The Rebellion Explodes: Protests, Riots, and Clashes Grow in Response to the Murder of George Floyd

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 66 total views,  66 views today The country-wide rebellion that was kicked off by the police murder of George Floyd continues to grow, as across the US people hit the streets in solidarity. Mass demonstrations, freeway shut-downs, riots, looting, and clashes with law enforcement were widespread; as authorities rushed to call in the national guard. In many... Read Full Article

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Black Agency, Black Revolt, and the Continuing Danger of the ‘Outside Agitator’ Narrative

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 46 total views,  46 views today Editorial on rejecting myth of  “outside agitators” along with online disinfo.            As a white person who lives in the neighborhood where George Floyd was murdered I just want to say quickly that I’ve been very concerned by the narrative I’ve seen many white people spreading online... Read Full Article

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RAM statement on Anti-Police Black Liberation Revolt

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 122 total views,  122 views today Statement from the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) on the recent wave of Black Liberation revolt. On May 25th, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An officer knelt on his neck, ignoring his pleas of “I can’t breathe”— the same pleas Eric Garner made six years... Read Full Article

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George Floyd Solidarity in the Bay Area: Representation and Power

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 442 total views,  218 views today Cover Image from Split Cocoa with Permission A critique of weaponized identity politics used to silence rebels and gain political capital. Written by anarchist people of color and originally published to Indybay. “We must never forget that the insurrectionary project belongs to the masses alone; organizers help it – leaders betray... Read Full Article

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Police Precinct Torched in Minneapolis as Government Buildings Stormed & Riots Spread in Solidarity with Uprising

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 72 total views,  72 views today Over the last two days, continued rioting, looting, and clashes with police have intensified in so-called Minneapolis, following the police murder of George Lloyd on Monday. On Wednesday, one protester has been shot and killed. County prosecutors on Thursday afternoon stated that they would not proceed forward with charging the officers... Read Full Article

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Olympia for George Floyd: This Is Just the Beginning

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 108 total views,  108 views today Report back on recent solidarity demonstration and action in so-called Olympia, Washington. Originally published on Puget Sound Anarchists. It happened again, and then the fire came. Minneapolis rose the fuck up for George Floyd and for all of them that it could be in the future. Our hearts swelled as the... Read Full Article

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Solidarity Demonstrations with George Floyd and the Minneapolis Uprising

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 1,026 total views,  1,026 views today Cover Image via Long Beach Antifa What follows are a list of events in solidarity with George Floyd and the ongoing rebellion happening Minneapolis and St. Paul. To add your event to the list, email us at: info [at] itsgoingdown [dot] org. Pacific Northwest Seattle tomorrow 7pm @ Hing Hay Park... Read Full Article

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Now This Fight Has Two Sides: What the Riots Mean for the COVID-19 Era

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 92 total views,  92 views today Editorial from CrimethInc. on the context of the unfolding rebellion in so-called Minneapolis in the wake of the police killing for George Floyd. The demonstrations this week in Minneapolis mark a historic watershed in the COVID-19 era. As we argued in March, there are some things that are worth risking death... Read Full Article

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Between Looted Targets and Trillionaires: Solidarity With the Rebels in Minneapolis

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 156 total views,  156 views today The following editorial looks at the recent revolt in Minneapolis in the context of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the overall social war in the so-called US. Endlessly, we hear “why are they looting and burning their own community?” As if by geographic proximity, the Targets and Autozones and McDonalds and... Read Full Article

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Prisoner Hunger Strike in Chiapas Enters Second Week

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 138 total views,  136 views today Update on the prisoner hunger strike taking place in two different prisons in Chiapas as it enters its second week.   Today, May 28, marks the beginning of the second week of a coordinated hunger strike being carried out by prisoners in struggle in two different prisons in Chiapas: CERSS No.... Read Full Article

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Back Starbucks Baristas Losing Hazard Pay: Phone-Blast Now Until Monday

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 702 total views,  702 views today Stand behind Starbucks baristas who are in danger of losing their hazard pay as Starbucks pushes to ‘ReOpen’ stores to the public, putting workers in greater danger of contracting the coronavirus. This is a call for a phone-zap campaign against Starbucks as they take away hazard pay from workers while they... Read Full Article

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Minneapolis Explodes Against the Police in Wake of George Floyd Murder

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 1,500 total views,  1,500 views today Cover Image Collage Featuring Unicorn Riot The streets of Minneapolis exploded on Tuesday evening, following the horrific murder of a 46 year-old African-American man, George Floyd, at the hands of white police officers on Monday. In a now viral video, Floyd’s grizzly murder was captured on film, as a white police... Read Full Article

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State, Capital and Tourism During the Pandemic in Oaxaca

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 56 total views,  54 views today Reflection on the actions of the state, organization of the communities, and the interests of capitalist tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oaxaca.   Recently, within the context of the COVID-19 crisis, state and national media have promoted the program, “Return to Normality,” and the existence of “Municipalities of Hope!” These... Read Full Article

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RUST PUNX RADIO #3: New Punk & Hardcore from the Rust Belt & Anarchist News from Pittsburgh

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 54 total views,  54 views today New offering from the Filler Collective, featuring new DIY punk and hardcore acts from across the so-called Rust Belt. Also includes a roundup of anarchist news from the area. Rust Punx Radio is a show that highlights the latest in DIY punk & hardcore from across the so-called Rust Belt. Hosted... Read Full Article

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North Carolina: Amazon Vans Sabotaged in Solidarity with Striking Workers

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 106 total views,  106 views today The following communique was anonymously submitted to IGD which we re-publish below. It reads: We are seldom compelled to claim the ways we choose to attack. We are not specialists, nor anarchists isolated from the acts of sabotage and theft that we know occur daily by employees within the amazon monster. We... Read Full Article

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Montreal, QC: Car Caravan Creates Memorial for Prisoner who Succumb to COVID-19

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 424 total views,  424 views today Report on recent car caravan action in Montreal that created a memorial site for Robert Langevin, a prisoner who succumb to COVID-19 while imprisoned. At 2pm on May 24th, a caravan of over 30 vehicles visited the Bordeaux jail in Montreal, creating a memorial for the deceased prisoner, Robert Langevin, and... Read Full Article

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June 11th, 2020 Statement from Keith “Malik” Washington

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 6 total views,  6 views today The following is a statement from anarchist prisoner Keith “Malik” Washington, marking June 11th, an international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. Revolutionary Greetings Comrades! It is hard to craft a message of Solidarity during this time without acknowledging the suffering and loss of life of so many beautiful humyn... Read Full Article

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This Week in Fascism #61: Nazi Teachers, QAnon Politicians & Far-Right Murder Plots

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 51 total views,  51 views today Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got Jeff Sessions sending a fundraising email from Groyper fan Michelle Malkin, an incel mass shooting in Arizona, a QAnon follower winning the GOP Senate primary in Oregon, a far-Right conspiracy theorist planning to steal a helicopter to attack a hospital, plus doxxes of a... Read Full Article

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Phone-Zap at Maury Correctional Institution in Hookerton, NC

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 88 total views,  88 views today Call for phone-zap campaign to demand that prisoners mail access be re-instated. Prisoners at Maury Correctional Institution in Hookerton, NC are asking members of the public to call in to Sergeant Hatley, the officer in charge of “Security Risk Group” or SRG prisoners, to demand that he restore their mail. SRG... Read Full Article

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Olympia, June 1st: Mayday Everyday, Illegal Pride

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 24 total views,  24 views today Call for public event in so-called Olympia, WA on June 1st at 4pm. Poster #1 HERE Poster #2 HERE This mayday cars and bikes loudly and joyously paraded through Olympia, Washington, demanding an end to rent and housing for everyone. We stopped at property management companies and a landlord office disrupting... Read Full Article

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Hunger Strike of Indigenous Prisoners Enters Third Day in Chiapas

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 88 total views,  88 views today On May 21st, indigenous prisoners in Chiapas launched a coordinated hunger strike in CERSS Number 5 in San Cristóbal de las Casas and CERSS Number 10 in Comitán de Dominguez demanding their freedom and denouncing prison conditions amidst the coronavirus pandemic. This hunger strike is part of a longer history of... Read Full Article

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Free Them All: Crowd Protests Warden John Galipeau of Westville Correctional Facility

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 78 total views,  78 views today Action report on recent home demonstration in Valparaiso, Indiana in response to rising COVID-19 infections and deaths inside Westville Correctional Facility. Members of the Free Them All Rainbow coalition arrived at John Galipeau’s suburban home in Valparaiso, IN on Wednesday evening May 20, 2020. John Galipeau is the Warden of Westville... Read Full Article

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“The Community Would be Better Off if You Died”: A Timeline of Contagion and Protest at Neuse Correctional

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 102 total views,  102 views today A prisoner offers up a timeline of resistance and the spread of COVID-19 inside Neuse Correctional Insitution in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The last two months have seen an uptick in both crisis and protest around prisons in the US, with noise demos and collective resistance on both sides of the walls.... Read Full Article

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Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney

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 102 total views,  102 views today This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney. The 30th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney is May 24, 2020. Usually, Judi’s comrades in the Bay Area commemorate that event every year by going to the place... Read Full Article

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Announcing Earth First! Spring 2020 Newsletter

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 60 total views,  60 views today Announcing a new issue of the Earth First! spring 2020 newsletter. Download and Print HERE We just released our Spring 2020 newsletter! Featuring eco-wars coverage for Oct – Feb. as well as an article with a biocentric take on the pandemic written by some of the EF! Journal editors. We just... Read Full Article

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Announcing New Issue of Anathema from Philadelphia

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 96 total views,  96 views today Long-running anarchist publication Anathema based out of Philadelphia returns with a new issue. Volume 6 Issue 4 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 6 Issue 4 (PDF for printing 11×17) In this issue: Lockdowns & Incarceration What Went Down Homelessness Resource Extraction Updates The State Of Surveillance Interview With A West Philly... Read Full Article

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Indigenous Prisoner in Struggle, Marcelino Ruiz Gómez, Joins Hunger Strike in Chiapas

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 10 total views,  10 views today Below we reproduce two communiques speaking to the hunger strike initiated by Indigenous prisoners in struggle inside two different prisons in Chiapas—CERSS No. 5 in San Cristóbal de las Casas and CERSS No. 10 in Comitán de Domínguez.   CERSS No. 10 Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico To the Zapatista Army of National... Read Full Article

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Montreal, QC: Anger Grows after the Death of a Prisoner at Bordeaux

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 84 total views,  84 views today Report on recent COVID-19 related death of a prisoner at the Bordeaux facility; the site of ongoing protests and a hunger strike by prisoners. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. In the wake of today’s announcement that a 72-year-old prisoner at Bordeaux has died of COVID-19, family members and prisoner advocates are... Read Full Article

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Announcing: New “Riot Medicine” Street Medic Manuel

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 64 total views,  64 views today Announcing a new book on what it takes to be a street medic in a period of increasing chaos and crisis. Written by Håkan Geijer. Download and Read HERE Riot medicine is the practice of medicine in an adversarial environment. It exists outside of formal and State sanctioned medical services. Practitioners... Read Full Article

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Lake Effect EF! Statement About the 2020 Earth First! Summer Gathering

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 28 total views,  28 views today Statement from Earth First! organizers regarding the upcoming Earth First! summer gathering. We hope this letter finds you all safe and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. For 39 years we have gathered under the Earth First! banner in honor of and to celebrate the planet and biocentrism. We come from across... Read Full Article

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This Is America #117: Out of the Firing Pan, Into the Fire

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 618 total views,  618 views today Welcome, to This Is America, May 20th, 2020. In this episode, first we bring you an interview with Robert Ovetz, an autonomous anti-capitalist historian who speaks with us on the current spread of wildcat strikes and self-organized workplace actions which have grown in scale in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.... Read Full Article

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Hamilton: Recent Updates from the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project

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 10 total views,  10 views today Report on the the growing #FreeThemAll struggle in so-called Ontario, which is attempting to free prisoners in the face of the spread of #corovavirus. Originally published on Northshore Counter-Info. There have been a number of updates from the Barton Prisoner Solidarity Project about conditions in the facility over the past month,... Read Full Article

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Prisoners in CERSS Number 5 in Chiapas Launch Hunger Strike

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 214 total views,  214 views today Communique from prisoners in CERSS Number 5 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, declaring a hunger strike due to the lack of medical attention during the pandemic and the risk to prisoners’ well-being and lives   San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas May 20, 2020 To the Public To the... Read Full Article

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Prisoner Disturbance at Redgranite Correctional Institution, Wisconsin

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 94 total views,  92 views today Report on prisoner protest and disturbance at Redgranite Correctional in Wisconsin from Perilous Chronicle. On May 12, 2020, a unit at Redgranite Correctional refused to comply with staff directives after the prison was placed on “modified movement” status, a form of lockdown. The modified status was instituted after a guard tested... Read Full Article

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Lake County, MI: Fourth Hunger Strike Within Two Months Launched at North Lake Correctional Facility

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 92 total views,  80 views today Report on the launch of new hunger strike in Lake County Michigan at federal prison owned by the Geo Group as COVID-19 spreads. On Friday, May 15th, a group of around a dozen predominantly Black men who have been confined since March to the Special Housing Unit at the North Lake... Read Full Article

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Hamilton, ON: Rail Sabotage in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en struggle

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 116 total views,  60 views today The following communique was originally anonymously submitted to North Shore Counter-Info, which we re-post here. It reads: Using the the track signalling system, a CN mainline in Hamilton was sabotaged last week. This was done in continuing solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and land protectors. Work on TC Energy’s Coastal GasLink... Read Full Article

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This Week in Fascism #60: Push for Violence From ‘ReOpen’ & Boogaloo Supporters Intensifies

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 368 total views,  368 views today Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got the first textbook-length guide for street medics, Ashley Rae Goldenberg getting exposed as a Groyper and fired from her job at a conservative think tank, Boogaloo Boys behaving badly yet again multiple far-Right members getting arrested, a member of The Base doxxed, and a... Read Full Article

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“Don’t Be On the Side of the Executioners”: In Conversation with Bomani Shakur

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 344 total views,  344 views today On April 11th, 1993, prisoners launched an uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, outside of the town of Lucasville. The uprising was marked by prisoners across racial, religious, and gang lines coming together to push a set of demands. Graffiti written throughout the prison spoke to this reality, with slogans... Read Full Article

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Communique from Indigenous Organizations in the Mexican State of Guerrero Against the Government’s Decision to Further Militarize the Country

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 74 total views,  74 views today Communique from Indigenous organizations in the Mexican state of Guerrero, against the recent decision by the Mexican government to permit the use of the military in matters related to public security.   Guerrero, Mexico May 14, 2020 To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation To the National Indigenous Congress To the... Read Full Article

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May 17th: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair Takes to the Airwaves and Online

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 24 total views,  24 views today Online, onscreen, on CKUT community radio, via street art in your town, and with dancing! Join us from anywhere and everywhere! This year’s Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, Sunday, May 17, 2020. Connecting ideas across distance from 10:30 a.m. to midnight EDT. Tabling this year will be a bit different. But what would... Read Full Article

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Uprising in Tanivet Prison in Oaxaca Where Indigenous Political Prisoner Fredy García is Being Held

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 96 total views,  96 views today Communique from the Indigenous organization, CODEDI, regarding an uprising which took place today in the Tanivet prison in Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico. Indigenous political prisoner and member of CODEDI, Fredy García Ramírez, has been held in Tanivet, following his arrest on November 6, 2019. Fredy’s arrest and ongoing imprisonment is the result... Read Full Article

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Body Bags Dropped Outside of GEO Group’s Boca Raton Headquarters

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 182 total views,  182 views today Report back from action in Boca Raton, Florida, in response to the continued deaths of detainees in ICE prisons. BOCA RATON, FL. – Activists placed body bags outside GEO Group’s Boca Raton office Friday morning to protest the abuse and deaths in the company’s detention centers. The 14 body bags were... Read Full Article

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Montreal Prisoners at Bordeaux Prison Launch Hunger Strike, Issue Demands

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 116 total views,  116 views today Report on hunger strike at the Etablissement de détention Montréal by prisoners in response to the spread of COVID-19. Originally published on Montreal Counter-Info. On May 5, a group of prisoners at the Etablissement de détention Montréal, better known as Bordeaux prison, began a hunger strike in response to the rapidly... Read Full Article

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Ontario: Tenants Descend on Landlords’ Mansions

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 80 total views,  80 views today Report on recent tenant action in so-called Ontario against threats of eviction from landlords. On May 13th, tenants from Scarborough, Mississauga, and Parkdale visited the homes of their landlords as the (virtual) annual general meeting of the Federation of Rental-housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO) was being held. No longer willing to... Read Full Article

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Update on Marius Mason and COVID-19

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 76 total views,  76 views today Update on anarchist political prison Marius Mason, who has test positive for the coronavirus. As of this writing, Marius has been in quarantine with other prisoners in a separate area since April 25, when he tested positive for the corona virus. He is feeling sick, but not seriously so. Even if... Read Full Article

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Noise Demonstrations Take Place Outside Montreal-Area Prisons Following Prisoner Death, Hunger Strike

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 68 total views,  68 views today Report on recent car caravan in so-called Montreal to demand release of inmates as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. 10 May, Montreal – At 2pm today, a caravan of over 30 vehicles visited the Federal Training Centre prison in Laval and the Bordeaux jail in Montreal, demanding... Read Full Article

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Neo-Nazi Group Patriot Front Vandalizes Historic Gilman Street Punk Venue

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 228 total views,  228 views today Earlier this week, neo-Nazi group Patriot Front vandalized the front of the historic Gilman Street punk music venue with a stencil promoting its website and various stickers. The graffiti is only the latest in an ongoing campaign by Patriot Front members to promote the organization in the bay area. Local antifascist... Read Full Article

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Report Back from “Confront La Migra Where They Live” Action in Colorado

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 40 total views,  40 views today Report back from recent ‘Confront La Migra Where They Live” action in Aurora, Colorado. On Sunday May 3rd, my partner and I masked up to drive out to a shopping center parking lot in Aurora, Colorado, which was the designated meeting point for the latest in a series of car bloc... Read Full Article

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This Is America #116: Against the Economy of Death

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 532 total views,  532 views today Cover Photo: Familias Unidios Welcome, to This Is America, May 13th, 2020. In this episode, first we speak with people involved with Appalachians Against Pipeline and the Yellow Finch Treesit in the Hellbender Autonomous Zone, which has been at the heart of active resistance to blocking the construction of the Mountain... Read Full Article

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A Letter of Resistance from the Magónista Women’s Commission of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca

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 92 total views,  92 views today A report from Magónistas on the impact of COVID-19 in Mexico. We must bear in mind that no government, honest as it is, can decree the abolition of misery. It is the people themselves, the hungry, the disinherited, who have to abolish misery. – Ricardo Flores Magón (Regeneration, Nov. 19, 1910)... Read Full Article

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“Patriot” Group led by Neo-Nazi Gains Support of GOP Candidates, State House Representative in Georgia

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 150 total views,  150 views today Atlanta Antifascists reports on how the group American Patriots USA (APUSA), run by long-time white supremacist organizer Chester Doles, is making inroads and connections with the local Republican Party in Georgia and explains how Doles considers working with the GOP, including supporting candidates of color, to be a “Trojan Horse” for... Read Full Article

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Rebel Steps: Rent Strike Next Steps

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 52 total views,  52 views today Rebel Steps podcast returns with an update on the growing rent strike in the New York area. This is our second episode on the rent strikes. Find our first episode here. There are lots of organizing resources in those show notes! Ali Jaffery is an organizer in NYC. He was also... Read Full Article

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Deep In The Heart of Texas: The Car Demo Form as Attack on Economic Circulation

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 42 total views,  42 views today Report on May Day car caravan in Austin, TX and how it as repressed by local police. On May 1st, a caravan of around 30 cars proceeded down I-35 as part of a May Day car demonstration hosted by Rent Strike ATX. Some cars bore banners and signs reading “Rent Strike,”... Read Full Article

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North Carolina: Demonstration at Neuse CI in Solidarity with Prisoners Facing Outbreak

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 90 total views,  90 views today Report back from recent noise demonstration and car caravan in North Carolina, in solidarity with prisoners who are also organizing in the face of continued COVID-19 infections. On Friday, May 8th, there was a noisy car demo outside of Neuse Correctional in Goldsboro, NC, a facility with one of the nations... Read Full Article

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Communique from Indigenous Prisoners in Struggle in Chiapas Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic

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 34 total views,  34 views today Communique from Indigenous prisoners in struggle in Chiapas of the organizations, La Voz de Indígenas en Resistencia and La Voz Verdadera del Amate, denouncing the situation inside CERESO No. 5 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. The prisoners are adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of the Zapatista Army of... Read Full Article

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Birmingham Free Store Offering Emergency Aid from New Location

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 78 total views,  78 views today Report on re-opening of Birmingham Free Store and current mutual aid programs. Following the flooding of its original location in June of last year, and a long struggle to find a new building willing to host such a radical project, the Birmingham Free Store is finally reopening for curbside pickup during... Read Full Article

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This Week in Fascism #59: What a Long Strange Grift It’s Been

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 536 total views,  536 views today Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got the IWW confronting militia members in St. Paul, Minnesota; Proud Boy leaders in more hot water; the Washington Three Percenters threatening to dox anyone who reported a stay-at-home violation; the UK experiencing 77 arson attacks related to a conspiracy theory claiming that 5G networks... Read Full Article

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Keep Your Rent Hamilton: Reflections on May Day and Organizing in a Pandemic

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 4 total views,  4 views today Report on May Day actions in Hamilton and ongoing ‘Keep Your Rent’ organizing initiatives in the area. The first of May is celebrated in most countries around the world—and by North American leftists—as May Day, or International Workers Day. For most working-class people in Hamilton, however, this year it had a... Read Full Article

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Between Exploitation and Exposure: Little Village Solidarity Network on the Fight Against Child Detention in Chicago

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 190 total views,  190 views today On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we caught up with two members of the Little Village Solidarity Network (LVSN), to speak about the ongoing fight against the Heartland Alliance in Chicago. The Heartland Alliance is a non-profit that runs a network of facilities across the Chicago-land area that... Read Full Article

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From May Day to ​Mayhem: ​Reportback from Frederick, MD

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 52 total views,  52 views today Report back on May Day actions in so-called Frederick, Maryland. On International Workers Day, on May 1st, 2020, a coalition of grassroots activist groups and individual organizers gathered for two separate May Day actions that each required a high level of planning, coordination, execution, operational security, and collaboration across diverse coalitions... Read Full Article

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Will a New Wave of Squatting Begin as Retail Goes Under?

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 98 total views,  98 views today With a retail crash imminent, will a new wave of squatting break out as more and more retail and office space becomes vacant? By scholium The fourth wealthiest person in the world recently predicted [1] that the pandemic will close both brick-and-mortar retail stores and office space. Companies that can survive... Read Full Article

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BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #3

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 24 total views,  24 views today As we enter week 14 of the pandemic, attitudes are starting to shift; the shock is wearing off and many of us are hunkering down for the long-haul. Prisoner resistance to the pandemic has not slowed, nor has the commitment of those outside the walls – but the tone has shifted.... Read Full Article

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Documents Reveal a Series of Protests and Uprisings at Cook County Jail, Chicago

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 42 total views,  42 views today Perilous Chronicle reports on ongoing prisoner-led rebellions and protests inside Cook County Jail in Chicago. Documents recently released by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal numerous incidents of prisoner-led protest and rebellion against guards and staff in the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak at the facility. As of May 6,... Read Full Article

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Chicago, IL: Heartland Alliance Prison Vans Tires Slashed

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 90 total views,  90 views today The following communique was originally anonymously published on the anarchist platform, 325, and is republished below. It reads: “As for me, I have chosen: I will be on the side of crime. And I will help the children, not to win back access to your houses, your factories, your schools, your... Read Full Article

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True Leap Press Presents Two New Zines from Recent Abolitionist Actions

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 81 total views,  81 views today True Leap Press presents two new zines from recent actions which were reported on It’s Going Down. These two new zines from True Leap Press highlight the capacity of non-imprisoned abolitionists for direct action against the prison industrial complex and white supremacist carceral state. Both zines were originally articles published on... Read Full Article

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North Carolina: Phone Zap & Car Demo for National Prisoner Grievance Day

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 34 total views,  34 views today Call for solidarity with National Prisoner Grievance Day through a phone zap and solidarity demonstration in North Carolina. On May 7, incarcerated people across North Carolina and nationwide will engage in a coordinated, mass grievance filing day, mailing in hundreds of letters to the Civil Rights Division of the Department of... Read Full Article

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Tough Mind, Soft Heart: Nurturing Solidarity in the Struggle Against Fascism

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 30 total views,  30 views today With a new wave of antifascist struggles set to pop off at any time, the author of this text, Stinging Nettles, looks back at past waves, as well as surveys a broad range of ideas, to see where we can draw from, in order to prepare for what is to come.... Read Full Article

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This Week in Fascism #57: Boogaloo News Bears

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 36 total views,  36 views today Welcome, fellow antifascists! This week, we’ve got Boogaloo accelerationists showing up to ReOpen protests, threatening to shoot the police, getting arrested with pipebombs, and networking with abortion-clinic bombers; antifascists storming the Paris headquarters of white nationalist group Generation Identity; a Proud Boy pulling a knife at a QAnon banner drop; and... Read Full Article

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June 11th 2020: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

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 0 total views Call out for June 11th, an international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners, a 16 year running tradition. June 11th: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. In the 16 years this tradition has been observed, June 11th has facilitated support and action inspired by imprisoned anarchists... Read Full Article

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Redwood Forest Defenders Launch Another Treesit to Stop Clear-Cutting

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 66 total views,  66 views today Report from Redwood Forest Defense on launch of another treesit against clear-cutting by Green Diamond Resource Company. Trinidad, CA – Redwood Forest Defense (RFD) has raised another treesit in an active timber harvest area to stop Green Diamond Resource Company (Green Diamond) from clear-cutting the redwood rain-forest. The forest defenders are... Read Full Article

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Phoenix, AZ: Fascist Banner Quickly Set Aflame

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 84 total views,  84 views today Report back from removal and burning of neo-Nazi banner in the so-called Phoenix, Arizona area. A fascist banner drop over the 51 freeway in Phoenix was removed and destroyed with a quickness by anarchists. We, the anarchists, removed the banner before the transportation department or police could arrive, and put flames... Read Full Article

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St. Paul, MN: Community Mobilizes to Back Up Nurses Facing Down Far-Right ‘ReOpen’ Protesters

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 738 total views,  738 views today Report from Workers Defense Alliance out of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, about a recent community defense action in support of nurses and front line medical staff standing up to far-Right ‘ReOpen’ demonstrators. On Saturday, members of the Workers Defense Alliance joined rank and file nurses and health care workers in defending... Read Full Article

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Montreal, QC: Office for Landlord Association Flooded for May Day

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 80 total views,  80 views today The following communique was anonymously posted originally to Montreal Counter-Info and is republished below. A local news article (in French) about the following action was published here. The communique reads: The pandemic has laid bare the hostility the Corporation des propriétaires immobiliers du Québec (CORPIQ) has for tenants. As tens of... Read Full Article

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Pittsburgh, PA: Banners Dropped Throughout City in Support of the 5 Demands

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 24 total views,  24 views today Report on May Day action in so-called Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in support of the 5 Demands. On May Day, an autonomous group of individuals carried out a series of banner drops in Pittsburgh in support of the 5 global demands. In this time of crisis, it is more important than ever that... Read Full Article

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Omaha, NE: May Day Protests Demand Rent Cancellation

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 76 total views,  76 views today Reportback on May Day actions in so-called Omaha, Nebraska. The morning of May 1st, the Omaha Tenants United participated in a demonstration at the homes of the Omaha mayor and two city councilmen. A red banner read “Evictions = Death” and letters were taped to front doors of Omaha mayor Jean... Read Full Article

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Reportback from May Day Noise Demo at Toronto South Detention Center

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 70 total views,  70 views today Reportback from noise demonstration on May Day outside of a detention center in so-called Toronto, Ontario. Originally published on North Shore Counter-Info. For May Day this year, despite the current limitations on some of our traditional activities, we wanted to safely take to the streets. It was a perfect opportunity to... Read Full Article

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Los Angeles County, CA: Amazon Van Sabotaged In Solidarity with ICE Hunger Strikers

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 114 total views,  114 views today The following communique was anonymously published on 325 and is republished below. The communique reads: For autonomous, decentralized May Day, we torched an Amazon van in Los Angeles County. We could not sit idly by and watch the spread of COVID-19 turn ICE detention centers into full blown death camps. Amazon... Read Full Article

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Vacant Migrant Child Jail Building Stormed in Chicago on May Day

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 324 total views,  324 views today The following report and video documents a demonstration of several hundred on May Day in Chicago against the Heartland Alliance, a non-profit which interns migrant children. For a report on the Heartland Alliance, check out this tell-all expose from a former staff member. Also included below is the text from a... Read Full Article

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Watch on YouTube here: Something Is Coming.. Look Closely! (2020)
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May Day Shows Growing Power of Strikes As Trump Pushes for Return to Work

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 336 total views,  336 views today Historically, May Day 2020 may come to be seen as a turning point: both in the growth of autonomous and grassroots anti-capitalist responses to the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic, and for the widespread cross-pollination happening between various social movements. Banners at 81 Bowery in New York City declared a #RentStrike. pic.twitter.com/MLiDcuv7p7 —... Read Full Article

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Chicago, IL: IWW Grocery Store Workers in Logan Square Denounce Attacks During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Report on members of the IWW Dill Pickle Organizing Committee mobilizing on May Day to alert customers to the inequity of their working conditions and the unjust termination of two co-workers. Grocery stores employees are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday, these essential workers are putting their lives at risk to ensure... Read Full Article

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Prison Break: Memory and Struggle

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While COVID-19 continues to upend life as we know it, its devastation is multiplied tenfold for those inside prisons and jails around the world. Prisoners and staff are being infected, and dying, at an unprecedented rate. As of press time, 32 people have died in the Bureau of Prisons, and 10 people have died in... Read Full Article

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Phone Zap: Call and Email Giselle Matteson – Warden at CSP-Solano

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Call for phone-zap at California State Prison, Solano. The coronavirus is spreading in the U.S prison system with new cases emerging daily. People in prison are sick and rebelling. Recently, Vice News did an interview with an incarcerated person who exposed the conditions of California Department of Corrections prisons and the system’s complete disregard for... Read Full Article

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