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4 Targets Attacked for Palestine: BRB Part 4

Posted on 2023/11/04 - 2023/11/04 by bbnews
bank w/ smashed windows

Four Offerings

Heartbroken, raging, yet tenderly hopeful, we began a series of actions across multiple Bay Area cities in unconditional solidarity with Palestine. We attacked four targets, one financial, one military, one corporate, and one tech:

1.) Under the surveillance of Transamerica building security across the street, we smashed the windows of HSBC for maintaining business relations with more than a dozen companies selling weapons and technology to the Israeli military.

2.) With personnel still inside, we smashed the windows of a US military recruitment office because the US is Israel’s primary source of military support.

3.) We smashed the windows of a Starbucks for their repression of pro-Palestine unionized workers.

4.) Sneaking past their security, we drenched 8 Cruise cars with red paint for being a subsidiary of General Motors, which has offices in Israel and is invested in Mobileye, an Israeli self-driving car surveillance technology company.

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middleton hills trans anarchist collective announces anarchaqueer reading group…in the suburbs.

Posted on 2023/11/03 - 2023/11/04 by bbnews
middleton hills trans anarchist collective logo

White Flag: Giving consent only when it feels freely given.

Black Flag: Acting so that others do not feel coerced.

mhtac just had a skillshare—and we have to say, this was pretty cool for our first offical event, because we created trans community in downtown middleton for the first time. we taught each other how to make zines, compared notes on the heteronormativity of the suburbs, distroed resources, and generally were queer in a place that attempts to stamp out everything other than nuclear families with 2.5 children, small dogs, and houseplants they will inevitably kill. we know that we dream of more than suburban assimilation, and we’ve finally found others in middleton who share our anarchy. and we need reliable community, a network, a scene, a family. we need to queer public space while reveling in the collective realization that, even in the suburbs, we can still find the queerest of insurrections. (and yes, we are shamelessly imitating queer ultraviolence in this communiqué. sorry not sorry.)

 

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Report from the 10/28 Emergency Rally

Posted on 2023/10/30 by bbnews

From Philly Anti-Capitalist

Saturday night, October 28th, in light of the communication blackout in and increased bombing of Gaza, approximately a thousand people assembled in Center City Philadelphia for an emergency call to action in support of Palestinians.

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10 Anarchist Theses on Palestine Solidarity in the United States

Posted on 2023/10/27 by bbnews

This essay is re-posted from haters cafe. a zine version is available here. 

The strategy of solidarity reached its limits long ago. Solidarity today is an industry of conferences, lectures, book talks, and ritualistic protests—symbolic solidarity. The war on Gaza has exposed the clear limits on solidarity movements in the United States. Palestine solidarity is an extreme case in point in a much larger development of solidarity activism and politics.

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The Chaos Star: roses and thorns: queer nihilist enemies conference

Posted on 2023/10/27 by bbnews

the following reportback from BB23 is reproduced with permission from The Chaos Star #31

thorn: no sleep before big drive
rose: our ride is a giant bed
thorn: toll evasions thwarted
Rose: accidental 2am fieldtrip to Jackson (5) family home
Rose: “we miss michicheal jacksom”
Rose: squat is popping, 30 guests
Rose: topless with pajama pants and full pack pacing in festive
environment
rose: emboldened squatting practice in this other city means space is
super useful and full of life, helpful reminder for p-noid new yorkers
rose: connecting between cities on some housing law nerd shit
Thorn: bragadocious squatters brag about squatting until 6am, no sleep 🙁 Continue reading “The Chaos Star: roses and thorns: queer nihilist enemies conference” →

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middleton, wi: announcing middleton hills trans anarchist collective

Posted on 2023/10/21 - 2023/10/21 by bbnews
middleton hills trans anarchist collective logo

“many blame queers for the decline of this society— we take pride in this. some believe that we intend to shred-to-bits this civilization and its moral fabric—they couldn’t be more accurate. we’re often described as depraved, decadent, and revolting—but oh, they ain’t seen nothing yet.” – be gay do crime

about ten minutes from middleton—a suburb of the vaguely neoliberal madison, wi– there is an even more heterosexual suburb of middleton called middleton hills. and two suburbs deep, surrounded by old white people and their dogs, these small-town queers, tranarchists, butches, femmes, riot grrls, edgy middle-schoolers, gender dreamers, theory nerds, outside agitators, and even a few accomplices have had enough. in middleton hills, there are absolutely no queer spaces, and indeed no spaces at all besides suburban homes, largely unused public parks, and a few hierarchically managed local businesses. instead of building queered networks of care, we read emma goldman in the darkness of our suburban homes, wondering if we’re the only soul in this suburb who’s ever dreamed of anything more than hoa violations and manicured lawns. but for all its isolating, perfect, orderly normalcy, middleton hills didn’t feel actively hostile until the terf propaganda showed up. a bigot had been putting up stickers for the hateful and transphobic women’s liberation radio network outside local businesses and apartment buildings—and that was when we all decided to fight back.

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Upper Darby Military Recruitment Office Vandalized

Posted on 2023/10/18 by bbnews

A military recruitment office in Upper Darby was attacked with paint. We wrote slogans and threw red paint on the facade. Born from our love, grief, and rage, this was a letter to Gaza and those in solidarity with the Palestinian uprising against colonial power. This wasn’t done to only send a message to imperialists, consider it an attempt to warm passersby chilled by the cold logic of genocide. In the face of massive non-disruptive protest, we hope we can inspire others to act more directly and confrontationally. Those pushing imperialism and islamophobia are being watche and can expect resistance.

RIP Ganda, killed by the same Amerikkan imperialism that feels entitled to exploit and kill without repercussion.

For Gaza with love

Source: Philly Anti-Capitalist

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Appellisme Is Dead: An Obituary In Transcreation

Posted on 2023/10/14 - 2023/10/15 by bbnews

Spite, a bitter herb cultivated in the unseen gardens of the soul, rarely finds its use as the catalyst for translation. Yet, there are moments, hidden in the seams of difference, where one becomes entangled in the shadowy dance of the sentiment, translating not in harmony but in defiance – each word a step, a movement against the original author’s drift. What stirs this rebellion? Perhaps a glimpse of misconduct, some shaking variance, or a yearning to illuminate alternate viewpoints hidden in the prose.

Here, translation metamorphoses; it is no longer a vessel of preservation but a medium to unveil distortions and misconceptions embedded in the original narrative. Satire and caricature become the translator’s brush, painting to reveal the folly embedded in the source. Transcreation, a delicate mixture of translation with creation, forms a canvas for political commentary, a mirror reflecting accountability, and a testament to linguistic transcendence. It’s an intimate embrace of the original’s heartbeat, ensuring its pulse remains, sounding in the intricacies of another cultural landscape. Like a memory recollected in a dream, it feels familiar but is painted with the hues of a different world, speaking softly to its new audience.

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Chicago, IL: Military Recruiters’ Office Attacked in Memory of Jennifer Laude

Posted on 2023/10/14 - 2023/10/15 by bbnews

We smashed out windows and knocked over furniture at a military recruiters’ office in a suburb of Chicago last night.

In solidarity with Filipino/a/x anarchists’ calls to commemorate Ganda, we swarmed on a miserable little strip mall where black and brown youth are targeted for induction into the imperial machine. Our intention was to slow down this violent routine, even if just for a couple of hours.

We swung our hammers invoking Jennifer Laude’s life, remembering the deeds of Michele Angiolillo and Leon Czolgosz, and channeling our rage against the transmisogyny and white impunity of neo-colonial occupation (A).​​​​​​​

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Daly City, CA: Miitary Recruiters’ Office Smashed for Ganda

Posted on 2023/10/10 - 2023/10/11 by bbnews
broken window

On Indigenous People’s Night, we smashed all nine windows at the military recruiters’ office in so-called Daly City, California (Ramaytush Ohlone territory).

We dedicate this action to Jennifer “Ganda” Laude, a Filipina woman who was murdered by transphobic U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton on October 11, 2014. We acted in response to a call by Filipino/a/x comrades asking anarchists in the United States to memorialize Ganda and attack U.S. imperialism. We know that this one action alone is not enough, but we hope that it encourages other anarchists to attack in Ganda’s name as well. For comrades in the Northeast who have the skills to do the research, Pemberton grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts and may have returned there after he was pardoned by Duterte in 2020.

We extend our solidarity to all anti-colonial struggles around the world. Solidarity to Palestinians resisting Zionist settler-colonialism! Solidarity to Haitians resisting yet another U.N. intervention! Solidarity to Weelaunee forest defenders! Death to America!

some anarchists

Source: indybay

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