no snitching

From Abolition Media

“UPDATE: This piece was written and submitted before the authors discovered that Fire Ant had quietly revised their original statement “Manufactured Betrayal,” instead of openly addressing the principled criticism they have received from comrades across the movement.

In the wake of draconian sentences handed down to the Prairieland 8, each ranging from 30 to 100 years, much has been said about the role of Trump’s NSPM-7 in establishing new repressive tools for criminalizing activism. Less discussed has been the critical role of cooperation—by at least 6 of the Prairieland defendants—in securing these devastating convictions. While the terrain of repression is ever changing, what remains evergreen is our most powerful tool of anti-repression: the principle of non-cooperation with the state.