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Delayed report, East Bay USA.
via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.
“Dear Atlas,
You may have noticed that four of your trucks in the East Bay don’t run so well anymore. That might be because some time ago some forest fairies poured bleach into the tanks of your gas guzzling machines. We did this to avenge Tortuguita and the Forest.
xoxo
Cop City will never be built!”
23rd April, NRW Germany.
via: Act for Free!
“We continue to warm up the shitty RWE company!
As promised, we are continuing to heat up the shitty company RWE [German energy company]. We would like to emphasize once again that RWE is just an example for all other capitalists who can suffer the same fate at any time.
On the night of April 23-24, we burned out the cable which connects the infrastructure of the Inden rat hole [an RWE-owned open-cast lignite mine in North Rhine-Westphalia]. We hope to have caused a lot of damage and chaos for the company. Every year, 20 million tons of coal are extracted from the earth in the Inden rat hole to feed the RWE-owned Weisweiler coal power plant and the bank accounts of the financial elite. In 2020 alone, open-cast mining was responsible for 11.2 million tons of CO2 emissions.
It is unacceptable that those responsible for the global climate collapse do not feel the consequences of their actions. What we are doing are only pinpricks. Nothing compares to the suffering that the climate catastrophe is already imposing on many living beings today. But while nothing changes politically, while global hierarchies accumulate money and power, and while living beings die for the profit of a few individuals, the pinpricks will multiply…
Greetings from GAFFA (Guerilla Activists Fighting For Anarchy)”
Photo: Unrelated image, arson attack at a pumping station in Hambach Mine in 2017.
March, Värmland Sweden
received anonymously via email:
“The ALF spraypainted a butcher shop with the word “DJURPLÅGARE”, meaning ANIMAL ABUSERS in swedish. Also we have previously removed and destroyed cardboard advertisements put up by the butcher shop.
Every action counts! Long Live Animal Liberation!”
12th may, Italy
received anonymously via email:
“Free the bears!
the wild bears of Trentino, Italy, are again under attack from the local administration, especially from the local governor Maurizio Fugatti, following a deadly attack on a human: the bear “JJ4” (nicknamed Gaia), a mother of three cubs, has been accused and captured and is awaiting her execution in captivity.
Several groups, including one active in the Trentino territory, decided to send an unifed message: “Free the bears, Fugatti is a killer” in the cities of Reggio Emilia, Bologna, Modena, Padova, Bergamo, Firenze, Milano and lastly Trento itself.”
May, France.
received anonymously via email:
(ENGLISH)
“On a large boulevard, we came across this burned vehicle. We decided to use it as a display panel to send a message in support of the anti-Fourrure pressure campaign targeting Max Mara. We have tagged the following message “Max Mara Torture des Renards” which will be seen by hundreds of people every day seen until the vehicle withdraws.
Support for activists who fight to abolish fur and all other oppressions!
We will continue to use all the useful tactics for success!”
(FRANÇAIS)
“UN TAG (« MAX MARA TORTURE DES RENARDS ») EN SOUTIEN À LA CAMPAGNE DE PRESSION ANTI-FOURRURE CONTRE MAX MARA !
Sur un grand boulevard, nous sommes tombées sur ce véhicule brulé. Nous avons décidé de nous en servir comme panneau d’affichage pour passer un message en soutien à la campagne de pression anti-fourrure visant Max Mara. Nous avons tagué le message suivant « Max Mara torture des renards » qui sera vu par des centaines de personnes chaque jour vu jusqu’au retrait du véhicule.
Soutien aux activistes qui lutte pour abolir la fourrure et toutes les autres oppressions !
Nous continuerons à utiliser toutes les tactiques utiles pour réussir !”
15th May, Denmark.
received anonymously via email:
“Activists have liberated 2 lobsters, who were kept alive in a tank in a supermarket for humans to buy, kill, and eat. The lobsters were known to be from Danish oceans, so the activists brought them back to their home.”
28th April, Germany.
According to local media, a hunting trailer nearby Urbar was found on fire on the night of the 28th of April. With twenty firefighters present, all they could do is to ensure the fire wouldn’t spread beyond the trailer, as the hunting hut placed on top was completely ablaze. They ruled out “magical spontaneous combustion” and declared it an arson, which was not claimed by anyone. The police is making enquires to ascertain if the fire was started by animal liberation activists, but so far they have no clues about the identity of the perpetrators.
2nd May, Germany.
“On Tuesday night, we placed incendiary devices at a construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. Already a few years ago, comrades claimed responsibility for several attacks on the infrastructure of this company, which is also responsible for the construction of the prison in Zwickau. (https://chronik.blackblogs.org/?p=10502) The company was also brought into focus because its owner Jörg Drews is affiliated with the fascist party AfD.
The ruling ideology says that it is necessary to keep people in constant fear so that they do not resist patriarchal and colonial oppression and docilely join the capitalist routine so that they can ultimately be shaped and standardized. All the more encouraging are the signs of those who, even in the moment of almost total isolation, confront fear and do not fall silent in their struggle for a world of solidarity, mutual aid and self-organization. As we take it from the words of the Italian prisoner Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for over 6 months since last October to fight against the 41bis regime imposed on him:
“I simply cannot live under an inhumane regime as 41bis means, where I cannot freely read what I want, books, newspapers, anarchist magazines, magazines of art and science as well as literature and history. The only way to escape the regime is to give up my identity as an anarchist and sell it to someone else to take my place. A regime in which I cannot have human contact, in which I cannot pick a handful of herbs or hug a loved one. A regime in which the photos of our parents are stolen. Buried alive in a tomb, in a place of death. I will continue my struggle to the extreme, not because of an “accusation,” but because this is not life.”
Although the hunger strike has ended and we are happy to know Alfredo is alive, this does not mean that we will stop fighting against the prison society. On the contrary, his struggle for dignity, as well as the numerous attacks in which comrades themselves risked their freedom, wrote words of solidarity and in this way connected with each other worldwide, have inspired us. With the strength unleashed by the hunger strike, we continue on the path of attacking all that the world of incarceration and punishment embodies.
Those who have been cited before the Higher Regional Court in Dresden for more than 1.5 years in the so-called “Antifa Ost” trial are also to be locked up. While Lina has already been in pre-trial detention since November 2020, the verdict expected in the coming months could also impose prison sentences on the other three defendants. The accused acts stand in antifascist continuity, to take away fascists’ and neo-Nazis’ space of movement and to fight their anti-life ideologies at any time. In view of the fascist conditions coming to a head in many places – be it through the government of Meloni (Fratelli d’Italia) in Italy or the continuous collaboration by German authorities to arm and maintain right-wing networks, with the simultaneous state fight against anarchist and anti-fascist structures – the destruction of the property of one of their companies is only a small contribution on our part to this struggle.
Even if we criticize that the violence necessary in this sense was not openly defended in the trial, or that the challenges that this very use of violence confronts us with regarding patriarchal and militarized thinking need an even deeper examination, this does not change our attitude of solidarity. We think of all those who, in the context of the “Antifa Ost” trial, not only feel the relentlessness of repression in an exemplary way for an anti-fascist movement, but are also confronted with the double betrayal. To those sitting in the dock in Dresden, to those affected by sexualized violence and beyond: we wish you courage, send you strength and hope that this will not silence you.
In solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, always for anarchy.
A hug to the two comrades whose trip to Adlershof ended 2 months ago in the Gesa – you are not alone.
Freedom for all prisoners!”
4th May, Derbyshire UK
received anonymously via email:
“Nice spring night out and about in rural Derbyshire, UK and decommissioned large mammal trap, 4 Fenn traps and 2 shooting platform ladders”
21st April, Germany.
via: Abolition Media
“Dear Sabotage book,
We have drilled hundreds of holes in a drainage pipe between 19:50 and 2:10 on the weekend for a political motive, we got the idea from here.
Already a few weeks ago in this open pit mine, copper cables were stolen to the value of 2500 euros, high five to the thieves! We hope that today is another really bad day for the coal company Mibrag. And the thought of how the cops from the SOKO Linx waded through knee-deep mud to secure evidence, still brings a smile to our faces.
Rating 10/10 holes, a very (w)holesome action!
Solidarity greetings to all antifascists who are currently facing disproportionate persecution in the form of house searches, creepy informers, lousy traitors and jail! Even if we from the climate justice movement are not so much in the focus right now, the repression is coming to a head for us as well. We know that we are all fighting the same fight, because climate justice is not possible without anti-fascism and feminism. We will fight at your side on day X!