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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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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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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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“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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Graffiti in Solidarity with Palestine

Two grey electrical boxes on the side of a street are decorated with a message in green spray paint. The box on the left reads "Viva Palestina" while the box on the right reads "No $ 4 Israeli Bombs"

Spotted in South Austin, according to an anonymous transmission

 

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Resist Line 3: Solidarity Statement from Austin, TX

A banner on white cloth is being held in front of a Chase Bank building. The banner is held above a sign reading "JP Morgan Chase & Co," and to the back on the right is an entrance to the building with the Chase Logo. The banner reads: All Pipelines Have a Body Count. Defund Line 3. Blood On Your Hands.

An Anonymous Transmission

On June 8th, as 2000+ people converge at the Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota to escalate the resistance against the Line 3 pipeline, a group of activists in Austin, TX demonstrated our solidarity with water protectors up north. Early in the morning, we dropped a banner reading “Stop Line 3: Honor the Treaties” from a bridge above a busy stretch of Interstate 35. We raised another banner declaring, “All Pipelines Have A Body Count – Blood On Your Hands: Defund Line 3” at a downtown office of JP Morgan Chase, a primary funder of the pipeline. Continue reading “Resist Line 3: Solidarity Statement from Austin, TX”

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The Rundberg Rebellion: A Retrospective

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal

Revolt, of the sort that exceeds the form of permitted street marches and sign-waving rallies, has rarely manifested in Austin’s streets. As such, its occurrences–such as the wave of activity that came with the George Floyd rebellion–deserves attention and uplifting in our historical memory. Four years ago, at the beginning of the Trump’s term, one such revolt manifested in the Rundberg area in North Austin.

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