In the Autonomous Zones
by Ezra Marcus, via The New York Times
Autonomous zones, protest camps and intentional communities alike thrive on hard work and consensus — and can become disastrous rapidly.
by Ezra Marcus, via The New York Times
Autonomous zones, protest camps and intentional communities alike thrive on hard work and consensus — and can become disastrous rapidly.
From Crimethinc
What the Queer Uprisings of 1969 Share with the George Floyd Protests of 2020
“Stonewall was a riot.” In the 51 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City catapulted the movement for LGBTQ+ liberation into public consciousness, this phrase has become a cliché. Yes, it was a riot—but what kind of riot was it?
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Now that we’re in the midst of a new uprising, the editors found it appropriate to remind our readers that Amazon is still as powerful as ever in the US, even more so because of the COVID-19 lock-down. With thousands of businesses shuttered under government orders, Amazon has filled this supply gap and gobbled up even more consumers into its Prime empire.
by David Adler
Who thinks dancing with anarchists is a way to solve an insurrection? Anarchists want to dance; it’s their clever trick, a method to divide. They dupe those cavorting with them and it is plainly stupid to believe them.
From Hostis Journal
On Halloween 2016, we invited submissions for Issue Three of Hostis, titled “Fuck the Police.” Rather than beg for forgiveness, let’s just chalk it up to shit getting in the way. The recent George Floyd uprising has lit a fire under our feet, and we hope it will finally come to fruition.
From AMW
Police Precinct Set on Fire in Portland, Oregon as Uprising Continues
For the first time since George Floyd was killed exactly one month ago, people in Portland demonstrated at two police precincts simultaneously overnight, and set up barricades outside the precinct in North Portland, which was set on fire.
From Athens.Indymedia via AMW
Explosive Attack on Manpower Group in Thessaloniki, Greece in Solidarity with Revolutionaries in US
From Greece to America, deep breath until the death of white supremacy
The arson of the ManPower Group is a practical statement of solidarity with the comrades of the Revolutionary Abolition Movement, calling on the international revolutionary community to take immediate and unequivocal action in solidarity.
From IGD
by Peter Gelderloos
As the rebellion that has rocked the US and spread internationally approaches a full month, the counterinsurgency strategy being used to pacify it has become well defined. Police repression and vigilante violence from the outside, and rumors of agent provocateurs to divide the movement from the inside. But another method of internalized, soft counterinsurgency has also been omnipresent: the use of liberal identity politics to spread the idea that fighting back against a racist society is in itself racist. This practice was already well developed by the time of the Michael Brown rebellions in 2014, making use of white allies to put all their power and privilege behind the ostensible leaders of oppressed communities
From Liberty and Logos
Amory Devereux and Bellamy Fitzpatrick discuss the current situation of widespread protests and riots throughout the Western world, BLM, and the theoretical connections between shared values and the need to defend them.
From The Final Straw
In the past few weeks since the uprising in response to police killings of Black and Brown folks around Turtle Island, amazing chances have presented themselves and folks have seized opportunities. One great and unfolding circumstance is known as the CHAZ or CHOP, an autonomous zone and occupational protest surrounding a police precinct in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
From Roar by Kristian Williams
Race & Resistance
After George Floyd’s murder, the authorities’ moved fast to indict the killers. But protests and riots erupted nonetheless, because reform is not enough.
From CrimethInc.
Accounts from Three Weeks of Countrywide Revolt
From San Francisco Bay View via AMW
After a few weeks of rebellions in dozens of cities nationwide in response to the police murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Black people, in the Bay Area and beyond, have begun to plan to live in a post-COVID-19 society and a post-2020 rebellion society, which basically translates into us realizing en masse that we have nobody to depend on but ourselves for protection, safety and everything else. This is not a new concept for some, but it is very new for others.
From ROAR Mag by Shane Burley
Following a long tradition of left revolutionary praxis, protesters in Seattle have declared a cop-free autonomous zone in the heart of the city.
From AMW
On the night of June 11, we smashed the windows of the offices of the Police Union, GoP, in Bremen with a hammer and left the slogan: “The Police is not reformable!” A furious little contribution to the global fight against cops and racially motivated police violence.