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protect yourself." (ccrjustice.org PDF link) minutes. A Anarchist Periodical

It is unfortunate to have to prepare for such In our particular circumstances, we learned things, but this is the government that rules, which that scouting often hindered our ability to act continues to look more and more like a Nazi, fascist in windows of opportunity. So, we went with Germany as each day passes. We salute the people. our torches and protective gear on, and found numerous sites, feeling out the “vibe” of each Details of our peaceful direct action are as follows. situation, and deciding to act then and there, often We hope this information helps inspire others to in broad daylight. Trust your spirit, trust the signs. act boldly and peacefully, and to ease any anxieties to perceptions held that the state and these Having run out of supplies (the tanks) we decided corporations are somehow an "omniscient” and to return to arsonry because every action counts. “undefeatable” entity'. We used gasoline and rags along with tires (as tires Volume III August 2017 - FREE Issue VI burn a nice while, once a steady fire within them After studying intuitively how fires work, and the burns) to multiple DAPL sites and equipment. material of the infrastructures which we wished to COYOTES RETURN GENTRIEICATION IN MANTUA halt (metal) we learned that the lire had to be hot We were able to get more supplies shortly after enough to melt steel — and we have learned typical and returned to a valve site in Wapello County to Coyotes have been spotted again in the wealthy Mantua, a neighborhood roughly bordered by 31st arsonry is not allows the most effective means, but act again. It was then we discovered that oil was Mainline area ofsuburban Philadelphia. Previously and 40th streets and by Spring Garden Street up to every action is a thorn in their side. flowing through the pipeline. This was not reported forced out of communities by development, when Mantua Avenue, lias been seeing new constniction to the public, instead a story of “ditch depressions” predators begin returning to more populated projects, with more projected into the next year. On election night, knowing that gasoline burns was reported to the public in Wapello County as areas it's often coyotes that serve as a vanguard, An especially impoverished area, Mantua’s median quickly, but does not sustain by itself, we added the reason to why the pipeline continued to he returning to more urban locales for lack of other income for a household was $19,700 as of 2009, motor oil (which burns at a higher temperature delayed. adequate land-bases to serve their survival. Pel and 32% of land in the area was vacant as of 2013. and for longer) and rags to coffee canisters and owners, largely in the area of Villanova University, placed them on the seats ofthe machinery, piercing It is because of these lies we choose to come out have been advised to keep their domesticated Since then, due to its proximity to Drexel the coffee canisters once they were in place and publicly, to set the record straight, and be open animals indoors and to snitch on the wildlife to University and University of Pennsylvania, which striking several matches, anticipating that the about these peaceful and viable tactics against police, drawing a picture of inbred familiars and are directly south of the neighborhood, developers seats would burn and maintain a fire long enough corporate atrocities. to make the machines obsolete. One canister did [Cont. pg. 4] [C0nt.pg.5j not light, and that is unfortunate, but five out of If there are any regrets, it is that we did not act POLICE CONDUCT BUSINESS six ain’t bad. enough. TABLE OF CONTENTS Whether il’s Donald Trump’s advocacy for As we saw' construction continue, we realized that Please support and stand with us in this journey openly brutal forms of policing in his speech COYOTES RETURN - pipe was going into the ground and that our only because we all need this pipeline stopped. to cops in Long Island, which was greeted POLICE CONDUCT BUSINESS - means to obstruct further corporate desecration with cheers, or the National Sheriffs internal GENTRIFICATION IN MANTUA - was somehow to pierce through the empty steel Water is Life, oil is death. memorandum explaining the wr ays to best crush WHAT WENT DOWN - 2 pipes exposed at the numerous valve sites. We activist movements without repercussions for THOUGHTS ON CHARLOTTESVILLE - 2 learned that a welding torch using oxygen and Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya” themselves, it’s clear that the police continue to CALL OUT FOR INTERNATIONAL WEEK acetylene was the proper tool. We bought the maintain the status quo on behalf of oppressive equipment outside ofour city' in efforts to maintain Unicorn Riot has continued to cover this story since elites. Neo-nazi organizers at Unite The Right in OF ANARCHIST PRISONERS - 3 anonymity as our goal was to push this corporation they have turned themselves over to authorities on Charlottesville also suggested that the president DIRECT ACTION TOPPLES SYMBOLIC - 6 the off their back, beyond their means to eventually abandon the July 24th. himself was keeping FBI THE SCIENCE OF STATUES - 6 project. Wc bought kits at Home Depot and the and thus enhancing the fascists’ destructive SCUM BAG CO-OP TO ARMATMS WITH tanks at w’elding supply stores, like Praxair and capabilities. This fits with many critics’ “SMART WATER” - 9 Mathesons. Having no experience with welding MIDWEST PIPELINE SABOTAGE - 10 equipment before, we learned through our own [Cont. pg. 8] volition and we were able to get the job dowTi to 7

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June 28: Communist and anti-police graffiti in A battle may have been won, but at significant cost,

South Philly. and we are still losing the war.

Late July: A billboard in SW Philly is defaced with White supremacy distinctly pervades this society, memorial graffiti for David Jones, killed by Philly with people of color having to bear the brunt of police. the violence perpetuated by it on a daily basis,

and with much of it coming from so-called allies July 20: Banners are hung in solidarity with #j20 denying their inherent racism and accepting the VA' defendants. ways they benefit from it without specifically using

those benefits to combat it. So when outright white Late July: Anti-police and J20 solidarity posters nationalists feel empowered enough to publicly fly are wheatpasted in Chinatown. their flags and banners advocating racial supremacy MIDQJETC on any street, and therefore perpetuating violence CHESTER Late July: Graffiti in Greys Feriy in solidarity with against marginalized peoples, there is a battle COUNTY J20 arrestees, being lost. The least we can do at that point is show up to drive them out, as so many valiantly did in July 24: Anti-police graffiti in Point Breeze. Charlottesville. The most obvious cost, in this

particular instance, was the open vehicular attack Ml 'J.j A/f' July 24/25: Two residential construction sites and on a largely defenseless crowd of people, resulting a back hoe have their windows smashed in Greys in many serious injuries and one death so far. We then returned to arsonry as a tactic. Using tires the infrastructures which deny us our rights to Ferry. and gasoline-soaked rags we burned multiple valve water, land and liberty. We as civilians have seen

People of all sorts of backgrounds and affiliations sites, their electrical units, as well as additional the repeated failures of the government and it is August 7: Mayor’s new conferences on a littering showed up in a more commendable way then might heavy equipment located on DAPL easements our duty to act with responsibility and integrity, and environmental cleaning program interrupted by have been expected of a largely passive liberal throughout Iowa, further halting construction. risking our own liberty for the sovereignty of us protestors for David Jones. populace, but many of us seemed to overlook the all. fact that these bigots were deadly dangerous and Later, in the first week of May we attempted yet August 12: Protestors block the Vine Street should be treated as such. The murder of Heather again to pierce a valve located in Wapallo County, Some may view these actions as violent, but be Expressway following a vigil for the woman killed by Heyer was an act of war by a genocidal populace, IA with an oxy-acetyiene cutting torch. It was at not mistaken. We acted from our hearts and never fascists in Charlottesville, VA. and this war has been going on a long time - more this time we discovered oil was flowing through threatened human life nor personal property. than 500 years on this continent, alone - with other the pipe. This was beyond disheartening to us, as What we did do was fight a private corporation that August 13: A banner was hung from the Reading anarchists and antifascists being stabbed and shot well as to the nation at large. This event was again has run rampantly across our country seizing land Viaduct that read, “Death to White Power,” and in this country recently and murdered abroad. Still, hidden from the public and replaced with lies and polluting our nation’s water supply. You may pamphlets were thrown into the street in solidarity it is people of color more generally that receive most about “ditch depressions”, (ottumwacourier.com not agree with our tactics, but you can clearly see with the anti-fascists who fought in Charlottesville. of the violence, and I’m left wishing that I believed link) the necessity of them in light of the broken federal this will be enough to move us to match the violent government and the corporations they protect. August 16: statue in Center City egged. output of white supremacy before its advocates We stand here now today as witnesses of peaceful,

have another chance to promote it so openly, again. nonviolent direct action. Our actions have been We do not anticipate a fair trial but do expect August 17: “BLACK POWER” tagged on Frank those of necessity and humility. We feel we have our loved ones to undergo harassment from the Rizzo statue in Center City. Solidarity with thosebringing the fight to the fascists done nothing to be ashamed of. For some reason federal government and the corporations they and other perpetrators of white supremacy. In the courts and ruling government value corporate protect. We urge you to not speak one word to the August 17: Secret Service agents visit and question remembrance of Heather Heyer. For accomplices, property and profit over our inherent human federal government and stand firm in order to not the neighbors of a West Philly activist who had not allies. rights to clean water and land. be oppressed further into making false, but self- unfurled a banner reading “Women, Resist White incriminating statements. Film these interactions. Supremacy” two days earlier at the Trump Tower. We are speaking publicly to empower others There are resources as what to do if the federal to act boldly, with purity of heart, to dismantle agents appear at your doorstep, educate and August 19: Vandals deface Frank Rizzo mural with tags and paint, w 2 11 landowners and brutalize the land, water, and MIDWEST PIPELINE SABOTAGE people. Our conclusion is that the system is Call out for an International Week of broken and it is up to us as a individuals to take Anarchist Prisoners 2017

peaceful action and remedy it, and this we did, out Unfortunately two women decided to turn of necessity. themselves in for the actions described below This year, the International solidarity week for anarchist prisoners will take place for the fifth time, and are being taken to Polk County Jail. Both are from August 23rd to 30th and will be stronger than ever! We acted for our children and the world that being charged, thus far, with “4th degree criminal they are inheriting is unfit. There are over five 5 mischief for destroying the Public Utilities sign Some political prisoners are already supported, but many are not. Also, the supported often hold major bodies of water here in Iowa, and none of just before arrest. No charges have been brought authoritarian political views rather than anti-authoritarian or grassroots perspectives. Anarchist them are clean because of corporation’s flagrant yet for the alleged sabotage of the pipeline. Let’s prisoners are not often well-known people, even though they might be long term activists. Their ways irresponsibility, and now another wishes to poison learn from them and proliferate this resistance! of fighting oppressors and oppression are often illegal or criminalized by the state, which is frowned literally millions of us irreparably by putting us upon by some authoritarian organizations. Many are surprised to discover that anarchist prisoners’ all at risk of another major catastrophe with yet The press release can be read below in full: cases are numerous and diverse. another oil spill. DAPL has already leaked, and it will continue do so until the oil is shut off and the “The Dakota Access Pipeline is an issue that affects We wanted to choose a week, so that it would be as easy as possible to organize different kinds of pipes are removed from the ground. this entire nation and the people that are subject to expressions of solidarity. The beginning of the week was chosen to coincide with the execution date its rule. With DAPL we have seen incredible issues of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian-American anarchists, in 1927. They were convicted with very little On election night 2016, we began our peaceful regarding the rule of law, indigenous sovereignty, evidence, and many consider that they were punished from their anarchist views. direct action campaign to a Dakota Access land seizures, state sanctioned brutality, as well construction site and burned at least 5 pieces as corporate protections and pardons for their All are welcome to participate in the week of solidarity! of heavy machinery in Buena Vista County, IA. wrongdoings. To all those that continue to be Solidarity can take many forms, be creative! Details regarding this action are attached to this subjected to the government’s injustices, we The passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons! statement below. This was information which humbly stand with you, and we ask now that you was not shared with the public. We recognize that stand with us. Please report your events and actions to [email protected]. We list events on our page http:// our action wasn’t much, but we at least stopped solidarity.international/. On the pages you can also find examples of and tips on actions, and mailing construction for a day at that particular site. Federal courts gave corporations permission to lie addressed to support imprisoned anarchists, links to prisoner lists and more. and withhold information from the public resulting We then began to research the tools necessary to in a complete media blackout. So, after recently pierce through 5/8 inch steel pipe, the material being called by the Intercept, an independent used for this pipeline. In March we began to media outlet, regarding illegal surveillance by apply this self-gathered information. We began the Dakota Access Pipeline and their goons, in Mahaska County, IA, using oxy-acetylene we viewed this as an opportunity to encourage cutting torches to pierce through exposed, empty public discourse surrounding nonviolent direct steel valves, successfully delaying completion of action as well as exposing the inadequacies of the the pipeline for weeks. After the success of this government and the corporations they protect. peaceful action, we began to use this tactic up and RCHIST PRISONERS down the pipeline, throughout Iowa (and a part of After having explored and exhausted all avenues of South Dakota), moving from valve to valve until 23-30 AUGUST process, including attending public commentary running out of supplies, and continuing to stop hearings gathering signatures for valid requests for , the completion of this project. More information Environmental Impact Statements, participating on these actions is followed at the end of this in Civil Disobedience, hunger strikes, marches statement. and rallies, boycotts and encampments, we saw the clear deficiencies of our government to hear These actions of great public interest were hardly the people’s demands. reported and the federal government and Energy Transfer Partners colluded together to lie and Instead, the courts and public officials allowed withhold vital information to the public. these corporations to steal permissions from

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[“Coyotes Return” cont. fram pg. i wildlife both falling further victim to (sub)urban sprawl and civilization.

Whether or not some of these pets’ ancestors had chosen to domesticate themselves to accompany humans, it was the humans that furthered a breeding that sacrificed many a practical ability previously innate in the species. We see this most commonly in dogs bred for cuteness that may have inherent difficulties with such basic activities as breathing. Similarly, there was a larger-than-average reporting of farm animals in western states being eaten by wolves in recent years, as the predators continued to lose habitat to development and came across the dulled instincts of domesticated creatures intended to be led to slaughter. For tills tactical intelligence, the wolves were made targets for hunters immediately after being removed from the endangered species list.

The horror of human-sized assholes tormenting these beautiful predators from a helicopter before petition regarding a pipeline, it's a wonder there’s excerpt from "Scumbag Co-op to arm ATM’s with ’SmartWater’" murdering them with high-powered rifles was not stronger criticism of calling such relative via fire on the Horizon CUE) glorified in many a patriotic photo shoot, with the passivity' an action. And when a fundraising shit-eating-grinners displaying the carcasses of site drops an anarchist media project for its once-majestic. beasts. associations with “eco-terrorism,” it’s a wonder ATM raids have been on the rise on prison island in the last decade, a tactic imported from mainland that anyone spends time trying to legitimize the fortress Europe. The methods of raiding the ATM’s are listed below: In those neighborhoods of this region that “eco-terrorist” tactic in question for the benefit remain devoid of larger predators, aside from of those who subscribe to law' and order, rather Gas attack - one gas is piped into the machine, then another, using cylinders and pipes, the combining humans, there is often conversation concerning than embracing the tactic (however it is defined) gases result in an explosion w'hen reacting together. the overpopulation of deer. This is, of course, a and furthering the campaign to destabilize the reframing of a question to avoid considering the industrial w'orid. ATM raids involving a saw or angle grinder are most common in the north-west. impact of human populations on the landbase;

it r for was humans who drove out the natural Who are we but enemies ofthis toxic manifestation Black box attacks occur more in London, it involves a device being fitted to cash machines that causes predators of the deer through settler colonialism of society, at the very least, if not society at large? them to dispense all their cash. and subsequent overpopulation; it was settlers Society, that purveyor of so many systemic who promoted an ecological imbalance, with bigotries, conformity', and civilization. To deny' Another common method of attack involves raiders trying to break an ATM by smashing heavy fauna displacement going so far as to affect the our opposition is akin to a denial of anarchy, and machinery' such as a digger into the ATM.w health of rivers, as explained by George Monbiot; thus a betrayal of freedom. For when wre accept and it was settlers who poisoned what remained its frameworks - from language, to housing of the landscape and heralded in the sixth great developments, to punishment for attacking it - we extinction, now underway. offer ourselves to this society’s project of enslaving

the world and ridding it of wildness. So when fox cubs are said to be cutting the brakelines of automobiles in Germany, it shouldn’t be surprising that this is celebrated in some anarchist media. Alternatively, when local activist groups issue an “action alert” to sign an online 4 9 [“.Police ...” cant, from pg. 1] currently afforded to police misconduct. [“Gentrification ...” cont.fram pg. 1] small businesses may create new jobs for some Between 2008 and 2014 alone, 19 officers longstanding residents, but it will also make the repudiations of presidents and of who had been disgraced in high-profile have been cashing in on the cheap stock of houses neighborhood more appealing for students and government on the whole as a white cases of or corruption were and vacant lots and have begun moving more other wealthy new people. Since this will inevitably supremacist project that is just more reinstated to the Philadelphia Police force. affluent people and students to the area. Three- result In displacement, Mantua’s current residents openly embraced by the current regime The new contract also awarded Philly bedroom apartments are now being rented out for will likely not be the ones reaping the benefit of the than at some previous points. officers annual raises of 3% for the next up to $1,600 per month. neighborhood’s improvements. three years. Locally, we witness the structural become In 2014, President Obama declared Mantua and its The gentrification trend that is currently being personal as a Philly cop is accused of Again and again we find ourselves asking surrounding area a “Promise Zone,” which gives experienced nationwidehas its originsinthesecond sexually assaulting a mentally handicapped how to proceed if we want to abolish the it preferential status for federal funding. Mantua half of the past century, during which time capital women behind a school, which is said to police, when a sometimes critical though has since been awarded a $30 million “Promise moved to the suburbs, where land was cheaper and have security footage of the incident. mostly complacent populace can’t even Neighborhood” grant from the U.S. Department less developed. As a result, urban infrastructure That officer, Thomas O’Neill, retired imagine replacing them with a nicer form of Education, and a $600,000 grant from the and communities were abandoned and declined shortly after the accusations were aired, of control that would be equally interested Department of Justice for improvements to public massively until the current period of so-called but has yet to be charged with anything in maintaining capitalist relations. Some safety. One of the only significant changes to the urban renewal, in which real estate development more than a year later. Similarly, we see local commentators, in a graffiti medium neighborhood noted so far has been increased has returned to the cities to accumulate wealth off the viral headline reading, '‘Surveillance beneath the South 25th Street viaduct, police presence. of the now nearly valueless land and property and Video Shows Officer Allegedly Abusing suggested, “kill a cop, save a life,” and by displacing their former residents. High School Students” above a still frame encouraged us to “toast the cops with Residents of Mantua have been organizing over the of footage clearly depicting abuse, as our choice of cocktail” next to a stenciled past year to ask the city to rezone the neighborhood Gentrification is one of the major ways in which maintaining business-as-usual by Business picture of a molotov. as primarily single- family housing, so that it will capitalism has been able to continue accumulating Insider magazine. Pittsburgh officer Steve be more difficult for developers to build multi-unit wealth and sustain itself, always through the Shaulis is said to have called at least one Still, we wonder in the shorter term: student housing. The measure was implemented dispossession of certain populations — especially of the students a derogatory name before what would be the implications for the in June. iu deteriorating, post-industrial cities like the abuse began. This does not even speak October conference of the International Philadelphia. Gentrification has been one of the to Ihe many varieties of policing being Association of Chiefs of Police if resistance Mantua community organizations have also most visible and significant fronts on which capital exposed, like that of school officials and to their control escalated beforehand? negotiated with Brandywine Realty Trust and and the city have waged social war on black and staff who are also implicated in abuse at Would they move, postpone or cancel Drexel to deter the spike in home values that will impoverishment populations in Philly for over a the very same school outside of Pittsburgh; this event centered around strategizing inevitably accompany their new Schuylkill Yards decade now. or that of corrections officers, like Corporal about community relations — those same development, a 14-acre district of laboratories, Ambrose Obinna-Warrior, who was recently relations that aid deescalation of uprisings offices, housing and shopping that is slated to start Philadelphia continues to have one of the most indicted for sexually assaulting prisoners in reaction to violent police conduct? this year. Brandywine has agreed to spend $5.6 rapidly accelerating gentrification rates in the in Baltimore. million in Mantua, which will include spending country. Studies have shown that gentrification The Kurdish YPG and YPG in Rojava are on affordable housing and small business has resegregated Philly neighborhoods, as clusters In Philadelphia, police shootings have said to he maintaining a society free of development. of white populations are spreading and moving been rampant over the past few weeks. police by arming every member of their racial boundaries block by block, pushing out black Police shot a man to death in North Philly populace, but only after they pass a course Gentrification often brings in what residents populations rather than gradually mixing in with on August 11th, and shot another man on feminism. More questions arise as to understand to be improvements to an them. While community organizations have had in North Philly on August 8th; he was in whether any aspect of that would work impoverished neighborhood, alongside new very little success so far in convincing developers hospitalized afterwards and his condition locally, or if other forms of policing arise development projects that are more blatantly for and officials to change the course of development, is unknown. No officers were injured in out of that relationship — but it is also an profit and new people. While the neighborhood’s consistent vandalism directed at the local forces either incident. Seven cops shot a man in idea that can be drawn from. longstanding residents are often the ones and symbols of gentrification — from attacking Kensington on July 19th. advocating for such improvements in order to University City District security warehouses to offset the negative impact of new development, tagging small businesses and removing security Meanwhile, Mayor Jim Kenney signed a new these changes also serve corporate developers’ cameras on new apartment buildings, to name a three-year contract with the Philadelphia purposes by improving neighborhood conditions few actions claimed over the past year — has helped Police Union this month that makes and attracting new residents to the area. In a deter and slow down unwanted development in no attempt to instate new disciplinary neighborhood like Mantua, which is notorious the areas of Philly near Mantua. measures or reform the vast protections 8 for not having a grocery store, opening up more 5 rid of statues of colonizers and of slavers or cleaner at your local hardware store. They also Aaaaand PSS: Your stomach acid is HC1 so if DIRECT ACTION TOPPLES , schools that colonizes the minds of youth, and sell it as a pool chemical. It might be called you can’t spray a statue with lab grade acid, SYMBOLIC prisons that forces inmates to work? How are “pH down” or something like that. feel free to vomit on one. residents to decide when to stop taking down Confederate statues have re-entered the public symbols of racism? Maybe when there are So go forth and do science. dialogue about race and power in the United none left? States. Following the white supremacist rally Tiny PS: If you’re doing a jog-by splashing, in Charlottesville that murdered anti-fascist *Thorfinn Karmesin was an Icelandic colonizer you want to use an HOPE bottle to put your protester Heather I-Ieyer it has been difficult aka a viking. Fie led a voyage to “North acid in. Nalgene works great. to ignore the connection between the current America” and was driven out by the indigenous generation of racists and the symbols of white people in around 1010 AD, about 500 years supremacy they are willing to kill to protect. before Christopher Columbus. His statue in The reason the was to Philadelphia has been used as a rallying point take place was to protest the removal of a for local fascists to celebrate white supremacy statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. on Leif Erikson day every October. In Philadelphia statues of Confederate are nowhere to be found, but this is no reason for residents to believe they have nothing to do when it comes to statues.

When commenting on the removal of Intersection Confederate statues around the country president Donald Trump said, “This week it’s Robert E. Lee. I notice that Stonewall THE SCIENCE OP STATUES

Jackson’s coming down, I wonder, is it George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Yon ever see a statue rust? No? Because they’re Jefferson the week after? You know you really made of bronze. do have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” He’s right! This is an important question to ask. Bronze is mostly of copper, because it Resideiits of Philadelphia must ask themselves, made doesn’t corrode in nature. But, like a rusty car, if they are truly against white supremacy why once corrosion starts it’s really hard to stop. stop at the removal of Confederate symbols? There has already been a lot of talk of Copper degrades into copper chloride, which removing the statue of Frank Rizzo in Center is crumbly and not a statue material. City (the mural of him in the Italian Market good So, if you ever want to take down a bronze is the most defaced in the city). A statue of statue you’re going to want to spray the base Icelandic colonizer Thorfinn Karlsefni* in with hydrochloric acid, followed by hydrogen Fairmount Park has been vandalized at least peroxide, then just walk away. twice. Monuments to Christopher Columbus sit peacefully undisturbed in South Philly and You can even do this hours or days apart. along the Delaware river. Old City is an entire Chemistry, like love, is patient. don’t even neighborhood memorializing the colonial You need the hydrogen peroxide; it’s just faster. foundations of the country. These are just scratching the surface. You can find hydrogen peroxide at any

pharmacy or grocery store. HC1 (hydrochloric Let’s take it further still. When looking around acid) can be ordered at any lab supply. I like the city one can’t help but notice that there are Antec. 1 is also known Muriatic acid, symbols of white supremacy everywhere, and HC as which is what it will be called on the concrete most of them are not even statues! Flow can residents be asked to choose between getting 6 7