Mischief Night Communique

But what was the mischief? Get scheming!

via Rose City Counter Info

Submitted Anonymously

“We are not slaves, we are dynamite. We are explosive beings with unpredictable reactions.”

On Mischief Night, October 30th, we learned of a concentrated police presence in southeast Portland in anticipation of a gathering at Colonel Summers Park. With Portland Police focused on this small area, we seized the opportunity to attack elsewhere. Gentrifying capitalists in different parts of town faced the force of our rage and mischief. Not a single cop was seen there.

As anarchists, we are unpredictable. We are everywhere, except where we are expected to be. This is our strength, and when we act decisively and unexpectedly no amount of cops can stop us. We don’t need mass protests or publicly announced demos to fuck shit up, and often we are better off without them.

Thankfully, it seems most folks planning on gathering at the park were able to recognize the heavy police presence and choose to spend their night somewhere else. This flexibility is important. If the time isn’t right for an action, don’t force it.

Anyone planning an action that could face major police response should carefully consider before making that public. A lot can be achieved with just a small group and some planning, with no need to tip off police and other enemies beforehand. Often, the aftermath of a rowdy demo could have been achieved just as easily by a few crews acting unannounced. If you want something to happen, publicizing a call-to-action should not be thought of as the default choice. Get scheming!

Have fun, make mischief, and stay rowdy, friends!

-some local goblins

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Sometimes I think the real fear of the pigs would be having a bloc split up into squad size units prior to assembly, then hit targets all over town while the pigs are busy elsewhere with a big march or maybe something like the J20/2017 scenario. It would take a long time for say, a fracked gas lobbyist to get police help at their house 3 or 5 miles from Inauguration day in response to six masked "kids" throwing rocks and fireworks. It would take longer yet if all the coal, oil, and gas lobbyists are being hit at once, plus all the homes of slumlords, major retailers who have been calling the cops on people of color, you name it. Cops cannot leave an Inauguration (or a riot, or even a big mass march) unguarded and would not be prepared for this, and by the time they could get more out of town cops out there, all the small-unit missions are over and done.

When the Uprising began in DC May 2020, the Mayor's first attempt at a curfew (Sunday May 31) was an utter flop, triggering a wave of fires and looting. The next day (Monday June 1 2020) she tried a 7PM curfew, and Federal pigs staged that famous tear-gassing to clear H st so Trump could pose with that damned Bible in front of St John's church. That night came police terror downtown, with one courageous homeowner sheltering marchers all night in his home, at constant risk of a police assault.

While all those pigs were busy downtown, the whole rest of the city reported a FIVEFOLD increase in commerical burglaries as those who looted and burned upscale shit downtown the previous night shifted fire to hit places the pigs were not. Thus the curfew and all those pigs could not stop looting (and potentially fires too), only move them from downtown to even wealthier areas.

I broke the curfew myself and was a bit worried about the long commute home, possibly exposed to enemy attack the whole way to the MD line. No problem: I didn't see a single cop anywhere on the entire trip home on any of those nights.

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