Imagine a Free Palestine: A Thought Experiment About A Saturday March

a picture of a crowd of pro-palestine protesters marching in the street down congress avenue. An instagram caption reads "we took the streets" with a palestinian flag next to it

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Imagine that you have witnessed four months of unrelenting genocide.
Imagine that the government you live under and pay taxes to is sponsoring and encouraging that genocide.

Imagine that all over the country, for four months, people have been engaging in brave protest and resistance to that genocide—blocking bridges, freeways, train stations; disrupting meetings and political rallies of genocidaires; vandalizing the businesses of profiteers; getting arrested by the score; literally setting themselves on fire to make their protest seen, heard, and viscerally felt.

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10th Annual NYE Noise Demo

a blurry photo of a crowd with fireworks and in black masks

Anonymous Transmission

On New Year’s Eve, a few dozen revellers gathered to ring in the New Year in solidarity with those imprisoned at the Travis County Jail. This iteration of the annual NYE demo, which aims to show support to the people inside and antagonism to the jailers, has been running for 10 years. This year, the crowd marched with drums, puts, pans, and fireworks, all set to sick techno beats from a mobile speaker system. At the end of the demo, to celebrate the 10 years, a special gift was left for the jailers: bags of ballpit balls covered in slime.

Solidarity as well to those who staged a disruption at the NYE fireworks show at Auditorium Shores in solidarity with the struggle in Palestine.

Fire to the Prisons, Freedom to the Prisoners!

Long Live the Intifada!

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Pressure Points for Palestine Solidarity in Austin, Texas

Picture of text that reads: "Providing justifications and excuses to lower the level of revolutionary and solidarity action to symbolic and formal levels is a stab in the back of Palestine and its people, and will comfort the aggression alliance to give it space to continue crimes against our people. The Front reaffirms its previous call for a mass flood towards the embassies, interests, and bases of the aggression forces and a greater role for solidarity parties and forces in escalating the struggle against the alliance of enemies worldwide.”

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal

Grassroots support for Palestinians is at an all-time high despite Western politicians’ and war profiteers’ attempts to weaponize Jewish identity against them, outlaw and repress solidarity protests, and rally around Israel’s “right to defend itself.” But to stop the genocide in Gaza, activists in the United States will have to move from demanding a ceasefire to imposing one. This will require a shift from demands that appeal to the consciences of elected officials to tactics that create a political crisis for politicians and disrupt corporations’ ability to profit from the oppression and genocide of Palestinian people–Fayer Collective, “Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity: Expanding the Toolkit

Below is a brief opening to a conversation about how to advance the current Palestinian solidarity efforts in Austin beyond the marches, which currently remain contained to a framework of demand-making and limited to marching downtown.  Below is a list of different institutions that form components of the US & Israeli war machines, which may be sites of action. We hope this information inspires people, whether in small crews taking action together, or larger autonomous groups looking to act during the marches downtown. Images for conversion into flyers at the end.

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Reportback from #StopCopCity Solidarity Demo in ATX

A picture of 3 banners in front of an office building. The first one on the left reads "We'll Flex on Pavetex" with a drawing of a masked person flexing their arm. The second reads "Drop the Contract Atlas" the third reads "Fuck you Lonnie, Atlas sucks"

Anonymous Transmission

Greetings from central Texas. This Thursday a few forest freaks made their way over to the Atlas headquarters for a noise demo. Atlas is a billion dollar company whose subsidiary Long engineering has been building cop city. We came with noise makers and banners expressing our affection for Atlas CEO Lonnie Joe Boyer and their other subsidiary Pavetex. A heavy police presence was waiting: a few thugs on the ground, some more thugs on the parking garage, and they even brought a drone out. It looks some people over at Atlas might be getting a little nervous. We also noticed that Atlas took their company name off the office sign, comical, frankly.

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Zine: They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas

Anonymous Transmission

This zine, “They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas,” lays out a brief summary of the stakes of the fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, and discusses local actors involved in the construction of the project (such as Atlas Technical Consultants). This anonymously published zine has recently been in circulation at solidarity events and in activist circles in Austin, and we are republishing it now for broader accessibility and circulation. There are two copies imposed for printing, one in black & white and the other in color. There is also a digital reading imposed PDF.

For more information on how to plug in with Atlanta Forest solidarity events, go HERE

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Phone Blast: ATX to ATL Stop Cop City Solidarity Action

Black text on a red background reading #StopCopCityAnonymous transmission

Cop City Contractors ATLAS Technical Consultants have their national headquarters in Austin. Local activist and mutual aid groups have called for a city and nation-wide call-in action tomorrow, Wednesday January 25th, to demand that ATLAS drop their contract with the project. The ‘Stop Cop City’ movement in Atlanta is gaining more and more national attention in in the wake of the police murder of a forest defender. With public attention at an all time high, pressure campaigns stand to be a particularly effective tactic to avenge Tortuguita’s death by ensuring that Cop City will never be built!

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Bodily Autonomy In The Streets

Anonymously published flyer circulated, in Austin and elsewhere, in May/June 2022 during the protests surrounding the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Published here for archiving, and easy future access and distribution.

Bodily autonomy is not just about abortion. It also includes things like expressing your chosen gender identity however you want, being free from non-consensual touching or sexual remarks, and deciding how to use your body at a protest.

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“How Far We’ve Come”: Austin in the Streets Against Attacks on Abortion Access

Anonymous transmission originally published on It’s Going Down. We have swapped out some of the media at the end of the article.

The memory of 2020 is still around and led to a pretty inspiring demo in Austin, TX. Crowds protesting the ascendance of patriarchal state denials of abortion access, have shown their boldness, and openness to creativity and confrontation. If the movement can produce new targets, confront the police, and disrupt the infrastructure of the anti-abortion movement, they may produce a crisis to which the State has to respond.

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You’re My Butt Hole: The Vandal-Artiste Speaks & A Brief History of Mural Defacement

 

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal

In the early days of January, Austin’s “You’re My Butter Half” mural was modified to read “You’re My Butt Hole.” A picture of the vandalism was posted to reddit, where the original artist responded positively. Under his post, a user with the name “YouAreMyButthole” responded, claiming to be the vandal-artiste, and offering some commentary on their work. We’ve republished both statements here, and follow up with some commentary on the recent history & implications of mural defacement in Austin.

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