For many years, the FBI targeted ecological activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

Seventeen years ago today, on December 7, 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of their assault on earth and animal liberation movements with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This became known as the Green Scare.

You can read about it here:

https://crimethinc.com/greenscared

In a text published today, one of the defendants, Daniel McGowan, recalls his arrest and first night in jail:

https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499

Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter confirms the end of social media as we have known it, at least for the purposes of positive social change. Now all the major platforms that played roles in the movements of the past decade have been brought under the direct control of reactionaries determined to make sure that they cannot be used to coordinate resistance.

The question is what comes next. Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can discuss and imagine? Or will we establish other channels via which to communicate, other forms of connection?

Il Canarino nella miniera di carbone: Twitter e la fine dei social media

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/il-canarino-nella-miniera-di-carbone-twitter-e-la-fine-dei-social-media

Twitter stesso è come un canarino in una miniera di carbone. L’acquisizione della piattaforma da parte di Elon Musk conferma la fine dei social media come li conosciamo, almeno ai fini di un cambiamento sociale positivo. Tutte le principali piattaforme che hanno avuto un ruolo nei movimenti dell’ultimo decennio sono stati portati sotto il diretto controllo di reazionari, determinati ad assicurarsi che non possano essere utilizzate per coordinare la resistenza.

La domanda è cosa succederà dopo. Saranno i miliardari reazionari a determinare ciò che possiamo fare, pensare e sognare? O stabiliremo altri canali di comunicazione, altre forme di connessione, altri mezzi di coordinamento?

#Italiano

There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated places.

-Wendell Berry, "How to Be a Poet"

https://crimethinc.com/climatechange

It's 13/12—ACAB Day.

It's the thirteenth day of the twelfth month of the year. You know what that means—all law enforcement personnel are the offspring of unwedded parents!

For this occasion, we invite you to read this classic text from the perspective of the police:

https://crimethinc.com/cops

Eles tem tweets? Nós temos as ruas!

Um novo pôster e zine para uma ofensiva da mídia off-line

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/13/eles-tem-tweets-nos-temos-as-ruas-um-novo-poster-e-zine-para-uma-ofensiva-da-midia-off-line-1

Elon Musk pessoalmente baniu nossas contas do Twitter a pedido de um troll de extrema direita. Musk não está introduzindo a “liberdade de expressão” no Twitter; ele está suprimindo sistematicamente as vozes daqueles que se opõem ao fascismo enquanto recebe os nazistas mais explícitos de volta à plataforma. Em resposta, convidamos a todos vocês a fazer as ruas de sua comunidade falarem com um novo pôster sobre capitalistas como Elon Musk e Donald Trump. Se há um meio que os bilionários nunca controlarão, é o papel e o grude!

#Português

For over a year, a powerful social movement has defended the last remaining forest in Atlanta against the city government's plans to build a giant police training center and corporate film studio.

Yesterday, in a brutal raid involving pepper balls and tear gas, police destroyed the inspiring structures that people have built to protect the forest. Today, they are charging five arrestees with "domestic terrorism" for allegedly participating in forest defense.

This is standard government practice whenever ecological movements threaten business interests. But it is capitalist profiteering, not eco-activists, that is destroying the environment we all depend on and hastening climate change. It is police, not eco-activists, who are terrorizing communities.

Please stand in solidarity with those who are fighting to keep the earth habitable.🖤🏴

Background on the movement to defend the forest:

https://crimethinc.com/CityintheForest