“This documentary takes a look at hacking in the place where technology and activists meet. Where the need to circumvent state surveillance and surveillance capitalism is grave. Where people see an unfair system in society and find a way to hack it. This is the true hacker habitat.
In direct opposition to banks, corporations and entrepreneurs who appropriated the words ‘hack/hackathon’, the film aims to fill these expressions with the subversive and anarchist tradition they originally contained. Delivered in chapter form, this film shows hacker projects and system hacking from Japan, Cuba, occupied Western Sahara, Belgium and Sweden. These chapters are intertwined with thought provoking interviews where hackers talk about the ethics behind what they do. Furthermore, the film mirrors these ideas in a discussion with the political theorist Emma Goldman’s writings. Filmed under the 2010s it provides an unique insight into a global political hacker movement.”
The film is in multiple languages with English subtitles.
This Saturday September 13th 3:30pm at LAVA: TAILS training! This will be a lecture and hands on lab for use of tails, an operating system you can use for increased privacy and anonymity online. Come out to learn and practice some useful skills!
Thought y’all should know that the government contractor L3 Harris is hosting a job fair in Camden, NJ. They are a major government contractor that just recently landed a large ICE contract.
“L3Harris Technologies is a major U.S. defense contractor, L3 Harris has a $4.4 million contract to provide “equipment to determine the location of targeted mobile handsets to investigate crimes and threats” for ICE. ”
The address is: DoubleTree by Hilton Mt. Laurel: 515 Fellowship Rd, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054
2-6PM August 20th
Coasting off our excitement about autonomous self-organization, on the night of July 22nd we painted over all four cameras at Malcolm X Park. We want the park to stay the kind of place where people can meet and hang out without being surveilled, that’s why we took the game of Camover there. We’re holding in our hearts two people who have been accused of attacking ICE and policing and who were recently captured after being on the run, Jahki and Benjamin Song.
Solidarity with everyone fighting ICE and police!
I disabled three cameras. The first one I cut the wire using wire cutters, another I painted over the dome with spray paint, and the third I cut the wires and pulled down the solar panel.
Here are two zines to help get started:
https://www.notrace.how/resources/read/how-to-submit-an-anonymous-communique.html
https://crimethinc.com/zines/blinding-the-cyclops
Cameras suck! They’re evil and they pry into our daily life and expose our networks, movements, and habits.
In 2013, someone called for a game, Camover. The goal? Get as many cameras as possible off the streets of Berlin.
The rules? Record your kill, use any method you like, and disable them shits.
We’re in Philly and it’s 2025 so recording your kill is fucking stupid we’re nixing that rule. Dress good move smart and get rowdy and creative !
Some tactics and strategies from years passed include: grappling hooks, spraying them out, smashing them up, fucking removing them, flex seal, etch bath, I’m sure you could think of more. In the passed 7 years, Philly’s camera system has gotten too good. They can pan they can zoom and feeds over periods of time can be aggregated and sorted thru by AI. This spells danger for radicals insurgents guerillas and criminals of any milieu. The solution is simple and it was implemented systematically by various crews during the George Floyd uprising. Strategy and tactics were employed to defeat surveillance, and in the blind spot of the state, anarchy bloomed.
Every camera is a cop, this destroying one is about half as good as gouging a pig’s eyes. Claim your kills by reporting (brief text description with location and method if you like) them to camoverphl25@proton.me or don’t. All I really care about is hamstringing the surveillance state, so let’s all have a fun summer and get free!
Game is over on the last day of August, the crew with the most kills gets Nothing because bragging is dumb and unsafe. Love y’all! Kisses
The world they built is collapsing—and it was never meant to hold us anyway. The air is thick with smog and endings. And still, we remain. Beneath the ruin, something stirs: hands in soil, medicine from weeds, instructions passed through broken frequencies. We are not gathering to be seen. We are gathering to prepare.
We’re calling for workshops on what keeps us alive and thriving outside of capital; in the face of extinction: guerrilla gardening, wild plant ID, DIY healthcare, tincture-making, abortion access, hormone care, self-defense, somatics, self-regulation, bio remediation, prepper magic, makeshift shelters, analog comms, wilderness first aid, infrared detection avoidance, squatting for longevity, and anti-tech survival that exists outside of omnipresent surveillance.
We want to know what to do when there’s no food on the shelves, when the grid goes dark, when the body breaks down and no help is coming. We want to explore how to interfere, how to disrupt, how to wound the systems that keep us docile, monitored, and afraid. There are many forms of offense. Let’s explore all of them.
Just as urgently, we need the skills that keep us from turning on each other. The kind of survival that chooses care as strategy. That knows self-tending is not separate from community defense. That resists disposability and domination alike. That finds ways to stay in relationship even through rupture. If you hold knowledge that feeds, protects, soothes, or repairs—bring it.
The future is burning. Let us gather what’s worth saving, and learn to defend it.
Proposal deadline: August 31st
Send proposals to phillyskilly2025@proton.me
*101’s are great, but we are looking for more advanced topics & discussions*
Philadelphia, PA — “Before long the entire city will know what this company does!” These were some of the last words spoken Tuesday morning by a protester with a megaphone and a kaffiyeh scarf after a few dozen people had gathered for two hours outside a well-appointed office building in Center City Philadelphia. Their target was Day & Zimmermann, a “construction, engineering, staffing and ammunition manufacture” company that makes shells and machine gun rounds used by Israel to kill Palestinians.
Employees arriving for work at the weapons manufacturer’s headquarters on June 3 found themselves greeted with banners reading “Day & Zimmermann Out Of Philly! – No Genocide Profiteers In Our Neighborhood” and “Day and Zimmermann Profits From Genocide in Gaza.“
Day & Zimmermann was previously visited by protesters in March and April 2024 who oppose its lucrative role in arming the ongoing Israeli genocide in occupied Palestine.
A new protest campaign just launched by the Philly chapter of Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) has vowed to bring shame and attention to Day & Zimmermann every Tuesday morning.
Tuesday morning’s visit to Day & Zimmermann’s offices highlighted the role of the “genocide profiteer” in the January 29, 2024 massacre in which Israeli soldiers killed 6-year-old Hind Rajab, six of her family members, and two paramedics. An exploded shell found at the scene of Rajab’s murder was traced via serial number to the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, which is owned and operated by Day & Zimmermann. (More info on this below.)
A Philly SJP spokesperson told Unicorn Riot,
“We’re committed to getting Day & Zimmermann the fuck out of Philly… they’re one of the country and the world’s leading weapons manufacturers… We are hoping to mobilize people against the murderers of Hind Rajab and countless other Palestinians… and kick them the fuck out.”
Philadelphia Students for Justice in Palestine Coalition
Activists chanted and distributed leaflets educating passers-by and employees in nearby businesses about their neighbor’s role in facilitating genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Several people working near the Day & Zimmermann HQ expressed shock and concern, with one woman telling protesters “y’all are doing God’s work, for real,” and remarking that she was aware of issues around the University of Pennsylvania’s investments in Israel but not of such a direct connection to her daily routine.
Clusters of protesters gathered outside the two front entrances on 1500 Spring Garden St. as well as Day & Zimmermann’s back entrance and employee parking gate by the intersection of 15th & Hamilton, where several prepared statements were read outlining recent Israeli massacres of Palestinians as employees walked by to clock in to work.
No arriving employees arriving interacted with any demonstrators; a building security employee briefly explained that they would not be permitted to block any entrances. Approximately a dozen Philadelphia Police, occasionally speaking with building security staff who would walk up to their cruisers, were deployed in vehicles scattered around the immediate area; a couple plainclothes officers sporting Civil Affairs Unit armbands stood closer to the building entrances monitoring the protest.
CBS Philadelphia (KYW-TV), whose headquarters is in the same building at 1500 Spring Garden, did not send a reporter to cover the protest despite their proximity. A CBS employee who spoke to Unicorn Riot on their way into work insisted that management was aware of the demonstration.
Day & Zimmermann bills itself as “a leading provider of munitions” and reportedly has over 43,000 employees in the US. The company has not responded to a request for comment as of publication time.
According to a research summary by the American Friends Service Committee, shells fired by Israeli Merkava tanks at the site of Hind Rajab’s murder and a November 2023 attack on a U.N. school had serial numbers that trace back to Mason & Hanger, a subsidiary of Day & Zimmermann for the last 25 years:
Day & Zimmermann, based in Pennsylvania, is a private munitions manufacturer. It operates the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant (IAAP), which has been the source of many of the artillery munitions used by the Israeli military, including 155mm rounds, fired by Israel’s M109 howitzer guns, and 120mm M830A1 High Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) round, fired by Israel’s Merkava battle tanks.
Mason & Hanger has operated the IAAP since 1951. Between 1998 and 2007, the factory was operated by American Ordnance, a joint venture of Mason & Hanger and General Dynamics. Day & Zimmermann acquired Mason & Hanger in 1999, and in 2007 it acquired General Dyanmics’ stake in American Ordnance.
In November 2023, Israeli tanks fired M830A1 rounds while attacking a U.N. school in Gaza. The serial number on one of the rounds recovered from the scene of the attack suggests that it was manufactured at the IAAP by Mason & Hanger in December 1990.
On January 19, 2024, Israeli tanks fired M830A1 rounds in an attack that killed six-year-old Hind Rajab, her six family members, and the medics who attempted to rescue her, in the Gaza neighborhood of Tel al-Hawa. The serial number on an exploded round found inside the ambulance sent to rescue Rajab suggests that it was manufactured at the IAAP by Mason & Hanger in November 1996.
In December 2023, the U.S. government used emergency measures to approve the transfer of 14,000 M830A1 tank rounds to Israel without Congressional review. The transfer—from the existing inventory of the U.S. Army–was worth $106.5 million and funded by U.S. taxpayers’ money.
Day & Zimmermann’s factory in Texarkana, Texas, is the current supplier of M830A1 rounds for the U.S. Army. Between 2017 and 2021, the U.S. Army’s supplier of these munitions was a Northrop Grumman factory in Plymouth, Minn.
As of the week of June 2, 2025, Cherry Hill police remote camera centers have been spotted at the Cherry Hill Home Depot located at 2160 Route 70 West.
The police camera set up is positioned in the middle of the parking lot in front of the store.
Any explanation from the police, state, corporate entities, or the mainstream media about the camera system should be assessed with extreme caution as it is likely dubious. Community members in the area have expressed concern about the camera’s purpose as it doesn’t match the store or police’s response for “loss prevention”. Home Depot store policy dictates they do not actively pursue potential shoplifters and instead utilize their own in-store cameras and the police to catch people after the fact.
The Cherry Hill police have a long history of collaboration with ICE, with ICE even having a former field office located in Cherry Hill, NJ. Currently ICE operates 25 official field offices across the United States, two of which are in driving distance located in Newark, NJ and Philadelphia, PA. ICE also operates several sub-field offices across the state of NJ including one in Mt. Laurel which is located near Cherry Hill.
Any police camera centers, especially around places the federal government has deemed as heavily trafficked by undocumented immigrants, should be treated with caution and reported to area antifascists.
Seeing the wave of tesla arsons has made us incredibly happy. But we are worried to see that many of these attacks have used molotovs
-molotovs aren’t guaranteed to ignite/explode. There have been many cases where police have recovered intact molotov cocktails from attacks. that is a shitton of forensic evidence that detectives WILL exploit.
-Even if the bottle does shatter, the shards of glass still likely contain tons of valuable forensic evidence
-Molotovs are loud and immediately create a big flame, all of which kills the element of surprise needed for arson attacks, which runs the risk of you getting captured or the fire gets extinguished much quicker
ALTERNATIVES: Fire starter cubes, sometimes paired with liquid accelerant in plastic bottles
Fire starter cubes are probably the best way to burn a car.
-they are guaranteed to self destruct
-they are discreet. By the time the vehicle has been engulfed in flames you will have had ample time to escape
-they are widely available, small, lightweight, and incredibly simple to use
Instructions:
We haven’t tested if a singular small cube is sufficient, but we recommend using at least a pack/bundle of them per vehicle. Placing them on top of a front tire is the best for both electric and gas vehicles. Placing them under the vehicle next to the tire could also be a good option as the flame is even more hidden, but we havent tested it ( if you do it this way it would probably be smart to also incorporate a plastic bottle of accelerant to ensure the flames are high and and strong enough)
Whatever design you use, you must test it beforehand and guarantee that every part of the device will be destroyed in a timely manor.
Dont smash windows if youre going to burn something because it is loud and increases the risk of leaving dna. be careful not to touch anything at the scene of the crime
Exercise abundant caution obtaining and handling materials. The no trace project (notrace.how) has great resources for avoiding surveillance and mitigating forensic evidence.
Stay anonymous, get home safe, and go torch the ever loving shit out of every part of this miserable society.
-Anarchists Against Electric Vehicles, Electricity, and Vehicles
Submission
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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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This is a presentation based discussion about the necessity of radical circles to move away from digital technology in our current political moment. We argue that social media, cell phones and digital technology play an active role in harming our movements and capacities for resistance. Digital technology surveils us, de-skills us, and inhibits our social abilities. Furthermore, these technologies are controlled and developed by fascist enemies of Silicon Valley. Our discussion will focus upon ways to divest from social media, personal devices and digital technologies to create new forms of comradeship away from the gaze of the State and tech over-lords. There will be a brief presentation then a discussion about the topic.
Friday, March 14, 2025
5:00 PM 7:00 PM
Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center210 South 45th StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19104United States(map)
Early thankstaking morning* we flooded the home that Ghost Robotics CEO Gavin Kenneally is trying to sell. He used to live there but seems to have moved out after the home started getting attacked. In July his home was tagged and in October it was tagged again and windows were broken. To create more lasting damage we ran a hose from a wall faucet through a small hole we punched into a glass door and turned the water on. Ghost Robotics develops robot dogs that are used in occupied Palestine and at the US/Mexico border. We took the fox we saw slipping under a fence as a good omen and hope the water kept running all night.
Let us each be a small drop in a liberating flood that drowns all authority!
