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Autonomous anarcho anti-speciesist actionists disrupted the platforming of a zionist speaker at the Animal Rights Forum in Naarm (so called Melbourne)
Queers in Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance Interrupt Labor Float in Mardi Gras
At tonight's Mardi Gras, a group of trans and queer activists intervened in the parade to protest the Labour Party and their complicity in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. As the Labour Party float passed by at Taylor Square, they held banners that read "QUEER SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE"
and released green, red, white
and black smoke effects.
NSW Police arrested 9 protestors. Protestors endured physical violence from the police and have sustained injuries.
Police and media reports are alleging that protestors released flares, which are illegal in NSW. But this is not true. Protestors released smoke effects which are legal in NSW, and are regularly used at events such as weddings, gender reveals, parties, and protest marches.
At tonight's Mardi Gras, a group of trans and queer activists intervened in the parade to protest the Labour Party and their complicity in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. As the Labour Party float passed by at Taylor Square, they held banners that read "QUEER SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE"
and released green, red, white
and black smoke effects.
NSW Police arrested 9 protestors. Protestors endured physical violence from the police and have sustained injuries.
Police and media reports are alleging that protestors released flares, which are illegal in NSW. But this is not true. Protestors released smoke effects which are legal in NSW, and are regularly used at events such as weddings, gender reveals, parties, and protest marches.
Official Myths and Enduring Fantasies Reflections on labour unions, activism and the struggle to block ZIM shipping in Naarm.
https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/official-myths-and-enduring-fantasies/
https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/official-myths-and-enduring-fantasies/
Backlash Blogs
Official Myths and Enduring Fantasies
Reflections on labour unions, activism and the struggle to block ZIM shipping in Naarm. Photo from Angelita Biscotti Introduction Since Israelβs most recent military assault on Gaza began in Oβ¦
Another community blockade at Webb Dock in Melbourne, blocking and preventing the loading of a ZIM-contracted MSC ship, with all work at the port being disrupted for the evening shift.
Similar to the previous community blockade, dozens of Public Order Response Team (PORT) were deployed outfitted in riot control gear including shields. Rubber bullets, tear gas rounds and flash bangs were used extensively against the protesters. This 'force of numbers' approach towards protests has become all too common in Victoria.
Not to be outdone nor deterred, protesters also stepped up their tactics, establishing makeshift barricades to halt the advance of the cops and to prolong the blockade for as long as possible.
Similar to the previous community blockade, dozens of Public Order Response Team (PORT) were deployed outfitted in riot control gear including shields. Rubber bullets, tear gas rounds and flash bangs were used extensively against the protesters. This 'force of numbers' approach towards protests has become all too common in Victoria.
Not to be outdone nor deterred, protesters also stepped up their tactics, establishing makeshift barricades to halt the advance of the cops and to prolong the blockade for as long as possible.
Forwarded from Radical Graffiti
Improved electoral placards for politicians from the Liberal and Labor Party, hung up around Hobart before the Tasmanian State election which took place yesterday.
The election marked another day of an increasingly disenfranchised public being made to choose between a gang of increasingly blatant evils. The Libs will kill the earth and Labour will do the same whilst declaring a climate emergency. Both major parties have left Tasweigians without affordable housing, without healthcare, with the worst education system in the country. Both major parties remain complicit in gen0cide while they grovel for your votes and their huge taxpayer funded pensions.
Our dreams will never fit into their ballot boxes. Change happens in our homes and in our streets. Look after your community, take grassroots action.
Love, rage, solidarity and resistance
The election marked another day of an increasingly disenfranchised public being made to choose between a gang of increasingly blatant evils. The Libs will kill the earth and Labour will do the same whilst declaring a climate emergency. Both major parties have left Tasweigians without affordable housing, without healthcare, with the worst education system in the country. Both major parties remain complicit in gen0cide while they grovel for your votes and their huge taxpayer funded pensions.
Our dreams will never fit into their ballot boxes. Change happens in our homes and in our streets. Look after your community, take grassroots action.
Love, rage, solidarity and resistance
Forwarded from NO 41bis - International Mobilisation
(Chile) Words of Subversive Comrade Tomas GonzΓ‘lez β Abolition Media
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/24/chile-words-of-subversive-comrade-tomas-gonzalez/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/24/chile-words-of-subversive-comrade-tomas-gonzalez/
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
This is what Elon Musk gets for trying to turn Twitter into a Nazi factory.
"On a platform like Twitter, a project like ours is like a canary in a coal mine: when things change, we are the first to go, and that means the clock is ticking for everyone."
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary
"On a platform like Twitter, a project like ours is like a canary in a coal mine: when things change, we are the first to go, and that means the clock is ticking for everyone."
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary
Forwarded from ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT
ANONYMOUS PEOPLE HELP EGG LAYING CHICKENS FREE FROM A FARM.
18th March, Midlands UK.
βSneaking past houses and fields we arrived at the chicken shed we had previously scouted and opened the door. Immediately the heat and stench hit us in the face as we stepped into the darkness. Broken eggshells crunched underfoot and our torches illuminated cages covered in a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and shit. Filled with cramped chickens covered in bald patches with combs so pale they were almost white.
We took as many as we could carry. We did this action for them but we write this report for you. This movement is what we make it, make it one where chickens being liberated in the night is so common its barely worth mentioning. Where farmers wake up to find towers of eggs smashed and equipment broken on the daily. Where insurers wonβt insure butcher shops because windows will never last long.
18th March, Midlands UK.
βSneaking past houses and fields we arrived at the chicken shed we had previously scouted and opened the door. Immediately the heat and stench hit us in the face as we stepped into the darkness. Broken eggshells crunched underfoot and our torches illuminated cages covered in a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and shit. Filled with cramped chickens covered in bald patches with combs so pale they were almost white.
We took as many as we could carry. We did this action for them but we write this report for you. This movement is what we make it, make it one where chickens being liberated in the night is so common its barely worth mentioning. Where farmers wake up to find towers of eggs smashed and equipment broken on the daily. Where insurers wonβt insure butcher shops because windows will never last long.
Forwarded from NO 41bis - International Mobilisation
Hunger Strike of PKK and PAJK Prisoners in Turkey Leaves Four Months Behind β Abolition Media
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/27/hunger-strike-of-pkk-and-pajk-prisoners-in-turkey-leaves-four-months-behind/
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners demanding the physical freedom of Kurdish Peopleβs Leader Abdullah Γcalan, who is kept under isolation in Δ°mralΔ± F Type High Security Closed Prison, and a solution to the Kurdish question is on its 121st day.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/27/hunger-strike-of-pkk-and-pajk-prisoners-in-turkey-leaves-four-months-behind/
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners demanding the physical freedom of Kurdish Peopleβs Leader Abdullah Γcalan, who is kept under isolation in Δ°mralΔ± F Type High Security Closed Prison, and a solution to the Kurdish question is on its 121st day.
This independently made documentary follows the three day Asia Pacific Economic Summit (World Economic Forum) held at Melbourneβs Crown Casino from September 11-13, 2000 and the events that took place between the S-11 protesters and the Victorian Police during those three days.
The camera has captured some rather up-close and disturbing images of the physical violence dealt by the police to the protesters, particularly in the first two days of the Summit.
It was estimated that over 10,000 protesters managed to prevent 150-200 participants from attending the Summit on Day 1.
https://youtu.be/2JAsQMZCYXo?si=Lf7jOucrPlOfhw5d
The camera has captured some rather up-close and disturbing images of the physical violence dealt by the police to the protesters, particularly in the first two days of the Summit.
It was estimated that over 10,000 protesters managed to prevent 150-200 participants from attending the Summit on Day 1.
https://youtu.be/2JAsQMZCYXo?si=Lf7jOucrPlOfhw5d
YouTube
Melbourne Rising
*** Please be aware that this is a VHS image and may not be of the quality expected... oh... hang on its Youtube you'll be fine.
Reviewed by Zac Wright, 2000
Raw. Confronting. Impressive. Fade up to reveal a large banner with the words "welcome to a nonβ¦
Reviewed by Zac Wright, 2000
Raw. Confronting. Impressive. Fade up to reveal a large banner with the words "welcome to a nonβ¦
On βAustralianβ fascism
The fascistic relationship between βAustraliaβ and Aboriginal people is mirrored in extractive relations between the colony and land. Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes: βThe Indigenous body signifies our title to land and our death reintegrates our body with that of our mother the earth.β Just as colonial society dehumanises Aboriginal people, it desecrates the land for profit and to perpetuate a way of life which is anti-life. βAustraliaβs use and export of fossil fuels also represents an act of imperialist aggression against those who suffer most from climate crisis, within and outside its borders.
These acts of violence against country have echoes in state the repression deployed against environmental activists, who are punished both directly through carceral systems and at armsβ length by encouraging the public to undertake vigilante reprisals. While carceral violence levelled at settler activists is by no means as severe as that experienced by Aboriginal people, when those activists are brought into conflict with the State, opportunities for solidarity emerge.
Some environmentalists have sought to distinguish themselves as βrespectableβ protestors who donβt deserve to be in jail, implicitly appealing to the Stateβs legitimacy. Others have come to understand that colonial prisons are inherently illegitimate and that βAustraliaβ itself must be overturned.
The State fears collaboration between anti-colonial and environmental movements and seeks to frighten and brutalise those who would make this happen. Resisting this is anti-fascism. In police custody, climate activists see the Aboriginal flag scratched into cell walls, realise their own freedom is bound up with Aboriginal freedom, and commit more powerfully to the liberation of this stolen land.
https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/on-australian-fascism/
The fascistic relationship between βAustraliaβ and Aboriginal people is mirrored in extractive relations between the colony and land. Goenpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes: βThe Indigenous body signifies our title to land and our death reintegrates our body with that of our mother the earth.β Just as colonial society dehumanises Aboriginal people, it desecrates the land for profit and to perpetuate a way of life which is anti-life. βAustraliaβs use and export of fossil fuels also represents an act of imperialist aggression against those who suffer most from climate crisis, within and outside its borders.
These acts of violence against country have echoes in state the repression deployed against environmental activists, who are punished both directly through carceral systems and at armsβ length by encouraging the public to undertake vigilante reprisals. While carceral violence levelled at settler activists is by no means as severe as that experienced by Aboriginal people, when those activists are brought into conflict with the State, opportunities for solidarity emerge.
Some environmentalists have sought to distinguish themselves as βrespectableβ protestors who donβt deserve to be in jail, implicitly appealing to the Stateβs legitimacy. Others have come to understand that colonial prisons are inherently illegitimate and that βAustraliaβ itself must be overturned.
The State fears collaboration between anti-colonial and environmental movements and seeks to frighten and brutalise those who would make this happen. Resisting this is anti-fascism. In police custody, climate activists see the Aboriginal flag scratched into cell walls, realise their own freedom is bound up with Aboriginal freedom, and commit more powerfully to the liberation of this stolen land.
https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/on-australian-fascism/
Backlash Blogs
On βAustralianβ fascism
[Note: This article was written some time ago but feels relevant given recent events, including further state-fascism in Mparntwe and yet another Nβ¦
Forwarded from Revolutionary Toolbox
how-to-submit-an-anonymous-communique-read.pdf
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How To Submit An Anonymous CommuniquΓ© and Get Away With It
No Trace Project, 2024
Reading PDF
Imposed PDF
"A communiquΓ©, also sometimes called a reportback or hit report, is a report on (typically) illegal direct actions that is shared online via counter-info sites or in print publications. Mainstream media may suppress reporting about certain tactics or the reason for choosing a target may be unclear, so submitting a communiquΓ© is a way to share news, tactics, and political motivations directly.
This guide describes how to securely submit an anonymous communiquΓ© online. It is written for anarchists, but could be useful to other audiences like journalists or dissident groups sharing information while concealing their identities. While some communiquΓ©s are signed by a group or individual claiming responsibility, this guide focuses on anonymity."
Source: No Trace Project (Link)
#document #zine #communications #security #anarchism #sabotage #directaction #link
No Trace Project, 2024
Reading PDF
Imposed PDF
"A communiquΓ©, also sometimes called a reportback or hit report, is a report on (typically) illegal direct actions that is shared online via counter-info sites or in print publications. Mainstream media may suppress reporting about certain tactics or the reason for choosing a target may be unclear, so submitting a communiquΓ© is a way to share news, tactics, and political motivations directly.
This guide describes how to securely submit an anonymous communiquΓ© online. It is written for anarchists, but could be useful to other audiences like journalists or dissident groups sharing information while concealing their identities. While some communiquΓ©s are signed by a group or individual claiming responsibility, this guide focuses on anonymity."
Source: No Trace Project (Link)
#document #zine #communications #security #anarchism #sabotage #directaction #link