Author: chicagoantireport
FREE PALESTINE MEANS ATTACK: Call for Autonomous Actions April 7 in Chicago, 6 Months since start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
Submitted anonymously
Palestinian factions have called for worldwide action for Gaza during the month of Ramadan, dubbed Ramadan Flood. From the call: “We declare our full support for the global Ramadan Flood campaign and call on the living consciences around the world for the largest official and popular global mobilization on the national, regional, and international levels during the blessed month of Ramadan under the title “Ramadan Flood” in support of the justice of our cause and to pressure to stop and end the genocide war and to thwart the “israeli” occupation’s schemes.”
In solidarity with this call and to honor exactly 6 months since the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, this is a call for crews in Chicago to attack zionist entities and infrastructure around Chicago on April 7, 2024.
Get together with a crew — it doesn’t take many people to attack. Consider coordinating with other crews. Go somewhere unexpected, spread out city resources, hit them where it hurts, disrupt neighborhoods where people benefit from US imperial violence while insisting on the privilege not to think about it.
Together, let’s strike from a center of capital in the heart of US empire. As israel continues its genocide campaign against Palestinians and further escalates during the holy month of Ramadan, what are we waiting for?
Need ideas? Check out past actions on chicagoantireport.noblogs.org, scenes.noblogs.org, Bay Area Newsreel, monkeywrenching guide, etc (view these on Tor).
Submit a report back to Chicago Anti Report.
STAY SAFE, STAY DANGEROUS. SOLIDARITY MEANS ATTACK. FREE PALESTINE.
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A statement issued by the Palestinian factions regarding the Ramadan Flood campaign and the global movement to confront the zionist occupation’s plans and the genocidal war targeting our people and the Palestinian cause:
The Palestinian cause and the Gaza Strip are facing an unprecedented genocidal war and aggression that targets all meanings of humanity, exceeds the terrorism of fascism and Nazism, disregards all norms, laws, and divine and earthly ethics in the Gaza Strip and across all Palestinian land, destroying all aspects of life through killing, destruction, starvation, dehydration, and demolishing infrastructure.
Through this, it aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause and execute its plans against our people through displacement, settlement, Judaization of the land and the Islamic and Christian sanctities, ethnic cleansing, and racial discrimination.
In the face of this zionist aggression and genocidal war, the Palestinian factions affirm the following:
1- We declare our full support for the global Ramadan Flood campaign and call on the living consciences around the world for the largest official and popular global mobilization on the national, regional, and international levels during the blessed month of Ramadan under the title “Ramadan Flood” in support of the justice of our cause and to pressure to stop and end the genocide war and to thwart the “israeli” occupation’s schemes.
2- We call for this mobilization and global flood to include activating boycotts in all their forms and cutting off all supplies to the occupation, declaring strikes and sit-ins in public squares, and organizing marches in all capitals and cities.
3- We affirm the right of our people to freedom self-determination, the return to their land and homes, and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds as its capital.
4- We reaffirm our absolute support for the resistance in facing the “israeli” occupation and driving it out of our land, as we call for the necessity of activating resistance in all its forms in all arenas and fronts, considering the blessed month of Ramadan as the month of the “Global Flood for the Victory for Palestine and Our Just Cause.”
In conclusion: To our Palestinian people, to our Arab and Islamic nations, to the free people of the world everywhere, the Palestinian blood shed on this land, which today in the shadow of the genocidal war exceeds 130,000 between martyrs, missing, and injured in Gaza, the targeting of the West Bank with settlement and ongoing aggression, Al-Quds with Judaization, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Islamic and Christian holy sites with desecration and raids and preventing prayer, and the racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing against our people in the occupied Palestinian interior, and the spread of the zionist entity like cancer in the body of our Arab and Islamic nation and the entire world, make us today stand united in a global popular and official movement to face this zionist danger and its terrorist liquidation projects that have exceeded fascism and Nazism in their ugliest forms and manifestations.
The Palestinian Factions
Sunday: 3-3-2024
Newroz Chicago 21 March 5 PM Pratt Beach Park
Repost from @exiled.anarchists
We invite you to join us in celebrating the coming of spring, and in commemorationg the people who have been killed by occupying states, in solidarity with all struggles against colonialism across the globe. There will be music, screenings, food, & drinks, and halay! 21st of March Pratt Beach Park at 5pm
The Spring Anarchist Skillshare is happening April 19-21!
Repost from Chicago Anarchist Skillshare
Locations TBA, check back soon to see the locations!
This Skillshare we are going to be focusing on Direct action and In-the-Streets type trainings and information. With workshops such as:
Pre Action: Know Your Rights, Operation Security, Digital Security, Scouting, Physical & Body Preparation
During Action: Street Medicine, De-arresting, Navigation, Basic Formations
After Action: Jail Support, Anti-Repression Support Groups, Post-Arrest Planning, Body After Care
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Have any questions/comments or want to contribute to the workshops? Reach out to us at chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net
Attack on Army Recruitment Center: We Will Not Be Complicit in US Imperialism
On Sunday, an autonomous crew targeted and redecorated a US Army Recruitment Center in the Avondale neighborhood of so-called Chicago.
One week ago, Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside the zionist embassy in so-called Washington DC. He follows an unnamed self-immolation outside the zionist embassy in so-called Atlanta. In addition, in 2023, a man self-immolated in Kinshasa, DRC in protest of the genocide in Congo over capitalist green and resource extraction of cobalt and copper for the world’s technology.
As such, comrades took the following actions against the recruitment center for the 33,000+ Palestinian martyrs since October 7, for Aaron Bushnell, and for all those struggling against the US imperialist machine:
- Painted Avenge Aaron, Gaza will Haunt You, and Free Gaza across the military machine recruitment center windows
- Smashed windows of the main army recruitment office
- Covered surveillance cameras with spray paint
- Poured red paint on windows of the Marines recruitment office
As US imperialism and capitalism abound, we target the US military in its enforcement of imperialism from Haiti to AFRICOM to Palestine and beyond. We reject the US airdrops of “aid” in Gaza with one hand while it uses the other to provide logistical, materials and political support to the ongoing Nakba.
We encourage all in the heart of empire to escalate tactics against the US military weapons manufacturers and entities complicit in genocide – from the BDS list, to zionist groups in Chicago and beyond, to those engaging in the predatory recruitment of individuals to the military – often targeting Black high schoolers. We encourage all military personnel to de-enlist and let the shame of your colonial service push you to radical action.
All it takes is a small group of people experimenting, building trust, and taking action together. Make a plan, gather your tools, go out, and attack. Remember to bloc up and leave your phones at home! There’s a Navy recruitment center and crisis pregnancy center/fake clinic next door to where this attack happened.
We remember Aaron’s last words:
“I will no longer be complicit to genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers – it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
May we commit to escalated action such that US militarism crumbles into the abyss. Glory to al the martyrs.
Via anonymous submission.
Art project at Chicago zi0nist gym
We took it upon ourselves to redecorate a gym on the North Side that is commonly frequented by zi0nists. Our crew left two messages on the second story walls of the outdoor bleachers reading: ABOLISH “ISRAEL” and فلسطين حرة (Free Palestine in Arabic). May those zi0nist cowards be reminded with every breath, in every space, that their genocidal project is coming to an end. May every zi0nist coward never know a moment of peace for the rest of their miserable lives. May every prison wall fall and every prisoner know freedom and justice– from Chicago to Palestine: abolish these blood-soaked empires, and free them all!
Via anonymous submission.
Support for Jack
Jack is being held in Fulton County Jail on chargse related to the Stop Cop City and Defend the Forest movement. Please write to him to let him know he is loved and supported! Please remember to address envelopes to ‘John’ but you can refer to him as Jack inside the letters.
Jack loves rock climbing, history, Pilates with Nicole, Buddhism, poetry, vegan prison recipes, hip hop, straight edge, punk, carpentry/diy construction, sewing, he wants to hear anecdotes that felt special to you from just everyday things. You could write about a sunset or a wholesome gathering or a way a song made you feel.
His birthday is coming up on March 1! Let us celebrate him!
Chicago Bank of America Vandalized
Early on January 27th, comrades gathered to honor Tortugita by wheat-pasting posters on the building and gluing the card reader outside the bank shut (although the tap function remained available, for anyone who was wondering). A belated day of the Forest Defender, may the pigs never expect us when we are always late. Viva Tortugita, may Bank of America stop funding ATL or cumble, and long live the struggle.
Reposted from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest.
Chicago action in solidarity with Appalachians Against Pipelines
Bank of America branch locked in response to BOA funding: Mountain Valley Pipeline, Cop City linked to Tortuguita’s murder, and the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Chicago, Illinois — A Bank of America branch was locked and windows wheatepasted with flyers containing links to the bank’s abhorrent acts of cruelty. People are calling on BOA to drop its funding of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile pipeline described as “a scar across Appalachia.” The MVP will supply fuel to the Radford Army Ammunition Plant. RAAP is operated by BAE systems, which supplies the Israeli government with weapons used to murder Palestinians. BOA also funds Cop City, the 85-acre militarized police training compound that the Atlanta Police Foundation is attempting to build in Atlanta, GA. Construction for Cop City desecrates and bulldozes the Weelaunee Forest, the largest urban forest in the United States, dubbed one of the lungs of Atlanta.
“While I do not live in Appalachia, as a descendant of Appalachian migrants, the destruction of mountains, communities and ecosystems in Appalachia for the purpose of supplying fuel to an ammunition plant that supplies the Israeli Occupation Forces with weapons used to kill the indigenous people of Palestine enrages and disgusts me. The struggles of ordinary people across the world are interconnected, and Bank of America funds so many causes of environmental destruction and human suffering and death.” an anonymous Midwesterner said.
This action was taken in solidarity with Appalachian’s Against Pipelines, a direct action campaign of pipeline fighters opposing MVP construction on the ground. Block every path! No pipelines through Appalachia, or anywhere! Solidarity forever! Stop Cop City and Free Palestine!
P.S.
IMPORTANT ADDITION:
Some of the flyers used in this action state “SHUT ELBIT DOWN!” This is due to Bank of America’s documented financing of a $500 million dollar loan to Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons manufacturer. Elbit Systems Ltd. has been the centerpiece target for the direct action campaign led by Palestine Action, which has produced hard hitting actions that have included lots of red paint, smashed up offices, and other creative tactics. Palestine Action’s bold attacks have resulted in some very clear successes in England, where they have forced Elbit to shut down two of their facilities through these sustained direct actions.
The bank BNY Mellon has recently been identified by the U.S. offshoot of Pal. Action as a target and has seen some similar clever tactics deployed against it in recent months. However, BNY Mellon offices are often tucked away in suites or skyscrapers. It can be more difficult, by design, to interrupt their business of death dealing and capitalist $$$ swapping. Bank of America, on the other hand, perpetuates its business in much more accessible locations and exists almost everywhere: in small towns and cities, in skyscrapers and surrounded by the cul-de-sacs of suburban sprawl. One can easily imagine BOA as a supplemental target to BNY Mellon because of its similar financing of Palestinian genocide through Elbit. One can also easily imagine actions like this one, or with other tactics in play, could be taken at BOA branches all over Turtle Island.
QR code on the wheatpasted flyers leads to this link for more info:
Reposted from Unsalted Counter Info.
Call to Action – Defend the Orphanage! Contact the ELCA: Stop sending police to harass the First Trinity Community Center
Repost from Save First Trinity | Spanish translation below
On February 8, Chicago Police broke into the First Trinity Lutheran Church community center (commonly known as the Orphanage) and detained and cuffed two volunteers hoping to arrest, illegally evict, lock out and board up the building at the behest of a real estate corporation determined to sell the church. At the time of the intrusion, folks were busy preparing and organizing for the community meals, clothing drives, youth programming, and various other mutual aid services provided out of the space. After dozens of comrades and concerned neighbors converged to defend the space, the predators and parasites retreated in defeat. This is at least the fourth time in the past year that real estate agent Brandon Banks, of Coldwell Bankers and Spacematch Inc, brought cops on false pretenses to break windows and bust down doors, only to eventually leave after realizing that incorrectly leveraging the law to harass, punish, and halt community-led mutual aid was not going to work. The Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) who had hired Coldwell Bankers to sell the place sent a email on Feb. 5 to CPD directing them to arrest any “trespassers”, some of whom had been a part of First Trinity for over a decade.
Contact the ELCA and let them know: the community is not for sale! Fire Coldwell Bankers! Stop police harassment! Folks are pulling an immense weight providing free food, clothing, space to warm up, arts and activities for kids, providing sanitation supplies, and sending books to prisoners. The church has no business harassing that!
Let Them Know! -> Tom Anderson tanderson@mcselca.org 773.248.0021 hit 0 ask for Tom Anderson or Bishop Curry
First Trinity Lutheran Church has been an important part of the neighborhood for 130 years and continues to host projects at its community center such as Midwest Books to Prisoners and El Comedor Comunitario, providing essential services like free food, clothes, educational materials, and a safe environment. While many churches across Chicago are now utilizing their buildings for mutual aid projects addressing ongoing housing and humanitarian crises, the Metropolitan ELCA is shamefully failing to fulfill their Christian obligations to stand with those in imminent need. This past year, a new First Trinity administration was installed by the ELCA to force what they concocted as a “Holy Closure” of the church despite the community’s continuing needs, hopes, and potentials: shutting down programs such as the “God’s Closet” free store and the Trinity House LGBTQ safe housing, they forced a highly contentious and likely illegal vote after scrubbing the vote roster to exclude the people directly running services at the church, including even the resident church pianist of 17 years who would have cast the deciding vote. Now that the ELCA owns the building, they are refusing our good-faith efforts to discuss the future of the space, instead sending police to bully and arrest us for “trespassing”, forgoing civil eviction proceedings in hopes of selling out a social center to gentrifying developers for more than a million dollars.
The greedy banks and corrupt church institutions want these buildings completely emptied and devoid of community, to sell to some prospective investor who would demolish the buildings and erase history. This process repeats itself across our stratified city driven by ruthless capitalist forces, who violently evict people and de-root community, raze down and gentrify the land, and in a final mockery, install some cruel cold sterile building, to host alienating commerce and soulless condos, for the singular purpose to generate profit. The Church trying to cash out on community coupled with the failure of imagination to meet the needs of the moment is blasphemy against the spirit. ELCA would like for this to happen quietly and out of the public eye, a silent death as they pocket the check. While the purportedly “progressive” Church talks about prison reform and human rights, they contract cartoonish bankers and predatory police to aggressively attack the community doing the exact work the Church claims it supports. Alternatively, we are already bringing into fruition a thriving social center, a world in which many worlds fit, where the intersection of abolitionist struggles against the prisons meet with the struggles of immigrants facing fascistic xenophobia and neoliberal indifference and brutal austerity. We refuse to be thrown away into society’s prisons and carceral shelters: we will defend each other, and we will not allow profiteering real estate corporations and soulless church institutions sell out the community.
We’re asking people to call on the ELCA to demand they stop the police harassment, to drop the contract with Coldwell Bankers, to interrupt the legacy of using Christianity to abuse power. Leviticus 25:35 says it plainly: “If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.” And in Hebrews 13:3:“Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.” Hebrews 13:3.
For more information, contact orphanagecollective@proton.me
Further Reading:
- Chicago Aldermen Push For Accountability Amid Complaints Of Mistreatment At Migrant Shelters (https://borderlessmag.org/2024/02/01/chicago-migrant-shelters-favorite-healthcare-staffing/)
- Investigation: Migrants Describe Inhumane Conditions At Chicago’s Largest Shelter (https://borderlessmag.org/2023/12/14/investigation-chicago-migrant-shelter-pilsen-dangerous/ )
- Breaking Borders: Report on Anarchist Organizing in Solidarity with Migrants in Chicago https://itsgoingdown.org/breaking-borders-report-on-anarchist-organizing-in-solidarity-with-migrants-in-chicago/
¡Defender el orfanato! Demanda de la ELCA: ¡Alto a la policía que amenaza al Primer Centro Comunitario Trinity!
El 8 de febrero, la policía de Chicago irrumpió en el centro comunitario de la Iglesia Luterana de la Primera Trinidad (comúnmente conocido como el Orfanato) y detuvo y esposó a dos voluntarios con la intención de arrestarlos, desalojar ilegalmente, cerrar y tapiar el recurso comunitario a instancias de una corporación inmobiliaria decidida a vender la iglesia. En el momento de la intrusión, la gente estaba ocupada preparando y organizando las comidas comunitarias, las campañas de recogida de ropa, los programas para jóvenes y otros servicios de ayuda mutua que se prestan en este espacio durante la actual crisis migratoria. Después de que decenas de compañeros y vecinos preocupados se unieran para defender el espacio, los depredadores y parásitos se retiraron derrotados. Esta es al menos la cuarta vez en el último año que el agente de bienes raíces Brandon Banks, de Coldwell Bankers y Spacematch Inc, trajo policías con falsos pretextos para romper ventanas y derribar puertas, sólo para finalmente irse después de darse cuenta del uso incorrecto de la ley para acosar, castigar y detener la ayuda mutua dirigida por la comunidad no iba a funcionar. El Sínodo Metropolitano de Chicago de la ELCA (Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en América), que había contratado a Coldwell Bankers para vender el local, envió un correo electrónico el 5 de febrero a la policía para que detuviera a los “intrusos”, muchos de los cuales llevaban décadas formando parte de First Trinity. Póngase en contacto con la ELCA y hágales saber: ¡la comunidad no está en venta! ¡Despide a Coldwell Bankers! ¡Alto al acoso policial! La gente está haciendo un esfuerzo inmenso proporcionando comida gratis, ropa, espacio para calentarse, arte y actividades para los niños, proporcionando material sanitario y enviando libros a los presos.
La Iglesia Luterana de la Primera Trinidad ha sido una parte importante del barrio durante 130 años y sigue acogiendo proyectos en su centro comunitario como Midwest Books to Prisoners y El Comedor Comunitario, proporcionando servicios esenciales como comida gratuita, ropa, material educativo y un entorno seguro. Mientras muchas iglesias de Chicago utilizan ahora sus edificios para proyectos de ayuda mutua que abordan las crisis humanitarias y de vivienda en curso, la ELCA metropolitana incumple vergonzosamente sus obligaciones cristianas de apoyar a los más necesitados. El año pasado, una nueva administración de First Trinity fue instalada por la ELCA para forzar lo que ellos inventaron como un “Cierre Sagrado” de la iglesia a pesar de las continuas necesidades, esperanzas y potenciales de la comunidad: cerrando programas como la tienda gratuita “God’s Closet” y el alojamiento seguro LGBTQ Trinity House, forzaron una votación altamente polémica y probablemente ilegal después de borrar la lista de votos para excluir a las personas que dirigen directamente los servicios en la iglesia, incluyendo incluso al pianista residente de la iglesia durante 17 años que habría emitido el voto decisivo.Ahora que la ELCA es propietaria del edificio, rechaza nuestros esfuerzos de buena fe para debatir el futuro del espacio, y en su lugar envía a la policía para intimidarnos y detenernos por “allanamiento”, renunciando a los procedimientos civiles de desalojo con la esperanza de vender un centro social a promotores gentrificadores por más de un millón de dólares.
Los codiciosos bancos y las corruptas instituciones eclesiásticas quieren estos edificios completamente vacíos y desprovistos de comunidad, para venderlos a algún posible inversor que los derribe y borre la historia. Este proceso se repite en toda nuestra ciudad estratificada, impulsado por fuerzas capitalistas despiadadas, que desalojan violentamente a la gente y desarraigan a la comunidad, arrasan y aburguesan la tierra y, en una burla final, instalan algún edificio estéril, frío y cruel, para albergar un comercio alienante y condominios sin alma, con el único propósito de generar beneficios. El intento de la Iglesia de sacar provecho de la comunidad, unido al fracaso de la imaginación para satisfacer las necesidades del momento, es una blasfemia contra el espíritu. A la ELCA le gustaría que esto sucediera en silencio y fuera del ojo público, una muerte silenciosa mientras se embolsan el cheque. Mientras la Iglesia supuestamente “progresista” habla de reforma penitenciaria y derechos humanos, contrata a banqueros caricaturescos y policías depredadores para que ataquen agresivamente a la comunidad que hace exactamente el trabajo que la Iglesia dice apoyar. Alternativamente, ya estamos haciendo fructificar un centro social próspero, un mundo en el que caben muchos mundos, donde la intersección de las luchas abolicionistas contra las prisiones se encuentran con las luchas de los inmigrantes que se enfrentan a la xenofobia fascista, a la indiferencia neoliberal y la austeridad brutal.
Nos negamos a que nos arrojen a las cárceles y a los centros de acogida de la sociedad: nos defenderemos los unos a los otros y no permitiremos que las empresas inmobiliarias especuladoras y las instituciones eclesiásticas desalmadas vendan a la comunidad.
Pedimos a la gente que haga un llamamiento a la ELCA para exigirle que ponga fin al acoso policial, que abandone el contacto con Coldwell Bankers, que interrumpa el legado de utilizar el cristianismo para abusar del poder. Levítico 25:35 lo dice claramente: “Si uno de tus hermanos se empobrece y cae en pobreza entre vosotros, le ayudarás, como a un forastero o a un extranjero, para que viva contigo”. Y en Hebreos 13:3: “Acordaos de los que están en la cárcel como si estuvierais con ellos en la cárcel, y de los maltratados como si vosotros mismos estuvierais sufriendo”. Hebreos 13:3.