Category: HIT Report

11th September, Frankfurt Germany.

via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!

“The International Motor Show (IAA) was held in Munich last week. At this summer show, all manner of multinationals were once again able to show off their gleaming, beautiful cars and congratulate themselves on their economic success in their air-conditioned conference rooms, limousines and exhibition halls.

At the same time, this summer has once again been full of fires. In Rhodes. In Portugal. In Maui (island of Hawaii). At the same time, many people’s homes were flooded. In Slovenia and Austria.
Many people’s lives were shattered. These deadly catastrophes have many causes, and the IAA is just one of them. We say Switch off the system of destruction!

So we torched a few new Tesla cars this evening in Frankfurt. In salute to the Munich protests. One of many attacks on the destructive automotive industry.

Tesla is one of our greatest enemies. This company represents better than any other the ideology of green capitalism and the pursuit of global and colonial destruction. Electric motors are constantly presented as the clean alternative. This is a cynical lie. Like other companies, Tesla exploits resources all over the world. The raw materials needed for electric car batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, are mined in Latin America or Africa under miserable conditions. Despite the pretty green paint job, fossil fuels are used to transport and extract them.

All this is linked to the oppression of indigenous communities, whose resistance must spur us to action.

Tesla accepts all this in order to produce cars that can slither through city centers. Which will show day after day that there is wealth to be had. But not for everyone. According to Tesla’s logic, only a few are entitled to own such cars. It’s a question of class that determines who drives or has the right to drive these cars.

This time, in a show of resistance, we attacked a parking lot housing Teslas for sale. Often, and just about everywhere, it’s Teslas belonging to private individuals that are hit, when it’s not the construction of its factories that are sabotaged, as in Berlin-Grünheide. All these acts are important to damage this group. Not only economically, but above all politically. To show that we don’t agree with the green lies, the plundering of raw materials or the cities and roads that belong only to the rich. In our opinion, these poisoners must pay a high price!

Tesla is part of a conglomerate of groups owned by Elon Musk. His patriarchal fantasies are apparently inexhaustible. He is one of those people who want to dominate the Internet, space, new technologies and artificial intelligence, and seems to know no limits to his fantasies of domination.

SpaceX, for example, is a company that wants to create more resources, rockets and spaceships to make space a vacation destination for the rich and advance the idea of one day inhabiting Mars. The appropriation and subjugation of territories for capitalism continues, all the way to Mars. A dystopia that speaks volumes.

As for the neurotechnology company Neuralink, its aim is to link the human brain to machines. They are experimenting on animals to see how thought flows can be read. In the long term, this is claimed to be used for curing diseases.

But like SpaceX and Tesla, Neuralink also aspires to a longer-term perspective, in which individuals have a different value. In which some people have a right to a better life in the midst of the ecological catastrophe that is already upon us. Incorporating certain thoughts and ideas into the development of AI can only give rise to a deeply racist technology.

Some may claim that their electric cars are not responsible for the destruction of the world’s ecosystems, exploitation and displacement of populations. Some grant themselves the right to be blind to their privilege of colonial and ecological destruction. We must destroy these patriarchal and colonialist conceptions of the future. They are the enemy of a world and a way of life that are ecological and based on solidarity.

Greetings to all those on the run and in prison!
Switch Off – the system of destruction!”

30th September, Puente Alto Chile.

Editor’s note: Since receiving this article, we have been told that whilst many fire engines had to work on extinguishing the fire, police and press are silencing this action, having published nothing about it. They are probably trying to handle the heat of Celula Insurreccional por el Maipo receiving more attention when they already made international headlines last year due to an arson at an amazon facility.

[Photo is a placeholder. The single photo that was sent with the report is very blurry and can be seen below]

ENGLISH (translated):

“ADJUDICATION OF ARSON ATTACK ON THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE AND MEAT PACKING PLANT CORDILLERA OF DINACAR HOLDING. PUENTE ALTO, CHILE.

On the night of Saturday, September 30, we successfully attacked the Cordillera slaughterhouse and meat packing plant, setting fire to part of its infrastructure and logistics, aiming to cause as much damage as possible with the care and confidence that there were no live animals in the place. With this attack we sought to sabotage the production and transport of the slaughterhouse and the supply line of butcher shops, both belonging to the DINACAR holding, which is also dedicated to the breeding of pigs (Porky/Viña Vieja) and cows (chain of farms “Viento Sur”), thus completing the chain of the industry of death from beginning to end.

This is not merely an anti-speciesist action but also a direct attack on the existing power relations in projects like this one, where we can see the precariousness of the territories where they are located, generating pollution, degrading the quality of life of the environment; extractivism, present in the direct use of the waters of the Maipo and its subsequent return of dirty water; and the capitalist logics that commodify and trade in life, exploiting everything that can generate profits.

We are not heroes, we are enemies of all forms of domination, embracing attack as a concrete practice that materializes our anarchist desires to live without cages or oppression for anyone. Antispeciesism requires attack, leaving behind victimhood and its inaction!

We continue taking direct action and consolidating and expanding the conflict for land, both urban and rural.

We salute the territories resisting against progress and capital, and those who materialize animal liberation through fire and/or the erection of spaces of anti-speciesist solidarity known as sanctuaries.

Fire to traditions and to speciesist culture!

Through this action we send revolutionary hugs to our comrades Monica and Francisco, prisoners of the Susaron case and prisoners of the gendarmerie case.

Anarchist, subversive and Mapuche prisoners: free them all!

An end the sentences of the military justice!

In memory of Emilia Bau and all comrades killed in the struggle for animal and land liberation.

Free Maipo.

For anarchy, for the earth, for our lives!

Celula insurreccional por el Maipo – Nueva Subversion.”

SPANISH (original):

ADJUDICACIÓN DE ATAQUE INCENDIARIO A FAENADORA Y FRIGORÍFICO CORDILLERA DEL HOLDING DINACAR. PUENTE ALTO, CHILE.

La noche del sábado 30 de septiembre atacamos con éxito la faenadora y frigorífico cordillera, incendiando parte de su infraestructura y logística, apostando a generar el mayor daño posible con la precaución y certeza de que no hubiesen animales vivxs en el lugar. Con este ataque buscamos sabotear la producción y transporte de la faenadora y frigorífico cordillera, linea de abastecimiento de carnicerías “productor”, ambas pertenecientes al holding DINACAR, el cual se dedica también a la crianza de cerdos (Criadero Porky/Viña Vieja) y vacas (cadena de granjas “Viento Sur”), completando así la cadena de la industria de muerte de principio a fin.

Esta no es solo una acción antiespecista sino también un ataque directo a las relaciones de poder existentes en proyectos como éste, donde se dejan ver la precarización de los territorios donde se ubican, generando contaminación odorífica, degradando con esto la calidad de vida del entorno; el extractivismo, presente en el uso directo de las aguas del maipo y su posterior devolución de aguas tratadas; y las lógicas capitalistas que mercantilizan y cosifican la vida, explotando todo lo que pueda generar ganancias.

No somos héroes ni iluminadxs, somos antagonistas de toda forma de dominación, abrazando la ofensiva como una práctica concreta que materializa nuestros deseos anárquicos de vivir sin jaulas ni dominación para nadie. ¡El antiespecismo requiere de la ofensiva, dejando atrás el eterno victimismo y su inacción!

Seguimos desde la acción directa consolidando y expandiendo el conflicto por la tierra, tanto en lo urbano como en lo rural.

Saludamos a los territorios en resistencia contra el progreso y el capital, y a quienes materializan la liberación animal desde el fuego y/o el levantamiento de espacios de solidaridad antiespecista conocidos como santuarios.

Fuego a las tradiciones y la cultura especista!!

Abrazamos mediante esta acción a lxs compañerxs Mónica y Francisco, presxs del caso susaron y presxs del caso gendarmería.

Presxs anarquistas, subversivxs y mapuche: a la calle!!

Fin a las condenas de la justicia militar!!

En memoria de Emilia Bau y todxs lxs compañerxs muertxs en la lucha por la liberación animal y de la tierra.

Maipo libre.

¡Por la anarquía, por la tierra, por nuestras vidas!

Célula insurreccional por el Maipo – Nueva Subversión.

September 25th, Portland, Oregon, USA

received anonymously via email:

“No one owns the forest!

Overnight, a group of anarchists attacked the World Forestry Center museum and its conference building next door, destroying doors, windows, and the museum’s glass facade before dissapearing into the darkness. The Center is set to host the “Who Will Own the Forest?” conference September 26th-28th. The conference brings together “landowners, asset managers, investors, forest industry executives” and other vampires to plan and adapt their plundering of the forests for capitalist growth.

To truly defend the forests requires the destruction of capitalism altogether. Knowing there can be no dialogue with what must be destroyed, we turn to the attack.

We hope the damage presents an obstacle to the conference going as planned. Though we don’t mind the ambience of broken glass and missing windows, we expect the industry executives might!

Love to those fighting against Cop City, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and their world!”

Image unrelated to the action

Received anonymously via email

September, France

ENGLISH

“Locks of butcher shops and cheese shops glued

3 millions animals die every day in french slaughter houses.
Reminders of this massacre are everywhere, so common that they become normal. Butcher shops, cheese shops, dairy shops… These industries are based on the killing and exploitation of individuals. These industries are all over. As a consequence, no one is stunned at seeing dead bodies in a showcase. Activists tried to break, for a few hours, this grim reality. During the night, locks of speciesist shops have been glued to prevent them from opening, as a warning we do not forget the violence they represent and we will stand tall.

With this action, we also want to show or love and support to all the animal right activist who are suffering state repression, and especially to the activist of the french group Animal1st who, after a violent investigation, are now facing multiple trials and potential jail sentences.”

FRANCAIS

“Glutage de serrures de commerces spécistes

3 millions d’animaux agonisent chaque jour dans les abattoirs français.
Des rappels de ce massacre sont présents dans tous les recoins de nos vies et de nos villes. Leur présence est tellement omniprésente qu’elle a fini par devenir la norme. Boucherie, fromagerie, laiterie… Toutes ces industries se basent sur l’exploitation et la mise à mort d’une catégorie d’individus. Toutes ces industries ont pignon sur rue, au point que l’on ne s’étonne plus de voir des cadavres exposés en vitrine. Des militant.e.s ont tenté de rompre, quelques heures durant, cette normalité mortifère. Dans la nuit du 18 au 19 septembre, des commerces représentant l’exploitation spéciste ont vu leurs serrures gluées, car nous n’oublions pas la violence qu’ils représentent et nous entendons être le grain de sable dans le mécanisme.

Nous attaquons de front l’économie spéciste.
Nous nous inscrivons en solidarité avec les animaux non-humains.
Nous luttons pour un monde où l’égalité deviendrait la norme.

Cette action s’inscrit également comme un message d’amour et de soutien envers les nombreux.ses antispécistes victimes d’une répression étatique démesurée, signe que ce combat fait peur et que l’on cherche à l’étouffer dans l’œuf. Toutes nos pensées vont aux militant.e.s du collectif Animal1st, confronté.e.s à une violente enquête à plusieurs centaines de milliers d’euros, une condamnation pour « association de malfaiteurs » et des procès à répétitions, pour des faits présumés… de tags, dégradations légères et libérations d’animaux. Mais peu importe la répression, des personnes déterminées répondront toujours présentes pour continuer la lutte.”

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

August, Milwaukie USA.

[photo unrelated to the action]

“Last week, to commemorate the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, under the cover of darkness a small incendiary device was placed on the wheel arc of a Vertiv truck located on the edge of a sleepy office park in Milwaukie OR. The delay was lit before we disappeared back into the forest

Vertiv Corporation develops critical support equipment and services for commercial IT systems—technology that is utilized by United States military in addition to state and federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and ICE. Vertiv is part of the broad corporate infrastructure of state repression that condemns us all to a world of mass surveillance, borders, and militarized police

AGAINST COP CITY

This action was inspired in part by the continued militancy and creativity of the movement to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta GA. Cop City is a testing ground for other law enforcement agencies across the country to construct similar facilities—continuing a broader trend towards the militarization of policing and domestic counter-insurgency. For their part, Vertiv is a supplier to the Atlanta Police Department. Just in the year 2023 alone, the APD paid Vertiv $168,315 to utilize their technology.

Cop City is everywhere, so our resistance will be everywhere. March 5th was our call to war…

For Tort

For Rayshard Brooks

March 5th Movement (M5M)”

summer, Bavaria, Germany.

via: Act for Free

“But who said summer wasn’t conducive to incendiary attacks on structures of domination? Not the police in Bavaria’s capital city, at any rate, where these have not ceased. On July 8, a construction machine set fire under the Föhringer Ring in the north of Munich, destroying the telecoms cables running along the bridge. On July 16, a cell phone antenna caught fire in Forstenrieder Park, south of Munich. Then on July 26, five construction machines at the Martinsried subway station were hit by flames in Planneg, this time in the west of the city. And on July 27, at around 10.30pm, a forestry machine used for felling large trees was engulfed in flames in the Perlach forest, south of the city, again causing over 100,000 euros worth of damage.

All this anonymous destruction is enough to make uniforms dizzy, as they no longer know which Saint to turn to or which direction to dig, so much so that helicopters have even taken to circling the skies over Munich at night, in search of saboteurs. All to no avail.

On Sunday night, August 14, at around 3:30 a.m., the crew of a police helicopter spotted – albeit a little late to start the hunt – a new excavator fire. It was located near the central dam on the River Isar, between Pullach and Höllriegelskreuth to the south of the city, and belonged to the municipal company Stadtwerke München (SWM), one of Germany’s largest energy supply companies. The damage is estimated by the cops at “several hundred thousand euros”, and the investigation has once again been handed over to Kommissariat 43 (state security offences).

But there’s more. Firstly, because summer isn’t over yet, and secondly, because the clever ones will have noticed that a cardinal point was missing from this beautiful continuity. Of course, there was no reason why the domination interests to the east of the city should escape the flames!

On Tuesday night, August 16, at around 2:30 a.m., a large construction machine went up in flames on the A94 freeway in Anzing, some fifteen kilometers east of Munich. According to the criminal police, this was probably a case of arson, and links with similar cases throughout the Munich police district are being investigated. The burnt-out machine was an asphalt paver parked on the construction site, and the damage is again estimated at over 100,000 euros.

With two more beautiful construction machines reduced to ashes, one on the eve of August 15 and the second after the feast of the Assumption, if the Saint to whom the Munich police devote themselves in an attempt to catch the arsonists is still called Mary… it’s because she really doubts nothing!”

Delayed report, July 2023, USA.

via: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.

[photo unrelated, train sabotage in Washington 2021]

“During the last week of action in Atlanta, some of us sabotaged various parts of Norfolk Southern’s rail infrastructure on the outskirts of the city. Norfolk Southern is one of Cop City’s funders.

1. We set fire to a signal box by cutting the lock with bolt cutters, stuffing the box with dried pine needles and trash, and lighting a road flare.
2. We disabled another signal box by cutting the lock with bolt cutters, lighting two fireworks held together with tape, and shutting the door of the box with fireworks inside.
3. We connected the rails with a set of jumper cables to signal a blockage on the track to be cleared.

The actions were simple and unsurveilled. More experimentation is needed to see if this actually stops or delays trains. That is the main reason we have waited until now to claim this action. But it certainly cost Norfolk Southern money, and that’s better than nothing. Our original intent was not propaganda of the deed, but to cause economic harm. However, in light of the recent RICO charges, we realized that people might need a little encouragement on how to respond. Norfolk Southern owns and operates many railroads across the country east of the Mississippi.

The best defense is a strong offense!”

10th August, Berlin Germany.

via: Act for Free!

“Somebody has to build all this shit, the highways through forests, the jails, the palaces of the rich in the formerly green backyards of Berlin’s old buildings, the concrete aisles along the banks of the Spree River.

As we walk through the city, we repeatedly encounter the signs of a handful of companies that want to use them to mark who owns the city. Among them is Züblin, a construction corporation that pours cement on the explosive increase in rents. Züblin has long been active in the business of the capitalist attack on our living spaces, and was already targeted forty years ago for this reason, when construction machinery burned because of its involvement in the construction of Runway West in Frankfurt. During the Nazi regime, Züblin used forced laborers at Frankfurt Airport. Through its connection with Strabag, Züblin has become one of the leading tree killers, see the expansion of the A49 through the Danni or A66 through the Fechenheimer forest.

Naming such actors and sabotaging them unpredictably can be a modest contribution to the long-term wave of action towards revolt.

On the night of August 10, we shut down a Züblin vehicle with fire in Kreuzberg, Alexandrinenstraße.

The attack of the day before on the occupied houses in Habersaathstr. by a security company on behalf of the real estate mafia, shows the determination of our opponents to subjugate the city at any price in their pursuit of profit. There is nothing left but to target all profiteers of these exploitative relations.

Our action took place in a neighborhood that has been completely transformed in recent years in favor of the new urban elites. The nocturnal crackling of their vehicles is supposed to be part of the disturbing background music of the workers of Züblin, Amazon, DB & Co, when they want to regenerate in their new fancy apartments for another productive working day.

Group for the Shutdown of the Construction Industry“

September, Appalachia USA.

via: Abolition Media.

“a fortnight ago, by the light of the full moon, a small group of friends set fire to a large excavator and a second small machine that were being used to build the mountain valley pipeline near teels creek.

we came prepared to burn up to six machines but unfortunately found only two at the site we chose. mvp has dozens or possibly hundreds of unattended machines on their construction sites on any given night; they are working at a breakneck pace in an attempt to complete the pipeline by the end of the year. a map of the pipeline showing incomplete water crossings can be found at tinyurl.com/mvprfuckers.

we believe that mvp is financially precarious and can still be stopped through relentless destructive actions, alongside the scaling-up of the existing campaign to cause disruptions and delays. to this end, we call upon like-minded individuals and groups to travel to so-called virginia and west virginia to inflict maximum economic damage against mvp by any means at your disposal. we must demoralize the enemy and prove that their project is doomed to never be completed.

people in the area have campaigned against this pipeline for eight years. while they allowed most of the pipeline to be built, they successfully used lawsuits and aerial blockades to delay construction indefinitely in key places like water crossings and national forests. however, the campaign has no further legal recourse after the remaining permits were forced through by congress in june. the mvp can no longer be stopped through walk-ons and lockdowns, nor by low-key monkeywrenching like adding bleach to engine oil. we are not asking everyone to stop using existing tactics, we only ask that people expand their imaginations and really consider how they can be most effective given limited resources of time, money, personnel, and energy. we like working with fire because it’s straightforward to use and makes it so easy to completely destroy machines. plus, accelerant is a hell of a lot lighter than concrete.

we have seen campaign after campaign fail to stop pipelines over the past decade, and we cannot afford to keep losing. we send our warmest greetings to jess reznicek, who is currently in prison for her courageous acts of arson and sabotage against the dakota access pipeline. we regret that her methods have not yet been taken up widely in the anti-pipeline movement. warriorup.noblogs.org and tension.noblogs.org are good starting points to find information on various arson and sabotage techniques.

we hope locals will step up their game, but the mvp is not just a local struggle. catastrophic climate change is already here. no one in the northern hemisphere has been unaffected by wildfires, flooding, or extreme heat this summer alone. while we are glad that this monstrous civilization has already ensured its own demise, we would love to make it possible for something to exist after. the only way to stop the deterioration of the climate from getting exponentially worse is to immediately halt the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure, and to shut down and dismantle existing infrastructure. wherever you live, there’s a pipeline near you that you can go shut off yourself.

if you have not yet begun to fight, there will never be a better time to start than now. the hour is late, and the risks of taking action far outweigh the risks of doing nothing. inaction is suicide. of course, we must always take precautions to avoid identification and capture, so that we are able to attack repeatedly. we don’t want to only act “once in a blue moon”! we’ll be back for more soon. will you join us?

blessed is the flame.

doom to the pipeline.

another end of the world is possible.”

18th September, PA, USA

received anonymously via email:

“dear mink murderer stahl, fur commission secretary:

i saw your mink prison recently and was not impressed. you have dozens of sheds but so many are falling apart. thankfully your operation seems to have gotten smaller over the years. when will you learn that animal abuse isn’t worth it?

people like me will continue to visit you at 4130 pennsylvania 890 sunbury, pa 17801, which i found on finalnail.com. a recent communique on animalliberationpressoffice.org inspired me to visit, document what was happening, and liberate as many mink as possible. people need to see the filthy & cramped conditions where these territorial & genetically wild animals are kept up to four in a single cage. and the joy that is possible when they experience freedom.

when the cage latches were opened the mink jumped out to experience their first steps in grass and mud. i hope most have escaped to freedom and no more animals are ever imprisoned and slaughtered here again. whatever happened after i left i hope it was expensive.

the fur industry is hurting. great. profits are already at record lows and we can make it cost more than ever to continue breeding animals to steal their fur.”