ANARCHISTS DESTROY THE WORLD FORESTRY CENTER’S WINDOWS AHEAD OF CAPITALIST CONFERENCE.

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!”

SUPPORT ERIC KING – UPDATE ON ERICS RELEASE DATE AND HIS FUNDRAISER

Due to years of medical neglect in prison, Eric is currently suffering from health problems. We hope Eric gets better soon, that he is released and can get the medical help he needs. Eric release from federal prison is set for February 2024.

If you want to support Eric, you can help him start his life outside prison walls by donating to his release fund, which is close to reaching its goal.

A while ago Eric wrote a text about ABC Running Down the Walls. The text is an important reminder of the value of prisoner support. In Eric’s own words:

“I give the biggest solidarity and warmest hugs to all those who in any way do what they can to help those inside. No matter the custody level or length of the bid, prison exposes you to the worst society has to offer, and the people who care expose us to the best. Thank you all for caring. I hope the weather is nice!”

Solidarity forever!

ERIC KINGS 2023 RUNNING DOWN THE WALL STATEMENT

https://supportericking.org/2023/09/16/eric-kings-2023-running-down-the-walls-statement/

ERIC KINGS RELEASE FUND

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE

One of the go-to critiques of anarchism is essentially that “if there isn’t hierarchy and the constant fear of having no shelter or food, then no one will do any work”. So let’s talk about it: can we work without a boss breathing down our necks?

We already do! While the threat of homelessness is probably needed to get someone working 70 hours a week doing something they hate to make billionaires more profit, people do actually want to help each other. Doing labour to care for your community is something people have been doing since long before shareholders ever existed. Even while exhausted from labouring for shit bosses, many people are still so compelled to care for others that they help their older neighbours by taking the bins out, go litter picking, have friends crash for extended periods, cook for each other, and provide emotional support. With covid-19, as governments failed, we saw communities come together in mutual aid. Setting up local networks to check up on each other and make sure urgent needs got met and distribute supplies.

How can we apply these principles of voluntary contribution more, especially within activism? See a job, do the job. Make anarchy reality by not waiting on someone else to do what you see needs doing. People talking to cops at demos? You print some bust cards with advice on why we shouldn’t talk to cops and links to further resources to help people navigate interactions with filth. Community fridges, copwatch groups, and so many other campaigns have all started with someone simply deciding that they weren’t gonna wait for someone else to address the issue but get started themselves. Write to prisoners, check in on your mates, take down ads and cover fascist graffiti. Anarchy is found in action.

It takes a lot of hoarding of resources and propaganda to make people think we don’t want to care for each other when we really do. Fight like all we have is each other, because it’s true.

TWO UPDATES ON THE WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUR.

Two main updates from the Campaign Against the Fur Trade this month.

First, the pressure is continuing against Marc Jacobs, with CAFT dishing out the numbers to call to let them know what you think of their death trade. Pressure continues outside Marc Jacobs stores to let their customers know about the suffering behind the brand. See @caftusa for details.

Second, an anonymous group released around 7,000 mink from a farm in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, making state news. It would seem that most have not been found. Long may the mink live free <3

UNDERGROUND BADGER SYNDICATE: SMASHING CAGES AND BREAKING HUNTER’S HEARTS.

Since the beginning of the badger cull operation in the UK, over 200k badgers have been killed. Badgers are a protected species in the UK, but because cattle farmers blame them for bovine tuberculosis, every year an intensive cull is organised in specific areas of England in an attempt to reduce the numbers down to 30%.

Many groups, hunt sabs and individuals fight the badger cull day and night, looking for traps to smash, searching for shooters to move on from setts and causing a nuisance to every single person who gets involved in the murder of badgers.

UBS, like every year, is out there in the fields getting wet and muddy and terrorising hunters and farmers wherever they walk. Since the beginning of September they have smashed badger cage after badger cage, toppled the hunting towers they find on the way and destroying all other wildlife murdering traps they stumble upon.

They reached out to let us know that they are in need of economic support to carry on being the absolute pain in the ass they are to hunters and that they’ve set up a fundraiser. If you can afford it, please send UBS some coins. As they are a completely independent group they do not receive funding from any organisation, so your help will be immensely appreciated.

You can find UBS on:
Instagram: @undergroundbadgersyndicate
Facebook: When The Wild Things Come At Night.

https://donorbox.org/the-big-anti-cull-fundraising-bucket-for-ubs

SOLIDARITY!

LOCKS OF BUTCHER SHOPS AND CHEESE SHOPS GLUED.

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.”

DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST, A BATTLE OF MANY FRONTS!

Last month a RICO indictment came against 61 people alleged to be a part of Defend the Atlanta Forest. RICO(Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) carries sentences of up to 20 years, some named in the indictment already face charges of Domestic Terrorism carrying between 5 and 30 years by itself. The fund taking donations to support legal defense is the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.

The Defend the Atlanta Forest struggle is being engaged with in many directions and with many tactics from legal, to clandestine attack and sabotage, to planned mass non-violent direct action protest.

Clandestine action, claimed through communiques, continue to include such things as sabotage of machinery involved in construction, attacks on funders/contractors, attacks on the police, and the public identification of police officers. Interestingly during the last week of action in Atlanta, various parts of Norfolk Southern’s rail infrastructure was sabotaged. The communique claiming the rail sabotaged stated “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 petition organized by Vote To Stop Cop City is currently in a legal battle as the signatures in the petition are verified and counted. This petition, if accepted, would put to a vote the lease that allows the Atlanta Police Foundation to build cop city on the land.

Shortly after religious individuals chained themselves to construction equipment, a new group, Block Cop City, announced plans for a mass action on Nov. 13 to halt construction of the facility. The group says it plans to hold a 70-city tour in the runup to the mass action and then a convening in Atlanta beginning Nov. 10 and ending with the mass action at the construction site. Block Cop City, says November’s action will not engage in the tactic of property destruction and economic sabotage used in March and at other points over the last two years. The group plans instead to engage in a tactic known as “non-violent direct action.”

ANIMAL LIBERATION MARCH IN SANTIAGO, CHILE. PRESOS SUSARÓN NO SE OLVIDAN!

Below is the anonymous reportback submitted about the Animal Liberation march in Santiago. Certainly, Chile knows how to party on the streets!

“black September, remembrance, revenge and direct action. Free the antispeciesist prisoners”

“Record of the march for Animal Liberation 2023, held on Sunday, September 3 in Santiago (Chile, South America). Free call demonstration that takes place for the third consecutive year after the revolt and pandemic.

Concentration that began at 2:00 p.m. from Plaza los Heroes, cutting the south road of the mall in an eastern direction, breaking into the comfort of the rotten citizens with a wide display of anti-speciesist propaganda, expressing slogans of struggle through canvases, posters , scratches, pamphlets and shouts against all forms of exploitation validated by this murderous society.

As always, the journey was escorted by the state’s henchmen, who this time did not try to break up the protest. Moment taken advantage of by individualities related to chaos and sabotage who, without anyone’s permission, made their multiform actions flourish.

During the tour there were various gestures of solidarity with the 4 companions of the Susaron case, who were raided on November 4 by PDI lackeys, serving more than 10 months kidnapped still in the capital’s prisons awaiting trial, accused of the arson attack against the disgusting meat company on September 19, 2022.

Arriving at Plaza Dignidad, there were provocations by the Boric police, shouting threats through the loudspeakers in their armored cars, which were stoned by the group that continued to inconvenience and cut off traffic for as long as possible and then ended the march. no arrests.

Nothing to celebrate in this month full of blood spilled by all the torture and murders committed in the name of the country and its vomitous speciesist traditions.

Animal, human and earth liberation.”

HELP A COMRADE FIGHT BACK AGAINST YEARS IN PRISON

Back in 2016, at the Brenner Pass in Austria, a demonstration against the plans to build a wall at the border between Austria and Italy was met with police violence and repression, using tear gas and battons.

Whilst the racist and discriminatory border wall plans were ultimately scrapped, sixty people were hunted down for months and arrested as a result of that protest. They were charged with a mix of looting, devastation, aggravated resistance and damage charges.

Those sixty people were sentenced to a total of 166 years in prison in between all of them. Dalston Solidarity cafe’s comrade was sentenced to 10 of those years.

Back in February of this year, under appeal, the sentence was reduced to 129 years total, 4 years for the comrade.

Next month the legal team is launching the final appeal, hoping to reduce the imprisonment tariff. Dalston Solidarity Cafe is organising a fundraiser to help with the appeal costs and are hoping to raise £2500. They have already raised 500, and they have a fundraising gig on the 14th October (find more details on their socials) but if folks can donate to the online fundraiser that would be absolutely fantastic.

Please head to tiny.cc/noborders and drop some coins and maybe check out Dalston Solidarity Cafe on https://dalstonsolidaritycafe.net/

SOLIDARITY, NOT CHARITY!

VERTIV CORPORATION TRUCKS SET ON FIRE AGAINST COP CITY.

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)”