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Nutritional Support for Casey
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There are 2 types of packages that are good for diabetics, the “Protein Pouch” and the “Not Too Sweet (Low Sugar)” package. They could always use the “Not Too Sweet (Low Sugar)” package every week, and would also benefit from receiving the protein pack. The packages can be viewed at icaregifts.com . The packages cost $40-50 and there is a $150 spending limit per week for packages.
WHY IT MATTERS:
-Guards failing to identify diabetic emergencies can lead to individuals in custody being seriously harmed when their actions are mistaken for “non compliance”.
-“individuals serving their sentences receive inadequate care & develope serious complications like blindness,kidney failure, and loss of limbs as a result”.
-While being held pretrial it is specifically important to be able to think clearly and strategically about your case, because the state could approach you while you are more vulnerable, and pressure you into making decisions about your case which you wouldn’t make without proper guidance from your lawyer.
PLEASE SUPPORT IF YOU CAN!
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Scenes From The Atlanta Forest Website Is Offline
This is our last canary,
you can find our pgp key on our canary page at https://web.archive.org/web/https://scenes.noblogs.org/submissions/promise/
As of 11/22/2024(MM/DD/YYYY), no-one working on this project, nor the project itself has ever received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, has been contacted by law enforcement, contacted by any government entity, has been served a subpoena for a Grand Jury related to this project, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know.
This project has come to a close.
The noblogs team Autistici/Inventati decided to shut down this blog shortly following the republication of the Heritage Foundation dox from againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org and after the dox of the Elbit Systems of America. This blog hosted a great deal of antagonistic content over the years, and we are thankful to the Autistici/Inventati team for allowing a majority of the content to remain up for so long. They undoubtedly tolerated a great deal of resistance – we trust that their decision to shut down the blog did not come lightly.
the addresses published in the aforementioned two doxxes are still easily available on https://web.archive.org/web/sceneshosting.blackblogs.org and https://web.archive.org/web/20240815105347/https://againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org/the-fascists-of-the-heritage-foundation/, https://web.archive.org/web/20240815105347/https://againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org/heritage-staff-listed-as-contributors/, and a significant archive of the rest of the blog is hosted at
https://web.archive.org/web/https://scenes.noblogs.org/
This site served as a nexus for anonymous publication, a space for engaging in dialogue with other rebels, and a place to spread complicity and proliferate autonomous activity.
Please keep those who are languishing in jails for accusations related to this movement in your hearts- better yet, send them letters.
Continue fighting for the end of RICO charges.
Never forget Tortuguita, a hero whose bravery cannot be understated.
Continue fighting for a world without markets, hierarchy, and fascism.
For a time, the struggle in the atlanta forest was one of the powerful torches that carried the flames of antagonistic anarchist destruction. We hold our actions in this struggle proudly, and hope you do as well.
We will never forget the weelaunee forest, we will never forgive those that perpetrated its destruction.
!Viva Tortuguita!
Nothing is Finished
Everything Continues
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Festivals of Resistance
Festivals of Resistance
A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to be a tumultuous time.
Once Trump takes power, it will only become more challenging to make connections with our neighbors, create the networks that we will need to face down his assaults, and share the skills we will need to survive his reign. Right now, we have a precious window of time in which to prepare. Let’s make the most of it.
When Donald Trump enters office on January 20, he will order mass deportations, escalate the repression of protesters, dismantle the few judicial and legislative provisions that still protect ordinary people, and consolidate a propaganda ecosystem intended to stupefy us all into obedience. The Democratic Party is willingly handing power to an autocrat they say will bring democracy to an end; the Democrats show every intention of continuing to ratchet their own politics to the right. Authoritarian leftist groups are simply treating this as a recruitment opportunity.
But from Texas to the West Bank, millions of people’s lives are about to get even harder. We owe it to each other to meet the second Trump era side by side in solidarity.
The chaos that will accompany the return of the Trump administration represents an opportunity as well as a challenge. This is a chance to assert an autonomous pole of organizing, carrying forward the lessons of 2020 and the movement against Cop City while continuing the fight against patriarchal violence, white supremacy, and colonialism.
By organizing ahead of Trump’s inauguration, we can seize the initiative and set our own timeline rather than being caught flat-footed and forced to react. We need to welcome new participants into these struggles and foster a revolutionary perspective that can orient us through the challenges ahead. No amount of internet activity could substitute for gathering face to face. The most important battles ahead will not be fought online, but in the streets of our communities.
January 18 is observed as the Day of the Forest Defender. It will be the two-year anniversary of the murder of Tortuguita in Weelaunee Forest. It is an important date to gather, honor the memory of the fallen, and pledge ourselves to resistance and to one another.
How to Participate
You could start by calling for an assembly bringing together everyone who wants to participate in organizing. It could be a public gathering—if you think you can facilitate something on that scale—or an invitation-based conversation bringing together people who have already worked together or at least have cause to trust each other.
For the event proper, you could host workshops and distribute literature teaching security culture, digital security, protest safety and first aid, direct action, reproductive autonomy, forms of organization including affinity groups, and other skills that may be relevant in the years to come.
Local organizers could share stories and lessons from the history of resistance in your area during the first Trump era. You could facilitate discussions to identify what people need to do to prepare for the years ahead—both for their own safety and to ensure the safety of their communities—or to strategize about how to prepare to confront the Trump agenda in your region. You could do an art build for future demonstrations and an organizing fair to connect people to local projects. This will be a chance to expand rapid response networks for community defense and mutual aid.
In some places, the gatherings could conclude with public actions—a first salvo in the resistance to Trump’s plan for mass deportations. Elsewhere, there will be open assemblies, spaces for people to encounter each other and learn new ways of working together and sharing ideas. Small towns can screen documentaries or invite speakers to share their expertise.
It’s up to you and your community to decide what best fits your local context. The important thing is to create a space that can serve as a point of entry for everyone who needs to get connected ahead of the next round of struggles—a space where people can hone their skills and begin to think of themselves as a collective force.
No matter who Trump’s administration targets—whether immigrants, Palestine solidarity organizers, sex workers, schoolteachers, trans people, environmentalists, or people seeking abortions—we must show that we will love and protect one another. If we all pull together, showing everyone who wants to resist that there are movements that they can join, we can begin to build the strength that we will need to overcome the challenges ahead.
Events like this are already being planned in dozens of cities and towns. But time is tight. If we want to be ready, we have to get started now.
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New Posters: We Should All Aspire To Be Terrorists
NOVEMBER UPDATE – first version posted to scenes
Over one year from the start of the escalation of the genocide in Gaza, it’s time to question what it means to be called a terrorist.
The United States calls its enemies “terrorists” to malign them. Why? Those who fought on the American side of the American Revolution were once called terrorists by the British. It seems that “terrorist” is simply what an imperial power calls the people who threaten its power the most.
From those living in the Atlanta forest called “domestic terrorists” for setting fire to death-making equipment, to Palestinian resistance fighters defending their land, people and dignity — the US consistently calls some of the bravest, most radical people terrorists. It’s time we wear the name like the badge of honor it is.
Dylan Rodriguez, founding committee member of Critical Resistance, highlights the importance of being insurgent. If we can do nothing else, it is our responsibility to uplift the insurgency. The artist, a person of the global majority, invites people around the country to do just that — wheatpaste these posters as a way of uplifting the insurgency, both at home and abroad.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A series of three posters printed onto thin paper and wheatpasted to a public wall. The first in the series reads “WE SHOULD ALL ASPIRE TO BE TERRORISTS” next to a Palestinian freedom fighter. Behind his head is a yellow halo and a lotus flower, a symbol of purity and divinity. Spotted across the poster are poppies, a symbol of the resistance. They add a floral look, but also look a bit like splotches of blood.
The second poster in the series reads FROM ATL TO PALESTINE. An image of the Atlanta forest is overlaid onto a grungy background. Illustrated watermelons can be found on the forest floor.
The last poster in the series reads DEFEND INDIGENOUS LAND & PEOPLE. The main image in the background is the very first excavator that was burned in the Stop Cop City movement, posted to Scenes on June 9th, 2021. Beneath that is a Palestinian freedom fighter looking into a scope.
DOWNLOADING FILES These print well on 8.5” x 11” paper. Print on thin paper, make wheatpaste, and post them around town.
Files also available on Visuals page.
submitted anonymously
Some Initial Thoughts On Unity Of Fields
[I am writing as an insurrectionary anarchist in the u$a and speaking to that context]
Unity Of Fields is a counter-info project that emerged in August of 2024. They describe their project as “a militant propaganda front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism.” It used to be Palestine Action US and has since changed its orientation. It has a website and some social media accounts, some of which have are banned at the time of this writing, they seem to be most popular on Telegram. Although it links to mostly anarchist sources for technical knowledge, Unity Of Fields does not seem to be an anarchist project and their political reading and media suggestions are all over the map. They suggest classic decolonial texts by Fanon and Cesaire, Black liberation writings from the BLA and BPP, texts from various Palestinian resistance factions, as well as authoritarian communists like Lenin and Mao among others.
Mostly their website is a clearing house for news, action analysis, and communiques. Many of the communiques posted are original submissions though they also repost from other counter-info projects and from social media. They also post some of their own original writings to their website. The fact that they post sketchy criminal stuff and link to technical advice on how to better carry out insurrectionary forms of struggle is probably a large part of why they are discussed in anarchist circles at allWhat does the emergence of a project like Unity Of Fields mean for us as anarchists? For one thing Unity Of Fields expands some spaces we occupy as anarchists — the combative struggle space and the digital counter-info space. We are clearly not the only ones re-coloring walls, opening windows, and carrying out our little sabotages and then writing about it, though at least for now others seem to look to our collective knowledge and experience for technical guidance. We are sharing a struggle space, one which is not limited to riotous moments and combative demonstrations, with other rebels who have made themselves visible to us. We are being included (at least some of the time) in a dialogue with other rebels through the sharing of our words and news of our actions, and anarchists have shared writings from Unity Of Fields on our own websites.
Local struggles against zionism, imperialism, and colonialism are visibly taking on more destructive, decentralized, anonymous, and autonomous approaches, a long-term dream of insurrectionary anarchists, yet new questions arise for us. How do we want to contend with other rebels with whom we have ideological differences and tactical similarities? How do we avoid getting lost in the vanguardist, unifying, nationalist tendencies that often accompany revolutionary leftist approaches to combative struggle? Are we interested in conspiring with these others outside the spontaneity of spiky demonstrations, occupations (and potentially riots), and if so how?
As anarchists we both seek to expand and connect anarchic forms of struggle yet also hold a healthy skepticism of unity with people who don’t hold anti-authoritarian views of freedom. Our history includes many betrayals by the left and progressives, from peace policing at demonstrations to executions and imprisonment from newly established revolutionary governments. The question of who to coalesce with and why is not an easy one, and one that is best addressed on a case by case basis. The appearance of Unity Of Fields potentially facilitates the dialogues and understanding that can help us better decide if and how we want to team up. As anarchists can often find ourselves isolated from others who we may have some political parallels with, the opening up of a “militant propaganda front” is a bridge to dialogue and learn across. This is not a call to join forces with anyone on the basis of being anti-zionist or anti-amerikkkan, it’s simply a reminder to always be analyzing the changing terrain around us and to think critically as we carry forward our struggles.
“Towards The Last Intifada” and “Towards Another Uprising” seem to be the beginnings of a dialogue among anarchists that address some of these questions. I look forward to more.
Relevant Readings:
Unity Of Fields: Opening Up A New Front
Archipelago – affinity, informal organization, and insurrectional projects
Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation: Interview with Palestinian Anarchists
PS: Some Thoughts On Spectacle
Many if not most of the actions posted to Unity Of Fields are accompanied by some visual media, usually photos, sometimes videos. I want rebels to consider some pitfalls of spectacularizing our struggles. Every photo or video is another crumb for the state to eat up as part of their investigations. Digital media can offer up metadata about where and when and what kind of device it was recorded on if not properly removed. Footage that shows rebels gives the state valuable information, such as number of participants, approximate time of day, whether any passersby were present, as well as biometric data even when a person is masked. Height, skin tone, gait, approximate weight, and other information can be determined from even grainy footage.
Additionally there are the downsides of understanding our struggles in a quantitative way. This approach may blunt the qualitative changes that participating in struggle can bring us individually and collectively. Of course propaganda is useful, the seductive appeal of revolt is made easier with imagery, and these things must be weighted out, no struggle will be pure. I want to remind us that though this is the path that is being worn into the ground, it is not the only one, and should we choose it let us choose it intentionally.
OUR OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE WEEK OF RAGE ACTION, OCTOBER 11, AND ENSUING POLICE BRUTALITY
It has been more than a year since israel commenced its genocidal assault on Gaza. Armed and enabled by the US government, the Zionist entity has slaughtered more than 42,000 captive Palestinians within this timeframe while also systematically destroying Gaza’s civilian infrastructure and killing tens of thousands more by starvation and preventable disease. Nor has israel’s genocidal rampage been limited to Gaza—Zionist forces have murdered hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank within this timeframe, aggressively expanded israel’s settlement enterprise, and launched repeated attacks on Yemen, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and Iraq.
In the past week, israel’s aggression both in Gaza and across the region has reached unprecedented heights. As part of its ongoing effort to ethnically cleanse and erase Northern Gaza, it has imposed a total siege on the area, preventing all food and aid from entering it for the past 13 days. Deliberately assassinating journalists in the northern Gaza Strip, few bravely remain to broadcast to the world. Simultaneously, Israel has launched an all-out invasion into Lebanon, displacing over a million Lebanese citizens and slaughtering nearly 2,000 in recent weeks.
UChicago United for Palestine called this action to interrupt business as usual at the University of Chicago, whose financial and institutional ties with the Zionist entity mirror its objective role as a colonial outpost on Chicago’s South Side—gentrifying neighborhoods and surveilling, policing, and displacing the people who live here. Our experiences during last year’s encampment taught us that our demands—disclosure, divestment, and repair—would not be taken seriously without demonstrating our willingness and ability to use every means at our disposal, including suspending the daily operation of the university. We called this action in conjunction with an international movement against a civil society, state, and international order that prop up the Zionist entity, facilitate its genocide in Palestine, and enable its war of expansion in Lebanon.
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On the afternoon of October 11th, following a rally that drew more than 150 students, community members, and faculty, protestors locked the main gate of the University of Chicago shut before hanging a banner reading “FREE PALESTINE – HANDS OFF LEBANON.” This was the first of a series of autonomous actions that marked the end of the Week of Rage for Palestine and Lebanon, as we passed a year of genocide in Gaza.
Protestors later marched to a statue commemorating the University’s involvement in the development of the nuclear bomb. A speaker said: “Today, Palestine and Lebanon are being used as the testing grounds of technologies built by universities like this one.” Tags reading FREE GAZA, FUCK THE BOMBS, and KEEP ESCALATING proliferated, and balloons full of paint were thrown at the statue. He continued: “our ultimate message today is that we can pick apart this university, and when we do, we can build something better in its place.” When the crowd regrouped and began to march north to disperse, UCPD cut into the middle of the march, targeting several protestors.
As cops resorted to violence far beyond what we’ve seen in past protests, we witnessed the crowd band together to protect each other as protestors moved to surround a squad car. The twenty-minute standoff that ensued was Hyde Park’s most intense confrontation between protestors and police in recent memory, and the bravery and commitment displayed by dozens of people let the march hold its ground against UCPD and CPD for longer than anyone presumed possible. In the face of this substantial escalation of police violence, the crowd reacted instinctively and successfully prevented more than a dozen arrests.
Eventually, UCPD and CPD realized that protestors would not budge of their own accord. Sergeant Grays Sr. began to issue orders. First, he demanded the driver of the squad car run over protestors: “Just drive!” The car tried and failed to drive through the crowd, which again refused to yield. This prompted Grays and another UCPD officer to repeatedly pepper spray upwards of twenty protestors, one CPD captain and another CPD officer. When the crowd held together and continued to de-arrest despite the pepper spray, CPD joined in to beat protestors with batons—one later remarked that “that was fun for a little while.” Like before, when confronted with police violence we worked to help each other: people circled around the crowd washing eyes and teaching others to do the same.
Whether on campus, in the city, or in the street, the Palestine movement must recognize and confront its enemies: the university, the police, American civil society, and the state, all of which collaborate to facilitate dispossession, land theft, and occupation at home and abroad. The people who locked the gate did so to shut down a university that has refused to even acknowledge the destruction of all Gazan universities, much less the ongoing genocide. It symbolized how, while we walk to class every day, the schools in Gaza are bombed, while israel’s genocide against Palestinians continues and the university remains materially and intellectually invested. Protestors painted the nuclear bomb statue red to expose the university’s culpability in the nuclear weapons program, a fact they memorialize through a statue that was explicitly designed to reflect “the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion, but also ha[ve] the shape and eye sockets of a skull”—mirrored in the present by its ‘neutral’ research and development programs which directly abet the slaughter in Gaza and Lebanon.
When UCPD and CPD came at protestors with batons, attempted to run people over, and mass pepper-sprayed in a drastic escalation of police violence from prior protests at the University, the crowd responded instinctively, recognizing that we must protect each other from the university’s agents of brutality. The people who spontaneously decided to surround a squad car, confront two police departments, and not back down in the face of pepper spray and batons realized that UCPD and CPD stand between us and divestment: the police are an occupying force, and the solidarity movement for a free Palestine will have to go through them.
In Palestinian culture, there is a state of being called sumud, which translates to steadfastness. The Palestinian people have remained steadfast for a century, planted firmly on their land and resisting all zionist attempts at displacement and ethnic cleansing. Over the past year of escalated genocide, Palestinians in Gaza and Arabs facing zionist attacks across the region have not, for a single moment, abandoned their sumud: their commitment to their land, their people, and their right to live with dignity and pride.
We will never stop fighting as long as they face genocide and occupation. We will remain steadfast and committed in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation, and the cause of all those who face brutal violence and occupation from UCPD and CPD every day. And we will not stop fighting until Palestine is free!
This release is issued by UChicago United for Palestine (UCUP), a student coalition calling for the immediate end of israel’s genocide against Palestinians, an immediate ceasefire, and the immediate end of israel’s siege on Gaza and occupation of Palestine. This coalition is committed to the liberation of Palestine and supports the ongoing campaign demanding that the University of Chicago cut its ties to the Israel Institute on campus and also supports the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement.
IG: @uchicagounited
Announcement of the AIF Myanmar
Comrades,
For more than three years the peoples of Burma have waged popular resistance against a military junta, which seized power after a landslide defeat in the country’s elections. Even before the coup, ethnic rebels in the countryside have been waging a decades-long resistance against the Burmese central government. Now, in a historical moment, the entire people has united to strike final defeat into both the fascist dictatorship which has since birth plagued the country, as well as the chauvinist and divisive approach of the “Burmese” state against the many peoples of the land.
Most of the country is again in the hands of the people, with the dictatorship retreating everywhere and on the defensive- but the hardest battles are still yet to come. The times ahead of us mark a crucial period of transition and development as the revolutionary forces consolidate the strength to be able to confront the junta in their strongholds. We believe the time has come for internationalists, as they have always done, to come to the side of the people and organize in the defense of the revolution.
To this end we announce the Anti-fascist Internationalist Front, a vessel for individuals of all nationalities to join the people of Myanmar in their resistance to the dictatorship, and invite all who consider themselves anti-fascist or revolutionary to contact us at the email below.
Until victory,
ANTI-FASCIST INTERNATIONALIST FRONT
15-10-2024
AIFMYANMAR@protonmail.com
Submitted Anonymously
Fall Anarchist Careshare Schedule
The workshop schedule for the Fall Anarchist Careshare is here! Community agreements, general space & covid accessibility guidelines and more information about the weekend is on anarchistskillshare.noblogs.org. Disclaimer: we are just an account re-posting this! For questions and comments, reach out to chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net.
Letter writing to support Casey Goonan and other political prisoners
Join us in person* or virtually
Tuesday October 29 6:30-8:30 PM
at Firefly Fiber Arts Studio 2860 N Milwaukee Ave
or on Zoom registration link bit.ly/octoberletterwriting
* Masks required KN95 or similar
Free Casey Goonan! Abolition now! No more prisoners!
Casey is a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and printer who has committed their life to struggles for liberation. A federal investigation by the FBI and several other law enforcement agencies resulted in Casey’s arrest for alleged politically motivated “crimes”.
Since June 17, 2024, they have been incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail in California facing federal felonies that could result in up to 20 years of imprisonment, freeing Casey will likely be a long fight. Just as Casey has persistently for years cared for, supported, and struggled alongside incarcerated comrades, we aim to replicate these actions in solidarity with Casey as they continue their struggle from the other side of the wall.
Casey is the only political prisoner from the college encampments for Palestine. Their case will set a precedent on how direct action and protests are targeted by the state around Palestine solidarity moving forward.
Their next court hearing is November 5th and rapidly approaching – we are hoping to write letters of support to Casey ahead of their next court appearance.
Firefly Fiber Arts Studio (2860 N Milwaukee Ave) is located on the first floor; there is a 2″ threshold into the space and no stairs inside. There are wide ADA standard walkways and an accessible one-person restroom with a wide doorway and support rails. There is a variety of seating that can accommodate up to 25 people. High quality KN95 masks or similar are required for this event. Air purifiers will be provided for this event.
R4ffle to support Casey. Thousands of $$$ urgently needed for legal fees. $5 tickets, tattoos, artwork, jewelry, literature. @FreeCaseyNow for more details.