New interview with Malcolm P Tent and Stop Sabal Trail Pipeline resistance!
"So far, the only thing that has mitigated the horrifying opening salvos of Trump’s presidency—of course the first president to follow through on his campaign promises had to be this one—has been the widespread popular resistance against his deportation orders, Muslim bans, pipeline projects, and misinformation campaigns. Resistance in and of itself is a beautiful thing because it shows that people are still alive, they still consider themselves a part of their environment; o...n the other hand, resistance is by no means a synonym for change. The State has long known how to manage resistance, and how to factor it in as one more cost of its policies. For that reason, rather than being self-congratulatory when we resist, we should encourage one another to understand just what it is we are fighting back against, what it would take to defeat it, and how our actions measure up to the requirements of the situation."
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"Two marches took place this past week on occupied Tohono O’odham land, Tucson, AZ, both of which began with different tones and stated intentions and which met different responses on the part of the police. This piece hopes to look at these marches and the police interventions they faced through a lens examining the current state of policing, particularly “community policing,” both here in Tucson and nationally. We hope that these beginning reflections and thoughts can be useful for those interested in working against the police as an institution, and for those aspiring to escalate street actions in the city generally."
World premiere of "All Day" video from Shining Soul, directed by Klee Benally, takes on Trump, colonialism, and border militarization. Must watch!
"The point is simply that—to paraphrase Utah Phillips—our neighbors and coworkers are not vanishing, they are being disappeared, and the institutions responsible for this have names and addresses."
"In the last few months, a tide of popular defiance to the Trump regime has rolled across the country. His ‘peaceful transition’ of power was undermined by rioting in the capitol of the most powerful nation in the world. His racist travel ban was met with airport occupations nationwide, which are likely responsible in part for the ban’s current defeat in the courts. Alt-right speakers and organizing have been consistently disrupted by large, diverse crowds, which have blockaded buildings and physically expelled fascists from the streets.
A common slogan in many of these demonstrations has been, “Love Trumps Hate.” Because we believe this small slogan exposes a much, much deeper fault line in our movement, we wanted to respond to this phrase with the following points."
Eco-activist Krow arrested at Standing Rock, needs support.
#NoDAPL #StandingRock
"he other aspect to this role of police in reproducing conditions of slavery is their role in the reproduction of whiteness, not just as a set of assumed, individual privileges but also as a structurally reinforced civil duty to the state via inclusion in the social body, citizenship, and Humanity itself. The genesis of this duty is clear in the use of white, non-slave-owning volunteers in the early slave patrols and in the deputizing of white people for the posse comitatus, ...among many other possible examples.[24] Civil society took root in the horizontal authority assembled to suppress Black rage. To return to Saidiya Hartman, “The slave is the object or the ground that makes possible the existence of the bourgeois subject and, by negation or contradistinction, defines liberty, citizenship, and the enclosures of the social body.”[25] It follows that the brutally violent policing of Black people implies, again by contradistinction, a white inclusion in the social body that indicates a specific relationship to the state."
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Awesome set of pro-refugee and immigrant posters to put up around town!
"Anti-fascist groups, often called “antifa,” are popping up all around the United States, and a number of people have asked us for advice on forming a group. Because antifa work is different from other forms of radical organizing, and because the antifa groups themselves are changing, we have written down some of our suggestions, based on years of experience. However, this article has been written in a very fluid political situation (February 2017), and some of these specific...s may or may not be relevant in the coming months and years.
This essay covers a number of points, including: the advantages, disadvantages, and obligations of working under the anti-fascist banner; questions involving anonymity and visibility, both in person and online; self-defense and firearms; working with problematic people and dealing with infiltrators; state repression; and actions to take as anti-fascists."
"It’s time to strategize. Is it more realistic to set out to overturn the Muslim ban, halt further construction of the border wall, help our friends and loved ones evade ICE roundups, stop the DAPL and Keystone XL, protect our drinking water, slow down global warming, tame the financial sector and stop the police from killing people and defend abortion access—or to take down the government itself? Should we fight a thousand defensive battles—or a single offensive one? In less... than four weeks, the Trump administration has accomplished something that American radicals haven’t been able to do for almost 250 years: it has convinced the majority of the American people that the government is a public menace. Trump and his cronies have picked fights with Black people, Latinos and Latinas, Native Americans, Muslims, immigrants, feminists, environmentalists, radicals, progressives, liberals, and a swath of federal, state, and municipal employees—in short, with the better part of the population. For good measure, they appear to be trying to provoke a major terrorist attack in the United States in hopes that it would shore up their dubious mandate. Undoubtedly, I’m forgetting something. It’s been an eventful month."
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"There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level."
"On February 14, Valentine’s Day, four members of New Haven Stands with Standing Rock shut down the entrance to TD Bank, a funder of DAPL. Unable to cut though the lock boxes, police let them free after briefly “arresting” them on the spot. The four were charged with disorderly conduct and interfering with the police, and their trial is scheduled for the 23rd."
"A few nights ago we smashed out the windows and doors of Wells Fargo in Lacey. Wells Fargo funds the Dakota Access Pipeline, as well as GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the Northwest Immigration Detention Center and many other private detention centers. Wells Fargo profits off of the destruction of the earth, the incarceration of migrants, and the ongoing land theft of native lands. Multiple cities and schools are divesting funds from Wells Fargo, individuals are closing their own accounts, and anarchists are attacking their banks and ATMs. Join the movement and smash a Wells Fargo near you; all it takes is a few seconds and a few rocks."
"Anarchists hate cameras. We love games. That’s why some friends in the Sud-West took up the call to play CAMOVER. Masked up in black (obvi), we bagged a bunch of nosey CCTVs and painted over many others. No Face No Case! Shouts out to homies in Hochelaga throwing down. Keep the good work up and the snitch cameras down."
