Saturday, June 4, 2022
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Watch on YouTube here: Israeli Forces Kill 4 Palestinians in 48 Hours and Blow Up a Home
Via Christian Gasper
Atlanta, GA: Forest Defenders Stop Construction and Bulldozer
Report on ongoing resistance in the Atlanta forest to continued attempts to develop the area to build a massive police counter-insurgency training center.
On Thursday, June 2nd, forest defenders again were able to stop an attempt at construction within the Atlanta forest by various sub-contracting firms, backed up by local police. A post on Scenes from the Atlanta Forest wrote:
On June. 2nd, a horde of forest defenders were able to stop a bulldozer on the edge of the woods (that was being escorted by kkkops) from destroying the forest by throwing rocks, deploying fireworks, & shouting scary words! However, cops are destroying forest defense infrastructure & we need all hands on deck to CONTINUE STOPPING THE CONSTRUCTION of cop city, & allow this scarred forest to heal.
Another tree sit has also gone up in the path our enemies plan to destroy for their racist training facility, & we need help both supporting & defending that zone! We are welcoming ALL the tactics. Kate Bush flash mob when kkkops arrive? Fuck yeah. Frontline Action to stop machines of destruction? Fuck yeah. Please just get your sweet fucking feral ass down here.
Your house sitting gig & coffee shop job can wait– come occupy the forest, & if you got privilege, use it to throw down, as trees, community members & non-human animals are better than a clear cut lot with a militarized police training center.
The stakes are high & the forest is calling!Come for the blackberries & community, & stay for the chaos! Week of Action is June.2nd – till the Forest is safe!Interested in rolling with Camp Copperhead?Drop a line to: campcopperhead@proton.me& We’ll get back to you soon!
Another report wrote of the push back against the police on Scenes from the Atlanta Forest:
Work stopped today, Thursday June 2, as a group of 10 forest defenders confronted a bulldozer in the forest just west of the juvy today. Forest defenders launched rocks and fireworks, yelling ‘get the fuck out of the woods’ as the machine was attacked. 4-5 workers, likely with Long Engineering, hid behind the bulldozer while one APD officer stood idly with his hands on his hips. Forest defenders retreated into the woods howling. No arrests were made.
We call upon anyone who wants to defend the forest and stop cop city to support the struggle by sowing chaos along the perimeter: plan a slow-moving car caravan on Constitution Rd, or a rally at the juvy.
Workers and pigs, we repeat: Stay the fuck out the woods.
Finally, a tree-sitter wrote in a message posted to Scenes from the Atlanta Forest:
They destroyed our camp, & sawed one of our platforms apart, but we still got up into same tree in opf near juvy to defend the forest, & we left a message for our oppressors & our tree sitter comrade has issued a statement:
“We are here today to stop the development of a police militarization facility, where police would train in tactics of repression and violence against the civilians of Atlanta. We are here today to stop a beautiful forest from being destroyed, to stop countless animals and plants from being exterminated from this place. Two incredibly important topics are at stake here today. Climate change and police violence are two of the most pressing issues affecting our society today, and they will only worsen if this facility is built. We cannot stand by as we sacrifice humanity’s future for a Cop City.
-Wish”
According to documents posted to social media by Defend the Atlanta Forest, “The Atlanta Police Foundation plan to begin cutting down the forest for Cop City in two weeks. Clearing is planned for nearly 90% of the 380 acre property.” To stay up on the struggle, follow Defend the Atlanta Forest and read, Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.
by Anonymous Contributor via It's Going Down
Friday, June 3, 2022
The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Listen to a reading of this article:
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Empire managers: Putin invaded Ukraine!
Public: Oh no! What should we do about it?
Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions.
Public: Wait, aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway?
Empire managers: Hush.
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Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda.
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Fuel prices are soaring in part because of an economic war the US empire willfully initiated in response to a proxy war the US empire deliberately provoked and westerners are being trained to look at their shrinking bank accounts and yell “Damn you, Putin!”
Petrol price hits new record after EU ban on Russian oil https://t.co/MLqNqVWWSN
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 31, 2022
Only by massive amounts of propaganda would people consent to unprecedented acts of economic warfare which directly hurt them and benefit them in no way shape or form.
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As the world slides closer to nuclear war it would be cool if Americans could take a break from a debate about gun laws that will with absolute certainty lead nowhere and seriously discuss whether they want their government waging a rapidly escalating proxy war against Russia.
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The spectrum of acceptable debate on US foreign policy ranges from (A) war hawks who insist the US has never done anything wrong to (B) “progressives” who say the US is basically a good faith actor who just makes well-intentioned oopsie poopsie mistakes but should still definitely keep arming Ukraine. Position (B) is the furthest you’re allowed to go away from “the US never does anything wrong” in mainstream discourse. It includes Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor, who smears and dismisses leftists who say the US is acting in a malignant way in Ukraine.
No voice at all is ever given to the (in my opinion correct) position that the US is a tyrannical regime whose immense body count is explained not by accidents but by the desire to dominate the world at any cost. The elimination of this position from the debate is by design.
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Sure noble wars can be fought in theory and have been fought in practice. It’s just that you’ve got swamp water for brains if you believe that’s what the US is doing.
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It says so much about the state of western academia that it's treated as a major scandal if university professors don't unquestioningly regurgitate what their government says about international affairs. And it says so much about British state media that this article was written. https://t.co/fxKT35WnSD
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) May 31, 2022
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Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by the inevitable corruption and tyranny of status quo capitalism.
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Whatever ends up collapsing the US empire is far less likely to come from Russia or China than from the US empire itself.
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A big part of the western nervousness about China revolves around the fact that we’re about to be surpassed by an ancient civilization of non-white people who are indigenous to their land and have never been truly conquered and colonized by Europeans.
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If you don’t respect the way China has been able to pull so many of its people out of extreme poverty, and don’t get why such actions would cause such unified support for their government, it’s simply because you lack an adequate understanding of the anguish of extreme poverty.
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I’ve met some cute kids in my time but nobody’s as adorable as westerners who talk about Chinese people being propagandized.
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The Chinese government exerts a lot of power over its population, but it also takes responsibility for the way it uses that power. The USA’s rulers exert a comparable amount of power over its population, but they never take any responsibility for what they do with it.
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If you've been reading the news Blinken's tweet makes no sense until you remember the US government believes it owns the entire planet so it's allowed to do things Iran isn't allowed to do. https://t.co/8t0ssX5z1C pic.twitter.com/Ny9oGfHO01
— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) May 30, 2022
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Can’t believe Mohammed bin Salman is sullying Saudi Arabia’s name by meeting with the president of the United States.
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Putin should try staging a few mass beheadings and dismembering a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw to get on America’s good side.
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Many empire apologists aren’t actually defending the empire, they’re just defending against the suggestion that everything they believe about their nation, their media, their government and their world, is a lie.
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The most impressive feat of engineering this century has been of the ‘social’ variety: funneling mainstream political attention into agendas which don’t inconvenience the powerful in the information age where the ravages of capitalism and imperialism are right there to be seen in plain sight.
The social engineering necessary to keep politically inclined people fixated on agendas that either won’t lead anywhere or which trouble the powerful in no way, even as we entered an unprecedented age of information access, is one of the most awe-inspiring human achievements in history.
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Banner Drop at Southern Oregon University Against Anti-Homeless, Victim Blaming Campus Cops
Action report on banner drop at Southern Oregon University in so-called Ashland, Oregon.
On June 1st, 2022, a group of Southern Oregon University students unveiled a 3’ x 13’ banner at the school’s student community center, the Stevenson Union in Ashland, Oregon. The banner included a caricature of Campus Public Safety officer Matt Roberts, and a clear message to all SOU campus cops: “Fuck you Matt Roberts, fuck Campus Public Safety.”
Matt Roberts is the leader of a local anti-homeless Facebook page, which promotes eco-fascist politics, platforming hate speech and spreading false conspiracy theories about local unhoused communities. Students wanted to send a strong message to Matt Roberts to congratulate him on his recent promotion to Sergeant. Fuck you Matt Roberts.
Campus Public Safety – Southern Oregon University’s campus cops – aren’t keeping anyone safe. They police unhoused people simply for having the audacity to step foot on campus. They fail to support students during mental health crises. They victim blame students who have been sexually assaulted. Fuck CPS.
All cops are bastards, even neoliberal university cops!
We’re just getting started.
by Anonymous Contributor via It's Going Down
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