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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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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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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Who Controls City Hall? Cops Move To Evict Occupation, Camp Calls For Support

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal

Earlier today, City staff  and the APD goon squad (a group of notoriously awful cops who patrol downtown) showed up at the City Hall Occupation. According to an Instagram stream by the Little Petal Alliance, they issued a Criminal Trespass Warning to the entire camp and gave them until 10 PM tonight (June 13th) to move.  Little Petal has asked people to come down and support them against this eviction threat.

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Call for Decentralized, Autonomous May Day Actions!

A flyer of white background with black text. Text reads: "Decentralized & Autonomous Action. Against Displacement, Police, & Property. Find your COVID Pods, Affinity Groups, or Vaccinated Friends. Act Together. May Day 2021. Center of the flyer has a black & white photo of someone dancing in frot of a burning car during a protest.

An Anonymous Transmission

The Message

More than a year and a half into a set of escalating crises–a global pandemic that has bled the poor and working classes dry while enriching the ruling classes, a globalizing insurrection against anti-Black police violence, a State whose violence has not ceased with a simple change in the figurehead–we remain at a crossroads. The way things are is not sustainable. We feel this deeply in every aspect of our lives: physical, spiritual, social, emotional. We reject the tyranny of working long hours to barely meet our basic needs. We denounce the extraction, exploitation, and hoarding of the land’s precious gifts. We deny the manufactured necessity of police, prisons, and surveillance.

The experiences and struggles of the past year–from mutual aid networks & rent strikes to riots & autonomous zones–have fundamentally transformed us and our local conditions. One the one hand, the growth of local organizing networks and the explosion of insurgent strategies has expanded the window of possibility for autonomous activity in the city. On the other hand, the weight of over a year of furious organizing, the heigtening of internal contradictions and conflict amongst organizations, and the slowing down of the waves of local insurgency have sapped much of the energy that propelled us last year. Finally, we look ahead to an oncoming struggle around multiple proposals to criminalize homelessness, heigtening antagonism to the police and the regime of property they serve, and a summer which many predict will be hot and riotous. It is amidst these conditions that we offer this proposal for May 1st.

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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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