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Nationwide Subsidiary Attacked in East Bay Area, CA

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On the early morning of Wednesday, November 22, I smashed all 7 windows within reach at Pcf Insurance Services in Walnut Creek, CA. I also painted “Uncover Cop City” on the front of the building so they’d know why I came. Pcf is a subsidiary of Nationwide, which I learned from Nationwide’s own website at https://agency.nationwide.com/ . Nationwide is the insurance provider for Cop City, and they have thousands of locations like this all across the country, also listed at uncovercopcity.blackblogs.org. Without an insurance provider, Cop City can’t be built.

Breaking windows is simple and exhilirating. Remember that video where the Atlas exec said they dropped the contract because so many of their windows got smashed? Let’s do that to Nationwide 🙂

Viva Tortuguita!

Viva Weelaunee!

Hasta la victoria siempre!

 

 

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Cop City-Affiliated Concrete Company Attacked in Raleigh, NC

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Cop City-Affiliated Concrete Company Attacked In Raleigh, NC

On the night of November 19th, we snuck onto the Raleigh worksite of Thomas Concrete, one of several southeastern companies contracted to help build Cop City. We smashed the windos of their office, disabled a half dozen or so concrete trucks by cutting their tires’ valve stems, and left “Stop Cop City” and “For Tort” painted around the site.

Thomas Concrete has multiple offices and worksites throughout the Southeast. We encourage others to visit them day and night, in groups large and small. We also salute the recent attack on Ernst concrete trucks, and hope people keep the pressure up on Brasfield and Gorrie too!

Because the Israeli “Defense” Forces hope to train at Cop City, we also did this small action in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.

Much love to the people who tried to block cop city last week. There are no “good” or “bad” protesters. There is no “Violence” and certainly no “Nonviolence.” Retreating into these categories is a step backwards into nonsense and confusion. So let’s not.

Love to everyone resisting in whatever ways they can.

From the river to the sea.
Cop city will never be built.

-some anarchists

 

 

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

SABOTAGING HUNTS: OCTOBER ROUND UP

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Action against the intensive badger cull continued throughout October. Many speculate about the political interests of culling badgers in the future, following recent statements from politicians but, even if it were to be ‘phased out’ by a successive government post-election, much of the damage has already been done as 210,000 badgers already murdered since 2013. Besides, this has not stopped the 29 zones from continuing this year, which has maximum target of 24,000 individuals, and is unlikely going to make a difference to the government licenses that have been issued for the upcoming years. These figures are incredibly bleak but they could be much higher if it wasn’t for the action being taken against cage trapping and free-shooting. The desperation to kill has been quite obvious with Underground Badger Syndicate smashing cages soon after they had been replaced, multiple times. This repetitive behaviour was also seen by Derbyshire Against The Cull, joined by neighbouring hunt sabotage groups, who have stopped the same shooters night in, night out. Hunt saboteurs elsewhere in the country have responded to cages they have found, sometimes while out stopping a cub hunt, showing that anyone can produce results by checking up on a local sett. Intensive culling is intended to be carried out over a 6-week period but licenses in multiple zones have been granted extensions, which is a strong indication that direct action is causing major problems for badger killers.

Proposals for badger culling in Northern Ireland have been foiled following a judicial review spear headed by Wild Justice and Northern Ireland Badger Group. Though there is likely to be further pressure from Northern Ireland’s Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to appease wildlife killing farmers, there is a relief that for now that the plans to kill 4,000 badgers a year aren’t going ahead.

Fox and Hare hunts have continued to feel the pressure as they attempt to hunt fox cubs and leverets in preparation for the upcoming main hunting season. Sabotages groups across the UK have been relentless, with some active multiple times of the week, including West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs who were out 6 days in just one and Mendip Hunt Sabs who disrupted three hunts in one day. Later in the month, some hunts had their ‘opening meets’, which mark the start of the main hunting season, such as the Pimpernel Beagles who were forced to pack up on the first day of the hare hunting season following the arrival of saboteurs from North Dorset. Two saboteurs from this group were also targeted at their homes and had vehicles attacked, following the groups’ sustained pressure on the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt. They responded by stating ‘as history has shown, violence never makes sabs go away’ and that they continue undeterred.  Alongside other sabotage groups as well as Wildlife Guardian, they also have targeted stag hunts throughout the month.

New legislation in Scotland came into affect on 3rd October, which is believed to close loopholes in a previous law and effectively outlaw hunting with packs of hounds. Though it is important to understand the limitations of political reform and that the state is not the answer, this legislation has undoubtedly been a disaster for hunting. The Lanarkshire & Renfrewshire Hunt, who have existed for 250 years, have already folded while the Fife Foxhounds have claimed to switch to drag hunting; where hounds hunt a genuine non-animal based scent, unlike trial hunting. Glasgow Hunt Sabs stated: “Our sabs along with our predecessors have worked tirelessly for decades, working towards this momentous day.” Though sabotage groups played a considerable of part in this, this achievement is an example of how communities and wider society, using a variation of methods, can pressure the government to make change. The behaviour and longevity of the 8 remaining hunts in Scotland is yet to be seen, and will not go unchallenged.

Paul Allman, a hunt saboteur from Stockport Monitors who was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison, has been released. Messages of support and solidarity to him via the group are still appreciated as adjusting to life after prison can be difficult. His incarceration should be a reminder that the legal system is ultimately not on our side, even if there we have the odd legal victory. The state is not the answer. We are.

NO LIFE LIKE THE WILD

 

 

Source: Unoffensive Animal

Lawrenceville business Ernst Concrete whose trucks were burned says it’s not pouring concrete foundation for ‘Cop City’

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“Ernst Concrete would like to correct some of the inaccurate information that is being circulated in the media,” the company said in a statement.

“Ernst Concrete is not the concrete foundation company for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. At the request of one of Ernst Concrete’s local customers, Ernst Concrete supplied two loads of concrete for the roadway surrounding the project.”

pictured here is Ernst Concrete onsite prior to the arson attack pouring the curbing for the training facility

Ernst Concrete through this statement wants to make it known and clear that it will not be pouring any more concrete for the Atlanta Police Foundation.

Brent Scarborough, the subcontractor under Brassfield and Gorrie, has yet to make the same decision.
Brassfield and Gorrie, after an onslaught of attacks against their equipment,

“have told the Atlanta Police Foundation and the city that if more their equipment gets torched they’ll pull out of the job”.

 

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

NYC: REPORT FROM 11/9 WRITERS BLOC ACTION AGAINST NYT

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A ringing gong signaled a breakaway from the thousands-strong rally (swelled by student walkouts earlier in the day) on the steps of Manhattan’s iconic public library to the offices of the failing New York Times.

A sizable crowd gathered outside in support of those who had already established themselves in the plate glass lobby, cacophanously reciting from a freshly printed newspaper titled THE NEW YORK WAR CRIMES: listing the names of murdered Palestinian journalists and youth (beginning at age 0 and reaching 17) reappropriating the authoritative papers’ manner of eulogizing mass death, usually reserved for the citizens of empire. The occupiers read their names aloud and also individually called out the members of the editorial board – “Blood on your hands!” The self-published WAR CRIMES, printed by the thousands, covered the floor and, when held up, protected the crowd from surveillance.

For an action of writers, the crowd outside kept the words succinct:

A chant of “NYPD / IDF / Both of them mean fucking death!”

A litany of names of the dead

A banner reading simply: Lies

A strained voice still mustering Allahu Akbar!

Before long, the neighboring Starbucks and an NYPD vehicle became canvases for the scribes. That vehicle lost its back window and the air from its tires in an opportune moment. Pure fucking poetry!

Once the cue was taken, others swiftly followed suit. Another NYPD van was spotted around the corner from the first, also emblazoned with the words “Free Gaza”

An unaffiliated passerby enjoying an evening walk could be seen retrieving a souvenir from the shattered back window (with one hand, and reportedly a bottle of henny in the other.)

Scrawls illuminated the bond between the IDF and NYPD, likening both to the KKK, the American epitome of white supremacist terror. Semi-civilian military forces, which train in tandem, the IDF and the NYPD, kill with impunity, abet mass incarceration, and enforce strategies of ghettoization which the Nazis admired in the US and which Israel now applies to Palestinians through forceful cognitive dissonance.

These actions were sparked and rooted in inexpressible grief and rage. Those lost were entire universes, not to be calculated, measured, or forgotten.

Breaking away from a larger demonstration, with its slow marching in circles, ruptured the expected formula of protest, injecting the crowd with confidence, a slight step ahead of the police. Perhaps in part to avoid the optics of censorship, no arrests were made.

After weeks of desensitized brutality, feelings of futility and complicity here in the belly of the beast, we welcomed this opportunity for another type of action. Armed with imagination, we find possibility.  May it grow!

Find your friends!

Fight where you are!

INTIFADA!

-NYC union of book thieves, plagiarists, and ranters

4 Targets Attacked for Palestine: BRB Part 4

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Four Offerings

Heartbroken, raging, yet tenderly hopeful, we began a series of actions across multiple Bay Area cities in unconditional solidarity with Palestine. We attacked four targets, one financial, one military, one corporate, and one tech:

1.) Under the surveillace of Transamerica building security across the street, we smashed the windows of HSBC for maintaining business relations with more than a dozen companies selling weapons and technology to the Israeli military.
2.) With personnel still inside, we smashed the windows of a US military recruitment office because the US is Israel’s primary source of military support.
3.) We smashed the windows of a Starbucks for their repression of pro-Palestine unionized workers.
4.) Sneaking past their security, we drenched 8 Cruise cars with red paint for being a subsidiary of General Motors, which has offices in Israel and is invested in Mobileye, an Isreali self-driving car surveillance technology company.

These attacks are also a continuation of our ongoing revenge for Banko Brown, in solidarity with Sean “Tucan” Monterrosa and Tortuguita, and in response to the call from Filipino/a/x comrades asking anarchists in the US to memorialize Jennifer “Ganda” Laude.

Continue reading “4 Targets Attacked for Palestine: BRB Part 4”

RECLAIMING BACK BUS STOP ADVERTISEMENT, THE EASY WAY

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Disclaimer for the feds: Incite, Conspire, Inspire is a solely-for-fun section never designed to give real advice. The tools, tactics, and ideas given in the series are only meant to entertain. We would never dream of anyone using any of these tools as a form of dissent, and we do not promote, partake in, or condone any illegal activities that might derive from said tools.

You don’t always have to carry a 6-sheet poster with you if you want to do some ad hacks. For a quick, opportunistic, and on-the-go kit that you can easily fit in your bag, you’ll need:

A marker: the bigger, the better
H60 security pin
Tx30
Four-way utility key

Once you’ve done a quick scan to make sure there’s no cops or security around, you can locate the lock. The placement depends on the model, but usually you’ll find it in the bottom corner or middle on the side of the ad. Once you’ve located the lock, take a look and see which of your tools you’ll need. Often, you’ll be able to just pop open the ad with one tool, but sometimes the first lock will just open a panel and you’ll have to locate the keyhole. Remember, some ads open incredibly easily while others are fiddly and mechanisms can be rusty and stiff. Just take a breath and keep trying.

Now that you’ve opened the ad, you can pull the perspex door back as far as it’ll go and start making changes to the existing ad, turn it around and use the other side, or get rid of it entirely.

Brandalism has this great PDF if you want to do some further reading:
 http://brandalism.ch/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Bus_Stop_Ad_Hack_Tutorial_web.pdf

The website ‘Public Access’ tells you the exact tool you need to open the advertisement screens in your city.

http://www.publicadcampaign.com/PublicAccess/Index.html

You should be able to find all the tools you’ll need at your local hardware store.
Good luck reclaiming public spaces from advertisers.

 

 

 

Source: Unoffensive Animal

EGG LAYING HENS FIND FREEDOM AFTER A ‘WELFARE CHECK’

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3rd November, North UK.

“With so much talk recently about cage-free being better for hens, we wanted to see for ourselves. We went to a free-range farm to see how much ‘better’ it really is for the hens and it was fucking disgusting. Dead and dying birds were everywhere. The rest had next to no feathers left. They are so stressed that they pluck each other. Never trust an animal welfare group who is promoting shit like cage-free or ‘better commitments’ for chickens. It will NEVER be okay to do this to anyone.

We took our chances, as the farmers were asleep in the house next door, and we liberated 49 beautiful souls. They will now receive the love and care that they deserve and will never be killed for profits.

This action is in solidarity with the recent egg investigations that have been released in the UK and we hope that it inspires more people to go fuck the system and smash these scum fuck places!!!”

 

 

Source: Unoffensive Animal

Explosive Attack Against Business Owned by Turkish Fascist Murat Şahin in Zurich, Switzerland

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Last night (2.11.2023) we blew up the front door of the Netto store in Schlieren, Zurich. The store belongs to Falken GmbH or Murat Şahin. Murat Şahin is the long-standing head of UID (Union of International Democrats, a Turkish Nationalist NGO) Switzerland, a central organ of the AKP’s European operations. In the past, he has repeatedly organized Swiss appearances by high-ranking members of Erdogan’s palace and he is in and out of the Turkish consulate in Zurich. Let’s attack the fascists where we find them!

In recent weeks, the Turkish war policy of the fascist AKP-MHP regime against Rojava has explicitly targeted civilian infrastructure. Among other places, electricity plants and the water supply were bombed – with the explicit consent of US imperialism. What secures the lives of all was destroyed by Turkish air strikes. Let’s not forget that this is happening against the backdrop of a long-standing blockade against Rojava, which has been aiming at cutting off the people (and thus the basis of the revolutionary process). Let’s not forget that the weekly murderous drone strikes against cadres of the movement, as well as against journalists and representatives of the political structures there, are part of everyday warfare in Rojava. Let’s not forget how in the free Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq the Turkish state (with the support of the corrupt Barzani regime) is trying to destroy the guerrillas with barbaric means such as poison gas, because they are the hearts and minds of the freedom movement.

Let’s not forget any of this. Let’s keep pace with the Turkish war against Rojava and against the Kurdish freedom movement by attacking on many levels in the different phases of the war, but never pausing, never giving up the initiative. Just as the comrades of the HPG (People’s Defence Forces, military wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party / PKK) did, for example, when they mercilessly demonstrated to the fascist regime on the day of the opening of parliament in Ankara that they could be attacked even in the lion’s den*. No matter how many obstacles lie ahead of us, the fight for freedom seeks and finds ways to put the oppressors in their place and thus fan the flames of hope again and again. Flames that are also fanned by other armed forces, such as those of the HBDH (Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement) in Turkey, when the factories and vehicles of AKP politicians are set on fire.

This line of not allowing the fascist forces of the AKP-MHP regime, the current main enemy of the revolutionary movement in Turkey and Kurdistan, a quiet hinterland, but rather hounding, chasing and attacking them, so that a permanent look over the shoulder becomes their companion, is a line that we can continue seamlessly here. We know well enough how important organized support from the Turkish diaspora in Western Europe is for the survival of the regime in Ankara, be it in the mobilization of reactionary masses or in the financial support of the palace. Let’s not allow them a quiet hinterland, let’s increase their unease, let’s sow insecurity within their ranks. And let’s honor the memory of those many comrades-in-arms who fell on the road to liberation. Sehid namirin – Comrade Şervan Karadeniz, Comrade Arin Mirkan and all the other comrades: the worldwide revolutionary movement will take up and continue your struggle!

#Fight4Rojava

*Translation Note: Refers to the HPG self-sacrifice attack against the Ministry of the Interior in Ankara by the Brigade of Immortals (Tabura Nemiran) on October 1st

Source: Barrikade

Translated by: Abolition Media

Site of Replacement 3rd Precinct in ‘minneapolis’ Vandalized to Honor 2020 Uprising and in Solidarity with Palestine

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On November 2, 3 years 5 months since the colonized and enslaved masses of these lands brought the u.s.a. to its knees, the local administrators of settlerism in occupied Mni Sota Makoce–city council of so-called ‘minneapolis’–voted to approve a replacement site for the 3rd Precinct.
Located half a mile away from that fateful intersection where a three-day siege ended in beautiful triumph over the anti-Black pig power structure, the new precinct, at 2633 Minnehaha Ave, is being rebranded as a “Community Safety Center.” 

Inspired by BRB on the west coast, Anti-Colonial Action Brigade (ACAB) paid a visit to the site early morning November 6. We tagged the building with ‘MNI SOTA TO GAZA,’ ‘OFF THE PIGS,’ ‘ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS,’ ‘FREE PALESTINE,’ ‘UPRISING 2 INTIFADA,’ ‘FUCK THE POLICE,’ FUCK ZIONISM,’ ‘FUCK 12,’ ‘DEATH TO AMERIKA,’ and smashed one window.

This small action should serve as a reminder and a warning that the rebels, insurgents, and looters of 2020 are still out there. The anonymous lumpen/prole rage of the oppressed may seem pacified for the moment, but all it takes is a single spark. Like Cop City, if they build it, we will burn it. Any attempt at construction will be met with destruction.
And finally, we are hoping to begin applying what we have learned from the Palestinian Resistance. What they have done in elevating anti-colonial struggle is both new and very familiar. Al-Aqsa Flood does not merely resemble the formidable traditions and histories of Indigenous and Afrikan resistance in this hemisphere. It has the potential to revitalize a living practice of militant attack from below, a total uncompromising hostility towards this genocidal settler empire. 

When we look at it like that, Palestine is not so distant. Their war is our war. Death to zionism means death to amerika means death to the entire neo-colonial strangehold on the Third World.

With the prison break and guerrilla attack of October 7, the Palestinian Resistance has offered up a simple yet timeless lesson, brought to us through the blood of their martyrs over decades of protracted war: slaveholder-settler society must never know ‘safety.’ 

Whether in Palestine or in occupied Turtle Island, there is truly only one solution: Intifada, Revolution.

–Anti-Colonial Action Brigade

 

 

Source: Scenes from the atlanta forest