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CCNY Redecorated on Anniversary of Al-Aqsa Flood

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7 October 2024 – Anonymous submission:

Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!

In the early hours of Monday, October 7, autonomous actionists embellished the entrance to a CCNY building to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood jail break from Gaza & to echo widespread calls for CUNY divestment from apartheid and genocide among its community of 275k+ students.

We amplify community calls for:
1) disclosure & divestment of its ~$8.5 million holdings in complicit companies such as Dell, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Cisco, and BMC Software,
2) academic boycott of all trips to the zionist entity,
3) protections for students & workers expressing solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle,
4) a demilitarized campus including no IOF-affiliated speakers on campus and banning of the IOF-trained NYPD from campus, and
5) a People’s CUNY to support community members at large. Shame on Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez and President Vincent Boudreau for security coordination with the pigs who brutalize principled, peaceful protesters.

We know CUNY is eminently capable of fulfilling these demands due to the 1984 Board of Trustees decision to divest from apartheid South Africa! Solidarity to the student intifada, solidarity to the Palestinian resistance, and glory to the martyrs of Palestine. The entity will fall!

NYC residents in particular, to register your own thoughts on the genocidal complicity of this public university please contact
Email: chancellor@cuny.edu
Call: +16466649100

Source: Unity of Fields

Sabotaging Citibank in NYC on Oct 7

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7 October 2024 – Anonymous communiqué:

DEFUND GENOCIDE

Today we remember not just one year since October 7th, 2023, but we also remember the genocide that Palestinians have been resisting since 1948. We remember the over 186,000 Palestinians martyred by the Zionist entity. We remember that we, as Americans, are complicit in the genocide as American imperialism allows “Israel” to exist and funds the murder of oppressed peoples worldwide.

We targeted Citibank today because of its role in the genocide of Palestinians. It boasts having “the largest presence of any foreign financial institution in Israel”, providing services for Israel to secure money and weapons to perpetuateing its genocide against the Palestinian people. Furthermore, according to Bloomberg, Citi was the sole underwriter of a $500 million bond to Israel in January 2024, shortly after the start of the genocide in Gaza. Citi has also facilitated the sale of billions in bonds for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, makers of the missiles and fighter jets Israel uses in Gaza. Citibank also invests and partners with Israel’s tech sector, which develops and deploys technology to surveil and terrorize Palestinians.

Citibank is also implicated in crimes committed in the West Bank through their ownership stake in two of Israel’s largest banks: Bank Leumi and Israel Discount Bank, both of which play an essential role in funding illegal settlements.

Economic activism in 1987 forced Citibank to divest from apartheid South Africa and through direct action we will force Citibank to divest from the genocide of the Palestinian people. We will continue to learn from the tenacity of the Axis of Resistance and will continue to resist until all imperial and colonial states fall, and until we win the liberation of all oppressed people worldwide. Glory to all the martyrs and glory to the Intifada.

More info and sources at bit.ly/vp-citi

Source: Unity of Fields

Burning New York Pig Department Effigy

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7 October 2024 – Anonymous submission:

An hour ago, at Union Square during WOL’s march commemorating Operation Al Aqsa Flood, a New York Pig Department effigy was set on fire. This comes 2 weeks after NYC’s cop mayor Eric Adam was indicted on corruption charges, 3 weeks after armed pigs committed a mass shooting at the Sutter Avenue subway station, and after 365 days of NYPD violently repressing pro-Palestine protests throughout the city.

Make no mistake: New York City is a fully militarized Cop City. The same forces that terrorize working class black and brown New Yorkers also brutalize us for opposing genocide. They are armed agents of the settler empire that is Amerika, paid to enforce the global hierarchy of races through violence.

So today, on the one year anniversary of Al Aqsa Flood, we say:
PIGS OUT OF SUBWAYS!
DISBAND THE STRATEGIC RESPONSE GROUP!
ABOLISH THE COUNTERTERRORISM UNIT!
STOP QUEENS COP CITY!
STOP COP NATION!

 

source: Unity of Fields

Banner Drop in Williamsburg

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Banner drop in williamsburg, brooklyn, ny, covering an apple iphone 16 billboard. apple is complicit in genocide in Palestine and Congo. Read the communiqué:

We begin with a reminder: October 7th was a prison break. Down with the zionist entity!

The ruling class & political pawns of the so-called “United States of America” continue their unconditional funding & arming of the zionist entity, which is murdering and injuring hundreds of thousands of people in its attacks on occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. Here on Turtle Island, militarized Amerikkkan cops unleash death and depravity, as well, from the lynching of Khaliifah Ibn Rayford Daniels ‘Abdul-Quddus, to the NYPD’s mass shooting aboard the L-train at Sutter Ave, to the murders of Sonya Massey, Victoria Lee, and far too many other victims of state violence. Both genocidal settler colonies — the “US” and “israel” — commit wanton slaughter with impunity.

The Palestinian struggle up to and including October 7th demonstrates that the only way forward against this brutal oppression is resistance by any means necessary. We must all rise up in the belly of the beast to do our part in dismantling empire.

Expect more! This is only the beginning. Free Palestine. Free all people from empire. From New York to Jenin, Missouri to Lebanon, intifada until victory!

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Morning Picket at Home of Rebecca Weiner

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Anonymous submission: The movement for a free Palestine can not and will not be locked behind or shut out by campus gates. Inside campus, outside campus — Palestine is in all of us and there will be no escape for manufacturers of genocide until Palestine is free. THIS MORNING, on the anniversary of the glorious Al-Aqsa Flood, Columbia’s top cop 🐷👮‍♀️ Rebecca Weiner was visited by her very own wake-up picket at 7:30 AM, at her residence in Brooklyn.

Weiner is NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism and their liaison in “Tel Aviv.” She boasts about receiving hourly updates from the NYPD’s own office in occupied Palestinian land, underscoring the financial and ideological ties between the IOF and the Amerikan police.

She was commended by Eric Adams for spearheading the brutal arrests of three hundred pro-Palestine protestors at Columbia University, including the use of live ammunition, a BearCat tank, and flash bangs grenades on protestors inside Hind’s Hall.

In May 2023, Wiener was appointed to Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, cementing the ties between the NYPD, the IOF, and the moneyed universities which, behind their closely surveilled gates, launder the despicable crimes of the imperial core.

Our demand is not “no cops on campus;” our demand is TEAR DOWN THE GATES. No more gentrification and policing in New York City to protect the garish strongholds of Amerikan empire; no more cops period; fuck your $2.90.

Weiner proudly boasts about her family ties to the Manhattan project. Her grandfather, Stanislaw Ulam, was one of the developers of the atomic bo

mb- tested on stolen Navajo land and used to slaughter and maim millions of Japanese civilians over generations.

No matter where you go, Palestine is everywhere. No cowardly Columbia University administrator, trustee, or faculty member will know peace while materially supporting the genocide and slaughter of Palestinian people.

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Vandalism at Baruch College

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Activists vandalized the windows of Baruch College’s dining hall on the early hours of October 6th to demands cops off campus and for Baruch administration to slash all ties with the racist NYPD. Simultaneously the walls of Baruch’s 55 Lexington Ave campus were vandalized with the slogan “Oct 7th is Forever” to honor the operation Al-Aqsa Flood which shattered the myth of US-Israeli invincibility on October 7th 2023.

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Citi Redecoration

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28 September 2024 – Anonymous Submission

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This week, at the close of the United Nations General Assembly and Climate Week in and in the lead up to the annual Global Citizen Festival on September 28th in New York, an autonomous group left a message for Global Citizen Festival Sponsor Citibank. Global Citizen is selling out our social and environmental justice movements to the world’s worst corporations. New Yorkers condemn its corrupt silence on the illegal Israeli occupation’s genocide in Gaza.

Global Citizen claims its mission is to “defeat poverty, demand equity, and defend the planet.” So why is the organization – and this event — funded and directed by genocide and climate change profiteers?

Citigroup, the multinational investment bank, is a “presenting partner” of the Global Citizen Festival. It’s also the top funder of fossil fuel expansion projects since the Paris Agreements. Citigroup is also deeply invested in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. As the first and largest U.S. bank to operate in the occupied territory (starting right after it was the last U.S. bank to withdraw from apartheid South Africa), Last October, Citigroup issued the zionist regime a $500 million war bond to begin the genocide in Gaza, and has since facilitated billions in U.S. taxpayer-funded arms shipments from Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

With its public commitment to human rights, large platform, and connections throughout politics, business, finance, media, and the entertainment industry, Global Citizen is well-positioned to hold the U.S. and Israel accountable by influencing public attitudes and policies about this genocide. Instead, it hasn’t said a word about Palestine since October.

Source: Unity of Fields

Not Liking Someone Doesn’t Mean They’re a Cop: On Bad-jacketing

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Since the commencement of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, millions around the world have taken to the streets in support of Palestine against the genocidal Zionist entity. We are, globally, in an unprecedented moment of anti-imperialist mobilisation, which threatens not only the Zionist occupation but the colonial powers that uphold it.

This text was written through the summer and early autumn of 2024 from Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory (so-called Southern Ontario, Canada), where people, many new to the left, have been facing intensified violence and harassment from both police and Zionists. Protests are regularly met with arrests and other attacks, which have created a climate of fear among attendees and organisers.

At the same time, that fear, combined with a disconnect from previous generations of struggle and an often-unchallenged fear of militancy, has led to practices that end up putting our comrades in more danger. This text hopes to address one such recurring issue.

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Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC

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The uptown Manhattan district office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat and the surrounding area was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti on Thursday night.

According to security footage police viewed at the scene the following morning, the vandalism took place at around 11 p.m., on a night when pro-Palestinian protests took place around the city, on the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

The graffiti covered a window that, for much of the past year, has displayed fliers with the faces of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The office, which was closed Friday morning as police investigated, is regularly picketed by small groups of pro-Palestinian protesters.

By Friday morning, the graffiti had been partially scratched off, but the vandalism appeared to say, “F— Israel,” “40k dead,” “genocide lover” and “terrorist” in red paint on the window and door of Espaillat’s office in Washington Heights.

The graffiti also had an inverted red triangle, a symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos that has become increasingly popular among pro-Palestinian protesters. Other graffiti on the same street and on a nearby subway entrance also featured the red triangle and read “F— Israel NYPD Cop City,” “Free Gaza” and “A terrorist in uniform is still a terrorist.”

Espaillat is a Democrat representing upper Manhattan and part of the Bronx. He has spoken out in support of Israeli hostages, security funding for Jewish institutions, and Jewish students at Columbia University in recent months. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Other pro-Israel New York congressmen have had their offices hit with anti-Israel graffiti since Oct. 7, including Reps. Daniel Goldman and Ritchie Torres, both Democrats, and Republican Rep. Mike Lawler.

Anti-Israel protests reignited around the city this week, after a lull during the summer, when many students were home for summer vacation. A protest against Netanyahu marched from Bryant Park on Thursday, and demonstrators gathered outside a hotel on Park Avenue on Thursday night where they believed Netanyahu was staying. The protests come amid an escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace said actress Rowan Blanchard from the “Spy Kids” movie series had been arrested along with 24 other activists affiliated with the group.

The hardline pro-Palestinian activist group Within Our Lifetime released a map illustrated with dripping blood that urged followers to target the offices of Israel-focused groups including the Friends of the IDF, AIPAC, Birthright and the “Zionist consulate,” as well as Grand Central Station. The group published a similar map last year.

Anti-Israel protesters targeted New York Mayor Eric Adams at a Thursday rally after he was indicted for corruption. Columbia University students announced a Friday campus protest focused on Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

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Call to Action: Oct 7 Week of Rage

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LET the FLOOD of AL-AQSA DROWN the SETTLER EMPIRE!

Call for a Week of Rage from October 7–14: Direct action in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance and anti-colonial movements in Turtle Island.

To act alongside the Al-Quds Axis and ‘bring the war home’ requires nothing less than a revival of anti-colonial militancy in this occupied continent. Free Palestine means death to amerika.

In commemorating one year of Operation Toufan Al-Aqsa, this is a call to go beyond the routine stage-managed ‘protest’ parades; this is a call to organize and sustain attacks on all entities, institutions, and infrastructures of the genocidal u.s.-zionist settler-imperialist order. Strike fear into the hearts of the comfortable colonizers, unsettle the settlers, just as the Palestinian Mujahideen have done.

Honor the martyrs through action. From Palestine to Lebanon to Yemen, to the millions of Native and Afrikan peoples across these lands—carry on the fight of those who dared to resist the settler-invader hordes and their capitalist slaveocracy. Target the many politicians, pigs, and profiteers that uphold the amerikan settler empire and its zionist spawn.

Share this graphic online, print and disseminate this call to action at demos, gatherings, study groups. [PDF: AlAqsaWoR]

Organize a crew—at least three people—map out the terrain, assemble necessary tools, make a plan, and go on the offensive. For ideas, check out past actions and tactical resources on unityoffields.org, and submit a report back to the_unity_of_fields@proton.me.

As Al-Qassam urban guerrillas have demonstrated, a small dedicated cell can do untold damage upon the enemy. In the midst of total genocidal devastation, the Resistance is still able to obliterate the zionist entity’s tanks with just a few men. Let’s muster the courage and conviction so we too can learn from their revolutionary example.

GLORY to the MARTYRS
VICTORY to the RESISTANCE
WHAT IS COMING IS GREATER

Submitted anonymously over email.