The post This Is America #134: Memes Come Home to Roost appeared first on It's Going Down.
Welcome, to This Is America, January 7th, 2021. On today’s episode we jump straight into a discussion about Wednesday’s events at the US capitol, where thousands of far-Right Trump supporters overwhelmed and fought with police, broke windows, and stormed the capitol building; forcing Congress to flee and delayed the scheduled electoral college vote counting. The... Read Full Article
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Report back on banner drop in solidarity with five people facing serious charges following a New Year’s Eve noise demonstration in so-called Minneapolis. This evening, we dropped a banner over highway 403 going towards Toronto in solidarity with the five people in Minneapolis facing serious felony charges in connection to a New Year’s eve noise... Read Full Article
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Report back on New Year’s Eve noise demonstration in so-called Hamilton, Ontario. For the 12th* year in row, folks in Hamilton rung in the new year with a noise demo outside the Barton jail. COVID has changed a lot of our organizing context this year, and made a lot of traditions harder to keep, but... Read Full Article
The post Indigenous Activist Faces 10 Years for Facebook Comments: The Case of Loren Reed appeared first on It's Going Down.
On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Klee Benally of Indigenous Action out of Kinłani, or so-called Flagstaff and Ryan Fatica of Perilous Chronicle. We discuss the case of Loren Reed, a 26 year-old indigenous activist who is facing up to 10 years simply for making Facebook comments about damaging... Read Full Article
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Inspired by the spirit of the Political Prisoners Birthday crew, here’s a short listing of some rebel prisoners who have upcoming birthdays in January. For an an introduction on how to write to prisoners and some things to do and not to do, go here. If you have the time, please also check IWOC’s listing... Read Full Article
The post This Week In Fascism #90: Proud Boy Leader Arrested as DC Prepares for Another Neo-Fascist Rally appeared first on It's Going Down.
Welcome fellow antifascists! Things are heating up as the Proud Boys prepare to descend on Washington DC for yet another violent rally. We’ve got reports on the arrest of Proud Boy’s leader Enrique Tarrio and the ensuing lawsuit brought against him by one of the churches the Proud Boys vandalized on December 12th. We’ve also... Read Full Article
The post San Francisco, CA: “Vandalism is Incomparable to the Destruction of Human Lives by the Ruling Class” appeared first on It's Going Down.
The following message was anonymously sent to It’s Going Down. We re-print the message below. It reads: We brought in the new year redecorating one of numerous properties owned by Nancy Pelosi. Not to be confused as liberals or right-wing, we claim this act as an autonomous multi-racial group of anarchists and radicals. The shock... Read Full Article
The post Fire on Main Street: Small Cities in the George Floyd Uprising appeared first on It's Going Down.
In this critical analysis, the authors look at the recent rebellion following the police murder of George Floyd from the vantage point of smaller towns and areas outside of major cities and how this relates to the shifting terrain of capital itself. By Shemon, Arturo and Atticus The small city still does not exist on... Read Full Article
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Report back from New Year’s eve noise demonstration in so-called Montreal. Though there was no public call for a noise demonstration this year in so-called Montreal, around 50 people gathered anyways. We carried on the 10+ year tradition in this region of ringing in the new year alongside our friends and family on the inside.... Read Full Article
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Perilous Chronicle reports on collective action by prisoners at Airway Heights Correctional Center in Washington against transfer to a COVID-19 hotspot. By Lena Mercer On Saturday December 12th between 30 and 40 prisoners housed at Airway Heights Correctional Center in Washington. banded together to refuse an internal transfer that they understood would endanger them and... Read Full Article
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Anarchists in so-called Los Angeles, California report back on recent New Year’s Eve noise demo. At 10pm on New Year’s Eve 2020 a black bloc of approximately 50 activists gathered at a dark corner in downtown Los Angeles. Just before 10:45pm a piñata of a pig in a police uniform was hoisted onto a nearby... Read Full Article
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Report back on New Year’s Eve noise demo from anarchists in so-called Rockford, Illinois. We arrived in a small crew. A lot of us were nervous about the demo being announced publicly especially due to the fact that the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department had made a public announcement declaring a free speech zone as a... Read Full Article
The post Youth Riot & Take Over at Baltimore County Juvenile Treatment Center appeared first on It's Going Down.
Abolition Media Worldwide reports on recent youth uprising at a so-called juvenile treatment center in Baltimore county. Youth committed to a privately run Baltimore County treatment center rioted and took over the facility on the morning of December 24. The previously undisclosed incident occurred at the Chesapeake Treatment Center, a privately run addiction treatment facility... Read Full Article
