Posts Tagged ‘USA’
Announcing Support Site for Anarchist Grand Jury Resister! Solidarity with Steve! (USA)
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
In late July of 2012 our friend Steve received a phone call from a man identifying himself as a FBI agent. He was told that a subpoena had been issued for him to appear before a federal Grand Jury investigating the vandalism of the Kenzo Nakamura Court of Appeals*. This phone call happened in conjunction with three other people being served subpoenas in Olympia and Portland, as well as house raids in Portland. Although Steve is a well known anarchist in the Northwest, who has been subjected to state harassment before, up until this moment he has not been served or indicated as a suspect of the ongoing investigation against anarchists. (more…)
Tags: Grand Jury, Repression, Steve, USA
Posted in Social Control
Urgent Need for NATO 5 Support (USA)
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
We are calling on comrades around the world to help raise awareness of the NATO 5 cases and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests. Between May 16 – 21, the one year anniversary of their arrests, plan a fundraiser, solidarity action, or just help spread the word in support of the NATO 5!
If you are unable to plan an entire event, you could always pass the hat at a meeting, or even help us promote our WePay.
While their lawyers are working pro bono, the NATO 5 require upwards of $30,000 for expert legal costs, court costs, data retrieval, etc. Any donation amount helps!
For more information, check out the information on the Week of Solidarity on our website: http://nato5support.wordpress.com/international-week-of-solidarity-with-the-nato-5/
Or go to our WePay: https://www.wepay.com/donations/nato-5-defense
In solidarity,
NATO 5 Defense Committee
Tags: International Solidarity, NATO 5, Repression, USA
Posted in Prison Struggle
Report: Statement from the Black & Green Forum & 2nd Solidarity Eco-Camp in the Philippines
Friday, April 12th, 2013
ECO CAMP BACKGROUND
Eco-Camp is an activity organized by Mobile Anarchist School with the help by Local Autonomous Network (LAN) both active in the Philippines. Last April 2012 was the first camping held in Tanay Rizal, Philippines. It was attended by various collectives and individuals totaling around 40 people who participated the various activities and discussions in the camp. The objective of the eco-camp was to discuss the different issues confronting our current society and to find solidarity actions that can help expose and popularize our issues.
After series of activities in 2012, the LAN decided to expand its activities on ecological issues due to concrete manifestation of the crisis impacting the archipelago.
The second eco-camp gathering was organized by LAN and the Mobile Anarchist School in March 2013 to heighten our education campaign and to strengthen the relationship with other affinity groups and build an international network better able to work towards intensifying our impact by making solidarity actions globally. (more…)
Tags: #Occupy, Anti-Nuclear, Black & Green Forum, Deutsche Bank, Food Not Bombs, Fracking, Fukushima, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Mining, Nuclear Disaster, Philex, Philex Gold, Philex Mining, Philippines, USA, Xtrata Ltd
Posted in Eco Struggle
Feral Awakening green anarchist gathering from July 24th to 31st (USA)
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
This is to announce the first Feral Awakening rewilding green anarchist Gathering from July 24th to 31st to be focused on rewilding, anti-civilization critiques (with of course in depth forums on green anarchy, anarcho-primitivism), and a place for folks to gather together in the wild who desire to see the end of civilization and wildness flourish in its place. We’re hoping to provide a space for people to make connections with each other and the earth, for those of us who realize that civilization is a destructive force upon all life and the planet itself and are looking to do what we can to see a world without it. We’d like to invite groups and individuals engaged in struggles against the destruction of the Earth (and indeed all interconnected forms of oppression) to join us and share your stories, lessons, skills, and whatever else you may have to offer. (more…)
Tags: Anarchist Gatherings, Feral Awakening, Idaho, USA
Posted in Eco Struggle
Seattle: Chaos Campaign – Anonymous downs City website (USA)
Sunday, March 17th, 2013
On 16 March 2013 the City of Seattle website was brought down for an hour. It was done in solidarity with Grand Jury resisters. Check out the full claim here:
http://pastebin.com/6ZHG0JWB
Tags: Grand Jury, Seattle, Solidarity Action, teh internets, USA
Posted in Direct Action
Total Liberation: An interview with Walter Bond on Anarchy, Abortion rights, Anti-Colonialism & Animal Liberation
Sunday, February 17th, 2013
via anarchistnews.org:
Punk bands tour the world singing anthems that promote militant direct action & activism, putting out albums with flaming Molotovs emblazoned across their covers, with militant messages; but few of us ever truly put those words into action. Walter Bond on the other hand has spent decades working tirelessly, whether leafleting at shows and in the streets, tabling at Pride events, protesting, or volunteering at animal sanctuaries before finally turning to the more militant tactics of the Animal Liberation Front. Walter is a proud anarchist, Vegan, of Latino heritage, who identifies as bisexual. He also is currently a prisoner in one of the most controversial and restrictive prisons in the USA today.
I have been writing to Walter in prison since he was first arrested 2 years ago, after his brother snitched him out. At the time of his arrest, Walter was living on the streets while attacking businesses that profit from animal exploitation.
interview by Comrade Black originally posted on Profane Existence
PE: – You identified as an anarchist for most of your life. Can you tell us what being an anarchist means to you, and how it connects with Animal Liberation, and Total Liberation?
WALTER: When I was in 7th grade in 1989 I used to make all kinds of clip art fliers with my friends under the name ‘Anti-Statist Counter Culture’. We would distribute them mostly to local corporate businesses and churches in the area, mostly to agitate. By the end of 8th grade I had completely dropped out of school and was living this nihilist lifestyle and was just very reactionary and angry at the whole world, parents, school, everything! Back then I was dealing with a world of shit that was to much for me to handle. I turned to drug abuse and vandalism as an outlet. Anarchism back then was a personal vendetta I had about how my life and the world around me was and how I felt it should be. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Anarchist threat modeling and private data-mining for intelligence (USA)
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
On 20 January, the independent surveillance researcher Asher Wolf tweeted an astonishing link* to a private intelligence corporation’s website containing a document entitled: “Tartan Influence Model: Anarchist Groups.” The document was published by a corporation called Tartan Metrics, a division of the information security, cyberwar and surveillance company NTREPID — a company that reportedly has a contract worth millions of dollars to create fake (“sockpuppet”) Twitter accounts to spread US military propaganda. (UPDATE/Correction: The person who initially discovered this document is actually Twitter user @TelecomixBSRE, according to Wolf. Another update: Apparently @not_me was the first to discover the document.)
The “threat modeling” program appears to be intelligence and data mining software that alleges it can reveal “a hidden network of relationships,” in this case “among anarchist leaders; a network that facilitates the spread of violent and illegal tactics to the broader protest movement in the United States.” (more…)
Tags: #Occupy, Ntrepid, Occupy Oakland General Assembly, Repression, Tartan, teh internets, USA
Posted in Social Control
Freedom and Solidarity to Marie Mason on her 51st Birthday (USA)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
Marie Mason is an eco-prisoner condemned with a long prison punishment by the American regime.
Marie Mason’s 51st birthday is coming up on January 26, 2013. We are asking that folks hold events for Marie around her birthday as part of what will be an annual time to celebrate her life and keep her spirits up while she remains imprisoned.
We know that the mid-winter holidays are a busy time for everyone, but they are a sad time for the prisoners who remain inside – and everyone wants some cheer on their birthday! So we hope that folks can find time to plan a small event for Marie, such as a letter-writing or birthday party. (If time permits, we recommend that you might want to hold letter writings a week or more earlier so the cards can reach her before the 26th.) (more…)
Tags: ELF, Marie Mason, USA
Posted in Prison Struggle
Letters and considerations from Lone Wolf ALF Prisoner of War, Walter Bond… not ‘Abdul Haqq’ (USA)
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Walter Bond, the animal liberation fighter who embraced Islam, has dropped the name ‘Abdul Haqq’, and he has written in one of his new letters: “Religion, all religion is a waste of my time! I’m through with it, I don’t believe it and the whole business of it makes me want to fucking puke!”. In this prison letter, and also this one, he publicly talks about rumours, misconceptions and changes of his opinions, and below you can find his reasons why he decided to drop the name ‘Adul Haqq’.
What’s In A Name?
I have decided to drop the name ‘Abdul Haqq’ for the following reasons:
First, religion is not the defining aspect of my struggle, Animal Liberation is. While my spirituality is an Important aspect of my personal life it has nothing to do with the fight for the total freedom of the oppressed. Religion has a terrible track record of persecution of just about every social group one could possibly imagine and I am not here to play apologist to tyranny, in the name of God, or politricks, or consumerism, or any of the other stupid ass reasons people find to justify their bloodlust! Furthermore, the more my own spirituality in mysticism has progressed the more I realize that the institution of religion is poison to my spiritual path. Sufis of the past often had to speak and write their esoteric wisdom in parables and riddles to avoid being murdered by the orthodox regimes of their times, I don’t. And I find the whole business of labeling, and packaging my beliefs and faith under the auspices of this or that religion to be narrowing in and of itself. (more…)
Tags: ALF, Animal Liberation, USA, Walter Bond
Posted in Prison Struggle
Toronto: Banner drop in solidarity with Grand Jury refusers (Canada, USA)
Saturday, November 24th, 2012
325 receives and transmits:
We have decided to celebrate Black (banner) Friday in Toronto with this action of solidarity with our brothers and sisters currently being repressed by the state, as punishment for non-collaboration with the mechanisms of “justice”. Through our actions we show our comrades will not be forgotten, and will return stronger knowing their resistance had motivated others to action around the globe. You may target us, but we shall continue the struggle, and will return each time with a deeper understanding of, and conviction in, the inadequacies of the state and the capitalist framework, you thrust upon us.
Fire to the prisons.
The Toronto Solidarity Cell
Tags: Banner drop, Canada, Grand Jury, Solidarity Action, Toronto, USA
Posted in Direct Action
Dark Nights #27 : ‘Subversive disassociation – Fragment against civil anarchism’ – Oct 2012 (ACN)
Friday, October 19th, 2012
Dark Nights is an international anarchist & anti-prison publication of resistance reports and repression news ready to print out and distribute on the fly.
Updated 19/10/12: Click to Download: Dark Nights #27
1. ‘Subversive disassociation – Fragment against civil anarchism’ by L.
2. ‘Abyssal Desire – Nothing-isms’ by Edizioni Cerbero.
3. Letter from Fede and Tomo.
4. Letter of Anna Beniamino in solidarity with her comrades Alfredo Cospito and Nicola Gai.
5. Athens: End of the 2nd ‘Halandri case’ trial – New CCF case trial in Koridallos prisons’ court underway.
6. Statement by Christos Tsakalos of the CCF.
7. Statement of the CCF and Theofilos Mavropoulos in the first session of the new CCF case trial.
8. Athens: Reportback from demo in solidarity with the CCF and those accused in the same case.
9. New CCF case trial: Communiqué by fugitives Dimitris Politis and Yannis Michailidis.
10. Greece: Text of compa Gustavo Quiroga González.
11. Athens: Third antifascist motorcycle demo clashed with neo-Nazis.
12. Greece: About the case of Anastasios Theofilou, a couple of notes…
13. Bolivia: Repression against the anarchist movement aided by civil anarchists.
14. Italy : ‘Operation Ixodidae’ – Massimo Passamani moved to house arrest; Daniela Battisti released.
15. TIOJ: Statement by comrade Matthew.
16. Seattle, USA: Two grand jury resisters are in custody and need your support.
17. Action Chronology.
Tags: Abyssal Desire - Nothing-isms, Alfredo Cospito, Anastasios Theofilou, Anna Beniamino, Athens, Bolivia, Christos Tsakalos, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire : Imprisoned Members Cell, Daniela Battisti, Dark Nights, Delta Squat, Dimitris Politis, Edizioni Cerbero, Federico Buono, Greece, Gustavo Quiroga González, Italy, Massimo Passamani, Nicola Gai, Parole Armate, PNW Repression, Second Halandri Trial, Subversive disassociation - Fragment against civil anarchism, Theofilos Mavropoulos, Thessaloniki, Tomo, USA, Yannis Michailidis
Posted in Library
Nov-12th-Nov 19th: International Solidarity with Grand Jury Resisters! (USA)
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
Against the State, the repression of anarchists, and against all prisons!
Solidarity with all those who resist!
Free Kteeo, Matt & Leah!
Free all prisoners!
Since July 25th 2012, there have been multiple house raids and the imprisonment of 3 anarchists in the Northwest (U.S.A.) in relation to an “ongoing violent crime investigation”. The State has referenced the Seattle May Day disruptions, vandalism, and demonstrations as a cause, particularly the heavy vandalism of a Federal Courthouse. However, it has since been discovered that the Grand Jury, which was called to question those named as potential witnesses, was actually convened in March 2012-two months prior to May Day. (more…)
Tags: PNW Repression, USA
Posted in Social Control
Petition to stop the Terrorism Enhancement Act for the Cleveland 4 (USA)
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
The solidarity group of the Cleveland 4 ask that people take the time to support the framed anarchists by signing their petition to stop the Terrorism Enhancement Act being applied to this case of FBI fabrication.
These imprisoned anarchists need as many signatures as possible.
You can find it at cleveland4solidarity.org
Tags: Cleveland 4, Repression, USA
Posted in Prison Struggle
Leah-Lynn Plante Anarchist Grand Jury Resistor Imprisoned (USA)
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Yesterday (10/10/12) Leah-Lynn Plante was taken into custody in Seattle for what could be up to 18 months or more. She is joining Matt Duran and Kteeo Olejnik as the third imprisoned grand jury resistor. Write to Leah at the address below.
Here is a video and text of her most recent statement:
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On the morning of July 25th, 2012, my life was turned upside down in a matter of hours. FBI agents from around Washington and Oregon and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents from Washington busted down the front door of my house with a battering ram, handcuffed my house mates and me at gunpoint, and held us hostage in our backyard while they read us a search warrant and ransacked our home. They said it was in connection to May Day vandalism that occurred in Seattle, Washington earlier this year. (more…)
Tags: Grand Jury, Katherine “Kteeo” Olejnik, Leah-Lynn Plante, Matthew Kyle Duran, PNW Repression, Repression, Seattle, USA
Posted in Social Control
Seattle: Grand Jury Resistors Update (USA)
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
As of this past Wednesday September 27th, there are now two grand jury resistors imprisoned. Both are being held in SeaTac Federal Prison in Seattle for what is known as “contempt of court” or in other words: refusing to talk or cooperate with the grand jury. It is confirmed that one comrade, Matt Duran, is being held in solitary confinement, it is unknown whether the other comrade, Kteeo, is in general or solitary as of now. (more…)
Tags: PNW Repression, Repression, USA
Posted in Social Control
3rd annual Carrboro Anarchist Fair (USA)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
325 receives and transmits:
We are excited to announce the 3rd annual Carrboro Anarchist Bookfair for the weekend of November 10th. In the past two years these bookfairs have served as a gathering place and melting pot of radical ideas and texts, workshops and
discussions, and action in our region. Long-time friends and comrades, book lovers and firebrands, and the openly curious are all invited to attend. (more…)
Tags: Anarchist bookfair, Anarchist Gatherings, Carrboro, USA
Posted in Autonomy
Cleveland 4 Continue Fight for Justice in Entrapment Case After Guilty Pleas (USA)
Sunday, September 9th, 2012
This Wednesday, three of the four young men known as the “Cleveland 4,” Brandon Baxter, Doug Wright and Connor Stevens, entered into a non-cooperating plea agreement for all counts of the charges brought against them, but not to the government’s terrorism enhancement. The Cleveland 4 Support Committee continues to support Brandon, Doug, Connor and Josh during this time.
The sentencing for these three will not occur until after a hearing scheduled for November 5th and 6th. at which point Brandon, Doug and Connor will still have the opportunity to present evidence in court regarding unlawful entrapment actions by the FBI. Their sentence could range from five years to three lifetimes, with the defense and prosecution differing over the how federal sentencing guidelines would apply. (more…)
Tags: Cleveland 4, Cleveland 5, Repression, Snitches / Informers, USA
Posted in Prison Struggle
Antisec / Anonymous Find Over 12 Million Apple User IDs On Hacked FBI Notebook (USA)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
325 receives and transmits:
Statement from Antisec / Anonymous :
Further info :
http://par-anoia.net/releases.html
Tags: #anonymous, #antisec, #FuckFBIFriday, teh internets, USA
Posted in Direct Action
Anonymous begin operation against ex-CIA “TrapWire” (USA)
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
From anarchistnews:
Greetings Citizens of the United States of America –
This weekend, it was disclosed by Wikileaks the details about a system known as “TrapWire” that uses facial recognition and other techniques including high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by cities and other institutions, including private businesses. This program also monitors all social media on the internet. (more…)
Tags: #anonymous, Abraxas, Ntrepid, Stratfor, Tartan, teh internets, TrapWire, USA
Posted in Social Control
Dark Nights #25 : ‘The Bosses Grand Idea – The Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power’ – July 2012 (ACN)
Saturday, July 28th, 2012
Dark Nights is an international anarchist & anti-prison publication of resistance reports and repression news ready to print out and distribute on the fly.
Click to Download: Dark Nights #25
1. The Bosses Grand Idea – The Olympic Spectacle of Money and Power
2. 1–10 August 2012: Contra Info call for propaganda actions against repression
3. Graffiti Raids Across London as Police Sanitise City Ready For Olympics
4. International Call for Solidarity with those raided by the FBI in the Northwest of America
5. Solidarity with Kelly Pflug-Back, G20 Black Bloc militant jailed in Canada
6. DIRECT ACTION CHRONOLOGY
Anti-Copyright Network 2012
International Network of Counter-Information & Translation
Tags: 2012 Olympics, Canada, Counter-info, Dark Nights, G20, Kelly Pflug-Back, London, Olympics, PDF, Repression, UK, USA, Zine
Posted in Library
