Event Announcement: 2024 NYC Anarchist Bookfair, Sep. 20-22

Posted on 2024/06/172024/07/21 by neversleep

The New York City Anarchist Bookfair Needs Your Help!

This year’s book fair will be held September 20-22, and we need you to help create the schedule of panels, workshops, and presentations that will bring together anarchists and anarcho-curious from around the region and across the country.

Tablers will include books, media, clothing, zines, community organisations, info.

Workshop Application | Table Application

September 20
@ P.I.T. (Property is Theft), Brooklyn
Music Festival – 7pm

September 21
@ La Plaza Community Garden – Free Childcare + Vegan Food
Anarchist Bookfair – 11am-7pm
AnarkoArtLab Art Festival – 4-7pm
In-person Workshops – 11am-7pm

@ Tompkins Square Park
Emma Goldman Film Festival – 8-11pm

September 22
@ P.I.T. (Property is Theft), Brooklyn
Workshops – 11am-7pm

Our collaborators include : AnarchoArtLab, M.O.R.U.S. (Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space) and P.I.T. (Property Is Theft).

New York City, a center of anarchist life, culture, struggle, and ideas for 150 years, hosts this exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and anti-political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide. In addition there will be panels, presentations, workshops, and skillshares to provide further opportunities to learn more and share your own experience and creativity.

The goal of the book fair is to enable people to connect with one another as well as to provide broader access to the rich and varied field of anarchist ideas and practices. Now is the perfect time to be exploring those ideas and practices and bringing them into play in our communities and the world.

Come meet local anarchists and others from all over the globe looking to connect with other anarchists. The Anarchist Book Fair is a place where the ideas, activism, ethics, creativity and history of the contemporary anarchist movement come together in an exciting weekend of community and collaboration.

Long ago the Book Fair adopted a policy of zero-tolerance for racist, sexist, queer-phobic, and other disrespectful behavior that works against collective liberation for all communities.

All free. new york city.

More info + events to be announced.

Reposted from Anarchist News

Apple Store Painted

Posted on 2024/06/17 by neversleep

Eid Mubarak New York City, knowing there is no Eid when there is genocide. F—k Eric Adams and Apple and all the genocide deniers.

Source: Palestine is everywhere

Event Announcement: Earth First! Summer Gathering, July 2 – 9, 2024

Posted on 2024/06/13 by neversleep

Come one come all to the 2024 Earth First! Summer Gathering! Earth First! has been a proving ground for environmental resistance and direct action for almost half a century. As we enter new epochs of ecological breakdown, social upheaval and increasing state repression, we invite all those who would see the wild flourish to gather, connect, learn and explore what’s to be done during an escalating crisis of capital and what worlds we can build together amidst the ruins of empire.

Dates: July 2-9. This summer the gathering will take place on occupied Lenape lands an hour and a half west of New York City. Exact location TBA. For more information, please visit this page.

Donation links:
BIPOC Travel Fund | general Summer Gathering fund

Contact: hotEFsummer@proton.me

Submitted anonymously over email

Autonomous Actions at Israeli and German Consulates

Posted on 2024/06/13 by neversleep

Flags Burned at Israeli Consulate

Found on Palestine Action US Telegram | [Instagram link for video: www.instagram.com/p/C8I0KpGNNSJ/?img_index=2]

A group of autonomous actors targeted the Consulate General of Israel in New York City in the morning on Wednesday, June 12. The American and Zionist flags were burned in protest of settler-colonial violence, dispossession, and genocide, from Turtle Island to Palestine.

The American empire is an active participant in the current genocidal onslaught, not only by funding and arming the Zionist entity, but with US military and intelligence presence in Gaza itself. The Zionist entity is an immoral and illegitimate state, built on the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and constructed as an outpost of Western imperialism.

The Palestinian people have suffered for far too long under the chokehold of Zionism, aided, abetted, and driven by the unquenchable thirst of American empire—but we know that, through the steadfast resistance of the Palestinian people and the movement for Palestinian liberation around the world, Zionism will fall and Palestine will be free.

German Consulate Redecorated

Found on Palestine Action US Telegram | [Instagram link for video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8H6vviu9hg/]

A group of autonomous actors targeted the German Consulate in New York City in the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, June 12. Actionists splashed blood-red paint on the exterior of the consulate and wheatpasted an official-looking apology from the German government for their active participation in the Zionist entity’s genocidal assault on Gaza.

The German state supplies 30% of the IOF’s weapons and is the second-largest supporter of the Zionist entity, behind only the U.S. In 2023, Germany approved $320 million in military aid to the entity — over ten times more than in 2022. Germany’s generous funding has made this genocide possible. Meanwhile, German leaders have criminalized the Palestine solidarity movement, making mass arrests and cynically banning protests in the name of so-called antisemitism. In solidarity with pro-Palestinian movements in Germany, the actionists demand that Germany recognize the Palestinian State and support the recognition of an independent Palestinian state in the EU.

Context

This action is part of a broader international escalation—undertaken in response to calls from Gaza—to hold accountable all entities that aid and abet the ongoing colonization of the Palestinian people. The Zionist entity relies on a network of puppet states, normalizers, and imperialist allies to maintain its brutal status quo. Other actions in New York City today targeted the U.S. Campaign on Palestinian Affairs and the Permanent Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations.

In a communique issued this morning, the New York City actionists write:
“Through our actions we continue to globalize the intifada. We locate complicity in the genocidal campaign against Palestinians among all nations who refuse to cut ties with the Zionist settler state, refuse to support Palestinian freedom and the right to return, and profit from the attempted annihilation of Palestinian people. We as dissidents in the imperial core urge comrades everywhere to consider all normalizers our enemies and join in creative resistance to every state actor and institution that aids and abets genocide.”

Submitted anonymously over email

Why We Protested Nova: Confronting Zionist Propaganda and the Manufacturing of Consent for Genocide

Posted on 2024/06/122024/07/21 by neversleep

On Monday, June 10th, Within Our Lifetime called for a citywide Day of Rage for Gaza in response to the US-sponsored massacre in Nuseirat Camp that killed over 270 Palestinians and left more than 700 wounded, as part of the ongoing genocide being carried out against the Palestinian people.

New Yorkers responded by flooding the streets and shutting down the zionist propaganda “Nova Exhibition NYC,” currently installed at 35 Wall Street. In defiance of the NYPD’s growing brutality against protesters, targeting of Palestinian Muslim women, and their pathetic attempts to defame organizers, Within Our Lifetime strongly reiterates our call for sustained action against any institution facilitating or justifying the genocide of the Palestinian people, including the Nova Exhibition, for as long as it is in New York and in any city it will travel to next.

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NYC Activists Target Magellan Aerospace Corp (with Graffiti)

Posted on 2024/06/122024/06/12 by neversleep

Action report: Autonomous NYC Activists target Magellan Aerospace Corp in Queens, which contracts with Lockheed Martin to manufacture F-35 jet parts to bomb civilians in Gaza and around the world. The Israeli military (IOF) just ordered more F-35s for Gaza using US military aid in a multi-billion dollar deal. With our tax dollars, Magellan and Lockheed Martin are profiting off the death and destruction in Palestine.

Art reads:

FUCK AN F-35

FUCK LOCKHEED MARTIN

FUCK MAGELLAN

FREE GAZA

Found on Palestine Action US Telegram | [Instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/pal_actionus/p/C8DmYQeNf5Q/]

Graffiti at United Nations in Solidarity with Chilean Anarchists

Posted on 2024/06/122024/06/12 by neversleep

For context about Monica & Francisco, see their bio on the June 11 website:

No strangers to repression, they were kidnapped by the Chilean state during the “Caso Bombas” until they were absolved of all charges related to a prior wave of incendiary attacks by anarchist groups. They were also charged for the bomb attack on the Basilica del Pilar in Spain in 2013, and were sentenced to 12 years in prison. After a number of appeals processes the two were allowed to return to Chile in 2017.

In December of 2023 Monica Cabellero was sentenced to 12 years in prison, convicted of being an accomplice in the double explosive attack against the Tánica building in February 2020. Francisco Solar received a total of 86 years in prison: two counts of sending explosive artifacts (54th Precinct and Hinzpeter) 12 years + 12 years. One count of attempted homicide of a carabinero: 15 years. One count of serious injury to a carabinero: 6 years. One count of less serious injury: 600 days. Five counts of minor injuries: 100 days (each). 500 days. One count of aggrivated damages (Commussioner): 818 days. One count of attempted homicide of Hinzpeter: 12 years. Two counts of placing an explosive device (Tánica): 12 years + 12 years. Appeals are pending at the time of this writing.

For more information:

Publicacion Refractario

Photo submitted anonymously over email.

NYU Campus Cop Cars Disabled

Posted on 2024/06/032024/06/12 by neversleep

Earlier this week, in response to calls for escalation from our besieged comrades in Gaza, a small crew of NYU students, faculty, and staff disabled several vehicles belomg to the Office of “Campus Safety,” which worked hand-in hand with NYPD pigs to arrest, harass, and suspend students for their participation in the Gaza solidarity encampments. Punctures were quickly and quietly made in each vehicle’s tires using an awl; from start to finish, this took no longer than one minute. These simple and easily replicable acts of sabotage serve as reminders to our genocidally complicit university administration: the student intifada did not end with the Spring semester, and will only intensify until Palestinian liberation is conclusively won.

We encourage our fellow NYU affiliates, and the Gaza solidarity movements on campuse across the country, to make divestment our bare minimum demand–we must continue our struggle until reparations for the violence already inflicted have been issued, and the university structure that awards governing poer to an unaccountable Board of Trustees (or Governors, or Regents, etc.) in the first place is completely overturned. We know that senior university administrators, as the morally deadened foot soldiers of whatever capitalist-dominated Board they report to, will never agree to fully divest from Zionist genocide and apartheid. Doing so would subject university investments to some semblance of democratic control, which the governing Boards, as a matter of pure self-preservation, will quite simply never allow. To win any of our demands that matter, then, we must first abolish the current structure of the university itself, and build in its place systems of higher education that reject the endowment/donor model altogether. In this vein, the movement of many of the encampments towards “People’s Universities” is one that should be closely studied and built upon.

Until this world is won, our resistance will escalate. If you want to take direct action but aren’t sure how, find friends who feel the same way, and study the basics of action planning and operational security together:

What/how many roles will this require?

How do we all communicate securely?

Is jail support in place? What kind of scouting will be necessary?

Which tools will we need, and how do we use them?

Start with low-risk mischief–tagging, wheatpasting, smashing, and slashing–to build the skills, confidence, and trust necessary for higher-impact actions. Study tactics from other movements, zines, communiques, and other sources both on- and off-line. Act bravely and carefully, and keep acting until the Zionist entity and Amerikan empire protecting it finally fall.

In rage and solidarity,

Found on Social Media [Twitter link: https://x.com/taliaotg/status/1797361503659602245]

ALERT: Adams debuts plan to build new training facility for NYC’s various public safety agencies

Posted on 2024/06/012024/09/22 by neversleep

New York City will build a new facility on the NYPD Academy campus where several city agencies with public safety functions outside of the police department will begin training their new recruits, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday.

Hizzoner announced the new “Public Safety Academy” during a promotional ceremony at the NYPD Academy campus in College Point, Queens on May 31. He said it aims to better coordinate operations across separate city agencies with enforcement arms while saving the city money by consolidating their training into one facility.

“We were so disjointed because of the color of our uniform or what our patches stated, instead of realizing we were one team,” Adams said. “Even if there were different jerseys, we were team public safety. Today, the announcement of this public safety campus is bringing all of that experience together.”

Those that will move their training to the new facility span from more traditional law enforcement agencies like the Departments of Correction and Probation to parts of the city’s government with border missions like the Departments of Sanitation and Parks. Currently, all of those agencies outside the NYPD have their own separate smaller training centers.

“We will learn from the Department of Correction and how they’re able to identify gang behavior within their walls,” the mayor said. “We will learn from Sue Donoghue, the commissioner of Parks Police, as they look at what is taking place on our parks and other green spaces … This is how you build a law enforcement apparatus that we can respond to the crises that we know are important for us to face day to day.”

The city is set to break ground on the new facility in 2026, with construction expected to wrap in early 2030, according to the mayor’s office.

The academy will be funded in part by $225 million earmarked in 2021 for a new DOC training facility, City Hall said. The campus will include both the training spaces specifically for the Corrections Department and multipurpose facilities that will be shared by over a dozen other city agencies.

The campus is part of a broader effort by the Adams administration to bring separate city agencies with public safety functions under one umbrella.

The facility’s development has been driven primarily by Adams’ Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, who has spent much of his two and half years in office working on it, according to a report from [mainstream news source]. The paper reported that Banks hopes the academy will be a model for other cities across the country.

Found on Mainstream Media

REVOLT FOR RAFAH: New Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia

Posted on 2024/06/012024/06/01 by neversleep

REVOLT FOR RAFAH:

Join Palestinian students, supported by the wider community at Columbia, at a the new Gaza Solidarity Encampment. We are outraged by Columbia’s complicity in the killing of our people in Gaza, and most recently the massacre in Rafah. We are equally outraged by Columbia’s use of brute force and their capitulation to the Billionaire’s lobby, instead of to the “safety of the students”. We will resist, until Columbia divests.

The action will coincide with Columbia’s Alumni Reunion. We want to make it clear to Columbia Alumni to cease donating to Columbia until they meet our demands.

This will be an action of community building and political education. Programming will include teach-ins, film screenings, art builds, open mics and talks with Palestinians in Gaza and Palestine. Food and cold refreshments will be available.

Until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

Reposted from Columbia Encampment on Telegram

Article from the Columbia Spectator (student newspaper):

Pro-Palestinian protesters repitch encampment on South Lawn during annual alumni reunion

Friday’s encampment comes over a month after protesters first occupied the east side of South Lawn on April 17.

By Heather Chen / Columbia Daily Spectator
The Morningside Heights campus remains open only to Columbia ID holders.

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