FOR US
REVOLT
NEEDS
NO
OTHER
JUSTI
FICATION
FTTP
ISSUE NINE
SUMMER 2010

Not only do we
desire to change our
lives immediately,

it is the criterion by
which we are seeking
our accomplices.

DISCLAIMER

F

ire to the Prisons is
for informational
and educational
purposes only.

This magazine in
no way encourages
or supports any illegal behavior in
any way. This magazine looks only
to provide a printed forum for conversation and news. We are reporting not inciting. The entirety of the
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Nothing here is the original content
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The topics brought up in this magazine in no way reflect the perspectives of any specific person allegedly
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Briefing
Pg. 3
The Kids are Not Alright
Pg. 6
May Day 2010:
SB1070 + Global Class Conflict
Pg. 16
The 2010 Olympics:
Our Final Report on a non-concluded tension
Pg. 22
Anti-Police Activity in the NW + Beyond
Pg. 29
Disaster in Haiti and Chile
Pg. 35
Regarding Recent Events in Greece
Pg. 41
Blast from the Past:
Two histories in agitation.
Pg. 44
Repression:
Pg. 56
A Dialogue With Our Comrades in
France:
An Interview with the Non-Fides Project
Pg. 72

“No matter whether it is a question of pollution,
prison or urban planning, any really subversive discourse ends up putting everything in question.”

T

his magazine is in NO-WAY a “for profit” publication nor is it in any way a formal enterprise or
business venture. We encourage the re-distribution and re-printing the entirety of this magazine
as well as everything in it. PDFs are available for
reading and printing on our website. We encourage any and all feedback. Feel free to contact us
about order info or to become a distributor. This
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prisoner support groups mentioned at the end of the “repression”
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Special thanks to our proof-readers. Special thanks to those who
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to go to print.

DISCONTENT
A Chronology of North American
Prisoner Resistance
Pg. 76
Accounts of Agitation:
Ruptures in the social fabric.
Pg. 85
Updates in the Struggle Against
Grassroots Fascism Everywhere
Pg. 99
Against the Recuperation of Tragedy
A case against charity.
Pg. 104
Accept Nothing//Demand Nothing
A case against rights.
Pg. 106
Don’t Be a Coward
Pg. 108
Eyes Blinking in the Face of the Infinite
Pg. 111
Links//Further Research
Pg. 115

This may very well be our last issue. We are not sure about this,
but we are re-evaluating its effects, and comparing them to the
work and burden required to do this so often. If these are our last
words in this context, we do hope that people were inspired or
comforted by something we produced in this magazine these last
few years. We are sure we will speak again. Either in a different
outfit or under a different name. For now though, it was a good
run, and we hope you will feel the passion we poured into this, and
most importantly continue to foster the sentiment here, in the form
of permanent revolt and conflict with the current social order we so
obviously despise.
Agitating till the grave,
Fire to the Prisons:
www.firetotheprisons.com
c/o Shoelacetown ABC, P.O. Box 8085, Paramus, NJ, 07652, USA

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briefing

START
“Not only do we desire to
change our lives immediately, it
is the criterion by which we are
seeking our accomplices.”

T

his publication,
as explained
in every introduction of this
magazine, is
a publication
that intends to
link different struggles, forms of
resistance, and common frustrations to a broader enemy. That
common enemy is the entirety
of the world that mediates, manipulates, and keeps us in order or controls our everyday
relations and experiences; an
enemy that controls our everyday lives. The state, capitalism,
industry, and all institutions that
have us captured, are certainly a
few of the main building blocks
lying at the base of the totality

of what we understand as “life”
in this miserable today.
We look to achieve a few possibilities with this project. One
of which is to expose struggles happening here, now, and
around the world; to the best
of our ability, and extent of our
printing resources. We try to
report and expose resistance by
and repression to struggles engaged in conflict with everyday
conditions that directly result
from the rule of capitalism, industry, the state; or the global
civilization mediating the world
today.
This magazine is used as a celebration for the strikes and
wounds against the infrastructure of this common enemy,
and a reflection on the social
ruptures and popular discontent
arising within the normalcy or
FTTP #9-Briefing-Pg. 3

stability of its order.
We are dedicated to compiling in-depth
news and awareness of individuals or
groups the state is trying to victimize
and silence, due to there being a perceived threat in their displays of revolutionary opposition. We hope to present
a struggle that is invisible and everywhere, and most importantly, does not
collapse once one or two people are arrested; only grows stronger and more
enraged.

We need to act on our desires now,
worry about where it takes us later.

Our terminology is sadly as broad as
the world that mediates our entirety.
Academics and philosophers look to
draw the specific answers. But academia is capitalism’s recuperation of
ideas, and helps to keep us feeling stale
or unoriginal. We cannot say that there
is one specific institution that we are
frustrated with. The government, the
economy, the methods of production,
the mediums for communication, the
appendages of social division; they all
stem from the same dominating totality . We can define domination during
these times as the entirety of the now.
We can define our common enemy as
domination, and as a result, our current
target being everything as we know it.

We are trying to accept the desert of today, only through our complete refusal
to accept it. We realize how lost we are
as revolutionaries. Lost as the consciously discontent. The revolutionary
of today has lost all distinction. Everyone is cynical, everyone feels a similar
frustration; the issue is a matter of distraction and apathy. Some of us choose
to be frustrated with what is forcing
us to accept a miserable society, while
others deal with everyday frustrations
through outlets that only help sustain
what is responsible for the politics and
conditions of misery. Some of us stupidly choose to hate other races, poorer
people, or uglier people. Some of us
also use drugs ,abuse our partners, beat
our children, and rape those “wanted”.
Some of us watch television, eat chocolate, do yoga, or shoot guns. The dilemma is a confusion as to what it is
frustrating us. In the case of the revolutionary, it is not an issue of understanding the roots of our frustrations as much
as it is an issue of continue to expose or
confront these roots even if no one is
watching or listening.

We have struggled for so long to find
a word, both for the problem and the
solution, but we can only determine
that the now is the issue, and only ruin
could help a solution to grow.

The revolutionary of today can only
truly be called a revolutionary if their
approach acts in permanent and direct
conflict with what it is they are revolting against.

We wish we could provide some coherent politics, the most concrete identity, or the most precise program; but
we are not looking to make decisions,
only to realize frustrations and unify
different tensions as a result of them.

We realize how lost and disempowering it is to be actively pushing for tension with forces of control today, especially when domination takes so many
obscure forms in this era. In this global
information age and hyper surveillance

“We wish we could provide some coherent
politics, the most concrete identity, or the
most precise program; but we are not looking
to make decisions, only to realize frustrations
and unify different tensions as a result of them.
We need to act on our desires now,
worry about where it takes us later. ”

era, it is not surprising that not only
have many revolutionaries been struggling with a feeling of insignificance;
but a popular cynicism among society’s
excluded, exploited, or discontent class
is in no way surprising as well.
Class war? Revolution? Coup de tat?
Social justice? Social change?
What does this mean at this point?
When everything is just accepted and
nothing is taken seriously. When all of
these things were told have happened,
and the world is still an awful place.
What is there to be inspired by when
you have no interest in being part of the
decisions, but you hate the decisions?
What is there to be when you feel no
solution, book, or political party fulfills
your disdain of everything? What is it
when the suffering is far away, when
the labor is done elsewhere, or when we
are taught to understand the morality of
more or less tragic?
We wish to be an exception; we wish to
support the confusion and lack of solution. While the political world struggles
to define this publication, they typically
use terms like “insurrectionist” or “social war” in some weird attempt to pass
us off entirely. We will respond by saying we disagree, but again understand
why some name calling would occur.
We disagree because we do not want to
allow the political world to define and
degrade us with their classifications.
But if by insurrectionist they mean we
are for insurrectionary events to occur;
they are very correct. If by social war,
they mean we see potential in everyday
ruptures in the normalcy of capitalist
society that are not formally political;
they again are right.
By pushing for insurrectionary moments, one is pushing for an immediate attempt to change their live’s
conditions. One is advocating for the
complete negation of legality, passivity, diplomacy, or compromise; all of
which act to limit and regulate attempts
of revolutionary social transformation.
By pushing for this, one is looking to
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immediately create a context where resistance to
the current society is feasible to all those discontent with it.
We are assuming what they mean by social war
would also have to do with our contempt for political praxis. We are, for the most part, not excited by the limitations of typical protest; whether
that be activists hopping from summit to summit,
lobbyists begging politician after politician, the
amount of signatures on the petition, or the amount
of memberships in the organization. As we mentioned, domination has become almost a global
metropolis, that can be seen in so many forms
(some more obvious than others). While notions
like class war may have been more pertinent to
recognizing the times of serfdom or the dawn of
the industrial era, class as well cannot be as simply
understood as it could have been historically. This
makes the lines much less easy to draw. This notion of only a politically reasonable “revolution”
or “war” also limits our understanding of domination and exploitation today. With social war, one
is advocating for conflict that extends beyond simply political means. When saying social war, one
is inspired by not only formal displays of political dissent, but actually much more interested in
common displays of resistance against everyday
conditions that are commonly conducted, but not
formally recognized as an attempt at change. With
focusing on these isolated incidents of resistance,

those advocating “social war” would analyze these
events with the intention of recognizing a common
condition or enemy driving the conflict. With exposing this enemy, these events no longer become
isolated. However similarly to the sentiment of
class war, the shared frustration or solidarity of targets naturally confronted, helps to draw lines in the
sand, and helps to unify disruptions in the stability
of the world as we know it.
We very much envy bank robbers. We hope that
every party we attend will turn into a riot if the
police shut it down. When police are shot it is always revenge. When somebody kills or wounds
somebody who raped them; such blood arouses us.
When the rich suffer the poor are revived. When
the banks are in crisis, we are all a little closer to
being rich. “In a world which really is topsy-turvy,
the true is in a moment of the false.”
We hope that this magazine will act as another
voice helping to foster discontent and frustration
to all forms of domination today. As we said in
our last issue: “this is why we exist. This is why we
continue to come out with a new magazine every
few months. But we hope to not be around forever,
because like all revolutionary literature, we will
only continue to exist until the current conditions
we are frustrated with, cease to.”

FAST +
FORWARD
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the

kids are

not

alright!

Photo of Hunter University Financial Aid office, after “vandals” attacked
it on March 4th (day against student budget cuts).

S

ince our last issue
had such an in-depth
review of the recent
escalation in student
strikes and frustration in California,
we found it necessary to include at
least something about the recent overly
hyped day of student action: March 4th.
Although we intend to re-cap some
of the inspiring events that took place
counting up to this day, or some of the
isolated incidents that appeared to be
marginally interesting on the day of:
we are very disappointed, but not surprised by the direction the “politicized”
day went in. At least in New York, students at Hunter University were used
as pawns in a classic game of Leftist
media attention and event recuperation.
But, this was to be expected.
Authoritarian socialist organizations
have looked to students as the prime

target for sustaining their failed party
for years. As they always do, they
chose to divide students, and force
them to understand “struggle with their
conditions”, as only tangibly pursued
through the programs proposed or mediums provided from the socialist party.
No longer did students see an opportunity to manifest frustration, express
discontent, or experience a moment
that exposed a common undesirable
condition. Students were either forced
to laugh at the rhetoric of overbearing
and annoying men and women on a podium, or try and make some sense of
what THEY (the International Socialist
Organization in this case) were telling
them was wrong.
This is nothing new. The only thing
new is that their process of appropriating the event was interrupted by frustrated individuals and students uninterested in being represented by them.
This manifested in a tirade of public
arguing and half-assed scuffling, which
although embarrassing to a degree, cer-

tainly much more interesting than actually tolerating the alternative: a complete socialist takeover of the event.
The event was not only appropriated
with the ever so typical, high sign (using signs to claim the intentions of what
those around are doing for media’s
sake; like someone breaking a window,
no one knowing why, but assuming that
the sign that says socialist party is their
motivation) strategy or podium/leadership style communication of socialist
groups; they actually used the police by
inviting them to an alleged demonstration that appeared to be intended to take
place inside the school, with no leadership, only guided by a popular frustration: the university itself.
The police divided students, made arrests, and helped to normalize the dissent by ruining any threat posed by the
students. The police did this because
the socialist party invited them; to help
further mediate those who watched or
participated (in whatever it was that

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was happening), without concern for
whether or not this could lead to the
arrests of students (which it did). Although some damage seemed to have
happened to the university based on reports; it is clear that the socialist party
managed to use the police to their advantage. The police separated the students giving them the options to attend
class, listen to the crazy people hollering on a podium about their school at
the main entrance, or go to jail.
Everything was politics as usual,
purely symbolic, and self-fulfilling to
a specific political party and program.
Although it did not stop there. Following the events, socialists fabricated
scuffles and threats made by students
and individuals not tolerant of their
recuperation process. They continued
to divide anyone actively opposing student conditions by cornering them with
lies of people making either sexual or
physical threats of violence on March
4th. Without any concern for the sheer
disrespect to victims of sexual assault
or rape everywhere, they used a tragic
situation to their political opportunity
(like they always do), and even more
offensively, one that did not exist. This
is a method some have referred to as
bad jacketing. This is where groups or
individuals will produce strategic lies
and spread them with false identities
to demonize or isolate those opposing
them. This of course is done with the
intention of forcing them to be silent,
or making the uninfluenced audience
of such conflicts, bias, before any dialogue occurs. We heard similar stories
of this happening across the country.
This is not surprising; and very much
something revolutionaries looking to
intervene or provoke tension in these
movements must take into account.
Student struggle is nothing new, and is
something that has been exploited in so
many ways. Not to mention the dues
of these organizations is primarily paid
for with the incomes of professors and
their student minions across the world.
Beyond the obvious recuperation by
the left, student movements have also
been used as the mainstream’s under-

standing of typical social rebellion. In
most cases, especially in the United
States, when any movement comes into
play, or any demonstration receives attention, or any formal conflict is made
with the social or political conditions of
everyday life, if a student aspect comes
into account, it is immediately passed
off as something expected and insignificant.
Many believe that (including many students) for four years students read a lot
of weird or radical content, and as a result, realize how awful so many things
are. Following school, or their 4 year
career of “political” curiosity, people
understand these things as just “life being unfair” (sarcastic reference of the
mainstream’s understanding of student
revolt).
With this kind of calculated typicality,
the “non-youth” per se may share common frustrations expressed by student
movements, but the appearance and assumptions of student based movements
politics or rituals, simply burn any
bridge that could be formed. As many
students pride themselves as being “a
student”, they neglect that many youth
do not attend schools of universities,
either due to a lack of finances or interest. With a movement that is passed
off the way student movements are,
organizations with no intention of ever
generalizing, leech off of the curiosity
of young minds. The ISO, Spartacus
League, ANSWER, or the Revolutionary Communist Party (the “Peta 2” of
the ISO) have had their hands in these
schools for years. This is because student struggle is something that will be
there as long as Universities exist, and
the expendable incomes of the pettybourgeoisie continue to remain politically curios.
With that said, we intend to report on
some of the interesting resistance that
occurred around this day and days before this event. We also want to include
other “youthful” cases of social resistance, considering this event would be
very limited and boring without them.
It is important for us to recognize the

potential of student struggles in terms
of sheer numbers that can be mobilized
and its accessibility to revolutionary
intervention. This can be done by exposing interesting events that do occur; but we do intend to be very weary
of both the political world of student
movements, as well as the capabilities
of student movements actually becoming a threat today, specifically with the
tragedy of the modern American youth
(and simply how boring and apathetic
we are).
Considering many define the Youth
threat as the student threat, we suggest
that people re-consider the history and
limitations of this outlook. We would
hope that those interested in mobilizing the common tension youth feel
with society today, would explore other
areas of youth celebration that could
be pushed into becoming materialized conflicts. Reassuring the world of
the threat that very well could be seen
there. Because the 60’s failed, and
there is never a reason to beat a dead
horse.
As we said, we have heard similar experiences like what was seen at Hunter
college in New York on March 4th,
across the country. We hope that the
events reported on below inspire those
interested in “youth” or “student” oriented movements, to focus and learn
from different potentialities that do
come out of student frustration, while
also looking at what isolates or limits
them. We may be missing some things,
but we intend to keep this as reporter
like as possible. We again want to
point out that the following reports include more than just simply events that
took place on or connected to the sentiment around March 4th. Our interest
in March 4th was only it being another
potential opportunity for youth unrest
and rupture in the social fabric. The
following events should be understood
as being connected by a youth sentiment of discontent, not by politics or
formalities.
Growing up today is giving in to a lost
tomorrow. The kids are not alright.

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NOTES OF “YOUTH” UNREST

March 4th, 2010-NYC:
Although with a very overwhelming New York
police state style presence, we discovered reports of some resistance during the intended
day of student walk-outs at Hunter College.
Reports have said that at the beginning of the
walk out, the police forcefully divided students
following a call from socialist party members
telling them to expect illegal conduct. Although the demonstration was divided into
smaller groups and its momentum very much
wounded by this, the financial aid office had its
windows smashed out, and new security checkpoint equipment was also destroyed. Other
then scuffles and interruptions with socialist
proselytizing and recuperation, the day was
relatively boring. Unfortunately 4 people were
arrested.
At SUNY Purchase, the student services building was temporarily claimed to be occupied by
students of the school. Reports mention that the
space was re-appropriated to be used as a party
space for students, and to show footage of occupation attempts at other Universities.

March 4th-2010Arizona
It is said that a demonstration occurred at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, a cartoonishly college, college town. Really Phoenix, but primarily built around the Universities.
It is said that banners were hung from some of
the campus’s main buildings with one reading
“Burn the Knowledge Factory”. Although students did march to the school president’s offices, following a temporary scuffle where papers
and office equipment were thrown around the
room, some of the students began to negotiate
and make demands of the president. With this,
they encouraged the march to “calm down”.
Whether it is words or actual threats, writings
have been posted online stating that this is only
the beginning and more will be coming in the
months to follow.
Late February to Early March
2010-Olympia, Washington
For 36 hours a housing center on Evergreen
University’s campus was occupied by students
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towards the end of February . Following this, on March 3rd and 4th, students
conducted a study in at the campus’s
library, where students refused to leave
when the library typically closed. Although many have scoffed at these
events due to Evergreen campus’ very
liberal tradition, those involved with
these events described them as incredible opportunities to bond over common frustrations and conditions faced
by the overall student body. They described the events as helping to create
new opportunities to recognize solidarity among a divided campus.

fi’s cane, which was used to help him
to deal with his polio. This was a few
months after another student was tased
for interrupting a speech by John Kerry.
A few weeks after the incident, around
March 16th, roughly 500 students rallied against University police brutality.
They demonstrated against the use of
recent police force, the way “mentally
unstable” people are treated on campus,
Kofi’s absurd weapons charge, and suspending the officers. It is not surprising, but it appears that none of these
demands have been met by the police
or University.

March 4th- 2010 Boston, Virginia,
Colorado, and Oklahoma

Mid February 2010Greely, Minnesota

Picketing and banner drops took place
at Universities in major cities regarding budget cuts and the specific issue
appointed as March 4th’s reason. Although the events did not seem to get
very rowdy, the banners had some very
confrontational rhetoric.
Mid-February 2010
New Brunswick, Canada
A proclaimed anarchist graduate in
New Brunswick, Canada was accused
of sabotaging the student union’s election process.
Mid-March 2010Gainesville, Florida
On March 2nd, University of Gainesville police on put a well known “mentally unstable” student named Kofi AduBrempong in critical condition, after
reports of him having a nervous breakdown in his room. After responding to
his neighbor’s 911 call, it is reported
that University police entered his room,
immediately shooting a taser followed
by shotgun propelled bean bags at him
After this was not enough to shut him
up, police shot him in the head with an
M-4 assault rifle. Of course not only
are the police involved currently facing
no charges, they are actually charging
Kofi for possessing a deadly weapon.
The weapon they are referring to is Ko-

Police are investigating an attempted
arson on a local public school. Police
say that on February 10th, suspects
wearing dark colored clothing threw
a Molotov cocktail at the side of the
school. The police say that found another device that was not detonated
near the school as well.
August 2009February 2010Spartanburg, South
Carolina

of the guard and grabbed his keys. On
the way out, they had to fight and beat
another guard. The first guard died in
the hospital from the beating, while the
second guard recovered. Prison guards
in juvenile detention facilities have
been notorious for sexual molestation
of children, as well as multiple types of
sadistic punishment due to the “behavior modification” aspect of American
juvenile detention facilities. All three
prisoners temporarily escaped. The 2
younger of the 3 were quickly captured,
while the 18 year old was on the run
for days, and was re-captured following
a high speed chase with local law enforcement. All 3 are facing first degree
murder, first degree battery, and escape
charges.
March 7th, 2010-Montana
Students at Big Sky High School staged
a walk out in protest with funding of
the school by a local mining company
notorious for destroying local bio-diversity and effecting the health of both
students and their families.
March 4th 2010Baltimore, Maryland

Police say that 58 computers went
abruptly missing after what they described as a “ghost” stole 37,000 dollars worth of computers from one of
the University of South Carolina’s
campus buildings. The police have no
leads, but believe it very well may be
a student, or someone who knows the
campus well. There have been reports
of computer thefts from 8 different
buildings on campus consistently made
since August last year.
Mid-February 2010Forth Smith, Arkansas
At a juvenile detention facility, 3 youths,
one 15 years old, one 16 years old, and
one 18 years old staged an escape attempt. During a routine cell check by
one the guards, one of the three youths
allegedly threw the guard into the cell.
The other two commenced a beating

University of Maryland students riot
over defeating DUKE in a basketball
game. Although sports riots are very
hard to appreciate for anything other
than their pure appearance, we found
it very amusing that this seemed to be
the most intense conflict and disruption
seen on campuses on March 4th. With
no connection to the strikes and protests held against budget cuts across the
country, approximately 1,500 students
flooded Baltimore’s route-1 as they typically do after each rival victory. Most
students were actually celebrating with
one another and simply enjoying the
win. Reports say that following one report of furniture being thrown at a local
bar, the police moved in on the crowd.
With a long history of conflict between
local students and the police, students
or celebrators began to throw projectiles in defense of the event at the police. They also broke things in the street
and on the sidewalk, and started fires.

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Politically minded folks who accidently attended the event
described it as a memorable moment, and apparently using
words that made it seem more exciting than much of what
was reported from campuses on March 4th. They described
it by saying that not only property was destroyed, but typical
divisions among the student body were also destroyed, while
students came together against the police. They mentioned
frat boys confronting police over racism, and students helping one another to avoid rubber bullets being shot at them,
and police horses trampling them. Police arrested 27 people,
most of whom were black, and only 13 of which were currently enrolled students at Maryland.
March 4th-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Political students attempted to deliver petitions denouncing
the budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s
chancellor. While the 250 or so students attempted to forcefully enter the office, police violently prevented them, resulting in 16 arrests. Although it is reported that students refused
to go without fight; throwing punches and ice chunks at the
police or school security.
April 6th-2010-Seattle, Washington
A power outage on and around University of WashingtonSeattle’s campus brought students together to celebrate whatever in the streets. With the street lights out, students reportedly set fires in the street using furniture and whatever else
they could find. Around 11:30PM the police arrived, while
trying to disperse the celebration, students attacked the police
with bottles and cans. It took two hours for the police to disperse the crowd and contain the fire. No arrests were made.
Second week of April 2010-Virginia
An annual party at James Madison University that brings
together thousands of the college’s students, as well as outside party goers ended in riots this year. Its reported that in
Harrisonburg, Virginia, where the annual party is held, 8,000
students or partiers came together to celebrate the yearly
event. The party is intended to last 3 days, and swarm the
local town’s Fox Hill district. Most likely following police
requests, many of the businesses chose to either shut down or
not allow celebrations of students to occur for the first time
since the event’s stardom. As a result party goers moved to
a nearby neighborhood and began celebrating in the streets.
Around 4 P.M on that Saturday afternoon, the police entered
the bloc party to try and clear the crowd, announcing an
“unlawful assembly”. Being completely outnumbered, the
police were greeted with an array of beer bottles, forcing
them to retreat, and return later with the help of state police.
Two-hundred riot cops equipped for “crowd control” were
also present. The police fired tear gas and used a mobile announcement system to divide the crowd and warn of arrests.
Although dozens were arrested, students and party goers re-

grouped in another local district as a 1000 strong. Police followed them and were forced to deal with continued assaults
of projectiles like beer bottles and rocks. Multiple fires were
also set in the streets and sidewalk trash cans and dumpsters.
Philadelphia, PA-Flash Mobs
manifesting youth discontent.
It is a common anarchist practice to explain the rebellious
activity of others through the political lens of anarchism
without actually knowing (or understanding) the real motivations of the participants. Because of the unique nature of
the following events, it would be inappropriate to try to infer
too much about what was actually going through the minds
of those involved. This article, then, seeks not to project an
anarchist motivation onto the actions of Philadelphia’s teenagers, rather, it chronicles the behavior and examines the tactical coordination that was utilized.
Last June, a group of close to 100 teenagers rampaged
through Philadelphia’s trendy South Street, destroying property, stealing a taxi, and looting a convenience store. Almost
immediately, a sense of outrage poured from the more “respectable” residents of the area, with news stories airing the
grievances of angry yuppies.
In the following months, similar incidents happened around
South Street, with each flash mob becoming larger than the
one before. Law enforcement suspected that groups of teenagers were communicating through Twitter, coordinating locations to meet in order to ransack hip neighborhoods.
In March, the largest action of its kind occurred, with several hundred teenagers converging in downtown Philadelphia after dark, marching through the streets chanting “Burn
the City” as they vandalized several businesses along South
Street.
The disruptive flash mob phenomenon is not isolated to Philadelphia. The practice has been spreading up the eastern seaboard over the past few months, with similar events occurring in New Jersey, Boston, and New York City, with Mayor
Bloomberg referring to the New York incidents as “wilding”.
The kids in Philly did not communicate a political desire in
a way that most radicals can easily understand because our
static language is unable to describe newly emerging subversive behavior. While not necessarily expressing a clear political motivation, the Philadelphia flash mobs have, through
their innovative techniques, demonstrated advanced forms
of tactical organization and communication. Those of us involved in radical circles can learn a great deal from these
subversive forms of communication.
It is interesting how a tactic developed initially as a means
to facilitate avant-garde street performances and hipster
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dance parties has been so successfully subverted, presently
striking fear into the hearts of
the wealthy. The fact that a new
trend is emerging, a trend determined by nothing other than
its desire to converge publicly
and destroy property, is clearly
terrifying to power. The fact
that the participants are overwhelmingly black makes the
situation that much more frightening to the system. The flash
mobs don’t speak the language
of power, and, as a result, the
state doesn’t know any way to
stop them other than through
direct repression. The city of
Philadelphia has stated that the
citywide curfew will be more
tightly enforced, and politicians
are discussing plans to limit
the movement of young people
by decreasing the hours that
students can use their free bus
passes.

of the police used spontaneous
communication via cell phone
and text message to reconverge
and continue to burn cars and
attack police after initial demonstrations had been dispersed.

The advantages of using flash
mobs as a guerrilla tactic to
confront capital are numerous. Unlike publicly organized
meetings and general assemblies, they leave little room for
infiltration. If the mission is
compromised and anonymous
pre-paid (burner) phones are
used, it is extremely difficult for
the state to identify people from
the text messages they sent.

It is interesting that, in recent
times, the most effective actions
against the functioning of the
city of Philadelphia have come
not from seasoned anarchists
but from bored high school students. It is time for those of us
in the radical scene to be willing to learn from the kids and to
adopt new tactics.

Crews of people can use burner phones to coordinate locations to meet up to loot grocery
stores, attack right-wingers,
evade advancing police, host
street parties, or occupy buildings.
We most clearly saw the potential of the subversive use of
mass texting during the weeks
of rioting in the French banlieus in the fall of 2005 and again
in November of 2007. There,
people outraged by the deaths
of young people at the hands

Sociologists and liberals have
predictably defined the reason
for the behavior by pointing to
the same old causes as they have
for the past 50 years--the after
school programs are being cut,
the libraries are closing. These
reasons may, of course, offer a
partial explanation, but it’s obvious that a lot more is going
on. It is quite likely that the real
motivation is something that
can’t be stopped by the usual
increases in social spending (increases that are highly unlikely
in the midst of an economic recession) and that the flash mobs
offer more excitement than any
state-funded program.

Greetings
From Philly’s
Flash Mob

Student Revolt in California: a chronology since our last issue...
February 3rd San Francisco
Chaos erupted outside of a student
benefit party in the SOMA district of
San Francisco early Sunday morning
as police drew their firearms during a
struggle to restrain some of those in attendance and shut down the party.
The benefit was organized to raise
money for the legal defense and fines
received by protesters involved in the
occupation at SF State and the UC system.
At 12:47 a.m., police and firefighters
entered a storefront warehouse at 154
Seventh St. between Mission and Howard Streets and ordered everyone to vacate the premises after two undercover
officers reported underage drinking inside the venue.
Police arrested 11 people, one of whom

was booked on three felony charges including aggravated assault but until after an all-out brawl broke out between
some of the partygoers and police. One
cop was seen being beaten down by
several people and was forced to retreat
from the crowd. Within minutes of the
outbreak, several more police cars arrived on the scene with officers running
from their vehicles to break up and restrain the fight.
Rocks and bottles were thrown at police
cars as they arrived on the scene, chants
of “Fuck the Police” echoed from all
sides of the street, and police shoved
people who were standing in the street
ordering them to the sidewalk.
After police were successful in ending
the party and dispersing the crowd they
destroyed the DJ equipment inside and
vandalized the building to prevent the
party-throwers from staging future benefits.

Several months later, after an exhaustive investigation by students and journalists, the two undercover officers
were revealed to be Larry Bertrand and
Michelle Ott, who are notorious among
San Francisco’s underground party
scene for being overzealous alcohollaw enforcers and all-around haters
of fun. Those attending or throwing
unpermitted parties in San Francisco
should be vigilant about not letting
these two narcs in or near their parties.
All charges against those arrested at the
party were later dropped except for one
person who still faces a felony explosives charge for allegedly throwing an
M-80 firecracker at a cop.
February 24th – Irvine
20 Students occupied the office of the
Chancellor of UC – Irvine. As those
inside waited to be led out or arrested,

From the March 25th Durant Hill riots in Berkeley, CA. Rioters are “ghost riding the whip.”
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dozens of outside supporters gathered
and blocked the entrances with dumpsters. They held the street for some
time and cheered as their friends were
released. Considering that Irvine is one
of the most repressive and conservative
cities in California, the fact that this action received such instantaneous support among fellow students and other
passerby got many of those on campus
excited for the upcoming student strike.
February 25th - Berkeley
In anticipation of the Match 4th student
strike, one hundred people, some students but many not, occupied Durant
Hall, a UC Berkeley administration
building that had been under construction. Initially, a roving dance party
moved into the commandeered building but the festivities rapidly morphed
into the collective construction of barricades. Culling materials from the
construction site, the occupiers weaved
long metal poles through the surrounding fences and stacked wooden planks
atop them in an attempt to block expected police movements.
Meanwhile, inside Durant Hall--which
was being remodeled with funding
from student tuition increases--some
occupiers methodically went about
wrecking
construction
machines,
smashed windows, painted graffiti, and
hung banners.
After approximately 45 minutes, many
of those present felt that time was up after noticing that university police were
staging nearby for an imminent raid
and they soon made the quick decision
to abandon the occupation before the
police could have time to react. The occupiers restarted the music and moved
the crowd out of the building and off
campus onto adjacent Telegraph Ave,
a street of bars, restaurants and clothing shops. As the mass of marchers and
dancers moved into the street, several
people moved forward out of the crowd
and smashed out the windows of a Subway sandwich shop. Some university
police moved up behind the march and,
to avoid arrest, the marchers dissipated

into the on-looking crowds on the sidewalks who were just at that moment
exiting the bars after last-call. This was
the turning point of the night, as many
of those random drinkers and passersby took back the intersection, excited
by the commotion. A large dumpster
was moved out of an alleyway and set
ablaze in the street. Since police in the
United Stares are usually legally barred
form attempting to move flaming objects, the Berkeley police were forced
to call in the fire department to put out
the blaze. This gave the crowd time to
grow in numbers. The mass quickly
swelled to about 300 at its height, three
times its original size. Break-dancers
appeared in the street and videos from
the event show people laughing and
smiling, clearly enjoying the excitement and potential of the moment.
After the fire department moved in,
several bouncers from near-by clubs
tried to make citizens-arrest on those
DJing the sound cart and others they
assumed to be controlling the crowd.
Immediately, they were beaten down
by the rioters, forcing the police to
move into the crowd to make arrests.
This began an hour-long stand-off between the street-partiers and the line
of riot police who were clearly understaffed at this late hour. Two arrests and
some un-arrests were made, with many
police officers being hit by scavenged
projectiles. One unlucky pig received a
fire extinguisher to the groin.
Eventually numbers fell and the crowd
ended the standoff, moving down the
street and uphill. Several dumpsters
were pushed full-speed downhill into
the line of approaching cops before the
crowd escaped without additional arrests.
While the Durant Riot of February
26th was quantitatively not the biggest event, either by numbers in attendance or level of damage, qualitatively
it showed the fighting potential struggling to emerge from the still nascent
“student movement”. In many ways,
the riot was exemplary in its participation of non-students and its open con-

flict with the police. Any true student
strike will have to also involve people
who are excluded from the university,
and the Durant riot and occupation was
a perfect example of such a possibility.
Perhaps most importantly, the occupation of Durant Hall materialized the
often over-blown rhetoric of “dismantling the academic monolith”. We are of
course sympathetic to such a practice,
but forgive us if our cynicism leaves
us to note the gap between rhetoric and
practice in the current student movement against budget cuts. During the
occupation of Durant Hall, however,
the actual destruction of university
property demonstrated the material
weight behind such rhetoric.
Some participants later released a communiqué in which they stated:
“This is the coveted mass movement!
The point where people question their
roles and identities as students, as street
people, as jocks, or as activists. Walkouts in September, occupations in November, riots in the streets in February
and March. This points to nothing less
than the willingness of participants to
exceed the boundaries of expectation
imposed upon the movement.”
March 1st – Berkeley
In response to a string of racist attacks
and verbal assaults at UC San Diego
and elsewhere, the UC Berkeley Black
Student Union blocked Sather Gate
for two hours dressed entirely in black
clothing.
March 3rd Fullerton, Ca
18 people occupied the 18-story Humanities building at California State
University – Fullerton. The occupiers
constructed a heavily fortified barricade
by overturning dumpsters and bracing them with long steel bicycle racks.
Unfortunately, university police were
able to gain access to the building after a few hours by crawling up through
a manhole in the basement connected

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to an underground tunnel. All of those
inside were arrested and later released
with student conduct charges. They
later released a statement which read
in part:
“As our project may be to open the
school of Humanities to the communities beyond the university context, those
outside might ask: why the barricades?
The school of Humanities cannot be a
truly autonomous space until we have
built the community to defend it, to ensure a space devoid of police, university and state violence and repression”
March 4th:
Students strike and walkout across California, on nearly every college campus in the state, as well as many high
and middle schools. What follows are
a few brief sketches and moments with
which we feel a particular affinity. This
is in no way meant to be an exhaustive
summary and we do not seek to present an overly congratulatory view of
the student movement. In many ways
the growing anti-budget-cuts movement is certainly lacking, but we feel
that events such as these always have
the potential to supersede their particular foci and demand to move towards
something more substantial. For a
more extensive list and more information please consult occupyca.wordpress.com or indybay.org.
Santa Cruz:
Early morning picket lines at UC Santa
Cruz blocked all the main entrances to
the campus, effectively shutting down
all classes and university business.
Some drivers became aggressive with
the pickets, plowing through the strikers and injuring some, only to have
their windows knocked out. At the end
of the day a march of strikers moved off
campus and into the downtown area,
where they later dispersed.
Berkeley/Oakland:
After thousands of students, teachers,
and workers walked out across school

systems, a mass rally was held at Frank
Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland. At
the end of the rally a breakaway march
of 150 people snaked through downtown Oakland and then briefly seized
Interstate Highway 880, blocking traffic for nearly three hours. Oncoming
riot police arrested most of those who
marched onto the freeway though some
escaped by exiting down different offramps or scurrying down nearby trees.
One fifteen-year old protester named
Francois Zimouney fell 20 feet off the
highway and suffered a concussion in
an attempt to escape a police beating.
This was the most-high profile highway
takeover in the United States in some
years. As the arrested were marched
in handcuffs off the highway, drivers
stuck in traffic got out of their cars and
cheered for them.
Two 880 Takeover participants later released this statement:
“Dawn of the Crisis Generation”
March 4th is over, but we’ve only just
begun.
“Why the hell did you get on that highway?” asked the cops, our cell mates,
our coworkers, our classmates. There
are many responses that could be given
that have been outlined by banners,
occupation demands, student leaders,
or budget statistics, but none of them
really connect to why one would take
over a highway. Obviously there are no
libraries on a highway. The funding for
schools isn’t going to be found on any
one of those lanes of oncoming traffic.
And, in fact, a lot of people who were
arrested on the highway were not students or teachers. This is because the
highway takeover is an action against
a power structure that is much larger
than this year’s budget crisis.
That morning we awakened to newspaper headlines stating the governor’s
support for sanctioned student protests.
We weren’t the least bit impressed by
this patronizing rhetoric. Our motivations for walking up that on ramp
to 880 were far deeper and broader

than some piddly demand for a return
of the same: An education system that
has for a long time been the bedrock to
our highly divided class system in the
United States. The myth that change
will come to this society by poor people
reaching middle class status through
the university makes no sense; a school
degree does not impact the condition
of the neighborhoods and families we
come from. It should also now be clear
to everyone that ritualized demonstrations that fail to break out of the normal
functioning of society represent nothing
more than the further consolidation of
state power. What fails to concretely
disrupt the system ultimately strengthens it. We know that if we “win” funding from Governor Schwarzenegger
this is no victory, but a diversion of
funds from one group of already-struggling people to pacify another, without
changing shit. For example, plans are
in the works that will take money from
the health care of prisoners in order to
fatten university administrators’ pockets. We refuse to accept a shallow bribe
that places “our” interests in competition with the interests of our potential
comrades.
It was our experience on the highway
that made the question of who our allies and adversaries are infinitely clear.
As we ran up the on-ramp behind handheld flares declaring our occupation of
the freeway, inmates in the adjacent
jail pounded on their cell windows in
excitement. Later, after the police beatings, as we sat in cuffs on the other side
of the freeway, yuppies held a sign in
the windows of their condominiums
reading “Fuck U Protesters,” as commuters who were stuck in traffic honked
and cheered for us.
For a few hours we substantially disrupted commerce; shipments of products were delayed and crowds at local
shopping malls dwindled. On the dayto-day we don’t, in any tangible way,
have any sway over the systems that
rule our lives. We had many slogans
and ideas in each of our individual
brains from all the speeches and banners having to do with fee hikes, de-

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mands to Sacramento, blah blah. But
underneath all of our different reasons
we could formulate for media quotes
and skeptical friends was a desire to
exercise some sort of power over a system that we really have no control over.
For those of us who are not students,
those who labor in the service industry,
who live precariously on welfare benefits, who share overcrowded rooms,
who can’t pay the rent and are months
behind on the utilities, for those of
us who are told everyday that we are
nothing, taking over the highway was
an assertion of our collective power. It
is unlikely that anything we have ever
done has had as great an effect on our
surroundings. The sight of miles of
traffic brought to a standstill was an
indication of a true, if fleeting, glimpse
of the havoc we are capable of.
As has been echoed many times since
the fall of 2008, we are not making this
shit up: We Are The Crisis.
Each action brings another inspiration
and another lesson. The highway takeover was not perfect by any stretch of
the imagination. We sat in our jail cells
shaking our heads asking ourselves
and others why we decided to march on
the 880. Some of us felt pressure to connect the action to the education budget
crisis. Some of us felt like it was a huge
tactical error to enter onto a freeway
overpass without escape routes. But
somehow, despite these apprehensions
and valid concerns, we decided to go
anyway.
This is a message to affirm and congratulate that instinct that forced our
feet forward to shut down a major artery of the bay area. Next time we will
strike when it is even more unexpected;
when the state is not prepared. We will
choose terrain that is to our tactical
advantage and not allow ourselves to
be so caught up in symbolic locations.
We will continue to wait long hours
outside of jail houses and in courtrooms for each other. In each action we
take we gain confidence in the power
we have together. Soon we will be un-

fuckwithable.

Irvine:

During a police charge on the 880, 15
year-old Francois Zimany fell from
the 25 foot high overpass, sustaining
fractures to his skull, pelvis, and wrist.
Initial reports suggested that he was
pushed by police officers, newer information indicates that he most likely fell
trying to escape arrest. In either situation, we hold the Oakland Police Department responsible for his injuries.
Francois, we don’t know you, but we
love you. We are comrades for life.

400 Students marched around campus,
took over the streets and occupied several buildings but were unable to hold
the spaces so instead held a mass general assembly in front of the administration building at Aldrich Hall.

Davis:
At UC Davis, 500 students also attempted to march onto the freeway
but were prevented by riot police and
rubber bullets. Several students were
beaten and many were shot with pepper-spray rounds. One student was arrested.
Los Angeles:
At UCLA 75 students staged a sit-in at
Murphy Hall and later left of their own
accord without arrest.

April 14th – San Francisco
In response to university repression of
students at San Francisco State University, 20 people occupied the Student
Center in the early morning hours with
the intention of putting it under direct
worker and student control. The barricades proved insufficient and police
were able to break in, pepper-spraying
those inside. Most of the occupiers escaped, but two women were arrested
and held for two days in San Francisco
County Jail on felony burglary charges.
These were later dropped to misdemeanors and the two have their next
court date on May 26th.

From the March 25th Durant Hill riots in Berkeley, CA. Here rioters gather
together around bonfires in the street.
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2010

MAY
DAY

SB1070 + GLOBAL CLASS CONFLICT

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What is the SB1070?

An expected display of governance
A sign of tension and upheaval to come.
SB1070 is a law enacted in Arizona that helps enable more
harsh policing methods for suspected “illegal” immigrants.
A few of its most captivating features are:
1)Police are entitled to
question whomever they
think could be an illegal
immigrant based solely on
their appearance.
2)Police are entitled to
transfer suspected “illegal
immigrants” to the hands
of federal authorities for
deportation, without trial.
3)Federal law can not intervene with state enforce-

ment of this law.
4)Being in the
country”illegally” is now a
state misdemeanor.
5)If local citizen’s feel that
the police are not fully enforcing this law, they are
entitled to sue the police for
malpractice.

This May Day, tension
was very real, on all fronts
demonstrating around the
world, specifically anarchists and insurrectionary
groups used this holiday
as an opportunity to retaliate against the conditions
of the proletariat.

Bounded Bodies and
Borderlands
By Marat Rackham
“I held the citizenship of the land of pain, I was issued with its passport and I couldn’t envisage when
it would expire or what would replace it or where
the urge of travel away from it would eventually
take me to, nor at what shores this would abandon
me. In the territory of pain, there is a certain uncertainty, I thought, of a future outside of it.”
– Maps, Nuruddin Farah

Of course this is simply another law. One more link
on the chain. But similarly to California’s proposition
8 bill in 2008/9, it is not interesting to us because it is
more or less harsh or restricting than any other law, it is
interesting because of the social tension it will inevitably provoke.
We can see this tension
in France, Greece, Chile,
Indonesia, Canada,
Portugal, or Spain come
into play to the advantage
of revolutionary projects
aimed at destroying all
aspects of a society that
divides us, and forces us
to survive it. Where insurrectionary or anarchist
groups are fighting side
by side with discontented
immigrants, struggling
against a common enemy:
the state.

Imagining
Ruins:

While mainstream media,
left, and liberal groups
chose to denounce and
isolate the acts of resistance, it is quite obvious
that people are fed up.
While some are confused
by certain acts of violence,
we are all unified a feeling
of frustration.
The following is a submission we received regarding SB1070 act.
It provides some interesting incite into the implications of this newly enacted
law.
It also provides a good
introduction to the resistance mentioned in the
May Day reports that follow.

“Someone just came in and shot my daughter and
husband,” a woman screams to a 911 operator. She
describes – in between horrendous moans – the attack. Shortly after the call begins the sound of a
screeching door can be heard echoing faintly in the
background. “They are coming back in! They are
coming back in!” she bellows. However, her screams
are immediately drowned out by the incessant roar of
gunfire. This attack left two people dead, one being
a nine year old girl. Twelve days later four people
were in police custody, three of whom had connections to the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, and
one, apparently, was loosely associated with several
Aryan Nation groups. This attack occurred in a state,
in a borderland, that may prove to be exceptionally
significant in the furtherance of anti-state conflictuality. That state is Arizona.

I

n light of the international financial
crisis, the current vulnerability in the
capitalist world-system, and the emergence of a hemispheric leftist electoral
revival (and inevitable disappointment
for many) we can see that lines are being drawn. The state, its proponents,
and its enforcers have, out of ideological and practical necessity, strengthened international borders. Huge swaths of land are becoming increasingly militarized, and the body, in effect,
becomes imagined, and most importantly, further
disciplined as docile property. Due to this, it is entirely common to view societies, and nation-states as
having actual concrete correspondence, when this is
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rarely the case. The recently passed law
in Arizona, SB1070, with all of its draconian pretension, illustrates perfectly
well the farcical nature of national correspondence, and the subjectification
of the body. This law, and its apparent
spread, is a desperate attempt to halt the
potential decomposition of accepted
social forms. Therefore the time is ripe
for attack.
Hemispherically there has been an
acute rise of left-leaning (rhetorically
speaking) governments – from Chavez
and Lula, culminating in Obama. It
had been obvious, from the outset that
these governments were attempting to
restructure capital in their own nuanced
ways, and construct nanny states in
their respective boundaries. The maintenance of relations dominated by the
logic of capital has not, and will not
be altered by these governments, but a
statist driven economy is materializing.
This has been applauded by leftists in
the United States and Latin America,
but there has been a substantial offensive in these countries. From the Tea
Parties to the coup in Honduras, reactionary forces are on the march. Amidst
this background we are witnessing a
hemispheric electoral battle that is having predictable effects – the strengthening of nationalistic tendencies, the
strict enforcement of borders, and an
encompassing proliferation of disciplinary mechanisms. These procedures
are being advanced by the left-leaning
regimes, and are not extensive enough
for the reactionary forces.
The financial crisis has also had an
interesting effect. From Greece to
California we are seeing similar occurrences. Government revenues are
substantially down because people are
consuming less market goods. Since
employment is so high the demand for
state expenditures is increasing: unemployment, welfare, etc. One main
option states have is increasing taxes,
which is never popular and increases

capital flight. Another option is cutting
basic expenditures which often leads
to unrest. The state, then, has an insurmountable dilemma, but its subjects are
left with many options.
With the increasing instability in the
world-system, the decomposition of
accepted social forms is becoming increasingly explicit. Our pre-established
roles are constantly being challenged,
and the state is desperately trying to
recuperate insurgent potential. But
the growth of reactionary elements is
extremely pervasive; the disciplining
of bodies, the fortification of national
identity, the assemblage of insidious
institutions and procedures to actualize the material whole of an imagined
concrete society. “Seal the Borders
Now,” “Bring Family Values Back,”
“Restore America’s Decency Law,”
and “Take our Country Back,” are the
slogans of reaction. Border agents, in
the United States, have reached around
20,000, 653 miles of fence have been
constructed along the US-Mexico border, and pilotless drones patrol at night.
These, being the most blatant manifestation of state power, are clearly just the
beginning.
The framework is in place for further
state expansion. Since 2008, ICE (US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Homeland Security’s program, satirically titled, “Secure Communities,” has been working with
local law enforcement, detaining and
deporting thousands of undesirables.
SB1070, in Arizona, is the latest legal
incarnation of the previous slogans: it is
a feeble attempt at instilling imagined
national restoration. These borderlands
have long been a societal amalgamation. People have previously gone back
and forth through the border at will.
But due to the crisis, we see lines being drawn. The increasing demand for
documentation for “non-citizens” is
coupled with the quest for national ID
cards for “legitimate citizens.” Social

dissolution is confronted with national
branding, but the apparatuses of security, of discipline, can be met with a
nefarious lucidity; with shattered glass,
with bats, with arson. Unilateral violence can, and must be met, with a protracted struggle; the draining of state
resources, and the beautiful incandescence of the proletarian cocktail illuminating through the social body is the
ideal response.
The May Day upheavals were a proportionate response to state advances
at this time. The attack on Wells Fargo
in Denver, the shattered store fronts in
New York, the rampage in Santa Cruz,
the sabotaged railways in Ontario, the
property damage in Asheville, the occupation in San Francisco all demonstrate our revolutionary potential.
One cannot help but smile when we
read that police chief Bill Hogan in
Asheville states, “I’m not sure what
message they’re trying to send, quite
frankly.” One wonders what message
will be deduced if new fires will consistently be replaced with past ones?
What will be the message when we
finally stop regulating ourselves? One
can be certain that the murder of 9 year
old Brisenia Flores and her, father Raul
Flores, in Arizona had a fixed message.
Hopefully this act will not be forgotten
by those in the borderlands. The state
and its adherents imagine a future, a future devoid of potentialities. And while
national correspondence is an imagined
ideal – an orthodox portrait arranged
with social security cards and time slots
– we must imagine ruins.
In this “territory of pain” there is truly
a “certain uncertainty,” and we would
be wise to continue the onslaught of the
current social order.

Unilateral violence can, and must be met, with a protracted struggle; the
draining of state resources, and the beautiful incandescence of the proletarian cocktail illuminating through the social body is the ideal response.
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MAYDAY:

After effects of the Santa Cruz “Dance Party” May Day riots.

Highlights and reports regarding global unrest and repression, on May 1st, 2010
Note:
This section was compiled while going into
print. It actually was very frustrating to compile in a short period of time so close to our
deadlines. We tried to recount some of the
events that specifically caught our attention
around the world on May 1st.
We apologize if things have changed in regards
to legal cases or if we did not mention certain
events.
Santa Cruz, California: About
$100,000 in property damage was done by
what authorities are calling a “planned May
Day riot” disguised as a dance party, or a dance
party that became a riot. What seems to be a
make shift march put together through anonymous flyering brought out about 250 people the
night of May 1st in Santa Cruz’s downtown.
The party also went without police confrontation for the majority of it’s occurrence due to
911 calls the police claim were made to spread
them thin and distract them from a specific area
of destruction and illegality. It is hard to gather
a concrete report of the events, considering the
media’s coverage is very conflicting in different reports. But from footage that has been
flooding Santa Cruz’s local television it appears

that some wealthy shops and chain stores had
their windows destroyed. The march and the
majority of the destruction took place on Santa
Cruz’s pacific avenue which is where the rich
people go to mingle, and the poor people go to
ask for money. Class tension on this block is
quite obvious, and a ferocious display of retaliation is completely understandable, and almost
appropriate for a May Day. From footage and
a few reports we can tell that a jewelry outlet,
Urban Outfitters, and Jamba Juice were some
of the more effected businesses. Reports also
state that an attempt of setting fire to the porch
of a local coffee shop, “Cafe Pergolesi” with
torches also happened during the march. An
anarchist web site states that the intention behind this may have had something to do with
their part in working with an FBI investigation
into local “Animal Liberation” activities in the
past few years. A police car was also attacked
by demonstrators, paint was thrown on stores
and property, and graffiti was written wherever
the march went.
What seems to be two random arrests have
happened in response to the riot. A 24 year old
and a 41 year old. Both are homeless or “transients” according to the media. One was arrested for allegedly being seen by ”witnesses”
throwing a rock through a Jewelry store’s win-

VIOLENCE//REVENGE

A DAY FOR CELEBRATING PROLETARIAN

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dows. The other was arrested because
the police say they found him near the
events, and he had paint on him. Both
seem to be part of Pacific avenue’s
homeless community. The 24 year old
male from Fresno was arrested while
being on parole for a prior burglary
charge, his bail was set to $105,000
dollars. The 41 year old has been released.
Police are trying to place blame on a
local anarchist coffee shop after the
24 year old arrested, Jimi Haynes told
the judge that he found out and became
interested in the event from working
at the local “anarchist” coffee shop.
While the town is coming down on the
anarchist space with no where else to
formally place blame, the “Sub Rosa
Anarchist coffee shop and lending library” have made statements denying
any formal involvement, but not denouncing the events. The mayor claims
that not denouncing the events is more
evidence to their involvement. What
is somewhat frightening is that Jimi is
suddenly stating that he volunteered at
the space for a year, and that they were
responsible for him being there, but at
the same time the space says that they
have never even met the man. It is
common practice for police, when they
cannot point fingers, they will pressure
the easily attainable to do it for them.
The police are also using this opportunity to ask the city for funding for more
street officers. The police are also offering a 5,000 dollar reward for any
information leading to arrests from the
May Day riot.
The FBI is also taking interest in these
events, and are helping the local police
to bottom line investigations.
ASHEVILLE,
NORTH CAROLINA: A small roving mob wreaked havoc in downtown
Asheville, North Carolina on May Day.
Tourist shops, ATMs, and novelty cafes and boutiques serving the rich their
high end art or food were a few of the
targets attacked. From video footage,
it also appears that an AT&T, Bank of

America, and the local conservative
newspaper was also attacked. While
the local community is demonizing the
mob as it prides itself in its rich liberal
tradition, this notoriously racist city in
western North Carolina scoffs at the
acts as it smells its own farts of an ecofriendly liberal mecca for wealthy hippies and retired radicals. Those arrested
are being called anarchists. They are
also being attacked from all sides;
conservative, liberal, left, right, and in
some cases even the so called “local
anarchists” whom are saying that the
events hurt Asheville’s local community’s perspective on “anarchist politics”.
Apparently they have no contempt for
the tastes and spaces reserved for the
rich’s comfort in society, and no interest in supporting May Day’s inherent
tradition, of avenging the proletariat.

ity.

In a town where the biggest monument
is of Robert E. Lee, and most of its
business caters to wealthy eco-tourists,
retired white families, and hippy students, it is not surprising that the city is
showing its feeling of “shock” to these
displays of contempt for the lifestyles
of the racist and in the form of demonizing those allegedly responsible. They
probably aren’t used to being told that
there is a problem with the social set up
of things, and are frightened of those
declaring war on their normalcy. The
same neighborhood is well known for
a large police presence to contain the
homeless population to designated
areas, so tourists will not be afraid
to shop. The homeless of Asheville
spend much of their time in this neighborhood, as they wait outside expensive stores, hoping those coming out
will spare some change.

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Reports claim that somewhere around
20,000 dollars in damage occurred
mostly in the form of broken windows. Police responded and arrested
11 individuals, holding them all on
felony property destruction charges
and 50,000 dollar bail each. Another
woman, who was a well known citizen
of Asheville was arrested that night and
released. She is currently trying to sue
the local police department for brutal-

Somehow the money was raised to bail
almost all of them out, but funds are
still needed to help with legal defense
building support, and to help spread
thin the damages done raising bail. It
is also said that many local lawyers are
refusing to defend the group apparently
due to biases.
The police are keeping the phones of all
11 arrested and facing charges.
Of the eleven arrested only two have
prior charges the state claims to have
been politically influenced.
A support web site and email contact
was created to provide updates and
ways of supporting the 11 arrested:

Greece: Massive anarchist demonstrations took place country-wide.
Clashes in Athens resulted in many arrests and two serious injuries. In light
of the IMF’s new austerity measures in
Greece, May Day demonstrations went
beyond the usual union parades: an
anarchist-autonomous march of 4,000
was involved in most of the clashes
with police. Businesses were destroyed, police were fire bombed, and
only ten arrests among the thousands
rioting together took place. Please
look to our featured article on Greece
in this issue, as the situation in Greece
continues to worsen for capitalism and
the state.
New York: A spontaneous march
appeared in one of New York City’s
(and probably the world’s)
most
wealthy neighborhoods: Soho in downtown Manhattan. Cops and media report that an autonomous march of “vandals” took place separate of the main
May Day demonstration being held in
Union Sq. Around noon, after marching up Broadway (one of Manhattan’s
busiest avenues) Banks, ATMs, and
specifically an American Apparel outlet had their windows smashed out.
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Footage also shows a chubby man with
red glasses and a blackberry calling
the police and trying to follow who he
thought smashed out American Apparel’s windows. Footage also shows one
of the march’s Black Clad demonstrators punching him in the face after he
starts to try and snitch out one of the
rioters. Five arrests occurred, mostly
based on witness’s statements. As far
as we know all five have been released,
either facing or charged with disorderly conduct. All of the five’s phones
were taken by the police as evidence,
similarly to those in North Carolina.
Violence seems to be a typical experience for American Apparel, as the local
news blog: “The Gothamist” reported
a similar incident a month ago (it can
also be read about in the “Doing the
Damn thing section”). They claim that
“anti-capitalist” youth feel a particular
disdain for the chain store because of
its recuperation of specifically urban
youth culture.
San Francisco: A roving street
party began after the city’s main May
Day march. The street party was called
“reclaim the streets” and resulted in a
snaking march through San Francisco’s
mission district, starting from Dolores Park. Reports say that a Wells
Fargo bank was attacked. The March
stopped, as it tried to occupy a school
that’s been abandoned for years, hoping
to make it open for public use by the
neighborhood. Eleven arrests resulted
from the demonstration and occupation
attempt.
Germany: Thousands of anti-authoritarians clashed with police and
Nazis throughout the country. Most of
the violence and rioting was in Berlin
and Hamburg. Ten police were injured
during one confrontation with about
150 people. Police and Nazi protestors teamed up to clash with anarchists
throughout May day. In Berlin alone,
there were 7,000 police in the streets
prepared for any rioting. Anarchists
still responded with stones and fire, and
rampaged the city streets, overwhelming Nazis and police.

Insurrectionary violence is escalating by the day, while anti-fascist and
anarchist activities continue to be uncompromising and consistent. Burning wealthy cars has become a nightly
ritual in Germany’s major cities, and
anarchist resistance has according to
the state outnumbered any other political “criminality” in the country, with
1,822 offences since May 2009 alone,
that claim were anarchist. While this
sort of resistance continues to grow, the
state is becoming more and more frustrated, as they are not sure how to calm
it. An article in Aljazeera quotes Stefan
Ruppert, an expert on extremism and
an MP for the pro-business Free Democrats party, in response to the rising violence against the state:
“The left wing extremist scene is made
up of a very heterogeneous group
of people with different ideological
views,”
“Only the vague goal of overthrowing our existing social order serves as
a unifying effect. This complexity ...
makes it all the more difficult to grasp
the problem as a whole and work out
solutions.”
They refer to this new tendency among
what they call “left wing groups” as “a
new generation”. What they mean by
left wing is not fascist groups, but these
groups are clearly neither authoritarian
or leftist in any way.
Reports claim that there were 9 arrests
in Hamburg, and although 34 people
were detained in Berlin, we have not
seen any reports of any more arrests in
Germany from that day.
Macau, China: Police are attacked after spraying workers with water cannons for refusing to follow the
“planned protest route”. Workers refuse as they demanded expanded labor
rights.
Victoria, BC: A police station was
attacked.

sabotaged a large electrical maintenance shed. A communiqué states:
“This action was done in the spirit of
the general strike; taking immediate action towards the destruction of capitalism.”
Zurich, Switzerland: Police
use water cannons to disperse riots
sparked by large bonuses granted for
bankers.
Denver, Colorado:
Anarchists attacked a Wells Fargo at
night. No arrests were made.
An excerpt from the communiqué can
be read here:
“A whole bunch of windows were shattered with a wide variety of stones procured from the lovely landscaping areas around the bank. In a true display
of diversity of tactics, larger rocks were
thrown through doors and first floor
windows, while smaller rocks knocked
out panes thought to be out of reach.
All participants dissolved safely into
the night, a May Day properly celebrated.
Solidarity with all those that got wild
for May Day, the fighters in Greece, our
comrades in struggle in Oaxaca and all
seeking total liberation from capitalist
totality.”
Santiago, Chile: At least 86
people were arrested following demonstrations when masked participants
began to “create disorder.”
Nijmegen, Netherlands:
The largest May Day demonstration
that the anarchists have had in decades.
Clashes between cops and anarchists
occurred.
Istanbul, Turkey:
140,000 people marched on Istanbul’s
Taksim Square for the first time in over
36 years. In 1977 34 people were killed
after a shooting triggered a stampede.

Toronto, Ontario: Anarchists
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THE 2010
OLYMPICS

OUR FINAL REPORT ON AN
non-CONCLUDED TENSION:

*CHRONOLOGY

*RETROSPECT

T

here is so much to be addressed considering the 6 years of resistance leading
up to the Olympic Games. In this article
we are focusing on Vancouver anarchist
participation and initiative, as this is
what we know. There are many other
elements to appreciate that as parts
also make up some kind of whole. This
article focuses primarily on the 2010 Anti-Capitalist/AntiColonial Convergence that took place during the Olympics
from February 10-15 in Vancouver. There is much more to
be discussed, and some outcomes of these days will only
become relevant in time: this is just one contribution. We are
trying to strike a balance between information and ideas and
we don’t want to ramble forever, so some important circumstances are left out.
The Olympics is not just a worldwide event, it is a project
used to accelerate what the bosses are already doing: expanding capitalism, colonization, social control and industrial/technological civilization. The project is the subjugation

*TO COME

of our lives to the plans of the bosses, the hyper-expansion of
security forces and the exploitation of the earth, destroying
our possibilities to live free.
-Riot 2010, Riot Now:
Attacking the Olympics and its project: Canada, Greece and
Italy
A SIMPLE OVERVIEW:
Vancouver won the Olympic bid in 2003. In the lead up to
the bid and in the years to follow the impacts of the Olympics were already visible: civil city bylaws (new civic morality laws), massive gentrification, increased private security
and ski resort expansion to name a few.
Initially, anarchists in so-called British Columbia were inspired to participate in anti-Olympics resistance by the ongoing indigenous resistance to ski-resorts and development,
destroying land and ways of life. Indigenous resistance promoted the slogan “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land,”
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and an explicitly Anti-Capitalist/AntiColonial convergence. Undermining
Canada, coupled with an anti-capitalist
analysis became a basis of struggle
which tied together groups and individuals in collaboration against common
enemies.
Anarchist struggle runs parallel to the
goals and methods of some indigenous
resistance. Still it is important to us to
emphasize that indigenous struggle is
autonomous from anarchist struggle
and vice versa: we come together in
moments of conflict and solidarity (although of course, some anarchists are
also indigenous). We can only act in
solidarity if we have our own struggles
to extend from.
Anti-Olympics sentiment became still
more generalized throughout Vancouver and the province, through direct
experiences of gentrification, development and ecological destruction. Over
the last five or so years, there were a
number of forces at play in opposition
to the 2010 Olympics: revolutionary
indigenous people, the Olympic Resistance Network (ORN, a coalition of all
sorts) and anarchists to name just a few.
In 2007, an Anti-Colonial/Anti-Capitalist convergence in Vancouver was
announced at the Indigenous Peoples
Summit in Sonora, Mexico to coincide
with the beginning of the Olympics.
Resistance took many forms; an occupation to stop highway expansion,
major disruptions of Olympic promotional events, the theft of the Olympic
Flag from City Hall and dozens of direct actions across Canada and some
internationally, ranging from broken
bank windows to construction vehicles
set ablaze.
Since the ripple effects of the Olympics have long term impacts on all of
our daily lives, public opposition grew,
as did sympathy for protests and resistance took the form of local struggle.
It was materially important to our lives
that the Olympics not go through unchallenged.

The main anti-Olympics strategy discussed was to cause disruption in order
to deter investment interests in British
Columbia. However, to disrupt only the
Olympic spectacle (promotional events
and the games themselves) leaves
the struggle empty in the absence the
Olympics charade to react against.
We also had no desire to ally with people on the basis of a greener, or more
accountable games, like some of those
at the 2006 occupation of Eagle Ridge
Bluffs to prevent a segment of Olympic
highway expansion in West Vancouver.
Because it was in a wealthy area and
we felt distant from the stated goals
of some of the occupants, none of us
attended. This was a mistake. Even
something which appears to be reformist by nature can surprise us. Through
direct methods of struggle, in this case
occupation, there is potential for revolutionary moments or relationships to
take form.
Elder and indigenous warrior Harriet
Nahanee defended Eagle Ridge Bluffs
on the basis that it is stolen native land
and Canada has no authority over the
land or herself. She was arrested while
re-occupying the land. For her refusal
to submit to the authority of the court
she was sentenced to prison. When she
came out of prison a sickness made
worsened by jail caused her untimely
death.
Her intransigence would be the bugle
call; a battle cry to add fire to the continuing war against colonization and a
reference point in our permanent conflict as anarchists. In fact this situation
became a turning point for the struggle;
the death of Harriet Nahanee made
apparent how high and merciless the
stakes can be when standing in the way
of capitalist expansion.
While a struggle may begin with reformist demands, its methods can become revolutionary.
Anarchists participated in a struggle
against the Olympics, while not “watering-down” ideas and methods. In-

stead, this was a chance to contribute to
revolutionary possibilities. Anarchists
tended to focus on disrupting capitalist projects and institutions that will
remain after the Olympic Games: corporations, banks, repression, development and social control. Anarchist contributions against the Olympics came
in the form of direct action, sabotage,
organizing demonstrations, publishing
and making events and speaking tours
in Canada, the US and Europe.
SOLIDARITY AND ATTACK
AGAINST THE OLYMPICS AND
ITS PROJECT
Sabotage is not separate or better than
other forms of struggle, rather it is most
potent when part of or in tandem with
open, public and social methods of engagement.
During the years leading up to the
games numerous anarchist-claimed
low-intensity. These actions increased
the relevance of the “strategy of attack”
to the anti-Olympics movement and
later undermined attempts to ostracize
black block actions. In all probability,
more people came to the confrontational street demonstrations in Vancouver
because of these actions.
Years of direct actions showed local attacks contribute to geographically distant struggles; after all we are not so far
away in our common desire to do away
with systems of exploitation. Especially when revolutionary solidarity is relevant to local struggles we are stronger
as a whole. The concept of staying put
and acting in solidarity, (as opposed to
summit hopping), only succeeds if actions materialize to reflect this. During
the actual Olympic Games solidarity
actions took place in Calgary, Waterloo, Guelph, Santa Cruz (USA), Bristol
(UK), and London (UK).
While the first actions, starting in 2007,
(most likely) inspired more to follow,
they did not seem to spread very far socially beyond anarchists. This brings
to light questions of communication
and social relevance. Many of the comFTTP #9-2010 Olympics-Pg. 23

municated actions were only shared
over anarchist web sites. If we want to
spread rebellion, connect targets with
local struggles and communicate the
acts either through the potency of the
acts themselves or through more visible means i.e.: street posters, leaflets
and direct communication. Solidarity
and attack are formidable weapons; this
project must be sharpened and developed.

political power and therefore it failed to
draw much force from the “speak truth
to power” counter-summit forces. Since
the fight against the Olympics was initiated from an indigenous revolutionary
perspective, reform groups had a hard
time representing the struggle to force
their demands on power.

REPRESSION BEFORE
CONVERGENCE:

Commercial Drive Torch Blockade:

THE

Police used intimidation as their main
tactic of repression in the lead up to
the Olympics. They visited our homes,
families, schools and workplaces, doing overt and covert surveillance and
giving harsh personal warnings that
illegal actions would send us to jail
(that is the law!). Anarchists and their
families were also visited across Canada by the national intelligence agency (CSIS). This obviously can have a
disruptive impact on relationships and
confidence. In Vancouver, responses
included: communicating immediately
over the internet (web sites and list
serves), making phone tree notification
systems and writing articles. Anarchists
also organized a torch-lit street demonstration called “Solidarity in the face of
Police Repression.” This was also done
in part as a response to the Olympicrelated deportation of our comrade.
NOT YOUR CLASSIC COUNTER-SUMMIT:
The basis of this convergence was different than a classic counter-summit.
The convergence was intended as part
of an ongoing strategy of disruption
and destabilization as an attempt to
dissuade investment interests in British Columbia. Counter to the common
critique of outsider “summit-hoppers”
coming in and imposing their will on
the city, due to the long term local impacts of the games, the participation of
locals was a foundation for the convergence.
The Olympics is not a formal summit of

FEB 12: TORCH BLOCKADES
AND MASS DEMO

“Our role as anarchists and revolutionaries has been to participate in the
struggle against the Olympics using
methods of direct action and self-organization. Essentially trying to widen
conflicts socially as well as sharpening
them, with the desire of seeing these
conflicts expand towards changing all
levels of society.” - Without Conclusion (Vancouver anarchists, 2008)
One of the most inspiring actions that
took place during the convergence was
the blocking of the Olympic Torch on
Commercial Drive.
The quality of this experience is in the
social significance. People of the same
neighborhood came together in rebellion, taking the street and asserting
their power. The blocking of the torch
brought together people with different
ideas and tactical persuasions who supported each other towards an ultimate
goal: preventing the former mayor carrying the torch from setting foot, or in
this case wheelchair, in the heart of our
neighborhood.
The anarchist strategy here was born
from understanding the social context
of this neighborhood, from staying put
long enough to have social ties beyond
a scene; certain tactics were respected
because the people who applied them
had direct relationships within the
neighborhood. Because real relationships exist the tactics of masking up,
for example, and barricading the street
were coherent. Another community
member announced in front of the
demo that the two masked women by

her side were not scary. Instead, she
explained that masks are worn to protect ones identity from the police, not
to hide from each other.
A strategy of low intensity confrontation and escalation towards blocking the torch was chosen. In an earlier meeting it appeared that other
people from the neighborhood planned
to make a separate spectacle alongside
of the torch. We decided our primary
goal would be to agitate people into the
street using discussion with the crowd,
and moving banners and affinity groups
into the street as momentum.
We didn’t have to do this as old ladies
even tried to cut the initial announcements short by telling people that we
had to take the street right away! The
energy of the demo increased as anarchists announced that people in the
Downtown East Side (DTES) were in
the street at the same time and successfully blocking the torch.
When we reached a strategic intersection, string was tied between two sides
of the road, making a simple barrier.
After the string, barbed wire was hung
and then large rocks placed in the road
- making an actually effective barrier.
The progression of softer to harder barricades encouraged the demo to adapt
more organically towards greater confrontation. Instead of anarchists imposing will on the crowd and using the
situation towards a certain level of confrontation above all else, at this time,
it was more important to be a part of
the social rebellion, acting alongside
others.
The blockade was abandoned as the
torch was rerouted. The intersection at
1st and Commercial was blockaded for
an hour and a torch bearer was rudely
escorted out of the neighborhood under
police protection.
As anarchists, we made ourselves and
our methods relevant. This continues
to be important if we want rebellion to
expand socially.
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Take Back The City,
Mass Demo:
This demo was organized by a coalition
called the “2010 Welcoming Committee.” It was promoted as a non-violent
event. The next day’s “diversity of
tactics” demonstration was organized
in part as a response to the surprising
news that this one would be peaceful.
Anarchists from Vancouver decided to
respect this, within reason.
2500 people showed up for this antiOlympics protest. As coordinated with
the coalition, the demo was lead by a
group of indigenous elders and warriors, behind them the “No One is Illegal, Canada is Illegal” and the anarchist/black block contingents were side
by side. The demo marched until its
resting place in front of the Olympic
opening ceremonies and line upon line
of cops.
As previously discussed, the elders announced they were moving back and
asked that the black block move up
to defend the demo from the police. It
was understood that this would also be
a space to express our anger. The front
lines made up of black block, indigenous warriors and others who acted
defensively and offensively. The police however appeared to have orders
to show restraint. No matter what the
black block threw at them, even if their
hats got knocked off, or a blow came to
the face they just maintained an air of
control and rolled with it.
After an hour just standing in front of
police lines it was obvious that this was
a stale mate, although to many this was
apparent from the beginning: we were
immediately outnumbered by media
and by cops, and knew this, that’s also
why the front did not break the lines.
Much of the black block was trying to
communicate to the front line that we
should begin to move again. Some of
the demo organizers tried to initiate a
reverse march back through downtown.
Had this plan been taken up the shift
in position could likely have afforded
us a whole new range of possibilities.

Even though a breakaway march was
previously discussed, the front lines
however were completely fixated in the
standoff.
Tactically speaking, this focus excluded the rest of the demo from active
participation and created a bunch of
spectators who couldn’t see the action.
Also, it was impractical to act in any
serious ways at this point because the
front line was completely encased by
media. The police could have ended the
demo at any point here because we had
locked ourselves within one city block
surrounded by cops. It would have been
more interesting to continue the demo
and to have acted where we found ourselves with more strength and capacity;
instead, the demo slowly began dispersing.
February 13th, 2010
Heart Attack-Smash It Up
The February 13 “diversity of tactics”
demo, Heart Attack, aimed to “clog the
arteries of capitalism” by disrupting
traffic throughout the downtown core,
with the end goal of shutting down the
Lions Gate Bridge (the primary connector to Games’ events), on the first
day of the Olympics.
The demonstration, made up of some
400 people, 150 of which formed a black
block, was very successful at achieving
its stated goals. Traffic was disrupted
by the demo itself and by newspaper
boxes and dumpsters dragged into the
streets (also done to slow down police
pursuit). Along the demo people did
graffiti and minor vandalism. Downtown, in the heart of Olympics celebrations the windows of the Hudson’s
Bay Company (key Olympic sponsor)
and the Toronto Dominion Bank were
smashed out with hammers, boots and
newspaper boxes, and paint was also
thrown. Although the riot police broke
up/re-directed the demo before it managed to physically block the bridge, the
police shut down the bridge themselves
for over an hour, re-directing all traffic
and telling people waiting for busses to
change their route.

The direct actions of the Heart Attack
demo garnered support from indigenous people sympathetic to resistance
(particularly the targeting of HBC,
which was heavily involved in the initial colonization of British Columbia;
from acting as police, to knowingly
committing genocide by distributing
blankets infected with deadly smallpox to indigenous communities), as
well as anti-authoritarian activists,
community organizers and anarchists.
These actions, of course, were not well
received by corporate media, nor were
they by some seasoned and educated
activists that claim to be part of the
anti-Olympics movement.
Some people say there was an “antiOlympics movement.” Perhaps, if
this is true, there were two opposing
elements of this movement: an “antiOlympic movement” and an “Olympic reform movement.” Issues like, “a
greener games,” “a more accountable
games,” a games that doesn’t interfere
with our “civil liberties” were the flag
stone for this latter group.
In the end the coalition between “reformers” and “anti’s” fractured over
the reactions of a few to the breaking
of a few windows. Some anti-Olympics
“spokespeople” denounced the breaking of windows during the Heart Attack
demo faster than you can say traitor.
Supposed defense lawyer for antiOlympics arrestees, David Eby, said
publicly when asked about the window
smashing of Saturday that “30 people
can destroy public trust and confidence
in a movement...” For his denunciation
of the black block, David Eby received
a pie to his face at a widely attended
anti-Olympic report back.
Moments where there is greater attention towards anarchist activity are
opportunities to counter-act the alienation stirred up by recuperative forces.
These are moments to step forward and
communicate in personal and public
spheres about our methods and goals,
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to actively de-mystify the lies of media
and politicians. And perhaps this was
one of the major successes of the whole
convergence, built upon years of communication and relationships. Many
people, who wouldn’t themselves break
the windows, openly discussed and
supported the tactics with coworkers,
neighbors, parents and in public forums
and newspapers. As it turns out the majority of the vocal anti-Olympics movement has solidarity with those opposed
to the state, capitalism and domination.
David Eby and other’s who participated in denunciation’s, based their
arguments on the false premise that
“the public” is homogenous. What they
mean to say is that their public is alienated from acts of property destruction.
They have more to defend within this
system than others. According to indigenous warrior, Zig Zag, people like
Eby, “think their particular constituencies’ (overwhelmingly white-middle
class) are the most important and the
ones that social movements should
be oriented around. This is incorrect.
There are many other social sectors that
(they) do NOT speak for, represent, or
even have the slightest clue about.”
“Anonymous communiqués that build
up the romance of arriving attacking
the cops and then taking off is all we
have to understand the intent of this
group” - David Eby
Not so. Black block tactics are discussed, criticized and developed all the
time. The experiences of being together
on the streets are invaluable. More can
be gleaned from 20 seconds of combat
than in 3 months of training; but that
doesn’t mean you can separate the two.
A lack of collective confrontational
experience was evident when the appearance of riot police stunted the
confidence and cohesion of the block.
Although people did de- arrest, fight
back and escape, the group was easily
divided by riot police and generally
unprepared for defensive maneuvering.
If we can reflect on this and continue
to practice collective rebellion on dif-

ferent levels in our own cities the next
time we come together like this we can
act with more experience towards uncontrollability.
This demo was an incredible experience for some of us who live in Vancouver. It is one thing to experience
something like this in another city,
but on home ground where you know
more of the physical and social terrain,
in a context interacted with daily, it is
unique. Because we do not just take the
experiences with us, the strategy of attack remains and weaves in to our social fabric.
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ize. Our relationships provided a basis
of communication and coordination
with other elements of the resistance
and helped create direct lines of communication, now humming with solidarity.
With all the solidarity we have felt, it is
time to reciprocate. From the G20 this
June, the London Olympics in 2012,
anti-police actions on the west coast,
anarchist prisoners worldwide, the initiation of anti-prison struggle in Ontario, to indigenous warrior John Graham and the St’at’imc people fighting
against ski resorts, we stand alongside
all those who want to directly confront
the systems of control.

During the convergence in Vancouver,
a total of 27 people were arrested, 10
of those with charges. One anarchist is
currently facing serious, trumped-up
charges from the Heart Attack demo.
He is being charged with “leading the
black block” and therefore is also being held responsible for all the property
damage of the demo. Three of those
with charges did not file for diversion
(which is a way to avoid judicial treatment of the offense) or agree to plead
guilty for reduced sentences.

We cannot measure the success of the
actions of the struggle against the
Olympics. Some qualitative outcomes
are the appearance of visible lines of
conflict and solidarity. Still, the results
are immeasurable and only the passing
of time and the bloom of new conflict
will show us what impacts this struggle
really had.

A group of arrestees and supporters
have formed the Solidarity with the
Anti-Olympic Convergence Arrestees
(SACA). SACA will be raising funds
for the legal costs, estimated at $15,000.

2010:

HEY, HEY, HEY GOODBYE:
“Like oppressive systems, a social
revolution is more than the sum of its
parts, but neither can it exist without its
parts working in relation to each other.
A social revolution can be seen as an
accumulation of diverse activities over
a period of time. It is not a switch that
can be flipped instantly” - Oshipeya (in
regards to Vancouver anti-Olympics)
Staying put in Vancouver, participating
over time in social rebellion and becoming familiar with our social context
gave us an understanding of how to act.
Our actions were then more difficult for
the media to effectively de-contextual-

2010 CHRONOLOGY OF
CONFLICT AROUND
OLYMPICS

January 2: Espanola,
Ontario
8 Indigenous youth set up a blockade
on the Trans-Canada highway between
Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie. An anti-Olympic banner is hung along the
bridge over the Spanish river.
January 5: Winnipeg
More than 50 people successfully delay
the torch relay for 15 minutes before it
was extinguished and transported by
truck.
January 14: Saskatoon
Around 30 people disrupt the torch relay.
January 15: Edmonton
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sors in the development of the Tar
Sands.
January 21: Golden
Six people protest at the Olympic
Torch relay. One person is arrested.
January 22: Vancouver
Anarchists organized a demo to
counter the isolation and intimidation of ongoing police harassment
of anti-Olympic organizers and their
friends, families. Around 250 people
take the streets in a torch lit “Solidarity Against Police Repression
Demo.” At the end, Olympic cops,
part of the 2010 Vancouver Integrated Security Unit and Joint Intelligence Group were confronted and
outed on camera.
January

29:

Prince

George
Two protests, one after the other,
containing more than 50 people
each, rally against the torch relay.
January 31: Secwepmec
Territory
(Near Chase, BC)
The torch relay is confronted by Native Youth Movement Secwepmec
land defenders and supporters.
February 6: Victoria
Anti-Olympic protesters hold spirited march starting at VANOC offices
and ending in a feast.
February 8: Vancouver
Anti-Poverty activists an residents
of the Downtown Eastside stage a
“Poverty Olympics.” Over 600 people attend.

porters.

lice escort.

February 12: Vancouver
(Commercial Drive)
About 300 people took the street
Commercial Drive to block the
torch. They tied string, barbed wire
across the street and put large rocks
in the road, successfully rerouting
the torch. Protesters also ‘escorted’
an Olympic torchbearer off of Commercial Drive, making it uncomfortable all the way to her awaiting po-

February 12: Vancouver
(Downtown)
More than 2000 people march in the
anti-Olympic “Take Back Our City”
demonstration. The march was led
by indigenous elders and warriors,
backed up by anarchist, and the “No
one is illegal/Canada is illegal” contingents. Marched to the location of
the opening ceremonies.

February 10-15th:
Vancouver
Anti-Colonial/ Anti-Capitalist Convergence against the Olympics
February 11: Calgary
Anarchists attack RBC on the corner
of Southland and Fairmont, windows
smashed.
February 11: Vancouver
A few dozen people protest and disrupt the torch relay at the University
of British Columbia.
February 12: Vancouver
(Downtown Eastside)
On the final day of the torch relay,
the torch was blocked by 200 people,
causing the torch to completely reroute and abandon it’s awaiting sup-

February 13: Vancouver
“Heart Attack” demonstration with
over 400 people and around 150
strong black block snake through
downtown Vancouver dragging
newspaper boxes and dumpsters into
the streets, doing graffiti, and smashing up the Hudson’s Bay Company
and the Toronto Dominion Bank.
February 13: Katzie
(just outside of Vancouver)
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vergence members of the Coast Salish Katzie first Nation and supporters
blocked the Golden Ears Bridge (a major transportation hub)

of school after a heated argument with
teachers who refused to turn off or
move Olympic event broadcasts from
a study area.

February 13: Waterloo
In conjunction and solidarity with the
Heart attack demo, AWOL activists
drop giant banner off of an RBC.

February 16: Guelph
RBC sabotaged by glue the ATM’s

February 14: Calgary
In an act of comradely solidarity, “Calgary’s finest anarchists... left a McDonald’s in shambles.”
February 15: Vancouver
Tent City set up in a large lot of land
leased by VANOC for intended use as a
parking lot in the Downtown Eastside.
February 15/16: Calgary
With a message of solidarity, Anarchists and fellow students walked out

February 17: Vancouver
David Eby the head of the Civil Liberties Association and defense lawyer (no
more) for anti-Olympic protesters, was
pied at a public forum for his denouncement of Black Block actions during the
Heart Attack demo.
February 19: Vancouver
Massive Canadian flag on the side of
a tall building downtown vandalized
with “F U 2010” cut out of it.

London Tar Sands Network and London Rising Tide hold the inaugural Tar
Sands Olympics in Trafalgar Square.
February 23: Bristol,
United Kingdom
A mob attacked the Royal Bank of
Scotland HQ with paint bombs, breaking windows and setting fire to tires
in the street. RBS is an investor in the
Tar Sands. The action was in solidarity
with indigenous rebels, the fight against
2010 Olympics and with imprisoned
anarchists.
February 28th:
200 people take to the streets as part of
a “Games over, Resistance lives” demonstration.

February 21: London,
United Kingdom

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ANTI-POLICE ACTIVITY IN
THE NORTHWEST + BEYOND
Road blockade in Portland in response to police murder.

T

he past few months have seen a number of
appropriate responses to the police from
anarchists in the Pacific Northwest. The
most notable instances followed the fatal shooting of Jack Collins in Portland,
Oregon. For years police killings in the
United States have been commonplace,
but it is far less often that we see public backlash of any
consequence.
Like the Oscar Grant riots of last year, Portland saw a large
number of people voice their dissatisfaction, often violently,
with both their respective police forces and the justice system itself. Unlike the Oscar Grant riots, there was an almost
immediate response (a downtime of only some five hours). A
meeting held after news of the shooting broke concluded that
a march would be held later in the night. The march, which
media claimed included some 50-100 anarchists, left Colonel
Summers park at about 8pm and grew to include the participation of others as it winded through the city. The march left
a trail of overturned dumpsters and broken windows in its
wake and dispersed with no arrests.
The following day, on March 23rd, another march was held
and attacked by motorcycle-mounted police. One participant
in particular, Joel Dow, was blamed by police as the cause of
all trouble and arrested. He was charged with two felonies
and two misdemeanors. He has been released as of printing
this issue.
Portland anarchists tried once more on March 29th and succeeded with another march against the police. As before,

the march grew larger as it progressed; nearly everyone they
passed were receptive and joined in. The march, 200 strong,
paused at the Justice Center and yelled for the prisoners in
the windows above them to which the prisoners responded
by flickering the lights and banging on the windows. 8 people were arrested throughout the course of the march and 4
police officers were injured.
The following morning members of the Northwest Police
Union awoke to find over $20,000 in damages dealt to their
headquarters. Someone had taken it upon themselves to
throw bricks through the windows as well as damaged computers and other items inside the office.
Shortly after the March 29th Portland march, a relatively liberal call for a "West Coast Solidarity Days of Action" was
circulated and prompted a series of anti-police actions on
April 8th and 9th. Olympia had an interesting march on the
night of April 8th that resulted in the arrest of 29 of its participants. In Oakland on April 8th, 200 people participated
in a civil disobedience where they stood around in the BART
station. This action stands in stark contrast to that of Nathaniel Riddick, who was shot by Oakland police two days
earlier after he allegedly attacked six police cruisers with a
hatchet and shotgun. Seattle had a short march April 9th
which ended in five arrests. On both days of action, Portland
occupied the intersection where police beat a man nearly to
death in 2006; he later died of his wounds in police custody.
In both actions, numerous leaflets were passed out and community meetings where held in regards to the police issue.
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tack on a Multnomah County Department of Corrections Building. Officers
responding to calls of breaking glass
and sounds of an explosion arrived to
find graffiti, shattered windows and
evidence that some type of burning or
explosive device had been used in the
area. Less than two weeks later, some
50 anarchists marched through Portland
attacking a military recruitment center,
two Wells Fargo bank branches, a Bank
of America branch and a Starbucks.

wanted to shout at the police, but also
to find our neighbors, to talk to the other folks in our community, to let them
know what happened and call them
down into the streets with us. To not
let them find out about this murder in
the sanitized commentary of the glowing screen but to meet them and cry out
to them, the rage and sadness plain in
our faces: we cannot live with what has
happened. We cannot allow this to go
on.

It is always exciting to hear individuals
revel together in their hatred of being
policed, especially when they can work
to complement each other in their individual revolt. While they are not without fault, there is certainly much to be
learned from these few actions.

The march left the park and headed
through a residential neighborhood,
interrupting the dead Monday night
silence of consumer-workers recovering from another day ripped from their
grasp. Chanting at the top of our lungs,
we encountered our own anger, our own
sense of power. And now one slogan to
unite us all: cops, pigs, murderers.

March 22nd:
Police murder in
Portland, anarchists
respond with vengeance
Communique regarding the event:
We don't give a fuck, the time is now.
When word spread that the Portland
police had just shot a man to death at
the Hoyt Arboretum, we knew we had
to make a choice: to allow ourselves
to be human, or to participate in our
own murders, to hide away in sleep and
the unfolding of a routine that ends, for
all of us, in death. It's a choice that has
been made for us so many times before:
by the media, by community leaders,
professional activists, bosses, teachers, parents, friends who do not push us
to confront this fear with them. We are
killing ourselves with so much swallowed rage.
Tonight, we would not go to sleep with
this sour feeling in our stomachs. Tonight, we gave a name to what we feel:
rage. This is how it started.
Within hours of word getting out, local
anarchists met in a park, and decided
we had to march on the police station.
Not the central precinct: that neighborhood would be dead at this hour. We

Many expected this march to be only
symbolic. Few were prepared for anything more. But we encountered a collective force that amplifies the individual rather than smothering each one of
us in the mass. The two who took the
initiative to drag a dumpster into the
street changed the history of this city.
This small sign of sabotage spread. We
all made it our own.
When the first little garbage containers
were brought into the road, a couple
people put them back on the sidewalk,
trying to clean up the march, to make
it respectable. They were confronted,
shouted at. This doesn’t send a message
they said. You can do that if you want,
but go somewhere else, they said. But
we have nowhere to go, except for the
spaces we violently reclaim. And our
message is unmistakable: we are angry,
and we are getting out of hand. People
continued to be uncontrollable, and
soon those who had appointed themselves the censors of our struggle saw
that it was they who were in the wrong
place. No one attempted to control their
participation. They were not allowed to
control ours.
Once we got on Burnside Avenue,
dumpsters were being turned over ev-

ery hundred feet, blocking both directions. Folks had scavenged rocks and
bottles and sticks and drums. One person had the foresight to bring a can of
spray paint, also changing the history
of our moment. We were no longer a
protest. We were vengeance.
When the crowd passed the first bank,
a few individuals erupted into action,
while others watched their backs.
The ATM got smashed. A window
got smashed. Rocks and bottles were
thrown. Sirens began ringing out behind us. A Starbucks appeared one
block ahead. A race: could we get there
before the pigs arrived? We won. More
windows broke.
When the police tried to get us on to
the sidewalk, they were shocked by the
intensity of rage they faced. Fuck the
police! Murderers! Their lights and sirens had no effect. Someone shoved a
dumpster into the lead cop car. They
were temporarily speechless.
Only when the cops outnumbered the
people did they try again, with some
pepper spray and brute force finally
succeeding to push us onto the sidewalk. But we were smart. We knew we
couldn't win a fight just then, and every chance we got we took the street
again. We didn't surrender: they had
to work for it. And never did we surrender our power over the mood of the
night. Louder than their sirens were
our ceaseless screams, our chants, focusing our range and wiping the arrogant smiles off the pigs faces. They
were visibly upset by the level of hatred
they encountered.
We got to the police station and yelled
at the line of police waiting there for
us, yelled at the media parasites standing by with their cameras, calling out
their complicity in police violence and
racism. Most of us didn't worry about
sending the proper message or appearing respectable. We expressed our rage
and the power of our analysis, our ability and willingness to take initiative and
change this world.
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The first TV news clips, ironically, were
the best we could have hoped for, but
we do not put our hope in the media.
We will communicate our critique of
the police to the rest of the city with
our protests, our fliers, our bodies,
our communiques. With graffiti and
smashed windows.
It should also be noted that the police
have not yet released the race of the
person killed. We don't know yet which
community is most affected by this
murder. We respond because police violence affects all of us, because we want
to show solidarity every time the State
executes someone. We know that racism is a critical feature of control in this
society, and we also believe we must
find ways to act responsibly as allies
to communities that are not our own.
But solidarity must be critical, and
it can only be practiced by those who
are struggling for their own freedom. It
is clear from tonight’s actions that we
fight against police violence because
we feel rage and sadness whenever they
kill someone.
We fight in solidarity with everyone else
who fights back. And by fighting, we are
remembering what it is like to be human.
In these moments when we surprise
ourselves, we catch little glimpses of
the world we fight for. Running down
the streets, stooping to pick up a rock,
we realize that in our hand we have
nothing less than a building block of
the future commune.
Our commune is the rage that spreads
across the city, setting little fires of
vengeance in the night. Our commune
is the determination that comes back
to the public eye the next day, meeting
in the open, not letting the rest of society forget this murder, not letting our
neighbors numb themselves with routine. Our commune rattles the bars of
our cages, and this noise is our warcry:
out into the streets.
March 29th: Portland

Third Time's the Charm; Portland Anarchists Take the Streets Against the
Police Once More:
Last week, Jack Dale Collins, a homeless man having a mental health crisis
was shot and murdered by the Portland
Police. Two months ago, Aaron Campbell, a suicidal black man grieving over
the death of his brother the same day,
was shot with beanbag guns, killed by a
shot in the back, and had dogs released
on his corpse.
Last week, hours after the second killing in two months, Portland anarchists gathered and marched through
the streets towards the East Police
Precinct; bank windows were broken,
neighbors came out of their houses and
talked to us, and the police scrambled
to respond to a spontaneous display of
rage.
The next day, even more people gathered in the park, seizing Hawthorne
and marching past bars and bike shops,
homes and hipster dives. Once again,
people poured out of their bars and
houses, watching the march and receiving fliers denouncing the presence of
police in our community. All were supportive; many joined the march, chanting "Cops! Pigs! Murderers!" and "Our
Passion for Freedom is Stronger Than
Their Prisons!"
Distrust and anger towards the police
is at an all-time high in Portland. The
civil trial for the 2006 police murder of
James Chasse, another unarmed man
in a mental health crisis, begins in two
months. In February, Black community
leaders stormed city hall and refused
to leave, demanding justice for Aaron
Campbell. In a recent poll, only 56%
of the population of Portland said that
they trust the police. Divided demographically, 67% of African Americans
and 82% of Hispanics do not trust the
police. The black weekly, The Skanner,
has published articles telling people
not to call the police if they are having
a mental health crisis.
The cracks in the facade of public

trust and acceptance of police are
showing, and widening. Yesterday, we
thrust a crowbar into those cracks and
wrenched them wide open.
The fliers were ubiquitous: "Enough is
Enough; Protect our Community, Protect Ourselves!" Tags have sprouted
around Portland in prominent locations: Fuck the Police; I Hate Police;
ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards). Yesterday, we gathered again, this time
downtown. The corporate media, shitting themselves over the potential for
violence, discovered the words "Black
Bloc" posted on Indymedia and showed
up in force. The pigs arrived before the
protesters: Riot police, mounted cops,
and tactical bike cops.
Flanked by police and the media, a
small trickle of people grew into a flood.
50, 60, 70 people in all black, plus another hundred or more who saw the fliers and, disgusted by police violence,
came out in support. Not even the freezing weather and persistent rain can
dampen our spirits. The police started
moving: lines on this street, a team on
that street, ready to swoop in and keep
the people out of the streets. Would we
ever get out of the park? Were the liberals correct, that we would alienate and
endanger all of the unprepared people
who joined the march?
The bloc tightened in the park, chanting. "No Justice, No Peace! Fuck The
Police!" "One Chant to Unite Us All:
Cops! Pigs! Murderers!" The others,
those "vulnerable attendees" consistently fetishized by liberals, joined in,
and chants rang out across the Park
Blocks. And then, off they went, running down the sidewalk, past the police
lines, and into the street, in a move that
would be repeated over and over again
during the four hour snake march that
followed: The bloc in the street, others
following on the sidewalk. Two hundred
people marched on the justice center,
and then past it, into the business district. Cracks spread across a Bank of
America window. The first incident of
"alienating, irresponsible violence,
and yet everyone followed; no one was
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alienated, everyone was focused on
their rage.
Over and over again: The march was
forced off the road by horses and motorcycles, pushed onto a sidewalk corner, and then took off running again,
leaving the pigs behind and seizing the
street again. To Portland State University! A fraction of the march split,
ran into PSU banging on doors, bring
students out of their ivory tower and
into the real world. Students gathered
at their windows, on their skywalks,
waving and joining the chants: "Cops!
Pigs! Murderers!" and "We Need Solidarity to End Police Brutality"
We left PSU, larger than when we arrived. Everywhere we went the march
grew; passersby joined us, cars honked
and handed out water bottles. Police
were visibly angry and afraid; they had
lost control of the march, and the city.
The rage in downtown Portland was
palpable; while helicopters circled,
sirens wailed, and bike cops bashed
people with their bikes, everyone who
wasn't a cop got a flier, nodded their
head, and shook their fist at the police.
Away from PSU, through a park,
through an alley, onto a street and
through a parking garage towards the
freeway. The pigs didn't like that, and
managed to hold us off the freeway, but
the march continued to move like a ballet of rage. It wasn't only the Black Bloc
in the streets anymore; when we had the
streets, everyone was in them. When we
didn't, we ran down sidewalks, backtracked, and shook off the police until
we could seize the streets again.
To the City Center, and Pioneer Square;
a young man, a passerby who wasn't in
the march is arrested. He is given jail
support info, and his five friends join
the march, newly pissed at the pigs.
Back to the Justice Center; it's dark
now, and we can see the lights in holding cells far above us. Again, we chant:
"Fire to the Prisons! Off the Pigs and
Free the Prisoners!" The lights in the
building flicker on and off in solidarity.
They can hear us, and we can see them.

A young woman I've never seen before,
who wasn't with us at the beginning, is
leading the chants now: "Our Passion
For Freedom Is Stronger Than Their
Prisons!" We linger in front of the Justice Center, making our arrested comrades aware of our presence. And then
we're off again, around the block in circles until we have an opening, and then
back onto the street and into downtown,
to the bars. People pour out of their
bars, stare out the windows of the restaurants. Someone holds a flier up to
the window; the occupants come to the
window, read the flier, and smile. Even
more people now; many of the original
faces are gone, but our numbers are the
same as before. A young woman is on
the phone with her friends: "I just got
hit by a cop! I'm in a riot in downtown
Portland--You should come protest!"
These aren't summit-hardened anarchists now, they are passersby who
hate the pigs. A woman in a wheelchair
shouts, over and over again: "Fuck the
Police! Get off our streets!" Another
new face leads a chant: "Whose Cops?
Not Ours!"
And so it goes, for four hours. The
march starts with one group of people,
ends with an entirely different population, but the message and the tactics
are the same. Fuck the police; These
are our streets. The crowd, tired and
wet and cold, slowly dissipates, but not
before 30 or so people block the Steel
Bridge and then march across it, slowing traffic and bringing their message
to the other side of the city.
Today, rest and court solidarity for our
arrested comrades. Everyone feels like
something has changed in Portland.
Anarchists, demoralized and ostracized since the liberal take-over of the
anti-war movement in Portland, have
come together again. Three spontaneous marches in a week, each one larger
than the last. Next week we meet again,
an assembly of anarchists learning
once again to trust each other, to work
together, to fight the police. An upcoming community forum about safety and
the police, with ex-Black Panthers,

radical social workers, and cop watchers. Another one in the works, discussing concrete alternatives to the police.
Murmurs of neighborhood assemblies,
of building alternatives to keep each
other safe and to get the pigs off the
block.
These marches were our call to those
who can hear: we are organizing ourselves, we are done waiting. We have
chosen to take sides within our context,
to exploit cracks and to fight the police
wherever we are. We constitute a force
against control; we seek to widen and
deepen this crisis, not to manage it.
Thursday, April 8:
Day of Action against the
police.
San Francisco radicals planned to occupy a BART platform, an action meant
to push for further accountability for
the execution of unarmed Oscar Grant
by BART police on New Years Day,
2009. At 4PM, demonstrators flooded
the Embarcadero Station platform and
chanted. Hundreds of flyers handed
out to commuters explained that there
were officers involved who had not
been investigated at all, and demanded
that BART police as an institution are
disbanded. As of this writing, no demonstrators have been arrested for the
BART action.
635 miles north, in Portland, the first
day of action was a road blockade at
NW 13th and Everett by anarchists
and other radicals. At 5PM, anarchists
rushed into the street in full black
bloc, quickly stretching caution tape
between the four corners and moving
pallets, planter boxes, dumpsters, and
newspaper boxes into the intersection
to strengthen their barricades. The intersection was chosen because it is historical to Portland. In 2006, Portland
Police beat James Chasse nearly to
death there. He suffered 16 broken ribs,
46 contusions, and multiple blows to
the head. Chasse, a houseless poet and
musician, died after being dragged into
the patrol car. The entire incident happened in front of an upscale restaurant
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where people were dining.

police.

Flyers were distributed about Chasse’s
death and anarchists held down the
intersection for an hour, as previously
planned. Demonstrators engaged with
customers of the same restaurant about
the lack of accountability surrounding
Chasse’s death. Corporate media noted
that the police had dispersed the demonstration. However, this reporters investigations indicate that the anarchists
arrived and left on their own time. After an announcement about an assembly the following day, they melted back
into the urban landscape. As of this
writing, no demonstrators have been
arrested for participating in the Road
Bloc.

About 100 people gather in front of
Seattle community college and begin
to march, snaking around Capitol Hill.
The march seemed to be made up of an
anarchist contingent, a houseless youth
contingent, and a more varied crowd of
demonstrators. The march was heavily
policed from the outset, and police officers violently prevented marchers from
taking the streets. After demonstrators
attempted to pull a dumpster out and
use it to protect themselves from the
police, five arrests occurred. The arrestees appeared to be injured during
the encounter. Only three of the five
were booked and the march dispersed
soon afterwards.

114 miles north. Olympia, Washington.
At 7PM, between 30 and 100 people
gathered in a parking lot. Many appeared to be anarchists, dressed entirely
in black with masks and gathered behind a banner that read, Jail the Cops,
Burn the Prisons. The march proceeded
towards the downtown area, occasionally erupting into militant action as
members of the black bloc broke bank
windows, spray painted anti-police slogans, and disrupted corporate media
coverage of their actions. Eventually,
29 demonstrators were corralled and arrested. Most were booked and released.
Two demonstrators were accused of attacking police officers, and two others
of attacking a corporate media journalist. They made their first court appearances on Friday afternoon.

145 miles south. Portland, Oregon. As
promised, the anarchists were back at
the notorious downtown intersection
at 5PM. This time, the police were not
caught off guard. Bike cops and mounted police lined the streets, outnumbering the demonstrators markedly. However, the same public call-out that had
stimulated police repression also invited many concerned members of the
public, including students, houseless
individuals, and parents. Flyers were
dispersed to passersby and diners at the
upscale restaurant explaining the Black
Bloc tactic. Fox News and the Portland
Police were disappointed when the
crowd gathered in a large circle, found a
facilitator, and proceeded to hold an intense discussion about the role of police
in their communities, alternatives to the
police, and the viability of different tactics of resistance. The assembly moved
a few blocks to a park after about an
hour, being joined by more families and
a few angry folks in opposition. People
spoke their minds, exchanged contact
info, and the action was over by 7PM.
Ending with one chant to unite us all:
Cops, Pigs, Murderers!

Police Commander Tor Bjornstad of
Olympia remarked, “it may be related
to similar protests in Portland, Oregon”. Call-outs in the weeks leading
up to the Days of Action and communiques received later are open about
the network of anarchist organizing.
The solidarity actions took form all
along the West Coast. Corporate media
coverage is increasingly aware of the
solidarity implied by the simultaneous
Days of Action.
Friday, April 9th:
Day of action against the

The successes and failures of individual
actions aside, we must count it as a victory that anarchists and other radicals
were able to coordinate simultaneous
actions in several cities. Widespread
resistance indicates a widespread prob-

lem, which lends credence to the idea
that police violence is not a few bad
apples, it is a poisonous tree that must
be uprooted.
Besides proving the ability of anarchists to coordinate nationally, this past
few weeks of actions has began to hint
at the power of those in opposition to
the state. Corporate media has implicated fear at the reactions of anarchist
response to continual police murder
proving that they are becoming a legitimate threat. Not only in their ability to attack the state, but also to create
healthy alternatives outside of it.
As of this writing, another man has
been killed by police this weekend in
Cornelius, Oregon. Based on initial
information, it seems that the circumstances of his death were similar to the
James Chasse murder. More actions
are being planned. Will the fledgling
network of West Coast resistance grow
and respond to the constant threat of
police murder? Only time will tell.
April 12: Anarchists
Smash "Community
Corrections" Center
Excerpt from communique:
We smashed your "community corrections" center. We smashed it to send a
message. Our message is that all cops
are murderers and all prison is torture...
Allow us to elaborate: though the antipolice movement may use individual
instances of murder with guns, tasers, and pepper spray as catalysts for
revolution, we hold every cop or copsupporter culpable. This is because on
a daily basis cops are killing people
slowly, with handcuffs and pens; killing
them 5, 10, 20 years at a time but killing them still the same. ..
We would also like to take this moment
to encourage day-activists to try their
hand at some nighttime missions. You'll
find protests aren't always necessary
to strike a blow, and you'll feel more
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refreshed and invigorated in your daytime endeavors...
For a free and equitable society.
For anarchy.
Until We Win: West Coast Solidarity
Emerges in Response to Police Violence
On March 22, a Portland police officer
shot and killed a mentally ill houseless man at Hoyt Arboretum. Jack Dale
Collins was an important figure in the
Portland houseless community, known
and loved by many. His killer, Chris
Walters, responded to a call about a
drunk transient, of which Collins was
neither, and shot him four times within
three minutes.
This occurred around 3:00 PM. Within
five hours, about fifty people had gathered in a public park on the east side to
discuss strategic reaction to the second
police murder this year. A spontaneous
march to the Burnside precinct was
lively and militant in nature. The same
scene was repeated the following evening.
The following days were filled with a
diversity of tactics in resistance to state
and police violence. Organizations like
Everyday People, who formed in the
aftermath of the Aaron Campbell shooting, pursued reform along legal lines as
they had before. Churches discussed
community assemblies and planned
speaking engagements with Jesse Jackson. The Portland anarchist community, which has been notoriously quiet for
a few years, has exploded into action.
This seems to be indicative of a larger
trend within the North American anarchist space. For several years, anarchists have been turned inward, creating a public face of the occasional
animal or earth liberation communique
and a whole lot of punk shows. Popular ideas seem to be moving to a place
of open anarchist identification within
larger communities, with dual focuses
on insurrection against the state and
solidarity-building projects within

communities.
Anarchists and other radicals in Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Olympia picked up the banner of anti-police
sentiment bravely after the March 29
march in Portland received much corporate coverage as a riot. Friends of
friends of friends exist in every major
city. People were talking.
Within a few days, a call-out occurred
for West Coast days of solidarity on
April 8th and 9th. It is unknown which
city first made the call. Pre-existing relationships between anarchists of different cities were used to coordinate
action, as well as independent media
web sites such as Portland Indymedia
and Indybay.
In Modesto, CA an action in solidarity
with anti-police resistance was claimed
anonymously online:
It seems the local Sheriff's Department, when not getting slapped with
fat lawsuits for sexual harassment
or getting their own guns stolen from
under their pig noses at the local
Honor Farm, came upon a slow night
in Modesto several days ago. Instead
of doing what most of us do while at
work during a slow day, (nothing), they
decided to "make the most of it" and
went down to 9th Street and arrested
several sex workers after waiting for
various John's to take them over to motels. More sickening, the Modesto Bee
printed the names of these people in
their disgusting corporate publication,
further humiliating them and vindicating the police in their story.
Sex workers, like all workers, sell their
labor for wages. As women in a patriarchal society, they face attacks from
customers and often from police. The
same system which seeks to criminalise
them is the same force that shut down
production at the Modesto Bee building
itself, and threatens people across the
Central Valley. The police, the protectors of the rich. The media, their mouth
piece. Fuck you all. 	

sumthing, knowing that hopefully not
being able to collect money from people that buy your horrible publication
will be a thorn in your side. In total, 10
newspaper boxes were sabotaged last
week. These actions are easy. They are
simple to reproduce. Fuck the Modesto
Bee, from it's ongoing layoffs and horrible wages, to it's boss and cop loving
content. We up in yo honey pot, what?!
Against patriarchy and the police!
Destroy capitalism!
- Bee Killaz
May 4th:
Anarchists claim responsibility for attacking a local coffee shop known to be
a hangout spot for the Portland police
department:
The NE Portland Police favorite hangout, the Starbucks on 15th and Fremont
lost a little bit of its ambiance last night.
Namely every single window we could
reach got smashed out. Starbucks was
chosen for a myriad of reasons: their
union-busting activity, the exploitation of indigenous community of coffee
growers, their support for neo-liberal
trade policies, just to name a few. This
location in particular was chosen because every time we pass by it, it's filled
to the brim with Portland Police, who
are still fucking murderers, in case you
forgot.
You were working yourselves up to predict what we were going to do on Mayday, but we weren't even there. May
4th, the day of the Haymarket bombing,
is the day we chose to attack. Just consider yourselves lucky, that you got off
a lot easier then some of your predecessors.	
No peace for the capitalists,
No lattes for the cops!
-Anarchist Glazier Collective

With super glue, with gave you a little
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DISASTER
IN
HAITI
AND
CHILE:
UNDERSTANDING THE SITUATIONS FROM A REVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE

“The wild, spreading interruption of social activity suddenly tears away the blanket of ideology, revealing
the real balance of strength. The State then shows itself in its true colors—the political organization of
passivity. Ideology on one side, fantasy on the other, expose their material weight. The exploited simply discover the strength they have always had, putting an end to the illusion that society reproduces itself alone.”
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“Natural disasters expose two things
about a society. One of which is the vulnerability of its structuring. Another is
its social relations; how they exist, how
they are formed, and who is who, comes
to the surface when there is not a stabile or normal regulation of movement
in times of “natural tragedy”.
As our relationships are mediated by
the same social structures we accept
as reality, natural disasters provide
evidence to question this reality, as they
force its very fragile nature to come to
the surface.”

S

ince our last issue,
two natural disasters have happened
in Haiti and Chile.
An earthquake hit
Haiti on Tuesday,
January 12th, 2010,
leaving what the
government claims was 230,000 dead,
300,000 injured, and 1,000,000 without
homes. Considering Haiti was already
recognized as the poorest country in the
western hemisphere, this wasn’t helpful
to anyone. Many countries (and celebrities) responded to the tragedy, considering Haiti was now simply too tragic
to ignore. The United Nations ended
the “emergency” part of the “emergency” response roughly ten days after the
original quake.
A natural disaster also hit Chile. An
earthquake producing a devastating
tsunami that plundered multiple towns,
killing between 486 and 804 (confusing estimates produced by the Chilean
state), and left 93% of the population
without electricity for days. Chilean
authorities had to maintain and regulate
order by sending the military and police
forces into the most “effected” areas.
As Chile was obviously not nearly as
devastating in terms of statistics, we
are interested in reviewing both events.
What we want to review is the collective response of proletarian communities most affected by the events, and the
response by Haitian, Chilean, and “International” (first world) governments.

US soldiers enter Haiti, greeting Haitians with assault rifles.

Haiti:
Against humanitarianism.
Against the deception of political aid.
Against the logic of development.
Chile is a place that has been mentioned in many issues of this magazine due to our interest in the Mapuche indigenous struggle that has been
active and engaged since the Spanish
invaded. Haiti on the other hand has
not. The current state of Haiti, and
the social conflict manifested before
and after the recent earth quake can
be more understood by reviewing the
origins of how Haiti became what it is
considered today.
As Chile is revered as one of South
America’s more “developed” countries, Haiti is simply considered
fucked, permanently. But as unlucky
as Haiti has been, the conditions of
Haiti, have been calculated by the
same humanitarian militaries “helping them today”.
Haiti was first incorporated into the
“global” world during Columbus’s

first voyage, where it was claimed by
Spain, even though it is estimated that
400 to 500,000 Taino people were already inhabiting the land. Columbus
heard that the land was rich in gold,
so a crew of 40 men set up a fortress
to plunder the land for gold. When
Columbus returned, all his men were
dead (and their blood was everywhere) and the fortress burnt down.
When it became clear that the Taino
people were not interested in the plans
Spain had for the land, Columbus returned with 1200 settlers, whom enforced a law demanding that every
Taino person over 14 years of age had
to help gather gold for Spain and the
settlers who represented it. Anyone
who refuses to comply had their hands
cut off and was left to bleed to death.
On 1511, four-hundred Taino people
left for Cuba to warn of Spanish plans
for conquest. They explained that
gold was the Spaniard’s god, and to
have no tolerance for it. The native
people of Cuba fought off Spanish
conquest in the form of Guerilla War
for roughly a year, until one of the
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main people leading the struggle was
burnt alive. The Taino people also kept
struggle alive in Haiti, forcing Spain to
form a “Treaty”. While the Treaty may
have eased the hand cutting and bleeding to death techniques of the Spanish,
the Spaniards were forced to conduct
the very European tradition of “passive genocide”. Thirty years after the
treaty of 1512, approximately 90% of
the Taino people were either killed by
disease introduced by Spanish settlers,
or worked to death in Spanish Gold
Mines. As almost their entire population quickly depleted, the Spanish began to bring Africans from the slave
trade in to replace them.
At this point, the few Taino people
left and escaped slaves only discovered freedom by hiding together in the
mountains. These free communities,
called “Maroon” communities continued Haiti’s tradition of resistance
against Spanish conquest. They would
conduct offensives on Plantation owners and Spanish settlement, while also
freeing slaves and helping the few
Taino people left to safety. By the
30’s, Plantation owners were forced to
travel with armed groups, as the “Maroon” communities continued to strike
fear into their cold hearts. As conflicts
arose over European colonialism in the
American mainland, Haiti became less
of interest to Spanish conquest. As settlements depleted, many workers left
the mines, and a very divided and tense
society was left to exist. The population was primarily Taino, African, and
Spanish.
In 1697 Haiti caught Spain’s eye again
as the French became interested in Haiti’s natural resources. After fighting a
small war over it, the part claimed by
France was known as Saint-Domingue.
At first 30,000 French settlers came
to the land. Haiti became responsible
for a third of the world’s sugar, coffee, rum, cotton and indigo production.
With the need for more and more production rose the need for more slaves.
Thirty thousand new slaves a year were
brought to Haiti. While the Taino people continued to deplete, Haiti’s popu-

lation became dominated primarily by
African slaves, a minority of wealthy
French settlers, and what we read as
‘mulattoes’ (the children of raped African slaves). These ‘mulattoes’ were
recognized as “people” to the European
settlers, they were even entitled to own
their own slaves.
By 1789, it was recorded that Haiti’s
population consisted of 500,000 Africans and 40,000 French settlers. Following the French Revolution, those returning from revolutionary France were
considerably less accepting of Haiti as
a colony. Those who tried to challenge
Haiti’s social make up were at that time
made an example of by attaching all
their limbs to a giant wheel, beating
them with hammers until they bleed to
death. The new “revolutionary” sentiment in France produced many sympathizers with struggles against the
French settlements in Haiti. Although
rumors of France “abolishing slavery”
arose, due to a new lack of resources
from fighting the British and Spanish
in the American main lands, the French
chose to send military troops to try
and repress consistent black guerilla
groups, attempting to establish a black
republic.
Around the late 1800s, a 1/3 of what
now is Haiti was claimed as Black Republican territory. After negotiations,
the French compromised with Black
Republicans, freeing 7,000 slaves, in
exchange for help fighting off the “British and Spanish”. In 1794, an assembly
in France decided to “abolish slavery”
in Haiti, as well as the entirety of the
“French empire”. In 1801 the British
were defeated in an attempt to conquer
Haiti again. In 1802 Napoleon tried to
conquer Haiti again, but was also defeated, even with the new America’s
financial backing. The United States
was specifically interested destroying
Haiti’s Black Republic. They wanted
no evidence of a slave rebellion leading
to a slave created Republic, as slavery
was a booming force for American production.
Napoleon determined that 30,000 Af-

ricans needed to die in order to re-impose slavery. As his troops murdered
and burnt African communities, 50,000
French soldiers were killed by Haitians
resisting colonialism. White settlements were also destroyed and only
those white settlers who fought with
the African or native resistance to the
French were spared their livelihood.
Although Haitian slaves continued to
rebel against slavery, European economic interests and a deteriorating
and divided land forced the now “free
slaves” to tolerating the same conditions, but now with a wage. While a
now wage labor based Haitian society
eased tension, the French over time
witnessed large losses in profit from the
loss of slavery. In 1825, the French sent
a military invasion to Haiti demanding
that the Haitian people must pay a fee
to the French state to continue its “independence”. This fee was paid until
1947; a fee that the Haitian government
was forced to borrow money from the
United States to pay.
Haiti was left with a Plantation type society, with very intense class division.
Haiti was not recognized by the United
States as an independent nation until
1862, when the north’s military during
the civil war needed Haitian fighters to
aid in the so called war over slavery.
The United States after concluding its
civil war (and exploiting Haitians for
their obviously courageous fighting
skills) it began sending war ships and
marines to Haiti sponsoring a sympathetic military government. Although
the government was quickly overthrown during a peasant insurrection
of 1914. After this uprising, the United
States entered Haiti in full force, occupying Haiti for 20 years, killing roughly
15,000 Haitian people while there. As
the peasant uprising called for an end
to Haiti’s hyper-capitalist structure, the
United States used its military power to
legalize foreign control of purchased
Haitian territory. While slavery at this
point was appropriated into wage labor,
Haiti was rich in resources, and foreign
business purchased as much of Haiti as
it could. With this, many inhabiting
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the land were forced to integrate into
European business models, and work
on the same plantations and under the
same conditions they at one time were
not paid for. Although US forces publicly left Haiti in 1934, it remained formally in charge of its foreign finances
until 1947.
The US left a sympathetic Haitian government that favored foreign business
and the stratified plantation model of
Haiti’s capitalist society. While Haiti
was rich in enough natural resources to
feed themselves, European conquest,
helped to calculate and produce a suicidal society, that produced for everyone but themselves. School systems
and all business in Haiti are privatized,
and the class division is almost completely rooted in government and military power (as it is everywhere). With a
starving and supremely divided society,
uprisings and coups in Haiti have been
frequent. Governments fell and arose
very often, sometimes in simply days.
If popular uprisings occurred, that
threatened acceptance of foreign business interests, International business
and primarily American military aid
was granted to specific Haitian forces
interested in retaining Haiti as a colonized people. In the early 90’s, blockades were even funded by a Texaco oil
company, and approved by the Bush
and Clinton administration. This blockade was one of many business methods
used to keep Haiti in compliance with
foreign demands. With this “blockade”,
private forces were hired by Texaco
Oil to capture and return fleeing Haitian refugees to Haiti, so work forces
would not deteriorate. As popular social struggles began to deteriorate in the
Mid-90s, Haiti was left with a business
approved and American sympathetic
government; although anti-business
and American tension continued to remain an underlying tension in Haitian
society and politics.
In 2000 as a populist government began to come into power, America began
cutting social funds, and funding opposing political parties to take military
power against populist coups. Without

a government, Haitian people feared recolonization. With a history of rebellion against slavery and different forms
of colonialism, a popular government
meant a government that spoke rhetoric
of people, as opposed to simply communicated that they did not give a fuck.
After the elections of 2000, the so
called popular administration demanded that France pay back 21 billion dollars due to the slavery abolition taxed
imposed on Haiti for well over a 100
years. At the same time, one of Haiti’s
largest gangs was receiving financial
backing by the United States to help become a military coup force. The gang
became known to many as two things:
“The Cannibal Army” to some, and the
“National Revolutionary Front for the
Liberation of Haiti” to others. By 2006
the group with American aid took control of most of Haiti’s major cities; not
in the form of popular insurrection, but
through military operations and intimidation. After negotiation attempts with
the NRFLH and the United States, the
administration still refused to comply
with their main request of privatizing
Haiti for foreign business. In 2006
the main political leader of Haiti was
kidnapped by American marine special
forces and moved to Africa where he
was arrested.
At this point it was feasible to rationalize Haiti as a nation in a state of emergency, allowing the United States to enter and occupy without criticism from
modern politics. Raids, curfews, eviction, and military supervision is what
Haiti was met with after the collapse
of the most recent popular government.
Helping to preserve a comfortable land
for foreign business, the United States
also helped to maintain Haiti as the
poorest nation in the western world.
With peace declared by international
militaries, Haiti’s average yearly income was 60 dollars a year as of 2006.
While Haiti appears to have been a
child of Eurocentric colonialism, it at
the same time has consistently refused
to tolerate such a position. With a rich
history of revolt, both as slaves and

peasants, Haiti has shattered the colonial utopian vision Europe has tried to
turn it into since it first “discovered it”.
The majority of Haiti’s debt is due to
the Western world loaning them money
to deal with their assaults. The majority of Haiti’s lack of resources is due
to the Western world’s expropriation of
them.
Like the cheap flight deals or quickly
evicted neighborhoods of New Orleans after Katrina, it is not surprising the interest the United States has
taken in helping Haiti. The loss of
homes, and the severe crisis that only
became more apparent after the Earth
quake will very likely enable a more
dependent relationship on the United
States by the Haitian people. While the
Leftists fetishize new governments by
vanguardist Haitian political forces,
or while bourgeoisie liberals and the
mainstream media donate to the salaries of the Red Cross organization or
Lady Gaga, every dollar will only help
to keep alive a new colonial work force,
and clean up land for more production.
The arrogance and stupidity of the first
world’s charitable disgusts us.
Haiti is unique in its traditions of courage and consistent relentlessness when
resisting foreign military attempts to
rule. We hope such a tradition continues, especially before this vulnerable
time, and prevents western opportunity
to try and conquer this small island
even more so.
Chile:
When the lines are quickly drawn.
As Chile is seen being South America’s
most developed country, it is notorious for an incredibly divided society.
While the wealthy or political elite of
Chile are incredibly capable of reaching out to other first world countries for
respect and support, histories of proletarian and native struggle continue to
pose a threat to Chile’s international
appearance.
Most likely due to our unfortunate
political blinders we have very little
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Chilean man being arrested for stealing baby diapers after earthquake.

connection with an understanding of
social struggles in Haiti today, but
a relatively in-depth knowledge of
Chile’s. We are weary of most Haitian
“liberation” groups, considering many
stem from authoritarian leftist intentions. Whether it is our vested interest
in the Mapuche or Anarchist struggles
in Chile, we have heard much about
the post-disaster social climate beyond
the politics or spectacle of tragedy presented to us by the mainstream media.
Similarly to the opportunism shown
both historically and recently by foreign colonial forces in the case of
Haiti, the spontaneous vulnerability
imposed onto Chile’s dispossessed and
excluded has shown the state and capital’s regulation process during times of
tragedy very well. It has also exposed
everyday social divisions, and the potentialities of the bonds that can come
out of them, when the lines are quickly
drawn. For whatever reason, urban geography in a capitalist society seems
to be developed in a way where when

natural disasters hit, those who can
afford to be effected the least, end up
being effected most. While the levees
liquidated New Orleans’ 9th ward, the
Chilean tsunami caused by this most
recent earthquake toppled mostly poor
or shanty communities, while the
wealthy experienced the mountain’s
comforts.

climate of Chile and the implications
the author drew from the experience:

We had an opportunity to view footage
of the popular response to the effects
of the earthquake. We saw groups
of people helping one another, collectively negating their typical ways
of consumption, and without concern
for the consequence, taking what was
needed, or in some cases what was desired. While the military further divided people and sympathizers, the media
classified the good and bad looters to
keep people apart, while the police arrested both. Curfews and military rule
were needed across the country.

Greetings international comrades. We
are facing difficult times in Chile after
the recent earthquake. In the most impacted areas of the country, people are
taking to the streets and looting. We
support these actions. We only hope to
see this practice generalized. The natural disaster is nothing compared to the
violence that capital brings to us day
by day. Today, we loot capital to meet
our basic needs after a natural disaster.
Tomorrow, we must loot capital to destroy a larger disaster: capital and its
guardian, the state.

Below is a call out posted online after
the earth quake describing the social

After accumulating tension for 25
years, the tectonic plates where the

Earthquake in Chile:
Turning the Class
Society into Ruins and
Rubble
By Anonymous//
Found on March 1st, 2010

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territory called Chile is located released
an enormous amount of energy, which
for humans amounts to an earthquake,
a natural disaster. We do not live in just
any society, but instead capitalism, the
most extreme and concentrated form of
class society. Disasters may very well
come from natural forces. Their effects
are not natural, but instead social.
The social disaster, which in itself constitutes the function of the commercial
economy, becomes evident in these
cases. It is not the homes of the bourgeoisie that crack and fall. It is not the
families of the bourgeoisie that are left
without basic needs. It is not our masters that remain out of communication,
and basically without possibility to
transport themselves in the shitty cities
where the public transportation plays a
disciplined role and transports human
merchandise.
Urbanism is not innocent. The effects
of the earthquake are indebted to conscious decisions of a certain section of
industry—which the political powers
accommodate as good class representatives—and the deliberate regulations
and plans of the state. They are responsible for the fact that many proletarians
have been literally left with only the
clothes on their back.
While the business owners responsible for the structural failure and collapse of buildings recently constructed
just might receive some judgment and
fines in civil courts, the proletarians
are treated as delinquents with police
repression. The media criminalizes
the proletarians breaking from the normal roles that the state reinforces, as
they expropriate the merchandise that
all salaried people produce directly
and indirectly. How long will we just
sleep, ride the bus, and watch television, while we are increasing the value
of capital? Everyone interviewed by
the media has said that the most important thing is life, and all of the material
things can be replaced. This is entirely
logical. It is justified and necessary that
we reclaim our lives through the direct
appropriation of goods in the supermar-

kets, pharmacies, and other temples of
commercial society.
The repressive apparatus of the state
is at the point of being overwhelmed
by the mass of people dedicated to
the expropriation of the expropriators.
In the city of Concepción, they have
been obligated to tolerate a certain
level of looting. The dogs of the bourgeois press have invented new divisive
lines between people who appropriate products of basic need and people
who empowered themselves to other
types of “unnecessary” products. Without realizing it, they draw attention to
the distinction between real human
needs—that capital systematically ignores—and the superfluous well-being
of which the creation, promotion, and
distribution uselessly require the energies of countless proletarians. If this
distinction is real, we insist that in the
moment of crisis and collective action,
this is not of importance. The proletarians dedicated to expropriation have
the perfect right to loot from capital a
share of the appreciation that they estimate imperative to directly satisfy their
needs and desire.
The most painful spectacle is the good
citizens that long for the businesses to
open their doors to be able to spend
money and buy merchandise, because
they do not want to “steal.” What happened to the wise saying in popular
culture that states, “the thief who steals
from the thief receives 100 years of
pardon?”
Instead of using all of their abilities
to rescue victims, the armed forces
shows it's clumsiness and bad faith.
The armed forces communicated that
there was no risk of tidal waves at the
very same moment that they were occurring. The armed forces wants to repress the looters. They have sent a large
amount of their forces to seek and recapture people who, being a part of the
55,000 prisoners in Chile, have taken
advantage of the confusion and structural damages in order to escape from
the dungeons of the state. Through this
effort, the Chilean state has increased

the number of earthquake victims with
some comrades that have been executed in the streets simply for being faithful to their idea of freedom.
In this moment, we say to the proletarian anti-capitalists that we should
strengthen our communication networks and mutual aid. We will not tire
in bringing attention to the profoundly
social nature of the disaster, participating directly in the activities that help
create communities in struggle, appropriating use value, and attacking the
state and capital. From a historic perspective, we know that, just like in the
earth, social fabric is building tension
that must bring us to a great and imminent insurrection. It is social seismology, which is to say, class struggle.
Capitalism is the catastrophe!
Long live the looting and direct action
against the state and capital!
Reclaiming our lives, preparing the
next insurrection!
Editor’s Conclusion:
We in some ways originally wrote this
piece simply because of all the sudden
attention the media or first world gave
to both tragedies.
After doing research, and searching
for an understanding of how to view
both situations from a revolutionary
perspective (that does not compromise
to conditional circumstances of an imposed reality, or a logic of worse or better). In both events, more so the social
effects as opposed to the natural disasters themselves, have helped to further
expose the tragedy of global capital,
while at the same time, exposing our
popular discontent with it, and potentiality of unifying in struggle to liquidate
it in its entirety, once the appearance is
simply too dreadful.
As charities, celebrities, or peers challenge a revolutionary understanding
of the situation, it is important for us
to understand that the situation stems
from the same totality we are revolting
against.
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REGARDING RECENT
EVENTS IN GREECE

You know, death doesn’t exist, he said to her.
I know, yes, now that I’m dead, she answered.
-Yannis Ritsos

“There will be blood”...

A

warning from PASOK’s Minister of
Labor Mr. Lamberdos this past
December, as he
sought resignation
from his position,
hoping to escape
any responsibility for the inevitable
violence he correctly prophesized to
visit greece in the spring months. In
the time to come, the ruling order
would respond to the global crisis and
the resultant debt devastating the greek
economy by inflicting an array of austerity measures and structural adjustments onto a amorphous population,
shaped by a rich legacy of struggle, into
a firm and defiant opposition. As resistance to the popular assault mounted
and the refusal to passively submit to
the economic disciplining spread, contradictory interests would give way to a
clearly foreseeable conflict. Lines were
drawn, threats would be enacted, gaping wounds were surely to be ripped

open, and despite the desperate maneuvers Lamberdos employed as an
attempt evade any accountability, he
and his fellow agents of the State failed
to completely cover their tracks, to
destroy all the culpable evidence, and
their fingerprints, left in smears of red,
stained the vernal pages of the calendar. Before the equinox had arrived,
the blood had already begun to pour.
By its nature, the struggle always exceeds the reformist demands that bring
it to the surface and, far surpassing a
mere defense against government/
IMF/EU economic terrorism, the recent class antagonism gave birth to life
in a world which promulgates death.
This newfound agency bloomed into a
search to capture being itself, to unify
the shattered existence relegated by a
society thriving on the production of
morbidity. To reestablish normal profit
accumulation, to continue to drain life
and kill the dead, the blossoms would
have to be stomped out and thus power
activated sovereignty’s biased disposition towards murder. Underneath its

various insidious disguises, the unbridled force of law, with bombs, bullets,
and fire, took five victims.
With these executions, the State made
its message clear: “Either follow orders
or expose yourself to violence and be
cast into the annals of history.” But for
us, those we lost are never relegated to
the past and history is constantly reawakened in the present. When war
erupts in the social theatre, former time
swells up in the now and the departed
return to even the scores, to right the
wrongs, and join us again in our march
towards the final goal. If history of the
oppressed teaches us anything, it’s to
move forward while unwaveringly eyeing what lay behind, to revive all who
were struck down, and to mourn our
dead only in the form of vengeance.
In Memory of
Paraskeui Zoulia,
Aggeliki Papathanasopoulou
and Epameinondas Tsakalis.
The day before May 5th, the scheduled
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date for the national general strike, the
boss of Marfin bank, Mr. Vgenopoulos, sent an email to the entire staff
threatening to lay off anyone participating in the day of action. Forcing
the bank’s workers to scab, Vgenopoulos then locked his employees in the
upper floors of the building. Outside
of the bank, a 200,000 person protest
raged throughout the center of Athens
and demonstrators attempted to storm
parliament, with hopes of disrupting
the vote on austerity legislation, only
to be repelled from the steps of the entrance by riot police firing tear gas and
concussion grenades. As the protest
march retreated from the parliament
and surged throughout the center, each
bourgeoisie shop and bank in its path
was torched. In the midst of the street
clashes, the Marfin Bank was set ablaze
with its staff trapped by their boss on
the top floors. Once aware of the people inside the building, protestors tried
to extinguish the fire but to no avail.
Overcome by the smoke, three of the
bank’s workers, one being four months
pregnant, Zoulia, Papathanasopoulou,
and Tsakalis died of suffocation.
All the details surrounding their deaths
are, at this moment, unclear. But what
is certain was that Vgenopoulos, fully
aware closed banks are often prime
targets for angry demonstrators, did
hide the workers on the upper levels
with hopes of passing off the bank as
out of business for the strike and then
proceeded to lock the workers in the
offices of the building not up to fire
codes. Fascists, who have already begun their strategy of tension in Greece
and are now prone to random acts of
violence, were, in fact, seen infiltrating the demonstration. In this instance,
the parastate thugs may or may not be
the culprits, but the boss can’t hide the
blood on his hands (and three fingers).
Gestures like beating of the president of
PASOK’s GSEE union, Panagopoulos,
during the March 5th demonstration
and the adoption of revolutionary tactics by previously stabilized, and consequently, pacified workers throughout
the strike waves show glimpses of an

emancipatory shedding of their constrictive union representation, but the
death of the three bank employees will,
of course, be used by the bourgeoisie media and government to morally
problematize the reemergence of selforganized violence. Indeed, Power will
intend to capitalize off the tragedy to
condemn all violence, whether pure or
law creating, as backwards and redirect
rage away from its appropriate expression to instead promote social peace
and normalcy. Ironically, those responsible for murder will use the sympathy
for their very own victims to divert
popular discontent with structural adjustments back into the empty displays
of revolt typical of organized labor.
In Memory of
Hamidullah Najafi
Respectfully waiting for the strikes and
protests in the beginning of the month
of March to end, a spring urban guerrilla
offensive was then launched in Athens
as the street actions from demonstrators
began to quiet down. Following an extended period of silence after a winter
wave of clandestine attacks, the urban
guerrilla once again made its nocturnal
presence known and, within a span of
48 hours, three carefully selected targets were obliterated by highly-sophisticated explosives. For a brief moment,
fans wondered and detractors speculated before the Conspiracy of Cells
of Fire claimed responsibility for the
stunning trifecta in an equally brilliant
communiqué, which clearly distinguished the nihilist splinter cell as the
best revolutionary theoretical-practical
group in the world today.
The first, and most impressive, explosion left a crater in the office of the fascist group, Golden Dawn, completely
destroying the premises and the subsequent communiqué described the
para-statist neo-Nazi group’s decades
long history of terrorizing immigrants,
leftists, and revolutionaries and their
organizational funding by the greek
secret services. The second blast was
detonated in the Police Directorship
for Immigrants, a government office

where the undocumented are forced
to wait for hours in a line outside the
building to receive papers, where riot
police and fascists often brutalize the
exposed migrants while they stand in
the queue. The final explosion demolished the house of the vice-president of
the greek-pakistani union and the Cells
of Fire’s claim of responsibility details
the union’s role in recuperating and, at
times even, violent repressing pakistani
immigrant’s self-directed resistance
in greece. The statement the Cells of
Fire released after the attacks explains
the combatant’s new strategy for urban
guerrilla warfare:
“[During the last two years]… the new
urban guerilla, organized with antiauthoritarian [anarchist] infrastructures,
with intense antisocial criticism, with
permanent mobility, with experiential style and direct speech, with the
revolution first and always, with its
“strength”, but also with its “errors”,
made an appearance.
The new conditions of social life in the
metropolis require the mapping out of
a new strategy, the invention of a new
revolutionary thought and action. This
will help us to review our short, but
comprehensive experiences. Thus, we
are convinced that an extensive conversation between the new revolutionary
forces should be opened pertaining to
the upgrade of this new way thinking,
on flexible strategies and the “revelation” of the unlimited possibilities that
we have.”
On March, 28th, only days after the
dazzling threefold assault by the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a 15 year oldboy from afghanistan, Hamidullah
Najafi recovered a bag outside of the
prestigious Greek Company for Business Management. Upon showing the
bag to his mother and sister, the bomb
concealed within the bag went off in
Najafi’s hands killing him instantly and
blinding his younger sister. The bourgeoisie media and the State, without
any substantial evidence, were quick to
point fingers at the Cells of Fire and,
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for their participation in Revolutionary Struggle and declared Lambros
Foundas their comrade in action.
Also like the slogan yelled during
the protest march to pay tribute to
the fallen insurgent: “Lambros is one
of us!” From what little is known of
Foundas’s life and death, its obvious that the murdered revolutionary
ought to be honored with both words
and deeds.
This article is dedicated to the memory of Lambros Foundas and may the
insurrectionary flames dry our tears.
His picture is below.

ploited to criminalize revolutionary
violence. The elite guerrilla group
quickly released a statement denying
any involvement in the killing, detailing the immense precautions they
take before an attack to avoid any accidents, and demanded that the perpetrators own up to their actions. Later,
it was revealed that a fascist group had
claimed responsibility for the bomb
and had began a State-sponsored strategy of tension, similar to the Piazza
Fontana bombing in italy, to terrorize
a country moving towards revolutionary war.
A Revolutionary
Farewell to Lambros Foundas
According to the half-truths disseminated by the State and its servile
journalists, Lambros Foundas and an
unidentified comrade were stopped
by the greek police while trying to
steal a car. From the distorted “official” reports, we can at least be sure
that the courageous Foundas refused
to resign himself to arrest and submit without a gallant response to the
police’s gunfire. Foundas heroically
sent a volley of bullets back at the
swine but sadly he missed his mark
and the 35 year-old was killed by police on the morning of March 10th in
a suburb of Athens.

A month after the assassination of
Foundas, six anarchists were arrested
by greek anti-terrorism police and
charged with membership in the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary
Struggle. Since 2003, Revolutionary
Struggle has claimed responsibility
for a number of explosive attacks on
government buildings, police stations,
and banks and the group’s impressive
history includes a remarkable rocket
launcher attack on the United States
Embassy in Athens. Not averse to
taking the worthless lives of police officers, in both 2007 and 2008, Revolutionary Struggle fired shots at the
swine with an MP5 machine gun.
In a 16-page letter, three of the six arrested claimed political responsibility

“The new
conditions
of social
life in the
metropolis
require the
mapping out
of a new
strategy,
the invention
of a new
revolutionary
thought and
action.”

2

#1:
THE
ANGRY
BRIGADE
“Life is so boring there is nothing
to do except spend all our wages
on the latest skirt or shirt. Brothers
and Sisters, what are your real desires? Sit in the drugstore, look distant, empty, bored, drinking some
tasteless coffee?
Or perhaps, blow it up, or burn it
down.”

HISTORIES

BLAST FROM THE PAST:

IN

-THE ANGRY BRIGADE
-SCOTT SCURLOCK

AGITATION

Picture: The aftermath of an Angry Brigade bomb attack on a
Ford office in Gants Hill, East London, in the 1970s.

A

s hard as the forces of recuperation
may try, they can
never defeat moments of destruction, moments of
struggle. In the
“post-Seattle”
world, Nike may have responded
with their own ad campaign seemingly making window-smashing hip, and
a major electronics chain in Athens
may celebrate the frequent targeting
of their stores during demonstrations,
but these are only images. Images of
revolt are safe, sterile, and generally
non-hostile because the medium is a
safe space for power. The acts, however, can never be recuperated. The
response to an image of revolt should
not be resignation and defeat, but a
making of wreckage that exposes the
contradictions.
We have started to fight back and the
war will be won by the organized

working class, with bombs.
The Angry Brigade started from one
group of anarchists, but soon other
groups joined the festivities and actions all across England, and were
claiming actions using the name.
There were a myriad of actions against
State and capital taking place at the
time and the Angry Brigade sought
to contribute in a way to compliment
existing struggles and intensify them.
These mainly took place in the form
of fire bombings, explosions, machine-gun volleys, and smaller forms
of destruction. These actions usually
complimented an existing struggle or
were generally targeted at the repressive state apparatus. This took place
in the context of a decent amount of
labor unrest and the attempts to control it and recuperate it with the Industrial Relations Act that passed in
1971 and was then repealed in 1974.
The act limited wildcat strikes, further tightening the control of unions
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over workers, and allowed the government to illegalize certain strikes as injurious to public welfare. The brigade
wrote angry [sic] and poetic communiqués that threatened the enemy and
explained a desire for increased class
violence, influenced by anarchism and
the situationists. The brigade acted
from 1970 to 1972 within a context of
over 1000 bombings during those years
in England from different groups. After a few good years of action the state
clamped down and four people were
punished with 10 year prison sentences
after a trial that lasted over 6 months
and was sensationalized by the media.
The moniker was used again in the
early 80’s for a short series of bombings but other than that it was put to rest
after the sentences of these individuals.
The anger, however, did not die with
name, it only took on new forms.
As insurrectionary anarchists, we feel
that there is good inspiration to be taken from the actions during these years,
especially the perspective that seemed
to be based largely on personal disgust
with the social order rather than a desire to seize power or act as an elite
fighting sect. The Angry Brigade positively refers to other groups of people
taking on the name in their communiqués and encourages the spread of their
activity. It can be said that their use of
automatic weapons and dynamite was
not something any person could immediately start reproducing without
the right access. For instance, it is true
that traditionally the British to not have
easy access to guns this is not necessarily true in all contexts. In Italy during the same time period there was a
much greater surge of armed activity
and while all the guns were obtained illegally, they were easily obtainable in
the context of activity people were used
to performing. To be more specific, in
Italy at the time, there was a common
practice among revolutionaries of mugging security officers at night with two
or three people and taking his gun.
This is simple creativity that surpasses
the whole notion of how easy it is to
legally obtain something. As a result
of activities such as, but certainly not

limited to this, there were thousands of
guns in the hands of Italian militants.
In the United States, there has traditionally and still is a culture where it
is very easy to find guns and obtains
them legally without much hassle.
Given that the United States is the easiest Western nation to obtain firearms, it
would make sense that the gun would
not seem so mystical and out of reach
for Americans, which is why they have
come into play in many riots that lasted
more than a day. Regardless of all of
this, there is something to be said for
using what you have available to you,
even if it isn’t common, but relying on
it is a different kind of relationship a relationship that leads quickly down the
road of the underground and alienation
from the social sphere you’re fighting
in.
It is easy to fetishize the actions of the
Angry Brigade and similar groups, but
fetishization is very dangerous and
completely useless for our abilities and
morale. This is a common American
pitfall, to fetishize, rather than appreciate and learn from groups that should
inspire us to action. Instead, in our fetishization, we view the participants
in these groups as untouchable heroes
that did great superhuman feats that we
could never hope to do. It leads to an
over-thinking and over-complication
of what is essentially simple. Making
a molotov, building a simple explosive
device, and shooting a gun are all relatively simple things that almost everyone basically knows how to do without
reading endless piles of sketchy zines
that teach you how to do the simplest
things in a way that complicate them
and intimidate the reader from actualizing the content. That being said, it is
even simpler and requires no instruction at all to smash things with rocks
or hammers and takes no instruction
to do something as simple as gluing a
lock or slashing a tire. Yet the unfortunate influence of these piles of sketchy
instructional zines the anarchist milieu produces has been to complicate
and professionalize even these things.
A zine will go on for pages and pages
about the proper area of a window to hit

to break it most effectively, recommend
the use of a BB gun to do it, hype up
the danger of doing it and the necessity
of protecting your hands, list the best
items to put in a lock when you glue
it, the best material to put in a gas tank
to fuck up a car, the best way to set a
car on fire, talk about the clothes you
should wear when you do it, who you
should do it with, etc.
While none of these suggestions or
pieces of information are inherently bad
to offer, the medium is not only neutralizing it but inhibiting action, making it
seem more dangerous and difficult than
it is, when it is far more difficult and
dangerous to drive to work every day
than to do any of these things. These
pieces of information are not being
learned through action, they are being
learned by reading. Even if we are to
accept that it was a noble experiment
distributing this information for years
and years at anarchist bookfairs and
punk shows, we must accept that it has
failed and likely hurt the movement
more than helped it. The message isn’t
getting through. The literature isn’t inspiring anyone to do anything because
it’s dead and sterile and resigned to the
pages of a photocopied pamphlet. There
is a serious problem if a minority of
people in the anarchist milieu are doing
these things that are talked about endlessly in zines. 1% may be a very good
sales rate in the advertising world but
it is an awful action rate in comparison
to how many thousands and thousands
of anarchists have this commando-like
information on how to break a window.
Then there are the forces that wish to
pour water on your fire before it even
starts. They literally prevent inspiration
where it starts, telling you this was in
a different decade, a different country,
a different context, a different movement, etc. Things are always different
now for these people if it means preventing you from acting destructively.
However, things are always the same
across all these lines of context, time,
and space if it means not acting destructively. It used to be that anarchists
would be an active minority at a liberal
event to disrupt and expand it. Now, it
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is the norm for an all-anarchist demonstration to only have a small minority
who are willing to do anything. The rest
spectate while wearing the very same
clothes as the person actually committing a crime. This is tantamount to
going along with your friend while he
robs a bank just for the hell of it and
wearing the same clothes he is so that
when the cops show up you look like
you committed the crime. Don’t look
like the criminal if you’re not going
to commit the crime and don’t chant
“Smash the banks” if you’re not willing to smash the banks. The tendency
among some to blame the few people
who actually take the risks at demos as
endangering everyone else is honestly
laughable. The danger is there already,
take advantage of the fact that you already look guilty and might as well become guilty. Nothing sucks more than
sitting in a jail cell knowing that you
didn’t even commit the crime you’re
accused of, but wish you did.
Having said that, here is a rough chronology of events during this time period
and context.
1970
January 28: Bomb attack on offices of the Spanish Cultural attache in
Paris.
February 10: Ian Purdie is imprisoned for 9 months for throwing a
petrol bomb at the Ulster Office in Saville Row during an Irish Civil Rights
Campaign march.
February 20: 3 students captured
as they are about to firebomb Barclays
Bank.
February 28: Bomb attack on the
Bank of Bilbao and the Spanish State
Railways in Paris.
March 28: Time bomb found at
Waterloo Station.
May 4: American Embassy, London,
firebombed.

May 10: Incendiary device discovered aboard Iberian Airliner at Heathrow. Similar devices are found in other
European capitals on planes belonging
to Iberia.
May 19: Wembley Conservative Association firebombed.
May 22: High explosive device discovered at a new police station in Paddington. This was later claimed by the
prosecution in the trial of the Stoke
Newington Eight to be the first action
undertaken by `The Angry Brigade’.
June 10: Brixton Conservative Association firebombed.
June 11: Stuart Christie’s home
raided with explosives warrant.

son, in Chelsea, is bombed. Again this
goes unreported .
September 17: Jake Prescott
paroled from Albany Prison, Isle of
Wight.
September 21: Wimbledon Conservative Association firebombed.
September 26: Hampstead Conservative Association firebombed.
September 26: Bomb exploded
outside Barclays Bank, Heathrow.
September 26: Simultaneous
bomb attacks against Iberia in Geneva,
Frankfurt, Paris and London airports.

June 18: Lambeth Court firebombed.

October 7: BOAC Air terminal
at Victoria, booby trap hand grenade
found.

June 30: Army depot, Kimber Road,
London, firebombed.

October 8: Second explosion at
Rawlinson’s home.

June 30: Ian Purdie is released from
Albany prison (Isle of Wight).

October 9: Italian Trade Centre, Exhibition Building, Cork Street,
London, bombed. Attacks simultaneously in Manchester, Birmingham and
Paris against Italian State buildings.
The attacks were claimed on behalf of
Giuseppe Pinelli the Italian anarchist
murdered by the police in 1969.

July 3: Simultaneous bomb attacks
in Paris and London against Spanish
State Tourist offices, and the Spanish
and Greek Embassies.
July 7: Army recruiting office,
South London, firebombed. Army Officer Training Centre, Holborn, London,
firebombed.
July 10: Home of a retired policeman in Stoke Newington firebombed.
August 18: The London offices of
Iberia Airlines, Spanish State airline,
bombed.
August 30: The London home of
the Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police, Sir John Waldron, is damaged
by a bomb blast. The bombing is not
reported in the national press.
September 8: The London home
of Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlin-

October 24: During the Council
workers’ strike a bomb explodes in the
cleansing dept head office, Greenford.
October 26: Administration
building on Keele University campus
firebombed.
October 26: Barclays Bank at
Stoke Newington firebombed. Newspaper report says: `Police are investigating several similar incidents at other
branches’.
November 20: A BBC van outside the Albert Hall in London covering the Miss World contest is bombed
at 2,30 am. The prosecution claimed
that Jake Prescott was responsible for
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this explosion, but also brought a witness who vouched that Jake was in fact
in Edinburgh at the time. They were
forced to drop this charge.
December 3: Spanish Embassy in
London machine gunned following international protests against the trial of
the Basque nationalists, the Burgos Six.
This was not reported.
December 8: Big demonstrations
against the Tory Government’s Industrial Relations Bill. In the early hours
of December 9 the Department of Employment and Productivity in St James
Square, London, is bombed. Action
claimed by the Angry Brigade.
1971
January 12: Thousands of people
strike and march against the Industrial
Relations Bill. The home of Robert
Carr, Minister of Employment, in Hadley Green Road, Barnet, is bombed.
First explosion is at 10:05 pm, the second at 10:20 pm. The action is claimed
by the Angry Brigade.
“One man the police particularly want...
is a Scot in his twenties who is suspected of being involved in the bomb attack
at the Iberia Airlines office in London
last August. This man was believed to
be in Paris yesterday.” (The Times)
The hunt for Stuart Christie as a likely
`candidate for outrage’ was on. His history as an anarchist and his involvement with the movement in Spain made
him a superb candidate for a fit-up.
Police searches extend over the whole
of the London area. A number of people
were dragged up to Barnet Police Station for questioning. “Special Branch
were watching members of a group believed to be connected with the explosions”. All those questioned at Barnet
in the early part of the week were released, apart from a man and a woman
who were handed over to the police in
other parts of London in connection
with other offences.

In the week after the Carr bomb a police
guard was provided for Justice Melford Stevenson after he had received a
phone call saying that a bomb was to be
placed at his house. This was Melford
the hanging judge who was to sentence
Jake Prescott to 15 years.
Secret orders have been issued to police
and security guards that members of the
organization must be flushed out as a
matter of top priority. An undercover
squad of Special Branch officers has
been formed to pursue full-time investigation into the group.
Full-time guards have been placed on
Cabinet Ministers. These are angry
times... Peter Walker (environment
Minister), Melford Stevenson, Tory
MP Hugh Fraser, Tory Prime Minister
Heath and many others have received
threatening calls.
January 18: Glasgow South African Airways office firebombed.
January 19: Jake Prescott was arrested on a cheque charge in Notting
Hill. On January 20 he appeared in
Marylebone Court, where he was questioned by Habershon. In the time he was
inside on remand, he was put in cells
with Messrs A, B and C. Habershon
had an interview with Mr A at Camberwell Court, which he took up again
on February 9. Mr A made a statement
that Jake “had admitted the bombings
at the DEP, Carr’s home and the Miss
World Contest”... Very convenient! But
unfortunately for Habershon, the jury at
Jake’s trial were not prepared to believe
the police witness (perhaps they had in
mind the £10,000 reward that had been
offered by the Daily Mirror for police
informants)... This part of the police
evidence was rejected as a frame-up.
At this time the police were being given
full rein to do what they liked. In the
midst of the hysteria that was generated
by the idea that the opposition might be
armed, in the midst of the fear that came
after a cabinet minister had his front
door blown off, a manhunt was taking
place `leaving no stone unturned’. Stu-

art Christie was particularly a victim of
this. The London evening newspapers
were trumpeting from day to day about
the `young Scottish anarchist recently
returned from Spain’ whom they had
branded as the most likely... people
were disappearing off the streets for
questioning.
The police visit offices of leading
newspapers and take photographers off
to Barnet to identify people from the
photos that were taken outside Carr’s
house on the night of the January 12
bombing.
On February 3 Jake Prescott was released on bail. Ian Purdie was in court
at the time, as he had been for Jake’s
previous remands. Then, on February 11, Jake and a Dutch friend were
seized from a pub in North London
and dragged off to Barnet. They were
refused any access to lawyers for two
days. Jake was interrogated by Habershon and Allard for hours. On February
12 Jake’s defence counsel began preparations for a writ of habeas corpus on
the police, which would require them
to either charge Jake or release him.
On February 13 Jan Oudenaarden, the
Dutchman, was released after “the most
frightening experience of his life”. Jake
however was not released. He was
charged with causing an explosion at
Carr’s home and those at the DEP and
the Miss World contest.
Jake and Jan had been `detained for
questioning’ for 3 days. In the court
at Barnet, Habershon was challenged
to produce `grounds for arrest’ and
was threatened with legal action. It is
claimed that he had tried to persuade
Jake to change his lawyer -- presumably to one who would not cause trouble for the police...
January 25: Home of the Lord
Provost of Glasgow bombed.
January 27: Communique 5 received by the Press Association. The
police were forced to admit that earlier bombings (which they had covered
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ever, imposed a press blackout over
the course of the investigations. At the
same time the Daily Mirror offers a
£10,000 reward to anybody giving information leading to a conviction.
January 29: The Times reports:
“Scotland Yard and security officials
are becoming increasingly embarrassed
and annoyed by the activities of the
Angry Brigade, who cannot now be
dismissed as a group of cranks. Some
senior officers credit the group with a
degree of professional skill that has seldom been experienced”.
In the weeks after the Carr bombing,
the Barnet Brigade, headed by Roy
Habershon (explosives expert), Commander Bond and Commander Dace,
thundered all over London with squad
cars, dogs, photographers, raiding
houses of ‘known left wing extremists’.
Their concern (as was clear from the
number of address books, magazines,
letters, etc that they took) was to draw
up a picture of the extra- parliamentary
left, whose activities they were now
forced to take seriously, and whose
structures they were more or less ignorant of. These were raids of the political
police in action.
Raids begin to escalate:
January 13: Chris Reed, Huddleston Road, London, N7
January 14: Stuart Roche,
Schools Union activist.
January 15: Ian Purdie’s brother,
Robert is taken up to Barnet and questioned. The police are looking for Ian.
January 17: The house of Ann
Lamche (Cinema Action) is raided.
Two people are taken off for questioning. The Agitprop house in Muswell
Hill (which the police were eager to
look round) address book copied.
January 19: 4 known raids in
which nothing is found. Joe Keith and
Tony Swash questioned by Habershon.

for explosives. Diaries, address books,
newspapers and other articles are taken
away, despite protests that this does not
come into the terms of the police warrants. Press reports now make Grosvenor Avenue the centre of the conspiracy. The nearest thing they can find...

January 20: Ian Purdie questioned
by Palmer-Hall at Bedford Gardens.
January 21: Paul Lewis of International Times is questioned by Habershon. Office and home searched.
January 22: Chris Allen is questioned by Edinburgh CID. Habershon
goes to Edinburgh for three days.
January 23: Another raid in Edinburgh.
January 24: Police raid a house
in London and two men, Ross Flett and
Phil Carver were dragged off to Barnet
for questioning. Barnet refuses them
access to a lawyer who was present outside the station. The papers start to talk
of a Scottish anarchist.
Two men are seized by police in London and taken to Barnet for questioning concerning 30 unpublicised attacks
on Establishment property’ including
banks, the home of Tory racist Duncan
Sandys and various Conservative Party
offices.
January 29: The Evening News
reports that: “... in the latest report of
HM Inspector of Explosives, `there
was again a substantial increase in the
number of cases involving homemade
devices. There is evidence of the increasing use of such devices in the furtherance of political activities’.”
January 30: Slough Conservative
Office firebombed.
February 3: Jake Prescott is released on bail and yet is arrested on the
11th. He is interrogated, denied access
to a lawyer for three days, and is accused of the attacks on Carr’s home and
the BBC van.
February 9: The Jersey home of
a local managing director firebombed.
February 11: The house in Grosvenor Avenue, Islington, where Jake
Prescott had been staying, is raided
by the police. The house is searched

February 11: Earlier in the day
Habershon and his gang had disrupted
the trial of the people who were involved in the demonstration at the Miss
World contest in November 1970. They
removed by force four of the defence
witnesses who were due to give evidence in the trial. They were taken off
to Barnet, where they were questioned
and denied all access to legal representation. Habershon comes forth in true
democratic light when he says “I am not
concerned with legal niceties”. Charges
are brought against Scotland Yard for
assault (Of those dragged away from
Bow Street.) and for wrongful arrest
and imprisonment. The Special Branch
were present at the Miss World trial.
February 13: Searches at the
homes of Hilary Creek, John Barker,
Kate McLean, Chris Allen and others
in a hunt for explosives. Jake Prescott
is charged with conspiracy to cause
explosions between July 30 1970 and
December 1971, and with the specific
bombings of Carr’s home, the Dept of
Employment and the Miss World contest.
February 15: Cannock Street is
raided again.
February 19: Habershon goes to
Edinburgh. Two houses are raided and
Jane and Chris Allen are questioned.
That same day, The Times prints Communique 6 from the Angry Brigade.
There was also a telephone call from
an Angry Brigade spokesman to the
Havering Recorder in Essex, saying
that from Saturday next a campaign of
violence would be conducted against
Conservative Party policies in South
Africa.
Repression and response continue to
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February 20: Mike Kane’s house
is raided.
March 5: House in Talbot Road,
Notting Hill raided.
March 6: 12 midnight, house in
Tyneham Road, SW11, raided. Ian
Purdie was there and was arrested.
Habershon said at Barnet that “the raid
was to find explosives and Ian Purdie.
They are synonymous as far as I am
concerned.”
He admitted in court that he had ordered Ian to be arrested for questioning,
which is illegal.
March 7: Ian Purdie is charged,
along with Jake Prescott, accused of the
two Angry Brigade bombings. They are
both in the top security wing at Brixton
Prison -- as class A prisoners -- and are
kept in their cells for 23 hours a day.
March 10: The Guardian reports on
police excesses in their investigations.
March 18: During a major strike
of Ford workers in England the main
offices of the Ford Motor Company
at Gants Hill, Ilford, on the outskirts
of London, is wrecked by a powerful
explosion. A thousand word communique (Communique no 7) is delivered
shortly after.
... A man walks into a London bank and
demands £5,000 with the threat of a
bomb that he had with him (a biscuit tin
full of coal).
The bomb at Fords on March 18 sparks
off another wave of raids:
March 20: House in Notting Hill
raided. Defence documents seized.
March 23: Grosvenor Avenue raided for the second time. Dogs and ten
pigs.
March 24: Two houses in East
London raided. First, Ron Bailey’s
with explosives warrant -- impression

of typewriter taken. Second, Digger
Walsh’s with explosives warrant, by
Cremer and Bentley.

sion of drugs -- shown photos of Jim
Greenfield and Anna Mendelson and 2
others.

April 1: Two houses in Notting Hill
raided. More defence files for the Powis Square trial are seized.

April 26: 3rd raid on Cannock
Street. Chris arrested on cheques
charges.

Throughout the period since their arrest, Ian and Jake have been kept in solitary in Brixton Prison, allowed out for
only one hour each day. Their defence
lawyers can only gain access to them
after bargaining with Habershon. When
the defence counsel asks for evidence
of arrests to be produced, he is told this
can’t be done without the permission
of the Attorney General. In addition
£10,000 bail for each of the defendants
is refused by the magistrate at Barnet.

April 28: The Times receives a
liquid bomb through the post. It had a
message: “From the Vengeance Squad,
the Angry Brigade, The People’s
Army. We will use these. Many of
them in June and July. Revolution
now.”

April 1: The home of the headmaster of Roydale School is firebombed.
April 5: Arson attempt at Gosport Tory
Club. (Evening Standard says “this is
the latest in a series of incidents involving this club in the last six months.”)
April 5: Bomb left in Leicester
Square.
April 22: Committal proceedings
for Jake and Ian start at Barnet Court.
The committal is to decide whether or
not the magistrate feels there is enough
evidence against the two of them for a
trial to be set at the Old Bailey. There is
no doubt that he will find so, but nevertheless proceedings-proceed-interminably-until May 27. Jake had been
presented (April 15) with three more
charges: having conspired with Ian to
cause explosions `with others’ between
July 1970 and March 1971 and having
actually caused the Miss World and
DEP bombings.

April 29: Sabotage at Nuclear Power Station, Berkeley, Gloucester (3rd
such incident within three months).
April/May: The IS printers had an
intimidating visit, asking about women’s newspaper. Raids on IS members
in London.
May 1: Mayday, a bomb explodes in
the Biba boutique in trendy Kensington. It was accompanied by Communique 8.
May 4: Bomb found strapped to the
underside of Lady Beaverbrook’s car.
Inquiries range through Kent, Essex
and Oxfordshire.
May 4: Four home-made bombs
found near the Sidcup and Chislehurst
Grammar School, where Prime Minister Heath received the Freedom of Bexley on Friday.

April 22: Arson at Whitechapel
Barclays Bank.

May 22: Bomb attack on Scotland
Yard Computer Room at Tintagel
House, London. This is accompanied
by simultaneous attacks by the Angry
Brigade, the International Solidarity
Movement, and the Marius Jacob group
against British Rail, Rolls Royce and
Rover offices in Paris.

April 23: Booby trap incendiary envelope posted to MP at House of Commons.

May: Harris Gleckman, Alan Barlow,
and Smith raided for the second time at
Agitprop, Muswell Hill.

April 24: Second police raid in
Wivenhoe, Essex. Charges: posses-

June 1: A letter is sent to The Times:
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“If Heath and Rippon contrive to enter
the Common Market without seeking
the opinion of the British people they
will be on the receiving end of a bullet. This is no idle threat. Signed: The
Angry Brigade.”
July 22: During a dispute between
Ford management and the militant shop
steward John Dillon, in the Ford Liverpool plant, the Angry Brigade blow
up the home of Ford’s managing director, William Batty, in Essex. The same
night a bomb damages a transformer at
the Dagenham plant of the Ford Motor
Company.
By this time Scotland Yard is hopping
mad. Sir John Waldron holds a conference there, where senior police officers
are told of the order that has come from
the Prime Minister, via Home Secretary
Maudling, that “The Angry Brigade
must be found and smashed”... “We
have been ordered to treat the Angry
Brigade as Public Enemy Number 1.
This is a top priority job.”

tection in the home of the Secretary
for Trade and Industry, John Davies,
is badly damaged by a powerful explosion in London. This action followed
close on Davies’ announcement of his
intention to close Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, throwing thousands of men
out of work. This is accompanied by
the 11th Communique from the Angry
Brigade.
August 2: Two houses in Essex
searched with explosives warrant.
Judge Argyll of the OZ trial is threatened in his Midlands home.
The trial date for Jake Prescott and Ian
Purdie is set for September 7, and now
the police’s concern is to do everything
possible to wreck and intimidate any
support action that might be planned
for them. Various houses are raided
and material and addresses related to
the Ian and Jake defence is seized. One
of the places raided was the Agitprop
collective in Bethnal Green, London,
where material was seized .

In the words of the Sunday Telegraph:
“YARD WILL GET THE ANGRY
BRIGADE.... A special team of 20
hand-picked detectives from the Flying Squad and Special Branch, working
with army bomb disposal experts and
Home Office scientists. Their leader, a
commander, whose name is being kept
secret for his own safety... is known as
rough and ready... The squad is taking
a tough line. It will raid hippy communes, question avowed members of
the `underground’ and build up a complete file on the sub-culture that threatens the present social order.”

August 15: More raids: Hungerford Road, Dave Garfinkel taken for
questioning. Beresford Terrace, N5
-- documents seized. Crystal Palace -Sally Keith’s house, floorboards ripped
up.

July 19: Factory at Dordan damaged by several fires started by incendiary devices.

August 16: Agitprop, Bethnal
Green again raided with explosives
warrant.

July 25: Intimidation of a claimant
in North London when police with explosives warrant smash door in.

August 17: Wilson and Habershon
raid house in Talbot Road, Notting Hill,
with warrant for stolen goods.

July 26: Ian Purdie refused bail of
£17,500 by Melford Stevenson.

August 21: House in Amhurst
Road, London, raided by Special
Branch and CID. Jim Greenfield, Anna
Mendelson, John Barker and Hilary

July 31: Despite close police pro-

August 15: Following the announcement by the British Government
that internment was to be introduced in
Ireland, there was a powerful explosion
at the Army recruiting centre in Holloway Road, North London. This was
accompanied by a Communique signed
`Angry Brigade Moonlighters Cell’.

Creek are arrested. The four are taken
to the `Bomb Squad’ HQ in Albany
Street, London, where the two men are
subjected to a brutal beating to extract
a confession from them.
August 21: Stuart Christie arrested
at Amhurst Road, London, while visiting the house. One hour later Chris Bott
is also arrested at the same place. Both
are taken to join the others at Albany
Street Police Station. Incriminating evidence in the form of two detonators is
planted by police officers in Christie’s
car.
August 23: All are charged at Albany Street Police Station with:
1. Conspiring to cause explosions between January 1 1968 and August 21
1971.
2. Possessing explosive substances for
an unlawful purpose.
3. Possessing a pistol without a firearms certificate.
4. Possessing eight rounds of ammunition without a firearms certificate.
5. Possessing two machine guns without the authority of the Secretary of
State.
6. Possessing 36 rounds of ammunition without a firearms certificate.
7. Jim: attempting to cause an explosion in May 1970.
8. Anna and Jim: attempting to cause
an explosion in Manchester, October
1970.
9. Stuart: possessing one round of ammunition without a firearm certificate.
(This was dated back 2 years when
a bullet was taken from his flat. No
charges were preferred against him at
the time.)
10. John, Jim and Stuart: possessing
explosive substances.
11. Jim, John and Hilary: receiving
stolen vehicle.
12. Stuart: possessing explosive substances. (The two detonators planted by
the police). All are refused bail and remanded in custody to await trial.
August 29: Military wing of Edinburgh Castle bombed.
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house bombed.

charged.

HQ bombed -- 7 killed.

September 16: Bomb discovered
in officers’ mess inside Dartmoor prison. (News not released for two weeks).

November 26: Pauline Conroy arrested in her flat in Powis Square and
charged.

March 10: South African Airways,
London, firebombed.

September 20: Support of
Chelsea Bridge opposite army barracks bombed. (Blast heard three miles
away.)

November 29: Broadstairs Courthouse firebombed.

September 24: Despite the fact
that the police claim to have arrested all
the Angry Brigade, the Albany Street
Army Barracks (near the Bomb Squad
HQ) is bombed by the Angry Brigade
in protest against the actions of the
British Army in Northern Ireland.
October 15: Maryhill Barracks
Army HQ, Glasgow, firebombed.
October 20: Home of Bryant,
Birmingham building boss, bombed
while his workers are on strike. Communique issued by the Angry Brigade.
October 30: Post Office Tower in
London is bombed by the Angry Brigade.
October 30: ‘The Cunning Man’
Pub, Reading, which refused to serve
workers from the M4 site, bombed.
November 1: Army Tank HQ in
Everton Street, London, bombed by the
Angry Brigade.
November 6: Amsterdam: attack against Lloyds Bank; Basle: Italian Consulate attacked; Rome: British
Embassy attacked; Barcelona: British
Embassy attacked. All in support of the
`Stoke Newington Eight’ and the Italian
anarchists imprisoned on trumped-up
charges of ‘conspiracy’ and subversion.
November 11: Haverstock Street,
Islington, raided. Angie Weir arrested,
taken to Albany Street and charged
with conspiracy to cause explosions.
November 17: 89 Talbot Road
raided: Chris Allen ends up similarly

March 15: (Approx) Prison officer
shot outside Wandsworth Prison.

December 1: Trial of Ian Purdie
and Jake Prescott ends. Ian Purdie
found not guilty on all charges. Jake
Prescott found not guilty of specific
bombings, but guilty of conspiracy to
cause bombings on the basis of having
written three envelopes, and was sentenced to fifteen years.
December 15: Jordanian Ambassador, London, machine-gunned in his
car.
December 18: Kate McLean arrested and charged along with Angela
Weir, Chris Allen and Pauline Conroy, who had been arrested during the
course of November of having conspired with the six people already arrested on conspiracy charges. Shortly
before the opening of Committal proceedings against the ten militants, Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson
(the victim of one of the Angry Brigade
attacks) decided there was insufficient
evidence for a case to be made against
Pauline Conroy and Chris Allen, and
They were released from custody.
1972

February 1: Rhodesia House in
London firebombed.
February 3: Kirkgate, Huddersfield, Army Recruiting Office destroyed
by firebombs.

February 22: Aldershot Paras

March
Four members of the Workers’ Party
of Scotland sentenced to a total of 81
years as a result of an expropriation carried out against the Bank of Scotland
in June, 1971. The comrades, who defended their actions politically in court,
were dealt the highest sentences ever
by a Scottish court for robbery: William
McPherson, 26 years, Matt Lygate, 25
years, and Ian Doran were virtually ignored by the revolutionary left.
March 30: Bomb containing 13
sticks of gelignite planted on railway
line near Stranraer, Glasgow, used by
the Army to transport men and equipment to ferry for N. Ireland.
April 6: 2nd bomb (13 sticks) planted on rail link near Glasgow.
April 24: Homemade bomb planted at police headquarters at Sleaford,
Lancs. 15 year old boy held.
April 26: Bomb blast and fire at
Tory HQ, Billericay, Essex.

January 22: Explosive letter sent
to MP at House of Commons.

February 17: Bonhill Street
Social Security Office, London, firebombed. Liverpool Army HQ, Edge
Lane, bombed. Severe damage.

March 20: Two shots fired through
the front of the Army Recruiting Office,
Slough, Bucks.

May 1: Explosion at CS gas factory.
May 30: Trial of `Stoke Newington
Eight’ accused of conspiracy to cause
Angry Brigade bombings, begins in No
1 Court at the Old Bailey in London.
This was to be the longest trial in the
history of the British legal system.
Excerpt from a Stoke Newington
Eight Defence Bulletin:
THE TRIAL SO FAR...

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Has been four months of prosecution,
four months of police witness after witness contradicting each other, changing their story, LYING, broken only
for four weeks when the judge had his
holiday...
A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
The Press have reported nothing of all
this -- just as they never reported the
bombings until it suited them. What are
they scared of?
WHAT CONSPIRACY?
The only concrete evidence are the guns
and gelignite `found’ by the police in
the flat where 4 of the defendants lived.
At first the police said that 2 of the 4
were there throughout the raid; then
they admitted that at one point they
were taken out of the flat then brought
back. WHY? The fingerprint expert admitted that there were no prints on the
guns and explosives. WHY NOT?
The prosecution’s story changed from
day to day. It emerged that the police
would have walked right into the guns
and explosive material as they came
into the flat if it had been where they
said it was, instead of ‘finding’ it ten
minutes later; so they suddenly `remembered’ for the first time -- a year
later -- that it had been covered with
clothes.
POLICE CONSPIRACY
One detective was forced to admit that
he had altered his notebook during
the trial. Another gave the game away
altogether when he said that he and a
colleague sat down in the kitchen and
`decided’ what happened in the raid.
NO CONSPIRACY
The rest of the evidence against the
eight is research, letter and articles
written by the defendants for different
underground papers (Frendz, Strike)
and broadsheets. The prosecution call
them proof of conspiracy because they
mention such political targets as the Industrial Relations Act, Fair Rents Act,
Miss World contest, etc.
Their scientific experts’ tried to pin

25 of the bombings that took place in
England between 1968 and 1971 on to
these people, claiming that these bombings were `associated’ -- disregarding
other similar bombings and covering
up the differences between the 25. But
the explosions were claimed by groups
as different as the 1st of May group, the
Angry Brigade, The Wild Bunch and
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
And the `set’ didn’t include 3 claimed
by the Angry Brigade AFTER Amhurst
Road was raided.
Now the defence is beginning, the truth
can come out: the only conspiracy
there’s been is a STATE CONSPIRACY.
Police explosives expert testifies that
between March 1968 and August 1971
there had been 123 known attacks on
property.
November 24: During his summing up Mr. Justice James directed
the jury to ignore the defence’s protestations that it was a political trial. He
said: “It is not (a political trial) and I
direct you to have none of it. Political
trials are trials of people for their political views. We do not have them in this
country.”
December 6: The trial ends. Jim
Greenfield, Anna Mendleson, Hilary
Creek and John Barker are sentenced
to 10 years for `conspiracy to cause
explosions’. The other four charged
are acquitted, and the sentence of Jake
Prescott is reduced to 10 years.
December 7: After the Angry
Brigade’s sentences the previous day,
Scotland Yard names two more people
they want in connection with the bombings: Gerry Osner and Sarah Poulikakou, both living abroad at the time. 300
people marched in protest to Holloway
Prison.

Following the trial Commander Bond
was promoted to Deputy Assistant
Commissioner at Scotland Yard. Det.
Chief Superintendent Habershon was
made Commander and seconded to the
Home Office’s Research and Planning
Office in 1973. In June 1974 he headed
the police investigation into the killing
of Kevin Gateley, the Warwick University student, in Red Lion Square on
June 5th 1974 -- as a result of which the
police were absolved of all responsibility. In April 1975 Commander Habershon was appointed head of the Bomb
Squad, replacing Robert Huntley.

“Life is so boring
there is nothing to do except
spend all our
wages on the
latest skirt or
shirt. Brothers
and Sisters, what
are your real desires? Sit in the
drugstore, look
distant,empty,
bored, drinking
some tasteless
coffee?
Or perhaps...
BLOW IT UP,
OR BURN IT DOWN.”
-The
Angry Brigade

from “Communique 8”, that was writIn all, 12 people were arrested and ten for the May 1st, 1971 bombing of
charged -- 2 had the charges against trendy and rich boutique.
them withdrawn, 5 were acquitted,
five were convicted and imprisoned for
conspiracy.
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Who was Scott Scurlock?

S

cott Scurlock enrolled at Evergreen State
College in Olympia, WA in 1978. He
studied organic chemistry and biochemistry. He used this knowledge, along
with supplies stolen from the school to
begin manufacturing crystal meth. He
soon purchased 20 acres of land to live
on where he could hang out in the woods
and become one of the most successful meth dealers in the
Northwest. After quite some time dispensing a definitely terrible product, Scurlock began to develop guilt over his job and
thought about quitting. What cemented this decision was his
main distributor being murdered; signaling to him that what he
was doing was not only unethical, but also “dangerous”.

#2
SCOTT
SCURLOCK//
AN OUTLAW:
“He kind of pulls you into
this magical world, where
it was fun and happy, and
that can get addictive…”

Regardless of his former job, Scurlock chose to stop, and during those years built a local reputation as being generous with
his friends, caring greatly about the Earth, and having a lust
for adventure. Previously he had lived on a tomato farm in
Hawaii with friends, frequently looking for the adrenaline rush
of jumping off the highest cliffs he could find into the water.
While living on his 20 acres in Olympia, he built an amazing
tree house (a picture of it is included at the end of this article)
supported by seven cedar trees that was three stories tall and
75 feet above the ground, complete with a fireplace, electricity, hot and cold running water, a bathroom, and of course ropes
to swing from like Tarzan.
His friend Elizabeth Stanton recalls, “He kind of pulls you into
this magical world, where it was fun and happy, and that can
get addictive…people also kind of put him on a pedestal. He's
this incredible guy. He built a tree house and he's dashing and
he's fun and then he helps people out.”
With no more income, Scurlock once again had to solve the
problem of subsisting without working. His thirst for adventure a stable lifestyle without “work” definitely led robbing
banks, but its thought he was also inspired by a recently released film adaptation of Robin Hood and Point Break were
an inspiration. Scurlock and his friends loved watching Point
Break, a Patrick Swayzee movie about surfers who rob banks
to avoid work.
Scurlock called on his friend and Evergreen alumni Mark Biggins to get involved. In the summer of 1992, they robbed their
first bank in Seattle and wore masks like in Point Break. Not
everything went as planned though. They originally wanted to
steal and use a car of someone who worked at the bank, but
Biggins panicked and flooded the engine, they then ran away
with dogs chasing them and had to hop fences and escape
across a golf course. They netted $19,971 from the robbery,
but the entire experience terrified Biggins, so he packed up and
left. He would return later though, particularly for Scurlock’s
final bank robbery. With no one to help him, Scurlock apFTTP #9-Blast from the Past-Pg. 53

“A mix of Peter Pan and Robin Hood,
Scurlock never wanted to grow up and
face adult responsibilities, nor did he
want to see those that needed money
go without...”
proached another friend, Steve Myers.
Myers refused but helped him launder
the money by visiting at Las Vegas casinos and getting rid of the potentially
marked money by buying gambling
chips and then cashing them back in.
Later though, Myers would also return,
particularly also for Scurlock’s final
job.
Without help, Scurlock decided to
start robbing banks himself and netted
$252,000 on his sixth solo job at the
Madison Park branch of the Seafirst
bank in Seattle. This attracted Meyers back into the mix and a year later
they started staking out the same bank
Scurlock last robbed. Meyers was the
getaway driver and sat in the car monitoring police frequencies with a scanner and a walkie-talkie to let Scurlock
know if there was trouble coming. This
was the setup they continued to use and
the pair robbed five banks in 1994. Other than two banks in Portland, Scurlock
only robbed banks in affluent neighborhoods in Seattle, often repeatedly hitting the same banks. He also studied
FBI forensics manuals to take every
precaution to ensure he left no identifiable trace of himself behind. He was
nicknamed “Hollywood” because he’d
use pancake makeup and facial attachments like false chins to disguise himself. He figured out the shift changes for
police in the area and would often hit
banks in between the shift changes or
when police were dispersed away from
the area. Scurlock went to great pains to
buy cars anonymously, including ones
to leave as bait for the police to throw
them off his trail. He paid banks employees to let him know when the most

money would be in the bank and the
best time to strike. He also built an underground secret room on his property
with a mini makeup studio and place
to count the money. Even now, Steve
Meyers praises Scurlock's efficient approach: “Nobody ever was hurt, and
nobody was ever intended to be hurt.”
Making plenty of money, Scurlock certainly did not forget to spread it around
to his friends and people he never met
that he thought deserved it. He would
reportedly show up at “politicized”
benefit shows in Olympia and pay hundreds of dollars as his admission. He
was a huge supporter of Earth First!
and donated a good amount of money
to their campaigns, as well as to rape
crisis centers. A mix of Peter Pan and
Robin Hood, Scurlock never wanted to
grow up and face adult responsibilities, nor did he want to see those that
needed money go without.
Bumbling police officers and FBI
agents failed again and again to catch
up with “Hollywood.” The only idea
one officer had on how to catch him
was by watching surveillance footage
of some of Hollywood’s robberies. He
noticed the walkie-talkie and decided
he should monitor common frequencies
for walkie-talkies to see if he picked up
anything and could catch a robbery in
process. He also staked out a bank Hollywood had robbed before. His plan
didn’t work because Hollywood hit a
bank in Seattle outside the range the
officer was monitoring frequencies on
and got away with $141,405, laughing
with his middle finger out the window
of the getaway car (Okay I made up

that last part). None of this was enough
thrill or money, so Scurlock decided to
rob three banks in two hours, a plan that
would include jamming police frequencies. This plan was aborted though and
they only robbed one of them.
On Thanksgiving eve in 1996, Scurlock
drove to Seattle with Mark Biggins and
Steve Meyers for his 17th bank robbery,
a robbery that would net $1.08 million
(Bringing his career total to $2.3 million) and also be his last. Scurlock and
Biggins walked into the Seafirst branch
at 2800 NE 125th St. and whipped out
their guns while Meyers waited in the
car. A teller immediately hit the silent
alarm. The robbery took longer than
expected because the tellers initially
gave them a relatively small amount of
money when Scurlock knew there was
much more. He had a teller lead him
into the vault where he stuffed bricks of
cash into nylon duffel bags. Although
there were dozens of officers on alert
for Hollywood, they were all patrolling in the wrong neighborhoods and
didn’t respond quick enough to stop
the job in progress. Still they eventually caught up with them. Had Meyers
made a left at one intersection instead
of a right, the gang would have escaped
successfully, but this wrong turn put
them right in holiday traffic which the
police were also stuck in. They paused
to ditch the car and change to a white
Chevrolet Astrovan. The cops say they
saw the van going back and forth in
traffic and decided to do a traffic stop
and began tailing the vehicle while the
gang rummaged through the loot looking for tracking devices that might have
been in the money. Meyers says that the
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police knew it was them and began firing at
the car, injuring Biggins and Meyers. “Scott
got out with his assault rifle. And it supposedly jammed. And he got back in and they
started firing again.” Wounded and bleeding, Biggins returned 37 rounds at the cops
out the window as they sped away. Soon
afterwards, Scurlock stopped the car again,
getting out to fire three shotgun shells at the
cops and speeding away again. Crashing
into the side of a house on 77th St., Biggins
and Meyers were wounded and couldn’t
run, but Scurlock did and managed to get
away on foot. 200 officers rushed to the
scene and couldn’t find him anywhere.
Scurlock had hid two blocks away in a
camper on someone else’s property. The
next day, those in the house reported to police that they saw someone by Scurlock’s
description on the property and noticed the
curtains had been drawn in the camper from
the inside. Sgt. Howard Monta and two
other officers claim they went and knocked
on the camper, threw tear gas inside and
then sprayed two full canisters of pepper
spray through the window, but didn’t notice

any sign of response. Monta says he went
closer to get a look with his flashlight when
he heard a gunshot, then the three officers
fired 30 rounds into the camper, calling in
all sorts of task forces and special police
units with armored cars to the scene, throwing more tear gas in the camper before finally busting the door down and apparently
finding Scurlock with a gunshot to the head
and five other gunshot wounds to his body,
along with a 9mm glock pistol next to him
and a discharged shell.
Meyers and Biggins were both given 21
years in prison. “I regret in a sense that it
ever happened,” Meyers says.
“But I can't sit and look at this man and
say I'm regretting that I ever knew the guy.
Some of the best years of my life were with
this guy.”
True crime writer Ann Rule wrote a book
available at most major bookstores about
Scurlock’s life called The End of the Dream:
The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up.

Photo of Scott’s notorious tree house.

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REPRESSION
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They’re
Fishing!
By Janice Guattari of
“The Boston Anti-Repression League”
“What power fears most is anonymous,
generalized rebellion.”
This will be brief:
The state is asking questions.

I

t is becoming more and more
apparent that the United
States federal police forces
are paying more attention
to autonomous or anarchist
“insurrectionary”
tendencies. They are exposing their
confusion, frustration, and curiosity in what some would call invisible
networks of people sharing discontent
with society today, and looking to actively retain and produce conflict with
it. It has come to our attention that
multiple people have been either being
visited at their homes or jobs, dragged
off planes, or stopped at borders in
what is beginning to seem like in mass.
What are the police looking for? More
importantly what is it they think they
will find?
It is quite obvious that the state feels
as if it has put a large wound in the
world of clandestine resistance motivated by the state’s most hated enemy
of ideas: radical ecological or animal
liberation struggles. With the insane
degree of surveillance, infiltration, and
draconian-style imprisonment of those
they claimed conducted sabotage in the
name of non-human animals or the environment; the state seems to be fishing
for other perceived threats.
The perceived threat we are specifically
referring to in this case is the “insurrectionary” or “anti-political” and “riot
charged” borderless tendency; whatever you want to call that. But if such a
social force lacks any formal organiza-

tion, leader, or political headquarters, it
is obviously something very confusing
to the state’s typical understanding of
how it is you liquidate undesirable social tendencies. What is probably even
more frustrating for the state is the lack
of clandestine action fetishized by this
specific tendency. In the case of there
being no specific tactic, only a desire
to generalize revolt against common
conditions, in any way that works. It is
nearly impossible to pinpoint and connect the dots the way the state seemed
to be able to with animal liberation or
ecological resistance.

you, and potentially get you fired.

What the state seems to be doing now
is attacking any visible project or person that could possibly be presented as
having some connection with this tendency; whatever this tendency might be
called. The tactic that seems to be most
successful for the state, as they struggle
to figure out what new law or legislation they need to arrest this new confusing social force, is simply a process
of intimidation and draining resources.
Projects that are not illegal (not as if
that matters), if perceived as a threat
or representative of something the state
thinks could be a threat, will have to
look over their shoulder. This means
explaining and warning comrades, relatives, or coworkers of potential visits
by police agencies. This means not
understanding what projects or behavior are or are not legal risks. This also
means debt and new expenses due to an
urgent concern of protecting oneself legally and hiring a lawyer, which is typically costly. What the state seems to
be doing now, either with grand juries,
home visits, work visits, or all out raids
is simply pushing the boundaries of
preemptive arrest, and utilizing any opportunity to drain, divide, or intimidate.
If someone is stopped at the border, you
can expect that their friends are also being stopped, because any phone number or contact in their phones, books, or
laptops is now property of the government.

If a grand jury doesn’t get you, that’s
still not the end of justice. Prosecutors
have been saying the “C” word (conspiracy). Another brilliant move on the
state’s part. As the informal nature of
insurrectionary groups today confuses
state investigation, they always have
“conspiracy”.

If they can’t arrest you, they will visit
your family and scare the shit out of
them, or visit your work and embarrass

If they have nothing on you, they will
indict you, being aware that whether or
not someone has done something, it is
a principle of every revolutionary (or
just down person) to be silent and shut
the fuck up during any police encounter. The brilliance of the grand jury is
that silence means guilty, and you can
be put away for at least a little while (up
to 18 months for remaining silent), or
prevented from being able to continue
certain projects for maybe as long as
they need to indict you again.

From Wikipedia:
“...a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to break the
law at some time in the future, and, in
some cases, with at least one overt act
in furtherance of that agreement. There
is no limit on the number participating
in the conspiracy and, in most countries, no requirement that any steps
have been taken to put the plan into effect...
...finally, repentance by one or more
parties does not affect liability but may
reduce their sentence.”
This charge has rationalized federal investigation, raids, and jail time. Eric
Mcdavid whom is serving 19 years
for a crime never committed is one
example of how they have used this
charge. His two codefendants who
turned on him are another way they use
this charge. What is unique now, is that
they are using this charge for those arrested at “riots” or “street parties”, and
using it to try and approach these spontaneous, public, and mob style displays
of dissent as if they were all completely
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cal group. Trying to both: isolate the events from appearing as inclusive demonstrations of rage, and frighten people
by making examples of anyone they could get their hands
on, at the event, or after associating them with the sentiment
behind it. This charge is incredibly helpful to criminalizing
“above ground” projects or people as well. It can paint lines
on top of an invisible solidarity, and try to connect projects or
people for events they support. You can see this in the case
of the RNC8, the SHAC7, or the Texas 2. You can also see
this most recently in the May Day chapter of this issue. Even
the local “anarchist coffee shop” in Santa Cruz, CA was facing legal scrutiny around a random riot that broke a bunch of
things on a posh shopping block just because they were in
the same town, and didn’t denounce the violence. This law
will get whomever they can’t get otherwise, and a resort of
the state taken to frighten those unprepared or haven’t done
anything, and either put them away, get information, or try
and divide their community.
If you think it, if you support it, whether or not your doing it,
your now part of it, and the state can try and put you in jail.
Worst of all, if we weren’t already the poorest struggle; the
state will just financially drain you. We are not only referring
to fines and restitution if one is convicted, but we are also
talking about simply the hungry mouths of lawyers. A legal
barrier between you and the state is not cheap, and public
defenders just seem to stutter and carry themselves in such
an non-eloquent fashion. So again, our projects are not only
threatened because we are in jail or on no fly lists, but the little collective finances we had are also pillaged by “justice.”
The police are confused as they try to connect the dots. A
few examples of their almost stupid desperation to connect,
intimidate, or flirt with their movie-influenced theories of
investigating “anarchist” or “autonomous” self-proclaimed
revolutionary groups were reported on in New York’s local
“Daily News” periodical. In New York City specifically, local police “intelligence” has been captivated by the threat
posed by high school rituals like pillow fight flash mobs, according to the “Daily News.” One article mentions a specific
pillow fight flash mob that is literally a bunch of 15 year old
kids having a pillow fight inside a park. The last one, in April
2010, was met with riot police, undercover police, and the 23
year old alleged organizer visited by investigators on multiple occasions. Apparently these sort of public gatherings
have come to concern the police due to apparent riots that
similar events have turned into.
Another event that has come to the attention of the police
was New York City’s most unusual flea market: the anarchist book fair. Apparently undercover police saw this as an
opportunity to infiltrate and spy on alleged “anarchists” or
“weirdos” potentially planning different sorts of protests or
events that interest them. Although this event is like any
other book fair (or comic book convention) or flea market,
consisting of all ages, and an almost annoyingly positive so-

cial climate; the police were reported to be almost abrasive in
their presence. They apparently wanted those whom attended
to know that they were watching.
Today’s police strategies for dealing with “anarchist,” “communist,” or “insurrectionary” social forces or projects is to
push the limits of preemptive assault. What people need to
be doing is using this stagnant state confusion and posturing as a sign that we are being paid attention to. The state,
for some reason or another, is interested in these tendencies,
and pist off that with all of their fishing, very little has been
caught. Realizing this, people need to begin to take themselves a bit more seriously. Our lack of political formality is
our strength, but our scenes and public projects are currently
acting out our weaknesses. Therefore with a weakness exposed, it is important to re-evaluate the way all of our projects our done-- whether they are legal or not.
Allegedly we are allowed to write whatever it is we want,
but freedom of speech is a right, therefore it is bullshit, and if
it ever actually provoked anything, it would be immediately
revoked and consequenced. To place faith in this right as a
form of protection is more or less stupidly placing faith in the
state as something that exists to protect you. It is important
for us to begin taking ourselves seriously, realizing who it
is we associate with that the state would be more interested
in, and collectively protecting our identities from state recognition. If people’s phones are being taken, we should be
changing our contact list names to not match numbers. If
people’s contact books are being taken, we should be writing Da Vinci style, and making it very complicated for our
writing to be understood. Send stuff that would be of interest
of police across borders or before any planned travel where
police encounters are to be expected. Dress differently, live
with non-sketchy people (or don’t live in houses with names
or bumper sticker style aesthetics, screaming to get raided),
or create networks of support beyond the typical communities (social groups) that draw police attention. The state
doesn’t need to arrest us to scare us, and they do not need
evidence or a warrant for that. They’ll raid anything and
visit everywhere, with the intention to arrest you or not, they
can definitely fuck your shit up, without physically putting
you in jail.
Additionally, as wonderful as it is to meet people who share
similar outlooks, words are simply words, and relationships
take time to become trust worthy ones. It’s important that
this is taken into account when forming revolutionary bonds,
where secrets or ideas could be exposed. Just because someone talks the talk, does not mean they are not a cop (or exjunkie trying to get off some charges). At the same time it is
important to be smart with this, as opposed to reactionary and
sensational. Realize who your friends are, and the degree to
which you know them. Ask questions about people’s pasts
whom you know purely as a result of “political”, “intellectual”, or “social” affinity. Realize the circumstances where
you meet people. Obviously friends you meet at random
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everyday locations or have known since childhood are
to be less of a concern. It is much more important to
reserve your concern or anxiety for people you meet
and connect with at publicized “radical” events. Say
conferences, book fairs, or demonstrations. You see
this mistake of immediate trust in the case of Eric McDavid, or lack of concern regarding circumstances by
Daniel McGowan or The Texas 2 (all 3 of which are
mentioned in this issue of the magazine and all three of
whom are currently in prison). While they are currently
imprisoned, it would be only appropriate to recognize
their mistakes.
These are a few things to take into consideration when
trying to protect one’s revolutionary projects or comrades. I want to stress that people need to recognize
this consistent and fairly new strategy of repression that
stems from an analytical confusion of new styles of resistance and ideas in conflict with the state. We hope
people take this as a sign that things are very much
coming up on their radar. But while the state remains
confused, people need to further complicate things, and
stop being lazy with their safety. We don’t need celebrities, we don’t need famous authors, we don’t need
social clubs, we don’t need leaders, and we don’t need

heroes. We need to realize the significance of our ideas,
and the significance of having the state’s attention, and
really make it so when they cast their fishing hooks,
they don’t land in a 3 foot pond, but bounce off a thick
layer of ice.
Personal and collective security is indispensable to
any revolutionary community that intends to take itself seriously in any way. The academics laugh this off
because they are completely worthless and perceived
as no threat by the state. You can join their laughter,
but when you are visited, or working overtime to pay a
lawyer, we assume your smirk will be wiped off your
face.

Note:
Janice Guattari and the Anti-Repression League of
Boston have been providing analytical updates on
state methods of repression since 1969. She is a respected and influential voice in the Boston area, and
her project has helped to inform revolutionaries and
frustrated people around the world, of obstacles to
expect with resisting the state.

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OBSTACLES

updates

on before
the revolt
Supporting each other. Learning from each other. Standing strong together.

Steve Murphy Sentenced
Steve Murphy, who placed an incendiary device inside of under construction
condominium complex in 2006 as an
Earth Liberation Front action, was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison in
April. It was unclear who had done the
action until investigators matched DNA
extracted from the incendiary device to
a sample of Murphy’s DNA in a law enforcement database.
As of this writing, Steve is in transit,
but keep checking supportsteve.org or
the bop.gov inmate finder for his address.
Chinese Anarchist
Imprisoned
After being detained for more than a
year, Chinese anarchist Liu Xiaobo
was sentenced, on Christmas Day, to 11
years in prison. The writer’s wife and
foreign diplomats were banned from
the Dec. 23 trial, which took less than
three hours; defense attorneys are not
permitted to discuss what transpired.
Liu Xiaobo had been charged with “inciting subversion of state power” and
his case goes back 20 years, to 1989.
He was a key participant at Tiananmen Square and has spent a total of
five years in prison, including three in
Re-education Through Labor, for his
speaking up at in the 1989 protests.
Infoshop Court Update
Berkeley, California-- The Long Haul
community space beat a government
motion to dismiss its federal lawsuit
meaning that the government defen-

dants have to answer the lawsuit and
a trial is now scheduled for May 2011.
Long Haul filed suit against all law
enforcement involved in an August
27, 2008 police raid on the space by a
joint terrorism task force composed of
University of California police, sheriffs and the FBI. The police seized all
computers at Long Haul as part of an
investigation of threatening emails
allegedly sent from a public-access
computer connected to the internet at
Long Haul. The state’s willingness to
monitor IP addresses and e-mail traffic
should serve to keep you on your toes
and tighten your online/electronic security practices.
Obama Supports DNA
Database of “Presumed
Innocents”
United States-- President Barack
Obama recently expressed support for
DNA sampling within the criminal procedure upon arrest by local, state and
federal authorities.
When it comes to civil liberties, the
Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state
secrets, the Patriot Act and domestic
spying.
DNA sampling would be taken at the
time of arrest and databased. Whether
or not the arrestee is convicted, s/he
would still have their DNA warehoused
and accessible.
Arrests in Berlin
Berlin-- Four autonomen were sur-

veilled and arrested, eventually charged
with “suspected of arranging an appointment in order to commit an arson
on a car” and “suspected of arranging
an appointment for committing a crime
– an arson against the national academy for security politics. The four were
released and their persons and vehicle
clean of any suspect materials. It is presumed that they were arrested due to
their political affiliations and that they
live in housing projects. The State, as
is typical, target poor people who have
the gall to organize against it, using intimidation as one of its many tools.
Swedish Eco-saboteur
Imprisoned
Sweden-- Anarchist and eco-saboteur
Jonatan Strandberg has been convicted
of various Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
actions, including the firebombing of a
communications tower. After his initial
imprisonment, Jonatan has since been
transferred to a higher security prison.
The transfer stems from being active
in the prisoners‘ council of trust, an
uncompromising stance towards the
prison administration and articles he
had written for the latest issue of the
prisoner paper ‘Kakbladet.’
Jonatan’s supporters have built a website,
againstthewaiting.blogsport.de,
and are strongly encouraging folks to
“write letters of support and attack!”.
Jonatan is interested in (green) anarchism, anti-civ theory, indigenous
struggles…the wild. He likes music
of all kind, from hardcore to hip hop,
drum and bass, even folk). He’ll be also
really happy to receive posters and fliFTTP #9-Repression-Pg. 60

ers from the resistance on the outside…
If you send him books, make sure that
there is nothing written by hand in them
and if you send him CDs they have to be
original otherwise he won’t get them.
Jonatan Strandberg
KVA Hällby
Box 100
64045 Kvicksund
Sweden
LOVE Park 4: Update: The
End Is Finally In Sight?
United States-- There has been good
news coming out of Philadelphia for
the remaining defendants in the LOVE
Park 4 case.
Back in December, Common Pleas
Court Judge Frank Palumbo finally
made a decision on an appeal issue that
had been in front of him for almost a
year, denying the District Attorney’s
appeal of a ruling made Dec. 12, 2008
by Municipal Court President Judge
Marsha H. Neifield. Palumbo re-affirmed Neifield’s order requiring prosecutors to disclose the names of the undercover narcotics officers involved in
the 2007 altercation with protesters of a
scheduled Ku Klux Klan rally in Center
City that never actually happened.
The city prosecutor argued that divulging the undercover officers’ names
would endanger them. But Neifield
noted that even the prosecution admitted that the same officers’ names had
previously been disclosed when they
testified in drug trials. Though concerned with the undercover officers’
safety, Neifield said she was offended
that police did not even anonymously
mention the officers’ presence in arrest
reports for the defendants. Without that
information, which Neifield said was
mandatory for prosecutors to disclose,
it would be impossible for defense attorneys to prove their claim that undercover officers precipitated the confrontation.
Unfortunately, on her very last day in
office, Philadelphia District Attorney

Lynn Abraham - notorious for putting
more African-Americans on death row
(101) during her tenure in office then
any other city in the US - took the opportunity to take one last swipe at Philadelphia’s activist community that she
so reviled, and filed an appeal of Judge
Palumbo’s December decision to the
Pennsylvania State Superior Court.
This would have meant another long,
drawn out court process for the defendants, costing thousands of dollars just
to cover the cost of court transcripts
and other legal filings, not to mention
their attorneys’ time.
Surprisingly, more good news was received in early January.
Within days of taking office, Philadelphia’s new district attorney Seth Williams had a senior staff member reach
out to LOVE Park 4 attorneys to “find
out what it would take to make this case
go away,” offering a very good deal to
bring the case to close. The offer: all 8
current misdemeanor charges of varying degrees would be reduced to a single disorderly conduct charge, which
would be a violation (the equivalent of
a traffic summons) and no fine or period of probation would be required.
Defendants agreed to accept this deal
and in early February, they returned to
court, prepared to take the deal and see
this case finally come to a close. In a
magnificent display of the inner workings of our “justice system,” the day
did not go as planned.
The assistant district attorney in court
that day had no idea about any offer
from the DA’s office, and when that
finally got worked out, the ADA and
judge could not decide what court had
jurisdiction to accept the defendant’s
plea. You’d think that after a senior
member of the DA’s office personally
reached out to the defendant’s lawyers,
they’d just want this case to be over, but
that was not the case. Defense attorneys
tried to figure out a solution that would
benefit all parties, but every proposal
was shot down by Judge Palumbo, say-

ing they did not follow procedure and
he would not allow anything out of the
ordinary to occur in his courtroom.
So, here we sit, almost 2 months later,
waiting for the District Attorney’s office to figure things out - a deal on the
table and defendants eager to take it.
The end of this case is finally in sight
- we think.
For more information, contact the
LOVE Park 4 Defense Committee:
www.myspace.com/supportlovepark4
lovepark4@gmail.com
Background on the Love Park 4
On July 23rd 2007, four Philadelphiaarea anti-racist activists were arrested
on multiple trumped up charges stemming from a counter-demonstration
against a Ku Klux Klan rally that was
scheduled to take place in Center City
that morning.
Two men wearing neo-Nazi t-shirts
were verbally confronted by anti-racists and forced to leave. The men then
boarded a waiting SUV, at which time
another verbal confrontation ensued,
at the end of which one of the SUV’s
windows was damaged. Police personnel waited until this point to break their
cover and identify themselves - the
driver of the SUV was a Philadelphia
Police Detective attached to an FBI
Joint Terrorism Task Force while the
passenger and owner of the vehicle was
an FBI special agent.
Trial Date Set for RNC 8
United States-- Back in February, the
RNC 8 (eight anarchist organizers facing felony conspiracy charges from
their organizing prior to the 2008 Republican National Convention) had a
pre-trial hearing to schedule yet more
hearings leading up to their trial. The
February hearing came after months of
uncertainty about when their pre-trial
proceedings would continue and when
their trial date would be set. Summer?
Fall? Whenever the state felt like it?
At this hearing, they learned that their
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joint trial would commence on October 25—more than two years after they
were preemptively arrested in the days
leading up to the RNC.
The RNC 8—Luce Guillén-Givins,
Max Specktor, Nathanael Secor, Eryn
Trimmer, Monica Bicking, Erik Oseland, Robert Czernik and Garrett
Fitzgerald—have been using their
time outside of the courthouse to prepare for their trial. They even created
a documentary about it: “We’re Getting Ready (for Court).” Check it out at
http://www.rnc8.org.
Several days of evidentiary hearings in
May were also scheduled, so look for
more updates soon. The court dates
are May 3–6, 13, and 14. During these
days, the lawyers for the 8 will argue
motions such as ones to suppress evidence seized during the preemptive
raids prior to the RNC and the probable cause motion. The hearings will
include testimony from witnesses, including cops. As always, court support
will be needed for these hearings, so
come on down to the St. Paul courthouse if you’re in the area.
In February, the eight defendants and
their lawyers filled the jury box and defense table while supporters packed the
public area of the courtroom. The hearing was regarding several motions that
had been filed in the previous months.
While the proceedings were less than
riveting and most of the decisions about
the motions were made in the judge’s
chambers, away from public view, there
were some surprising results. Even our
old friend Bob Fletcher, Ramsey County Sheriff, couldn’t resist showing up
briefly to watch the hearing.
The defendants argued a motion for
dismissal of the case because the state
violated their First Amendment rights.
The state has disclosed a series of documents from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department suggesting that the
police singled out defendants due to
their political views and writings. For
just one example, the Ramsey County
Sheriff’s Department opened an inves-

tigation on Luce Guillén-Givins based
on publicly available, Constitutionally protected political writings and a
“criminal history” that only included
charges later dismissed by the courts.
Judge Teresa Warner took this motion
under advisement and we’re still waiting for her ruling.
The defendants also argued a motion
about discriminatory investigation and
prosecution, stating that the state manufactured the conditions for their arrests
by opening an investigation based on
their perceived political beliefs and later pursuing their arrests and charging
them with criminal conspiracy based
upon their politics rather than their alleged actions. This type of abuse by the
Sheriff’s office raises serious questions
about why the state is prosecuting the
RNC 8 because of their radical political
philosophy and writings. Judge Warner
took this motion under advisement as
well, so stay tuned for news of her ruling once we receive it.
Additionally, the defendants argued
motions to suppress the content of the
illegal raids on the Convergence Center
at 627 Smith Ave. in St. Paul, a communication center and several residences. During these raids, the state seized
numerous computers, literature, documents, and standard household cleaning and maintenance items. The search
warrants were based on incomplete
information provided to judges, including the fact that one of the alleged
RNC Welcoming Committee members
of concern to FBI informant Andrew
Clark Darst was in fact an informant
for the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department. The defendants also filed motions to learn more about the payments
made to these informants. The judge
took these motions under advisement
as well.
The defendants also argued a motion
regarding their rights to utilize a jury
questionnaire in order to expedite the
jury selection process, ensuring it is fair
to all those involved and that the jurors’
biases are fully known. Judge Warner
granted this motion, so hopefully this

questionnaire will result in a more thorough examination of the jurors.
One of the most interesting motions that
was scheduled to be argued asked to
compel discovery about a fictitious anarchist group manufactured by police:
“Indy TACT (Temporary Anti-Capitalist Team).” Retired Bloomington Police Officer Richard Greelis admitted
in his post-RNC memoir, Cop Book,
that this inflammatory group was a creation of his police department, with the
goal of adopting a sector of St. Paul
in which to encourage illegal activity.
(See http://tc.indymedia.org/2009/sep/
ex-bloomington-cop-richard-greelisbook-reveals-rnc-undercover-workpdf) Therefore, the defendants filed a
motion for additional discovery regarding this group and its role in creating an
environment of police repression and
entrapment. In court, though, this motion was withdrawn and may be refiled
at a later date.
As the pre-trial work proceeds and the
trial date approaches, we need all the
help and support we can get to fight
these bogus charges! Now is a perfect time to get involved. We always
need help raising funds for their legal
defense, which is expected to exceed
$250K. (Yeah, four zeros after that twofive.) You can donate online through
the support website, host an event to
raise awareness of the trial, become involved in the Defense Committee, and
come to court if you’re in or around the
Twin Cities. If you’re attending the US
Social Forum in Detroit in June, come
to the RNC 8 support strategizing session and help us prepare for trial!
For more information:
visit: rnc8.org
UPDATES ON ALFREDO AND
CHRISTOS IN GREEK PRISON
Going into print of Issue 9, both Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopulos
remain in prison in Greece. Although
they continue to be recognized in the
form of a ferocious solidarity shown
in clandestine attacks across the world;
both remain in prison, and potentially
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face additional charges. We have reported on this case since its beginning
last year. For the new readers: both
were arrested after being stopped and
accused of conducting a bank robbery
in the small city of Trikala in Greece.
The police claim that Christos conducted the bank robbery, while Bonanno
waited outside in a rental car. Following a tip from a snitch citizen, they
were allegedly found in a hotel with the
stolen money, and arrested. Both have
remained in Jail since their original
arrests in the fall of 2009. Bank robbery has been a historical and successful part of anarchist and revolutionary
struggles-- funding resistance at the
expense of the enemy: capital. If such
allegations are true, this is additional
evidence for a need to support these
comrades. We would like to add that
Christos specifically said that Alfredo
was not aware that the robbery was going to happen, and is not responsible
for any of the allegations.

Since our last issue, updates continue
to be hard to acquire due to geographic
and language barriers. The two most
recent legal updates we have on Alfredo and Christos are both unfortunate.
Since our last issue Alfredo and Christos were both denied bail. The reason
they were denied bail was never mentioned, although it is obvious that two
very courageous revolutionaries like
themselves would not gain the trust of
their most prominent enemy: the state.
But denying bail in the case of Alfredo
means denying him access to an environment where he can regain his health.
Reports of prison conditions, mixed
with reports of his health conditions
both scare and enrage us. They were
denied bail the week of February 14th
and about 10 days later concerns of
new charges by the Greek state became
public. Although Alfredo’s lawyers
bluntly deny the allegations, concerns
of a second bank robbery charge have
been reported on:

This would not be the first time in prison for Alfredo, as he is 73 years old and
was recently released from prison in Italy due to health conditions, as he overcomes diabetes and cardio-respiratory
problems. Since his time in Greek prison, he has also been diagnosed as having a tumor in his shoulder, but repeatedly been denied not only new medical
attention, but also that for his diabetes
medication. Alfredo specifically comes
close to our heart as the author of multiple texts appreciated by this magazine. “Armed Joy” (a pamphlet he was
sentenced to 18 months in prison for
writing), “Against Amnesty,” “The Anarchist Tension,” “Lets Destroy Work,
Lets Destroy the Economy,” “Locked
Up,” (written in prison about prison),
and many other essays that have been
featured in this magazine, in the form
of quote, excerpt, or influence. His
words and life have been an inspiration
to us, and we want to encourage people
across the world to stay aware of what
is going on with Alfredo and Christos,
and continue the struggle they remain
dedicated to outside of those prison
walls.

“According to police sources cited by
the media, Bonanno, with a false beard
and wig, has been recognized by a witness of a bank robbery on the basis of
a CCTV video, while he robbed the
Bank of Cyprus, using a pistol, on July
6th in Argostoli, Greece. This information has been partially confirmed by a
spokesman of the central police station, according to which “an old Italian
is considered author of the robbery at
Argostoli, which yielded 26,000 euros.
The spokesman did not give Bonanno’s
name directly but implied that it was
him.”
Due to Bonnano’s “criminal background” and notoriety as an influential
voice for insurrectionary anarchy, it is
obvious that the Greek state will try
to use his current imprisonment as an
opportunity to demean the struggle Alfredo so incredibly remains dedicated
to. It is the responsibility of those who
share his rage and desire for another
world, to communicate that his imprisonment will not go unseen. Many have
already done this.
Since our last issue Alfredo and Chris-

tos have also been transferred to a new
prison. You can now write both comrades at:
Alfredo Bonanno
Christos Stratigopoulos
Dikastikes Filakes Koridallos
T.K. 18110, Athens. Greece
Solidarity in the form of word, fire, and
revolutionary violence have been occurring around the world.
Demonstrations in Berlin, London,
Rome, Lisbon (Portugal), Bologna
(Italy), and Greece have helped let the
Greek state know how global the concern for Bonnano and Christos is. Additionally, pamphlets were made available to the public. In Italy, Alfredo’s
home land, demonstrations were met
with an overwhelming police presence,
obviously due to an awareness of the
perspectives and influences that drive
many of Bonnano’s supporters. Night
time attacks have also occurred. An arson was claimed on a Bank in Greece
the first week of April. An anonymous
caller phoned the mainstream newspaper leaving only this message:
“Terrorists are the banks and capitalists. Immediate release of Alfredo
Bonnano,whose ongoing imprisonment equals his physical extermination considering his age (73 now) and
his health situation. Freedom to C.
Stratigopoulos,to Dimitrakis and to
Voutsis-Vogiatzis. May the fires we
light dry our tears for the murder of
comrade Lambros Foundas.”
A group calling themselves “Alchemists for Chaos” claimed responsibility for two attacks on two University
research facilities in Ioannina, Greece.
They stated that this was partially motivated by the arrest of Alfredo and
Christos, and that they demand nothing more than the immediate release of
both.
The Royal Bank of Scotland was attacked in Bristol, UK with rocks and
fire the last week of February. Alfredo
and Christos were both mentioned as
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motivations for the attack.
Paint bombs were thrown at the Center
for Judiciary Studies in Lisbon the second week of February. The institution
is the educational facility for multiple
future judges in Portugal. The action
was declared in solidarity with Alfredo
and Christos.
In New York, a bank and university
were attacked in solidarity with Alfredo
and Christos at the end of February. A
communiqué was written claiming at
the action:
“We attacked Marathon bank, a subsidiary of the same Piraeus bank that
Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are accused of expropriating.
Capitalism is a system of relationships,
which goes from inside to out, from
outside to in, from above to below, and
from below to above. Everything is
relative, everything is in chains. Capitalism is a condition both of the world
and of the soul.”
-Franz Kafka
There is nothing left; nothing that
hasn’t been molded, molested, or completely crushed; nothing that has managed to escape the network of power as
it scours every inch of the earth, lodging itself into every crevice. Crowding
each moment, the omnipresent asphyxiation provides ample evidence to this
all-encompassing totalization. Heads
bowed, backs bent, we bear the weight
of the day in our beleaguered entrails.
Now taking on increasingly monstrous qualities, a vampire-likeness
of achieved full nocturnality, even the
sleeper finds his dreams inhabited.
Robbing us of expectations, snatching
away our latent potential, Capital has
acquired the speculative capability to
recuperate futures and integrate things
before their invention. After colonizing
the entire world, the enemy now works
to conquer the collective realm of our
imaginations where we once plotted
and, consequently, envisioned its very
demise.

The cooption of creativity signaled
the predetermined defeat, which led
the Marxists to surrender to the British Museum before they realized an
1848. The only pseudo-victory to their
credit consists in pushing Negri out of
the spotlight by ushering “communization” and “insurrection” into the academy’s discursive field. Both trends can
be written off as failed experiments because each has neglected to activate the
only concept capable of giving jargon
any significance. The Struggle.

such, we then struck Brooklyn College’s administrative building. Lastly,
we attacked Marathon bank, a subsidiary of the same Piraeus bank that
Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are accused of expropriating.
We extend our solidarity to the two imprisoned comrades and, as Bonanno’s
health deteriorates in a prison cell, we
adhere to the following principle:

“To fight, to be defeated, to fight again,
to be defeated again, to fight anew until
the final victory.”
- An old Italian adage

Please continue to stay up to date with
the case of Alfredo and Christos by visiting this web site:
aftertrikala.blogspot.com
Please also donate via Paypal:
angry_sysiphus@yahoo.com

In practice, the clashes and occupations
have divorced the leftist baggage and
chosen everyday life as the terrain for
conflict, yet unfortunately expression
still continues to abide by the activist
calendar. A day of action is paled by
a year of misery. Like long fits of depression, extended bouts of downtime
undermine each subversive act, resulting in the production of militant event
planners: blinded to the past and merely
anticipating the next unsuccessful Bastille storming. They strike at the same
tempo ordinary citizens attend birthday
parties, riot at the same rate of wedding crashers and surely, at this pace,
they will never RSVP the bourgeoisie
funeral.
Detached theory and relegated practice
present themselves as nothing other
than the comorbid symptoms of statified ideology. Now we can confidently
diagnose that the much prophesied
“coming” can only amount to a passing fad.
We notice the relentless internalized repression masquerading as patience and
so we refuse to wait for March 4th, the
ides of March or, for that matter, any
date to come. We expressed our distaste
for the veiled technological prison of
surveillance and electronic monitoring
by sabotaging several of the soon to be
installed ID-card scanners at the Hunter
College campus. Against education as

“For an eye, two eyes. For a tooth,
the whole face.”

Update on Scott DeMuth
and Carrie feldman
United States-- Much has happened
to Carrie Feldman and Scott DeMuth,
two activists from Minneapolis, since
our last report in Fire to the Prisons.
They were both subpoenaed before a
federal grand jury in Davenport, Iowa
on November 17 of last year as part of
an investigation into an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) raid at the University
of Iowa in 2004. They both refused to
cooperate and were jailed on civil contempt. Shortly thereafter, Scott was
charged with conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA)
and released pending trial while Carrie
was stuck in jail for an indeterminate
time, which could have lasted as long
as the duration of the grand jury (another 11 months from the time she was
taken hostage).
On February 17, Scott was re-indicted
for conspiracy with a slightly more specific charge, although it is still flawed.
The new indictment came after Scott’s
lawyers filed motions to dismiss his
case in part because the indictment was
unconstitutionally vague. Rather than
responding to the motions, Prosecutor
Cliff Cronk issued a new indictment,
which made the original defense motions irrelevant and caused Scott’s lawyers to have to re-file the motions.
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On March 18, four months and one day
after being taken into custody on civil
contempt for refusing to testify, Carrie
was released. The US Attorney unexpectedly filed a motion stating that her
testimony was no longer needed, and
she was subsequently released. People
in Minneapolis were excited, especially since she was released the day
before a fundraiser dinner for her and
Scott was planned in Minneapolis and
she was able to be welcomed home in
style. Although her release was sudden,
it came on the heels of an FBI raid of a
well-known activist house in Salt Lake
City, Utah with a warrant issued by a
judge in the Southern District of Iowa,
the same district investigating the ALF
raid.
The March 15th raid of the Salt Lake
City residence certainly raises some
eyebrows and questions. There is still
little but speculation to go on, but
the raid was clearly linked to Scott’s
charges under the AETA and Carrie’s
overdue release. According to blogger
Will Potter, who posted the warrant, the
raid was justified in part by the alleged
mentioning of someone named “P” in
Scott’s notebook, seized during a raid
prior to the 2008 RNC in St. Paul; this
was apparently interpreted as denoting
Peter Young, thus “establishing” a link
of sorts. (Yes, it seems weak to us, too.)
In a remarkably clear instance of an info-grab, computers, books, pamphlets,
and other items ostensibly related to
“animal terrorism” were taken from
the residence, but no one was arrested.
Young is, of course, one of the most
outspoken defenders of militant direct
action in the defense of non-human
animals, which is historically a reason
for people to be targeted by the state.
His inclusion in this apparently wideranging investigation fits neatly into a
pattern recognizable to anyone familiar
with COINTELPRO and other attempts
to destroy movement organizing.
The house raid is one of the latest incidents in the ever-expanding investigation into the ALF raid. In mid-January,
Leana Stormont, a Virginia lawyer who

graduated from the University of Iowa
law school, was also subpoenaed as
part of the investigation. Her relationship—if any—to the events in Iowa
remains unclear, and she has not been
in contact with the support committee.
The prosecution is clearly grasping at
straws to figure out a way to argue for a
conspiracy existing so they can justify
all their expenses and cover up the fact
that all their money and might haven’t
helped them “solve” the case of the
2004 raid.
More recently, on April 12 at the federal courthouse in Davenport, Scott and
his defense team met for what was supposed to be a final pre-trial conference
before an early May trial date. Citing
his own unpreparedness as the primary
motivation, Cronk filed a motion to
push back the trial date at least until
early June and perhaps into July. Magistrate Judge Shields approved the continuance to an as-yet-unspecified date
even though Scott’s previous request
for a continuance had been denied as
“unrealistic.”
The delay is clearly another of the
State’s stalling tactics and is indicative
of the fact that the case against Scott is
unwinnable. Having bought extra time,
Cronk is continuing his search to find a
brain for his straw-man case.
On April 13, Scott was re-indicted for
a second time. This time, the conspiracy charges expanded from the ALF
raid at the University in Iowa in 2004
to include Lakeside Ferrets in Minnesota “and other animal enterprises
elsewhere” with “persons known and
unknown to the Grand Jury.” Additionally, the alleged conspiracy is now
supposed to have run from September
2004 until the beginning of May 2006.
The second superseding indictment was
submitted one day after Scott appeared
in the federal courthouse in Davenport
and the prosecutor, Cliff Cronk, successfully argued for a continuance for
the trial because he needed more time
to prepare. In response, Scott’s lawyers
have filed a motion to dismiss this in-

dictment due to Cronk’s prosecutorial
misconduct. In the motion to dismiss,
the defense team argues that Cronk
“intentionally misled defense counsel,
and possibly the Court, falsely claiming
that he needed more time to respond to
dismissal motions that he had every intention of attempting to obviate by obtaining yet another indictment.”
For more information about Carrie and
Scott and to donate to their defense
fund, visit http://davenportgrandjury.
wordpress.com. You can sign up for the
announcement listserv there as well.
You can also join the “Support Carrie
and Scott! Resist State Repression!”
Facebook group to stay informed and
get involved in supporting them. But
don’t stop there! Anyone can host a
fundraiser, print and distribute the flyers available on the support website,
and talk to their friends and families
about the issues and why we all must
fight back and stand in solidarity with
Carrie and Scott.
Marie Mason Update
United States-- Marie Mason is currently serving almost 22 years for two
acts of property destruction, the longest
sentence of any Green Scare prisoner.
At her plea bargain, she admitted guilt
to participating in 13 Earth Liberation
Front actions, as well as one claimed
by the Animal Liberation Front; no one
was harmed in any of these actions. Her
sentence is currently being appealed.
Mason was turned in by her then-husband, Frank Ambrose, who spied on
numerous activists for years, and then
filed divorce papers the day she was arrested. Ambrose later caused Mason’s
son to arrested on misdemeanor charges stemming from when he was a teenager; these were later dropped.
Mason is adjusting to life in Waseca, a
minimum-security prison, and is currently fighting to receive vegan meals.
She is vegan for a combination of ethical, religious and medical reasons. The
Waseca warden, however, has refused
to provide vegan options, and Mason
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has been suffering ill-health, including dizziness and extreme pain in her
hands. She is currently appealing her
request for a vegan diet to regional Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials. However, a wrench was thrown in the process and now she has to redo several
steps.
Mason loves letters, but she can only
write to a pre-approved list of 100 people. However, she can receive letters
from anyone.
For more information on how to support Mason, and for a sample letter
of what to write to BOP officials, see:
www.supportmariemason.org.
Marie Jeanette Mason #04672-061
FCI Waseca, Post Office Box 1731
Waseca, Minnesota 56093
South Carolina Now
Requires “Subversives”
to Register
United States-- South Carolina’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,”
passed last year and now officially on
the books, states that “every member
of a subversive organization, or an organization subject to foreign control,
every foreign agent and every person
who advocates, teaches, advises or
practices the duty, necessity or propriety of controlling, conducting, seizing
or overthrowing the government of the
United States ... shall register with the
Secretary of State.”

From Eric’s Support Group
Dear Friends,
On Friday, February 19, the government filed their reply brief to Eric’s
appeal. The document they filed was
90 pages long - 90 pages of lies and
slander in their continued effort to demonize Eric and justify their own inhumanity in locking a person in prison
for 20 years for “thought crime.” The
document is full of continued attacks
on Eric’s character as well as misrepresentations and lies about the actual unfolding of events. All of this, combined
with outrageous distortions of the law,
make the government’s reply a rather
distasteful read. But, for those of you
who are interested in such sour fare, we
are posting a copy of the reply brief on
Eric’s website in the documents section
<http://www.supporteric.org/pdfs/
govtreplybrieffeb19.pdf>. We recommend keeping something sweet nearby.
Or perhaps something to settle the
stomach.

hours from where I live. Renting a car
and paying for gas is incredibly expensive, and it’s a cost I just can’t carry on
my own. The support Eric has received
from all of you over the last four years
has been amazing, and we are more
than thankful for all you have done.
Eric has shown a steadfast, unwavering
commitment to do the right thing and
fight the outrageous charges against
him, despite facing severe repercussions for that decision. Please consider making a donation to support him,
however small. Every tiny bit helps.
Keeping our connections with each
other in situations like this is essential.
The state has tried to sever Eric’s connections to his family and communities. They know that this is where our
strength lies. Our visits together are a
very powerful tool in fighting the isolation and loneliness that prison can
bring and in keeping each other strong.
Please consider donating to help us
keep these connections with each other.

As painful as this document was to
read, we are incredibly relieved that it
has been filed. Eric’s lawyer now has 2
weeks to file his final response. We are
hopeful that this will happen on time,
as every delay means that much more
time that Eric unnecessarily spends in
prison. This response will be the last
document that needs to be filed for the
appeal. Then we begin the wait for the
court’s response. Unfortunately, this
could be a very long wait.

To donate to Eric’s support fund, you
can visit the “Help” section on his
website and use the PayPal link to donate online. If you would rather not
use PayPal (which we completely understand), please email us and we will
let you know how to send a check or
money order.

The law also gives subversive organizations “subject to foreign control” 30
days to register with the state after setting up shop in South Carolina.
The law states that “fraternal” and “patriotic” groups are exempt from the law,
but only if they don’t “contemplate the
overthrow of the government.”

In the meantime, we want to urge you
all to please not forget about Eric! He
still needs your support in his struggle
for freedom. One of the most important
ways you can support Eric is to donate
to his support fund. We have some money set aside in case we have expenses to
cover in the event of a new trial, but the
money that we use to keep up the website and help pay for my visits with Eric
are quickly running out. These visits
are incredibly important to us and help
us maintain some sanity in this insane
situation.

Eric McDavid
Update

Eric is currently being held in Victorville, California - which is almost 7

A PDF of the registration form can
be found at: http://fitsnews.com/
wp-content/uploads/2010/02/
SubversiveAgentForm.pdf

Eric McDavid #16209-097
FCI Victorville Medium II
Post Office Box 5300
Adelanto, California 92301
For more information:
supporteric.org
E-mail: info@supporteric.org
Washington State
Introduces So-Called
“Eco-Terrorism” Bill
United States-- Senator Val Stevens has
sponsored SB 6566, “an act prohibiting
terrorist acts against animal and natural
resource facilities.” The so-called “ecoterrorism” bill, like many others, ostensibly targets underground groups like
the Animal Liberation Front and Earth
Liberation Front. The reality is that
speech otherwise protected and acts of
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civil disobedience can also be penalized as terrorism under the bill. This
should not be a surprise, it’s simply the
state letting us see what we should already know-- the rights we are granted
will quickly be taken away when we
use them for liberation.
Even if we accept the utterly illegitimate mantle of state law, the bill proves
especially troubling in how it defines
“eco-terrorist organizations;” that it
specifies civil disobedience as terrorist;
and that simply speaking out in support
of underground organizations can also
constitute terrorism.
The clear hope is that as the safety of
ineffective tactics is removed and those
tactics are criminalized, folks will skip
past the petition-signing and lockdowns and get to hitting the state and
capital with the full force of unmitigated rage, as manifest in every weapon
imaginable.
Update on Queens Raid
and The Twittering
Anarchist
United States-- Finally the state of
Pennsylvania has decided to unseal
the affidavit which lead to the arrests
of the “Twitter 2″ at the Carefree Inn
outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on
September 24th during protests against
the G-20.
The affidavit which is signed on September 24th, 2009, by State Troopers
Glenn D. Hopey and Gregg J. Kravitsky
(who also signed off on affidavits during the 2000 RNC protests in Philadelphia) has been kept under seal since the
arrests meaning that neither we nor our
lawyers were able to have access to it.
There is not much valuable information
that we can obtain from reading this recently released affidavit. It seems that
undercover state troopers were in attendance at spokes council meetings in
Pittsburgh, and from there they claim to
have followed Elliot Madison via car as
he left the meeting on the 23rd, following him to the Carefree Inn where his

room was raided the next day.
It is humorous to read the pages of
imaginative descriptions of anarchist
tactics and supposed anarchist activity.
The “Anarchist Weapons” (pg. 8-9) that
the police claim may be used: “Human
body fluids-Including blood, urine, and
feces” , “chains wrapped in kerosene
soaked rags launched with projectiles”,
“Super-Soakers” also filled with urine,
and “Rolling Barrels” filled with cement (!).
With that we present you with the affidavit in PDF form <http://friendsof
tortuga.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/
aff_of_prob_cause.pdf>. All of the redactions made in black were made by
the State of Pennsylvania presumably
to hide the identities of state troopers who infiltrated the spokes council
meetings, all the redactions in red were
made by us to remove home addresses
and other personal information of our
roommates and their families.
For updates, visit:
friendsoftortuga.wordpress.com
Phoenix Update:
On January 16th 2010, a contingent
of about 100 or so anarchists and antiauthoritarians participated in a march
of thousands against Maricopa County
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his racist cronies. The group of anarchists and antiauthoritarians stood together as members of the D.O.A. (Dine’, O’odham,
Anarchist) Block; a multitude which
coalesced organically through participating together in many actions in the
years and months prior to January 16th.
The D.O.A. Block succeeded in changing the discussion regarding illegality,
racism, and borders; bringing new and
difficult questions to the table to expand
ruptures and pry apart fissures. This not
only occurred in the positioning of the
D.O.A. Block, but the assertive tactics
the block took when confronted with
the Police harassment and provocation.
Toward the end the march, after much
pushing and pulling with the police,
a mounted officer found an excuse to

charge into the crowed and unleash a
wide assault of pepper spray on the
protesters, namely those in and around
the D.O.A. Block. Five anarchists were
arrested. Two are currently still facing
felony charges of assaulting an officer,
however the State’s cases against them
continues to fall. While D.O.A. saw
light for the first time amidst the flames
of police brutality, it is safe to say that
it has transcended the initial actions of
the Block, and has become more of a
mentality, a lens through which to view
oppression and how to fight it. The future is looking very exciting. The future
is looking very D.O.A.
Read O’Odham Solidarity Across
Borders Collective’s account of January 16th at:
(http://oodhamsolidarity.blogspot.
com/2010/02/battlin-phoenix-osabcstatement-on.html).
Denver Anarchist Goes
to Trial in Copenhagen
Noah Weiss, an anarchist from Denver,
is facing politically motivated charges
which accuse him and his codefendant
of organizing to disrupt the public order and do violence to police, and face
stiff prison sentences as well as deportation form Denmark. These charges
come out of his involvement in organization of demonstrations against the
COP15 conference in Copenhagen in
December 2009. His trial is a part of
a campaign of police repression carried out by the Danish police during
the COP15 in which over 2,000 people
were arrested within a week of protests.
Of all arrested, only around 30 were
charged with any crime, and those that
were charged were kept in jail for between one week and 47 days without
trial. Some have already gone to trial
and either been acquitted or received
small jail sentences and heavy fines for
charges such as assaulting a police officer or throwing a stone.
The first part of his trial happened
March 16th and 19th, where a good
deal of evidence presented consisted of
intercepted text messages and recorded
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conversations dating back to September 2009. Noah’s next court dates are
August 24th, 25th, and 31st.
Anarchist Prisoner
Michael Sykes
has been transferred
Michael Sykes is an 18-year-old anarchist from Lambertville, MI, currently
serving a prison sentence for eco-related acts of property destruction, committed while he was a minor. He was
convicted of setting fire to two homes
under construction, and accused of attempting to cut down a utility pole,
burning down other homes under construction, and setting fire to a Kroger’s
semi-trailer.
He was tried as an adult and is currently serving a 4-10 year prison sentence
with somewhere between $200,000 and
$400,000 in restitution. While Michael
was 17 at the time of the alleged crimes,
he was tried as an adult. His motivation
was to interfere with sprawl, because
he “was tired of seeing all the forest being destroyed.”
Michael has had very little support
since he was first incarcerated, and
would much appreciate letters and other support. He has recently been transferred, and can be reached at the below
address:
Michael Sykes 696693
Michigan Reformatory
1342 West Main Street,
Ionia, MI 48846
Holly Works,
of the Oakland
100’s, trial postponed.
Oscar Grant was a young Black man,
who was murdered when he was shot
in the back by the Oakland BART police on New Years Eve 2009. In the aftermath of the murder, many Oakland
residents took to the streets and started
one of the biggest rebellions since those
in LA after the Rodney King verdict.
Many were arrested and those people
came to be known as the Oakland 100.
The only remaining charges are for

Holly Works. She is being brought up
on a charge of felony assault with a
deadly weapon on a police officer and
is facing a sentence of 6 years.
Holly’s lawyer has requested that ‘
in addition to any possible footage or
photos of the arrest at 12th and Alice,
Holly is also asking if anyone would be
interested in sharing their video footage from both Oscar Grant protest dates
(Jan. 7th & Jan. 14th) to help demonstrate for the jury the general atmosphere of the Oscar Grant protests and
the commonness of wearing bandanas
at demonstrations such as the Oscar
Grant protests.’ Holly’s trial was postponed to May 10th. Support people can
be contacted at oakland100(at)gmail.
com
David McKay of
the Texas 2 Transferred
David McKay, along with his codefendant Bradley Crowder, was one of the
many anarchists at the protests against
the 2009 Republican National Convention. Unfortunately, the government,
using the snitch Brandon Darby, entrapped these two, and David McKay
took a non-cooperating plea deal while
Bradley Crowder is still awaiting trial.
After a first trial that ended with a hung
jury, David pled to possession of unregistered(!) Molotov cocktails, and
received a 4 year sentence.
Recently, David was transferred to California to participate in a 9 month drug
program in an effort to reduce his sentence by as much as 12 months. Since
he has been moved, he has not received
much mail, and would greatly appreciate letters. Additionally, David writes
that he has beef with the skinheads at
the new prison because he’s participating in an integrated program (meaning inmates of ‘different races’ are cell
mates) which is usually a big no-no in
prisons. The threats of violence have
not materialized yet.
Write Him Here:
David Mckay #14130-041
FCI Herlong

FCI, P.O. BOX 800, Herlong, CA
96113
Activist House
Raided in Utah
On March 15, the FBI along with other
law enforcement agencies, raided
an activist house in Salt Lake City,
supposedly in connection with an
investigation into the Animal Liberation Front. This should not come as a
surprise, given that one of the house
mates is the infamous animal liberationist Peter Young, who had previously freed thousands of mink. The
warrant was issued by the Southern
District of Iowa, which likely connects
it to the government campaign against
Scott Demuth.
At least 15 computers were taken by the
FBI, along with boxes of documents,
notebooks, files, and address books.
The house is well-known in the area as
a gathering space for animal rights and
other activists. No arrests have been
made, and at this point it seems Iowa is
being used as a pretext for a continued
campaign of harassment and intimidation.
BJ Viehl
Reports to Prison
After being sentenced for the release of
650 mink, BJ Viehl has begun his 2 year
sentence in federal prison. With ‘good
time’, along with the credit earned for
pre-trial time, he hopes to be released
in late 2010. During the sentencing, the
judge made a point of referring to BJ
as a terrorist, and actually gave him a
higher sentence than the prosecution
had even asked for. The first months in
prison are always the hardest, and BJ
would appreciate any correspondence.
He can be written at
William Viehl
#15909-081, FCI Terminal Island,
Po Box 3007, San Pedro, CA 90731
Update on Jalil Muntaqim
Prisoner organizations at the Auburn
Correctional Facility in Upstate New
York had gotten approval for a presenFTTP #9-Repression-Pg. 68

tation to coincide with Black History
month, including 2 outside speakers.
They additionally asked political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim, who is currently
being held at Auburn, to speak during
the event. Jalil was a part of both the
Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and was given a 25 to life
sentence for his alleged role in the assassination of two NYC cops.
However, before the scheduled event,
the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association
protested to the prison administration
and succeeded in getting the warden
to stop Jalil’s speech. This is yet another example of the continued assault
against the Black Liberation Movement, and it’s prisoners. Jalil can be
reached at
Muntaqim, Jalil (Anthony Bottom)
#77A4283, Auburn CF, P.O. Box 618,
Auburn, NY 13021
The Petrozavodsk 3
In Petrozavodsk, Russia, without any
significant evidence, 3 young people
have been accused of vandalism at a
concert, namely throwing paint bombs
and distributing leaflets which criticized the established social and political order. As a result they have been
pressed and tortured and now the case
is being fabricated. These young people
desperately need both legal and financial assistance, and their support can be
reached at abc-msk@riseup.net.
Catalan Anarchist
Prisoner Amadeu
Casellas RELEASED//
put back into prison
On Tuesday, March 9th, after 24 years
of imprisonment, Amadeu Casellas was
released. An anarchist since the age of
14, Amadeu took on a project of bank
expropriations to fund revolutionaries and their organizations, eventually caught and sentenced to decades
in prison. Once imprisoned, he was
an active past of prison resistance organizing and went on several lengthy
hunger strikes. Amadeu’s early release

came as the result of a discrepancy in
old and new penal codes, revealing
that he served eight years longer than
he should have. And while the support of a few attorneys helped on the
legal side of securing his release, it was
acts of revolutionary solidarity that
kept enough pressure on bureaucrats
and politicians to get Amadeu free.
Anarchists did everything from writing letters and organizing benefits and
information sessions to burning cop
cars, sabotaging rail lines, and smashing banks. It was the full spectrum of
approaches, while maintaining a single
goal, that put Amadeu back on the
streets with us.
A few days before going into print we
discovered some very disheartening information:
On May 4, 2010, the court of Barcelona has sentenced Amadeu Casellas and
his wife Yamileth B.P. to three years in
prison for attempting to smuggle heroin
into Quatre Camins. The event supposedly took place in 2008, but Casellas
maintains the charges are fabricated.
This comes two months after his release from a long prison term in which
he undertook multiple hunger strikes.
Casellas was in prison for over 25 years
following a series of bank robberies to
fund revolutionary struggles.
This is quite obviously an attempt by
the state to further disempower Amadeu and his supporters. We extend
our utmost support and solidarity with
Amadeu during these incredibly tragic
times.
German Anarchist Free!
Germany-- On December 29th, 2009
Tobias P. was released from Moabit
prison. However, the prosecutor’s office is attempting to have his case reevaluated in hopes of having him reimprisoned. A common State tactic is
withholding a prisoner’s mail and in Tobias’ case, over 76 pieces of mail have
been held, the prison refusing to this
date to release them to the now-freed

anarchist. It is common knowledge that
the State gleans details from communications with prisoners in hopes of using
found information to arrest others.
HUGH AND TIGA’S FELONY
CHARGES DROPPED
Great news! Hugh and Tiga’s felony racketeering charges have been
dropped! We got word the morning of
March that, based on arguments made
by their lawyers at their last court appearance, the Felony Racketeering
charge they were each facing has been
deemed not legitimate (If you’re curious... the basis for this ruling is that,
under Indiana RICO law, conspiracy
charges cannot stem from misdemeanor charges).
While an analysis at this point would
be purely speculative, one course of
inquiry would lead us to infer that, as
Interstate -69 has become politically
impotent (“’I-69 is Dead’ in congress”
say local news sources), the political/
legal pressure on the opposition has become less a priority, especially on the
federal level with recent repression on
comrades on both coasts.
More good news: As they are no longer
facing felonies, their travel restrictions
have been lifted, and they can travel
outside the state of Indiana. While this
is definitely a reason to celebrate and
a huge step, we’re not quite out of the
water yet. Tiga and Hugh are still each
facing four misdemeanors, carrying a
maximum sentence of four years. Likewise, despite the easing of the state, we
must remember that repression is ongoing both here and everywhere, as the
state seeks to further criminalise free
life through its equation with “terrorism” or conspiracy.
This sleight of hand serves for the state
and the capital as an ideal platform on
which they both materialize their sophisticated attack against society, an
attack that is becoming all the more
barbaric as it is realized with the contribution of further deteriorating conditions and further repression nationally.
And all this to shut people’s mouths,
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to achieve their consent in their even
harsher exploitation.
However, criminals and society’s enemies are to be found in government
(big and small), in mansions and administrative bureaus, in banks and office buildings, in media news and the
military. As to those who are fighting
for freedom, these are two folks being
targeted who have been marching along
our side towards social class struggles
for years and, thus, in public. We will
be next to them every single moment
offering our solidarity, our self organized and uncompromising action so
as to prevent their physical and political annihilation and to guarantee first
their legal freedom, then their social
freedom along with ours, through total
revolution.
We are calling every repressed person
to offer zero tolerance against this novel
orgy of lies and suppression. Everyone
must understand the wider implications
of these charges, despite the conspiracy
of silence against the two indictees.
No complacency while the State holds
yet other comrades in its clutches, and
while repression deepens across the
Midwest and the whole country.
Counter Attack from the masses and
from below!
Freedom to the arrested fighters! Every charge, large or small, must be
dropped!
Solidarity is our weapon!
Anarchist prisoner
Released on
“Provisional Liberty”
Spain-- Tamara Hernández Heras was
released on April 22nd after outside
pressure secured her appeal for provisional liberty. Shortly before her release, Tamara wrote the following letter:
“I’m fine, considering the circumstances. It’s now been more than a month
since they arrested me, with all the
commotion that involved, and I prefer
to remember it as a bad dream.

In spite of everything, I can tell you that
it didn’t make me fall apart, and I’ve
been, and still am, strong enough and
itching to keep up the fight. And that’s
thanks to you, to all of you out there.
Because you have kept me in mind all
this time, I have never felt alone, and I
think that’s very important to someone
in jail. It makes me feel really fortunate
because, in truth, the worst thing here
is loneliness, which amplifies the desperation, the humiliation, the helplessness, and the fear. That’s why I find myself obliged to be cheerful and to pass
along all my good cheer. Because here
it’s very easy to be in the yard and find
yourself crying to someone for (apparently) no particular reason.
The truth is that right now I find myself somewhat lost and isolated even
though I know you’re out there, despite
the matter of the confiscation of my letters. But these fucking walls are sometimes very strong, and they prevent me
from clearly seeing the reality on the
outside (although I can more or less
imagine it).
I feel that the best solidarity is to continue the struggle. That’s why I think
that, if there is a campaign for me, it
must have continuity and a real undercurrent that helps strengthen the antiprison struggle. Otherwise, it makes no
sense to me, and I don’t want other efforts to grind to a halt on my account.
Besides, I’m more calm now. Reflecting on what I can, I intend to find a way
to keep fighting from this side of the
wall. The only lost battle is the one not
fought.
For updates on Tamara’s case, visit:
thisisourjob.wordpress.com
The Angola 3 are
Still Going Strong!
The Angola 3 consists of 3 Black men
who as a result of their participation in
liberation movements behind the prison
walls. Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King organized prisoners and in 1971 created a chapter of the
Black Panther Party inside of Angola.

In 1972, a guard was assassinated inside the prison, and as a result the most
politically active prisoners were rounded up. These three men were eventually
convicted of this crime, with little evidence linking them to it, only the fact
that they had been the most prominent
organizers of resistance in the prison.
From then until 2008, Wallace Woodfox would do the entirety of their time
in solitary confinement, in an effort to
break their spirit. Because of renewed
interest in the case, and a new set of
appeals, Robert King was released in
2001.
A new film, ‘In the Land of the Free”,
has just been released, hoping to draw
attention to the continued struggle for
their freedom
Lauren Gazzola
Released from Prison
One of the Stop Huntingdon Animal
Cruelty 7(SHAC 7), Lauren Gazzolla
was released from Federal prison on
March 17. Lauren was sentenced,
among other charges, for conspiracy to
violate the ‘animal enterprise terrorism
act’, an act that made previous actions
that would have been protected under
the 1st amendment illegal if they are
done to whatever constitutes an ‘animal
enterprise’. In this case, it was Huntingdon Life Sciences, a vivisection
company which has tortured and killed
thousands of animals over the years,
and Lauren was part of a campaign to
shut it down. This campaign was so effective that new laws had to be created
in order to put people behind bars.
But now Lauren is out, and can still use
continued support. Write to her at her
halfway house:
Lauren Gazzola #93497-011
c/o CCM Philadelphia
Community Corrections
Office, 2ND & Chestnut St. – 7th FL
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Alex Sanchez
Granted Bail
On his third attempt, former gang member Alex Sanchez was granted bail, at a
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cost of $2 million. A cofounder of the
LA gang-peace group Homies Unidos,
Alex had been targeted by the state for
alleged continued gang involvement.
However, most of those close to the
case believe the repression to be a result of his ability to not only get gang
members to stop intergang violence,
but to then work towards social change.
See more at wearealex.org
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REPRESSION AS IT GOES
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SERVING TIME
Grant Barnes
##137563, San Carlos Correctional
Facility, PO Box 3, Pueblo, CO 81002,
USA.
Serving 12 years for setting fire to a
number of SUV vehicles. The letters
ELF were spray painted onto all of the
vehicles.
Nathan Block
#36359-086, FCI Lompoc, Federal
Correctional Institution, 3600 Guard
Road, Lompoc, CA 93436, USA.
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF
arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and

an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted his role in an ELF/
ALF conspiracy.
Marco Camenisch
Postfach 3143, CH-8105 Regensdorf,
Switzerland.
Serving 18 years. Ten years for using
explosives to destroy electricity pylons
leading from nuclear power stations.
Eight years for the murder of a Swiss
Boarder Guard whilst on the run. In ‘02
Marco completed a 12-year sentence in
Italy for destroying electricity pylons in
Italy.
Daniel Mcgowan
#63794-053, USP Marion, US Penitentiary, PO Box 1000, Marion, IL 62959,
USA.
Serving 7 years for an ELF arson
against a Poplar Tree Farm and an
ELF arson against an old growth logging corporation. Admitted his role in
an ELF/ALF conspiracy. Also recently
found in civil contempt for his refusal to
answer questions before a grand jury.
For Further Information:
www.supportdaniel.org
Briana Waters
#36432-086, FCI Danbury, Federal
Correctional Institution, Route 37,
Danbury, CT 06811, USA.
Serving a six year sentence for alleged
involvement in an arson at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban
Horticulture. The facility aided in the
DNA mapping of trees, making it easier for forestry companies to produce
profit.
For Further Information:
www.supportbriana.org/
Joyanna Zacher
#36360-086, FCI Dublin, Federal Correctional Institution, 5701 8th St - Camp
Parks - Unit F, Dublin, CA 94568 USA.
Serving 7 years & 8 months for an ELF
arson against a Poplar Tree Farm and
an ELF arson against an SUV dealership. Also admitted her role in an ELF/
ALF conspiracy.
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A DIALOGUE WITH OUR COMRADES
IN FRANCE:
An interview
with the
Non-Fides
Project

Fire to the Prisons (FTTP):
What is Non Fides?
Non-Fides (NF): Non Fides started
four or five years ago as a collective of
individuals gathered together around
questions like “how to organize,”
“what is affinity,” “what is individuality and free-association,” all from an
aggressive, individualist anarchist perspective. Some of us had already experienced membership in formal anarchist organizations, but were frustrated
by them. So it first started out with the
will to get rid of the bad organizational
reflexes some of us had and to let our
creativity-- writing and thinking, out
of its former cage. We all met during
the CPE movement in Paris during
university blockades, occupations and
wildcat demos and riots, all wanting to
exceed this struggle and the frustrations
which ensued from it. We then started
our zine, Non Fides, which became
serious around the third issue,and in
which we wrote about gentrification,
urbanism, work, prisons, the deportation machine and such, always with
the will to bring offensive perspectives
to already existing debates and means.
But at its acme (in terms of quality and
audience), we decided to stop the zine
with a communique called “Adieu Non
Fides” where we explained that first,we
were tired of the passive attitude of
most readers (acting as mere consumers) and the incapacity to read correctly
anarchist theory due to the loss of lan-

Photo from a 2005 anti-cpe riot in France. Here
a policemen disguised as protesters have caught
a "casseur" (provocateur) and are carrying him
away.
guage taking massive proportion in the
anti-authoritarian movement (which I
think is an international question). The
website non-fides.fr is still alive-- it
took the form of a massive anarchist
database in several languages, collecting older and newer anarchist material
(from theory and translations to agitation). Some of us founded a new zine,
some others edit pamphlets, etcetera.
For the rest of the interview, I will now
answer as an anarchist individual and
not as a Non Fides editor.
FTTP: How is it that you stay up to
date with repression going on in your
area?
NF: Well, there are several occasions
for anti-authoritarians (anarchists are
a minority in the antagonist movement
in France) to gather and collect information together, publicly or not, like
assemblies, meetings, and in more informal ways. There is also the internet
(indy medias and other counter-informative medias), but we’re conscious of
its limits, so as much as possible we try
to stick with real life.

Farid, Ivan, Bruno and Damien, people
outside try to get their letters outside
for others. We also try to publicize
their cases in the streets, with pamphlets and actions. Also, often, communiqués springs from everywhere to
claim anonymous attacks in solidarity,
and to continue the struggles for which
the comrades are incarcerated. Solidarity funds, which are also occasions to
discuss repression, are also disseminated in various regions of France. For
example, in Paris you have Kalimero,
a solidarity fund for those accused of
social war.
FTTP: What are some of the ways you
would recommend that others show
solidarity with those more directly undergoing repression by the state?

FTTP: What are some of the ways you
are helping to support and show solidarity with comrades currently undergoing repression?

The best way to show solidarity, in my
opinion, is to continue the struggle,
even intensifying it. Sending money
and finding a “good” and free lawyer
is an important part that you can’t deny,
that’s a fact, but to content yourself
with it, is to content yourself with a
passive and humanitarian attitude-- it is
to accept the procurer’s role in which
the state wants to see us. So I think we
have to ban the mourning and get ourselves out of the defensive status quo,
and get to an offensive solidarity.

NF: In many ways I guess, it depends
of who you’re talking about. When a
comrade is imprisoned, like Isa, Juan,

Whether it is due to language barriers or not, it seems that quite a bit of
repression goes unheard of by foreign
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parties that may be supportive of the
actions and ideas of individuals arrested, or communities of resistance struggling to continue engaging in conflict
with the state. Although the Tarnac case
seems to be a very well heard of case,
by anarchists, or different revolutionaries around the world. Why do you think
this is? Additionally how do you feel
about the relationship the Tarnac case
has with a larger media?
NF: I think that most things that happen is the result of a choice. Why does
everything that happens to anti-authoritarians and such and local social war
factions (there are plenty) rarely pass
mental and physical borders? Well, because nobody’s helping them to do so.
For example, the only case that has decent (in terms of quantity, not quality)
coverage outside of France is the Tarnac
case. For one reason, and one reason
only, I think it worked out because the
people involved in this case were in the
position, for evident strategic reasons,
of talking to everyone that would hear
them. From the extra-parliamentary left
to deputies of the state, mainstream medias and human rights bordellos. That’s
why I was talking of the importance of
choices-- they made their choice to use
the tools of the enemy and to believe
in the ideology of democracy and public opinion. They also chose to declare
their innocence and dressed themselves
in social roles that the state wanted
them to bear, like the good obliging
grocer, member of an agricultural community, or good student. Ethics apart,
the problem with that posture is that
there is always a counter-part for those
who refuse to don the democratic cape,
like other comrades rotting in jail and
refusing concessions to the state at the
same moment. So, to answer your question, beside the technical questions of
people not translating enough (which is
a problem), the problem is that the Tarnac 9 chose to speak to everyone that
could hear instead of talking to those
that would listen to what they have to
say, betraying their ideas on the road.
FTTP: Is the Tarnac 9 case stemming
from a counter-insurgency many revo-

lutionaries or anarchists are currently
struggling to overcome? Is it just that
much of the attention is being focused
on them due to their relationship with
the media?
NF: I would say both. There has been
in France, since 2005 or so, an increase
of anonymous attacks across the territory and massive social tensions and
ruptures-- the suburbs riots and the CPE
movement in 2005 and 2006, bosses
attacked by angry workers, riots after
squat evictions or against police killings and occupation like in Montreuil
or Villiers-le-Bel. In such a climate,
the state cannot do anything else than
finding scapegoats on which the good
citizens could expiate their social and
moral frustrations. The generalization
of insurrectionary practices like anonymous attacks and riots would be fatal to
the state, that’s also a reason why they
want to attribute these acts to fabricated
social roles like the fantastical “anarcho-autonomous” movement made up
by the states or the “bandes” (gangs).
FTTP: We additionally have given
much space and attention to the Tarnac 9. While recognizing that, we are
aware that the Tarnac 9 are simply one
of the many targets of the French state’s
“anti-terror” campaign. What are
some of the new methods of repression
in France? Also what are some of the
cases currently going on for anarchists
or revolutionaries on trial or imprisoned, some of us in the states may have
not heard of? Also what are some of the
ways others can help or show support?
NF: Indeed, the Tarnac case is just the
small visible part of the iceberg. The
recent anti-terrorist tsunami started on
the 19th of January 2008, when Ivan
and Bruno were arrested and accused
of transporting a nail bomb, although
they were on their way to a demonstration against prisons in front of the Vincennes detention centre (migrant prison) carrying home made smoke powder
and bent nails to slash tires. Some days
later, Isa and Farid were arrested by a
highway patrol during a road-check in
Vierzon. In their car, cops found a big

quantity of explosive powder, a map of
a youth prison in construction, and sabotage guides. They were put in prison
under anti-terrorist laws.
During their custody, the cops claimed
that Isa’s DNA matched that found on
an incendiary device found under a
police tow truck during the last presidential elections. Later, using the “absolute” DNA evidence, police accused
Damien and Juan as well. After four
months, Farid, Ivan and Bruno went
out under strict judicial review and
house arrest from 9 p.m. to 6 am. At the
same time, all those investigations went
into one. According to the anti-terrorist
laws, all the people belong to the same
terrorist organization : the MAAF (anarcho-autonomous movement of Paris,
which is pure invention). Juan has been
in prison for 11 months, accused of attempted arson of a police car during the
presidential elections. Farid was put
under strict judiciary control on May 7,
2009 (he had been sent back to prison
again on the March 11, 2009 for having
violated his previous judiciary control).
Bruno decided to flee from judiciary
control in the beginning of July 2008
and is still on the run. Ivan made a similar decision in March 2009. Isa was put
under judiciary control on February 10,
2009 (after more than a year of imprisonment). Damien was put under judiciary control on March 27, 2009 (after
7 months of imprisonment). None of
them denied themselves or their ideas,
none claimed their innocence and all
denounced anti-terrorism as a state of
exception or a bashing of democracy.
None appealed to the media or made
concessions to the institutional scum to
save their skin. [NOTE Some of their
letters from the inside were translated
to english at that time and you can read
some in the English part of non-fides.
fr]
More recently, a new case was opened
by the anti-terrorist services, focusing on a massive sabotage campaign
against banks, that were responsible
for arrests of undocumented people,
organizing ambushes with cops to
their unwanted clients like La Poste,
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BNP, LCL, CIC, Société Générale. According to them, more than a hundred
ATMs were smashed, burned or sabotaged with sulfuric acid or extra-strong
glue. We heard about it in the press at
the beginning of 2010. On February
15th, at 6 am in the morning, 7 people
were placed in custody and had their
homes searched in Paris as part of an
investigation into the support around
the rebellion at the Vincennes detention
center, and against the machinery of
deportation. In total, 50 cops from the
anti-terror police (SAT) of the Criminal
Brigade (accompanied by the DCRI,
the Financial Brigade, specialists in
information technology…) were mobilized for this wave of arrests. The arrested have been taken for questioning.
At the beginning of the detentions, the
main charges are: “conspiracy to serious and willful damage or destruction,”
“damage and destruction by fire or explosive substance,” and “criminal conspiracy.” It appeared quickly that actually, the people who were arrested are
under suspicion of having participated
in the unrest around the trial of those
charged with the fire at the Vincennes
detention centre, as well as struggles
against the machinery of deportations.
The struggle has been seen most notably in the occupation of Air France and
Carlson Wagnon Lits branches, “wildcat walks” that include stickering, tagging, the sabotage of bank ATMs, with
the help of glue, acid, fire and hammers, and banners notably hung on the
little Parisian ring. [NOTE You can find
an incomplete chronology of the solidarity with the torching of Vincennes
detention center in english here: http://
www.non-fides.fr/?Chronology-of-theSolidarity ]
For the 4 people who finally went before
the court, the bail conditions consisted
of a ban on seeing each other and coming into contact with one another, being
required to answer to legal summons
from the APPE (Association d’Aide
Pénale), and not being allowed to leave
national territory without previously
asking for the judge’s permission. In
the end, four people are now under investigation for “conspiracy to damage

or destruction,” two people amongst
them are also charged with “damage
or destruction by fire or explosive substances.” They are still searching for a
fifth person on the same charges.
It’s hard to stay short on this, but these
arrests are an attempt by the state to stop
the movement and the attacks against
those who take profit in the deportation
machine. Because I have to stay short,
I won’t comment or talk about every
case that has shaken us lately (for example in Chambery, there were arrests
after the death of Zoe, a comrade that
died while testing some explosives).
FTTP: You have reported on repression in Italy as well. Repression in
Italy has been notoriously harsh, as
well as lost or unheard of by much of
the world, due to language barriers. We
recently read an article on the current
situations of revolutionaries undergoing raids and arrest in different parts of
Italy? What is the situation there?
NF: Well, about the recent arrests in
northern Italy, and mostly in the city of
Turin, you can relate them easily to the
arrests of Paris which we talked about
before. It happened in the same week
and also concerns the struggle against
the migrant prisons, the deportation
machine and the world that needs them.
They are also accused of anonymous
attacks, occupations and the struggle
against deportations. You can easily
compare the two waves of arrests. By
now the comrades have all been released from jail but under strict judiciary control and various interdictions
and continuing the struggle.
FTTP: Similar to America, the French
state has used its new “anti-terror”
slogan to create new opportunities in
policing and counter-insurgency, how
is this effecting anti-authoritarians in
France?
NF: As anyone could guess, it means
more surveillance, more fear, as is always the case with repression. Technically, it also means longer custody,
fewer “rights”, harsher treatment. The

anti-terrorist agencies can do what
regular police services cannot. It gives
them a wider range of harassing techniques and allows them to practice an
even harsher psychological torture during detentions and interrogations. But
you know, it’s not the big deal, it’s just
the state with more tentacles, but the
same shit as usual. I’m sick and tired
of the Tarnac propaganda about the
“state of exception” and the abolition of
anti-terrorism and other reformist rubbish. The state is the state, and we’re
at war with the state itself, not with its
smudges, “abuses” or mess-ups. And it
gets really annoying to see this bullshit
spread by anarchists around the world,
like in the USA, like if they couldn’t see
the core of the Tarnac 9 legal defense,
and how it fucks the other imprisoned
comrades around the world by ridiculing their uncompromising positions.
FTTP: The riots in the suburbs of
Paris have caught the attention of radicals and revolutionaries of many types
across the world. What relationship do
anarchists in France have with the riots?
NF: Revolutionaries in France had
contradictory views on these massive
riots. On the one hand, there was the
usual condemnation of the rioters because they had no vindications and had
no “political” content, as they say. You
can compare this attitude to the one in
the ‘industrial revolution’ century of the
Marxists against the Luddites in England or other movements of machine
smashers and enemies of industrialism
while the Marxists were praying for a
world of machines and industrial progress. On the other hand, a lot of unorganized anarchists and anti-authoritarians
were supportive, in a passive way.
About the relationship of the anarchists
and anti-authoritarians to the riots, I
guess a bit of imagination could help!
FTTP: Also like the United States, the
French government has a notoriously
vile attitude towards immigrants. Like
the ICE program of the United States
it appears that the French government
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is also raiding immigrant homes, imprisoning immigrants, and forcefully
deporting them on an individual and
family level, at a phenomenally high
rate. With some of the immigrant prison riots, including the recent arson at
a French immigrant prison, have anarchists or revolutionary groups been
showing solidarity with these struggles? If so, how so? Also, what sort of
response have they been getting from
their displays of solidarity?
NF: Like you said, the situation here
with the undocumented migrants is
very controversial. Many say that Europe has racist politics and is building
a fortress, but I think that things are not
that simple. There are still a lot of migrants that successfully pass the borders, simply because the system needs
them, first to fulfill a low-cost labor
base, flexible as fuck and exploited to
the bone and second, because it lowers
the cost of work at every stage. When
the cops do a massive arrest in the
streets (like they usually do), part of
the undocumented people arrested are
released until the next arrests, another
part are thrown in a jail for migrants
(an “administrative retention center”
as they call it), waiting to be deported
to their supposed country of “origin.”
But something like half are released

after several days or weeks in the detention center. By arresting some, deporting some others and releasing the
others, they teach fear to all. That’s
why I think there’s no “Fortress Europe. All of this is not racist, but just
plainly capitalist and workerist.
Anyway, in June 2008, the biggest migrant prison in France, the Vincennes
detention center, was entirely burnt
down to the ground by its own prisoners during a revolt-- one day after the
death of a prisoner. In Nantes, Bordeaux, Mesnil Amelot, and in other
centers, similar events happened. In
Belgium in which there are strong
bonds between the struggles against
prisons, some similar events appeared
too. For Vincennes, 10 migrants were
chosen to be judged by the state for the
fire, they were sentenced to anywhere
from 3 month to 3 years in prison.
Before and after that, there was this
massive solidarity campaign which we
talked about in some questions before.
Also, lots of comrades, like in Italy,
put out some telephone chains to react
as quickly as possible to the massive
ID controls in the street. Others helped
to get public statements by the prisoners and try to make correspondence between the struggles inside and outside

the centers. So that they can resonate
and push themselves. The rest of the
solidarity,I already told you about before in this interview.
FTTP: With counter-insurgency methods becoming more and more advanced, and prison more and more a
reality, for more and more of us who
see ourselves as revolutionary, what
are some of the ways you would recommend remaining strong before such
a scary era in the state’s history?
Like you or anyone else, I don’t have
any miracle solutions that fell down
from the sky in the backyard to offer.
I only have some propositions, reflections. I would just recommend to continue the struggle with rage, love, precaution, courage, sincerity and joy. We
don’t give a fuck about the state and
repression, even if we recognize its immense force-- when it crushes us, we
are elsewhere. That’s why we struggle
in active solidarity, in the knowledge
that an attack against one of us is an
attack against all of us.
Rage and courage from the territory
under French state domination.
For the social war.

“For the social war.”

Photo from a 2005 Anti-CPE demonstration.
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N

aturally,
the
proliferation of
the prison has
been met with
significant resistance from
those most affected by it. This may be best understood as a simple conflict of
interests: the interests of prisoners
against the interests of the prison itself, which does everything necessary to maintain their confinement.
Riots, escapes, inmate fights, staff
assaults, refusal of orders, and
disturbances of all kinds are some
ways in which the tension of this
conflict is manifested. Each time
the prison cannot proceed with
routine operations it loses control
of itself; each time the prison loses
control, its inhabitants are able to
act outside of its constraints, in accordance with their own interests.
All actions which impede prison’s
aim of social control can be considered tangible resistance.
With only media reports as our
sources, it is impossible to document every single case. While reading this list it is important to keep
in mind that the inmate is always
living in resistance to prison, regardless of whether or not a newspaper article is published about it.
The actions reported here are only
to serve as examples of those who even up against the grandeur of the
prison and its near-insurmountable
walls – manage to act out despite
the dismal reality of the situation.

2 January Yacolt, Washington
Two inmates escaped from the
Larch Corrections Center.
3 January - Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma
Despite being handcuffed, two Oklahoma City Community Corrections
Center inmatesBclimbed over a
fence and out of the prison grounds.
5 January Ullin, IllinoisThree inmates kicked out a window
of the privately-run Tri-County Detention Center and escaped.
6 January - New York,
New YorkA determined robbery suspect being
transferred slipped off their handcuffs and took off running.
7 January Somers, ConnecticutTwo handcuffed Northern Correctional Institution inmates charged
the two guards who were opening
their cells to take them to the recreation area. They then attacked two
more guards who came to the aid of
the first two.
8 January - Kingman,
ArizonaThree inmates refused to leave the
common area and return to their
cells. In the additional hour they
spent out, they broke the overhead
sprinkler system piping, several light
fixtures and a metal track from a cell
door in the A pod.
9 January - Saint John,
New BrunswickAt least 16 inmates barricaded themselves inside a living unit at the Saint
John Regional Correctional Centre.
For five hours, the inmates damaged
furniture, plumbing fixtures and
electrical wiring as well as igniting a
small fire, ultimately putting 24 cells
out of commission.
10 January - Stillwater,

Minnesota- 200 occupants of
the Minnesota Correctional Facility’s B West housing unit refused to
return to their cells in protest over
prison conditions. The protest lasted
two and a half hours before the inmates voluntarily returned to their
cells. The warden seems to have
missed the point while reviewing the
inmates’ complaints, which he said
he “would basically describe as having to do with the day-to-day operation of the unit.”
11 January Crest Hill, IllinoisA Statesville Correctional Center inmate stabbed a prison guard dozens
of times with a homemade weapon.
12 January Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Inmates rioted and gained control
of the main prison shortly after the
city was struck by a 7.0 earthquake.
Almost all of the 4,500 inmates escaped. Armed with the guns of their
former captors, they headed straight
for the collapsed justice ministry to
set it on fire and destroy any records
of their incarceration or criminal history.
13 January Van Buren, ArkansasAn inmate being transferred from
California to Wisconsin escaped after an unauthorized rest stop. The
inmate stabbed the transport officer
with a screwdriver several times
and took his gun. He then awoke the
second transport officer at gunpoint,
stole the keys to their restraints and
took off in the van after firing several
shots. The van was operated by the
privately-run Columbus, Mississippi
based North Atlantic Extradition
Services, Inc.
19 January Stanley, WisconsinTwo inmates forged documents and
were released from the Stanley Correctional Institution. A third inmate’s
papers were discovered before they
were released.

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22 January - Asheville,
North CarolinaA N.C. Department of Correction inmate failed to report back from their
work release shift.
24 January - High Point,
North CarolinaAn inmate set fire to their High Point
jail cell and assaulted a corrections officer. The officer received wounds on
their chest, face and both forearms after
they were slashed with a knife made of
two toothbrushes and a razor blade.
26 January Corinth, MississippiThree Alcorn County Jail inmates cut a
hole in the perimeter fence and escaped
in the early morning.
29 January Livingston, TexasFive inmates attempted to escape the
Polunsky Unit after returning from a
mass in the gymnasium. The guards
opened fire, wounding three inmates,
as they scaled the exterior fence after
hopping the barbed wire topped interior
fence.
2 February Corcoran, CaliforniaA California State Prison-Corcoran
guard was stabbed in the head with a
makeshift weapon.
5 February Augusta, GeorgiaA week of unrest escalated on the sixth
floor of the Richmond County Law Enforcement Center when three officers
attempted to break up a card game. The
31 inmates in the west cell block assaulted the three unarmed officers and
continued fighting the deputies who
were called in for backup. Six officers
were admitted to the hospital including
three suffering broken bones and another who was stabbed in the face with
a pencil.
8 February Kingman, ArizonaThree Mohave County Jail inmates re-

fused orders to return to their cells and
instead broke the overhead sprinkler
system piping, several light fixtures
and a metal track from a cell door in
the A pod.

Darlington,
South CarolinaAn inmate ran off the grounds of the
Darlington County Prison Farm and
into the woods.

11 February Bridgeton, New JerseyTwo separate assaults on corrections
officers occurred at the South Woods
State Prison.

28 February Knox, IndianaStarke County Jail inmates broke a light
fixture and stuffed toilet paper into it to
start a fire. The damage was minimal,
but did cause all the inmates to be
transferred while the jail was fully inspected.

12 FebruaryForest City, IowaAn inmate managed to disable a security system at the Winnebago County
Jail and slip out unnoticed.
16 February Buffalo Gap, TexasAn inmate escaped from a work crew in
a county-owned pickup truck.
18 February Kissimmee, FloridaAn Osceola County inmate escaped by
removing a combination sink-and-toilet
from a cinder block wall using a metal
binder clip. The inmate then crawled
through the cell wall opening, over
some pipes and electrical ductwork,
broke a lock on a roll-up door roughly
half the size of a single car garage door,
and was outside the building. From
there they only had to cross two razortopped fences to gain their freedom.
20 February Covington, LouisianaIn the St. Tammany Parish Jail’s fifth
escape this year, an inmate escaped
through the ceiling of his cell and over
the perimeter fence. All five escapes
were due to inmates “beating the structure” by exploiting structural vulnerabilities in the institution.
24 February Freeland, MichiganCorrectional Facility inmate refused to
submit to a search and a fight broke out
between the staff and seven inmates.
Three guards were hospitalized as a
result.
26 February -

2 March Aiken, South CarolinaAn inmate simply walked away from
the Lower Savannah Pre-Release Center.
7 March Yankton, South DakotaAn inmate escaped from the Trusty
Unit on the grounds of the Human Services Center.
8 March Spartanburg,
South CarolinaAn inmate walked away from the Livesay Correctional Institution.
9 March - Tempe, ArizonaA Tempe City Jail inmate escaped from
a hospital where they were taken for a
medical evaluation by slipping out of
their handcuffs and out the front door.
11 March Washington, DCWhile being transported from the DC
Jail to a hospital for treatment, an inmate removed their restraints and
jumped out of the vehicle into a Cadillac and drove off.
12 March - Miami, FloridaA Dade County Jail inmate head butted an officer and took off while being
transferred.
13 March Delano, California–
On their way to breakfast, an inmate
approached a North Kern State Prison

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officer and started pummeling them in
the face.
14 March Pocatello, IdahoAn inmate escaped from the Pocatello
Women’s Correctional Center and into
a waiting car.
15 March Chesire, ConnecticutTwo Manson Youth Institution inmates
assaulted a corrections officer and injured two more who tried to intervene
in the attack.
16 March Charleston, MissouriA Mississippi County Detention Center
inmate assaulted a jailer and used their
keys to escape.
18 March Kissimmee, FloridaAn inmate escaped from the Osceola
County Jail for the second time in a
month. They snuck away from a group
of 50 trusties returning from the recreation yard and hid behind a shed. Apparently, from there they climbed to the
roof of the shed, jumped to the roof of
the nearby dormitory and jumped over
the perimeter fence on the western edge
of the complex.
21 March Paducah, KentuckyAn inmate escaped from the Paducah
Community Service Center. The Paducah Community Service Center is
privately run by Keeton Corrections,
Inc. which runs seven facilities in the
South Eastern .
22 March Beaumont, TexasTwo inmates walked away from a minimum security facility of the Federal
Prison Camp. The facility has no fence
and inmates are kept on a “honor system” where they are counted multiple
times per day and are expected to check
in for work details.
23 March -

New Port Richey, FloridaA Pasco County Jail inmate used a cord
to break a ceiling sprinkler, flooding a
dozen cells and soaking medical and
kitchen units on the floor below. When
asked why they removed the sprinkler’s
temperature gauge, they shrugged and
said, “I was thirsty.” This particular
inmate has a history of causing flood
damage to the jail; they also flooded
their cell toilet and tried to flood a
shower while bathing.
25 March - Matamoros,
Tamaulipas, Mexico41 inmates escaped in a pre-dawn jailbreak.
27 March New York, New York20 inmates, still angry over the morning’s cell searches, refused to go back
to their cells and squared off against
corrections officers at the George R.
Vierno Center on Rikers Island. When
the riot control officers arrived to quell
the disturbance, the inmates were able
to disarm them and beat them back
with their own batons. One officer was
struck with their own radio; many others were hit with chairs. Ultimately, 13
corrections officers, two of which were
captains, were hospitalized.
28 March Seattle, WashingtonApproximately 15 inmates rioted on
the 10th floor of the King County Jail.
For an hour and a half inmates flooded
the area with water, smashed windows
and
damaged other jail property.
29 March Somers, ConnecticutA Northern Correctional Institution inmate punched a corrections captain in
the face twice.
30 March Marksville, LouisianaThree inmates held a correctional
officer at knife point and escaped from
the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office
Detention Center 1.

2 April - Reynosa,
Tamaulipas,
MexicoArmed gunmen raided a prison and
freed 13 inmates after they exchanged
gunfire with the guards.
5 April – Anthony, Texas–
Hundreds of La Tuna Federal Prison
inmates went on a work-and-hunger
strike protesting poor medical treatment. Two staff members were assaulted while conducting interviews
regarding the strike. Inmates vowed
that inmate-on-staff violence would increase every day the administration did
not comply with their demands. The
strike lasted a week before the prison
administrators announced they would
meet the inmates’ demands.
6 April - Dilley, TexasTwo inmates escaped the Briscoe Unit
of the Dilley jail on foot through a cut
fence. They left from the furniture factory, where the inmates make chairs,
through ventilation fans built into the
wall and used “some kind of instrument” to cut a hole in the perimeter
fence 25 yards away.
8 April Huron, South DakotaAn inmate escaped from the Beadle
County Jail shortly after signing an
extradition waiver. As they were walking between the courthouse and the
jail they kicked their shoes off and ran
away.
11 April Eden, TexasInmates housed in Dormitory B of The
Eden Detention Center refused to return to their bunks and rioted through
the night. The Eden Detention Center
is privately run by the Nashville-based
The Corrections Corporation of America, which operates 64 facilities in 19
states and the District of Columbia.
13 April Hudson,
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Inmates took control of
a portion of the Hudson
Correctional Facility after
the cell doors inexplicably
opened. About of dozen of
the unit’s 41 inmates left
their cells and destroyed
sprinkler heads, windows
and computers. The disturbance caused widespread
water damage and the unit
was reportedly left “littered with water, paper and
smashed computers.” The
two guards on duty were
forced to seek refuge in the
captains office by barricading themselves inside.

REGARDING
THE JANUARY
31st RIOTS IN
NEVADA’S ELY
STATE PRISON
By: Coyote Sheff*

15 April Versailles,
KentuckyAn inmate being taken to
court to testify as the defense’s witness removed
their shackles and kicked
out the back door of a
transport van and took off.

Y

es, it was a battle. My first
report on this riot gave
people an ugly look into
the violence and bloodshed.
I´ve reported it the way it
happened, but nothing is to
be glorified or celebrated
here. It felt good to be a part of struggle and
change, to see solidarity in action. You don´t
see unity and struggle in these Nevada prisons,
not in these days. Only under the most extreme
situations will you catch a glimpse of it. It
should not have ever gotten this far, or taken to
such extremes, our grievances should´ve been
looked into and taken seriously, and officers
should have never provoked or assaulted any of
the prisoners on unit 4. But that didn´t happen,
our pleas were ignored, our grievances denied

and prisoners were unnecessarily assaulted. So in desperation after every
other remedy had been futilely sought,
all we had left was violence and frustration. I was wrong to call it a victory
though. There´s no victory here.
I´m sure people on the outs who read
my report were shocked at my cold
and heartless attempt at describing
the details of the incident. And probably took umbrage. I can understand
how people out there could feel that
way. Fortunately, they didn´t live in a
world of predation, despair, violence,
corruption, oppression and madness.
They don´t know about the effects of
long-term isolation and confinement,
or about sensory deprivation and the effects that psychological warfare has on
our minds in this warped environment.
They don´t understand the wicked nature of prison and punishment and what
it can do to a person. And they don´t
want to believe what this place has
been known to do to these guards, how
it has the capabilities of turning the
guards into spiteful and uncaring animals. How they become vindictive and
petty, mean and aggressive, fearful and
disrespectful. They didn´t see how after
each cell extraction the guards would
gather in the unit hallway, high-fiving
each other as they would physically
display how they punched, stomped or
beat the inmate into submission.
So, no offense to anyone, but if you
haven´t lived in this foul-ass world of
darkness and deterioration, then it´s not
fair to judge it by your standards. Your
standards don´t apply here in this concrete and steel jungle. We play by jungle rules in here, the guards and prisoners alike, and it´s called “the survival of
the fittest.” We maintain an “us against
them”-mentality sometimes. I´m not
glorifying it, I´m not praising it, I´m
just trying to shed light on it, so people
can be aware of the cruel and unloving
nature of life in a graveyard.
For years, myself and others have been
trying to bring positive changes to this
prison, we´ve been trying to get people
on the outs involved, attempting to

bring a solid level of outside support to
Nevada prisoners. I´ve also been actively educating, politicizing and organizing other prisoners, in Nevada, Texas,
Ohio and other states. I´ve been passing out literature, supplying the prison
with books and educational materials,
teaching prisoners to read, teaching
them to write, showing them how to
be resourceful and self-sufficient. I´ve
been doing all I can to raise consciousness and I´ve been trying to turn every
tier that I land on into a learning center, and doing everything I can to help
prisoners. Whites, Blacks, Natives and
Latinos. I´ve reached out to them all in
real ways, striving to make real efforts
at change, elevation and empowerment.
Myself and other prisoners in here have
been known to organize study groups,
having study sessions, engaging each
other, quizzing each other, and testing
each other intellectually, utilizing this
time on lockdown as an opportunity
to grow, learn and cultivate ourselves
while living under such extreme conditions.
Other prisoners in here have been doing
similar things. Like for example, a prisoner here at E.S.P. just recently organized a stamp drive on his tier to donate
to the victims of the Haiti earthquake,
and he even donated $40 of his own
money to the people of Haiti. So there
are indeed many positive and productive things that do go on in this hellhole
as well. It´s not all negative and violent.
Unfortunately though, anything good
that we try to get going in here, we have
to do it ourselves. We don´t expect any
help or support from the guards or prison administration.
I´ll be the first to say that violence isn´t
always the best option. Usually it´s
the last resort, or the result of desperation and what usually happens under
the most extreme conditions. All our
attempts to grieve, kite, or complain
about our injustices through the proper
channels have been futile, and left us
feeling hopelessly outraged. If you take
a look at the history of all the American riots and uprisings – in prisons
and on the streets – like the L.A. riots,

the Watts riot, Lucasville, Attica, New
Mexico, and the Cubans in the federal prisons, and even the recent one in
Oakland, where an Oakland police officer, Johannes Mesehrle, fatally shot a
civilian, Oscar Grant, in the back, while
he lay face down on the ground with his
hands cuffed behind him. You will see
that these riots have either happened in
areas where people were living under
extreme conditions. While sick and
tired of the injustices and police brutality, or in places and conditions where
people were frustrated and desperate, and in these situations it seemed
that riots and uprisings were the only
available course of action they had to
express their hopelessness and outrage.
Here in unit 4, at Ely State Prison,
many tensions were increasingly building up. A lot of retaliation against prisoners by the guards and many other
injustices created a potentially hostile
situation. This riot did not happen solely because our appliances were unjustly
taken from us. Some of these guards
in here were deliberately refusing to
feed certain prisoners in retaliation of
grievances they wrote and because the
guards realized that these particular
inmates were shunned by the rest of
the convicts for internal reasons: these
guards were also going out of their
way to provoke and instigate prisoners,
rudely jumping into our conversations
with disrespectful remarks, “losing” or
throwing away phone kites, passing our
mail out to the wrong cells, (some of
these cells which housed sex offenders
and “undesirables”), refusing to answer
our kites, not taking over grievances
seriously. In some cases, guards have
even assaulted and injured certain inmates while in cuffs, because of grievances they wrote, and again, because
these guards realized that these prisoners were shunned by the rest of the
convicts for being informants, or sex
offenders, “undesirables,” etc. Our appliances were unjustly taken for violations that occurred before the new rule
change was in effect, or for minor or
general violations, and even prisoners
who were found “not guilty” had their
appliances confiscated as well. Leaving

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us in our cells with basically
nothing, while surrounding us
by mentally ill prisoners and
informants and protective custody inmates, who deliberately
go out of their way to terrorize
us through the means of noise,
verbal abuse and psychological warfare. We were deprived
of the opportunity to buy food,
coffee and other necessary
supplies off of the canteen,
while being left with no choice
but to eat the foul-smelling /
foul-tasting “mystery meat”
and rotten vegetables that we
are served for lunch every day,
just to keep ourselves from
starving in here.
They´ve put unnecessary limits and restrictions on our
phone calls, and on our visits,
allowing us only one non-contact visit a month, with family
only, causing a painful strain
on our relations and communications with our family, friends
and loved ones. This prison
is located out in the middle
of nowhere as it is, 4 hours
away from the nearest big city,
what´s the point of having our

people drive all the way up
here and back (you know how
much gas costs these days?)
just to talk to your loved one
through a plexi-glass window
for half a day? There´s only
like 7 rooms that facilitate
these non-contact visits, so
if 10 people get visits in one
day, the remaining 3 are burnt,
and their families will drive all
the way back home for nothing! We need all the love and
support we can get from our
own people on the outs, these
are very important social ties
to have and to stay connected
to our families, and with the
outside world. They´ve even
went as far as illegally denying our right to receive books
sent in from the outside, even
dictionaries! And there´s so
much more, everything just
added up.
Every time we´ve tried to address the issues through the
proper channels, they would
retaliate on us, and even fabricate things to justify what they
were doing, and they would
completely ignore us. Weeks
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would go by before they´d supply the
unit with kites and law library request
forms, or first level grievances. Neither
these guards nor the administration
wanted to do anything to even try to fix
these problems, and they were basically
letting us know that they were gonna do
whatever they wanted, regardless, making our situation see, desperate.
Then, it all jumped off when they came
to take away a prisoner´s appliances for
a write up he received. The prisoner
refused to cuff-up because he wanted
to speak with the lieutenant to try to
resolve this issue. The Lt. showed up
with a squad of officers dressed in riot
gear and helmets. The prisoner tried to
comply and wanted to cuff-up, but this
is someone the guards have been wanting to get their hands on for a while,
none of the other prisoners really spoke
to this guy, so I guess the guards had
assumed he was shunned by the rest
of the convicts, so they figured they
had no reason to fear retaliation. They
cracked his door open in spite of his attempt and willingness to comply, and
ran in on him, he put his hands up in
the air, refusing to resist or fight back
and they tore his ass up! They beat him
so bad that they ended up dragging him
to the infirmary as he was leaking blood
everywhere.
Many of us were already exasperated
about the hopelessness of our situation
and all the foul treatment we´ve been
receiving and we used this drastic situation as an opportunity to exert desperate measures. Two minutes of talking
amongst ourselves led to two days of
rioting. It´s all we had left. We felt the
need to stand up for ourselves and for
our rights to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We were frustrated
and needed to get these frustrations out,
and we didn´t see any other available
option.
Whites and several Latinos kicked it
off on the first day, flooding, burning,
capturing foul slots, popping sprinkler
heads, forcing them to come in our
cells and extract us, so we could fight
them. And we fought hard, and they

were even more brutal towards us! Until, allegedly an officer on the extraction team got stabbed. They didn´t want
to fight no more after that. The Blacks
agreed to riot on the second day, but by
then, we all felt that we got our point
across, the guards showed defeat, so we
called it off. This could have went on
for days, or even weeks, but we felt that
this was enough for now, every guard
on the extraction team received injuries, and one was even stabbed from
what I hear, every prisoner involved
was brutally beat by the officers, which
led to the Lt and another officer getting
fired!
So we figured enough had been done
already, no need to go on.
Year after year it´s been take, take,
take. The administration is always taking something away from us, without
giving anything in return: no programs,
no real educational or vocational opportunities, no incentive, nothing. They
take a little here, take a little there,
slowly but surely stripping us of everything. They know better to take it
all at once, so instead they´ll take one
thing now, and then, a few months later
they´ll take away something else, and
when they see that none of us are coming together to try to stop them from
taking away our privileges and necessities, they´ll take more. It´s the game
of “take-away.” Subtraction is their favorite math subject. They don´t know
how to add, divide, or multiply, except
for when they´re adding more rules and
more restrictions, dividing us so that
we can be conquered, or multiplying
the number of beds, other than that, it´s
all a game of take-away.
Everybody has been hearing about Ely
State Prison in the news, and websites
have sprung up because of all the things
that have been going on here in this
graveyard. All of the many injustices
and everything else that has been going
on here clearly displays how deplorable the situation is here at E.S.P. The
ACLU´s class action lawsuit because of
the atrocious lack of medical care, the
declaration of Lorraine Memory, the

Noel Report, the situation with Ikemba,
the situation with Kevin Lisle, not to
mention the numerous accounts of all
the staff working here being arrested
and charged with various crimes, also
the federal indictment and trial of the
Aryan Warriors, who the government
has labelled “domestic terrorists”! The
mysterious death of Timothy Redman,
and other deathrow inmates before
him. The suicides, the indeterminate
lockdown of the entire prison (except
for one unit), the forcing of cellmates
upon us, the riots and work stoppages,
and not to mention that in the span of
one year over 75 officers have either
quit working here, transferred to other
prisons, or were arrested, or fired… 75
Officers in a year, now if that doesn´t
speak volumes on how deplorable the
situation here at E.S.P. is, then I don´t
know what does. There has been many
deaths in this graveyard, and other
things, Ely State Prison has continuously been in the news.
There are 8 units in this prison and
all but one of them are locked down
and have been locked down for over
6 years, with no solutions or remedies
in sight, no programs and no incentives
to do good. This prison has been under
federal investigation, and under serious public scrutiny, budget cuts have
stripped us of everything from food to
education, exposing how much they
don´t care about our health, or our rehabilitation and re-entry back into society.
Anytime you cut into our education,
you are cutting into our rehabilitation,
limiting our chances to make a successful return back into society. These people are heartless, they don´t care about
us. They´re here to punish us, warehouse us, condemn us, and that´s it.
Not only that, but it has apparently
been the agenda and the desire of the
prison administration and the system,
to keep us stagnant and stuck on stupid
so that we can surely deteriorate while
living in these degenerate conditions.
They know that “knowledge is power”
and that “truth is revolutionary” and so
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“Prison is nothing more than
one limitation
imposed on
working-class
life by the
capitalist
system which
tries to limit our
life in all
directions.
The struggle
against prison
is rooted in the
experience of
every one of the
class who has
been “caught
up within the
workings of the
iron hinge”, and
needs no
further
justification.”
-The Claustrophobia
Collective

literature sent in, trying to use this new
A.R. (regulation) to justify the denial of
books, which is illegal and violates our
first amendment rights, and not to mention all the other obstacles and restrictions and limits they´re always putting
on us when it comes to receiving books
and reading materials, even making it
against the rules to share a book with
another prisoner.
It seems like they would rather see us
pacified and complacent, locked down in
general population, reading pop culture
magazines and horror novels, or watching the “idiot box” all day, than to see
us reading a book on history, economics, or politics, or learning the law so
that we can figure out productive ways
to get off of permanent lockdown. They
would rather see us stuck on stupid, antisocial, with gangbang mentalities, going
against each other all the time, than to
see us utilizing this time as an opportunity to build social bonds with our families and friends, and as an opportunity to
cultivate, uplift and educate ourselves.
Rather than see us grow and get better,
everything they do is to bring us down
and break us down, they want to break
our spirit, decimate our wills and keep
us ignorant. That is what these rules are
for, that´s what these restrictions are for,
and that´s what these cells are for.
It appears that these new administrative
regulations (A.R. 733) are designed for
those exact purposes as well! This new
A.R. affects prisoners who are serving
time in disciplinary segregation, taking
everything away in a guise to create an
“incentive to do good.” But they fail to
realize that when they confine all of the
prisoners with records of serious disciplinary problems in one area and then
take everything away, with years and
years of disciplinary segregation (D.S.)
time to serve, all they´re doing is creating a situation where we have nothing to
lose. This entire prison is locked down
except for one unit, so the measures they
have taken are impracticable and make
no sense. Why implement such measures without a level system or steps program that allows us to advance through

the means of good behavior, or get out
of lockdown? Some of these prisoners have been suffering this already for
years, with no end in sight, These measures taken by the NV Dept. of Corrections (NDOC) are senseless and unreasonable, and (as this recent riot displays)
thee only thing these rules are good for
is creating anger and frustration that has
led to prisoners and officers getting hurt
and fired! It doesn´t make sense.
I´m proud to see so many prisoners of
different races and / or different factions coming together and standing up
for the injustices being done to us in
here. I´m proud to be a part of something that strives to bring real changes
for the people in here. It feels food to
be involved and to get caught up in the
spirit of revolt. Violence isn´t always the
best option and I hope that we can come
together like this more often, without
having to take it to the extreme.
Solidarity and Struggle,
-Coyote
NOTE:
Coyote Sheff is a prisoner in Ely State
Prison. He has been in active correspondence with Chicago’s Anarchist Black
Cross. As they have helped his voice be
heard by helping to publish his writings
outside of prison, Coyote has organized
his own Anarchist Black Cross chapter
inside Ely State Prison. You can write
Coyote or read more by him using the
information below:
Write Coyote at:
Coyote Sheff
#55671
P.O. Box 1989,
Ely, NV 89301
Read more of his writing at:
coyote-calling.blogspot.com

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“Class struggle is seen
is many acts, many of
them invisible to the
politicos.
We value each of these
activities and struggle
to relate to each of
them as a radicalizing
influence.”
-Claustrophobia
Collective

Ruptures
in the
social
fabric.

accounts
of agitation

EVERYONE
HATES THE COPS
(A brief celebration of the tables turned.)
January 10th, 2010-Police officer shot
for being a police officer.
“He was sitting in a police car, he was in a police uniform.
He was shot because he was a police officer”. “There’s nothing random about it.”
-Lt. Dave Koch of the Anchorage, Arkansas Police Department
The police issued that statement after Jason Allen of the
Anchorage, Arkansas police department was shot multiple
times while sitting in his police car not doing anything. Sitting in a car, not doing anything, and having a random group
of people roll up with guns? Sounds like what the police
do every day. We are amused by the confusion of the police
department, and are as similarly excited by the offensive nature of this ambush. It communicates a perspective (whether
or not it was the intention of those who did it) that whether
the police are pointing a gun at you or not, their presence in
either form is always an attack. Whether it appears to be offensive or defensive, all behavior in conflict with the police
is an act of self-defense. Jason did recover after multiple
bullet wounds to his arms and torso. The black sedan and the
shooters inside them were never found. Additionally their
intentions were never exposed. But the police are interpreting this unprovoked assault on officer Jason Allen as an attack on the officer, solely because he is an officer.
April 15th, 2010Man shoots parole officer.
April 18th, 2010-Man claims guilty, and
proudly states his lack of concern,
and joyous feeling of revenge.
“Unfortunately he ain’t dead. That was the plan... He’s an
a-hole. He deserved it.”
Those are the words of 50 year old ex-con Robert Morales,
as he talks to the press greeting him at his first appearance to
court. It is said that Robert Morales brought a 9mm Ruger
hand gun to the office of his parole offer Samuel Salter on
April 15th. He shot Samuel in the shoulder, then aimed the
gun directly at his face; but on the second attempted shot,
the gun jammed. Samuel recovered, and is now petitioning
the Brooklyn police or parole union for metal detectors in
the budget.
Samuel Salters was described as being a straightforward and

businesslike parole officer. With descriptions like that, we
are sure he was a fucking douche bag. Following 25 years
in jail, Robert was forced to spend almost every visit waiting
for Samuel to see him. One occasion specifically cited in reports left Robert waiting in Samuel’s waiting room for over
five hours. Samuel also set strategic curfews for Robert, like
not being able to leave his house before 7 am, which lead to
Robert getting fired from his job in the Bronx.
After surgery and two heart attacks, Samuel Salters is still
alive, and most likely continuing to help torment those recently released from prison. Robert did claim guilty of
attempted murder, but proudly states that the attempt was
worth it. In fact Robert made a 16 minute video confession
where he states specifically that he meant to shoot him in the
head, and was disappointed in his failed attempt to kill his
parole officer.
If someone was driven this far, and finds the revenge attempt
more satisfying than staying out of jail, this attack most
likely avenged the frustration and degradation of multiple
ex-cons in the borough of Brooklyn.
March 7th, 2010-Atlanta, GA
Someone broke the glass window of a parole office, and
threw a Molotov cocktail inside.
March 18th, 2010-Raids and arrests on
local motorcycle gang in southern
California.
After four city trucks were set ablaze that belonged to the
Hemet California Police Department, raids on suspected
members of the Vagos motorcycle bike club were made
across the county, resulting in over 30 arrests. Although we
are wary of reporting on this when the media refers to them
only as white supremacists, our research has made us comfortable with including it. The motorcycle gang was started
in Corona, California in the 60’s and is known to be primarily Hispanic. It also has chapters in Mexico. We are not saying that there can not be fascists in Mexico, but we are saying
that this should be taken into account when responding the
media’s attempt to demonize and isolate the gang.
Hemet is a small desert town about an hour and a half drive
north of LA. This incident, and the raids and arrests that
followed were after three other arson or homicide attempts
on police bodies, infrastructure, or equipment belonging to
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the city’s local anti-gang task force.
After the arrests and raids, an anonymous call was made to a 911 operator, warning her that attacks on the
local police, specifically the anti-gang
task force were planned in the next 24
hours. The three other bizarre boobytrap-style assaults were:
-A natural gas pipe was rerouted into
the headquarters of a gang task force
building, but the flammable gas was
smelled before anyone was hurt, police said.
-In a second attack, a gun rigged to
a security fence at the same building
went off when an officer opened the
gate but the bullet missed.
-The third attack involved placing an
explosive device to a police officer’s
unmarked car. The device was discovered after he had driven to a convenience store. Police suspect the device
was attached to the car but fell off.
“It’s a constant pressure, a constant
stress,” Officer Dana of the Hemet
police department says in response to
the resistance shown.

MIDDLE AMERICA IS
GETTING ROW(www)DY!
Even the civilians are turning!
February 18th, 2010:
Got to be to much!
“I can only hope that the numbers
quickly get too big to be white washed
and ignored that the American zombies
wake up and revolt; it will take nothing
less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more
stupid draconian restrictions people
wake up and begin to see the pompous
political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though
I spent my entire life trying to believe
it wasn’t so, but violence not only is
the answer, it is the only answer. The
cruel joke is that the really big chunks
of shit at the top have known this all
along and have been laughing, at and
using this awareness against, fools like
me all along.”
-Joe Stack
2/18/10
Words from the “suicide manifesto”
of Joe Stack, released to the public after he crashed a small “Piper Dakota”
plane into an IRS and CIA building in
Austin, TX on February 18th, 2010.
Earlier that same day Joseph set fire
to his $230,000 home in North Austin.
After burning his house down, it is said
that he went to his private one-engine
plane, announcing to the airport’s traffic control that he was heading south.
Before deliberately crashing his plane
into the IRS and CIA headquarters, his
last noted words were “thanks for your
help, have a great day.”
We are reporting on this crazy expression of discontent primarily because of
the response by both the mainstream,
alternative, or underground media.
We do not understand why anyone
would kill themselves in the process

of defending their lives, but desperation and discontent can obviously be
an unreasonable display of resistance.
What was so interesting about this attack, was that it was very hard for it to
be understood in the realm of politics.
Many political groups or parties were
struggling to form a response to it. But
although it was obviously in some way
a “political statement”, it seemed incredibly hard to classify and isolate the
event considering how unique it was,
especially considering how unique the
writing was, and who Joseph Stack appeared to be.
Joe Stack would have appeared to be
the perfect “middle American” for any
political candidate or party interested
in reaching out that demographic -liberal, conservative, left, or right interests alike. FOX News struggled just
as hard as CNN or MSNBC in their efforts to demonize or isolate Joe. But
beyond attempts of character assassination, Joe’s lack of precise political
association--or even more so, Joe’s
white-American-citizen-appearance-baffled insult attempts, forcing media
to improvise new name-calling other
than “terrorism” or “insanity”. Joe’s
words and frustrations seem to be a
significant rallying point for many selfproclaimed “middle class” Americans
-- the same holding tea parties, or the
same growing organic food. Yet what
made Joe different was his lack of distraction. Unlike many Americans who
could relate with both Joe’s appearance
and frustration but spend much of their
time blaming something specific--the
“poor” or the “super rich”, current or
past administrations, or struggling immigrants--Joe was motivated by a contempt for an entire system at play. Joe
was neither liberal or leftist, conservative or right-wing. He was a frustrated
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than experiences to expose his true enemy: the state, capital, or the entirety of
a mediated society.
From his “suicide manifesto”:
“There are two ‘interpretations’ for every law; one for the very rich, and one
for the rest of us…
Oh, and the monsters are the very ones
making and enforcing the laws”
February 12, 2010
“Do it yourself bank
loans.”
A 73-year-old man is arrested for robbing 3 banks with the intention of paying off his mortgage. James Bruce of
Tampa, Florida was struggling to keep
his house as the banks continued to
threaten taking it. Barely being able to
pay his mortgage, he desperately needed a loan. Considering that the bank
was the source of his problems, he decided to take a loan into his own hands
when he robbed 3 different banks, unarmed, and aware of the bank’s policy
of not questioning robbers. Although
he only walked away with a total of
1800 dollars from the three heists, he is
a sign of desperation and a new lack of
faith in the laws and regulations of the
land (even in middle America).
February 8th, 2010
Aptos, CA
A man barricades himself in his house
to avoid eviction by police, landlord,
and bank.
Brian Wayne Tomasso, 39, was arrested after police broke down several
barricaded doors and windows to his
house, after his landlord filed an eviction notice earlier that week.
Sheriff’s deputies broke down several blockaded doors to arrest a renter
Thursday who had refused to comply
with eviction orders at a Vienna Drive
home earlier in the week. He was then
held on 15,000 dollars bail. Brian
lived in that house for nearly a decade.

On the day Brian had been ordered to
vacate, when the landlord arrived to
change the locks, the door was drilled
shut, along with every other entrance to
the house. We are not aware of where
Brian is now. We can only assume that
he is either homeless or in jail. Which
is what happens when you are poor in
this society.
January 10th, 2010
Las Vegas, NV
Man open fires in courthouse over loss
of social security benefits.
On a Monday at 8AM, Johnny Lee
Wicks was said to have opened fire at
an entrance security check point in a
courthouse about one mile north of the
Las Vegas strip. This resulted in one
dead and one wounded court officer.
Reports have described the shoot out as
lasting for multiple minutes, and consisting of an array of gunshots from different directions. Johnny ended up dying, but obviously succeeded in letting
the court know how he felt about their
decision to revoke what he may have
naively thought was an unconditional
part of his “freedom”.
March 4th, 2010
Man travels across
country to fire bullets
at pentagon.
“On March 4, 2010, John Patrick Bedell shot two Pentagon police officers
at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro
mass-transit system in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, D.C. They returned fire and struck him in the head.
He died a few hours later on March 5.
-From Wikipedia
Although John Bedell swarmed media headlines for about 3 days, he was
quick to become an isolated moment in
history. John Bedell was a 36-year-old
frustrated and politically stimulated individual. You can watch the video lectures he wrote for youtube (where he
clearly exposed himself as just another
corny middle-America-type cat who
for some reason fetishized his glorious
forefathers and Constitution but hated

the current state of their precious nation). Although as a project, we will
admit that we are not so fond of his
demeanor or “reasoning” for hating the
American government (and to some degree would agree with claims that this
man was more or less a “wingnut”),
John Bedell was completely passed off
by the media and removed from any
recognition of being another desperate and frustrated member of middle
America. This happened before anyone had an opportunity to even understand what happened (which was that
another stupid white American woke
up from their dream). His parents,
the media, and police have referred to
him as an unstable man. As with other
events covered in this magazine, when
the media or police can’t call names
like “terrorist” or “criminal”, they can
always turn to “insanity” to help isolate the event and prevent others from
being inspired by it. Meanwhile, his
parents escaped their embarrassment
by clinging to claims of John’s insanity,
and asking for pity in light of the fact
that they filed a missing person’s report
when their 36-year-old son left the state
and began his random travel across
the United States to open fire onto the
Pentagon--that symbol of America’s security. The media has even gone so far
as to criticize mental health authorities
for not spotting this apparently overzealous psychotic.
As a magazine, we despise the Constitution, or any bill that determines
our everyday choices (and when our
choices will get taken away). We simply find the logic and reactionary nature
of libertarian or conservative politics to
be just as - if not sometimes more - vile
than those of a liberal or progressive.
But John (Patrick Bedell), just like Joe
(Stacks), communicated a new tendency in middle America that is coming
onto the horizon of the American crisis
today. A tendency that has removed itself in many ways from solely coming
out of the stupidity and deception of
racist or religious theory. A tendency
that has aimed its sights up as opposed
to down. While they cling to this simply embarrassing notion of this incred-

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He hated what the Pentagon
represented. Because of experiences in his life, not because of voices in his head.
NOTE:
We included these reports
because it is interesting for
us to see a new style of so
called “middle class” frustration. While historically
many groups or desperate
individuals that might resemble some of these cases have
turned to racist, xenophobic,
or classist scapegoating,
many are beginning to just
turn completely on the government itself.

THING

the

DOING

ible pure freedom that lies at
the origin of this awful, occupying, Eurocentric, gluttonous, slave-built shithole
nation-state, and wait for the
embrace of their so called
“forefathers” (while getting
skull-fucked by the current
American capitalist state),
they are beginning to not see
blacks, Irish, or Mexicans as
a scapegoat for their issues,
but actually declaring war
on the American state itself.
This cheesy Mormon-looking white dude, rolled up to
the Pentagon, shot at two police, and died by return fire to
the head and arms.

DAMN

“Insurrection does not come up with
the answers on its own, that is true.
It only starts asking questions. So
the point is not whether to act gradually or adventuristically. The point
is whether to act or merely dream of
acting.”

March 17th, Montreal:
For several years, Montreal has been
rocked by protests and riots against the
police and the daily brutality that comes
with their violent occupation of our streets
in the service of the elite. Last year, police
and protesters clashed, and several hundred
were arrested as over 2,000 took the streets.
This year, protesters wrecked havoc within
minutes of the protest starting, resulting in
about one hundred arrests. Many protesters were dressed in black clothing in order
to avoid police detection (and to better allow them to attack property and the police)
and helped pull garbage and debris into the
street to help block the police. The rioters
also fired paint balls and firecrackers at the
police as well as vandalizing a reported six
police cruisers, some of which were set of
fire.
As a precursor to the riot against the police,
rebels also struck out against a police station in St. Henri, damaging 11 patrol cars,
including the computers in the vehicles and
vandalized the station itself. According to
snitches that decided to talk to the police
about what they saw, 15 to 20 people (again
in black and in masks to conceal their faces
and identity) used rocks and sticks to break
windows and police cars. Some of the tags
located on the building include “FTP”
(Fuck the Police) and “ACAB” (All Cops
Are Bastards).
Many activists decried the actions, believing that these kinds of actions will turn
away public support for future protests
against police violence. However, we want

to destroy the police, not reform them.
Our intentions towards them can only be
manifested in open conflict and revolutionary action, not in shallow appeals to those
in power to make the gears of this horror
show run smoother. As people wrote online
at anarchistnews.org later about the actions: The reason we aren’t like the police
is not because we don’t want to provoke
conflict. The conflict already exists with
the existence of the police and the society
that needs them. What separates us from
the police is our desire to see the end of arrests, detention, prison and the exploitative
system they maintain; not sometime in the
future, but here and now.
We went to that demonstration intending to
attack the police. Apart from all the weapons we brought, we carried with us a desire
to no longer see a single cop walk the streets
the next day; at least without a limp, a headache and a feeling of fear that no overtime
pay could reconcile. We went out into the
streets to hit them as if we could actually
smack them the fuck out of our lives, with
no guilt, remorse or shame about it. While
acknowledging that we have yet to realize
the depth of our desires (cops aren’t yet
running for their lives), we can still move
our lives and projects in that direction.
According to online sources, one anarchist
still is facing charges in regards to the actions against the police in Montreal.
March 1st, France:
In Dijon France, actions against CCTV
(surveillance cameras) took place as more
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than 100 people met at the Place François Rude, to make a (final) tour of the
city’s surveillance camera apparatus.
The group, using trash bags filled with
helium, helped cover up various cameras, often with the help and support of
passersby. Bust out the eyes of the pigs.
Early March:
Brooklyn, New York
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the local
American Apparel outlet came under
direct attack. According to a blogger
about the event, “...someone has gone
and thrown rocks through the windows
of the company’s store on North 6th in
Brooklyn. FreeWilliamsburg reported
that flaming trash was also involved in
last night’s retail retaliation... A witness
told them, ‘There were about 50 guys
dressed all in black, wearing masks,
and causing total mayhem all along
North 6th St., dumping out trash dumpsters and setting everything on fire in
the streets, and then smashing all the
windows of the American Apparel.’”
In another article, which compared
the actions against the retail giant to
“Project Mayhem” from Fight Club, a
spokesperson for the company stated:
“About 20 small windows were broken by a group of people on Thursday
around midnight. The piece of metal
used to smash them was left behind,
a few mannequins were scuffed, and
nothing was stolen. The police apprehended and arrested two people later
that night, a man and a woman, and
we’ll likely proceed by attempting to be
reimbursed for the destroyed property.”
January 15th, Mexico:
It seems that 2010 is going to be a year
of revolutionary anarchist counteroffensive against the state and capital,
as bombings and arson attacks have
taken place across Mexico, all carried
out by anarchist groups. On New Year’s
Day, a communique in Tijuana was released that claimed responsibility for
the machine gunning of police cars,
the stick-ups of various OXXO stores
(a 7/11-type chain), as well as the killing of a police officer who attempted to

intervene in a stickup.
The communique read:
We unleashed all of our rage in these
dates of consumerism and Christianity
in Direct Solidarity with all of our comrades kidnapped by the Mexican State
in the entire world.
Comrades: During the first hours of
this new year, we machine gunned three
police vehicles of the Tijuana Municipal Police as well as one private police
car, in different parts of the city. During the attack there were no ‘victims
reported’, our intention was not to kill
the cops but to demonstrate that we are
still active and in solidarity with our
comrades.
We did this as a gesture of solidarity
with the international hunger strike of
anarchist prisoners called for by Gabriel Pombo Da Silva... from the 20th
of December until January 1st, as well
our attack is in solidarity with our comrades Abrahán López, Fermín Gómez,
Emmanuel, Hernández Hernández, y
Víctor Herrera Govea (currently in
jail in Mexico for alleged bombings
and attacks attributed to anarchist,
earth and animal liberation cells).
We will also continue our expropriations from OXXO stores... Sadly, two
robbers, without ideological motives,
were captured during a hold up at one
of the branches of the same business,
the police are trying to blame them for
our actions. We write this to clarify that
the only ‘crime’ these individuals were
involved in was the robbery where they
were arrested.
Insurrectionist and anti-authoritarian
fire to all authority!
February 6th, Pittsburgh:
A Naval ROTC office was vandalized
and attacked with rocks, which broke
out several windows. The attack took
place on the university campus of
CMU, which is one of the largest receiver of Department of Defense contracts.

A communique released stated:
This economic sabotage of your property will continue until yinz end all
DOD contracting and ROTC programs
at your school. Enjoy! Hope you spend
a ton on beefed up security, you’re going to need it. We are going to make
your War on Terror as expensive for
you as it is for the poor communities
yinz help destroy.
Oh, and this act is not violence, it’s sabotage. Violence cannot be applied to
inanimate panes of glass you installed
around your war-making labs. It can be
applied to living things, however, something you’ve mastered in your research
and ROTC. We are breaking the tools
and apparatus used for mass murder:
your war research budget. Thus, our
property destruction is in defense of the
people at the end of your robotic automatic gun turrets, or in the sights of the
war planes Rotsie kids will be flying/
repairing.
February 6th, Utah:
A McDonald’s was attacked somewhere in Utah, and the communique
read:
Tried out our new extremely corrosive ammonium bifloride/sulfuric acid
bomb on a McDonalds in Utah. Ammonium Bifloride is corrosive when
applied to glass. It is easy to come by
via internet or craft store. Sulfuric acid
is water soluble and corrosive as well.
You can put the mixture in glass bottles
and throw it at windows. If the window
doesn’t break then the contents inside
will be sure to make the window unusable. Other uses: put in glass spray
bottles and simply spray ‘paint’ windows which will then become ruined
completely. The options are endless. If
you are not comfortable with making
your own. They sell glass etching solutions ready to go on the internet and in
craft store. A lot of these are like paint
and meant to stencil designs on windows. When the windows are sprayed
with water, the chemicals react and
they corrode the glass. So make your
own stencils. When they come to clean
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tually be doing your work for you.
We have a lot of this stuff. The window
replacement companies are going to be
really happy this year.
January - February 6th,
Missouri:
Police are investigating vandalism
against the Calvary Baptist Church in
Nixa, that cost over $10,000. The local Pastor says the vandals entered the
church sometime during the weekend
and trashed the two-story building.
The damage includes holes in drywall
and ceiling, broken windows and spray
paint on the walls. The Springfield
News-Leader reports that the vandals
also emptied the church’s food pantry
and discharged fire extinguishers into
the carpet. Don’t wait for myths and
legends to turn water into wine, loot
and destroy all alters to the old order of
misery and domination.
In east Texas, police are investigating
a string of fires at churches that were
caused by arson.
January 26th, New Jersey:
Pigs are seeking the help of snitches
to help identify whoever used a homemade explosive to destroy a forklift at a
Wal-Mart Supercenter.
Police reported Monday a “homemade
Molotov cocktail” was placed on the
forklift’s propane tank and ignited. The
explosion destroyed the forklift, which
was valued at $25,000.
December 30th, Indiana:
Fifteen bank windows were smashed
out as unknown rebels tossed rocks at a
Star Financial Bank. Pigs estimated the
damage at $8,000. Security cameras
from the nearby Wal-Mart store recorded a man walking around the bank going from window to window at around
6:10 p.m.
March 17th, Bristol:
In the UK, a private banking office
was attacked. A communique posted
read:

Last night the office of Lloyds private
banking in Bristol was attacked. On the
night of Wednesday the 17th of March
2010, the Lloyds private banking office
at 131 Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol
was attacked. A plaque with ‘Lloyds
private banking’ was removed from a
wall and taken away. Walls of the building were sprayed with: ‘in the shadow
of a dark horse lies a capitalist bailiff
‘, and ‘bankers up against the wall’.
Pipes and cables to cooling fans etc
to the building were cut. Two windows
were smashed. Night night

fredo M. Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Polykarpos Georgiades, Vaggelis Chrisohoides, Giannis Dimitrakis,
Gabriel Pombo da Silva, the entire
London G20 defendants/prisoners and
all other prisoners in struggle.

Also in Bristol, a probation office was
attacked on the same night. A communique read: At 2am on 17 March,
anarchists attacked the inner-city probation offices in Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Paintbombs were thrown, the windows
destroyed, were to personnel gates
locks attached and slogans “No Prison
– No State” and “For Lambros” on the
walls were spray-painted. This activity
is inaugurated on the death of our comrade Lambros of Athens in Greece, who
was murdered by cops and represents
part of our active denial of the control
system. This attack came also in solidarity with Alfredo and Christos, with
G20 and Gaza defendants, and with all
prisoners who fight.

The communique read:
Last night the magistrates court next to
the bus station in the middle of Bristol
was attacked. All the reachable windows were smashed out and spray paint
messages left on the walls ‘fuck the law
not the poor!

February 23rd, Bristol:
In the early hours of Tuesday 23rd
February 2010, anarchists attacked the
Royal Bank of Scotland HQ (which
help funds the Tar Sands Project), in
the heart of developing Bristol, UK.
Despite road traffic and proximity of
security, the mob succeeded in breaking windows, smashing paint-bombs
against upper floors and setting fire to
tires in the middle of the road.

This done in solidarity and anarchist
greetings to everyone fucked over by
the courts, probation, police, bosses,
and everyone fighting class struggle
against the power in the social war that
is brought down on us.

For international struggle against capitalism and the state.
February 8th, Bristol:
Courts were attacked against their rule
over poor people on the streets and in
the jails.

We know that the court ‘justice’ system
is nothing but a farce designed and run
to protect the wealth and power that
rules this rotten society. We know that
this system is our enemy, it does not protect us. We know that to achieve a world
where we might control our own lives
and find solutions to our own problems
we must first fight to bring this world to
the ashes that it so deserves.

A communique read:
We dedicate this action to all indigenous fighters and their allies struggling against the Tar Sands project in
Canada which RBS is an investor in,
and also all those who fight against the
2010 Winter-Olympics.

March 8th, France:
In France, an ongoing struggle has
been occurring against a high speed
train project that will displace people
and disrupt the lives of many. Sabotage
and direct actions have been carried out
against the train and its construction,
which has resulted in several arrests
(for a more in-depth look at this struggle, check out the insurrectionary anarchist magazine A Murder of Crows,
second issue).

This action is also in solidarity with Al-

In March, unknown attackers set fire

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yesterday to two excavators at the
High-Speed Train (TAV) construction
site in the town of Zaratamo in Bizkaia
province. According to the Department
of the Interior, the two machines were
totally incinerated after being doused
with flammable liquid and set alight by
the culprits.
This is the latest act of sabotage in the
stream of attacks carried out by radicals
against TAV construction sites during
the past few months. On December 10,
also in Bizkaia, attackers torched an
excavator in Amorebieta-Etxano. Prior
to that, radicals set fire to a Bulgarian
worker’s personal truck in Mondragón
on June 18.
February 20th, Mexico:
Total Liberation, an anarchist group in
Mexico, carried out an attack against a
municipal police booth.
The communique for the action read:
In the small hours of the night of February 9, we got ready to leave a present at
a municipal police surveillance booth.
Our gift consisted of a homemade incendiary device placed in a garbage
can under the stairs of the police booth.
We won’t reveal the exact location of
the action in this communiqué, because
the guardians of law and order already
know where it happened.
“This action—against the apparatus of
police control and stemming from our
desire to see prison society turned to
ashes—is carried out in the context of
solidarity with the days of anti-prison
agitation in support of prisoners Víctor, Emmanuel, Abraham, and Socorro
in Mexico, and in constant support of
all the world’s prisoners.
In solidarity with Adrián Magdaleno
González, recently imprisoned in the
cells of Marcelo Ebrard’s dungeons.
February 8th, Mexico:
Earth destroying machines in Mexico
were attacked by anarchist groups in
Mexico.

A communique posted regarding the
action read:
On February 8, we again decided to
break the routine of this alienating
society, declaring ourselves at war
against the destroyers of the Earth,
against those who thought revolt had
been wiped out by the constant imprisonment of anarchist warriors.
This time, we headed for a construction
site at night, empty of workers, bosses,
and meddlers. We prepared two incendiary devices made with gasoline, diesel fuel, and motor oil, placing one by
the wires near the engine of a backhoe
and the other inside the front tire of a
water truck used for the incessant advance of urbanization.
We struck in solidarity with prisoners
Abraham, Emmanuel, Socorro, Víctor,
and the recently arrested Adrián Magdaleno González. We struck with our
vengeful fire in Ecatepec, Mexico State.
- Earth Liberation Front
February 7th, Mexico:
The Efraín Plaza Olmedo Blasting
Crew issued the following communique:
Regarding the January 15 Falabella
bombing on Paseo Puente, we believe
it is necessary to make the following
reflections:
Attacks against capital and the state
represent steps on the road toward the
destruction of the established order and
the construction of a free world.
Their propagation and frequency have
shaken the ground beneath those who
thought subversion had died out. How
wrong they were. The more they use the
politics of terror, the more insurrectionary actions occur. The more police they
involve in their witch-hunt, the more
groups at war multiply.
But we think that these direct attacks
should always be clear and understandable on their own, and should not leave
room for the kind of conjecture that ac-

companied the Falabella bombing on
Paseo Puente—a place frequented, for
the most part, by exploited wage-laborers hypnotized by consumption.
Propaganda by the deed should be
charged with meaning and content,
even more so if its objective is to hurt
people. We believe that it is the powerful who should feel the threat of constant danger, not the exploited who can
barely endure the misery of their own
lives.
Let’s not delude ourselves or contribute to the delusion: The exploiters and
their families do not frequent places
like Paseo Puente. They live in distinct,
guarded habitats, and it is there where
we should attack, bomb, and reclaim
their spaces of criminal bourgeois arrogance, especially given that we possess the technical capacity to thwart
enemy cameras and security units. In
this way, we don’t leave room for conjecture regarding the content and scope
of our actions.
Finally, with these reflections we are
attempting to contribute to an antiauthoritarian discussion nourished by
action. We are not trying to immobilize
groups or appeal for inaction. Far from
it! We are part of those contributing to
the construction of a world without exploiters or leaders, against whom we
advocate all forms of struggle.
For the multiplication of direct actions
in the exploiters’ domain.
- Efraín Plaza Olmedo Blasting Crew
January 1st, Barcelona:
Rebels set fire to a car belonging to the
private security company Prosegur in
Barcelona, after a delayed incendiary
device left under the fuel tank caused it
to burst into flames.
The communique posted read:
“We claim this action as a response to
the recent assaults by ‘security vigilantes’ on the metro and tramway. Let
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for the abuses, those who benefit from
them, and those who carry them out.
Let this be very clear to all those in uniform who gang up to beat people, who
patrol the metro on the hunt for immigrants, who unleash attack dogs in the
middle of public celebrations. We have
made the decision to stand firm, to not
allow even one more assault to happen
in silence.”
January 11th,
Buenos Aires:
A police recruiting center located in the
metropolitan city was attacked by way
of fire from two Molotov cocktails.
Communique:
Monday, January 11, we took a little
trip to the metropolitan police recruitment center, right in the middle of
Parque Chacabuco. We attacked with
two powerful Molotov cocktails, causing minimal material damage to the
front of the building and almost completely burning up a motorcycle parked
near the entrance.
We again show our presence, and that
nothing is going to silence the voices
of the oppressed in revolt. We send a

greeting to all the world’s fighters, and
tell the executioners once more: This is
a war and we will not stop till you fall!
-Revolutionary Cells
March 21st, Mexico:
Two Banamex banks were attacked in
Mexico City.
Communique:
“Three Molotov cocktails were detonated against two ATMs at a Banamex
bank located in the delegation Iztapalapa in Mexico City. The ATMs, symbols of the alienation, the monetary
functions and the robotisation of our
society were inflamed in a raging fire,
as alarms sounded and passing motorists looked on in disbelief, thinking to
themselves `How are these people still
taunting the police apparatus?’ And in
a matter of seconds we disappeared between dark streets, watching the moon
and uttering sparks of complicity.
These acts are necessary to expand
the social levels. More attacks against
power. More banks burned. More police
brought to justice. Perhaps for many
the damage inflicted against this bank-

ing corporation means nothing. But for
us, we do not rely solely on economic
damage as a signifier of success of such
acts. This is not our priority and is not
what causes us the most happiness.
More important for us is the disruption
of the social peace--the peace of our
exploiters--as not to remain sedated in
total inactivity, only dreaming, longing
for change but never acting.
For the rupture of the commercial society! For taking control of our own
lives! For the destruction of the State
and Capital! For solidarity with imprisoned comrades: Giannis Dimitrakis, Alfredo Bananno, Gabriel Pompo
Da Silva, Marco Camenish, Emmanuel
Hernández, Victor Herrera Govea and
Abraham López Martinez.
For the destruction of the prison society! For the destruction of the world of
Capital and for the construction of a
free world, starting from this moment!
Because the social war is not a game
nor a joke, but a reality which is constantly evolving and growing!
-Arson Action Brigades

“If they do not wish to deceive themselves and
others, those struggling for the demolition of
the present social edifice must face the fact
that subversion is a game of wild, barbarous
forces. Someone referred to them as Cossacks,
someone else hooligans; in fact they are individuals whose anger has not been quelled by
social peace.”

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UNDER

REPORTED
CONFLICT
FROM
AROUND
THE WORLD

insurrection
recuperated in
Kyrgyzstan
In mere days, the entire country of
Kyrgyzstan was destroyed, and unfortunately rebuilt. An insurrection happened in Kyrgyzstan at the beginning
of April. Obviously the effect of the riots had much to do with the lack of stability of the Kyrgyzstani government
and economy of late. This sort of complete political collapse during times
of crisis is not an uncommon event in
post-Soviet central Asian countries,
and they are quick to be recuperated by
opposition political parties. We are not
mentioning this uprising because we
are in any way excited by the conclusion of the riots, because we are not.
We are not mentioning these events because we think that something like that
could as easily spread in a place like the
United States, because it is a very different social climate. We are mentioning this event because although different political parties are debating about
Russia’s influence on the events, it is
quite obvious from all the footage of
the events that this was a popular uprising. Leadership and politics contaminated the possibilities of the riots, but

Demonstrators in Kyrgyzstan beating injured
police who first shot at them as they try to flee.

the riots themselves were beautiful and
spontaneous displays of popular frustration with the police and other retainers of an undesirable everyday life. It
also shows the police for what they are.
Even if there is a unanimous discontent
with the state, the police will be there
till the end, because they help to make
up the body of the state. You could see
this when police began opening fire on
rioters in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.
Around 78 people died, and hundred
were hospitalized for bullet wounds
and beatings. While the police opened
fire on rioters, multiple pieces of footage also show rioters attacking police,
brutalizing them, and in some cases returning fire.
While police shot and tried to protect
the state that they are created by, hospitals were free to wounded rioters, as
was seen in footage of random people
helping each other without concern for
the hospital as property. Police cars and
government buildings were obliterated,
at the same time that police and politicians were taken hostage by rioters.
What was most beautiful about these
events was that they did not come about
due to a military operation. This was a

popular uprising of the people of Kyrgyzstan, and although the events were
recuperated by the new government,
the solidarity and frustration displayed
in the riots in early April went beyond
politics as usual, and is considerably
worthy of our attention; if not for the
beauty of the violence itself.
Indonesia: In
South Sulawesi,
Makassar, hundreds of civilians and anarchists attacked riot police during the
eviction of land. Molotov and stones
were thrown at riot police, who attempted to subdue the crowds with tear
gas, which sadly for them, was blown
back by the wind and hit the police instead. The riot police retreated and the
militant civilians wins. Resistance to
evictions continues.
Central Durban,
South Africa:
Around 3,000 Abahlali Base Mjondolo
(ABM) members braved serious intimidation from the intelligence services,
local party goons and the notoriously
violent South African Police to occupy
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honour of ‘Human Rights’.
The notoriously authoritarian Durban
City Manager, Mike Sutcliffe (who
calls himself a Marxist), had first tried
to ban the march with an illegal diktat.
But the crowd set off on the route that
they had originally intended to take and
were able to occupy the main streets
and the downtown area in violation of
both Sutcliffe and the court. However
they could not get past the huge and
armed police presence cutting them off
from the City Hall.
As the group later wrote: “We are all
agreed that there is a serious crisis in
our country. The poor are being pushed
out of any meaningful access to citizenship. We are becoming poorer. We
are being forced off our land and out
of our cities. The councillor system
has become a form of top down political control. It does not take our voices
upwards. The democracy that we won
in 1994 is turning into a new system of
oppression for the poor. For too long
we have been subject to evictions from
our homes, be they in shack settlements
or farms. These evictions are often unlawful, they are often violent and they
often leave the poor destitute. Therefore we demand an immediate end
to all evictions so that we can live in
peace and with security.”
People living in shacks in South Africa
are often the victims of gangs of armed
men. For instance, on September 26th,
a gang of forty armed men attacked the
Kennedy Road shack-dweller community, an informal settlement in Durban,
South Africa’s second largest city. The
group chanted fascist ethnic slogans
(pro-Zulu and anti-Pondo) and threatened to kill the leaders of the shackdwellers’ organization, Abahlali Base
Mjondolo ( ABM – literally “Shack
Dwellers’ Movement”).
These gangs are organized by local and
regional African National Congress
(ANC) leaders, which Nelson Mandela was previously a member, and also
have the support of the local police.

Bangladesh:
As mentioned in previous issues, poor
and working people in Bangladesh
have again and again resorted to rioted and destroying the property of the
bosses as they react to attacks on their
working and living conditions.
And the working and living conditions
in the country are murderous. In the
1970s, up to 250,000 children a year
died in the country from drinking dirty
water; today water can still be fatal.
Currently in Bangladesh, up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of
suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning – the legacy of a well intentioned but ill-planned water project
that created a devastating public health
catastrophe. By the early 1990s, when
it was found that up to half of 10 million tube wells were contaminated with
arsenic, Bangladesh was confronting a
huge problem. The World Health Organization called it “the largest mass
poisoning of a population in history...
The scale of the environmental disaster is greater than any seen before; it is
beyond the accidents in Bhopal, India,
in 1984, and Chernobyl, Ukraine, in
1986”. Some subsequent studies predicted that, ultimately, one person in
10 who drinks water from the arsenical wells would go on to die from lung,
bladder or skin cancer. Even though
some of these conditions take decades
to develop, by 2004, about 3,000 people a year were dying from arsenic-related cancers.
An examination of the ever-present
threat of fire in the lives of the working
class as factory after factory has killed
various workers and slum fires devastate various working class districts. The
growth of slums in the last 15 years
has been unprecedented. In 1990, there
were nearly 715 million slum dwellers
in the world. By 2000, the slum population had increased to 912 million and
to approximately 998 million today.
On February 25th, twenty-one workers
died in a fire at the Garib sweater factory in the southern district of Gazipur,
burnt to death or choking on smoke.
Health and safety regulations are rou-

tinely ignored by management and are
hardly enforced by government (many
politicians have business interests in
the industry); factory fires break out on
a bimonthly basis. Most are smaller incidents with regular injuries but fewer
deaths, but over 240 workers have died
in major fires since 1990.
The Bangladesh military also brutally
suppresses the local indigenous population, such as on February 20th, when
the military opened fire on a group of
Indigenous Jumma villagers in the
Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. Four villages were also burned
to the ground by a group Bengali settlers who began to illegally invade the
Jumma’s land on February 19th. The
military was deployed to specifically
defend the settlers.
As one writer commented: “Many garment workers will have experience of
fires in the workplace, many will have
sustained injuries, lost friends and work
mates to them - and all know that this
is due purely to bosses’ greed and negligence. The fairly regular use of fire
by garment workers in their struggles
against their employers must be understood within this context. Garment
workers have often burned down factories in retaliation for non-payment of
wages, lockouts or management brutality. Many garment workers are malnutritious due to low income, living hand
to mouth. Arson is a readily available
means of hurting the bosses and depriving them of something when they refuse
to pay; and there is certainly a poetic
justice in the fact that those forced to
live with a constant fear of fire at work
can also utilise it as a weapon against
their exploiters.”
Burma:
4,000 workers went on strike in Rangoon in March, as the latest escalation of labour tensions exploded in a
sit-in to demand better pay. Workers at
two garment factories in South Dagon
Township’s No. 2 Industrial Zone began their strike early in the morning, as
riot police quickly arrived on the scene
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months, workers employed by factories
in Burma’s commercial capital have
shown growing dissatisfaction with
stagnant wages, as inflation continues
to erode the value of their earnings,
most of which are spent on rising prices
of basic commodities.
Hidalgo, Mexico:
In March, 1,500 federal police surrounded the Juandho community and
began raiding homes after they cut the
town’s electricity. This assault began
when members of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) hung strike
banners on their former workplaces as
part of the national strike in support
of the SME. The SME reports that the
town’s electricity went out last night.
During the night, hundreds of federal
police arrived. According to people
writing reports on the internet, people
felt that despite the heavy police presence, residents feel victorious that they
managed to defend the local Luz y
Fuerza building which was occupied
by 120 union members.
Members of the SME also abandoned
the leadership and control of the union
itself, as they took the struggle into
their own hands instead of waiting
for bureaucrats to manage and direct
them. However, in the face of this heroic wildcat strike, the SME effectively
abandoned 24,000 of its members in
its negotiations with the government,
prompting many workers to escalate
their actions including occupation of
buildings. Workers also set up protest barricades in front of their former
workplaces in order to block the CFE’s
trucks from hauling out more equipment. Representatives from the Mexican Electricians Union (SME) visited
the barricades, informed the workers
that they were engaging in unsanctioned protest activity, and requested
that the workers remove them. Workers
at many barricades refused the union’s
request, and the union refused to recognize and support the wildcat barricades.
Anywhere between five and twenty
workers staffed the barricade at any
given time.

According to sources at NarcoNews,
the situation at the Lechería barricade
suffered a defeat on January 8th, when
a man in a truck showed up at the
plantón and reportedly offered to help
the workers re-install the barricade by
dumping gravel in front of the plant.
Before the driver was able to dump the
gravel, Federal Police arrested him and
workers Enrique Mejía García and Sergio David Rodríguez Martínez. Both
workers are adherents to the Zapatistas’
Other Campaign and participated in the
protest encampment.
Peru:
In March, conflict and repression poor
people resisting the government (as report in issue 7 of this magazine) continued to be inspiring and brutal. Recently, five people died in the northern
city of Piura in violent clashes between
shopkeepers and police over plans to
remove street vendors from the vicinity
of a local market. The confrontations
were precipitated when about 1,000
shopkeepers demonstrated in Piura,
after they could not meet with Mayor
Monica Zapata at city hall and began a
street protest.
Bahrain, China:
In March, police attacked a group of
Chinese migrant workers who had taken nine of their superiors hostage near
a construction site. Police responded by
storming the barricaded worker-housing compound on February 27th after a
siege that lasted several hours, freeing
the nine men and arresting 26 workers
of the approximately 150 residing in
the camp. The operation occurred after negotiations led by the Ministry of
Interior and a Chinese diplomat failed
to persuade the workers to release the
hostages, who included architects and
foremen at the job site, ministry officials said. The workers started a wildcat strike a few days prior, and decided
to kidnap the bosses in an attempt to
see their demands met. The tactic of
workers kidnapping their bosses has
also been used successfully in France.
Chiapas, Mexico:
In early March, the government began

a campaign of violent eviction of rainforest land to clear the way for biofuel
production, showing again the stupidity
of “green capitalism” in an industrial
world. The evictions were carried out
in Chiapas by state and federal police at
two peasant settlements in the Montes
Azules Biosphere Reserve. The operations took place January 21st and 22nd
at the settlements of Laguna El Suspiro
and Laguna San Pedro—the last one a
base community of the Zapatista rebel
movement. Homes were destroyed, and
the inhabitants forcibly taken by helicopter to the nearby town of Palenque,
where they were given temporary shelter in resettlement center—and interrogated by federal agents about supposed
marijuana cultivation on their lands.
Officials from the Federal Prosecutor
for Environmental Protection and National Commission for Protected Areas
were helicoptered in along with the
police contingents to oversee the evictions. Other settlements also face imminent eviction, including Nuevo San
Gregorio, Nuevo Salvador Allende,
Nuevo San Pedro, 6 de Octubre, Poblado Laguna El Suspiro, Ojo de Agua el
Progreso and San Jacinto Lacanjá.
Shortly after on January 26th, state
and federal environmental authorities issued a new plan for the “Ruta
Maya”—including the Montes Azules
reserve—emphasizing eco-tourism development. Many believe that the lands
of the evicted peasants could be turned
over for “biofuel” production, noting
that in January the Chiapas state legislature had approved funds for establishing African oil palm plantations. Capitalism makes constant war on the earth
and all those that need and depend on it
to survive--whether it is green capitalism or industrial capitalism makes no
difference.
Chile:
As mentioned in previous issues of this
magazine, Mapuche indigenous communities in Chile continue to face massive repression as they courageously
resist colonization and eviction from
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In February, courts agreed to keep a
Mapuche youth charged under antiterrorism laws in preventative custody
after his arrest for an arson attack that
occurred on September 11th last year.
Over 360 hectares of land as well as
property and machinery belonging to
local Elsa Fernandez was torched during the attack. Police allege that the
youth were trying to flee the country
when detained.
Stockon, California:
Indigenous activists and anarchists
converged in the Central Valley town
of Stockton to occupy a foreclosed
home owned by the California Valley
Miwok Tribe (CVMT), as they resisted
the eviction of their home by a bank.
The house was occupied by about 40
people and people inside barricaded
themselves by welding the metal gate
shut and prepared for a confrontation
with police. As Silvia Burley, CVMT
chairperson stated, “We will not budge
and are willing to die... Everything has
been taken. This is the last.” The occupation was successful, and by the end
of the first day of occupation the bank
buckled and granted the tribe more time
to pay their mortgage.
As a report from the action stated: “The
point that really resonates here though,
is that a group of people are drawing a
line and standing their ground against
the forces of capital. Our homes, our
futures, and our lives will not be taken
away without resistance. We are not
few enough to be easily pried apart.
Today, anarchists resisting foreclosure
will stand with indigenous people resisting disconnection from their territory. And tomorrow? The occupants of
this house are prepared to keep out the
sheriffs, the developers’ thugs and anyone else that tries to fuck with us. If the
house can be held until Feb. 9 there is
a court date which may release funds
to the tribe and save the house, so it
would be concretely really helpful for
more people to join the resisters here. It
would also be awesome if more people
started occupying foreclosed houses,
resisting eviction, and occupying fucking everything.”

Mindanao Island,
Phillppines:
The community of Anislagan on the
island of Mindanao has successfully
blocked the Philex mining company
from entering their lands. According to
a press release from the Legal Rights
and Natural Resources Center-Kasama
sa Kalikasan (LRC-CdO), nearly the
entire community gathered to greet
Philex, the largest mining firm in the
Philippines, with a makeshift checkpoint they put together, on January
11th. To reinforce the checkpoint, the
community formed into a human a human barricade, leaving the company
with nowhere else to go. “Women and
children here are ready anytime to defend our land. This land is where we
survived. We should fight for it!” said
Rizalina Lisbos, a mother of four, who
was on the front line of the barricade.
Makassar City, Indonesia:
More than 50 youth with black hoodies attacked and destroyed the central
office of the PTPN (state owned plantation companies) in Makassar City,
South Sulawesi. The action was conducted on the 100 day anniversary of
SBY-Boediono’s corrupt government
that was celebrated by large number of
mass demonstrations.
Many are angry over the monoculture
farming of crops for oil palm. As one
report stated, monoculture “...converts
the islands of South East Asia into one
big plantation, as commodity capitalism continues its troublesome advance
over Indonesia and Malaysia’s rural areas. The rainforests fall, to be replaced
by oil-fields, as in distant capitals politicians with their eyes shut proclaim a
new green biofuel, and the trees keep
falling. Yet the effects of the industry
are not limited to ecology. Where there
is oil there is conflict, and that is true
for the oil that grows on the ground
just as much as for the oil that is mined
from under it. In the Indonesian Province of North Sumatra, nearly every oil
palm plantation is a zone of friction.
The palm trees are all planted on stolen
land, and farmers are desperately fight-

ing to get their land back.
“If the people own the land but the
company owns the trees – who gets
to farm the land? The answer will not
surprise many: whoever can wield the
most force. The company simply made
a deal with the police, military and local
mafia to work together and the farmers
were denied access to their land once
more. The crops they sowed between
the palm trees, clearly within their legal rights according to the court’s decisions, were ripped out of the ground...
in nearly every oil palm plantation in
North Sumatra there is a community
that has been dispossessed and in nearly
every case that community is still struggling to get the land back again. Several land occupations are ongoing at any
one time and there are heavily armed
police, military and private thugs that
defend the company’s investments.”
Warsaw, Poland:
Things are getting hot for bureaucrats
and property speculators as Warsaw
tenants take more and more action. In
January, tenants protested at the parliament, burning the Law on the Protection of Tenants which they claim
is meaningless and only protects the
interests of property owners. “At least
we’ll put this meaningless paper to
good use - by keeping warm,” claimed
the tenants as they lit a bonfire. They
reminded people that throughout Warsaw, people must resort to burning all
sorts of things in their homes to keep
warm as many houses still have no heat
and as slumlords cut off gas to drive
people out of their homes. At a time
when many tenants, often elderly, are
sitting home freezing, it is much better
to take to the streets - where there is no
heat, there will be fire - our fires, the
bonfires of resistance.
As one report stated: “The Tenants’ Defense Committee has declared war on
city bureaucrats who make horrendous
policies to enrich speculators and to redistribute property to elites, heirs of former elites, speculators and developers.
Their cronies also earn on overpriced
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fication, but not the real improvement
of public housing standards. The Committee has been exposing corruption,
blocking the plans of the local bureaucrats and intervening on behalf of tenants with direct actions. It has publicly
opened a list of empty flats and buildings, suitable for squatting... Some tenants will fight losing their homes in any
way possible. Some refuse to move,
blockade themselves in their houses,
fight with the landlords, become illegal
tenants or squatters. Others are fighting
now to overturn illegal privatization
- only again the law does not protect
tenants. Illegally privatized housing is
often resold and the courts consider that
the new owners purchased the property
“in good faith”. It is increasingly clear
to even non-politically minded tenants that the law was made by property
holders and speculators, for property
holders and speculators, and tenants are
only treated as possible sources of income for the parasitic speculators and
landlords.”
Slovenia:
In March, migrant workers launched a
hunger strike in order to get back unpaid
wages. The workers have been fighting
for better conditions and wages in a hut
situated on the outskirts of Kocevje.
The hut itself is made out of wood and
polyvinyl, with gaps in the walls, which
makes for entirely inappropriate living
conditions. A contractor by the name
of Perkovic has not compensated them
for the work they have done in the past
15 months. The current work permit
regime enables that the employers to
exploit migrant workers for a minimum
of two years, however the amount of
time is often even larger due to a specific status of different types of work
permits. All this enables the employer
to exploit the workers and ignore basic
labor regulations.
San Paulo, Brazil:
Two civilians were killed and a police
station was burned to the ground during a clash between residents and cops
in the northern Brazilian state of Para,
authorities said. While leaders claimed
that the clash started when police want-

ed people in the town to hand over a
suspect in a deadly robbery, the real
purpose of the protest was to drive out
the cops. Local pigs also noted that the
attack was unprecedented in a spontaneous protest, as the rebels used Molotov cocktails in the attack on the police
station.
British Columbia, Canada:
In late February, the Okanagan Indian
Band (OIB) launched a “protective
blockade” at the Okanagan campsite
near Bouleau Lake in southern British
Colombia. Tribal members stated that
the blockade was enacted in order to
stop the logging company Tolko Industries from endangering the tribe’s water
supply. This action comes after and exhausted legal battle to protect the tribe’s
water and land, which has been logged
extensively for more than forty years.
Despite the Canadian government’s
awareness of this, and the fact that
there is ongoing litigation concerning
Aboriginal title to water, on January
11th, the British Colombia Supreme
Court gave Tolko Industries permission
to commence logging in eight separate
“cutblocks”.
Following this, on February 20th, the
OIB held an emergency meeting to
discuss their options. As a result of the
meeting, Elders and band members
unanimously agreed to establish checkpoints. They also agreed to establish a
protective blockade in the watershed.
Chief Alexis declared a full moratorium on all logging in the watershed,
stating that “no commercial logging
will be permitted in these areas until
further notice.”
Juyjuy Province,
Argentina:
Campesinos are demanding and end
to logging and violence was violently
driven from their land in early January. According to a statement from
the family, employees from the company KRAM SA, which is owned by
a relative of the Argentine Ambassador to Bolivia, illegally evicted them
to make way for a new transgenic soy

plantation on their land. Tofu anyone?
During the eviction, an 80 year old
campesino, Gloria Mamani, was beaten
and dragged across the ground. “They
killed our animals, they shot them[...],
they disposed of the whole ranch of
cattle, horses and goats, the pigs, they
shot everything. They poison[ed] our
water, we don’t have drinking water”
says Gloria’s granddaughter. “We are
trying to organize to see how we can
stop them.”
Black Mesa, Arizona:
Black Mesa, the traditional lands of
Hopi and Dineh people, has been a site
of struggle for indigenous people and
their supporters for years, due to resistance to massive coal mine projects. In
January, Peabody Coal’s massive coal
mine project in northeastern Arizona,
was dealt another major blow by an
administrative judge in Salt Lake City.
The permit was supposed to “guarantee” Peabody’s operation until 2026, or
“until the coal runs out.” But now all of
that is on hold while the impact of Peabody’s coal plant on the environment is
put under further scrutiny.
Violence at Pubugou dam
in China:
During Chinese authorities’ attempts
to relocate people and demolish homes
to make way for dam construction,
residents resist and threaten to blow up
themselves and their homes on April
24. The Pubugou dam construction has
been the scene of resistance and violent
struggle since 2004, when the army
fired on protestors marching against it.
Villagers arson resort
construction in China:
On April 24th, more than 10 villagers set fire to the construction site of a
government resort complex in the Emei
Mountains in southwest China’s Sichuan Province to protest the forced demolition of their homes by the touristdevelopment project involving luxury
hotels, resorts, clubs and parks. Clashes occurred between protestors and police, resulting in seven injuries.

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UPDATES IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST
GRASSROOTS FASCISM EVERYWHERE

Picture of Jewish prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp
right before beating a Nazi soldier to death.

May Day San Francisco:
During San Francisco’s main May Day
march, a group of white supremacist
youth called “Bay Area National Anarchists” were allegedly attacked by a
group for counter-protesting the immigrant demonstrations planned that day
with signs like “no amnesty”. Two were
arrested, a woman and a man, and were
both booked for possessing a deadly
weapon, robbery, and conspiracy. Reports also say that they were originally
charged with a misdemeanor hate crime
because the reason they were fighting
the Nazis is because they were Nazis.
Their original bail was set at 210,000
dollars, but on their May 5th arraignments it was dropped to 75,000 dollars. The 75,000 dollars was obviously
another opportunity for the state to
drain resources for communities of resistance, in this case, those who chose
to show no tolerance for intolerance.
Funds from comrades were gathered

around the country and both have been
released on bond, which means roughly
6,000 dollars a person lost to the bails
bondsman forever. Both were released
pending trial, and are still facing 5 felony charges each; 4 counts of assault
and 1 count of robbery (the Nazi youth
white supremacists of “BANA” claim
of the arrested tried to steal their bags).
The “Bay Area National Anarchists” is
a front name for a youth white supremacist group in Northern California The
group uses the term anarchist to appeal
to other young and frustrated people
that would be excited by such a word,
but this is a front for their fascist/racist
agenda which also hides in what they
call “tribalism”. Members of the group
spend most of their time uploading videos of themselves talking or picking up
trash, but they seem to spend a lot of
their time trying piss off actual anarchists, if there name isn’t enough.

One of the most essential and inherent
traditions of every anarchist force or
movement in history has been the complete disdain and intolerance for Nazis,
considering anarchy is the antithesis of
fascism, in the most extreme way. The
group can be seen on corny youtube
videos of themselves they have posted
on their websites, where you can see
them picking up trash on the beach, “as
a tribe”. Honestly though, by tribe they
mean a bunch of douchebags who simply listened to too much Korn and probably got made fun of as children, only
focusing on the black kids that tormented them. These kids really are lame,
and they deserved a beating at one time
or another. Sorry, but really fuck these
morons. In their attempts to piss off local anarchists, they would attend large
“anarchist” events or conferences and
take pictures or video footage and upload it online, so the anarchists knew
that Nazis were there, even if they cowardly remained silent.

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These so called “anarchists” finally got
what’s coming to them, and honestly
not enough. Like a cop buying crack
in Oakland, seriously fuck you. After
years of talking shit, they were spotted
with signs of “no amnesty” at the immigration march and apparently a scuffle
broke out. These “anarchists” are now
also using the state to defend themselves, hiding behind “free speech” and
even fabricating stories to try and add
charges to those arrested. In regards
to the free speech, we have to say that
they spoke, and they were entitled to
that, what happens after you say what
you need to say, is life.
Police say that they saw the two arrested were seen following the white
supremacists when they were leaving
their counter-demonstration of the immigration march. The cops also say
that they did not see who threw the first
punch, but since the white supremacists
were on the ground crying like little babies, the police chose to help out their
fascist comrades and arrest a black male
and young woman. When the police arrived the white supremacists requested
to press full charges, stating that the attackers had brass knuckles, and tried to
steal their bag to get more information
on their organization (which is a complete joke; the allegation and organization). Reports say that no brass knuckles were ever recovered at the scene,
but a can of mace was, and even after
the arraignment and police statements,
they both still face 5 felony charges.
The two arrested both are pleading not
guilty.
It’s incredibly important to show our
utmost support for these two comrades
who are making the streets safer, simply
in the process of defending themselves.
Please send donations of support to:
Kelsey & Dee Support:
3030b 16th street
San Francisco, CA 94103
You can also donate via paypal at:
paypal@freemfone.org

Mid-April
Chico, California:
Racist attack near campus in Chico,
California. Respond!
Chico: Joseph Igbineweka, a 23 year
old senior from Nigeria was stabbed repeatedly after being jumped and called
racial slurs. Joseph was on his way
home from a party when he was attacked, very close to college campus in
Chico. Although he fought back against
his attackers, he was then attacked with
a knife. Luckily, bystanders came to his
aid and quickly got help and bound his
wounds.
Considering the alleged solidarity
that’s been discovered across campuses
in California this last year, we would
hope that this will be another unifying
occurrence. Beyond the budget cuts
and tuition escalation, students should
consider coming together to liquidate
any dividing attitudes and racist behavior, really taking over not only the
campus infrastructures, but society’s
relations.
No tolerance for racism, or as some had
said, “no tolerance for intolerance”.
April 17th: Los Angeles
On April 17th a demonstration again
the Los Angeles Police Department
ended with the arrest of a known antifascist fighter; Julio Rodriguez. We are
writing this almost 2 weeks later, and
unfortunately Julio remains in jail. He
is being held on 50,000 dollar bail, and
is facing a felony charge of “assault
with a deadly weapon on a police or
fireman”. According to reports, Julio
was originally arrested for “misdemeanor battery”, and after his arrest,
it is understood that the police tampered with his belongings, somehow
escalating the charge to “assault with a
deadly weapon”. The LAPD is one of
the most notorious police departments
in the United States if not the world, if
is important for those interested in confronting fascism, both in its direct and
passive form, to prove to Julio that he
is not alone.

Donations for bail have been requested.
Information on how to donate, find out
more, or different ways to support him
are available by contacting his support
group here:
MapachinABC@gmail.com
Vancouver:
A member of Anti-Racist Action in
Vancouver was the survivor of a firebomb attack. The attack comes in the
wake of a rally organized in late march
against neo-Nazis in the local area. The
rally drew out hundreds of anti-fascists,
but the planned neo-Nazi rally never
materialized, leading many in ARA to
declare a tactical victory.
Chicago:
Neo-Nazis associated with the group
National Socialist Front planned on
having a march entitled “White Pride
World Wide” in Chicago, but for the
few racists who did materialize for the
event, got a healthy ass kicking instead.
According to militants in ARA:
“Southside ARA had been scouting in
the downtown area early on, watching
out for neo-Nazi skinheads and other
white supremacists. Within minutes of
their pathetic march of four boneheads
waving white pride flags, clandestine
anti-fascists took formation and confronted them, successfully delivering
U-lock justice to the unsuspecting Nazi
trash with trained precision. In broad
daylight on Michigan Avenue, Nazis
helplessly had flags ripped from their
hands and were beaten down as pedestrians watched in awe. Later, a police
car pulled up and arrested the bewildered and injured boneheads while the
anti-fascists swiftly disappeared into
thin air. Showing up seconds later, the
pro-diversity / anti-hate rally laid the
final icing on the cake by surrounding
the humiliated and obviously defeated boneheads and taunted them with
chants, holding a rally directly in the
path of their march.”
Militants prepared for the actions
by launching a campaign against the
NSF that included confrontations with
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schools, posting up home address and
phone numbers of various Nazis, and
infiltration of the NSF itself.
Bolton, UK:
Anti-fascists gathered in the UK against
the far-right English Defence League
as various groups gathered to confront
them in the streets, despite massive police presence.
Larissa, Greece:
A fascist demo in the city of Larissa in
Greece was smashed by anti-fascists.
During clashes with the police which
ensued 4 comrades have been arrested.
The Medical School of the city is under
occupation demanding the release of
the anti-fascists.
According to posts on LibCom.org:
“On Sunday noon fascists of the Patriotic Club of Thessaly tried to hold
a racist demo against the new law
which gives citizenship to hundreds of
thousands of second generation immigrants. According to the communique
of the occupied Medical School of the
city, before the fascists even began to
gather, Visarionos square where their
march was supposed to start was occupied by anti-fascists. When the fascists
finally arrived they were attacked and
beaten while the van with which they
patrol the streets of the city at night in
vigilante immigrant hunt type of operations was destroyed. After the fascists
retreated the antifascist counter-demo
was attacked by riot police forces who
pushed the radicals towards the central
square of the city (Post-Office square)
with an intention to encircle them. During the clashes 4 people have been arrested, while the rest took refuge to the
city’s Medical School. The School remains under occupation by people demanding the immediate release of the
anti-fascists. The cops have demanded
a lift of the academic asylum, but the
rector has refused to grant it.
The developments come on the same
day that two members of the Golden
Dawn neo-nazi party were arrested in
Athens carrying a 9mm ZASTAVA gun
and propaganda material of their orga-

nization. The police has raided their
houses and the headquarters of the neonazi party but has announced it found
no more incriminating evidence. The
two men are held in custody.”
Dresden, Germany:
As in previous years, the neo-Nazi
scene tried to exploit the anniversary of
the bombing of Dresden during World
War II for their own propaganda. Dresden Nazifrei, a huge alliance, formed
in response to this historical revisionism and made a broad mobilization of
people from all over Germany possible
-- more so than ever in the years before.
According to a report on LibCom.
org: “And despite some massive police
violence and neo-Nazi attacks during
the day, the strategy of the anti-fascists
was a complete success. Well coordinated and massive actions of civil disobedience created a situation the police
couldn’t control -- and in the end they
had to forbid the march of the neo-Nazis.”
Russia:
The 19th of January has become a day
of solidarity between Russian antifascists across the country, in response
to the murder of human rights lawyer
Stanislav Markelov and anarchist journalist Anastasia Baburova were shot in
cold blood in Moscow.
According to a report online: “Around
7 PM 19th of January, people started to
gather at Petrovskiy boulevard, a section of “Boulevard ring” in center of
Moscow. People formed a long queue,
as police searched everyone joining the
action. As loudspeakers were banned,
little was heard of the speeches. Police
had allowed “passage” from this picket
to the next at Griboyedov statue next to
Chistye Prudy metro station, however
any slogans and banners were banned.
Demonstrators had no intentions to follow these orders, thin police lines were
promptly broken and a group of around
200 demonstrations went to move down
the boulevard, scanning “Alerta antifascista!”, “Get to the streets, reclaim
the city!” and “ACAB!”. In the front

banner, there were names of dozens of
Nazi victims of the previous years.
In other cities across the country, hundreds of people gathered for memorial
events, banner drops, marches, and other events to mark the day.
Chile:
In late February, according to a post
on Total Liberation, “...acting under
the cover of informal organization, we
carried out an incendiary attack at the
headquarters of the right-wing, ultraconservative Independent Democratic
Union (UDI) political party. Along
with fire and paint-bombs, we left the
following communiqué:
The true voice of the people obeys nothing!
A few days after the change of scenery
(and clowns) in the circus of the rich
and powerful, we ventured out together
with our friend the night in order to attack a symbol that has oppressed our
country for decades: the headquarters
of the extreme right-wing, neo-liberal,
nationalist, religious UDI political
party (popular, ha ha), which—with
the help of the Catholic Church—has
endeavored to impose a militarized, authoritarian morality based on fear and
false divinity.
We are screaming at you!
You did not win this election democratically, because the real majority is not
reflected in your ballot-box spectacle.
The people are beginning to understand
that representative democracy is only
for the rich, and forces the workers to
conform to its margins.
We know that no matter who governs,
things will not change. Those afflicted
will always be the workers, whether
they are construction workers, professors, or clerks. This is why, seized by
insurrectionary fire, we demonstrated
our hatred for the consumerist, exploitative society to which the rich subject
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They call us utopians, but look at yourselves! You who believe in incompetent
parliamentarians—the “people’s representatives” ($enators and deputie$)
who represent no one but themselves—
are the utopians.
We are calling for those who are organized, and those who are not, to take action against the hypocritical, bourgeois
normality in which we are immersed.
But also keep building popular organizations in each neighborhood and town,
as these are the true bases of change.
- Wicked Antiauthoritarian Cell”
Late march:
Portland, Oregon
A local anti-fascist was shot in killed in
downtown Portland in late March. According to a post online: “Shortly after
midnight on Saturday, March 27, a man
was brutally attacked in the heart of
downtown Portland. His attacker shot
him and left him lying in the street. He
is currently fighting to overcome extensive injuries. It is no secret that this
man, Luke Querner, is a long-time antifascist activist. He has devoted over a
decade of his life to opposing the most
vicious elements of our city’s white supremacist movement. Rose City Antifascists, the Portland chapter of the Anti-Racist Action Network, believe that
the local neo-Nazis whom Luke has
opposed for years attempted to murder
him on Saturday morning.
Luke is proud to be an anti-racist skinhead. The true skinhead movement
has always been anti-racist, tracing its
origins to the cultural intersection of Jamaican immigrants and working class
whites in England during the 1960s.
After racists and the far-Right attempted to hijack the skinhead movement in
the late 1970s and ‘80s, a movement
known as SkinHeads Against Racial
Prejudice (SHARP) emerged in 1987
to reaffirm the anti-racist roots of the
subculture. As with many other antiracist skins, Luke is deeply committed to racial equality and social justice.
This commitment has caused Luke to
be targeted in the past.”

It is believed that the local well organized and regimented neo-fascist group
Volksfront carried out the attack. Portland has a long and bloody history of
neo-Nazi organizing; as well as antifascist resistance to it. We owe much
to those that would physically combat
these scum and our hearts go out to
people like Luke who pay the price for
such defense of our communities.
As Rose City Anti-fa posted:
“Luke is currently looking at a mountain of medical bills. The Anti-Racist
Action Network is currently hosting
benefits from coast to coast to raise
funds. In addition, the ARA Network
has set up a PayPal account to send
Luke donations.
As always, Rose City Anti-fa is looking
for any and all information related to
fascist organizing in our town. Contact us at fight_them_back@riseup.
net or leave a voice mail message at
971.533.7832. We will not rest until we
see some measure of justice for Luke.”
April 24th, 2010Bialystok, Poland:
In Bialystok, Poland anti-fascists
staged a public demonstration against
the re-occurring racist violence of nazi
skinheads in the local community. Poland is notorious for nazi skin heads
and soccer hooligans, and simply being
one of the most racist and unapologetic
nations in Eastern Europe. Similarly
to those in Russia, publicly denouncing or confronting racism can lead not
only to arrest or harassment, but death.
Like the United States, and most likely
everywhere, Neo-Nazis have a huge
place in active police forces. When the
demonstration began, it was immediately attacked by local Nazis, but those
attending the demonstration held their
ground and beat the Nazis off. Once the
Nazis ran away bruised and bloody, the
police step in to take their place. Out
of the 130 who attended the demonstration, around 90 were arrested. It is also
reported that when in jail, police were
photographing those arrested, taking

information from their private phones,
and letting them know that they were
sympathizers of the Nazis, and intend
to share information with them.
April 22nd, 2010:
Pearl, Mississippi
Going into print we heard a story when
looking through some news articles.
Although the case we are about to report on is somewhat ironic and controversial, we chose to take the bias position, and make it inspiring and positive.
Richard Barrett, 67, was a white lawyer originally from New York City,
who last lived in Pearl, Mississippi. He
was a white supremacist and nationalist, who focused most of his efforts in
getting media attention, and recruiting
young skin heads. In his autobiography: The Commission, he called for
“resettling minority groups” to “Puerto
Rico, Mexico, Israel, the Orient and
Africa.” He also states in his book that
“the Negro race … possess[es] no creativity of its own [and] pulls the vitality
away from civilization.” In the same
book he concludes that there is a need
for sterilizations and abortions of those
deemed “unfit”, to halt re-population of
“minority groups”.
He is also responsible for Mississippi’s
“Spirit of America Day” marked as a
holiday over 40 years ago. The day
honors high-school athletes whom have
been chosen to be rewarded for being
role models. In the 40 years of the holiday, not one non-white/straight/male
student has ever been chosen, considering Barrett is the one whom created the
holiday, and chooses the students, it is
obviously a front for one of his many
nazi media campaigns.
In 1984 he ran for U.S congress against
3 other black candidates in Mississippi.
His campaign slogan was to “decide
between a cotton boll and 3 lumps of
coal”. In the late 80’s he tried starting
a new campaign against integration in
public schools, which was seen mostly
in the form of him and 40-60 robed
Klansmen marching down the street.
During this anti-integration campaign

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he started a petition for the “Forstyth County Covenant”
which argued for the advancement of “America’s heritage as
a free, white, Christian, English-speaking democracy” and
asserted that “all efforts to make us a bilingual, bisexual or
biracial society must be defeated.”
He held multiple demonstrations motivated by uncompromising fascist politics; rallies against MLK day in Atlanta;
in California he held two demonstrations in support of the
officers who beat Rodney King getting acquitted; in Boston
he held a rally when a court order forbid the exclusion of gay
groups at the annual St. Patrick’s day; another notorious protest of his was in Morristown, NJ, where he commemorated
“Independence from Affirmative Action Day”.
He used the little legal knowledge he had to start petitions for
state politicians to pardon specifically murderers in prison for
killing civil rights leaders in the 60s. One of Barrett’s most
recent demonstrations were held in Jena, Louisiana, when 6
black youth were arrested and charged with adult felony assault charges for fighting another student whom was white at
school. He was noticed here specifically for his chant: “if it
ain’t white, it ain’t right”.
Barrett, 67, can not torment any more. He is now
dead. Vincent McGee a 22
year old black man, whom
some how did landscaping
for Richard, is in custody
for allegedly stabbing and
beating Richard Barrett to
death, and than using gasoline to burn his house down,
and melt 40% of his white
skin, maybe enough that he
almost looked black.
The media is saying that
Vincent Mcgee, a man
Richard was paying to do
his landscaping, killed Barrett after he made sexual
advances on him, as well as
offering him money to have
sex with him. The irony
here is that it is hard to tell
what Vincent’s motivation
was. Was it that Richard
was threatening to rape or
sexually assault him, or
was it that he was coming
out to Vincent and he was
uncomfortable with it?
Could it have also been that

Richard dedicated his life to liquidating Vincent, his family,
and his entire race?
Whatever the reason, a young black man killed Richard Barrett, burnt his old white nazi body to a crisp, while destroying
his home (and we are assuming a lot of Nazi propaganda).
Richard Barrett is now dead, and that’s positive.
Although we are repulsed by the negative associations the
media is suggesting with Richard’s closet homo-sexuality,
Richards violent resentment towards queer groups and himself obviously stems from this society’s demonization of gay
or queer peoples, hence how people like Richard come to exist. At the same time, we are sure that nazi, fascist, or white
supremacist groups around the world are either desperately
denouncing McGee’s allegations or Richard himself, or just
simply not touching the subject due to the sheer irony and
embarrassment involved.
Whatever reason Mcgee did what he did, Richard Barrett is
now dead, and looks even uglier (which is maybe why he
couldn’t get any) than he did in real life. Therefore props to
Mcgee, and hopefully the kid gets off.

“Cause the only good nazi, is a dead one.”
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AGAINST THE
RECUPERATION
OF TRAGEDY

C

harity has been
used in many
different ways.
While
some
choose to recognize this as the
most prominent
source for what
it is we understand as compassion, concern, or mutuality today, others choose
to feel nothing but the utmost disdain
for this term’s meaning.
While some work to become professionals in this field, others are confused
by their stupidity, annoyed with their
naivety, or feel lied to by their sincerity. How could there be an industry that
relies on consciously recognized suffering? More importantly, how is that
not more offensive than all the other
industries that produce this suffering,
when the salaries of the charitable are
fulfilled by this permanent demise?
Charities are capitalism’s recuperation
of the same tragedy that stems from its
very existence to begin with.
Charities are the mediums provided to
the public to communicate a feeling of
mutuality or solidarity with others sharing similar conditions. They are provided to the wealthy as a bank account for
either the expendable incomes of the
guilt ridden rich, or in most cases a free
and tax deductible advertising opportunity in an era where “ethics” or “consciousness” in business and consumption has become hip or an opportunity

for price mark up.
So and so endangered species, so and so
starving children, so and so oil spill, so
and so fill in the blank. There are some
things that people just can’t ignore,
therefore, there is money to be made.
With a world as tragic and bluntly cruel
as the global industrial world of today,
there is insanely awful shit everywhere,
like super fucked up, horror movie shit.
What is worse than starving children or
redwoods dying? What is worse than
natural disasters wrecking only the
poorest of the already poorest, or people having no money to eat or live? Of
course we are told that there is no connection between these events, but that
there is a career opportunity in each of
them.
Based on what you like most, you can
give back to the less fortunate, and never even meet them in person. It’s actually quite convenient, like a drug dealer
that delivers to your house, except in
this case, the product is relief from
one’s own guilt. Social workers pride
themselves on the lack of blood on their
hands, but ironically, without the same
blood, they would be without the job.
Charities are the industry of issues.
Animals across the world die because
forests across the world are destroyed,
because people in the world found a
way to make a bunch of money off of it.
Whales or elephants are dying because
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some rich people will pay a lot of money
to have it on their wall, or in their stomachs. Some children and adults are starving because the wealth and resources of
the world are reserved for different groups
or regions of the world, because “that’s
the way it is” and, “they were just the designated unlucky ones”, “its a system”.
Charities choose to isolate these events
and keep us focused on the really “bad”
stuff as a separate entity from the world
that is everywhere and chooses to regulate
everything.
For anyone who sees the charity as an
outlet we have access to for the “better”
(whatever that is), you are simply wrong.
There are no better jobs available, there
are no salaries that don’t come at the expense of our or anyone else’s blood, there
are no better versions of what is here and
now.

and capitalism’s very bureaucratic “compassion”, we propose a common solidarity
over conditions created by the social order
of today, that looks to confront the suffering inherent to it’s existence in a totalizing
way.
In regards to careers in social aid, we see
this as no different from any identity for
how one would survive capitalism; it’s
probably better than working at McDonalds.
As opposed to picking and choosing the
issues, we propose for a recognition of the
global catastrophe of capitalism and domination today. With this understanding of
we encourage energy and resources to be
put into to the actualization of the end of
this tragedy, as opposed to the futile recognition of it’s more offensive behavior.

For charities to exist, the tragedy of the
world today must continue to as well.
We recognize the connectedness of everything today, and refuse to compare better
and worse. In our contempt for charity,

“Nothing resembles a representative of the bourgeoisie
more than a representative of the proletariat...”

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On “bigger cages,
and longer chains”

A

nimal rights, human
rights, environmental
defense: some of the
terms we hear when
people push for the
“better”, the “more”, or
“progress” so desperately needed to preserve the “integrity” of
this awful world.
Rights usually follow the logic of political demands. But what are the politics of
“rights”, or a struggle that looks to make
demands?
A movement, moment, or organization that
exists with the intention of “making better”
or “achieving” rights, is a movement that
falls victim to the logic of demands. In
the case of this sort of outlook, one proves
to have faith in the opposing force they
are confronting or demanding things from.
What we mean by faith, is that one has hope
that achievements can be made by searching for success within the confines of the
existing conditions or opponents keeping a
group or individual un-achievers.
To express demands is to expect two
things: one of which is that there will be
a response, and two, that satisfaction is
at any point feasible with the response of

DEMAND
NOTHING

ACCEPT
NOTHING.

what or who it is you are demanding from.
The logic of these campaigns or tendencies
is a very dangerous logic for our humanity,
and a very helpful logic to our containers.
As opposed to questioning the origin or
reason of our frustration in its entirety, we
focus on the surface, and simply ask for a
less harsh visual.
In most cases, organizations or groups of
people making political demands are looking to engage in the decision making process (politics), the same decision making
process that regulated the conditions they
were frustrated with driving whichever
campaign. They are in most cases looking
to achieve what the world of politics refers
to as either rights or policies to help regulate an issue differently. We want to really
stress our last sentence, specifically our last
word: differently. They are not looking to
remove the issue completely, but to change
the issue, or make it different. They are
not looking to stop what is motivating the
issue, but change the operations or appearance of what is driving the issue with the
issue to begin with.
Rights are demands for more choices or capabilities within the context of a world that
regulates all choices and capabilities.

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“The workers who, during a wildcat strike, carried a banner saying,
‘We are not asking for anything’
understood that the defeat is in
the claim itself (‘the claim against
the enemy is eternal’). There is no
alternative but to take everything.
As Stirner said: ‘No matter how
much you give them, they will always ask for more, because what
they want is no less than the end
of every concession’.:

When we think of the political
game of rights or the logic of demands, we think of a starving
person chained to a wall in a very
small cell. There is a plate of his
most favorite meal right across the
room and an aroma of her favorite
restaurant where the meal was discovered coming through the cell’s
walls. Each day he begs with all
of her might to get to this meal,
completely ignoring the proximity
of the nearby restaurant where the
meal is available in mass. Each day
those with the key to his room enter
the room when the screaming has
just been too much, and add a small
little link to the chain, making it so
the meal appeared to be closer and
closer. With each link he can reach
just enough of the plate to chew
one tiny morsel of food; these little
nibbles help to keep her quiet till
the next day. As this continues all
he can focus on is getting that chain
longer and longer.
She ignores the door those with
the chain link equipment enter

through, and choose to not focus on
the proximity of the restaurant and
its aroma, but only to get one more
link, one more inch closer to his
favorite meal; to easing her starvation. Finally the day came when
he needed one more chain to really
devour the meal. As her screaming
was simply so intense, the chain
linkers had to enter the room to respond to his demands. Finally the
chain was long enough for her to
devour the meal. Once she finished
the plate, he laid in silence for the
night. Only to wake up starving the
next day. For days he screamed because she was hungry, but confused
as to what he was screaming for.
The meal was gone, but all of his
complaints seemed worthless, as
her stomach continued to grumble.
The meal was gone, and the chain
was as long as it would go, but still
restricted him to the cell that stood
between her and a consistent access to this food source. Since the
chain went as long as the cell allowed, the people with the key to
his room simply ignored her cries.

He sat in silence, taken over with
not feelings of hunger, but feelings
of regret and confusion. She then
died of starvation a few days later.
Rights are demands granted.
Rights are choices allowed. Rights
are the logic of a sheep begging
to be slaughtered later, or in a less
painful fashion.
We do not propose rights. We do
not demand anything.
We recognize that there is a system,
a framework, or an order per se
that we are forced to survive. We
wish to be the exception when we
make no demands, and retain a
permanent tension with the circumstances in their entirety.
It’s not the size that matters. It’s
not the amount we are allowed to
have. It’s not how things are done.
The cell will never be pretty enough
to ease our proposals, because we
wish not for more space or a nicer
circumstances, but to leave the cell
completely.
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Our day to day lives are spent
suffering indignities; we find
our time and energy being animated not for our own desires
and needs, but instead for the
benefit of those that profit off
and dominate us.

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e are asleep, and the
alarm clock rings. Our
bodies cry out for more
sleep, as we hit the
snooze button in an attempt to buy more time.
Finally, we roll over
and look at the clock,
our eyes grow wide as we curse ourselves for sleeping in and we bound out of bed, hitting the shower.
Coat in hand, and of course, no time for breakfast,
we rush off to another day at a job that we hate for
assholes that think they are smarter and better than
us. Later, off work, we are on the street, or perhaps
driving home, and we see the police man. He pulls
us over, he stops us, his pig snout looking for something, anything, to fuck us with. We have to resist
every urge in the world to stop ourselves from beating his pig snout in with a baseball bat, as he berates
us like children, issues us tickets, takes us to jail, or
threatens us with (or carries out) violence.
On and on it goes; the faces may change, but the
relationship between us and those above us, be they
land lords, lawyers, bosses, judges, managers, administrators, social workers, teachers, cops, and so

on, remains the same. We are always made to feel
small, to feel powerless, and always to feel bad
about fighting back. There are channels in place,
we are told, for anger. It is reserved for the letters
page of the local paper, the well managed room of
the union hall, or the tightly choreographed antics
of the Leftist demonstration. At the end of the day,
we are made to feel that there is something wrong
with resisting the way things are. “Why are you angry?,” they ask? “Why the fuck aren’t you angry!,”
we yell back. “You are a bad person for wanting to
fight back,” they tell us. “No, we are sane. We are
here and we are alive. We do not want to live only to
die,” we reply. We do not wish to exist only to submit to the regime of work, school, traffic, rent, and
paying for things. “We have ways of making you
play the game,” they whisper to us. Oh, but so do
we, my enemy.

COWARD

DON’T
BE A

Thus, while the landlord may smile now, tomorrow
when the rent is late it will turn to a frown, and you
will see their friend, the policeman. And, that officer
may come into your school with a happy face today,
but tomorrow you will see them in a raid with guns
drawn. I am among those that see through the game
and I find associates among those that do so as well.
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We see clear enemies, and we wish to
attack them and their system. We find
enemies as well, with all those that collaborate with our exploiters day in and
day out; for these people are cowards.
There is no way to mince words. They
are those that toe the party line and go
along with the logic of their own domination. But, cracks are always visible
in the social fabric of this society, we
can find the ways in which we can fight
back as individuals and together. We
can link up with others doing the same
and grow more powerful. We can begin
to turn the tables.
In our day to day lives, we find ways as
individuals of fighting back. On the job,
we avoid work as much as possible. We
don’t do our jobs, we come in late, we
take money from the boss when possible, we lie about our hours, we spend
more time on our lunch breaks than we
are supposed to, and so on. At home,
we lie to our land lords and attempt to
get them to pay for as many things as
we can. On the streets, we enjoy ourselves as much as possible; drinking
in parks and stealing from stores. We
evade and dodge the police as much as
we are able, and lie to them when they
do catch us. We know what lies at the
other end of the police car ride; simply
an extreme version of this world: the
prison cell. We sneak into movie theaters, write graffiti, steal pallets from
the back of stores for firewood, and
break into vacant buildings to live in.
We are trying to push out of simply
surviving, and into real life, but we are
poor and workers, so in doing so, we
become criminals. But, we are not bad
people for doing this, nor are we simply criminals; we are people who are
forced into a position where such acts
are in our interest. These actions are
a small way of resisting a world that
seeks to destroy us and our lives; to
turn the meaning of our existence simply as cogs in the machine of those of
a higher class. Any talk by anyone, be
they union officials, liberal do gooders,
or right-wing bureaucrats, against such
actions, is simply the same logic of the
bosses, reverberated back to us from

different mouths.
But shoplifting, squatting, sabotage,
graffiti...these are little victories; they
do not win us control over our lives,
simply more breathing room. Everyone takes from the rich when no one
is looking; but what do you do when
you are faced with social situations in
which it becomes possible to fight back
with others? It is in these situations that
people often become either cowards or
courageous. Snitches or comrades. We
need to cultivate a culture that shuns
the cowards and snitches in our society. A culture that frowns on those that
would cooperate with the government
and the police and instead put more
stock in their neighborhoods and other
poor and working people around them.
All of us can think of many situations
on the job, renting a house, and on the
street, where people faced with the opportunity to fight or turn coward, has
gone down.
At work, people resist all the time. They
either refuse work, evade it, argue or
fight with the bosses, sabotage machinery, steal from work, and go on strike
and beyond. For those of us that have
engaged in these activities, we know
that cowards, snitches and friends of
the bosses, are always our biggest enemies. Several years ago, I had a horrible job. In the middle of the summer I
would wake up at 5:30 AM every morning to go and work in a cabinet shop as
a delivery person. It was owned by a
rich family, which meant that bosses
connected to that family were scattered
throughout the facility. The work was
hard and it was very hot, we (myself
and several other people) hauled cabinets out to various construction sites.
We resisted in ways that we could; taking breaks whenever possible, driving
the truck different places and resting,
smoking in the truck, etc. It was bad
enough that racism between white, Latino, and black workers kept us divided,
but we also had to worry about those
workers who were friends of the bosses
snitching on us. Once, when myself and
another worker were talking about how
we could take the boss to labor court

over some violations, another worker
snitched on us and told the boss of our
plans. He scolded us and even later
threatened to fire one of us. Because of
this coward we almost lost our job; I
was laid off soon after.
At another job site, a friend was busy
stealing as much food as possible from
their job with their coworkers. The
boss owned a health food store that
sold medicine and vegan products, yet
paid his workers horribly and did not
give them benefits. Soon, the workers
in the store that were friends began
taking whole items home for dinner,
then lunch, then medicine, and then
for their friends and families. “Fuck
this rich asshole,” they said. But then,
a friend of the boss became hired and
soon video cameras started to dot the
store, and many became afraid of them
snitching. A friend of the bosses cannot
be a friend of other workers, because
the interests of workers and bosses are
opposed. It takes bravery to risk being
fired from your boss to save you and
your family money - and it is a coward
who sides with the rich and not their
fellow workers.
Several years ago, I moved into a new
place in town. I was excited about the
move, as I had grown up in the neighborhood and worked for several years
at a place around the corner and knew
the area well. I moved in with some
friends from high school and I thought
everything was going to go well.
Quickly a problem developed however,
as one of my roommates was the child
of the landlord. While at first I thought
this would make renting easy, quickly it
became clear that I had two landlords.
One that collected my rent check, and
the other that complained and told me
what to do. I became angry at the situation of the house, which was in complete disarray, but when I raised too
much of a stink about it, the landlords
child complained about me to them. I
came home from work one day to find
an eviction notice on my door. What
is sad about this situation, is that the
other people in the house decided not
to even tell me of my coming eviction,

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which would have given me time to
find another place to live. They felt
more of a closeness to their friend;
someone’s who’s parent had bought
them a house to live in, than other
renters who were in the same situation. Recently, I heard that one of
those people became so angry at
the (still) horrible conditions of the
house, that they decided to possibly
go on rent strike until the landlord
fixed what was wrong with the
house. They ultimately didn’t however, because they still had to contend with the landlord’s child living
in the house with them.
Recently, people in Modesto (as
regular readers of this magazine
will know) became alarmed at the
spreading epidemic of Hepatitis
C and HIV through the sharing of
needles from drug use. After the
Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors shot down the suggestion of
a grand jury to form a needle exchange program, people organized
an autonomous needle exchange to
do the work that the government
refused to do. For several months,
the needle exchange program was
a great success and operated out of
a park known for high amounts of
drug use, getting dirty needles off
the streets and disposing of them
safely. Quickly however, a “community activist” in the local area,
Robert Stanford, became alarmed
that people were taking initiative themselves and confronting
problems in their communities on
their own terms. He worked with
the Sheriff’s Department, which
launched a sting operation that
shut the program down and issued
misdemeanor charges to two volunteers. Now, those volunteers face
possible jail time and the park is still
awash in dirty needles. In a recent
clean up, volunteers found up to 60
dirty and discarded needles in the
same park that the program started

in. With the exchange now nonexistent, the park is once again home to
a sea of possibly infectious syringes.
Robert Stanford is the classic example
of a coward: someone who was willing to side with the police and not
the community that they claimed to
“fight” for. All this was done during
while they were running for a seat on
the Modesto City Council, and their
collaboration with the police was a
talking point in their quest for power.
We can learn much from all of these
instances. What would have happened
if all of these people in these various
examples would have decided to side
with other working and poor people
instead of bosses and the police? What
would have happened at my work if
other workers would have teamed up
to resist their conditions as a group instead of running to lick the boots of

some rich piece of shit? What would
have happened if renters of a house
would have banded together to demand better conditions instead of siding with their landlord? What would
have happened if “community activists” would have tried to work with
autonomous projects instead of working with the pigs? Obviously, people
would have been in a way better position then they are now, and people
would not be facing jail time. At work,
on the streets, in our neighborhoods,
snitches and cowards are everywhere.
But, then again, so are people who are
willing to stand up and not collaborate.
Instead, they stand with other people
like them who have the same interests
and realize that they run counter to
those that own, control, and dominate
our lives. It is not just the bosses and
their dogs we need to fight, but also all
those among us who side with them.

Whatever happens, don’t be a
coward, stand together.

eyes blinking in
the face of the

“Disinterest is no longer an expression of an
individual idealism, but a mass phenomenon.”

infinite

Where are we?

W

impressive mark up.
e are not
allowed to
have a present
or a future.

Originality, rebellion, curiosity, experience, growth: some of the defining traits that come to mind when we
contemplate the word “youth”. Today,
these words seem to have all been refined, recuperated, and packaged for us
to purchase, read about, wear, or watch.
Somehow we have allowed ourselves
to become an era of stagnancy. We are
the stand still generation, realizing ourselves within the confines of boredom
and predictability. The most original
part of our generation is our complete
neglect of originality.
This celebration of boredom and selfhatred as a dead-era in human history
has helped to calculate what we understand as “youth culture” today; an industry that sells us our identities.
Our curiosity and desire for purpose,
identity, or “distinction” from everyone
else, has helped to create new phones
that can “capture our every need, personally and socially”, clothes that can
determine our associations, or technology that can “satisfy our every desire”.
Are we a PC or a MAC? Are you a
PBR person or a cosmo? Are we liberals or conservatives? Artists or musicians?
The youth of today, is quite possibly the
most lethargic, pathetic, or boring generation in the history of humanity.
Fashion has helped to fully claim our
identities, and ever so brilliantly prove
a new dawn of brilliance in laziness.
New lines and styles have placed
Goodwill and the Salvation army in
competition with boutiques and chains
like Buffalo exchange. The unwanted
aesthetics of the prior generations are
helping to clothe the pathetic bodies of
a new generation; of course at a very

“Never has humanity been reunited in
such great number, but also never have
they been separated to such a degree.”
Our disconnection and irony has helped
to create a new dawn of obscure urban
real estate. “Gentrification” is the ever
so used term describing the development of inter-cities today.
In some major cities, community gardens and social centers, achieved
through histories of Neighborhood
struggle with law or inter-city development and mediation, have become museums for the successful and content
of the more liberal of the cosmopolitan world. The mission district in San
Francisco, Manhattan’s lower east side,
or Brooklyn’s “East Williamsburg”,
South Philadelphia, East Montreal; the
list continues. An almost lost youth
has discovered an even more incredibly
lost context: being there, while also not
being there.
The Neighborhood is dead, or going to
be killed, as the histories of community
struggle are now concluded as novelty
with a price tag.
If you can afford it, you can be part of
it. You can live anywhere, but also be
completely disconnected. Our identities or everyday lives need to have
nothing to do with the immediate, the
present, or the moment. Who we are
has nothing to do with where we are.
We live and discover ourselves through
pre-determined mediums provided for
us to communicate and relate through.
We can sleep all day and catch up online, there is no real need to get up.
Similarly we can live in a neighborhood for years and speak to no one in
it, because it’s not indispensable to the
modern social being.
The urban neighborhood is deteriorating and being appropriated, with the
irony and “willingness” of our lost
youth helping to pave a space for the
future homes of the wealthy; helping to
provide a home for those we are sup-

posed to be rebelling against; and forcing us to be almost an appendage of the
wealthy; a subsidiary of their class; a
sub-culture of their mainstream; an experiment in their attempts of constantly
expanding.
We help to set a tone for the neighborhood. We help to warn the neighborhood of what is to come. We make it
more comfortable for more frightened
commuters, and as more and more recognize the new found comforts of the
historic ghetto, the irony deteriorates,
and is replaced with a new price tag.
We enter the neighborhood as the
non-class, the lost youth without the
stability the wealthy flaunt before our
desires. The neighborhood then becomes recognized as a convenient
spot valued by its location in relation
to the already valued location, our lost
youth is so desperately looking to become part of. With this new comfort,
and with time, the isolated bubble of a
non-community, operating within the
confines of another neighborhood will
burst. The neighborhood will deteriorate as the value rises and its location
is more and more attractive to those
who were at one time frightened of it.
The irony ends, when there is no longer
any neighborhood, additionally when
there is no longer a non-neighborhood.
When the neighborhood no longer becomes valued for its location in relation
to a more valuable area, it then simply
becomes the more valuable area.
In the case of the Western world’s urban geography, we have become the
guinea pigs of capital’s domestic expansion. We are helping those who own
the neighborhood but do not live there
go through the motions needed to help
with the transitions desired with their
“properties”. In this case we are helping them to either exploit, exclude, or
appropriate a neighborhood.
The police help with this process, the
real estate developers help with this
process, and the city helps with this
process; what is most sad, is that we
begin this process. We have no neigh-

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borhood, we have nothing. We are a
constantly wandering non-class desperately trying to discover a place to become an us, but always running away
when we realize what we are expected
to become, only stupidly choosing a
path granted and designated for our
“youth” by those with the forceful expectations we are running from to begin
with.
“So, he has replaced the emptiness
of experience with the experience of
emptiness, while awaiting the adventure for which he always keeps himself
prepared but which never comes: all
possible scenarios have already been
written.
Of ecstasy in deception, the solitary
mob of hipsters ever-already disappeared, ever-already forgotten, follows
doggedly their mislaid course, like a
raft of suicidal people adrift, lost in a
depressionist ocean of images and abstractions. It has nothing to transmit,
nothing but the conventional formulas
of missing pleasures and a life without
purpose in a furnished nothingness.”
While Budweiser sets up at the Stonewall(1) gathering point at NYC’s Gay
Pride March, or the Gap shows off their
May 68’(2) influenced clothing line,
our creativity must be realized in the
errors of generations before us.
If everything has been done. If we truly
are the stand still generation, and the
entirety of our reality is calculated by
the totality of a global condition we
had no choice but to accept, our goals
and creativity must be discovered in the
process of overcoming this conditioned
reality. That is to say if we are interested in ever being interesting, or existing
on OUR terms.
While frustrated generations before us
compromised to the deception of progress’s gradual approach, their stories
have been told to us with no intention
of us correcting their mistakes, or taking up where they left off. Their stories
are simply another item on the shelf, to
purchase or fancy, not to embrace or

create.
Rebellions of the past have become the
text books and movies of the current.
They were something that happened in
history, like slavery (as we’re taught).
“No forms of it are happening now”,
so were told, “nor are they possible
under the conditions of “freedom” that
define western society”. Rebellion has
become music, art, clothing, language,
or food. Rebellion has been taught and
appropriated so it is no longer threatening to this society.
With capitalism, if something is not
serving profit, or if it is threatening the
normalcy of a regulated capitalist society and cannot be liquidated simply
through police action, it must become a
product; something to appreciate in the
form of purchase, not experience.
“Unemployment is only the visible concretion of the estrangedness of each
from his own existence in the world of
authoritarian merchandise.”
We live the lives of adventure’s pasts,
through the purchases brought forth in
the present. This is done with an understanding that in the present, our desires
can only be sought through purchases
or pre-existing mediums set by generation’s before us.
While the aesthetics of past social
threats have been appropriated by the
capitalist system, the actual traits that
defined movements or events as threatening, are not possible to re-present or
disempower through capitalism’s recuperation methods.
While the GAP gives us an opportunity to mock the outfits of specifically
French student rioters in the sixties, it
only allows us to embarrass ourselves,
as we are all dressed up, but with nowhere to go.
Although they can satisfy our urges
with representations and fakes, our
hearts still go stale, and our bodies will
only remain de-hydrated.

Rebellion or the desire for something
“new” that truly defines the “youth”,
is not discovered in the framework of
this society, it is only practiced in the
process of removing ourselves from
this society.
If we choose to accept the victimizing
experience and identity designated to
us as modern youth in this pedophile
social reality molesting our possibilities, it makes sense that we would first
look to buy ourselves a piece of rebellion. If we are looking to satisfy our
urges that define our youth on our own
terms, then it is indispensable that we
explore the unknown.
It is not aesthetics that have made these
rebellions in history we flatter with our
mocking, it is their refusal to accept the
conditions of their reality. Not refusing
by only reacting defiantly to the surface of the mainstream’s petty norms or
conventional expectations, but refusing
through a materialized and complete
negation of their understood role in society. Refusing by taking the offensive
on reality, and destroying what appears
to destroy their possibilities. Negating
their position as another motion in the
planned history of an ever progressing
civilization.
We can look and feel “LIKE” anything,
but maybe say in the case of the GAP,
similarly to the case of our lost youth,
until we are taking the clothes and
burning the store after what is needed,
we will continue to be clothed, but still
feel ever so naked.
Our youth rebellion can be victorious
in the realization that no compromise
can be made, only the complete negation of our roles in society through the
complete refusal to accept society.
It is up to us to stop looking for possibilities in our distinction from each
other, and seek affinities in our search
for becoming something new together.
A totalistic critique, followed with an
uncompromising offensive, will create
a context where we can truly rebel.

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Where we are no longer a lost youth,
but know our place; that being anywhere but here.
-Author Unknown*
*EDITOR’S NOTE:
This article was submitted anonymously. Although we do not know the
person who submitted it or the person
they say wrote it, we will include the
message that came with the submission:
“This article was found on the bathroom wall of a basement bar in Manhattan’s lower east side. The poster
was barely on the wall, with what
seemed to be flower and water (although it smelled like urine). I was
very lucky to find this, as it seemed
like one more person opening or closing the door would have knocked the
piece of paper off the wall forever,
leaving it to maybe only been read by
a few drunk early 20’s folks before me
in line that night. I managed to improvise a make shift glove out of toilet
paper to remove it from the wall without completely vomiting. Although I
gagged and barely managed to get it
out of there, in retrospect I am happy I
did. I got a few things out of it, maybe
your magazine will too. I typed it up
for you guys, assuming you might find
it interesting. Really hope you use it,
because this shit was a NASTY process to get to you!”

order that is inherent to western or Judeo-Christian society since its dawn)
where the gay or queer community in
New York, or in all of America actually
refused to continue taking the beatings
and intimidation of the police, and violently fight back.
While the city has turned the memory
simply into a memory with its commemorating statues and wealthy gay
bars that have now become the entire
area, some groups have chosen to take
inspiration from these events as a way
of dealing with the same order and
abuse that provoked the stone wall
riots and continues to haunt queer or
gay communities today. The insurrectionary queer group “Bash Back”,
would be an example of one of these
groups that takes inspiration from the
stone wall riots, while also choosing an
anti-assimilationist perspective when
communicating their desires as a queer
struggle.
(2)May 1968 was a notorious month
in French history, and a month of
events that make their way into the
wet dreams of militant students today. Both students and workers went
on general strike, while also wreaking mayhem around Paris and all of
France. While May 1968 was a moment that almost paralyzed France’s
status as a first world capitalist nation-

state, leaving much of its factories and
movie theatres in shambles, it has now
found its way into the text books of
academics, rhetoric of political artists,
and apparently in the case we are referring to here, the GAP’s clothing lines.
Specifically the trends and aesthetics
of the student portion of May 68’ has
been used as an influence.

“You need to know
how to experience
freedom in order to
be free. You need
to free yourself in
order to experience freedom.
Within the present
social order, time
and space prevent
experimentation of
freedom because
they suffocate the
freedom to experiment.”

Editor’s Footnotes:
(1)The Stonewall Riots were a series
of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against the police, in response
to a raid that took place in the early
morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the
Stonewall Inn (a gay hang out spot), in
the Greenwich Village neighborhood
of New York City. The riots are recognized as being one of the first instances
(Maybe according to Wikipedia; obviously queer, gay, lesbian, or trans communities have been struggling against
the hetero-normative and patriarchal
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Insurrectionary missives and tidbits from the
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Violence is the fundamental
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But queer as in fuck you”.
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Updates and analysis of
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By Fredy Perlman
Available in book format from Red and Black
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Available from Eberhardt Press.
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By the Invisible Committee
Society of the Spectacle
By Guy Debord
Available in most bookstores.

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News in defense of animals.

directaction.info
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Indigenous struggle reports
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S

FOR
NO-THING
AGAINST
EVERY
THING
Why we used this...

ome have accused issue number
7’s cover slogan: “For Nothing,
Against Everything”, as sheer
nihilism. We are assuming this
was an opportunity for people
to criticize without ever opening
the magazine and reading it, or to
discourage others from reading it.
These haters have simply passed
us off as “juvenile delinquents interested in achieving
nothing but destruction in itself”.
In some ways, they could be correct, but we in no way
identify as “nihilists”; and as for “revenge” for the
conditions we experience everyday, this is certainly a
theme in this publication, but it in no way is the main
source that drives us to continue. Our contempt for
surviving the present society, is driven by a desire to
live in a contrary world.
What was intended with using that cover was two
things: one of which was simply to captivate and encourage a larger readership (even if that was due to
something as superficial as a shocking cover) and also
to represent and communicate a certain sentiment.
The world around us presents itself when we wake up
in the morning, and the social order of today re-presents it for us. The every-thing we were referring to
with that statement is the totality of the world we are
forced to experience, as the entirety of the social order
today forces us to accept its medium for living: survival. Value is determined for us, as our surroundings
become a painting of things and objects, or more or
less expensive. A world of “things” is not one we look
to achieve by the resistance we support. In the case of
what we are experiencing now, we look to fight for the
contrary, the anti-thesis of a commodified and reified
(“thingified” if you will) world where everywhere is
every-thing.
We look for the desert of things to become the paradise
where no-things exist. Where our value is ours, and the
world around us is seen as a context of permanent possibility, as opposed to a stale, dull, and hyper mediated
environment.
So yes, we are for no-thing because we are against
every-thing, because we are not the objects or things
that have determined our everyday lives. Nor are we
accepting of the dead-ended reality we are told is the
only thing there is.
We must burn every-thing, and retrieve our absolute
being in the ruin that is no-thing.

“It is necessary to think of another concept
of strength...”

“Relations of affinity do not exist on the
basis of ideology or quantity, but start off
from reciprocal knowledge, from feeling
and sharing projectual passions.
But projectual affinity and autonomous
individual action are dead letters if they
cannot spread without being sacrificed in
the name of some claimed higher necessity.
It is the horizontal link that concretizes
the practice of liberation: an informal
link, of fact, without representation...”

“—burn the census lists and change reality.”

One part of this society
has every interest in
its continuing to rule,
the other in everything
collapsing as soon as
possible.

Deciding which side one
is on is the first step.
-Quote from “At Daggers Drawn”

NOT
ART.
NOT
MEDIA.
THIS MAGAZINE IS KINDLING.

No
change
is possible
with
out a
violent
break
with
habit.