TOTW: For Those Who Gave All
Is there anything you’re willing to die for?
Is there anything you’re willing to die for?
From Creeker
Creeker is a grassroots, anti-authoritarian zine series that aims to bring depth, variety, critique and continuity to the ongoing process of reflecting on the Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek blockade and related efforts. It’s intended for creekers themselves, land defenders elsewhere, and the land defenders yet to come. The newest offering in the series includes contributions of reflection, art, critique, movement history, personal reflection and poetry that were anonymously sourced from participants at the blockade. There is also a whole section dedicated to the ongoing forest defense movement in Atlanta.
As in the case of those protests, DAF’s activists have come for a specific reason — to oppose the development projects threatening the land — but their political ideology is far from monolithic. There are anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, communists, socialists, and likely every flavor and distinction in between. Many have been involved in Atlanta’s local anarchist and community-organizing scene; some worked on mutual-aid projects during Covid, or participated in the George Floyd protests, or helped organize traditional union campaigns at their workplaces. Those from out of town learned about the forest through “movement media,” social media, and word of mouth, sacrificing vacation time or their jobs altogether to visit the forest. What unites them, however, is their commitment to direct action: They are here not to vote or petition, but to defend the land with their bodies.
From Creeker Zine Via It's Going Down
Announcing new issues of Creeker and The Creeker Companion, which details the ongoing struggle against logging and the Ada’itx/Fairy Creek blockade.
Accounts from the Defense of the Atlanta Forest
In Atlanta, Georgia, the city government intends to destroy large swaths of what remains of the South River Forest—also known by the Muskogee name for the river, Weelaunee. In place of one stretch of woods, they aim to build a police training compound; they have sold the neighboring part to Blackhall Studios executive Ryan Millsap, who intends to build a giant soundstage. Yet for more than a year now, activists have protected the forest against their plans.
This month we sabotaged card slots of Wells Fargo and Bank Of America in Center City, Philadelphia. This attack was done in solidarity and complicity with those disrupting the construction of a police training grounds in Atlanta. Cops in Atlanta want to cut down a forest to build a mock city to practice squashing uprisings. In response, individuals are occupying, protesting, and sabotaging. People have started staying in the forest and fucking with the construction. The Atlanta Police Foundation is being funded by Wells Fargo and Bank Of America. We are excited to hear about construction workers being chased out and construction vehicles being messed up.
from Noticias de la Guerra Social via Dark Nights
During the early morning of December 20, an arson attack was carried out against a forestry truck in Ruta Itata, Penco, Bio Bio region. [...] We claim this attack in response to the systematic looting and destruction carried out by forestry companies within the territory, which brings with it a visible devastation of the land.
via Attaque, Translated by Act for freedom now!
de.indymedia.org / Sunday 28 November 2021
Last night we targeted the Strabag site in Cologne and freed it from a car.
via It's Going Down
Vancouver Island, BC: Gate Locked as RCMP Ramps up to Attack Growing Logging Blockades
from CrimethInc.
Tactics, Strategy, and Culture of Resistance