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US Army Recruiters Hit in Downtown Brooklyn!

On this so-called “Memorial Day,” a U.S. Army and Navy Recruiting & Career Center was targeted in Downtown Brooklyn in memory of all martyrs of Gaza and all the courageous people of the world who sacrificed their lives resisting U.S. imperialism. Doors were locked shut, blood red paint was sprayed across the front facade of the building, and “RAFAH” and “GAZA” were written on the windows, along with red triangles.

The genocide in Gaza is a joint US-Israeli project, and the US military must be held accountable for it. Yesterday, the IOF accelerated their bombardment of Rafah by decapitating children and burning dozens of people alive with American-made bombs and jets. As the Israeli Occupation’s military dominance continues, the U.S. will only expand and explore its military role in Palestine. The horrors we are witnessing today are a rehearsal for the future that the U.S. military and its partners envision for people of the world.

The U.S. military has done far more than kill people; it also destroyed the land, torching precious jungles and wildlife, ravaging farms with chemical weapons, and contaminating rivers and coastlines.

THERE IS NO FUTURE WITH THE US MILITARY!
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT GAZA!

Recruitment centers play a vital role in maintaining the genocide economy by targeting the working class and transforming them into killers. But much like the pigs in New York, the military is struggling with recruitment because the people are waking up to the true nature of these institutions. This is a crisis we must work to exacerbate.

From recruitment centers to weapons contractors, it is our collective responsibility to strike at American Military infrastructure in order to disrupt the conditions that lead to genocide.

“The myth that the imperialists should not be confronted and cannot be beaten is eroding fast and we stand here ready to do whatever to make the myth erode even faster, and to say for the record that not only will the imperialist U.S. lose, but that it should lose.”- Kuwasi Balagoon- Black Liberation Soldier, U.S Army Traitor

ALL EYES ON RAFAH!

Reposted from Palestine Action US

Eat it, Eric Adams

Seems like they don’t want this to get out, but… four nights ago we set an NYPD bus on fire in Brooklyn as a peaceful protest against the cops for attacking anti-genocide demonstrators and their repression of protestors of Cop City (a dystopian plague of a project attempting to emerge everywhere, including New Jersey).

The NYPD are violent suffocators of the people’s voice and will. They are terrorizers of the homeless in our streets, and are in concert with the genocidal IDF, who train them to better butcher our freedom.

They do it all with no consequences in their future and no fear in their faces–we can change that with fire. There are cop cars and genocide-funding businesses all over. From Cop Country to Gaza, GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!

VIVA TORT!

AVENGE BAY RIDGE!

Submitted anonymously over email
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June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds

Repost from: June 11th

We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not separate from that of destruction. Prison is not separate from the “free world.” Means are not separate from ends. Bridging these divides is a shared curiosity and commitment; bridging these divides is solidarity. This is not to flatten or oversimplify diversity and differences in circumstance, intensity, and consequence. Rather, that these different pieces are held together like organs of the body held by connective tissue. So we consider: how do we strengthen this connective tissue? How do we remain strong, yet supple and flexible? Bridges, connection, must also be built through time, especially in a world that moves too fast, from one crisis to the next. June 11th aspires to be one of these bridges: to build solidarity across borders, between movements, and among generations. Remembering and supporting long-term prisoners, as well as carrying on shared struggles, are two ways to strengthen this connective tissue. A stronger connective tissue will, in turn, bolster us against further repression.

Each year, as part of our effort to be a bridge between movements, time, and borders, we assess the terrain. We consider what threats from the state look like at this time, how imprisoned comrades can be connected to activity on the outside, how have the struggles they are a part of continued despite repression, and how remembering those locked up can become a natural part of anarchist activity. Often repression and criminalization feel new; but frequently, this is a failure of memory. There are innovations to pay attention to, while seeing their lineage in tactics and ideologies used against our forebears. What can we learn from how people have responded in the past? What can we learn from people in times and places where innovative repressive tactics were developed, and how can we act in complicity alongside them?

As the day of solidarity nears, we are struck by the unfolding of the current terrain; the horrors abound, and confront us in new ways, but these are also patterns and histories in repetition. Power is scrambling to maintain itself amidst the uncertainty of our fragilely constructed society, and individuals and groups continue on with our refusal of their world. We see continued colonial violence, through prisons, guns, bombs, and nationalist ideologies in places such as Palestine, Ukraine, and West Papua. Too, extremely harsh treatments of people in Russia acting against militarism and colonialism, as well as the criminalization of pro-Palestinian activity all over the world.

Palestinians, fighting for their freedom and against policing, surveillance and detention for decades, have faced an all-out culmination of violence and genocide at the hands of the Israeli state — crisis and colonial violence continue to rapidly unfold. So too, does an intense current of Palestinian resistance: solidarity actions have taken place across the globe in attempts to refuse complicity and the feelings of powerlessness fueled by the geographical distance, the 24-hour news cycle, and the propaganda and war machines that abound.

As people continue to flee their regions due to capitalist and imperialist-made violence, and the catastrophic consequences of climate collapse, we are witnessing a renewed fear-mongering at U.S and European borders, as white supremacist militias murmur about confronting ‘migrant caravans’, and individual states implement a greater level of violence to keep people out of artificial borders. This crisis extends throughout the globe, as people worldwide move to eek out any stability, and others rush to enforce the promised order of borders and citizenship.

Colonial violence springs up daily, in guns drawn and territory stolen, in extraction projects and the expansion of policed land, and in the loss of the last wild spaces. But resistance to a homogeneous and hollow future being sold to us by tech-giants, green capitalists and the State still continues across the world. Pipelines, cell-towers, and extraction infrastructure is being targeted, both in individual sabotage, as well as ongoing land defense world-wide. The dependence of this noxious future on policing, surveillance, and control couldn’t be clearer, and struggles are confronting the ways these practices interact. Rebellions break out against police, prisons, and the indignity and macabre realities of daily life. For every crisis, and moment of resistance we could list, there are countless others simmering, exploding, or simply being disappeared from the public, global view. Freedom and resistance always find their way through the cracks of this horrifying society.

Public food serves being harassed, heightened criminalization of houseless populations, RICO charges for bail funds and the “conspiracy” of anarchist ideas and practices, as well as proximity, associations and social networks. Intense and courageous acts of sabotage continue. Everything is new, and nothing is. The question is not ‘what are the solutions?’, but ‘how do we expand, deepen and intensify what we already know works?’. How do we see ourselves in one another, how do we understand our plights as intertwined, as inseparable, and how can we continue to expand these relationships of solidarity. How do we embrace the reality that there are no separate worlds, and explore the ways that we can break through the limiting effects of prison walls, border walls, time, place and context.

There are moments worth celebrating, when we feel the opening of possibilities and capacity, of cohesion and strength; there are certainly also many moments to mourn, when it feels like we’re losing it all and our bodies or spirits are taking a beating. We can savor a touch of solace when we notice the deep desperation apparent in the moves of the state. They’re scrambling, finding new ways to criminalize even the most basic of acts. This can serve to motivate us. If anything even vaguely anarchist is enough to throw us to the helm of repression, we must choose to live our lives as we decide, regardless of the consequences. As more and more of us interact with repression, jails, courts, prisons, let this possibility be a never-ending invitation towards continuing to remember and include those locked away as an ongoing part of our moves toward getting free. Time, geography, the barriers of the prison wall-none of these are strong enough to obliterate the vast network of bridges that keep us interdependent, connected, fighting the same enemies of freedom, worldwide.

This year saw the passing of many who carried the vivacious anarchist spirit. Some may be known to us, while many remain unknown. They sowed rebelliousness in every path they walked. Perhaps their impact is incalculable, though never nonexistent. We can carry the same spirit, traverse similar paths, and remain steadfast and diligent, just as those who have come before us have. Rest in power: Alfredo Bonanno, Klee Benally, Ed Mead, Sekuo Odinga, Tortuguita, Aaron Bushnell.

Rest in power to all of those whose names we’ve never uttered, not known, but who walked these lengths, nonetheless. Time is merely constructed; those that have come before us, and passed onto death, still impact the lives of the living, still contribute to the history of anarchists and anti-authoritarians, and our shared struggle. Let us make them a part of our active memory, and continue forward, in a fight for lives against domination. May these words spark a fire in you-encourage you to get up, forge ahead and seek what it might feel like, to live like you’re trying to get free.

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FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA

In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler Lawn, under constant threats of police abuse and university discipline. This encampment helped spark a global movement against the role of universities in imperialist-Zionist genocide. By moving from the lawn and liberating a university building, we escalated our tactics to apply greater pressure on the administration and to inspire others to take bold action. Here is our statement:

We took Hamilton Hall because it belongs to us. We took it because we refuse to remain compliant in the face of an American-led genocide of the Palestinian people.

We liberated the Hall, and made it Hind’s.

Hind’s Hall was named after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl from Gaza murdered by the Zionist entity on January 29th. Her final hours were spent in a bullet-riddled car, pleading for help into a cell phone, surrounded by dead family members. Twelve days later, her remains and those of her family were discovered alongside the bodies of the two healthcare workers sent to rescue her, their ambulance blasted apart by a Zionist missile.

Hind: kindergartener, daughter, sister, martyr. She and the tens of thousands of other martyrs moved us to act. We are committed to the fight for the total liberation of Palestine, which is no less than the fight to liberate Harlem from Columbia, the prisoners from the prisons, and the wretched of the earth from Western imperialism.

Columbia escalated, so we did too.

Columbia University earned its status as an elite university through colonial plunder—from Harlem to South Africa to Palestine. It grew its $13.6 billion dollar endowment by investing in corporations like BlackRock, Caterpillar, Google, and Airbnb that facilitate violent land theft and genocide in Palestine and across the Global South. Pro-Palestine students on campus have been protesting tirelessly for Columbia to divest from the business of genocide, only to be met with discipline and retaliation.

Last month, as the situation in Gaza became more dire—with the number of confirmed martyrs climbing above 42,000, millions facing catastrophic famine, and the (now underway) invasion of Rafah impending—Columbia’s commitment to repressing student protest against the genocide only intensified. On April 18, President Minouche Shafik called in the NYPD to sweep the first Gaza Solidarity Encampment, carrying out the largest mass arrests on campus since 1968. Shortly after, the administration rejected our demands for divestment and doubled down on its support for the genocidal Zionist entity.

So instead of continuing to entertain bad faith negotiations, we chose to strike at the heart of the prevailing order. We liberated Hind’s Hall.

We are all outside agitators.

Who are we? Some of us are students under the threat of expulsion. Others are staff, faculty, alumni, and community members. However, inside of Hind’s Hall, none of these distinctions mattered. To liberate the building was to tear down the artificial border between “student” and “non-student” imposed by the classist, racist sorting mechanism which determines who deserves a place within the ivory tower and who remains locked outside its gates.

While Columbia continues to displace the Black and brown working class community of Harlem, it criminalizes the very people whose homes it has stolen. While Columbia continues to profit from imperial spoils, it ostracizes and expels students who protest its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. In the eyes of this occupying force on stolen land, we are all outside agitators. We wear this as a badge of honor.

It was our refusal to accept the terms and categories imposed on us by the university that threatened its power. Our uncompromising commitment to nothing short of full divestment and the total liberation of Palestine threatened the jackals of the university system—administrators, donors, trustees, and talking heads—who work overtime to defang our budding revolution with bread crumb concessions.

We refused to be pacified while the blood of Palestine spills on the streets of Gaza. Instead, we forced Columbia to show the world the iron fist inside its velvet glove.

NYPD, KKK, IOF, YOU’RE ALL THE SAME!

On the evening of April 30th, the university placed our entire community under siege. Preparing to raid us, the NYPD and Public Safety locked down the Morningside campus, as well as several blocks of the surrounding Harlem neighborhood. Already having transformed itself into a militarized police fortress over the past few months—with a proliferation of checkpoints, surveillance drones, infrared cameras, and hovering choppers—Columbia became one giant kettle from which no one could exit or enter.

Under threat of arrest, journalists and onlookers alike were herded into buildings, prevented from bearing witness to our brutalization. The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group (SRG) violently arrested those defending us outside the building, flinging one protester down the stairs and leaving them unconscious, dragging others away as they tried to help.

Inside Hind’s Hall, we faced stun grenades, a rogue gunshot from a trigger happy pig, batons and circular saws, face stomping, head trauma, fractured bones, sprains and cuts and bruises. Once we were in police custody, they stole hijabs off the heads of Muslim women, sexually harassed our gender-marginalized comrades, threatened and ridiculed us.

Stop Cop City! Stop Cop University!

This militarized raid was orchestrated by Rebecca Weiner, faculty at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Deputy Pig of the NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau, which maintains an office in Tel Aviv. This triangulation between the university, the NYPD, and the Zionist military parallels the “deadly exchange” called out by our comrades in the Stop Cop City movement as they fight to shut down GILEE (Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange), a program sponsored by Georgia State University which cross-trains U.S. police departments with the IOF.

Faculty like Weiner and programs like GILEE draw a direct line from university campuses to Cop City, the facility modeled after an IOF training ground in occupied Palestine, a “Little Gaza,” where advanced strategies for urban warfare and dispossession are refined. These laboratories of domination are proliferating across the country in an inexorable march from Cop City to Cop Nation. There are currently sixty-nine Cop Cities in the U.S. that have either already been built or are in the process of construction, with universities such as Columbia and Georgia State playing a key role in facilitating the knowledge transfers that make them possible. Let it be known that the police and the university are mutually reinforcing apparatuses of the fascist state!

United in struggle, united in victory.

Just 20 blocks uptown that same night, the NYPD brutalized our comrades at the City College of New York. In the hours after our concurrent arrests, we were held in the same cells but were not subject to the same treatment—CUNY’s arrestees were slapped with felony charges and held for three days, while we were charged with misdemeanors and released in less than 48 hours.

We reject these hierarchical divisions imposed on us by the state and understand our mobilizations as part of a unified whole. We insist that CUNY and Columbia are one campus. Our solidarity with the CUNY rebels is unconditional, as is our solidarity with those who took to the streets and cheered us on at the gates. We have not forgotten that the one thing that kept Columbia from raiding the ‘68 occupations was the threat of Harlem rioting. Similarly, working class Palestinian-led crowds kept us safe by becoming a near-constant fixture outside Columbia’s gates.

In an attempt to divide us and fragment our movement, police departments and universities have only crystallized the power we hold when we are unified. In the fight for total liberation, an injury to one is an injury to us all.

Off of campus and into the streets.

The enemy may have dismantled our communes, but we know our struggle has only just begun. Just as the Vietnamese revolutionaries ignited the cycle of student revolt in ‘68, the Palestinian people inspire us to continue building on the insurrectionary energy incubated in the encampments. The Student Intifada will become a revolutionary force only when it succeeds in integrating itself with the struggles of the surrounding community and expands the popular cradle of resistance beyond the campus and into the streets.

What we experienced is nothing compared to what the Palestinian people have endured for 76 years and seven months. Bombs on schools, missiles on hospitals, state-of-the-art machines designed to slaughter children by the hundreds and dissolve the skin from their faces, bulldozers and mass graves, starvation, dehydration, imprisonment, torture, displacement, death—this will be our legacy, unless those of us within the belly of the beast fight to end it.

We chose action, and you must too—again, again, until the weight of our collective action and refusal dismantles the prisons and all our prisoners flood the streets.

UNTIL VICTORY!

Reposted from The New Inquiry

Scenes from the Student Intifada in NYC (April 17 – May 8, 2024)

From the admins: a cursory selection of photos and videos found on various Telegram channels. We would greatly appreciate submissions of recaps, reportbacks, and reflections from this wave of encampments, occupations, and demos in NYC.

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NYC Anarchists Attack Caterpillar Equipment in Solidarity with Palestine

(May 2, 2024)

To the Palestinian Resistance,
To the student uprisings,
To all those who struggle for liberation,

We took a strike against Caterpillar for their complicity in the settler colonial state, the Zionist regime, that has wreaked havoc on the lives of Palestinians for decades.

Today we struck several Caterpillar heavy machines as they lay dormant overnight, preventing them from working the next day.

Caterpillar decidedly chose a side by supplying the IOF with bulldozers as early as 1956 for use in the Sinai War and to this day they have not wavered from this position. During the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle the armored D9 bulldozer, which is a Caterpillar product, has been used in countless attacks against the Palestinian Resistance and people. In the early 2000’s during the Second Intifada, the Zionist regime demolished over 3,000 Palestinian homes, and murdered US activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah. The D9’s were used in the Battle of Jenin to destroy houses with fighters inside and raze the center of the Jenin refugee camp. During the Gaza War in 2008, 100 bulldozers were used to destroy Palestinian homes. In 2022, the D9’s demolished eight Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in yet another example of the long running Zionist genocidal project.

The Palestinian Resistance has renewed its struggle at the end of last year, fighting successfully to push the occupation out of Gaza and deploying clever tactics against a highly militarized enemy. The D9’s were brought out by the IDF once again to destroy farmland, desecrate a burial ground, to attack the Kamal Adwan Hospital, crushing the people who had been sheltering inside.

Caterpillar is clearly an agent and symbol of terror. We strike against it today to show our solidarity with those whose lives have been taken by the Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer. Since Caterpillar has joined the war, it can face attacks on any terrain. We strike at Caterpillar today to show our solidarity with and appreciation for the Palestinian fighters who have provided an inspiration for freedom fighters around the world.

Finally, living in the United States, the main supporter and funder of Zionist settler colonialism, it is our duty to become a thorn in its side. It cannot dispense terror half way around the globe and expect to continue without repercussions.

NYC Anarchists

A vandalized CAT 740GC haul truck. Graffiti reads "FREE GAZA" with a circle-A and a red downward triangle.A vandalized CAT machine. Graffiti reads "FREE GAZA". There is also a circle-A and a red downward triangle. A vandalized CAT machine. The front window is smashed and graffiti on the side windows reads "FREE GAZA" with a red downward triangle.  A vandalized CAT machine. Graffiti reads "FREE GAZA". There are also circle-A's and a red downward triangle. A torn American flag lies in the foreground.

Found on Abolition Media

In honor of Tort: 3 omny readers and 3 mta machines smashed in Brooklyn

(April 2024)

we celebrated tort’s birthday by smashing all the omny readers and metrocard machines at a subway station in brooklyn. it was a fun and simple way to make this city pay for upping its efforts to police homeless people, black people and palestine solidarity protestors. in addition to gathering data on subway riders, omny’s parent company cubic sells hundreds of millions of dollars in surveillance tech to the “us” military and other militaries around the world. from nyc to gaza our enemies are the same. we know tort would agree.
Viva Tortuguita!

MTA machine with smashed screen

Found on Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Two Communiques from APD Recruiting Event

FIRE ALARM AND 300 CRICKETS DISRUPT BROOKLYN MARRIOTT WHERE APD HOLDS RECRUITING EVENT

On Friday 4/26, we left the APD pigs a gift to remember in the Brooklyn Marriott where they were trying to recruit more pigs. How dare you show your face in our city!

Multiple state troopers, NYPD, and hotel security could not stop us from sending guests out the door with a fire alarm and releasing 300 crickets into the hotel. We are everywhere. We are the horde of locusts that will destroy you.

APD out of NYC! All cops are bastards! No cop city anywhere!

Found on Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

APD HIRING EVENT TOILETS CLOGGED WITH CEMENT, SHRIMP ON THE SIDE!

Toilet seat with a single shrimp on it

APD we don’t want your shit! We clogged the vile Atlanta Police Department’s hiring event space’s toilets with cement to let them, and the Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge, know that every time you recruit in NYC we will make you and the places that host you pay. For over 30 years APD has been training soldiers in Israel. That brutality was on full display at Emory this week and we say no more. Free Palestine! Tortuguita vive, la luche sigue! Stop Cop City!

Found on Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Chase banks vandalized with paint and locked with chains and foam

(April 14, 2024)

WALL ST FUNDS GENOCIDE!

CHASE BANK HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS!

FUCK WALL ST!

FUCK CHASE!

Initiating the global call for an economic blockade on April 15, early in the morning of Sunday, April 14, an autonomous group of anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist anarchists targeted multiple Chase Bank locations for its investments in Elbit Systems and the zionist entity in large — Chase Bank is the 6th largest stockholder in the weapons manufacturer creating the tools of mass destruction for the genocide in Gaza. Through concentrating efforts around Wall St., which WOL is marching on this Monday, we target those with the most blood money invested in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Actionists sprayed red blood paint on the front facade of the bank, spray-painted messages reading “FUNDS GENOCIDE”, “DROP ELBIT” and “FREE GAZA,” chained up the front doors to the bank and sealed them shut with spray foam. Heeding the call for an economic blockade, actionists locked up the bank to block the money invested in death. Chase Bank is closed on Sundays, and by locking up the doors, actionists were able to close down the sole entrance to the bank. NYPD scrambled to take down the chains and foam to make the storefront palatable to its money hungry Wall Street patrons, but Chase Bank is still stained blood red.

NO TO BANKS! Chase accumulates wealth from stealing from the oppressed, and uses that money to fund the killing of the colonized. NO TO WALL ST! and We say NO to the stock exchaange market, where people invest in genocide of Palestinians by investing their money in weapon manufacturers. FUCK BANKS! FUCK CHASE! FUCK MONEY!

FREE PALESTINE!

LONG LIVE PALESTINE!

DEATH TO CAPITALISM

DEATH TO IMPERIALISM

Chase Bank doors splatterd with red paint.

Reposted from Unravel, originally found on social media

OMNY machines smashed, cameras and card readers disabled at midtown Manhattan station

(April 2024)

OMNY MACHINES SMASHED, CAMERAS AND CARD READERS DISABLED AT MIDTOWN MANHATTAN STATION

We struck at the heart of midtown Manhattan where the State tries so hard to maintain their illusion of fascist control. We broke your pitiful OMNY machines, disabled your cameras, and glued your card readers right under Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul’s noses. We did our own subway maintenance with hammers, a little spray paint, and some super glue. Evade! Beat the fare! Fuck your $2.90! We reject the National Guard deployed in our city and subways. We reject the surge of NYPD in our subways and anywhere. We reject the State’s tax on free movement and fare enforcement that disproportionately targets Black and Brown communities. We reject the State’s fascist surveillance through OMNY and any new technology used to control the People.Fuck the Empire, Free Palestine! The same military, police, and surveillance tech they test out through genocide in Palestine they will also bring here to track, oppress, and lock us up. Borders are fake, and so are turnstiles. Join us in striking them down!

OMNY readers covered with cardboard and duct tape

OMNY machine covered in cardboard and duct tape

Reposted from Unravel, originally found on Instagram