“israeli” flag redecorated

from Instagram

Spotted early this morning on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philly – an “israeli” flag was redecorated ❤️‍🔥

LOCKHEED MARTIN GET FUCKED

from Never Sleep

In the unholy hours of early July we placed caltrops on the driveway of Lockheed Martin in Archbald, Pennsylvania. Hope they fucked up your genocidal vehicles. Quit your jobs. Until you do none of you fools deserve to feel safe. Free Palestine!

Ghost Robotics CEO Townhome Vandalized

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In the early morning hours of July 9th, while Ghost Robotics CEO Gavin Kenneally was out of town at the Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems USA conference, several of his neighbors paid his Fairmount townhome a visit.

We threw paint and tagged the messages Ghost Robotics Kills and Murderer on the garage door and front entrance. We refuse to live in a world where Palestinians and migrants crossing the border must fear for their lives at the hands of killer robots, while the makers and war profiteers sleep peacefully in our city. We know where they live.

Pennovation Center Windows Smashed

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In the early hours of July 9th we smashed every window of the entrance to the Pennovation center, a ritzy research compound in Philadelphia. The lone security guard must have been so surprised when we appeared out of nowhere and started smashing, because he didn’t even try to stop us! And we couldn’t believe how long it took for the police to show up…

The Pennovation center is home to Ghost Robotics, a company that manufactures so-called “robot dogs.” Israel has been buying these robot dogs for $150,000 apiece and using them in their ongoing extermination of Palestinians. While the University of Pennsylvania continues to enable the research and manufacture of these weapons, Israel has destroyed every university in the Gaza strip, and continues to bomb schools where Palestinian refugees are taking shelter. Breaking windows is a small retaliation, but every time we act emboldens us.

Until Palestine is free, and even then, we will never stop!

FUCK TURFS (TERFS) OF ALL KINDS

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On the evening of May 30th we took vengence on the machinery that is laying astroturf in the Kingsessing Rec center in West Philadelphia. We hit 3 machines, pouring sugar in the gas tanks, painting windows, and taking an impact drill to all of the tires (something that is incredibly easy and effective).
Astroturf is an environmental diaster as well as a public health concern & we reject its creation and its presence through out our city, at this site and the FDR meadows. Modern convenience at the the sacrifice of Earth and the health of aniamls (including children) will be fought back against. May this be a warning to all redevelopment projects that offer convenience to some while continuing to ravage the black and brown communities who take in the most pollution from redevelopment and benefit little to none.
Land defense is not only about pushing back against the destruction of green spaces but resistence to gentrification and settler mentality. Fighting the aesthetic desires of the rich & the continuation of a society of modernities that alienates us from each other,Earth & feeds the beast of capitalism. We will be back.
In the Lenape language “Kingsessing” means “a place where there is a meadow” May grass prevail and the industrial sports complex perish! May the youth be safe from further contaminates in their limited play spaces.
Also fuck Caterpillar industries! These bastards sell construction equipment to Israel to bulldoze homes in Palesitne.

We are anti-turf, anti-terf

Almost a month later, we have noticed that all the rolls of astroturf have been removed from the Kingsessing Rec Center as well as any machinery. Without more research, we can only assume the action we took has stopped construction for the time being and scared developers of further sabotage.

Join us as we avenge the FDR meadows, Haddington Woods (construction is starting up again on the Golf Course), Bartrams North & all the sall but precious greenery in between. Keep it wild sluts.

Two Gentrifying Constructions Sites Attacked

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I attacked two construction sites. At one site I destroyed four Ring cameras, at another I threw paint on its sign and walls. These small actions were done in solidarity with anarchist prisoners and the struggle at SCI Rockview.

Fuck gentrification!
Free Palestine!
Long live anarchy!

Penn Bookstore and Philadelphia Parking Authority meters vandalized

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Today I walked around UPenn and obscured the screens of PPA parking meters and drew all over the bathroom walls of the Penn Bookstore.

Fuck them for not divesting from Israel.
Fuck them for shutting down the encampments.
Fuck all the Zionists at UPenn.

Free The Land: A Chronology of Ecological Struggle in Philadelphia 2020-2024

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Screen reading PDF

Printing PDF

Vandals cause $100,000 worth of damage to West Philadelphia apartment building

from Mainstream Media

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Police are working to identify a group of masked suspects caught on video vandalizing an apartment building in West Philadelphia.

It happened outside the Olympic Tower Apartments on the 4900 block of Spruce Street on May 1.

Surveillance video shows 10 suspects smashing windows on the first floor with hammers and throwing a glass bottle filled with purple paint on the sidewalk.

Police say the damage is estimated at $100,000.

We spoke with one of the owners of the apartment complex who described the frightening moments the people inside experienced.

He says employees were scared and hiding in a back room, thinking it was a shooting.

In all, 27 windows were smashed, the owner said, with glass shattered onto residents’ beds.

Police say this is an act of cowardly vandalism.

“You’re covering your face up and you’re going to go out and smash somebody else’s private property, not knowing what could possibly be on the other side of that glass,” said Capt. Robert McKeever, commanding officer for the Southwest Detective Division.

Police are asking people in the area to check their surveillance video. They say it’s possible once the vandals got further down the block they may have taken their masks off or fled in a getaway car.

We spoke with Andre Williams who lives in the neighborhood. He says he’s looking into moving into the building.

“There’s still tension about this area being newly gentrified but, you know, people have to still respect each other’s property,” Williams said.

Police are looking into an anarchist group that has claimed responsibility for the vandalism online, but they have yet to identify any suspects.

No one was injured.

May Day reportback

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Philly May Day demo-actions are back baby!!!!

This May Day, Philly anarchists went back to doing what we do best….anti-gentrification and anti-prison actions. The evening started out with a demo at the juvenile detention center in West Philly. Around 20 of us walked from the meet-up spot to the parking lot behind the facility, where demonstrators can be heard from the kids’ dorms. There were a bunch of loud fireworks, flares, and anti-cop chants, as locked-up kids pounded on their windows in response. This unfortunately only lasted about two minutes, as apparently the cops’ response times to these kinds of demos has dramatically improved. Cop cruisers immediately pulled up and blocked both exits we’d been planning to use, and one cop car attempted to run over a couple of our friends on their way out. Luckily as far as we know there were no arrests and everyone got out fine in the end, if a little shaken.

Around twelve of us met back up a couple hours later to attack a very ugly new apartment building on Spruce St and 49th St. This is another classic of Philly anarchy – terrorizing gentrifiers by mobbing up to attack a new building while its residents are already living in it. At least ten of its huge windows were taken out and a paint bomb or two got thrown.

Attacking isn’t always easy; most of the time it takes a lot of courage just to show up and a lot of planning to make sure everyone gets out safely. We appreciate how carefully these two actions were organized and everyone who showed up. Let’s keep being brave and supporting each other and maybe one day we can take down Amerikkka 😉

Solidarity to the comrades struggling in and around SCI Rockview, you are not alone! Long live anarchy! <3

Security Cams Down at Philly Bash Back!

from Bash Back News

Dear philly faggots,

Thxx so much for the great time this weekend! While we were visiting we saw those cameras on the power lines by Bartram North and decided to take a few down with some girth tails and a 4lb hammer. A big ladder would also have worked. Sorry we didn’t get them all, but we’ll get the rest next time!

Until then,
shapeshifters

Anti-Gentrification Action

from Unravel

Philadelphia police are searching for multiple suspects caught on video vandalizing cars in the city’s Fishtown neighborhood back on Friday, March 29.

In the social media video obtained by police, you can see the suspects jumping on hoods of parked cars and kicking in windshields along the 1400 block of Oxford Street. Police say the string of vandalism incidents along Oxford Street happened around 8:30 p.m.

Meat Market Destroyed by Fire (Catawissa, Pennsylvania, USA)

from North American Animal Liberation Press Office

Catawissa, PA, February 21, 2024 –
Fire completely destroys a meat market and deer processing business.

The Valencik family writes: “A devastating fire destroyed the nearly 57 year old deer processing shop at the Valencik farm. It is a total loss and although the building was insured it is not nearly enough to cover everything that was kept inside the entire building.”

Security Van Tires Slashed

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“Are people within prisons/jail/detention the only ones who are expected to engage in material disruption? To take risks? Are we just vessels of emotional solidarity?”

“Where are the vulnerabilities to prison management’s morale and how does one remove the will of guards to endure?”

Security guards protect property. They help the police put people in prisons, they are part of the prison industrial complex. As people attack property private security acts as the auxiliary of the prison and police state. With this in mind as well as reading about the conditions at SCI Rockview we slashed the tires of a Securitas van. This was a small, easy, and replicate-able action that you can do with a friend. We agree with the comrade at SCI Rockview that “an assault on both fronts” is necessary, targets are everywhere. In the amerikkkan hellscape our lives are deeply embedded in the infrastructure of confinement. This is why we chose to attack the security van. Small actions like these can build capacity to be able to break down the prison walls.

Destroy PA-DOC
Fuck security guards
Fire to the prisons

-some anarchists

Notes on abolitionist insurgency & prisoner support in Pennsylvania

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There are some dire questions that non-imprisoned abolitionists keep asking, of what solidarity with collective action inside entails. Central among them is: How do we embolden our comrades in prison or jail to feel protected enough, seen enough, and empowered enough to take action when they desire to?

Yet what is less discussed is the question posed in self-reflection: How can we embolden our comrades on the outside (who are willing to take physical risks) to provide forms solidarity that actually give inside demands a little more teeth?

  • What does autonomous direct action in solidarity with collective action inside look like for abolitionists on the outside, and where are the targets that would be most decisive for attack?
  • How can we better develop collective capacity for decisive attacks on PA-DOC from the outside, in conjunction with demands on the inside?
  • What targets can we choose on the outside that do not exacerbate repression for the comrades situated on the inside? Or is this simply part of the equation that we must equip and be prepared for?
  • How, then, can inside and outside move at once? And in this context, how do aboveground formations move horizontally with an underground to fill in the gaps in work that one another is unable to do?

These are questions that shift conversations about strategy from mere activism toward insurgency. As a comrade who was at SCI Rockview last summer writes:

“As prisoners, we can riot & take control of the prison at any time, but that won’t relieve us of this living death. We need our comrades in the world to take the fight out of the halls of legislation & to the prison walls themselves. Only then can we actually end this war. An assault on both fronts would make the difference between us banging on the walls & us breaking them down. When the world sees this, it will show that the facade of invincibility that the system has cultivated over generations of slavery is just that: an illusion.”

To compliment this ask from the inside, we believe it is equally important to attack & disrupt the everyday operations of structures and relations that compose PA-DOC’s instiutional form in ways that strategically compliment inside collective action.

For autonomous attack as abolitionist prisoner support to be decisive and effective, it first means decentering (not ignoring but thinking beyond) the “reified” site/scene of the prison facility itself in our ideas of the terrain of struggle and attack.  A prison facility, such as SCI Rockview, is one among many other sites and nodes in a web of structures and social relations that make up PA-DOC’s institutional form. The targets of insurgent outside solidarity through sabotage therefore consist of everything and anything that upholds the reproduction of the prison facility itself or a DOC system from without.

Some questions we may want to ask ourselves in outside support circles include:

  • What are the institutions, contractors, buildings, and other structures that enable PA-DOC to function in the first place?
  • If it is a prison “industrial complex” what is the constellation of sites that allow it to function, that give it coherence and life?

One way abolitionists can support people on the inside during a strike is to initiate (and sustain) conflict w/ the state & capital. To either disrupt its logistical operations and/or weaken the regime’s resolve.

One example that comes to mind is during the 2016 nationwide prison strike, which saw sporadic instances solidarity actions that did not abide by codes of non-conflictual demonstration.

For example, ABC Chicago in 2017 writes:

“In the context of prison struggle, a recent example of solid praxis that comes to mind was in Pittsburgh at Allegheny County Jail. About eighty prisoners began a work refusal and released a list of demands that included more case workers, better medical services, and a legitimate grievance procedure. After those on the outside heard of this sit-in, they took to the jail in masks, smashed windows of the jail, a security camera, and several police vehicles. Similar models of solidarity occurred around the September 9th prison strike where people all over the US and even other continents took action in solidarity with those on the inside rising up. This took the form of noise demos and marches, as well as direct attacks on prisons and those who profit off prison… This is a type of solidarity that can produce results.”

Some more questions to consider are as follows:

  • If the prison regime is upheld by numerous institutional connections & centers of gravity — that exist far beyond the “reified” site/scene of “the prison” itself — then where are the most impactful targets to attack in solidarity w/ prisoners taking collective action?
  • For abolitionists who are not inside the prison itself, what does disruption in solidarity with collective prisoner action look like beyond (only) non-conflictual protest?
  • Are people within prisons/jail/detention the only ones who are expected to engage in material disruption? To take risks? Are we just vessels of emotional solidarity?
  • Where then, would the targets be, for outside abolitionists to exert greater pressure? How might this change perspectives of strategy? How might thinking more expansively about the terrain of engagement illumine new tactical horizons?
  • Or maybe the objective of pressuring the state to meet a specific demand from inside is the wrong way to practice attack and direct action altogether?
  • Yet strikes typically have demands. So what then do we do with our bodies, our (relative) mobility and access to information/resources/tools that are foreclosed to people who take collection action for particular goals while locked up?
  • Where are the logistical chokepoints? What are targets of attack and sites of disruption that don’t result in severe backlash to comrades struggling on the inside?   Where are the vulnerabilities to prison management’s morale and how does one remove the will of guards to endure?
  • What is the relationship between a local-to-state government, the internal fiefdoms of prisons & jails, & the contractors whose fate is tethered to the regime’s institutional reproduction?  How can tensions or antagonisms between such entities be exacerbated by outside sabotage?

To bring this strategy to life we not only need comrades who are up for the task of directly attacking in solidarity with inside collective action, but we also need a range of people to take up this cause at the level of research, propagation, and expanding capacity for regional anti-repression work and community care.

We need people who can map the institutional form of PA-DOC. We need people to map the digital communications infrastructure. We need people that understand how the nodes of institutions that make up PA-DOC within Pennsylvania branch out to every corner of the US settler colonial territory, with offices, remote workers, contractors, etc… all within reach of someone who is willing to take action, yet simply needs a map to take part. We also need a more focused effort of people who are not involved in combative actions directly to participate in defending the fire of revolt as it spreads.  This can be done by simply organizing letter writing nights to support people in the case that they catch charges for the risks they take. This can also be done by focusing in on building or strengthening networks that provide care and mutual aid within your local spheres of movement and community.