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abolitionmedia<h2>Bremen, Germany: 4 Cop Cars Set on Fire</h2><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/03/bremen.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>Switch off the security state! Four unmarked police vehicles set on fire at Doventor police stationOn the night of 9 to 10 March, with several incendiary devices, we disturbed the mortuary peace of the police station in Doventor, on Daniel-von Büren Street, which was open. In good conscience, we set fire behind the station, in front of and in the parking lot.To the cops: That night, you arrested the wrong people. Again, you’re fumbling in the dark. You made the press, and therefore all of us, believe that you had everything under control. It’s more than embarrassing. This shows once again how arbitrary and racist your actions are, when we learn who you have arrested. Be ashamed and deal with your over-inflated authoritarian ego. Instead, recognize that it is possible to sneak into your police station and place incendiary devices under your vehicles. Shame and fear must change sides. For more imitators.To people aged 15 to 27: We are really sorry that the cops harassed you because of our action and that you were held until Monday afternoon. We know what it’s like to be taken to a police station. It’s annoying. We hope you are doing well and that your friends are taking good care of you.To our enemies: The new German government wants more military weaponry. Everyone agrees to give even more money and murderous orders to the arms industries. Fascism is getting closer and closer. Everywhere we look in the world, we see crazy people, usually men, who are turning their inhumane, patriarchal, right-wing fantasies into reality. This diligently pushes to a new, lower level. We must not believe that this simply fell from the sky. In many countries of the European Union, it is rather an insidious process and thus everything that has to do with self-determination and solidarity is gradually being stifled. History repeats itself. Democracy, with its cowardly attitude, opens wide the doors to fascists. Hate campaigns are still trending in Germany, and remigration is on everyone’s lips. As a result of these debates, the cops are also rearmed and they have more leeway and better weapons. We will not accept the violent and threatening behavior of the cops and the state. Four cars, with which the shitty cops spy on us, denounce us, threaten us, observe us, less… Attacking the cops is an act of resistance and disarmament!To our comrades in combat who are in prison and to all the comrades who are affected by the repression: Rest assured: we will continue our common struggles against exploitation and oppression. Freedom and happiness for Maja, Hanna, Nanuk, Gino, Nele, Paul, Luca, Zaid, Paula, Tobi, Clara, Moritz, Marianna, Dimitra, Sarah… Fiery greetings to the anarchists of Munich, who were attacked during the night by 140 heavily armed policemen, and to the anarchists M. and N., incarcerated in Stadelhem.To Burkhard*: We read your discussion invitation text, “The Possibility of a Historic Moment is Now.” We too believe that in the coming years the situation will worsen so much that we may no longer be able to avoid an armed struggle. We will continue to discuss these options in our circles. Until then, we will attack the cruel authoritarian world with the current means, such as fire.We also greet you and send you a lot of strength, wherever you are.Until everyone is free!(A)* Note of Attaque: Burkhard Garweg, former member of the RAF, still in hiding after the dissolution of the organization in the 90s and the arrest of Daniela Klette in February 2024. He recently sent an open letter to the daily Neues Deutschland. It is available <a href="https://gsxbcjvcrdl66ycimkwra2nxzwvy2idef4twi7elojuzm5ztt5abqyid.onion/node/496935" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.<a href="https://gsxbcjvcrdl66ycimkwra2nxzwvy2idef4twi7elojuzm5ztt5abqyid.onion/node/498270" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">de.indymedia.org</a> / Friday, March 14, 2025<blockquote><a href="https://attaque.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/15/breme-allemagne-switch-off-letat-securitaire/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brême (Allemagne) : Switch off l’État sécuritaire !</a></blockquote><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17585" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17585</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anarchist/" target="_blank">#anarchist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/direct-action/" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/europe/" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/germany/" target="_blank">#germany</a>

abolitionmedia<h2>Our Burning Memory: Social War & The Combatants for Black Liberation</h2><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/03/bla-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>“I had rationalized the world and the world had rejected me on the basis of color prejudice. Since no agreement was possible on the level of reason, I threw myself back toward unreason.” – Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White MasksOur history is a history of names of the dead.Oscar Grant, Kimani Gray, Alton Sterling, Freddy Gray, Brionna Taylor, Mike Brown, Timothy Green, Kajeme Powell, Vonderitt Myers, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sean Bell, Rekia Boyd, Sonya Massey, Ta’Kiya Young, and on, and on, and on….Since about 2015, when I first found people who were keeping track, the average number of people killed by police every year is about 1,500 people. 1,500 unique individuals whose lives were snuffed out, whose absence ripples across a whole constellation of relations – relatives, friends, loved ones, communities, etc. That, of course, is only explicit murders, not a variety of different forms of death in custody that are also murders, not harassment, not brutality, not sexual assault and rape.So great are our dead, and at every turn they should be honored and remembered. Who remembers them and honors them better than our fighters? But…who are our fighters? Who makes note of and remembers them?Our history is a history of defeat, and that defeat has us adopting the worldview of the enemy, has us accepting the limits of our chains. The left wing of capital, the self professed revolutionaries and yes even many anarchists, have adopted a stance of self victimization. In shock from the violence of oppression, the daily blood quota to keep a system of racial caste domination functioning, many will flee from what is asked of us, talking about safety before talking of fire and gunpowder – if they ever do. They will say “White Bodies To The Front!”, “Dismantling White Supremacy is White People’s Work!” as if someone could ever fight in place of us. They will tell people to stay out of the streets, to stay in line, to not come out before ever thinking of picking up a rock and a stick. They will talk infinitely about the strength of the police, but will never talk of their weaknesses.When those few brave individuals, no longer accepting the daily misery and humiliation, no longer accepting the limitations thrust upon us by the color of our skin, strike out in displays of ferocity and courage, the activists and revolutionaries rush in to spit upon their memory. They’re adventurists. Individual action doesn’t do anything. Your actions are going to bring repression upon us. You’re making us look bad. You’re a fed. That was a false flag. They’re not affiliated with us, we’re the good ones. We’re the docile ones. We’re the cowardly ones who never dare to strike against our chains.This tension is notable in looking at who is worth remembering. We talk of the innocent, the unarmed killed by the police and vigilante. If the innocent deserve our support, the guilty do doubly so. So much breath is wasted in trying to justify why so and so isn’t a criminal, was innocent, didn’t deserve to die. As though all our other kin deserve death. All the while the dominant order continues to stack our bodies because they see crime not in the action but in the origin – the birth in black skin.I do not identify with this mythical figure of innocence – a white figure, an appeal to white morality. In the figure of the shoplifter, the drug dealer, the prostitute, the carjacker, the shooter I will always see more of myself. I know what is done is incidental, irrelevant, an excuse to play out fantasies of violence against black people, a desire to punish the Black Other to affirm the Goodness of White.In an act of reclaiming the memory of the guilty, of uplifting our fighters I wish to talk about two particular individuals – Christopher Monfort and Korryn Gaines.Our Memory Is A Burning Fuse“My intentions are the best for the city and the country. The things I’m accused of are selfless acts. I didn’t get anything out of them.” – Christopher Monfort, <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/accused-seattle-cop-killer-christopher-monfort-loner-obsessed-by-ideology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Seattle Times Interview</a>October 22nd. Smoke rises from the Seattle City Maintenance Facility – multiple cop cars have burst into flames. A note is left at the scene referencing the video of King County Sheriff Paul Schene repeatedly punching 15 year old Malika Calhoun who is held in custody.The perpetrator gets away, the attack remains unsolved.10PM on the 31st, a cold Halloween night, and a vehicle drives through the streets of Seattle’s Central District. It pulls up next to an SPD patrol car and the window rolls down. The officers turn their heads to look over and from the darkness of the vehicle they are greeted not with a face, but with a barrel of a rifle. It opens its mouth to speak.KRAK KRAK KRAK.This exchange of speech in a language the police know so well lasts less than a minute before the rifle disappears into the darkness of the car. The vehicle quickly turns around and speeds off from the direction it came.A look back over the scene: An SPD patrol car riddled with bullets, one pig slumped in his seat dead, the other injured.“And when we die there ain’t no fireworks or fuckin parades” – Bambu, Since I Was A YouthNovember 6th, the armed death cult of SPD hold a public memorial – a procession through the city they occupy, a show of force. Around the same time out in Tukwila a snitch, a cop without a uniform, calls in a suspicious vehicle that matches the description of the vehicle that opened fire on the occupying army. The enemy encroaches on an apartment complex, a man brandishes a 9mm Glock and flees up the stairwell. The enemy approaches, the man pops out from the corner putting the gun into the cops face and pulls the trigger – click – he forgot to chamber a round. He goes down in a hail of gunfire into his head and stomach.The enemy enters the man’s apartment. They find a small armory – a bolt action rifles and 2 semi-auto rifles, a shotgun, another .45 handgun, homemade explosives and firebombs and booby traps.Ballistic and DNA forensics identify this man – Christopher Monfort – as the arsonist and gunman. Despite all odds he survives, now paralyzed from the waist down with a bullet lodged in his spine and with brain damage.“So when the system seems to break down what do we do? We march, we protest, we form groups and the police scowl at us on the sides of the road and talk about the overtime they’re getting. If you stand close enough you can hear them. They have no intent on listening to a thousand or ten thousand people marching for police to stop their brutality. When you see a couple police officers brutalizing or murdering someone there’s always a few, maybe half a dozen, of their friends around them. They’re not gonna tell on their buddies. They’re not crossing the blue line.” -Christopher Monfort, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YDP9buYVHg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Final Statement to the Court</a>Despite everything, Chris was able to speak for himself. He was sentenced to life in prison. He died in 2017 in his cell at Walla Walla State prison, allegedly from overdose. Anarchists continued to support him until his death.—————————————————————-“’She always was a little radical, and she was hardcore about certain stuff. She did a lot of research … laws of the land,’ Rhanda [Korryn’s Mother] said. ‘And right after Freddie Gray got killed, it amplified because he was a neighbor to us. We used to see him.’” – <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/twenty-three-years-of-resisting-police-brutality-the-life-and-death-of-korryn-gaines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interview with the Mother of Korryn Gaines</a>March 10th, 2016. A woman is pulled over for driving a vehicle with a piece of cardboard where a license plate should be. She is ordered out of her vehicle as a cop threatens to taze her. “You are not going to kidnap me, you are going to have to kill me.”She is arrested for a disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She is held for two days in isolation with neither food nor water.August 1st, police come to her door to serve a warrant for missed court dates. The door is opened, the the cops are greeted with a shotgun to their face. They retreat and call for back up and a 6 hour standoff ensues.Initially they try to frame the situation as a kidnapping but have to roll it back as a Facebook livestream of the stand off goes viral, with her calmly in her home and the occasional shot of her children in the background eating and playing. She talks about the situation while friends and followers cheer her on and tell her to hold strong.In part of the video, Gaines asks her 5 year old son “Who is outside?” He answers “The police.” She asks why; “To kill us.” He responds.Toward the end of the standoff, the Baltimore Police – with compliance from Facebook – gain access to her account, shut off the live stream and deactivate the account. Within moments of the live stream going down, the cops shoot through the wall, killing Korryn and wounding her child.“’Officer shot through a wall and couldn’t even see nothing,’ Rhanda said. She describes the sentiment of the officer as, ‘Nerve of this little Black girl to stay in this house when we said to come out!’” – <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/twenty-three-years-of-resisting-police-brutality-the-life-and-death-of-korryn-gaines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Interview with the Mother of Korryn Gaines</a> The Black Liberation Army Is A Living Tension“…our final consideration is whether or not these masses must centralize their organizing (not to be confused with the obvious need to coordinate their efforts!). To that I answer with an emphatic, ‘no!’ and further, I contend that such centralization will only make it easier for our oppressors to identify and level repression upon us – prolonging the crisis our generation must deal with.” – Russell Maroon Shoatz, The Dragon and the HydraThese two stories are a drop in the ocean – there’s a thousand stories like these. Hidden, buried, choked out by our enemies and the cowards who enable them. Names and acts we will never know. The point in recounting and connecting these stories, beyond the inspiration of individual action, is to describe a living tension.Once is an act of insanity. Twice is a lone wolf. A thousand times begins to look like an army.While revolutionaries waste their ink and breath talking of conditions, of “the people” not being ready, the past two decades has been the informal spread of practices and the development of ad hoc fighting formations. The shooters, the rock throwers, the looters, the arsonists, the getaway drivers. A black liberation army – a de facto informal network of fighters across the territories dominated by the american state – has been building and fighting right before our very eyes.Many look at this and see disorganization, a child needing the strong hand of the Patriarch to guide them, whether in the form of the vanguard party or the leader, to the real means of freedom that these chaotic and ungrateful negros will never grasp on their own. But any closer look shows that we are very obviously organized and coordinated – perhaps the most organized forces in these territories and perhaps it’s the revolutionaries who need a lesson in organization.Or better yet, the revolutionaries need to be pushed out of our way.Yes, the organization, the coordination, the fighting spirit is all there. What is needed is for us to consciously recognize this – that we aren’t fighting alone, that to some degree or another we have built upon the ideas, strategies and practices of others, refined in the forge of street combat. This consciousness has been developing over the past 20 years and through bitter and bloody experience will continue to develop is greater and lesser degree, in different ways, in different territories.I don’t have a plan or a great analysis to give you to beautifully close this out. All I can offer is this; I see tensions that need to be pushed, memories that need to be reclaimed, and developing practices that need to be analyzed. Through writing, through video, through music, performance, crime, and practice in the instances of street combat to come I seek to spread and clarify these and be in dialogue with the development of the black liberation army, walking alongside it as an anarchist and developing it as a participant.If nothing else has been made more clear to me, I can clearly see that many individuals in many different territories see a similar trajectory and, like me, awkwardly stumble towards it. Just as I develop and dialogue with local and regional tensions, I hope to dialogue with you all, sharing our ideas, sharpening our practices.I cannot say what the future holds, victory or defeat. All I can say for certain is that no savior from on high will deliver us from the position we find ourselves in; that our destiny is in our hands alone, so let’s make sure our hands are armed.In Memory Of Our Fallen; Let us turn their cities into funeral pyres. In Memory Of Our Fighters; Let us honor your names with fire and gunpowder. Peace By Piece (A)<blockquote><a href="https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/our-burning-memory-social-war-the-combatants-for-black-liberation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our Burning Memory: Social War & The Combatants for Black Liberation</a></blockquote><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17424" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17424</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anarchist/" target="_blank">#anarchist</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation/" target="_blank">#blackLiberation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/black-liberation-army/" target="_blank">#blackLiberationArmy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/police-violence/" target="_blank">#policeViolence</a>

abolitionmedia<h2>(Chile) 5th Commemoration of Jorge Mora, el Neco.</h2><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/02/chile.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>Excerpted from Frente FotográficoOn January 28, 2020, after the match between Colo-Colo and Palestino, a truck of the cops runs over Neco, taking his life. The paco, who was driving that day, was sentenced only to a weekly signature and was left with national roots, confirming once again, the impunity and support that the institution has to murder and repress without major criminal consequences.On January 28, 2025, a new commemoration was held in the neighborhood where Neco “El Beta” lived. Hundreds of friends, family and supporters of the Colo-Colo arrived there. The day was marked by the harassment and repression of the cops, who early in the morning were arbitrarily arresting and controlling those who approached the sector.Finally, there is the burning of a bus and clashes with COP, who harassed in the vicinity of the passage where El Neco lived.<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/02/chile2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/02/chile3.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/02/chile4.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2025/02/chile5.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a><a href="https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/18/chile-5-conmemoracion-de-jorge-mora-el-neco/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://informativoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/18/chile-5-conmemoracion-de-jorge-mora-el-neco/</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17014" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17014</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/chile/" target="_blank">#chile</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/police-violence/" target="_blank">#policeViolence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/south-america/" target="_blank">#southAmerica</a>

Nando161The family of the boy killed after losing control of his bicycle while pursued by police continues to seek justice.<a href="https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-chased-tj-hickey-to-his-death-21-years-ago-and-the-silence-remains/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-police-chased-tj-hickey-to-his-death-21-years-ago-and-the-silence-remains/</a><a href="https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/51509" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://t.me/AntifascistSolidarity/51509</a><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nswpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nswpol</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nswgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nswgov</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/nsw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nsw</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/newsouthwales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newsouthwales</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classwar</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#australia</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/acab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#acab</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/AllCopsAreBastards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AllCopsAreBastards</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/anticop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anticop</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/antipolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antipolice</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#murder</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/statism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#statism</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/tjhickey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tjhickey</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/ausgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ausgov</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/tasgov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tasgov</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/taspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taspol</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/politas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politas</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/auslaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auslaw</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanrights</a>

abolitionmedia<h2>Burning Barricades After Police Murder in Milan, Italy</h2><a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/milan.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>Everyone hates the policeOn Sunday night [November 24, in Milan] Ramy Elgaml died after falling from the scooter on which he was traveling with a friend chased by the carabinieri for several kilometers. Ramy was a 19-year-old boy who lived in Corvetto. Since his death became known, numerous boys and girls, his friends, have found themselves in the street at the crash site, next to his family. Soon the pain of his death turned into anger and thirst for the truth about what happened. On the night between Sunday and Monday there were moments of clash with the police in the streets of the popular neighborhood where he lived where someone had started to set fire to bins and waste. Even on Monday evening, for a few hours, normality stopped and in its place appeared burning barricades and groups of people clashed with the police, who responded by throwing numerous tear gas canisters in an attempt to disperse the people who instead did not allow themselves to be intimidated. Ramy’s death is probably the straw that broke the camel’s back. Those who come from working-class neighborhoods have to deal with the police every day, for one reason or another. They know the arrogance and violence of the cops and know well what a police stop means.And that’s how the anger increases.At the end of Monday evening a 21-year-old boy was arrested and taken to San Vittore while in Corvetto the anger and melted plastic of the bins on the asphalt remain. Ramy will live in the hearts of his family and friends, in the rage that will set the streets ablaze. Cops out of the neighborhoods. Freedom for everyone.[Taken from the Galipettes Milano facebook page and republished in <a href="https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/26/tout-le-monde-deteste-la-police/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/26/tout-le-monde-deteste-la-police/</a>]<a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12765" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12765</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/barricades/" target="_blank">#barricades</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/europe/" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/italy/" target="_blank">#italy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/milan/" target="_blank">#milan</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/tag/police-violence/" target="_blank">#policeViolence</a>

abolitionmedia<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/ny.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>3 November 2024 – Anonymous submission:Stop Cop City. This Means War.On September 15, pigs in Brownsville opened fire on the L train over $2.90. The pigs shot three people over fare evasion. In the following weeks, pigs across the city brutalized and mass arrested anyone who protested against police terrorism.We’ve all seen the increase of pigs in our communities, the national guard at subway stations, private security firms such as Allied partnering with the MTA. We’ve seen the blueprints for a 300-ft. high jail in Chinatown. We’ve seen an increase in violent sweeps of both street vendors and our homeless neighbors. Now, we’ve seen the announcement of a $225 million cop city in Queens set to break ground in 2026 in College Point. Its purported goal is to consolidate training for 18 city agencies, including the departments of sanitation, homeless services, and children’s services. This facility aims to militarize city government workers against our most vulnerable neighbors and we are the ones paying for it to be built.This on top of the nypd’s already-bloated budget, a record-breaking $12 Billion in 2025. This on top of the $22 Billion the u.s. has sent to the zionist entity to fund its sadistic genocide in Gaza and its state terrorism in the West Bank, 48, Lebanon and Yemen. This on top of centuries of extraction to fund and pervade ever-expanding empire. Let this small act be a drop in a wave of abolitionist action.FUCK 12, FUCK THE EMPIRE, SINWAR LIVES, ALL GLORY TO THE RESISTANCE.Image description: actionists paint the entrance of the New York City Police Academy red and burn an amerikkkan flag, draped over a police barricade.<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/ny2.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a> <a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/ny5.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a> <a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/ny4.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a> <a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/11/ny3.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>Source: <a href="https://unityoffields.org/?p=1378" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Unity of Fields</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/05/targeting-ny-pig-academy/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/05/targeting-ny-pig-academy/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/nyc/" target="_blank">#nyc</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/nypd/" target="_blank">#NYPD</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/palestine-solidarity/" target="_blank">#palestineSolidarity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/stop-cop-city/" target="_blank">#stopCopCity</a>

abolitionmedia<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/10/greece.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>The mire of defeatism and misery sucks us deeper and deeper as we remain passive in the face of repression, terrorism and death sown by states.The dystopian present is methodically growing, two more people are added to the long list of dead in police hellholes. The 37-year-old Mohammed Kamran Asik, having been transferred to 5 different departments while he was missing, was finally found dead at Aghios Panteleimonas AT, in a room without cameras, with strong signs of torture. Mia Harizul, 29, was found hanged at AT Omonia in a detention facility without cameras with 11 other detainees present. It is clear that these are murders, with their expected cover-up by regime snitches. At the same time, the government, under the auspices of the doctrine of law and order, but also in order to safeguard its vomitic international relations with genocidal states, is forcing its dogs to suppress in all ways all kinds of resistance. This tactic is proven in practice, when on 7/10 the pro-Palestine march heading to the Israeli embassy is brutally attacked by cops, people are arrested and charged with felonies.Murders of immigrants, files on activists, threats, beatings of students inside their university, arrests, indictments, torture… These are some of the things we have seen lately.In the early morning of Friday 11/10, an explosive device was placed in a police interrogation van, with the explosion causing damage mainly to the front of the vehicle. Unfortunately, the response of the fire brigade was immediate and did not have time to burn to the ground. It is important here to mention the bullying of local uniformed lackeys towards young people (where he takes them…) under the pretext of formal control. Such situations may also necessitate the responsibility that each one bears for counterattacking.It is a necessity to live with our heads held high, the fear to change sides To assert our denials, with stubbornness… for everything to come to a head.A raised fist for those who chose the path of fire, resistance and violent counterattack in the world of the rulers.UNDIVIDED STRENGTH TO THOSE ARRESTED FROM THE MARCH ON 7/10SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPATIONS AND STRUCTURES OF STRUGGLEPOLICE ABOMINATIONS, EVERYTHING WILL BE ANSWEREDNOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING GOES ONSource: <a href="https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632221/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Athens Indymedia</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/12/missolonghi-greece-explosive-attack-on-police-interrogation-van/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/12/missolonghi-greece-explosive-attack-on-police-interrogation-van/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/attack/" target="_blank">#attack</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/direct-action/" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/europe/" target="_blank">#europe</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/greece/" target="_blank">#greece</a>

abolitionmedia<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/10/evergreen.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>It came from the forest – a darkness slowly descended upon the evergreen state college. Creeping up to the edge of the light, creatures clad in black burst forth upon the four parked police vehicles. Hammers and knives unleashed and with the passing of the shadow the sounds of smashing glass and pressurized air hissing out of tires filled the night, and just as quickly as it descended the shadow receded back into the woods.This was not an act of retaliation but an act of war – a war against the police, against evergreen and all the institutions of passivity, a war against all domination that we did not start but we were born into and gladly take up anew on the side of TOTAL FREEDOM.Here’s the secret self professed “revolutionaries”, professional activists and professors of “direct action” don’t want you to know – it’s easy and fun to attack! We’re not particularly special people nor some elite group. We are simply individuals who have had enough – enough of the stifled action of self appointed leaders and formal organization channeling revolutionary energy toward dead ends and empty promises. They will tell you the impossibility of action, we will tell you that all this took was common household items – hammers and pocket knives – a little bit of planning and a few phoneless walks with friends.The police try to present an all powerful, untouchable image but without this image they are vulnerable. That’s why this attack has been kept off the news, because they are afraid that if people see that it’s possible, that they are not all powerful, that the attacks will spread.Will you heed the call? To attack is daunting and we too were afraid but we acted despite our fear. We prepared for the worst yet no alarms went off, no one chased us and we easily escaped to safety. This will not always be the case and cannot be counted on, but if you let your fear stop you from doing what needs to be done you only empower your enemies and disempower other potential rebels. Remember, to the daring belongs the future!We leave you with these tools to pursue action on your own terms, by yourself or in a group you can act. If you’re looking for targets, walk outside your home and you’ll see a million ways to fight the empire.What Is Security Culture? <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-what-is-security-culture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-what-is-security-culture</a>Confidence, Courage, Connection, Trust <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-confidence-courage-connection-trust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-confidence-courage-connection-trust</a>Recipe for Nocturnal Direct ActionBuilding Action Capacity <a href="https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/developing-action-capacity-a-path/developing-action-capacity-a-path.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.notrace.how/resources/download/developing-action-capacity-a-path/developing-action-capacity-a-path.txt</a>Affinity, Informal Organization and Insurrectional Projects <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-archipelago" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-archipelago</a>No Trace Project – A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught. <a href="https://notrace.how" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://notrace.how</a>Unravel – North American Counter Info <a href="https://unravel.noblogs.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://unravel.noblogs.org</a>Act For Freedom Now! – International Counter Info <a href="https://actforfree.noblogs.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://actforfree.noblogs.org</a>Source: <a href="https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/9-25-attack-on-evergreen-police-services/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Puget Sound Anarchists</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/08/9-25-attack-on-evergreen-police-services/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/08/9-25-attack-on-evergreen-police-services/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/direct-action/" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/evergreen-state-college/" target="_blank">#evergreenStateCollege</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/olympia/" target="_blank">#olympia</a>

abolitionmedia<a class="" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/files/2024/10/nyc.cleaned.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[🖼 abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/fil…]</a>New York City is a case study of how imperialist violence abroad and state violence domestically are two sides of the same coin. The unfortunate stories of Derrell Mickles and Jordan Neely capture the ways that the state carries out the ongoing war on the African/Black working class.On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely walked onto the F train at the Second Avenue subway stop in Manhattan and never walked out. Daniel Penny, a former Marine from West Islip in suburban Suffolk County, executed Jordan Neely in a full subway car while passengers watched. They were forced to witness Penny keep Neely in a chokehold for about <a class="" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny-stand-trial-october-nyc-subway-chokehold/story?id=108310019#:~:text=Penny%2C%20a%20former%20Marine%2C%20put,district%20attorney's%20office%20have%20said." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">six minutes </a> — even after he had gone completely motionless.Neely, a known subway performer and Michael Jackson impersonator, was homeless and battled a number of mental health conditions. That day on the train, he began to cry out in anger and anguish and instead of receiving help or services, he was murdered.He was murdered for being too poor, too ill, too loud. Penny and his lawyers claimed Neely was <a class="" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny-stand-trial-october-nyc-subway-chokehold/story?id=108310019#:~:text=Penny%2C%20a%20former%20Marine%2C%20put,district%20attorney's%20office%20have%20said." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“insanely threatening” </a> to the passengers and that he, in turn, was trying to keep them “safe”.  Neely’s very presence upset Penny to the point of a murderous rage because Neely was an African/Black man showing discontent — his rage for his lot in life, for the fact that he was hungry, tired, and didn’t have a consistent place to lay his head.Neely lived his life in the richest city in the world — the home of Wall Street. The place to be for the bourgeoisie. The city that epitomizes the American dream.If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!But that’s not true for most New Yorkers, is it? The working-class folks — the ones who run your neighborhood corner stores, the construction workers, the janitor who cleans the fancy C-Suite offices, or the nonprofit worker making $30,000 a year to provide services to the community. How about the gig worker who jumps from job to job to scrape together enough to keep a roof over their head or the families on public assistance who have to stretch that last bit on their EBT card to buy food for the rest of the month?What about the people who can’t afford the ever-rising cost of an MTA MetroCard?Just a little more than a month before Penny is set to stand trial for manslaughter, despite evidence that it was indeed a cold-blooded murder, another public execution occurred in Brownsville, Brooklyn.Derrell Mickles walked into the Sutter Avenue subway station on September 15, 2024, hopped a turnstile, and headed toward the L train platform. Two NYPD officers, who have become more present over the years as the city continually adds more cops to the subways, saw Mickles and started to follow. They chased him up the stairs until they reached the platform. He stepped onto the train as it arrived, and they went after him. He held a blade in his hands, most of the time behind his back or pointed away from the police. They gave him commands to put it down and then fired their tasers. Mickles ran away and they followed, pointing their guns at him. They chased him out of the car and surrounded him, one on each side. He finally stopped as they demanded and put his hands at his side, his back to the train car.That’s when they <a class="" href="https://gothamist.com/news/man-shot-by-nypd-at-brooklyn-subway-stop-cant-walk-his-attorney-says" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unload nine shots </a> into an open train platform, shooting Mickles and two bystanders.One of the bystanders was shot in the leg and <a class="" href="https://archive.ph/KUrSm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">currently cannot walk </a>. The other bystander was shot in the head and now suffers from <a class="" href="https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/news/2024/09/18/family-of-bystander-shot-by-police-in-brownsville-brooklyn-demand-body-camera-footage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">brain damage </a>. The two officers fired so wildly that one of them was also shot in a case of “friendly” fire. To them, Mickles was too defiant, too resistant to their illegitimate authority. He was a threat and had to be put down for their “safety” while putting everyone on that platform in danger.These are the unfortunate tales of two poor and working-class African/Black people brutalized in New York City by agents of this violent imperialist state with a callous disregard for what they consider “collateral damage.”One execution was committed by a recent veteran of the most vile, vicious, and vast military wing of the biggest and wealthiest empire in history. The fist of colonialism and imperialism around the world, the military either directly occupies nations or indirectly works to destabilize them, allowing U.S. political and corporate forces to extract natural resources, exploit labor from the global south, and maintain global hegemony.The other murder was committed by the military that occupies our communities — the NYPD. Seventy-seven precincts souped up with the latest dystopian sci-fi technology, like robot dogs, drones, armored trucks, facial recognition, cellphone surveillance devices, Domain Awareness System, X-ray vans, AI scanners, and more through mechanisms like the <a class="" href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/03/the-pentagon-finally-details-its-weapons-for-cops-giveaway" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1033 program </a> and <a class="" href="https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-us-gains-israel-alliance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">exchange with Israel </a>.With <a class="" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-us-has-military-bases-in-172-countries-all-of-them-must-close/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">approximately 800 U.S. military bases </a> around the world and the increasing proliferation of domestic bases and state-of-the-art outposts, widely referred to as <a class="" href="https://isyourlifebetter.net/cop-cities-usa/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Cop Cities” </a>, you can draw no other conclusion than that the U.S. is not only waging war internationally but also domestically against us.War on the poor and working-class abroad who suffer from the inhumane neoliberal and imperialist policies enforced on their countries. War on the African/Black, Brown, and working-class people here in the U.S. who toil away to generate more capital for the ruling elite who privatize and defund our communities while funding more and more police. And never forget the ongoing war against the Indigenous people(s) of this region and the entire occupied land upon which these monstrosities are built.In NYC, the wealthiest city in the world, the capitalist class inflicts the kind of exploitation that requires a heavy hand to maintain. Political leadership, such as recently indicted cop mayor Eric Adams or AIPAC’s favorite zionist Representative Ritchie Torres, are waging this battle against the people on their behalf.That $11 billion budget the NYPD works with every year allows the governor, the mayor, and the other powers that be to hold the entire city under siege. They continually add more police to the streets and subway to keep the people under control and surveillance. Just this year, Governor Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams worked together to add <a class="" href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-five-point-plan-protect-new-yorkers-subway" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1,000 more cops </a> as well as the National Guard and State Troopers to further occupy the subway system. Adams also proposed an increase in the <a class="" href="https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2023/05/NYPD.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NYPD budget </a> for the <a class="" href="https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2024/03/056-NYPD.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2025 fiscal year </a>. The city is already home to a police force larger than the majority of the world’s militaries and is now receiving its own <a class="" href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/431-24/mayor-adams-hosts-first-ever-new-york-city-public-safety-promotion-ceremony-new-unified" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Cop City” in Queens </a>.They get the public to consent to these inflated budgets by using the media to fearmonger about a crime wave and generate a hysteria about “safety.”In truth, their goal is to protect capital. That is where their concern about “safety” lies. The police spend most of their efforts on the subway targeting fare evaders. The MTA claims fare evasion is responsible for <a class="" href="https://new.mta.info/blue-ribbon-report-fare-toll-evasion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">millions of dollars </a> in losses every year. The police tell the public that fare evasion is linked to other crimes in the subway, a claim they used to justify the chase and shooting of Mickles.Brownsville, a primarily African/Black community that rubs up against the highly surveilled East New York neighborhood, has the <a class="" href="https://furmancenter.org/neighborhoods/view/brownsville#demographics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">highest poverty rate </a> in the entire city. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) transit system is a primary way working-class people travel. Prior to the COVID pandemic in 2019, the subway alone saw an annual <a class="" href="https://new.mta.info/agency/new-york-city-transit/subway-bus-ridership-2022#:~:text=Overview%20of%20New%20York%20City's%20transit%20system&text=The%20subway%20has%20a%20daily,236%20local%20bus%20routes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ridership of over 1.6 billion </a>. The ridership for MTA buses was over 120 million. Anyone who has lived in the New York City metropolitan area during the last several years would have seen how rapidly the cost of a single ride fare has increased and the hardship it has caused for riders. The anger and concern are palpable every time another increase is announced. Currently, the price sits at $2.90, with <a class="" href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/traffic_and_transit/2024/07/31/mta-no-fare-hikes-cuts-despite-budget-deficit#:~:text=The%20MTA's%20next%20fare%20hike,effects%20are%20already%20being%20felt." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">another hike </a> on the way.$2.90 may seem like such a small price, but for the poor and working class in NYC, it can mean scraping the last bits of change from your bag or testing all the metro cards left on the station floor, just to see if any have something on them. The strain of the increasing fare makes transportation more cost prohibitive. But the capitalists who run the city don’t care if you don’t have three dollars.People shouldn’t have to pay anything for the transit system – public transit is a necessity for New York City. And it should be unacceptable for so much of the city’s resources to go into funding the imperialist violence inflicted on communities here and abroad.In a just society, this would be so. But we don’t live in a just society where the wealth, welfare, and infrastructure are evenly distributed, and people don’t have to dance in the subways to survive. We don’t live in a society that prioritizes the protection of its people, rather than conducting regular public lynchings. We don’t live in a society that chooses to preserve a life over $2.90.We can build that society though. It will not be easy but we can create a world that values life rather than condemns people to a meager existence. We can organize to stop the war on our people at home and abroad. It is possible and we can begin today.New York City belongs to the people. It should be controlled by the people.Imani Nile is the assistant to BAR’s Executive Editor and a proud member of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) NYC/NJ and the BAP Communications Coordinator.source:<a href="https://blackagendareport.com/end-siege-nyc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Black Agenda Report</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/03/end-the-siege-on-nyc/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/03/end-the-siege-on-nyc/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/anti-police/" target="_blank">#antiPolice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/imperialism/" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/north-america/" target="_blank">#northAmerica</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/nyc/" target="_blank">#nyc</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/police-violence/" target="_blank">#policeViolence</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/tag/us/" target="_blank">#us</a>

DoomsdaysCWDozens indicted on Georgia racketeering charges related to ‘Stop Cop City’ movement appear in courtby Kate Brumback, Nov 7, 2023 ATLANTA (AP) — “Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering charges related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta appeared in court on Monday as their supporters rallied outside the courthouse.“Protests against the proposed training center — dubbed “Cop City' by opponents — have been going on for more than two years. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr obtained a sweeping indictment in August, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to target the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protesters</a> and characterizing them as 'militant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchists</a>.'“Demonstrators and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a> organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACLU</a>), have condemned the indictment and accused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Carr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carr</a>, a Republican, of levying heavy-handed charges to try to silence a movement that has galvanized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmentalists</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antipolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antipolice</a> protesters across the country.“All 61 people indicted were scheduled to be arraigned Monday, that is to have the charges against them formally read in court. Fifty-seven of them appeared, called in small groups before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams over a three-hour period, and each waived arraignment.“Four defendants failed to appear. One was believed to be in France and prosecutors didn’t have a good address for him. One was in federal immigration custody. Another who is not American and who had left the country tried to return twice in recent days to attend the hearing but was denied entry to the country, her lawyer said. A fourth simply didn’t show.“Most of the people who appeared had not yet surrendered at the Fulton County Jail to be booked on their charges. Some had recently reached agreements with prosecutors on a bond amount and conditions and others were still in the process of doing so.“Adams told them they had until 10 a.m. Tuesday, 24 hours after the start of the arraignment proceedings, to turn themselves in. If they fail to do so, she warned, a warrant for their arrest could be issued and any bond would be rescinded.“Adams instructed defense attorneys to provide the attorney general’s office with hard drives by Friday so they can receive copies of evidence in the case, known as discovery. Prosecutors are to finish copying and distributing that evidence to defense attorneys by the end of the year.“A final plea hearing will be set no later than the end of June, Adams said. She explained to the groups of defendants that if they want to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors they must do it by that date. “A couple of hundred supporters of the ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopCopCity</a>' effort rallied outside the courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Monday morning singing, chanting and waving signs.“Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and other supporters say the 85-acre, $90 million facility would replace inadequate training facilities, and would help address difficulties in hiring and retaining police officers. Opponents have expressed concern that that it could lead to greater police <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#militarization</a> and that its construction in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthRiverForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthRiverForest</a> will worsen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> damage in a poor, majority-Black area.“Protests against the project, which have at time resulted in violence and vandalism, escalated after the fatal shooting in January of 26-year-old protester Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tortuguita</a>. A prosecutor last month said he would not pursue charges against the state troopers who shot Paez Terán, saying he found that their use of deadly force was ‘objectively reasonable.'“Most of those indicted in August had already been charged over their alleged involvement in the movement. RICO charges carry a sentence of five to 20 years in prison that can be added on top of the penalty for the underlying acts.“Among the defendants: more than three dozen people who were previously facing domestic terrorism charges in connection to the protests; three leaders of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BailFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BailFund</a> previously accused of money laundering; and three activists previously charged with felony intimidation after authorities said they distributed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flyers</a> calling a state trooper a 'murderer' for his involvement in Paez Terán’s death.“Prosecutors have alleged a conspiracy that includes a wide variety of underlying crimes that range from possessing fire accelerant and throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers to being reimbursed for glue and food for activists who spent months camping in the woods near the construction site.”<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/dozens-indicted-on-georgia-racketeering-charges-related-to-stop-cop-city-movement-appear-in-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/dozens-indicted-on-georgia-racketeering-charges-related-to-stop-cop-city-movement-appear-in-court</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendTheForest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendWeelauneeForest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticeForTort</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTortugita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticeForTortugita</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AtlantaGeorgia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCitiesEverywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopCopCitiesEverywhere</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeAllForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeAllForestDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilencingDissent</a>

Abolition MediaPeople Fight Back in Belgium Following Police Shooting<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belgium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protests</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiPolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiPolice</a><a href="https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/24/people-fight-back-in-belgium-following-police-shooting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/24/people-fight-back-in-belgium-following-police-shooting/</a>

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