June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds

Via june11.noblogs.org

We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not separate from that of destruction. Prison is not separate from the “free world.” Means are not separate from ends. Bridging these divides is a shared curiosity and commitment; bridging these divides is solidarity. This is not to flatten or oversimplify diversity and differences in circumstance, intensity, and consequence. Rather, that these different pieces are held together like organs of the body held by connective tissue. So we consider: how do we strengthen this connective tissue? How do we remain strong, yet supple and flexible? Bridges, connection, must also be built through time, especially in a world that moves too fast, from one crisis to the next. June 11th aspires to be one of these bridges: to build solidarity across borders, between movements, and among generations. Remembering and supporting long-term prisoners, as well as carrying on shared struggles, are two ways to strengthen this connective tissue. A stronger connective tissue will, in turn, bolster us against further repression.

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Abolition Media’s Authoritarian Entryism

abolition media with three arrows through it

Abolition Media, a popular counter-info site in the American anarchist space has had an interesting editorial presence since its founding. The site has focused almost solely on armed struggle and militant direct action while ignoring less risky anarchist praxis often covered by established anarchist media operations like It’s Going Down and Crimethinc. Because of Abolition Media’s emphasis on violent struggle, statements and analysis from allied authoritarian communists, such as incarcerated Black Maoists and Maoist guerillas fighting ISIS & the fascist Turkish state in Rojava were published alongside anarchist content without much criticism. However, as the years have gone on, Abolition Media is publishing less-and-less anarchist content, and increasingly more authoritarian propaganda.

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WE ARE BACK!!!

We had some adjustments, some new people join the collective, and others that left. As the dust settles and we get back to doing it (full disclosure, i was never apart of the old COLA crew, and we are a completely new group of folx, with the same mission), we thank you for your patience.

The goal is to get the word out about anarchist insurrection and revolutionary action. When folx around us know of the actions we take, it makes it easier for them to also take action. getting the word out in a secure and safe manner has been a part of the anarchist tool box for a long time, This is just a continuation.

A WORD OF CAUTION WHEN COMMUNICATING:

  • ALWAYS USE A VPN and TOR WHEN COMMUNICATING ANY ACTION
  • USE A SECURE EMAIL PLATFORM (PROTON OR RISE UP)
  • ALWAYS SCRUB EXIF DATA FROM A PHOTO
  • ALWAYS MAKE SURE NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN PHOTOS OR TEXT
  • WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS AND FELLOW ANARCHISTS BUT YOU DON’T KNOW US, TREAT US THAT WAY
  • THIS LIST IS NOT COMPREHENSIVE, BE SMART
  • STAY SAFE, SO YOU CAN REMAIN DANGEROUS!

If we don’t fight back, the state will automatically win!

Stop supporting the Denver Communists.

Though we have held ourselves and our crews to this, too much harm has been done in the past months to continue to treat the Denver Communists (hereafter DC) as an annoyance to avoid. Instead, their support for abusers and sex predators, their racism and antiindigeneity, and their opposition to security culture, alongside their inability to grapple with criticism about these subjects, has made things clear: they are a threat. Continue reading “Stop supporting the Denver Communists.”

Queer Wrath March

Flyer - Queer Wrath March. Full text in post body.

 

Pride month call to action!

Unauthorized Grassroots QUEER WRATH MARCH

June 26, 12 PM
Cheesman Park, Denver

liberation, not assimilation
fuck rainbow capitalism, take pride back

wear pink and black
gather at northwest corner of Cheesman Park before marching together to Colfax

BE LOUD, UNAPOLOGETIC, AND FABULOUS

There will be a fun mutual aid & community event prior to the march:

Attack On GEO Group’s BI Inc – May Day 2021

This report back was submitted anonymously. If you would like to share report backs, analysis, calls to action, art, or anything else, check out our submissions page.

On the night of May Day, we attacked the office of BI Incorporated in Gunbarrel, Colorado. Phrases such as “¡Chinga La Migra!” “Abolish ICE” and “Fuck Your Shackles” were written with spray paint at the entrance of the building. “Profiteers of white supremacist violence” was painted on one wall. “Fuck ICE” was written on the BI sign facing the roadway, and rocks were thrown through the glass panels on the main entrance doors.

BI Inc. is a company owned by the private prison company The GEO Group, which runs the migrant concentration camp in Aurora. The company manufacturers the GPS ankle monitors that GEO and ICE use to surveil the movements of migrants who live outside of their camps, and to subsequently incarcerate them if they move too freely.

BI’s ankle monitors are nothing more than high-tech shackles. BI originally manufactured cattle monitors, and now applies that technology to dehumanize people, earning hundreds of millions of dollars from ICE contracts in the process. BI also runs ICE’s Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP), which requires participants to check-in regularly at BI offices, where many have reported discrimination, harassment, humiliation, and assault by BI employees.

This is all unnecessary and deliberate cruelty. Borders are arbitrary creations used by the powerful to prevent international solidarity among the working class. They should not exist, and no one should be punished for crossing them, whether by incarceration in a physical building, or by being forced to wear a spying device.

Through our small act of defiance, we hope to demonstrate to our comrades that they too can take immediate action against the oppressive forces of capital and the state. We also hope to inspire the workers at BI to end their support for La Migra in solidarity with the global working class. Together we can work to erode the power of our country’s white supremacist policing apparatus. As long as it festers in our communities, we must fight it.

No more borders. No more shackles. No more “USA.” Freedom for all.

Jock Waldo, the President of BI Inc, is registered to vote as a Republican at 11192 Twin Spruce Rd. in Golden, CO.

Solidarity.

May Day Call To Action

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If you are reading this, you are likely deeply aware of the great and ongoing damage inflicted upon humanity by Capitalism and its twin pillars, Liberalism & Fascism. They lie at the root of every crisis – the occupation of Indigenous lands, ecological devastation and global warming, and the inability of the state to ensure the most basic components of public health, housing, education, food, and water. They impose artificial borders to separate us from each other, tearing apart families, stealing resources from colonized nations and hoarding them in the imperial centers, stoking xenophobia and nationalism to distract from their failures.

And in the so-called United States, under conditions that historically and internationally would lead to widespread rebellion, the people face oppression and suppression at every turn. Economic exploitation keeps us tired, desperate, and working, while alienating us from our own labor. And a vast system of police and prisons, descended from slavers and plantations, waits to destroy and sweep away any who do not comply, to rob and assault marginalized and vulnerable people.

Joining our comrades in other states, we are calling for a day of action on May Day – Saturday, May 1st – to deliver a message to those who harm us. We have compiled suggested lists of methods to express this message and recipients to deliver it to, but by no means should you limit yourself to our suggestions. There are many people and institutions in Colorado that are complicit in the murder and brutalization of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people, the exploitation of workers, the criminalization of poverty & homelessness, the demonization of trans people, the oppression of immigrants, and state violence in many forms – incarceration, surveillance, policing.

We urge you all to find a crew and follow the guidelines of security culture, and strike at the infrastructure of power, not at its empty symbols. Directly obstruct the machinery of Capitalism & the police state, and/or directly aid your community in ways that the state disapproves of. Avoid the trap of downtown Denver, and keep the police confused and spread thin. Be creative. Be brave. Be ungovernable. Have fun and take care of each other. We keep us safe.

Autonomous May Day Festivities "Colorado Edition" Smash Capitalism and its many arms Find your COVID pods, affinity groups, or vaxd friends Act together, ditch your phones, don't say shit
Small Flyer with text publicizing the call to action

DIY Actions: Banner Drops Graffiti Lockdowns Home Demos Marches Squats, Takeovers, Occupations Dance Parties Community Gatherings Mutual Aid Sabotage Expropriation Blockades That thing you've been planning Targets: GEO Police departments Police Unions Jails Dept of Corrections CoreCivic Amazon Whole Foods IBM Google Banks Democratic Parties Republican Parties Impound Lots Your Local NIMBYs Your Local Nazi & More Autonomous May Day Festivities "Colorado Edition" Smash Capitalism and its many arms Find your COVID pods, affinity groups, or vaxd friends Act together, ditch your phones, don't say shit
A larger flyer with the same info as the smaller one, additionally listing suggested autonomous DIY actions and targets.