Dancing in the Streets: Reflections from Rundberg (2025)
10th Annual NYE Noise Demo (For Real)
An anonymous transmission
We did our math wrong last year! This year, the actual 10th annual New Year’s Eve Noise Demo was a blast of sounds and fireworks. A few dozen rowdy rebels marched to the jail with noisemakers, a sound system, and tons of fireworks.
The following was read out before the noise demo started:
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.
Goodbye Southby: The 1st Annual SmashXSmashWest in Review
Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal
Strolling down the thumping, plastered downtown streets that SXSW treat as its campus, you are likely to have a free can of “C4” shoved in your face. This energy drink named after an explosive is the perfect symbol of what the festival-conference has to offer: a cloying and too seamless blend of brand consciousness, work cultism, consumerist reverie, and militarism. The can is a bomb lobbed at you– but one you are meant to gleefully let blow you up to improve your status and efficacy within the capitalist-imperialist project.
Watching Southby’s lanyard wearing throng drink down these noxious narratives left us with a seething desire to knock the can out of their hands, to shout the truth to the heavens, to shake some sense into the world around us. And so we did.
Whether answering SmashXSmashWest’s call for Divestment and Disruption or following their own paths, autonomous crews of protesters, revolutionaries, and hooligans made their presence known downtown last week, ripping through layers of self-congratulatory spectacle to reveal the conference’s deep cynicism, moral bankruptcy, and harmful consequences within Austin and far beyond. Here are the interventions we know about.
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Reportback from SmashBy Benefit Show for Chris G. & Aeshna
Originally published by Swallowtail Distro as a reportback on this SmashXSmashWest event
On March 16th, a SmashbySmashwest benefit show was held to support Chris and Aeshna’s legal fees and approximately $400 was raised towards this goal both through online donations and in person. The following message was delivered:
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Imagine a Free Palestine: A Thought Experiment About A Saturday March
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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Reportback from #StopCopCity Solidarity Demo in ATX
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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ATL to ATX: Vigil & Altar In Honor of All Victims of Police Violence
Anonymous transmission
On Wednesday, January 18th the police shot and killed a protestor in the Weelaunee Forest in Southeast Atlanta. Theywere protesting the construction of “Cop City”, a proposed police militarization facility that, if built, would be the largest in the nation.
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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.