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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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Keeping Austin Criminal: An Insurgent Review of 2020

Austin Autonomedia: Keep Austin Criminal

2020 was a year of insurgent milestones in Austin–an explosion of autonomous initiatives, a proliferation of insurrectionary tactics and revolt, and the weaving together of new connections between fragmented worlds inhabiting this territory.

We’ve decided to forefront some of the highlights of this year, to celebrate the high points of this year and look forward to the next one. This is not a claim to a comprehensive review of the activity of this past year, an attempt at in-depth analysis and critique, nor a claim to what projects/initiatives/actions “mattered” or not–it’s merely a reflection of things that we have found on our radar, find inspiring, and wish to highlight and remember. We encourage any fellow insurgents reading this to put out their own analysis and perspectives about the event of this year, whether through our page, your own platforms, or wheatpasted on the walls of the city.

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