Years” opens with a quick re-intro- tactic in depth, looking at the recent sol- the many somber moments of the year, duction to several basic anarchist prin- idarity actions with water protectors in 2016 saw many beautiful moments ciples for those who find themselves in North Dakota. Trains, highways, bridg- of joyful resistance play out across the streets for the first time this year. It’s es and more were blockaded, elaborat- the continent. Fascist rallies were met followed by “Unyielding Before Power ing an anti-infrastructural perspective with fierce confrontations in Anaheim, And It’s Repression,” an uncompromis- that can inform our future practices. Stone Mountain, Sacramento, Harris- ing text in the face of repression. The final selections take on various tac- burg—not to mention nearly every city Next are two report backs from the tical and strategic considerations that on Donald Trump’s campaign trail. A summer’s anti-police revolts: “Milwau- remain open questions in 2017. How teachers’ strike set off a massive rebel- kee In Flames” and “Welcome To The can our actions move from the symbol- lion across Mexico, mirroring the Oax- End Of The World” from Charlotte. ic taking of space and create cop-free aca insurrection ten years before. The “Open To Unorthodox Methods” is zones? Can we move beyond the punc- summer was marked with uprisings an interview on the uprising in Baton tual demonstration format and take ac- against police murders—Baton Rouge, Rouge, as well as other local dynamics. tion in exciting and inviting ways? What St. Paul, Milwaukee, Charlotte. There appears to be no end to the rage would it take to regain even a slight Fall entered with an unprecedented over racist police shootings, and the amount of autonomy in our neigh- strike in prisons across the U.S. This more prepared we are to contribute to borhoods? How do we engage with an strike involved a wide variety of tactics these eruptions, the better. increasing level of militancy amongst used by prisoners across the entire U.S. people who still cling to statist politics? The next series of essays examines the and even spread to Mexico. Solidarity We hope that you use this magazine to dynamics of various anti-fascist actions from the other side of prison walls was open these critical conversations with against the far-right and Trump’s cam- also remarkable, with accomplices in your friends and accomplices. Not in paign events. Multi-directional con- hundreds of cities stepping up to the order to distill the one true theory, but flicts between rebels, fascists, cops, and plate with banners, noise demonstra- to brainstorm and experiment in prac- liberals have become more visible as tions, attacks and more. A small en- tice. protests against Trump’s campaign and campment in North Dakota grew to the far-right groups he inspires gain Once again, we close with a round up of tens of thousands blockading the con- momentum. actions and a list of links to further re- struction of the Dakota Access Pipe- sources. The round up presents its own line. The struggle exploded after police We then take a moment to remember set of questions as well. Does creating raided the camp, prompting fierce street the comrades we lost this year with two lists of direct actions undermine the im- fighting and solidarity blockades all excerpts from memorial rallies. portance of other forms of organizing over the continent. Just days later, the “Destroy Gender” applies an insur- that support those who attack? Does unforeseen 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. 3 WHAT ANARCHISTS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND WHAT LIBERALS NEED TO START HEARING ORIGINALLY POSTED TO IT’S GOING DOWN - DECEMBER 8TH, 2016 On Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at es which propels this system forward ing attacks on the entire population as Texas A & M University, as FBI agents has continued to launch itself into basic social welfare programs are erod- monitored hundreds of protesters from overdrive. This year marked a horrific ed, unions are assaulted, and wealth the tops of roofs, heavily armed riot po- turning point, as we officially hit the continues to flow into the pockets of lice clashed with demonstrators bent 400 parts per million carbon milestone. the rich. on disrupting and shutting down an Now, many scientists and even govern- In the face of all of this, from a grow- 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 pus and long time white supremacist. avoidable and weather patterns are cur- workers, the poor, the environment, and The event featured a talk by Richard rently already changing rapidly. Revolu- those most vulnerable, many ask: where Spencer, a leading ideologue within the tion, in the sense that everything will be is the opposition? The answer is clear growing “Alt-Right,” which attempts to turned upside down, is inevitable.
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