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Call for Week of Solidarity Against Repression April 1st-7th

From Standing Rock, to Sacramento, to DC

In cooperation with CrimethInc., Submedia.tv, and others, we are calling for a week of solidarity to support everyone targeted for standing up to the Trump regime and rising fascism. The past four months have seen unprecedented waves of action—from the post-election rebellions and the defense of Standing Rock to the J20 demonstrations, the airport blockades, and the shutting down of advocates of nationalist violence like Milo Yiannopoulos. These efforts have emboldened dissidents from Slovenia to the White House itself, catalyzing global resistance and destabilizing the Trump administration from within. In response, the authorities are bringing felony charges against hundreds of people and seeking to criminalize protest altogether. How effectively we support arrestees will determine how effectively we can continue resisting.

April 1 to 7: Call for a Week of Solidarity

Over two hundred people mass-arrested during the demonstrations against Trump’s Inauguration are facing felony rioting charges punishable by up to ten years in prison apiece. Though these people were arrested simply for happening to be on the same city block, the prosecutor has not dropped or diminished the charges, instead using the court process as a kind of judicial harassment.

Since April 2016, when the Sacred Stone camp was founded, there have been nearly 800 arrests in the struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline. These include state charges ranging from misdemeanor criminal trespass to felony terrorizing and rioting, federal charges against six Indigenous Water Protectors, and an active grand jury convened to investigate the activities of everyone resisting the pipeline. While the camps have been evicted and the people forcibly removed in a militarized operation, resistance continues.

California Highway Patrol is recommending that felony charges be brought against 106 alleged participants in the clashes in Sacramento last summer that prevented a fascist rally from taking place. Berkeley police are seeking to bring charges against those who clashed with nationalists on March 4.

Meanwhile, Trump and his cronies have been spreading conspiracy theories about protesters, alleging without a shred of evidence that they are being paid to protest. The idea is to delegitimize dissidents by accusing them of the same profit motive that Trump and his cronies are flagrantly pursuing in the full light of day. These outright lies send a message to far-right vigilantes that they will have a free hand to attack demonstrators and dissidents without consequences from the state.

At the same time, the legislatures in many states are seeking to pass anti-protest laws to further criminalize anyone who take to the streets in protest.

In short, the state is opening a new phase of repression. Having done nothing to protect the black people, Muslims, and Jews targeted in an explosion of racist and anti-Semitic attacks, the state is openly carrying out its own attacks on Middle Eastern refugees and immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and now aims to crush everyone who opposes this. The one-two punch of state repression and vigilante attacks is calculated to destroy social movements, softening up America so Trump can force through his totalitarian agenda.

What We Can Do

Make sure that everyone who has been arrested has all the resources they need to see them through the court process so they can get back out on the street and active again. Below, you can find a list of fundraisers to support arrestees. Donate right now while you’re thinking about it! What do you want people to do when you are facing charges?

Set up benefit events to raise funds for the defendants. You could set up a punk show, a dance party, a cake auction, or a bake sale; you could do the rounds with a donation jar at a bookstore or farmer’s market.

Organize an event for the upcoming grand jury resistance tour that the Water Protector Anti-Repression Crew from Standing Rock is setting up.

Help people understand Trump’s disinformation campaign as propaganda intended to set the stage for a totalitarian crackdown. This isn’t an issue for protesters alone—everyone’s freedom is at stake here. Any precedents that are set in repression against protesters will be used against everyone else.

Identify key figures responsible for this wave of repression and put direct pressure on them, connecting them with the crackdown on freedom. Make it clear that there will be personal consequences for taking the side of oppression.

Drop banners, post fliers, set up educational events, and distribute information about the charges and how to support arrestees. Make sure the subject is on everyone’s minds at all times.

Refuse to cooperate with state investigations and grand juries. Teach people to know their rights, to remain silent when police and federal agents interrogate and threaten them, to support grand jury resisters.

Keep fighting. The best defense is a good offense! If there is a powerful movement against Trump and the forces he represents, defendants from the previous clashes will be more likely to receive the support they deserve. Keep organizing new efforts against Trump, police, nationalists, and the pipelines and profiteering from which they draw their power.

Contribute Events and Report Backs to IGD

Have your own poster or sticker design? Send it to us, we’ll add it to this page!

If you are organizing an event, let us know by submitting the event to the site here or at info [at] itsgoingdown [dot] org.

Do the same for action report backs. Send us reports of both events organized (demonstrations, educational events, benefits), as well as wheatpasting campaigns, banner drops, and written graffiti slogans. While some of these actions may seem small in scale, when put together they show that we are an active movement with material force to protect ourselves, support our comrades facing repression, and a desire to communicate and interact with those on the outside we have yet to meet.

Fundraising

Publishing the following links to these support campaigns in no way indicates that the defendants in question endorse this call for solidarity, nor that they have ever been exposed to anarchist politics or this site in particular. The point is simply that everyone swept up in these charges deserves support.

Donate to Support J20 Arrestees in DC!

Hampton Roads Justice Network Antifascist Legal Fund for defendants in the Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach, and Norfolk area

Support Pittsburghers Arrested at J20

North Carolina #J20 Defense Fund

Support #DisruptJ20 Richmond Arrestees

Help the #Baltimore13 Fight Felony Riot Charges

Support the NYC #DisruptJ20 Codefendants!

#NYC2DisruptJ20 Legal Fund

Philly J20 Solidarity Financial Support Fund

West Michigan J20 Support Fund

everribbon.com/ribbon/view/62971

“Help Human Rights Activists Fight for Justice”

Disrupt J20 Legal Fund

Donate to Support J20 Arrestees Elsewhere around the US!

Please Help the #J20NOLA Arrestees

Donate to Support Standing Rock Arrestees!

Donate to the Freshet Collective

Donate to the Water Protector Legal Collective

Support Shirts!

Burning Limousine/“Our Actions Are a Signal Fire…” benefit t-shirt

Punch Nazis benefit t-shirt

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2 March 2017 - Anarchist graff in Copenhagen following a riotous demo marking the 10 year anniversary of the eviction and demolition of Ungdomshuset 69, which had been an important centre for the radical left scene.

[antifascistaction]

Greek antifas vs Patriotic Union fascist. Thessaloniki.

About 30 fascists of the so called “Patriotic Union”protested against 9 refugee children at an elementary school in Oreokastro, a suburb of Thessalonki, Greece. Riot cops protected the fascists against counter protesters but in at least one case the cops were not successful.

https://enoughisenough14.org/2017/02/20/thessaloniki-fascists-protest-against-refugeesgr-children-at-elementary-school/

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Rockford IL "Daily Stormer" Meetup Disrupted by Antifas

The meeting between the two chumps in this picture was not just any cordial chit chat over a beer at some bar. These two are not old budd...

ROCKFORD REPORTBACK!

[ill-will-editions]

Tiqqun —  CRITICAL METAPHYSICS AS A SCIENCE OF APPARATUSES (2001)

“[W]hat we call a science of apparatuses, or critical metaphysics, is nothing other than the science of crime. And here, as elsewhere, no initiation exists that isn’t immediately experimentation, practice. One is never initiated into an apparatus, only into how it works. The three stages of this science are, successively: crime, opacity, and insurrection…”

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[ill-will-editions]

10 PRELIMINARY THESES ON RESISTANCE — Ian Alan Paul

“There is no going back, no way to retreat onto solid ground, no possibility of rolling back time, except perhaps while dreaming. The sheer entropy of the present means that there is little to hold on to, but it also means that it has become possible to speculate more radically than ever before. Watching the world around us rise and fall at an accelerating rate, those who prevail will be those who grasp the risks worth taking, those who are able to clearly and vividly see the world as it exists and as it can exist. What will come is in no way deter- mined, but will depend on a series of leaps that produce their own ground to land upon”

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Shout-out to our friends out west for laying this out.

[antifainternational]

Village hall rocked by 'anti-fascist gun raid' on far right group

A gathering of 'far right nationalists' in a village social centre was raided by suspected anti-fascists who allegedly fired air guns, threw chairs and swung fire extinguishers. Terrified...

BRISTOL REPORTBACK!

[ill-will-editions]

The Invisible Committee - TO OUR FRIENDS (2014)

Full book, with updated matching covers: English / Spanish

Email us if you’d like one in another language.

Cover photo: CATAPULT (Marc Steinmetz, 2002)—Fashioned by a prisoner in the metal workshop of Wolfenbüttel prison, Germany, as a means for smuggling secret messages, drugs, or gun parts. The prisoner claimed it to be a piece of abstract art entitled ‘Dackel’ (dachshund). Confiscated in 1991.

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Female Trump Supporter pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/TrumpsParty/status/827006302207492098

MEANWHILE, AT UC BERKELEY 😂😂😂😂

[fuckyeahanarchistbanners]

From Sydney to Washington, solidarity with all the #J20 arrestees from the Trump inauguration protests. Also, solidarity with the arrested and injured comrades from the Invasion Day 2017 rally in Sydney on January 26.

Last Thursday, riot cops attacked the front block of the huge anti-colonial rally and sprayed the crowd with fire-extinguishers to prevent an indigenous revolutionary from setting fire to an Australian flag.

The large crowd immediately responded by protecting the comrade from arrest and aggressively pushing the cops back, forcing the riot squad officers to flee from the crowd.

Unfortunately, during the confrontation one young woman was knocked unconscious by police, and another young comrade was captured by the pigs and is now facing a number of charges.

[anarchadelphia]

Philly J20 Report Back

It’s not because Trump won. Its not because Hillary lost. Its because fuck all this. Its because the world is burning and the only way to ignore it is to side with the death culture– turning life into commodities. Trump is merely today’s incarnation of “democracy;” the logical extensions of capitalism, imperialism white supremacy, patriarchy, and all the systems that undergird “democracy” under any president. Because democracy is synonymous with capture. Because its all supposed to happen like this. In four or eight more years a new figurehead of the same system to march around blocks about. Because shits not working, folks.

As if we think broken windows and spray paint will change any of it. Of course it won’t. No window will ever be enough. No march, no rally, no bloc, no president. can we take seriously anything nowadays? Are we seriously still debating violence vs. non-violence. Property vs. life. Its farcical. The “system”, “protest”… Laughable, and yet dire, with real consequences for land, animals, people. Because actually, we’re dying. Because amidst all the rhetoric of hope, the closest glimpse we see sometimes is in people willing to throw down for each other- for some vision, fractured as it may be, that we can fight back, that we can be fearless, that we can strike, be ungovernable, remind ourselves, if no one else, that some part of our minds and bodies hasn’t yet been domesticated by our masters. It could be 100,000 people evicting the halls of D.C. – and would be a resurrection from suffocation, but instead, 100 here, 50 there… we are a death gasp. Signs of life in a dying body.

Signs of life in philly. 40 rebels affiliated only by our actions; no group, no platform. 20 minutes in the streets of one of philly’s most cop-friendly areas at 7pm on a busy friday night thoroughfare. Our rage left dripping from walls, shattered across sidewalks, and left upon cars, gentry property, peddlers of bourgeois excess, banks, atms, symbols of the capital that survives off the life of everyone. More life breathed into our bloc by the vast support of onlookers, who joined in; “fists up, fight back”, “kill your local fascist” (of which south philly is a haven), “a-anti-anticapitalista” etc. Shit got got. If your shit got hit, remember its not about you. Its bigger than you because, fuck all of this, right? Because, Everything.

As we disbanded safely before the lurking eyes of police, a shout, “its been real great, see you all next time!” And everyone faded back into the precarious turbulence.

In Solidarity with D.C. Rebels and Blockaders In Solidarity with Indigenous Freedom Fighters In Solidarity with everyone stepping it up in 2017

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MONTRÉAL REPORTBACK!

[anarchadelphia]

A “No More Presidents” Reportback

On J20, around 50 of us masked up and took down South St.  We wanted to set a tone of resistance against the Trump regime and the ruling class for the years to come.  There were chants of “Good Night Alt Right” and antifascist flags and banners. The OCF Coffee house was smashed while people spray painted windows along the street.  Bank of America took a paint bomb.  As we moved along, more windows were tagged and shattered.  There was a brief discussion before we turned off South St and started pulling baricades into the road, knowing the cops had to be close by, being earily absent so far.  When they did show, we split, the obstacles slowing them down enough for everyone to get away.

This shit is officially still possible in Philly.  Affinity groups can come together in direct, violent, contempt against the business of gentrification and the moneyed masters funding attacks on indigenous peoples.  For all those arrested on J20 and all those still fighting the Black Snake.

Expect more.

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 20 2017 - Alt-right leader/fascist Richard Spencer gets punched in the face at Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC. [video]

[antifainternational]

Antifa Dallas banner drop over I 30 and I 35E. The banners were deployed over two bridges and read,

“Ni Banderas Ni Fronteras” “Fuck Trump” with an anarchist symbol And the banner pictured here.

Dallas, TX is planning a major #disruptj20 event

3pm Jan 20 at Lake Cliff Park.

[anarchadelphia]

On Snitching and the Days Ahead

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A Wager On The Future - AudioZine

A Wager On The Future - Anarchist organization, the Islamic State, the crisis, and outer space

1:40:05 – A Wager On The Future – Josep Gardeneyes – MP3 – Read – Imposed – Torrent – Archive – YouTube Anarchist organization, the Islamic State, the crisis, and outer space “To have any possibility of destroying this prison society and averting the horrible destiny that is unfolding around us, it is indispensable: to stop conceiving of our weakness in terms of dissemination; to abandon the…

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