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the following is an excerpt of an article from Mondoweiss by Shatha Hanaysha, a Palestinian journalist based in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

The most recent raid on the camp took place on December 12 and lasted for three days, resulting in the killing of 13 Palestinians and the injury of 33 others in both the city of Jenin and the camp. During this time, Israeli forces besieged the camp, restricting entry and exit, and conducted house-to-house raids, arresting hundreds in a scene reminiscent of the civilian arrests in Gaza.

This assault was the Israeli army’s largest military operation in the camp since the 2002 “Battle of Jenin.” The Israeli army views it as an extension of the war on Gaza and the effort to eliminate Hamas and Palestinian resistance factions. The three-day operation witnessed intense clashes in several areas within and around the camp and the city. It resulted in the injury of 7 Israeli soldiers, as announced by the Israeli forces.

However, the Jenin Brigade announced in a statement after the raid that its fighters managed to carry out several operations and precision strikes on various axes and areas where Israeli army soldiers and vehicles were positioned.

An anonymous source from the Jenin Brigade spoke to Mondoweiss about the invasion.

“[We] targeted an infantry force of occupation soldiers stationed in Jenin camp square with an explosive device, which resulted in direct injuries,” the source said. “After observing soldiers outside the vehicles on the road between the city and the camp, the resistance fighters managed to snipe at least two soldiers, as shown through the media.”

“Another group of fighters, minutes after the sniper ambush, targeted a unit of soldiers positioned in front of the mosque in the New Camp area,” he continued. “The fighters also breached the tight security barrier, and despite the presence of reconnaissance aircraft and sniper teams, targeted occupation soldiers in the Khallet Al-Sawha neighborhood in Jenin city.”

The Jenin Brigade source maintained that the Israeli army’s operation on December 12 was a failure, as it did not result in the arrest of any wanted resistance fighters from the Jenin Brigade, and most of the arrests were of civilians who were later released. The source confirmed that the resistance fighters remained in the camp and the city, and the clashes persisted throughout the entire incursion.

The source also insisted that Israel was attempting to portray an image of victory through vandalism, painting Zionist slogans on the walls, tearing down pictures of martyrs, ransacking and blowing up homes, desecrating mosques and broadcasting Jewish prayers through its speakers, and detaining civilians without cause.

Israeli affairs expert Anas Abu Arqoub told Mondoweiss that the statements from Israeli military and political officials holding that the resistance in Jenin has ended is belied by the reality on the ground. He asserts that Israeli officials are aware that their own statements are untrue, but are making them anyway to boost the morale of the Israeli public after the the deterrence of the Israeli army was shattered on October 7.

In an exclusive interview conducted by Mondoweiss with a fighter from the Jenin Brigade, we asked him about the accuracy of Israeli media claims that the equation in the camp changed after the assassination of [two prominent founders of the Jenin Brigade, Muhammad Zubeidi and Wissam Hanoun].

“The occupation’s claims are baseless,” he responded. “In 2002, we lost Mahmoud Tawalbeh [a leader in the Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades] and many other prominent leaders. However, a new generation emerged, carrying the torch once again. In the Battle of the Sword of Jerusalem [launched by Hamas in Gaza in 2021 in response to Israeli settler provocations in Al-Aqsa], we lost Jameel Al-Amouri [an early founder of the Jenin Brigade], and everyone was in pain, but the youth continued, and they carried the banner anew. This will be a new phase and a new beginning, and we will become stronger after the assassination of Muhammad Zubeidi and Wissam Hanoun as well.”

“The repeated operations by the occupation army have two sides to them,” the fighter continued. “On the one hand, there is fatigue and exhaustion for the youth, but at the same time, we become closer to our God in these incursions. The closer the occupation comes to us, the closer we get to God. We become stronger every time we break the barriers of fear from things we experienced before. In the past, for example, we had a fear of [Israeli] missiles, but now we have overcome this fear, and we deal with missiles as something normal. Then we had a fear of [Israeli attack] drones, but now we move about and have overcome this fear.”

“Every time the occupation tries a new approach against us, initially, we feel fear, but later we get used to it,” he maintained. “There is a saying, ‘The beatings that don’t kill us make us stronger.’ With these raids, we gain more experience and become more capable of dealing with them. In this way, the occupation loses. They used everything available to them to threaten the youth. In the past, they threatened us with missiles and drones without using them, but now they have actually used these weapons. They used Apache helicopters, reconnaissance aircraft, and shoulder-fired missiles, and they have nothing left to frighten us with.”

Another resistance member, a leader in the Jenin Brigade, told Mondoweiss that “the revolutionary state and mentality were initially embodied by individuals, and then they evolved into a security institution or a jihadist struggle system. Its focus is not on a specific person relying on their support. Although there are individuals who have a significant impact on the streets, the ideology and awareness present in the community compensate for this absence. Youth now strive to become leaders in this Brigade and among the resistance in general.”

“The departure of Muhammad Zubeidi and Wissam Hanoun undoubtedly has a significant impact, but it will not be the impact that the Israeli occupation desires in the sense of leading to division or stopping the Brigade’s work,” he continued. “The Jenin Brigade has become an institution; one person can cover for another, regardless of their name and influence on the streets. We will continue, God willing, until our last breath.”

He informed us that, in their fight, “there are differences in the balance of power [between Israel and the resistance], and this has a considerable impact.”

“However, this power imbalance has existed between us and the occupation since the beginning of this phase of struggle,” he continued. “We fought the Israeli army with all its weapons and equipment. At that time, we did not exceed 50 fighters, but our thinking, awareness, and belief — the firm belief in victory and the rightful claim to the land — are what make us present on the battlefields. Even if there is a difference in the balance of power, I continue because I am a human who wants to live with dignity and life. If it is a life of dignity, is worth living.”

Political analyst Ayman Youssef says that Jenin has historically had an exceptional role in the struggle and resistance against occupation, and this continues today. He points to the distinctiveness of Jenin’s experience today, where there is coordination and a joint operations room among all resistance factions, embodying national unity in the West Bank. Despite Israel’s success in reaching some wanted individuals and resistance fighters, he considers it unlikely that the idea of resistance and struggle will end, emphasizing that it is an ideological and steadfast concept that transcends generations.

“Jenin, with its social and resistance-oriented character, including the presence of the camp and rural areas, represents a rare case,” Youssef told Mondoweiss, believing that resistance in Jenin will continue to renew and reinvent itself over time. Most importantly, he points out that the resistance in Jenin is not monopolized by a single political faction or group — it is the camp that resists through the various factions. The Jenin Brigade is the current expression of that resistance, and this tradition will not go away.

On the contrary, Youssef argues, the Jenin model has spread over the past two years, replicating itself in refugee camps in the northern West Bank, including the refugee camps of Nour Shams in Tulkarem, Balata in Nablus, Aqbat Jaber in Jericho, and al-Far’a in Tubas. The refugees in these camps, coupled with the absence of social and political justice, continue to fuel and galvanize the national movement, pushing it forward. While these movements may sometimes fade, Youssef asserts, they will undoubtedly renew over time.

In recent years, we have had various experiences with so-called “silent occupations”, i.e. occupations that are not made public. In some cases, homeless people have had a roof over their heads for over a year. With the toolkit – which has been published in the form of a handy zine that you can fold yourself – we want to pass on the techniques needed to open up empty apartments and also share our own experiences with this form of action. You can download the toolkit as a PDF below this text. There you will also find a small folding guide.

Especially in the cold months, the need to have a warm place to sleep is particularly important for homeless people. For many people, sleeping in emergency accommodation is out of the question – whether due to addiction, repressive securities, lack of privacy or simply because dogs are not allowed.

The fact that apartments often remain empty for years and people have to sleep outside is a situation that we do not want to simply accept. We have had good experiences in remedying this situation ourselves and want to encourage other people to do the same.

So far, we have mainly gained experience with people with homes opening doors for people without homes and communicating with the local community in advance. Silent occupations require many resources that homeless people often do not have. Nevertheless, from our perspective, it is desirable to take all steps collectively in order to prevent a division into “activists” and “those affected” and the associated (knowledge) hierarchies. Because, by the way, in their daily lives as squatters, the formerly homeless are of course also activists.

We have found that open and direct communication with everyone involved is essential. Of course, this also means accepting that potential residents may not be able to imagine individual steps, such as opening the door. And if opening the door now seems like the “most blatant step”, remember that the future residents live with the possibility of the occupation being exposed every day.

It is important for us to say that many of the people we have helped to squat would prefer to have a legal tenancy agreement. For various reasons, however, the hurdles are very high. However, we have also had the shared experience that squatting can also offer advantages: It has often gone beyond “just living there” to the development of structures of solidarity within the housing community and beyond. Whether it was support in obtaining everyday items or resolving conflicts. For example, there was a situation of patriarchal violence in the squat in which the perpetrator was successfully thrown out of the apartment together with supporters and the housing community.

In our experience so far, however, there have also been effects of solidarity in the other direction: when a person from the squat community reported a stalker, the squatters agreed to be available at all times should things escalate. However, mutual solidarity can also take place on a structural level:

Apartments are vacant for a variety of reasons and it is not uncommon for them to be used as deliberate strategies to get rid of tenants. A squat can give the rest of the building community the motivation to oppose a longer tenancy and perhaps even stay in the building beyond the legal rental situation. And: squatted apartments are of course super unattractive for potential investors...

We were also able to gain experience of the pitfalls and potential for conflict inherent in silent occupations. The living realities of the squatters and the previous housing community can differ despite the shared roof. The realities of people who have been homeless are not suddenly completely changed by the use of an apartment. The health and psychological consequences of living on the street continue to have an effect in the new situation. Here we have learned that communication between all those involved is the key to success. Concerns on all sides should be taken seriously and solutions sought together.

Here we summarize the practical steps that are important to us:

• Ability to report vacancies anonymously and as securely as possible (encrypted e-mail, pre-registered SIM card, personal contact...)
  

• Find out more about the property. Do landlords, tradespeople or interested parties come by? How does the building community feel about a possible silent occupation? In our experience, it makes sense to involve the building community in the plans as early as possible. Asking people from the building community whether they have a problem with a possible occupation may be challenging, but it is less risky than being caught by an unsupportive neighbor when replacing the lock. Communication with people on the same floor is particularly important. We have also found that many people share a sense of injustice about the fact that people are living on the street while apartments are empty.
  

• Take a look at the infrastructure of the property. How can the lock be changed and what effort and tools are required? Do you know someone who already has experience of changing locks and can help you? There are different ways to open doors: However, it takes some practice with lock-picking tools. There are also electric lock-picking tools that jiggle the pins of the lock into the correct position. However, this also requires a lot of practice. In principle, it is also possible to open the door with a crowbar and then change the lock. However, any damage to the door may have to be repaired afterwards. For us, drilling out is the most practical method, which is why we have described it in detail in the toolkit. If you use the toolkit as a guide: Find a lock with which you can practise undisturbed :)
  

• What condition is the apartment in? Is there water and electricity, maybe even a functioning heating system? Are there any other supportive neighbors who can help out with a cable reel and electricity? Hardware stores also sell electricity meters that can be switched in between. In this way, the costs for electricity can be borne in solidarity without individual neighbors having to pay more.
  

• Think about how the squatters can get through the front door. If it is not a security lock, you can ask neighbors in solidarity if you can copy their key.
  

• Think about how you and everyone else involved can leave as few traces as possible. Digital traces and fingerprints in particular pose a risk.
  

• Once the apartment has been opened and the lock has been changed, the future residents can move in. They may want help with this, and you may be able to organize furniture and household items.
  

• Consider how you can protect the occupation from being discovered. Think about how to deal well with security needs. A pre-arranged bell signal can be helpful so that the squatters quickly realize that it is not an uninvited visitor. If there is contact with the police, it should be a matter of course not to make any statements about other people involved. Discuss how you can deal with repression in a spirit of solidarity and respect the fact that different people's willingness to take risks can vary. In our experience, people who live on the street are confronted with various forms of repression on a daily basis. Possible proceedings for trespassing were often the least of the worries for the people we worked with.
  

• Consider how you want to act in the event of an eviction. In our experience, the squatters have had enough time to pack up their personal belongings in all cases known to us. This may also have to do with the fact that occupied apartments are legally protected differently to symbolic occupations, for example. However, this special protection is interpreted so differently in police practice that we do not want to make any general statements here, but only share our own experiences.
  

• It can also be useful to discuss perspectives that go beyond the occupation with those involved. These scenarios can also be characterized by very different needs.
  

Have fun and good luck!

The zine can be downloaded here as a PDF. (the zine is in german. may a benevolent comrade adapt it for the english-speaking audience.)

There are various explanatory videos on the Internet about the folding technique, e.g. here from 1:20 to 3:30: https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=nSg6MDKzJIY

https://de.indymedia.org/node/326834

response to attempts at badjacketing (sowing doubt & suspicion without evidence or political analysis): https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1734094319328628804.html links to interview translations into more than 10 languages: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/bXukGKl7ZbP2hEIsMALt8xfasPksxcWVtLFC+mY9uTU/ links above originally via https://linktr.ee/abolishtheusa this group is being condemned using standards that many white anarchists don't meet if you don't trust them just mind your business

– received anonymously

the following is a lightly edited transcript of the screenshots found in the submitted thread.

@/abolishtheusa on instagram addressing and debunking the fedjacketing of palestinian anarchist group fauda. don't do this shit without evidence, you're hurting people facing an active genocide.

Another response to the severe bad-jacketing of our Palestinian comrades in Fauda, this time by Russian anarchists in their viral article on avtonom.org.

Please share.

Here are some claims from the article about the Fauda spokesperson's video, translated into English from Russian.

“This is a non-native speaker who tried his best to imitate a Levantine accent (shamiy / شامي) while delivering written speech because he wanted people to believe that he was speaking from a Palestinian. This is 10,000% fake, even the phonetics of simple words are pronounced incorrectly, and it is obvious that it is not a Palestinian speaking. Also, some letters sound terrible when spoken.”

More quotes from the article:

“And the Arabic language is so bad that it is unlikely that this was a refugee, even one who left the country some time ago:”

“If you’re Palestinian, you get the vocabulary right, which isn’t really evident from the pronunciation. A much more plausible explanation is an attempts to portray a local person as a non-local. This person cannot pronounce the sound ح [h], no matter where it is in each word. And the fact that he pronounce it softer/harder is actually a decent clue to suggest that he never spoke Arabic as a first language.”

This is the latest video they are speaking of. First of all, this video, like all videos published by resistance groups in Palestine, is spoken in perfectly clear, well-pronounced Modern Standard Arabic, the letter ح (h) is said in the very first sentence 3 whole times with consistent and absolutely correct pronunciation.

So their “evidence” is actually very convincing to non-Arabs which is a problem… these are the same exact points Arabs made when the IOF tried spreading this video of the doctor actor who tried spreading this video of the doctor actor talking about hamas.

Palestine and (and the Levantine in general) have SO MANY different dialects and accents, there is no 1 Palestinian dialect.

For example Palestinians in Gaza speak a dialect very very close to Egyptian, while Palestinians in the inner occupied territories have their own dialect.

This is why official resistance announcements whether from Hamas or Fauda or whoever are always in official Arabic, so that everyone can understand.

Their next claim is,

“Recently, the alleged Palestinian anarchist organization Fauda (Chaos; the same name as the popular Netflix series) has gained popularity among Western leftists activists.”

Fauda has gained it’s largest solidarity and support for anarchists in Indonesia, Korea, Egypt, Morocco, Brazil, Turkey, India, Japan, and even some in Greece. Thanks to the incessant bad-jacketing, orientalism and racism of western anarchists, their support has been lesser here compared to other places.

Their next claim is

“No photographs from any protest in Palestine, even with masks or painted faces,

no leaflets pasted on the walls.”

Fauda began posting on Telegram in April 2021. Since then they have shared many photos over the years of their flyering. Here is just some.

Regarding not sharing photos of their faces even with masks on-

1. Even without that they are getting arrested, put on house arrest, and surveilled by both the PLO and the occupation in their homes and on the streets.
   

2. They never take their phones to any actions, protests, or meetings.
   

3. They do not take photos together, and they never store any photos of themselves on their phones.
   

Their next claim is

“Fauda (Chaos; the same name as the popular Netflix series)”

FAUDA فوضى means Anarchy in Arabic. It only translates into Chaos if you are using Google Translate, the same way most people outside the left think the word “anarchy” means chaos, of because this is how it is defined in the dictionary. Claiming they are fake because they chose the name of a netflix show is BEYOND disrespectful and disingenuous. How many television show have used the english word “Anarchy”? Would we call western anarchist fake because they use the word anarchy?????

I will not stop calling myself an anarchist or using the word anarchy for my organizations and activities because awful, mis-representstive (sic) mainstream TV shows with names like “The Anarchist” exist.

Their next claim is,

“A more plausible version of the Israeli comrades is that the “Fauda” label was invented by the Israeli intelligence services in order to “catch with live bait” – to monitor the moods of gullible Western and Russian-speaking leftists writing to Fauda's contacts and take them into account. (Fauda has a resource in Russian). A possible motive for the fraud is collecting money from Western leftists, as in the poster picture for the post.”

Regarding their “resource in Russian”

That was our interview translated into Russian by a great comrade into Russian and it will be shared here along with more internationally coordinated translation efforts amongst amazing comrades soon!

Fauda is not an IDF trap.

The comrade who originally did the It's Going Down interview that bad-jacketed Fauda is now interested in interviewing Fauda* after our direct, secure discussion about our vetting process of & relationship with Fauda.

Stop the speculation. Stop the bad-jacketing. Stop the racism.

Our Fauda comrades, in high school and college while their friends went off to join Hamas, bravely decided to try to build something different, based on a desire for a broad and religiously-inclusive movement, based on an analyses of what became of the once-revolutionary PLO, based on a desire for leaderlessness and nonhierarchy, and based on inspiration from Black anarchists in the US during the Floyd rebellion.

Regarding our comrades being a money-laundering scheme:

If you read interviews with Fauda, and in our direct relationships with them, they repeatedly state that their BIGGEST ask and MOST important ask is to share news from Palestine, voices of Palestinians, and to counter western propaganda.

Anything beyond that, they can take it or leave it.

If you actually got to know our comrades instead of accusing them of being fake, you'd know:

• they are dealing with severe violence and repression & have intentional security culture norms
  

• they have really meaningful, deep, and persuasive analyses and stories to share about why anarchism is helpful for them as a political tradition within the context of Palestinian resistance alongside the religious, hierarchical, capitalist, and marxist groups of the Moqawama.
  

• they are loving, generous, traumatized, paranoid, funny, grieving, brilliant, deeply thoughtful, and great people in Palestine, with often awful internet connection, but connection sometimes good enough for very long, in-depth live talks.
  

• You'd know they have limited capacity and extreme amounts of stress
  

They are in the process of trying to publish interviews and media with several major anarchist media outlets and podcasts, but that it's very slow-going because of the repression, bad internet connection, and burn out they are facing.

Who needs Russians and Americans bad jacketing Fauda when BIPOC global majority anarchists are standing with them, anyways?

in addition to the above, @/abolishtheusa had also published previous post that are transcripted here as well from screenshots found here and here

Rather than bringing drama to the internet where we are all anonymous, I am instead addressing it directly with Scott*, with the support of so many amazing Black, Brown, Indigenous, and international comrades who also have deep relationships with and love for our Fauda comrades, as well as with the support of my anarchist mentors & comrades with other large, respected anarchist media outlets.

As someone who has cultivated a deep relationship with Fauda comrades, I barely have the emotional strength to address the reactive, un-investigated, unsubstantiated bad-jacketing of Fauda on the latest It's Going Down episode.

Yes, Fauda has been properly vetted and vouched for. Yes, they do have relationships with the ISM. Yes, we have comrades who have IRL relationships with Fauda. Yes, it is acceptable for people on the ground in Palestine to ask for donations of e-SIMS and money to buy supplies without having to go through massive nonprofits.

And no, support for Fauda isn't just a bunch of white westerners donating money and wiping their hands clean. Anarchists all over Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, outside of the fucking so-called usa are showing up hard for Fauda. Anarchists in support of Fauda are also on the frontlines of automous direct actions, blockades, and protests.

And a final note on our Fauda comrades, no, they don't have “broken arabic.” Most of them only speak Ameyeh, or the Palestinian spoken dialect of Arabic. One of them has broken English.

Vetting and vouching are skills all wise anarchists must cultivate. Bad- jacketing has detrimental consequences. It is important to share our concerns, critiques, and reactions and not silence ourselves, ever, but it is wise to balance that with clear framing of when things are opinions, strong opinions, facts, when things have been confirmed or not. As a journalistic account, I value these things deeply.

A month and a half ago I shared many of the concerns and bad-jacketing themes with Fauda comrades, and while they wanted to address it publicly, they ultimately realized they didn't have enough fucking time amidst war conditions to assure English speakers of their legitimacy. They repeated so much, “Palestine has always been alone and forgotten, this isn't new to us.” Maybe they will address it someday, but for now I am praying each night for their safety, and emotionally and materially supporting them along with comrades internationally.

*: I had received this submission on the 16th of December and first reached out to Scott that very day stating my desire to verify the accuracy of an information, the ones herein annotated. Perhaps recklessly impatient for his response, I decided to publish this article on the 20th then received answers to my questions on the 23rd.

So, Scott clarified that he is “not particularly interested in interviewing [Fauda]” and “not actively pursuing such an interview” but “not opposed to doing one either.” While he did not object to this article, he has however voiced his displeasure at the out-of-context publication by abolishtheusa of what he considered private conversation to both me and them.

We both decided that I would edit the article with a summary of our exchange, which has been collaboratively reviewed with Scott before publication.

Whether or not you consider Fauda as legitimate, the Palestinian genocide must be of the utmost concern. Furthermore, do keep in mind that this edit does not in any way invalidate the critique for badjacketing.

– please feel free

Slave labour. That’s what the imprisoned call the forced work we’re compelled to perform whilst locked up. Imagine the situation where conditions are so bad and the 23 hour lock-up so arduous that you would welcome the chance to get out of your cell to perform some meaningless task just for the brief opportunity it gives you to socialise. Prison workers are prohibited from joining a union, going on strike or organising their workplaces. They face penalties, prosecution, segregation units and/or time added to their sentences. £1.50 per shift is the average wage, but is reported to be lower in some prisons. The most basic factory line assembly work is usually the only labour available and despite the political propaganda about “rehabilitation” there is very little vocational training and education here.

Private companies can make much more from the forced labour of prisoners and this undercuts the value of workers outside. Prison labour is a predatory practice, highly cynical and a direct attack against workers self-management. Any movement that seeks the destruction of capitalism must make prison labour a significant type of their activism. The surest way to do this is to begin in the private companies which are making profits off the exploitation of prisoners. The secondary target is the state itself and its prisons, which are already hardened against the pressure of the social struggle.

Prisoners are experts in the subversion of their workplaces and are waiting for those outside to join them. By improvement of prisoners’ working conditions and pay, those outside will see their struggle see immediate gains. Although this is merely an intermediate struggle it is highly critical as it hits key faultlines of the prison-industrial complex.

Long live Anarchy!

Toby Shone 17th November 2023 HMP Garth

Information about Toby’s case can be found here:

https://www.brightonabc.org.uk/news.html#56a

You can write to Toby at:

Toby Shone A7645EP HMP Garth Ulnes Walton Leyland Preston PR26 8NE

and you can donate to Toby here:

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https://abcireland.wordpress.com/2023/12/17/for-a-campaign-against-prison-slavery/

This week several pages linked to the municipality of Penco and Lirquén strongly viralized the damage caused by fire to the letters that welcome the city, letters that are also located in front of the place where the lifeless body of Rennatta fell rolling, possibly due to ground movements caused by the rains, what is certain is that it turned up not because of the institutional search, but by the action of nature.

The disgust of “media” such as “penconoticia” and also of “ciudadanxs” for the damage to the letters that announce Lirquén, contrasts with the reaction generated by the femicide murder of Rennatta Rozas, which seems not to move these people in the same way, who regret an immaterial structure, but do not empathize or perceive the pain of Rennatta's environment, whose body is still kept in the Forensic Medical Service after 7 months of its discovery, without burial, without culprits and as usual without any kind of institutional justice.

Precisely the action was anonymously claimed in memory of Rennatta, through a statement that describes the nefarious judicial process and the mockery that justice is for the victims of femicide and their families.

We send a big hug to those who keep Rennatta's fire alive, to her family, to her friends and we support any action that vindicates and avenges her.

Below we share the claim of the action sent to [email protected]

ACTION FOR RENNATTA

We call to make visible and mobilize for Rennatta Rozas Sáez, who was last seen on May 6, 2023 in the viewpoint of Lirquén and appeared days later in the same place brutally murdered.

We repudiate the complicit and negligent actions of the Chilean justice system and its institutions, who did not look for her and to this day have hindered without making any progress in the investigation, leaving her murder in total impunity.

We know once again that nothing will be done for Rennatta, because justice has always been on the side of the rich and those who kill you for being a woman, for being poor, for being black, for defending the land or for being different.

For that reason, to maintain the active memory and to end this oppressive system is in our hands. We will not rest until the executors and accomplices of Rennatta's murder burn.

We call for insurrection, and for VENGEANCE.

https://lazarzamora.cl/?p=11860

On Dec. 11 the 2nd Street entrance to Bank of New York Mellon's (BNY Mellon) offices was turned into an art piece highlighting their support of the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This was done in solidarity with the ongoing resistance to the Israeli occupation, and to help mark the General Strike called for by Palestinians in response to the U.S. vetoing the U.N. security council resolution to stop the war on Gaza.

BNY Mellon is an American bank that supports the Israeli & U.S. led genocide in Palestine in two major ways: 1) They are a primary funder of Elbit Systems*, the largest weapons manufacturer for Israel; 2) they help facilitate U.S. money transfers in support of the IDF through a charitable gift fund titled “Friends of the IDF** Donor Advised Fund.” BNY Mellon is on the 24th floor of the building that is host to many other offices. The building occupants should know what their neighbors are doing – they should know about BNY Mellon's complicity in the murder of Palestinian people.

Numerous international companies have divested from Elbit stock noting their contribution to violations of international humanitarian law. In contrast, over the last few years BNY Mellon has continued to increase their holdings (including since October 7th) to a total of 68,000 shares valued at $13 million. This is direct profiteering from genocide.

This is a call to target all institutions that are implicated in and/or profiting from the murder of children and the ongoing colonization. These offices and the individuals who run them*** are already drenched with the blood of Palestinians – make it visible. Hold demonstrations, marches, vigils, and clandestine visits until the demands for their divestment from Elbit Systems and the permanent removal of the “Friends of the IDF Donor Advised Fund” from their services are met.

This was done in solidarity with the more than 18,000 Gazan's murdered since Oct. 7th, and all Palestinians resisting Israeli oppression.

This was done in solidarity with the thousands of Armenians from Artsakh that have been murdered and displaced from their homeland by the Azerbaijani regime in 2023 and before.

This was done in solidarity with all who have taken action to disrupt BNY Mellon, Elbit and it's subsidiaries, and any genocide profiteers around the world.

GLORY TO THE MARTYRS

LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

*Elbit systems is an Israeli-based military technology company that is the primary provider of Israel's land-based equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's), amounting to 85% of the equipment used by the IDF and Israeli Air Force. There is also clear evidence linking Elbit's technologies to war crimes committed by other colonial and oppressive regimes including Azerbaijan's ethnic cleansing of Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

While there are many weapons manufacturers involved in the Palestinian genocide, Elbit is a uniquely grotesque enabler of violence. Of particular note is their eagerness to live-test new weapons technologies on Palestinian people as a mode of advertising their weapons of horror to other apartheid regimes including India, Azerbaijan, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Iceland, the E.U., Mexico, Switzerland and Thailand (on October 22nd, 2023 the Israeli army released footage of a newly piloted precision-guided 120mm mortar bomb called the “Iron Sting” being tested against Palestinians).

There has been a recent surge in efforts to hold Elbit accountable for their crimes against humanity. Direct actions taken by individuals and groups across the U.K. and U.S. have included the occupation of factories and offices, direct dismantling of the weapons during production, and the targeting of subsidiaries, funders, and any other companies that enable their work. These efforts are noble and inspiring, recently leading to Elbit's U.K. branch's sole recruitment company – iO Associates – ending it's association with the company.

**The Friends of the IDF is a non-profit, fundraising arm of the Israeli Occupational Force. Their mission is to raise extra funds from private donors in the US in support of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians. In other words, they facilitate zionists in the US investing personally in the weapons and personnel that are murdering Palestinian people and stealing Palestinian land. People from the Bay Area may remember the November 5th “Friends of the IDF Gala” that was hosted by this organization in San Carlos and protested by community members – BNY Mellon is one of a small number of U.S. banks that advertises services to facilitate the transfer of the funds raised at that gala to Israel.

***Christopher Brown is the Northern California branch market president :)

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/11/18861048.php

Mission: “Inside the reservoirs: THE BEACH”

As part of the International Days of Action against concrete initiated by Soulèvements de la Terre, we decided to target the regional leader behind a large number of concrete-mixing constructions: E. Bühler & Fils in Marin-Epagnier (Neuchâtel, Switzerland). Their huge gravel pit, controlled by Lafarge-Holcim, processes and prepares the main component of concrete: aggregate. By paralyzing the tools that feed the first link in the chain of artificialization, we hope to have a knock-on effect on the rest of the process.

For this occasion, and in view of the situation, we thought it more appropriate to opt for a direct, discreet, targeted disarmament action, rather than a harmless symbolic one. We therefore performed a small night-time service for the many machines on site, offering them a little fine abrasive in their oil and fuel tanks. We also used customized grease guns with ¼ of abrasive to give a little push to various critical lubrication points. This little escapade was carried out a few days before the Days of Action, in order to let the substances flourish as much as possible in the engine blocks and joints of these big monsters. We were delighted to be able to carry out this defensive gesture, knowing that these machines are the weapons of the destroyers with which they attack the very possibility of life on earth every day. It's time for activists who feel ready to get organized and start striking back. Any machinery and infrastructure that in any way transforms natural ecosystems into dead products deserves to be put out of business. May darkness become our accomplice in our future struggles!

And about the “small” family business E. Bühler & Fils, we learned that it has grown considerably over more than a century and a half. So much so, in fact, that it now occupies an important place in the French-speaking part of Switzerland: important enough to have made the giant Lafarge-Holcim want to buy them. The local business consists of emptying Lake Neuchâtel of its sand and gravel, then artificializing the land with shitty buildings and roads. Lafarge-Holcim remains the country's most polluting company. We've lost count of the scandals these climate criminals have dragged behind their dirty paws. We're thinking in particular of the financing of Daech and the various cases of water pollution and public health problems. Their business is killing us, and our leaders let them continue with impunity. Lafarge-Holcim is, at this very moment, cutting down the forest on the Mormont hill (1312 Eclépens, Switzerland) to expand its quarry. Holcim(-etery) disgusts us!

With this gesture, we'd like to show our support for all comrades in Switzerland, France, Greece and elsewhere in the world, who are resisting in the face of climate criminals. And, of course, we're sending our love to all the victims of the judicial repression of the Bouc-Bel-Air action, to Jérémy and to all the others who are suffering the judicial and physical violence of complicit states.

By the Flip-Flop Gang

P.S.:

For a treat: the blog for the days of action against Lafarge-Holcim and the world of concrete: https://journeescontrelebeton.noblogs.org/

And for inspiration elsewhere: SansNom's blog: https://sansnom.noblogs.org/ and https://attaque.noblogs.org/

source: https://renverse.co/infos-locales/article/plage-et-sabotage-contre-lafarge-holcim-a-marin-epagnier-neuchatel-4277

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The following are excerpts from this article.

According to reports by the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights (Cild), the possibility that someone can make huge profits on the deprivation of personal liberty is one of the most controversial aspects of this form of detention without a crime and marks a further character of exceptionalism, as denounced by Cild in a report with the eloquent title “The CPR [Centri di Permanenza per i Rimpatri, or Centers of Detention for Repatriation] Affair. Profit on the skin of migrant people.” The Coalition's dossier describes the transition from public to private management of the centers and reconstructs in detail the activities of the multinationals Gepsa and Ors, the company Engel s.r.l. and the Cooperatives Edeco-Ekene and Badia Grande that have contributed in recent years to making the history of administrative detention in Italy. A history marked by continuous violations of the rights of detained persons and economic interests that also worry Ilaria Cucchi, and have also triggered a conflict of powers between the Catania judiciary, which has rejected 10 approvals for detentions of migrants, and the Ministry of the Interior, with the side dish of controversy that has affected the judge Iolanda Apostolico. “There are people speculating on the skin of these people and not just any people. We are talking about lobbies represented in Parliament. All this is happening in general indifference and under the eyes of the various governments of the left and right, which have come and gone over the years,” says Senator Cucchi. The reference is to the Ors Ag Group, headquartered in Zurich and active for more than 30 years throughout Europe. On the repressive methods adopted in some Swiss and Austrian centers under the responsibility of the multinational (which currently runs the Ponte Galeria Cpr, photo below), there are journalistic investigations and reports by Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders. The agreement between the Swiss multinational and Telos dates back to a 2020 document signed by Lutz Hahn, director of communications at Ors Ag Management, in which the lobby is delegated to organize meetings with institutional representatives. Nothing illegal, but it is interesting to note that Ors is the only one among the cooperatives and companies that have managed or run a CPR to have consultants representing it in the House of Representatives. “This is a situation that no one is talking about because obviously the political responsibilities lie with everyone,” says the senator. “The concept is very simple: the more migrants there are, the more money is made on them. This is the real business, and now it is happening under the eyes of the unconstitutional Melonian right wing, which has made it the subject of its perpetual election campaign. The management of these centers is far from transparent.” And according to Ilaria Cucchi, the thread that links events like her brother to those of people imprisoned in the CPRs is “state violence against those who cannot defend themselves.”

But despite the fact that the system has proven not to work, concentration camps for migrants are increasingly being foraged. To increase business and reduce costs, larger and larger private actors have taken over. From 1998 to the present, we have seen the strengthening of administrative detention and an evolution in management, which has become private because it is less expensive (low bidding and precarious services). The idea comes from the fascist and other authoritarian regimes, whereby a person can be deprived of personal freedom, the most important good after life, for administrative and logistical reasons. With the shift to private entities (first cooperatives, then corporations and now multinationals), the critical issues within CPRs have increased, bringing with it the risks of (nonprofit) for-profit management of de facto detention facilities. Bids are awarded by public entities through calls that include among the selection criteria “the most economically downward – advantageous bid,” as required by the 2016 Procurement Code.

Many former employees denounce the massive use of psychotropic drugs to stun and tranquilize people. The progressive minimization of costs has not only contributed to increasingly degrading treatment for detained migrants, but has also created fertile ground for the landing of multinationals in the administrative detention sector, which began in 2014 with the French company Gepsa, which had come to manage 3 CPRs. Today this trend is represented by the Swiss company Ors, former manager of the center in Macomer, Sardinia, and today of those in Rome and Turin until its closure. Since 2022, Ors has been owned by an even larger giant, Serco, which has made detention one of its most flourishing businesses. The British company has ended up at the center of a number of investigations, such as the one into the alleged sexual abuse of migrant women at Yarl's Wood or the violence that took place at the Christmas Island center in Australia, where it has a monopoly on migrant detention facilities. In the same country it is also in charge of a number of prisons, where Serco has been criticized in the past for both security management and the living conditions of detainees. The study on the feasibility of privatizing prisons in Italy began as early as 2013, when some executives from the Department of Prison Administration traveled to France to learn more about the public-private partnership system.

All governments, self-styled liberators, promised to dismantle the fortresses erected by tyranny to keep the people in awe; but, once they took office, far from dismantling them, they fortified them even better, in order to continue to use them against the people. Carlo Cafiero

Solidarity with all anarchists/who are unjustly arrested for their dreams of Freedom and Social Justice.

Grassroots against the powerful

ricercatori senza padroni (Anarchist Individualities)

During the night of November 19th to 20th, we attacked the power supply to two production sites of the Aubert et Duval group:

• At Firminy, we sawed through a pylon on the 220kV line supplying the site. It only partially fell.
  

• In Ancizes-Comps, we also set fire to a 220kV line, at the point where the high-voltage cables went underground. We were able to get close and place our devices at the foot of the ducts, without danger.
  

Aubert et Duval is a key player in the French military industry. It supplies parts for Naval Group submarines, Dassault Rafales and Framatom nuclear power plants.

Our action resonates with the international call for a week of action against all wars, from November 17 to 25, 2023, published in early November (careful, it's a bit late...) on Iaata.info. We welcome this kind of initiative, and in turn call for an attack on the military industry everywhere and at all times.

What's certain is that we've achieved our goal of hitting the military industry. While we don't have the means to know exactly how much damage we've caused, we do know that these industries know they're being targeted, and that their weak points are highlighted by our actions.

“[On the home front], ordinary factories”

As the tag left on the site of an aeronautics factory burnt down in March 2023 in Beauchastel so aptly put it, that the war which we're told about all day long must end and which is unjust, starts here – and is made possible by seemingly innocuous enterprises.

It's no secret that global conflicts are escalating in intensity. For almost two months, bombs have been falling on the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at an unprecedented rate, and with widespread political, military and financial support from the United States and most Western countries. The same people who are calling for a truce, respect for civilians and International Law, are producing the bombs that are massacring people in a way they claim to condemn, there or elsewhere, since several billion people live in war zones, with all the horrors that this engenders and that we know about: rape, torture, forced displacement, etc. This hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren't so macabre.

In concrete terms, these wars are the result of a military-industrial complex, with its factories, laboratories and technicians. In France, the eight major military industrial groups – Airbus, Arquus, Dassault, MBDA, Naval group, Nextor, Safran and Thales – are celebrating record sales. Some 4,000 companies work for the defense industry, with the active, ongoing support of the state, which has earmarked a budget of 417 billion euros to increase its killing power and export its arsenal worldwide. Machines of death that are used directly for massacres, such as the Dassault fighter jets or the Nexter tanks and guns used by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in Yemen.

We don't want to remain indifferent to this. We also want to send a message to the workers in these industries. Let our actions deprive them of their work for a while, and make them face up to their responsibilities. We also hope that these acts, and the words we put on them, will help to raise the profile of these most discreet factories of death.

Our thoughts go to those who fight for their freedom, to those who face repression.

Let's attack everywhere!

https://nantes.indymedia.org/posts/105271/double-attaque-contre-lacierie-aubert-et-duval-fournisseur-des-industries-de-la-guerre/

This action was taken in response to a larger call coming out of the Bay Area to protest against the continued bombing of Gaza and the violation of the Ceasefire by Israel.

On the morning of December 2nd at 5:00am we sabotaged various strategically located train lines in Northern California: in Pittsburgh, Oakland, Niles, Bahia, and Lodi. We used a tactic shared by natives and accomplices of the Wet'Suwet'en tribe in so called Canada. We took large gauge copper wire and wrapped it around both rails of the same train track. Doing this completed the low voltage current running thru the rails notifying the train operator that the track is occupied and cannot be used until the obstruction is found and removed. This method for stopping train traffic yields the lowest possibility for derailment, and thus the least likely to cause harm to human or animal life. We did this in solidarity with the ongoing resistance to genocide being waged against Palestinians by the so called state of Israel.

As anarchists we refuse to beg the masters of war for a ceasefire. We took it upon ourselves to sabotage the ability of so called Israel to commit genocide, by sabotaging the flow of capital in the US, and thus the machinery for war abroad. We know that the refined oil, the modems,computer parts, semi conductors, and all other commodities traveling out of California along Union Pacific and BNSF train lines everyday for export around the world, facilitates the massacre of Palestinians. The so called state of Israel necessitates the smooth flow of US tax dollars and direct material support of all kinds to carry out a genocide of this scale. Every shipyard, train line, warehouse, and trucking facility needs to operate efficiently for the death machine to be seamless.

The genocide happening in Gaza is part of a much larger project serving the West's deteriorating hegemonic rule over international trade. The blockage of the Suez Canal for six days in March of 2021 highlighted how precarious this trade infrastructure is. It also revealed how politically dangerous it is for the US, due to Egypt's alliance with Russia, to control such a linchpin in the global economy.

Biden and Netanyahu seek to bypass the Suez Canal by constructing their own ship route across occupied Palestine. The Ben Gurion canal project, as it is called, named after the founder of Israel, seeks to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba, with it's northern port of entry in Gaza. Palestinian liberation stands alone as an obstacle against this furthering of western hegemony. We refuse to be complicit in forcing Palestinian people to pay the ultimate price for imperialist greed.

In targeting the infrastructure of global trade we recognize the implications on this genocide. As insurgents in the heart of empire we have an essential role to play. We have access to the inner workings of the war machine, and we are uniquely placed to clog it's arteries. The flow of global capital is incredibly fragile-all it takes is creativity and a willingness to act. We encourage others to sabotage the logistics infrastructure of capital as a means of disrupting business as usual. Bring the war home!

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/12/02/18860816.php

#ShutItDown4Palestine