Category: General

For submissions that don’t really have a clear category. Particularly useful for random musings, scribbles, or other submissions that don’t neatly fall into a category we have or can think of.

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On the reappearance of local snitch Jesus Mares

An anonymous transmission

Picture of Jesus from 2010

Historical memory is often short on the left, but collective knowledge of the past is vitally important when it comes to  histories of repression and those who collaborate with the State against other factions of a movement–snitches.

In recent months, some comrades have noticed the reappearance of Jesus Mares in cultural and activist spaces around Austin. This was a shock to those of us who have not seen Jesus in the 7 years since he disappeared from movement spaces after collaborating with the State. In good faith, we presume that the people inviting or hosting him in these spaces are unaware of his history of snitching. Some of us who remember have collaborated to document and share this history, so that our movements may act with better information to insulate our spaces from the risks that Jesus’s presence poses. 

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Make the University An Anti-Colonial Commons: A Statement To Our Past Selves from the Liberated Zone at UT Austin, 05/01/2024

An Anonymous Transmission From The Future

Today is May Day, and we have celebrated an entire week of our growing presence and resistance. On May Day, we honor the spirits of all revolutionary martyrs through struggle. We have celebrated today with a brilliant noise demonstration, breaking the University’s sonic stranglehold. Some friends have taken over the radio station and begun broadcasting messages of resistance from the camp and the Palestinian resistance. Every night we listen to the daily updates from Palestine and other liberated campuses, celebrating the many victories over occupying police & soldiers, learning from the tactics deployed & practicing them, and evaluating the obstacles & limitations we still have to overcome.

In the past week, we have grown so much. We are smarter, fiercer, and more capable than we ever could have imagined ourselves before last week. The University’s rules mean nothing to us, and the police can’t stop us, because there are so many of us here and we are so prepared that they are helpless.

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Announcing the Austin Autonomedia Mailing List

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal

Over the last few years our reach has unfortunately been diminished. The security & privacy risks of social media platforms, and their hostility towards projects like ours, has led us to abandon or be unable to access our former Facebook & Twitter accounts, and our reach on Mastodon only goes so far into the small anarchist galaxy. Most of our traffic has likely been from other sites re-posting & linking to content, or people in the local anarchist milieu sharing publications.

In order to expand our reach, we’ve launched a new mailing list! This mailing list will be a medium for communicating updates & new releases from the site to followers beyond the traps of social media. We highly encourage you to subscribe: https://noise.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/atxautonomedia

The mailing list is provided & managed through autistici, an anarchistic, privacy & security oriented tech services provider which also maintains the infrastructure for noblogs (the site we are on)

Got a something you need to publish? Send it to us! We take all kinds of radical/revolutionary content, with a special affinity for anarchist/autonomous movements and crews. We specialize in research and strategic intelligence that can inform direct action, but we’ll take art, opinion pieces, and other stuff too! Submit content to austinautonomedia [@] autistici [dot] org. You can also subscribe to our mailing list to get direct updates about new content

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10th Annual NYE Noise Demo [Actually 9th]

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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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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“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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Open the Windows!

A rant by Saoirse Ní Mhaille

UT Austin hates me and doesn’t want me to breathe in that good stormy air. $25 to open a window. Yes, I could just run outside, but what if I want to enjoy the storm from the safety of my room? What if I’m doing homework and can’t get my laptop wet? What if I want to go to sleep to the sound of the rain? What if I just farted and it really stinks? Hmmm??? What then???