tactics

From North Shore Counter-Info

I was recently speaking with a comrade who is one of the individuals wrapped up on charges in London, Ontario. They’re alleged to have played a role in shutting down a weapons defense conference that involved private and state actors, and a number of manufacturing companies designing or building the tech currently being used by Israel against Palestinians and those in Lebanon – but also for policing and defense operations within and for so-called canada.

There has been chatter about the situation with Prairieland inmate Maegan Morris, who, if I understand these details correctly, initially lied to the police, then was tortured, then cooperated with the police, then stopped cooperating, and finally was sentenced with the same punitive terms as those who did not cooperate at all.

From Rose City Counter-Info

I reviewed the Rose city counter info blog post from Some Anarchist. I’d like to offer a Clearer Argument (based on Some Anarchists piece). Some points out that protests at the ICE office have become stuck in a loop: people show up, clash with feds, leave, and repeat. This has not shut ICE down or shifted power. To move forward, she argues, we need to change tactics.

From Living and Fighting

While LA fought off ICE raids in June, Tucson remained mostly quiet. There were the appropriate outraged lectures on social media and “peaceful” demonstrations outside the federal building, with plenty of organizer back-patting afterwards, but little material result. Although there had been small indicators of disenchantment and a desire for more, including some tense rapid response callouts and a demo at a hospital which had allegedly called ICE on a patient that ended in a brief standoff with the police, this energy had not yet found any meaningful outlet. Until the flyer appeared.

From never sleep

A new short zine questioning how one acts under political persecution and certain risks of being a political criminal.

Obviously, you don't run around telling everyone you're under investigation, anyone who has been investigated, or in close relation with someone who has, knows this well. So how do we ensure we keep those around us safe while under this type of pursuit?

Submitted anonymously. Also available on The Anarchist Library.

This is a collection of an essay, the Queer Anarchist Communist Manifesto, and the writings created to go along with it. The sections are as follows: the Queer Anarchist Communist Manifesto; page by page summary of Against His-Story, Against Leviathan by Fredy Perlman; re-writes of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth magazine into summaries and commentary; page-by-page summary of Baeden’s “Against The Gendered Nightmare” essay, from the Journal of Queer Heresy, and several more summaries and commentaries of essays from Ian McKay’s Libertarian Reader volumes 1 and 2 used in the paper.

From Montreal Counter-Information

This is a raw, underdeveloped reflection on why political assassinations of CEOs, politicians, slumlords, etc., should happen more often. The assassination of UnitedHealthCare Executive CEO, Brian Thompson left me spiralling in a myriad of unexpected ways, mostly around these two questions: why doesn’t this happen more often? And perhaps, why do anarchists seemingly no longer do this?

From Freedom News UK

An anarchist communist’s response to Freedom News

Are these attacks stopping the destruction of the earth?

Topic of the week – This week we’re taking some time to reflect and digest some statements and questions posed in a recent article titled “2022 in Review: A Year to Endure” by CrimethInc.