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Anarchists claim responsibility for torching local politician’s car

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On the first new moon of 2024, some anarchists torched a car in front of portland city commissioner rene gonzalez’s house. This was accomplished with a fire starter, which can be found in the outdoors section of any big box store.

Car of Rene Gonzalez's parents torched outside Portland commissioner's home
Fire damage to rear right corner, by tire.

Gonzalez lives in an extravagantly wealthy neighborhood adjacent to a golf course, where the roads have no potholes, the sidewalks are intact, and the countless “neighborhood watch” signs serve as a reminder to any poor outsiders and undesirables that this is not a place for us. The car was one of three at the residence and was parked in the street. Our only regret is not attacking the other two vehicles.

We dedicate our action to the legacy of our elders and those who have passed too soon: Sekou Odinga, Klee Benally, Alfredo Bonanno, Tortuguita, but most importantly Tyrone Johnson II & Isaac L. Seavey. Tyrone and Isaac are the latest victims in the ongoing executions of homeless portlanders by the cops. These state executions are implicitly & explicitly encouraged by the likes of gonzalez and other elected politicians in portland as well as the various corporate and lobbying interests who wish to see the city turned into a haven for wealthy tech-yuppies and a site of financial extraction for various hedge funds and developers.

The timing of our attack was intentional. As the city braces for the first winter storm of the year, we have not forgotten the winter storm last year that arrived shortly shortly after gonzalez banned portland street response, an agency under his purview, from giving out tents to homeless portlanders. It is not uncommon for folks to die during the weather extremes that are becoming common (and are fueled in part by the likes of the gonzalez family who own multiple vehicles). When extreme weather events occur, it is often anarchists who come to the aid of our neighbors. We consider our actions under the new moon an act of community self-defense and a form of mutual aid.

Let this serve as a warning to the politicians and their capitalist cronies and a call to action to other anarchists. Solidarity means attack!

 

 

Found on: Rose City Counter Info

Switch off Autobahn GmbH (Hannover, Germany)

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In the early morning of January 18, 2024, a fire broke out on the premises of the Lower Saxony Traffic Management Center in Hanover, where a car belonging to Autobahn GmbH caught fire.

“The night after the eviction of Tümpel Town, we went out and dedicated a car from Autobahn GmbH to the fire.

Autobahn GmbH is a target that is responsible for so many ecocides, evictions of forest occupations and industrial destruction.

With our action, we are sending a message of complicity with the struggle for Tümpel Town and expanding the area of struggle!

But we will not remain passive and put ourselves in the hands of the henchmen and the repressive, murderous, racist system.

We will find our answer to the destruction in a direct, anonymous attack against the existing conditions and will not allow ourselves to be controlled.

We are everywhere! Tümpel Town is everywhere!

In memory of Tortuguita, killed exactly one year ago by the cops in Atlanta Forrest.

In deep solidarity with the struggles for the forests.

Switch off the system of destruction!”

 

 

Found on: Scenes

Source: Switch Off

HPG Pays Tribute to Guerrillas Serxwebûn Serhed and Rizgar Çavreş

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The Press Center of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) has published information on the identities of the fallen guerrillas Serxwebûn Serhed and Rizgar Çavreş. The two HPG guerrillas died last Friday in the “Şehîd Helmet Dêreluk” operation against Turkish occupation forces in the Girê Amêdî resistance area in the Zap region of South Kurdistan. The HPG had already reported on their death on 14 January, but only gave their first names.

The HPG underlined that the operation, in which the Turkish army suffered heavy losses, “has determined the battle line for the current year. Guerrillas Serxwebûn and Rizgar would have overcome all difficulties and made the impossible possible, thus dealing a severe blow to the occupiers. Their practice has proven that a life according to apoist standards, military discipline, revolutionary seriousness, willingness to sacrifice and determination are the key to success.”

The HPG added: “The families of our comrades Serxwebûn and Rizgar and the Kurdish people can be infinitely proud of them. They fought with sacrifice and unreservedly and fell as heroes so that their people could live in a free country.”

The HPG provided the following information about the identity of the martyrs:

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New Contractors Identified at Cop City Site

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This week, more construction activity was observed at the Cop City site. Notably, some contractors have been hiding their logos to make identification more difficult, as seen in this photo:

One contractor attempting to hide identifying information is:
ATLANTA PAVING & CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, INC. [Owned by Ernest T. Lopez]
USDOT 674014
2775 MECHANICSVILLE RD
PEACHTHREE CORNERS, GA 30071
(770) 220-0228 – Office
(770) 220-2628 – Fax
atlantapaving.com
Three other companies were also identified:

Dîlan Kortak Militia of HBDH: Bombing of Armored Police Convoy in Istanbul

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Dîlan Kortak militia of the HBDH made an action with hand bombs against an armored police convoy in Esenyûrt (a neighborhood of Istanbul).

The Dîlan Kortak militia of HBDH reports that to celebrate the anniversary of the establishment of the PKK that it has acted against a police vehicle in Istanbul.

The statement said, “As Dîlan Kortak militia, we have taken action against an armored police vehicle in Esenyûrt with hand-bombs and sound bombs. The fascist enemy fled in panic from the action field. ”

The statement said that the action was reported to greet the hunger strike and their militias went successfully from the field.

 

Found on: Abolition Media

Double Attack Against War Industry Suppliers Aubert & Duval Steelworks in France

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On the night of November 19/20, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert and Duval Group:

 – In Firminy, we sawed down a pylon of the 220 kV line that supplies the site. It only fell partially.

 – In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220 kV line where the high-voltage cables were laid underground. We were able to get to the bottom of the shafts without any danger and place our devices there.

The Aubert and Duval company is a central cog in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines and for the Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.

Our action is in line with the International Call for a Week of Action Against All Wars from November 17-25, 2023, which was published on Iaata.info in early November (sorry, it’s a bit late…). We welcome this kind of initiative and in turn call for attacks on the military industry anywhere and everywhere.

What is certain is that our goal of influencing the military industry has been achieved. Although we do not have the means to know exactly how much damage we are doing, we know that these industries are aware that they are being targeted and that their vulnerabilities are being exposed by our actions.

 “Behind the war are ordinary factories”

As the slogan left on the site of an aviation factory burnt down in Beauchastel in March 2023 so clearly underlines, this is where the war that we are told all day long must stop and that it is unjust begins; and it is also made possible thanks to seemingly harmless deals.

Everyone is aware that global conflicts are increasing in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the residents of Gaza at an unprecedented rate and with broad political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who call for a ceasefire, respect for civilians and international law are producing the bombs that massacre in ways they claim to condemn there or elsewhere, as several billion people live in war zones; with the horror that it produces and that we know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would make us smile if it were not so macabre.

These wars are the tangible result of the military-industrial complex, its factories, its laboratories and its technicians. In France, the eight major defense companies – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval Group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for defense with the active and permanent support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its destructive power and export its arsenal around the world. Death machines that are used directly for massacres, as is the case with the Dassault fighter planes or the Nexter tanks and cannons that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are using in Yemen.

We do not intend to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. May our actions deprive them of their jobs for a while and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these actions and the words we write about them will help to make these invisible factories of death visible.

Our thoughts are with those who fight for their freedom, to those who confront oppression.

Let’s attack everywhere!

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/324270

Found on and translated by: Abolition Media

Another Pennsylvania Fur Farm Confirmed Closed

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Activists recently visited the Preston Fur Farm in Greenville, Pennsylvania. There they found each and every mink shed was empty of animals, and filled with various farm items and dilapidated cages. This was a very large farm, previously known to be murdering thousands of captive mink every year.

The fur industry is dying, and activists are pounding the final nail. Last weekend the ALF liberated 30 foxes from a farm in Ohio. Reading from their anonymous communique, “It’s all up to us, there’s no one else coming to push it over the edge. Now is the time.”

What are YOU doing this weekend?

 

 

Source: ALF

Athens, Greece: Text by Anarchist Pola Roupa: November 17, 2023. 50 years from the Polytechnic and my release from prison

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Pola Roupa: November 17, 2023. 50 years from the Polytechnic and my release from prison

“After 7 years of consecutive imprisonment (from the arrest of 5th January, 2017), 8.5 years together with pre-trial detention (arrested on 10/4/2010) and 13 years and 6 months in total, sentence I served for my participation in Revolutionary Struggle, I have been released. The symbolism of the day was strong as this year’s November 17th marks the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising of 1973. On that day, everyone remembers the dead of the Polytechnic but also all those who have fallen in the struggle for freedom.

For me, this day was dominated by the memory of our comrade killed in the activity of Revolutionary Struggle, Lambros Fountas. But in my thoughts is also the comrade Nikos Maziotis who, despite the fact that he has served 11 years’ “closed” prison and 14 years in a mixed prison – a very long period for a 20-year sentence -, the judicial councils of Lamia are refusing to release him. It is now clear that a unique status of exception has been imposed on Nikos Maziotis, as no prisoner in a similar situation (with charges based on 187A) and with a similar sentence (i.e. not a life sentence) has remained in prison for such a long period of time. This exceptional regime based on political criteria and motives and which in practice nullifies the institution of parole – which according to the law is mandatory and not “gratuitous”, given that it is not left to the personal will of the respective judge – this exemption regime must come to an end. In addition to the flagrant violation of his rights, this special regime of exception is reminiscent of a junta-style treatment of a political prisoner.

After spending many years in prison, it would be a lie to say that I am not thinking about the many dozens of female prisoners I have lived together with. On the occasion of the – by mistake I believe – publication that they “discovered” that I was released from prison because I am the mother of an underage child, I have to say that in addition to the fact that I have already served the years of detention required for parole, there is no provision by any penal code for discharge of a prisoner on parole because she is the mother of a minor child. Only article 105 of the Criminal Code of 2019 provides for house arrest for mothers with children under the age of 8, a measure that is not particularly applied.

Having lived with women for many years, I know that most of them have a central role in caring for people such as young children, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and their prolonged detention has a terrible impact on the lives of those who have remained alone, without their help. Conditional release for mothers of minors and for women who take care of categories of people such as those I mentioned above, is a provision whose absence from the criminal code demonstrates that the legislators do not take into account the pivotal position of women-carers in social life. It is a lack that often costs human lives.”

19/11/2023

Source: epanastaticosagonas

Translated by: Act for freedom now!

London,UK: Solidarity Action with Antifascists in Greece.

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London Solidarity Action with Antifascists in Greece.

Fascists across Europe scheduled a rally on November the 1st in Athens, Greece to commemorate a decade since the fatal shooting of two Golden Dawn members.In response to this, a dynamic antifascist front called for a counter-demo with the aim of cancelling their gathering. Unsurprisingly, the Greek cops – loyal to their fascist, murderous ideology and networks- issued a ban to all related demos.

On the day, they aided the fash in any way possible: by chasing, battering, harassing and arresting comrades from the large crowd of antifascists who showed up to defend their neighborhoods a d communities.

As a minimum act of solidarity with our comrades in Athens, antifascists from various locations gathered in Wood Green (North London), put up a banner outside an entertainment complex , leafleted and spoke to passers- by and working people of the area.

Source: Act For Freedom!

Bank of America and Chase Banks Attacked in NYC

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Stop Cop City organizers in Atlanta and Palestinian organizers everywhere have issued urgent calls to action. Comrades worldwide have been responding with fervor. To honor the recent Stop Cop City week of action and Shut It Down for Palestine day of action, an autonomous group of anarchists in occupied Lenapehoeking/NYC attacked a Park Slope Bank of America and a Downtown Brooklyn Chase Private Client, a branch devoted to the ultra rich. Walls were spattered in red graffiti, doors chained shut, locks stuffed with metal putty, card readers glued over. The message is clear: No business as usual until Palestine is free and Cop City construction is dismantled.

JPMorgan Chase and BoA pump billions of dollars into U.S. weapons manufacturers, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman, who supply weapons used to murder thousands of Palestinians. But enabling and profiting from a genocide abroad isn’t enough—they’re also donating millions to build Cop City, a military-grade police training facility in the Weelaunee Forest, the country’s largest urban forest and one of the few available green spaces for the largely Black and brown neighborhoods that surround it.

The physical structures of capital are vulnerable and we urge you to take action where you are at. The people arming Israel own everything – the targets are endless. Take the initiative to strike, to Stop Cop City and Free Palestine!

 

 

Source: Abolition Media