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

Posted on by neversleep

(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

Posted on by neversleep

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

Posted on by neversleep

(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

Posted on by neversleep

(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

RE/MAX office vandalized

Posted on by neversleep

Early in the morning on Wednesday, March 27, pro-Palestine anarchists struck a RE/MAX office in Park Slope to commemorate Palestine Land Day, a day to resist against land theft and settler colonial policies. They covered the facade in red paint to show the blood on the company’s hands, sprayed the security cameras and jammed the locks to ensure that the office will not go on with business as usual.The real estate company RE/MAX was founded in the US, an empire predicated on settler-colonial land theft, and since 1995, the company has operated a franchise in “israel”. For over 10 years, RE/MAX israel has been selling homes to colonizers in israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including Ariel, Ma’aleh Adumim, and Givat Ze’ev, generating millions of dollars in profits. The facilitation and profiting off of the displacement of Indigenous Palestinians by the israeli branch directly benefits RE/MAX LLC.Here in the “US”, RE/MAX also engages in displacement and gentrification, by inflating the cost of housing and property taxes in BIPOC and working class communities. RE/MAX and other complicit real estate agencies will continue to be targeted until they stop selling stolen land to settlers.

RE/MAX storefront splattered with red paint. Graffiti on sidewalk reads "GTFO WEST BANK".

Reposted from Unravel, originally found on Instagram

NYPD Vehicles and Buses Vandalized at Brooklyn Precinct

Posted on by neversleep

(February 2024)

TIRES PUNCTURED ON 10 NYPD VEHICLES AND 2 NYPD BUSES VANDALIZED AT BROOKLYN PRECINCT IN TORTUGUITA’S HONOR

In the wee hours of the night during the week of 2/18, some feral flying forest squirrels descended upon a precinct in the heart of Brooklyn. With caution and courage, they left the scene quickly, leaving behind the sound of escaping air and blood red lettering on the side of two NYPD buses reading;

“For Tort”

10 NYPD vehicles were left with punctured tires.

As these vessels are primarily used to cage and transport prisoners, protestors, and those who live in friction with genocide and empire, it is clear that these vehicles needed to be taken out. But there are many more… Stay sharp, fellow beings of the forest! Our grief and rage are hard and heavy, but there are openings where we can hold it as a stone to sharpen the claws we have.

Viva viva Tortuguita!

 

Found on Unravel