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It is unclear what the struggle for Palestinian liberation will look like in the coming days. At the time of this writing a ceasefire has just been reached between Hamas and the Zionist entity, at the same time the Zionist entity continues to devastate Gaza and the West Bank. Last year a specific struggle against a local technology company connected the dots between Palestinian liberation, local gentrification, education, militarism, and borders. The company in question, Ghost Robotics, has come under fire for creating robot dogs used by the Israeli Defense Forces. That struggle may well be ongoing and this zine is not meant to push struggles into the safety of history, its aim is to inspire revolt, specifically against Ghost Robotics and generally against all aspects of domination. The struggle against Ghost Robotics has taken many forms, from spreading information and popular education, to organizing demonstrations, to destroying property. By reflecting on the past struggles we can better imagine and carry out our struggles today. This zine brings together writings about Ghost Robotics, a timeline of publicly documented action against Ghost Robotics, communiques from anonymous actions, a few photos. All information is taken from sources listed in the Resources section at the end.
Philadelphia, Occupied Lenapehoking,
Winter 2025
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Zine: The Struggle Against Ghost Robotics
Philly All Out To Free Mahmoud Khalil
from Instagram
5pm
City Hall
Bring signs and posters and remember to mask up!
Rallly coordinate by autonomous individuals not affiliate with any organization
FREE MAHMOUD, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS]
Earliest Days of This Trump Attack
By Philly Metro and Greater Chicago WSA
Among many reports and conversations at our November 40th Anniversary Congress, two that stand out are a renewed excitement about working-class journalism, and how our WSA Branches are trying to orient our work to our worksites and co-workers.
What this has meant in these early days of the Trump-Musk Attacks?
We canât speak for all WSA members, but many of us have felt depressed and in shock, aware that our families are directly vulnerable.
In contrast to 2016, where the resistance to Trump was immediately galvanizing, there has been a cultural sea-change. We certainly feel part of this âjust-getting-on-our-feet-nowâ period.
Speaking for only some in our branches, these early months have felt like a tornado watch. We keep looking out our window to see how close the danger is. There has been a noticeable pause on our public national level projects as this Trump-Musk attack is unfolding, but as we write this, we are getting back to our work!
As regards our worksites, one of the immediate responses has been to the scapegoating ICE raids some of our most at-risk families have been living in terror at the haphazard nature of these assaults.
Weâve been actively working on connecting our coworkers with community organizations, putting out flyers with contact info for immigrant rights hotlines, helping with outreach for multilingual trainings.
Locally, weâve also been helping to organize an upcoming protest in coalition with local activists. While we are not reformists, we bring our workforce concerns and syndicalist analysis as best we can, trying to build momentum for any public opportunity to say âNO!â to this time of crisis.
As anarcha-syndicalists we are clear as daylight that we use the word âdemocracyâ to mean not bourgeois democracy where the competing elites vie for our votes to get power. We will resist Trump and Musk, but this does not mean we were signed up to support what would have been a Biden-Harris regime of business as usual and genocide. We are clear that by standing up for democracy we mean a workerâs democracy, and the classless, non-hierarchical society which alone can make the word âdemocracyâ meaningful. But right now we are focusing on our commonality with at-risk co-workers and others, with Trump voters who suddenly realize their jobs & benefits are now in jeopardy.
While we are few and our branches are small, it feels the best way for us to cope is to stay engaged. While weâve been slow to get back to journalism, itâs time to do just that. Members are saying itâs time for us to have our WSA National Labor Committee soon, and we will!
As a way back to working-class journalism, today during work hours we did what we meant to do, which was to talk with WSA members and comrades, and try to get their thoughts into print.
As a start today, at 10 am, while on the clock, we talked on the phone with our comrade Greg Mcgee:
âWhat we should do is have a dialogue with our fellow workers, but make sure we use facts. Use radical websites talking about Russian deserters and Ukrainian deserters refusing to fight. Imagine together if they called the soldiers and no one showed up! The wars would stop.â
âWith all this rampant fascist nationalism happening now, the bigotry, anti-semitism, racism, right now, imagine replacing the word âimmigrantâ with âJewâ, and discuss the fascist past. We know that Mussolini and General Franco were fascists, we really donât know what Trump and Musk are. LThey may just be narcissists, but I think we need to draw our fellow workersâ attention to the historical past of fascism, how this is looking worse and worse. Again, the scapegoat is immigrants right now; remember what happened in Nazi Germany: Right now it is much much less far-fetched thinking it could happen here. We have to remember what happened to Japanese people in the U.S. in WWII, where people were rounded up and put in concentration camps.â
âThis is the time for meetings with our fellow workers at our places of employment; this is the time to work on our common ground, the threat thatâs facing us now.â
From Lana â by phone during work hours, an hour later:
âItâs so multi-faceted, this outright chainsaw to any social safety nets, and we absolutely know as the economy goes south, we in the working class are first in line for the economic consequences. Isnât this what weâve been saying all along? That capitalism is evil because it uses us as fodder in so-called good times, and uses us as frontline fodder in any disaster?
âI think this is the time for us as syndicalists to get on our feet and organize, to get our fellow workers involved as a group from our workplace in community resistance â itâs a wake-up call. Five-alarm fire, letâs get to it !â
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Ghost Robotics CEO Townhome Vandalized
Submission
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.
Freedom of Movement
Submission
Seeing the crowded conditions in the concentration camps in Texas reminds me of Inauguration Day two months ago. That night we rose like lions striking at slumbering poachers.
We found a Customs and Border Protection SUV and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV in a parking garage in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. They were redecorated with paint, flattened tires, and shattered windows. Wouldnât you know it? That advice that an awl can more quietly deflate a tire when pushed through its sidewall was right. And in a pinch, the awl can also be used to break the same vehicleâs glass. This tool can be found at most any hardware store.
So much of this settler-colonial empireâs origins can be traced to this very neighborhood. Paternal participants in slavery and genocide negotiating the imaginary lines that would cross so many living beings decreed their authority here, attempting to halt and erase so much life. The continuation of those programs crosses party lines as easy as capital does the border, and Democrats are as deserving of our fury as Republicans. Freedom cannot be attained beneath their thumbs or anyone elseâs.
Another predator has settled in to his position as overseer, accompanied by an officer of law and order. Between them they have personally authored and been party to so much gendered and racialized violence, which is inherent to the nation-state. Donât mistake what appears to be silence for inaction, because weâve been busy. But this is a reminder that you donât need to wait for a protest to interfere with the functions of this country, especially as so many return to resting on their heels. Itâs imperative that we donât wait and we support each other with words and actions.
For the destruction of this and every other empire.
For anarchy.
Late-night fun
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Recently I gifted one OCF Realty van: four punctured tires…PLUS a bonus of two tires on a Comcast van.
Those spearheading gentrification make our lives increasingly unliveable, and will always be an enemy. Comcast has a contract with ICE; and they contribute to technological infrastructure and its web of surveillance, policing, ecological destruction and alienation. All things that continue to shape our daily lives into a suffocating prison of a world.
NOT being masked is suspicious these days, and I maintained 6ft of distance from another human the whole time! As what is ‘normal’ is changing rapidly, it’s important to think about how power will use our fear to keep us subdued. Shelter-in-place or not, are our lives really that free?
Philadelphia, PA: Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt Devereux Gala Against Detention of Migrant Children
from It’s Going Down
Report from recent action in Philadelphia against Devereux which has accepted a contract to open several migrant youth detention facilities.
On Saturday night, over 100 Jews, immigrants, and allies marched in the streets as others from the group infiltrated the annual fundraising gala of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. The demonstration was part of a larger campaign highlighting the $14 million contract Devereux accepted from the federal government to open several migrant youth detention centers. This action is the latest escalation from the national Jewish movement Never Again working in collaboration with local immigrant justice organization Juntos to demand that Devereux stop detaining migrant children.
On the streets outside of the event, protesters marched from 8th and Cherry to the National Constitution Center where the gala was held. Protestors chanted slogans like âItâs Not a Shelter, Itâs a Jailâ and blocked the Constitution Center parking garage where Devereux was offering free parking to its guests.
On October 17th, several dozen protestors from this campaign blocked the main exit to Devereux National Headquarters while protesting the nonprofitâs plans to hold migrant children in a detention center in Devon, PA. Devereux plans to use its $14 million contract from the Office of Refugee Resettlement to operate multiple youth detention centers nationwide, including one in Devon, PA, where they plan to house 42 migrant children who crossed the border without an adult.
Although Devereux calls them âshelters,â their facilities for migrant children are in fact detention centers since the children held there will be forbidden from leaving. âThese young people need to be immediately reunited with their families or sponsors, not detained,â said Juntos Executive Director Erika AlmirĂłn, adding that agencies like Devereux âarenât trying to help these children, theyâre trying to make money.â
Devereux claims to be âapoliticalâ and âneutralâ on immigration policy, but its participation in the terrifying status quo is cowardly. The number of kids in cages is higher than itâs ever been, and only growing under this administration. In 2019 alone, 70,000 migrant children were detained, including infants and toddlers â more than ever before in the US and more than any other country in the world.
The detention center in Devon recently had its zoning permit revoked and organizers demand that Devereux accept this decision. They further demand an end to corporations profiting off of immigrant detention, the complete defunding of ICE and CBP as overall agencies, and permanent protection for all undocumented immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Campaign Targeting Devereuxâs Youth Detention Centers Escalates as Protestors Plan to March
from It’s Going Down
Call for mass march on November 16th in Philadelphia against an immigrant youth detention center.
Philadelphia â On Saturday night, Jews, immigrants, and allies will march through downtown Philadelphia to protest the creation of privately-held immigrant youth detention centers by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. Devereux recently received a $14 million contract from the federal government to detain migrant children in facilities across the country, including in Devon, PA.
This action is the latest escalation from the national Jewish movement Never Again working in collaboration with local immigrant justice organization Juntos to demand that Devereux stop detaining migrant children. On October 17th, several dozen protestors from this campaign blocked the main exit to Devereux National Headquarters.
We demand that Devereux cancel its plans to hold 42 migrant children in a detention center in Devon, PA. We further demand an end to corporations profiting off of immigrant detention, the complete defunding of ICE and CBP as overall agencies, and permanent protection for all undocumented immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Devereux claims to be apolitical while it is catering to the political ends of the U.S. government. This was made clear when Devereuxâs Leah Yaw told the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), âShould ORR needs dictate, Devereux is ready to grow capacity well beyond the 182 beds [initially opened] during this projectâs three-year award cycle.â Devereux cannot remain apolitical when it makes covert promises to the Trump government that it will supply more and more child detention centers should the white nationalists in charge of our immigration policy deem it necessary.
There is no reason that unaccompanied children should be detained. In applying for asylum, they have committed no crime, and for decades, the US did not incarcerate them. Yet in 2019, nearly 70,000 migrant children have been detained so far, including infants and toddlers. While Devereux claims to be offering vital services to traumatized children with âspecialized needs,â they are merely perpetuating trauma through a system of violence that has taken these children from their families and holds them indefinitely.
While the guests at Devereuxâs 20th-anniversary gala enjoy appetizers and wine, the money they donate enriches an organization that seeks not only to prop up, but expand the current detention-and-deportation regime. As Jews, we know that people are isolated in secure facilities so the rest of the population can look the other way. Never Again stands with Juntos against private detention and the entire immigration deportation machine. We know that when a government targets one group of people, it is only a matter of time before everyoneâs freedom is under attack.
Join us, 6 PM, Saturday 11/16/19, N 8th and Cherry St Philadelphia, PA.
paint attack for willem van spronsen
Submission
The night of July 17 we paintbombed the facade of the Immigration and Citizenship Services building. We aimed for the big logo on the side of the building. We came up with and carried out this action quickly and spontaneously because we felt the urgency of attacking those who enforce borders. We especially felt this in the wake of Willem Van Spronsen’s death while fighting those maintaining concentration camps in the U$A. Acting in remembrance of our dead keeps the fire burning within us. We hope that this action and others add to the struggle against borders, until all borders are destroyed.
RIP Willem Van Spronsen
Noise Demo Against Borders & to Remember Willem van Spronsen
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End ICE Contracts! Mayday Solidarity March
from Facebook
The ‘End ICE Contracts! Mayday Solidarity Rally’ is a show of solidarity with workers all around the world with a specific emphasis on solidarity with the local immigrant community. The march will highlight corporate sponsorships of ICE.
Meet at the Octavius Catto Statue
[May 1st from 2:30 PM â 5:30 PM at South Penn Square]
Wells Fargo ATM Sabotaged
Submission
On the night of April 5th I sabotaged a Wells Fargo ATM using glue and a piece of credit card. Wells Fargo is part of the web of institutions and individuals that makes borders possible. Against borders and nations!
Political Vandalism Targets ICE Agent in Philadelphia
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Early this morning, the home and car of leading ICE/HSI agent Bryan McPherson at 2600 Cedar St. appears to have been targeted. His house was spray painted with the words âResist ICE,â and more importantly, his vehicle was disabled and thousands of dollars in damage done. This act of political vandalism follows after the names and addresses of several ICE agents in PA were released on the Internet last summer. At the time of this writing it is unclear whether this is an isolated incident, or whether other officers have been targeted.
In 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported over 270,000 people. ICE officers separate children from their families; several have died in custody. Bryan McPherson is the Assistant Special Agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of ICE in Philadelphia. It is unclear whether or not he will be able to use his vehicle to report to work and deport more people.
Chinga La Migra Graffiti
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Seen near Washington ave
