Category: Communique

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Communique from some Texas State “Vandals”

An anonymous transmission

To our fellow San Martians,

We typically prefer that actions speak for themselves, but perhaps a few words are due. In the face of renewed genocide and mass deportations, all that is left is what must be done. Taking up the task of disruption, sabotage, and attack is not something we do lightly. The people of Gaza have repeatedly called for mass student escalation. We’ve witnessed targeted deportations of politicized students, workers, and teachers with legal status; a wave of student protests repressed and occupations torn down, and paltry concessions rescinded by university admin.

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Depose Doge: a reportback from SmashX25 weekend two

An anonymous transmission

The sun was setting on the hottest March 14th yet in Austin, TX. Tesla representatives and a live Doge assembled in the Red River entertainment district to peddle their wares: efficiency worksheets and semen samples from the Big Boss himself. Passersby were offered the chance to charge their Tesla Trucks for free on the city’s dime, though relatively few took up the loose electrical wire.

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Dancing in the Streets: Reflections from Rundberg (2025)

An Anonymous transmission, with An editorial note from Austin Autonomedia:
In February 2017, a spontaneous protest in response to ICE raids under a Trump presidency evolved into a party/riot that took over the intersection at Rundberg and Lamar. In 2017, anarchists and revolutionaries participated and reflected on this experience.
In February 2025, a protest against ICE raids under a Trump presidency on Rundberg announced via TikTok evolved into a party/riot/sideshow that took over the intersection and Rundberg and Rutland. In 2025, anarchists and revolutionaries again participated in, and are now reflecting on this experience.
In this transmission, we see another round of reflections on an anti-ICE rebellion on Rundberg, which builds upon our previous collection of reflections on the 2017 Rundberg Rebellion. We encourage these reflections to be read together to draw out the similarities between the moments we find ourselves in, and their differences. It is rare that we get to reflect on, compare, and contrast such similar conditions and truly consider, and actualize, what we might do differently. Some of the similarities are obvious–the location, the ways people slowly progressed from a sign-holding rally to a party that overtook the intersection itself. We might imagine that the location was not accidental, but that the memory of the 2017 revolt lives on and so drew people back to this intersection.
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Flyer fun for SmashX25

Flier fun in downtown Austin! Satirical flier calling out Mayor Kirk Watson for his corruption, and a flier calling Musk a UGLY ASS NAZI LOSER

Many fliers also seen for this app to invest with billionaires and war profiteers

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Luigi Rally, Austin TX

an anonymous transmission

On December 21st, 6 Luigi’s took a couple banners to the Lamar pedestrian bridge in downtown Austin, and danced to the Mario theme song. Pedestrians, cheered, wrote letters to Luigi, and even took photos with the banners. Letters ranged from heart wrenching stories about family members being denied healthcare to love letters.  Flyers calling out Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest health insurance company in Texas, were handed out. They read:

“On December 4th, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down. The bullet casings immediately explained the situation: this was an act of vengeance against UnitedHealthcare, who denies over 30% of health insurance claims.

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Flood the Tech Core: A New Front Opens in Austin’s Movement for Palestine

An anonymous transmission

On 10/7, the anniversary of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by the unified Palestinian resistance factions, a group of 30 people demonstrated at the BAE facility in Austin. The BAE office sits in a corporate park that also houses General Motors, 3M, Qualcomm, Infosys, Apple, and other tech companies. This corporate park was labelled the “Core of Genocide in Austin” as indicated by a banner at the demo.

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Jay Hartzell Home Vandalized on Graduation Day

A grey garage with a white garage door. Three painters in grey shirts and jeans stand in front of it. A message written in red paint is barely visible through the new paint on top.

An Anonymous Transmission

This morning we received several reports that Jay Hartzell awoke to find ‘No confidence’ tagged across the front of his garage. As Jay Hartzell and his weird overlords continue their futile attempts to repress the movement we applaud this brave, logical, and hilarious direct action. Happy graduation day, Jay.

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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

Report-back anonymously submitted

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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