Bay Area Newsreel #3

November 2023

 
 
 
 
“Alameda County”
Courthouse Attacked for
Palestinian Martyrs

"It is never possible to balance liberatory violence with
the conditions of struggle. The process of liberation is
excessive by nature. In the direction of overabundance
or in that of deficiency. Where have we ever seen a
popular insurrection hit the bullseye, clearly
distinguishing the enemies to kill? It is a blow of the
tiger’s claws that rips and does not distinguish."

—Alfredo Bonanno

We smashed seven windows at the "alameda
county" courthouse tonight. This attack is for the
martyrs of Palestine. Every "american" soldier,
cop, court, and prison is a target. Freedom to all
Palestinian prisoners! Freedom to all prisoners
of "america!" Put the sword against the sword!
Let the olive branch fall, long live the hammer!
Bring the war home! Death to "israel!" Death to
"america!"

anarchists
11-2-2023
Excerpts from:
Activists Escalate Blockage of US
Military Ship Bound for Israel at Port of

Oakland

by Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Fri, Nov3 — Indybay

“This demonstration happened less than 24 hours after the House
passed a $14.3 billion aid package to Israel.”

Oakland, CA — For over 9 hours, community members demanding a
ceasefire in the Israeli war against Gaza at Berth 20 at the Port of Oakland
delayed the Cape Orlando, a US military supply vessel bound for Israel.
The blockage escalated, and protestors occupied the berth. Three
protestors locked themselves to the ladder leading onto the ship
contributing heavily to the delay of the ship. After police forcefully moved
in, the three locked-down protestors were detained by the Coast Guard,
and are still in their custody. Currently over 300 community members are
protesting directly outside the vessel in different sites of the berth. After
police and Coast Guard moved in several times on the occupation, the
ship departed under heavy pressure...

The vessel is en route to Tacoma, WA, according to publicly available
tracking information; confidential sources at the port say that the vessel
will be loaded with weapons and military equipment in Tacoma, with a
final destination in Israel. Communities in the Pacific Northwest have
already called for protests and work stoppages of this same vessel.
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Excerpts from:

Oakland Block the Boat Action Delays
Supply Ship Bound for Israel, Tacoma Action
Underway

by Jaime Omar Yassin, Oakland Observer

Nine Hour Protest

The protest began with about 50 protesters who gathered to mount a
picket of the line at 6 am Friday. Organizers had received credible
information from knowledgeable sources that the ship was being
mobilized to depart Oakland that morning, would stop at Tacoma to load
cargo and travel to aid the Israeli government war effort in some capacity.
According to Time Magazine, the US and its attendant arms
manufacturers have been replacing Israeli munitions and equipment at an
increasing pace, as the Israeli government relentless, indiscriminate
attacks on Gaza accelerate the Israeli military's “burn rate” of weaponry.

No longshore workers were scheduled to work the Cape Orlando because
it was not loading cargo and civilian crew workers were already on the
ship, and so the picket was more protest than direct action utilizing the
Block the Boat tactics that prompted Zim, an Israeli state-owned shipping
company, to leave Oakland's port for good in 2021. However, after several
dozen protesters answered the call, the crowd began to swell into
hundreds just before the apparent launch of the Orlando at around 10 am.
After the direct action move on the Orlando by the small crew of
protesters, more continued to arrive in larger numbers. Oakland police
blocked off the area immediately adjacent to the dock, leaving about 100
protesters on one side adjacent to the fenced off dock and several hundred
on the other.

Another fence separated the smaller group from a handful of protesters
from the original direct action group to support the three clinging to the
ladder and on the edge of the hatch. Protesters continued to arrive to
support and protest at the first police line, the crowd swelled to hundreds.
Meanwhile, both OPD and maintained a presence in the waters around
the Cape Orlando. Though physical tethering to the boat was not a goal or
tactic from the original organizers, according to Lara Kiswani, AROC’s
director, the organizers continued to rally the march to support and
protect the protesters until there was a resolution to their action.
Authorities Play Waiting Game, Distract Protesters, Move In

At a certain point, late in the afternoon, land crews re-tied the lines to the
Orlando, in what many protesters assumed reflected an initial victory—a
signal that the boat was planning on staying for some time. But the action
was more likely part of a waiting game by authorities coordinated with
ground staff, to encourage protesters to relax their guard and awareness.
Eventually, as protesters tired, the UCSG Investigative Services officers
moved in, detaining two protesters that had been perched on the inside of
the hatch. That left a protester clinging on to the ladder just below the
hatch, now alone, but undaunted. About a half hour later, the ship’s crew
fired the ship's engines and the OPD and ground workers assembled—the
UCSG officers then hauled up the boarding ladder with the last protester
still hanging on it. Minutes later, in coordination, the ground crew threw
off the ties, and the Cape Orlando began to push off from the dock, and
was away within minutes—apparently with protesters still aboard.
After the detentions and the departure of the boat, protesters celebrated a
much more significant win than anyone had assumed possible at dawn that
morning. The three protesters apparently remained on the boat and were
taken to Treasure Island, where they were transferred to a Coast Guard
boat and ultimately released, according to sources with direct knowledge
of the events. A press release by the USCG states that there is a potential
for federal charges, but none have been brought as of this writing—it’s not
clear if any charges were brought. Most of the details around detention
and release still need to be confirmed by official sources, but could not be
as of press time.

Cape Orlando Encounters More Resistance in Tacoma in Block
the Boat Action

Geo-tracking commercial websites confirmed that the Cape Orlando was
headed north along the California coast to port at Tacoma. As late as
Friday, the Orlando was on the Tacoma Port's schedule for arrival on
Sunday at Tacoma, but at some point since, the Orlando was removed
from the schedule. The Cape Orlando also stopped sending its AIS
positioning signal, and was also not trackable by satellite on Marine
Tracker the Oakland Observer found. The Cape Orlando finally arrived at
port in Tacoma on Monday morning, and as of this writing, protesters are
using Block the Boat picketing tactics to block the loading of cargo on to
the boat—that includes forming a picket with the goal of prompting local
union workers to decline to cross for any number of reasons in ILWU
policy. As of this writing, it's unclear whether the tactic is working, but it
does seem as if workers have not been able to load the ship.
 
Excerpts from
On the Boat that Wasn't Blocked

by a comrade living on unceded salish coast territory

‘The contradictions deepen, contract, morph, stretch, swell, strain, until, in this
world of death, they erupt, and the dead make their daring prison-break into the
future — the possibility of life, land, freedom, and return. On October 7th,
whether they knew it or not — certainly their enemy didn’t — the Palestinian
resistance engaged in what would become the beginning of the Final Intifada.
No longer shall the meck inherit the earth, but by any means necessary
revolution until victory. Like Vietnam, Cuba, and Algeria before them — the
Fedayeen were there for them all — the armed struggle of guerrillas fighting
against all of the weapons of hell on earth in the most desperate and decisive of
temporalities — if not now, never — when they win, the world will change, and
struggle will cascade across a fractured capitalist-imperialist order, as the
oppressed of the world take up the possibilities for struggle given to them by the
revelation that their oppressors are nothing but paper tigers, are weaker than a
spider’s web.

Ina sense, they have already won, since they have delivered a decisive blow to the
material and existential foundations of the world’s most brutal genocidal settler-
colonial occupying entity — and against all of the bloodthirsty imperial powers
lining up to ensure the finality of their project of extermination. The only
question for us is, when we scream From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be
Free, do we mean it? Will we meet the Palestinian resistance in the possibility f
revolt they have introduced into this prison world the moment they tore down
the walls? Will we go beyond calls for ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and an end to
genocide, and bring the war home to fight to defeat US imperialism, the precise
cause for the extermination of the Palestinians and their imprisonment within
expulsion, siege, and the world’s largest concentration camp?

 

 

In Oakland, comrades locked down to the Cape Orlando, a genocide boat that
has been deployed before by the US to transfer weapons to the Middle East and
is now supplying the armaments the Israeli Occupying Force is utilizing to
massacre and exterminate Palestinians in their quest to finish the Nakba. Our
Bay Area comrades on short notice delayed the boat for 8 hours, and calls were
quickly spread to Block the Boat when it docked in the next port in its route
towards genocide and ethnic cleansing, The exact time was unclear, but we all
remained flexible, converging upon the Port of ‘Tacoma from everywhere along
the west coast with the certainty that this time, we wouldn’t merely delay the
boat, we would stop it in its tracks, for we had forethought, planning, supplies,
maps, affinity group coordination, and a militant spirit to confront the
genocidaires in their abyssal logistics of death.

Comrades had learned from the Olympia and Tacoma port militarization
resistance, and the battles of 2006 — 2007 wouldn’t be repeated but surpassed.
After the ceasefire marches, sit-ins, and symbolic displays of solidarity in the
hundreds of thousands, after the Palestine actionists’ spectacles of sabotage of
Elbit and other manufacturers of death, after the incendiary expansion of the
struggle to Stop Cop City into internationalist terms of solidarity as attack, and
after quiet nights of anonymous spray-paint, banner drops, wheat-paste,
shattered windows, and scorching accelerant, we were all here together with an
exact material aim, the urgency to accomplish it, the numbers, energy, and desire
to succeed in it, and, despite unfavorable terrain, an acceptance of the collective
risks involved. So why the fuck did we stop?

‘The basic action as imagined and executed by the main organizers — Samidoun
and AROCBay Area, with auxiliary support from ‘Tacoma DSA and ‘Tacoma
Mutual Aid — was a picket line at every of the three entrances into Pier 7, the
deepest into the port. Every entrance was already blocked, however, by Tacoma
Police, Port security, presumably DHS and border patrol, the Coast Guard, and
the military. The action, then, would be directed towards the ILWU Local, who
would be able to cite “Health and Safety” concerns in order to honor the picket
line and refuse to load the genocide boat. Without direct access to the boat, all
the Block the Boat action would be able to accomplish was to force the issue of
worker solidarity and direct the masses of participants (over 1,000!) to walk in
circles repeating the chants “protest marshals,” conspicuously dressed in yellow
vests, relayed through megaphones, breaking up the monotony of the picket with
updates from their anonymous sources about the status of the blockade,
instructions to stretch or break, some speeches, and many self-congratulatory
declamations of success.

‘Throughout the day, focus was emphasized for shift-changes when workers
would be potentially entering the pier to load the weapons, and on a single
worker who apparently was wanting out of the operation, refusing to participate
in the logistics of genocide. Snacks, waters, canopies, rain ponchos, all streamed
in, while hundreds continued to walk and to walk and to walk in circles. The
more militantly-minded, meanwhile, were off gathering rocks, rail ties, tires,
pallets, and concrete slabs to build impromptu barricades at the entrances, where
behind the fence the police and port security were waiting in intimidation,
flashing their lights in the fog.

Graffiti emerged on every surface, window, shipping container, and concrete
barricade — which the organizers were not pleased about, and intervened often
too, but still it proliferated. Rocks and other ballistics were gathered in dumpsters
and placed in strategic areas for potential confrontation. ‘The main rail line in and
out was barricaded. So sure was everyone of the inevitability for confrontation
— since a blockade is by nature a disruption of crucial logistics that must at all
costs continue to flow, the weapons of the state would surely be used to ensure
the weapons of the state reach their destination — that the hundred or so
militants present just waited, preparing themselves, gathering the energy and
preparing the surroundings for battle.

But, what the organizers didn’t tell us — didn’t tell anyone until it was far too late
—was that the blockade as it was imagined and executed, as a picket line to
prevent the ILWU workers from loading the weapons, was useless in the first
place, since the military was already there to do the work of loading the weapons
and were loading the weapons both from boat and from pier while the militants
were constructing barricades and the protesters were marching in circles. There
were rumors that since the dock workers were unable to operate the cranes, the
military was only able to load small arms, instead of the Strykers, Iron Dome
batteries, or Markava tanks that were actually destined to be loaded from JBLM.
caches. There were many rumors, but the boat was loaded, and left.

What the organizers did tell us is that our action was a resounding success, that
we made a material impact to stop genocide, that we should be incredibly proud
of ourselves, that we fucking did it, we accomplished a blockade — but they also
told us since the boat was loaded, we should all leave. Everyone was confused,
startled, stunned, deflated, disappointed, and left. Either the boat had been
loaded, and we didn’t even complete a port blockade, or the boat hadn’t been
fully loaded, and if we left there would be nothing stopping the boat from being
loaded. Yet, the boat left regardless. The boat wasn’t blocked. Worse, the
opportunity was wasted in order for fraudulent displays of “success.” If the
military had been loading the boat the entire time, why didn’t we change tactics,
why didn’t we reorient, why didn’t we find opportunities to engage, why didn’t we
escalate the possibilities of resistance? According to one worker, in the morning
of the action ILWU local leadership informed longshore workers that the
military personnel already present within the terminal would load the boat,
which, if true, would mean that the point of the action — to prevent the ILWU
workers from loading the boat — was decided the morning the action began.
According to another worker, it was indeed the military that loaded the boat,
which, further, potentially violates the ILWU contract. Why didn’t we act? Even
the militants bought into the misinformation from the organizers that we were
doing something materially impactful, and since we were doing something
materially impactful, the situation would inevitably escalate until we could be
decisive and seize the moment for attack. Except we weren't impacting anything.
So the moment would never come.

While we were waiting, we could have been acting. If we knew that from the
moment the action began, the ILWU wasn’t going to load the boat and the
military would take over, we could have shifted. If all of the weapons were
already behind the fence, we could have focused less on barricades to block the
entrance of trucks or trains and more on possibilities of bypassing the fence.
Even the indigenous-led kayak action to block the boat was manipulated into
thinking their action was a success and left the water. When the organizers called
for dispersal at what felt like the height of the action’s power, we could have
taken that moment further. We didn’t. When questioned about why we were
disbanding a powerful action before its power had even been realized, when the
opportunities for engagement were all around us, when innumerable more
supporters were pouring in from the north and the south, an “organizer” in a
yellow-vest told us, “What, you think we can take on the US military?” Later
when asked why we were leaving at the height of the action, they said “As a
Palestinian, I’m feeling very escalated in this situation, and I’m going to walk
away from this conversation.”

Can we remind these solidarity organizations that it is nothing other than the
Palestinian resistance that is taking on the US military and its support for the
Zionist occupying entity? Can we remind these solidarity organizations that it is
nothing other than the Palestinian resistance that is escalating the global situation
towards victory, freedom, liberation, and return? If you won't do what’s possible
to stop a genocide, please do not fucking hinder those who will try. If the goal
was to Block the Boat, to prevent the boat from being loaded with weapons, to
prevent the boat from leaving, we massively failed. If the goal was to delay the
boat with a large spectacle and display of solidarity for a ceasefire, an end to the
genocide, and a free Palestine, we accomplished that spectacle. This is a form of
solidarity that has its own importance — as a symbolic display. Not as a material
intervention into the logistics of genocide. The anger, rage, and desire with
which we entered the action still remains — we still wish to meet the Palestinian
resistance in a global Intifada against genocide and its imperialist support. with
which we entered the action still remains. This rage is real. While the Tacoma
action wasn’t our moment, the feeling of being around others who shared that
rage in the midst of the concrete logistics of genocide convinces me that we will
find countless other moments. If we can delay a boat transporting the weapons
of extermination and leave with unimaginable potential, what else can we do,
alone and together? The targets are everywhere. The secret is to begin. In every
city, we should call for militant demonstrations for the freedom of Palestine and
the victory of the resistance. Multiply sabotage. Multiply blockades. This time,
let’s mean it.

 

From the River to the Sea.

Intifada Until Victory.

Victory to the Palestinian Resistance.
Palestine Will Be Free

On the Organizers

The critiques of Organizers and Organizations have been repeated infinitely over
the years, but this is for a reason and we will again repeat it here. These groups
put out calls with militant language, chant things like “resistance is justified” and
“intifada revolution” and give people the impression that they are going to
engage in militant direct action, yet all people find time and time again are highly
controlled and marshaled events that pose no real risk to the war machine. This
shouldn’t surprise anyone, these large organizations with very public organizers
are under intense public and legal scrutiny and are structurally incapable of
escalation — if they are interested in it at all. Many of the organizations that
were involved were the usual scene of movement grifters — PSL, WWP,
ANSWER, RevCom — who aren't interested in anything but building their
particular groupsicle and we still remembered how all over the country these
groups explicitly played counter-insurgent during the 2020 uprising. The other
groups we are less familiar with and as such are going to operate under the
assumption there there is some sincere desire to escalate and make a direct
impact. Which is why we cannot understand why there was a call for everybody
to go home.

When we have a grasp on power, like shutting down a major port and doing
economic damage, making the call for you as the organization to go home
shouldn’t translate into a call for everybody to go home. Not only do liberation
movements need to cultivate a sense of initiative for more and more people to
get involved and take more decisive action, but so many people were still coming
and excited about digging in. Even if the ship left, continued economic damage
to the Port of Tacoma could stop them from shipping out military equipment
again like what happened with the Port of Olympia during Port Militarization
Resistance in 2006 and 2007, or how the rail blockades in Olympia in 2016 and
2017 failed to stop those specific loads of fracking proponents but sent the port
into an economic death spiral from which it has yet to recover and led to the
cancellation of future fracking proponent contracts.

We propose that liberation movements need to develop an explicit culture of
when their organization or crew decides to call it, to leave it up to the autonomy
of others on if they decide to stay or not rather than declaring an action over.
People need to learn to accept the risks and make decisions for themselves rather
than play the game of follow the leader which makes for passive, docile
movements that cannot think on their feet.

On Us

It’s easy to critique others, but we also bare an intense blame for this failure and
must do some intense reflection on ourselves to better fight in the future. The
first failure on our part was when organizers called off the initial start time, we
should have put out a counter call for an occupation to block the port. While we
don’t know for sure, its possible that the delay of the boat arrival allowed military
scabs to preemptively come into the port and a full occupation from the start
could have blocked their arrival in the port and if nothing else would have
explicitly set a more confrontational tone.
Second, there was a failure in logistics and many supplies and tools that crews
had prepared were unable to make it up. While we had defensive and offensive
equipment for us we should have come prepared with more for others — more
respirators, more goggles, more helmets, more black clothes. Passing out or
leaving out extra equipment for others to grab could have also done wonders to
build an energy of confrontation.

Third, we relied way too heavily on the organizers’ intel which proved to be
wrong or questionable due to “trusted sources” that could not be verified. A
comrade with a solid head on their shoulders repeatedly stated whenever we got
info or heard rumors that we needed to visually confirm for ourselves before
making any moves. On this point many of us lamented multiple times that we
lacked scouts or binoculars. If we could have gotten visual confirmation of the
boat being loaded — or not loaded! — that we could have shared with other
people so they could see for themselves perhaps we could have actually gotten
people to storm the port with us.

Fourth we were too okay with half measures. When people told us what was
happening was blocking the port we were fine with not escalating, If it works, no
point in escalating, fighting and risking arrest. However we should have been
skeptical from the start that the police were not attacking.

Inall of our collective history of struggle when we are actually doing damage
and blocking something critical the police will attack. Yet they didn’t, and then
suddenly we heard that only 7 of the 20 containers were able to be loaded. At
this point we should have begun agitating the crowd to attack, 7 of 20 is still 7
containers of weapons that will be used to murder people yet we accepted this
half victory until suddenly they said everything got loaded and it was time to
leave.

Fifth and most critical of all we were too docile. Who gives a fuck about the
security team or the plan when there is a clear objective and an obvious way to
achieve it that we all came prepared for. We should have yelled more, contested
the security team and organizers, agitated more directly, spent more time talking
to people that showed up to block a boat rather than trying to convince the
organizers of what we came to do. This is probably what cost us the most.

 
Final Thoughts and Reflection

We cannot wallow in our failures but take lessons from them and move forward.
Autonomous rebels and people who left feeling dissatisfied must find each other,
talk, strategize and act. We must be bold and ready to act to the gravity of the
situation, we must build up autonomous networks of individuals, crews and
organizations that have the capacity to coordinate and the drive to act. This is
what the struggle demands of us. Come out to others demos’ and actions, yes,
but also don’t wait for others — even us — to do what you can do yourself. Call
for meetings, call for actions, carry out small night time actions. Expand the
struggle. Lives depend on it and as someone once said, the future belongs to the
daring.

Over 50k Take SF Streets to
Demand Ceasefire in Gaza &
an End to US Aid to Israel

With thousands having come from all across California, organizers believe
the march was the largest pro-Palestine protest in Bay Area history.

November 4th (San Francisco, CA) Communities from all
around California took to San Francisco's streets for a mass protest to
call for a ceasefire and an end to US aid to the Israeli genocide of
Palestinians. The action was part of an International Day of Solidarity
to free Palestine, with protests planned across the US and around the
world. It is West Coast counterpart to another massive action in
‘Washington D.C., which was itself estimated to be the largest pro-
Palestine protest in US history.
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Four Targets Attacked

for Palestine

Four Offerings

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

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

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

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

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

These attacks are also a continuation of our ongoing revenge for Banko Brown,
in solidarity with Sean "Tucan" Monterrosa and Tortuguita, and in response to
the call from Filipino/a/x comrades asking anarchists in the US to memorialize
Jennifer "Ganda" Laude.
As Muslims
In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful

‘As our brothers, our sisters, all our spiritual siblings in Gaza hold their families close and
await martyrdom we refuse to stand idly by for any longer. We will take our cues from the
brave and fluid Palestinian resistance groups. Rigid, liberal, American advocacy orgs that
seek to control and mediate revolutionary rage will not facilitate the actions that are needed
right now.

If the October 7th offensive taught us anything it is that courage, ingenuity, commitment to
attack, and organizing across political tendencies is how we will win. We refuse to blindly
walk the same permitted march routes, we refuse to chant the same hollow chants and scroll
past the videos of dying children. "Long Live the Intifada" means bringing it to life in our
own cities, right now. International Solidarity means devouring Amerikkka from the inside.

‘The Palestinian resistance knows what must be done and what is at stake. We must show
through action that we also know: For every increase in repression in Palestine there must
be a corresponding repercussion for the settler state/s. Our enemies must be made to bleed
for every bomb, every bullet, and every martyr. We must show the United States that if they
are going to escalate against the resistance in Palestine then there is another resistance that
will escalate against them domestically. We must articulate our revolutionary politics
through languages that are indigenous to us. As our brothers the Lion’s Den said, "The
talking after 11:00 {on the first night of the offensivel is only for takbeers and bullets”.

‘We are the fiercest lovers of our people, we are the vengeful colonized and the hungry
dispossessed, we are that which was stolen which must steal itself back, we are rejectors of
the secular, servants of Allah who bow to nothing but Him, and we are all committed to the
attack.

All praise is due to God. Prayers and peace upon Muhammad PBUH.

‘As Jews

Tikkum Olam, the core Jewish practice of "healing the world" recognizes that true aid, true
justice happens when we work to dismantle the distinction between the helped and the
helper. It is time to wake up. It is time to heal ourselves and the world. We must militantly
oppose genocide and occupation, we must act. Let Palestine liberate us. We are not
liberating them. Their liberation is in their own competent hands and if we are mindful and
militant, just maybe we can be inspired enough by the courageous actions of our Palestinian
siblings to liberate ourselves. As we discuss in the Mishna, each life is as valuable as the
universe in its totality. To this end we have the ethical responsibility to break not only any
one of our 613 commandments to save a life, but any state laws or societal conventions. The
time is now, every moment we wait a brilliant, powerful soul is extinguished. We must have
the agency and courage to ask ourselves, what is it that I can do now?
The Struggle Ahead

As always, these struggles will be led by colonized peoples. It is disgusting that
many Western radicals are responding to colonial genocide with shaky half
solidarities. Secular anarchism and its embedded Islamophobia has resulted in
lazy critiques of individual factions within the united front (which includes the
anarchist and communist groups) of the Palestinian people's fight for existence.

Perspectives limited by rigid, ideological dogmatism will struggle to navigate
the complex political landscapes, contradictions, and existential questions
amplified by growing, global challenges to Western hegemony as it enters its
inevitable death spiral. Many comrades will continuously find themselves in
political alignment with the interests of the West and whiteness.

We colonized people should not give in to mistrust, but these fence-riding
responses to Palestine show us we will be abandoned by some comrades when
solidarity is most vital. Not everyone will join us in destroying the Western
world and ending its ceaseless atrocities that echo across generations. This
betrayal will be hurtful, but we must push ahead regardless. We will have to
define what non-Western anarchy looks like for ourselves, and our anti-colonial
and anti-imperialist ancestors will guide us. We know what time it is, and we
will win.

A Call

We call everyone to get organized for attack. Anarchists, communists, Muslims,
Jews, all radicals in the US: there is a genocide happening, and an active
decolonial struggle which is the only thing slowing that genocide. Now is the
time to take seriously the task of disruptions and attacks from within the belly
of the beast. If your above-ground organization limits the tactics at your
disposal, work outside of it. Targets are plentiful and all around us. The
capitalist is motivated by capitalist logic, we must make it prohibitively
expensive for them to wage genocide and occupation.
Everything short of attack and material disruption of systems complicit in
Zionism is a betrayal of solidarity.

Fuck Israel, Zionism, America, the West, and the local counter-insurgent
radlibs.

The collapse of Western hegemony is on the horizon, and we welcome it. We
see decolonial revolutionary holy war, and we celebrate it, Palestine will be free.

Banko Brown forever. Tucan forever. Tortuguita forever. Ganda forever.
Martyrs never die.

Muslims, Jews, queers, trans, and spiritual comrades, for anarchy, for
communism, all for the attack.

BRB // Bay Rage Brigade // Be Right Back

 
 
11/5
JVP Bay Area Facilitates “IDF"

Fundraiser
A Critique of Obedient Protest

by Anarchist Actions for Intifada

At the November 5 protest against the "Friends of the IDF Gala" in San
Carlos, hundreds of people mobilized to shut down this fundraiser for a
fascist zionist genocidal army, but the key player preventing the actual
disruption of this event was the non-profit that "organized" the protest,
Jewish Voices for Peace Bay Area.

JVP Bay Area did the dirty work of the police and the "israeli" occupation
forces [IOF]. Through their aggressive peace policing, relentless
harassment of anyone who wanted to do something more than stand and
shout, and protest marshaling that helped the donors of settler-colonialist
genocide drive safely into the gala. They not only allowed but actually
facilitated this fundraiser.

‘We showed up to shut the gala down. If JVP Bay Area was unwilling to do
the same (with whatever tactics they choose), the very least they could
have done was not prevent other people from doing so.
ALLOWING GALA ATTENDEES TO ENTER

Not only did they aggressively prevent the crowd from doing anything
other than standing and shouting, JVP Bay Area's yellow-vested protest
marshals moved the crowd down the road allowing the gala attendees to
reach the event and prevented the crowd from knowing where a blockade
could be most effective for actually stopping the fundraiser. Whether
directly or indirectly, JVP Bay Area collaborated with the kkkops and
zionists to help raise money for the "israeli" occupation forces by ensuring
the protest did not shut down the fundraiser.

As the attached map shows, protest marshals were stationed behind police
lines next to where gala attendees were driving in with giant "israeli" flags
on their cars. Skyway Road is a dead-end: a blockade several hundred feet
up the street in the direction of the Holly Street viaduct would have
actually prevented gala attendees from being able to enter, shutting the
entire event down. Alternatively or additionally, a blockade earlier in the
day before the gala was being set up would have caused significant material
disruption to the event. There were multiple strategies and tactics
available for disrupting this gala.

‘When asked why the crowd wasn't being invited or encouraged to block
the entrance IOF donors were using, one of the white protest marshals
stationed at the Fairfield Inn driveway literally said, "I'm just following
orders." Whose orders were they following? Why was following orders
more important to them than spreading the word to stop the zionist cars
that they could see driving right past them? It seems the "organizers" of
this protest were instructing their security team to prevent protesters
from stopping the gala.

JVP Bay Area corralled the crowd into the area directly in front of the
Hiller Aviation Museum (the gala venue), stationed security at the
alternate attendee entrance at the Fairfield Inn, and actively worked with
the police to ensure that genocide funders were able to attend the gala
safely. They cannot say they were unaware of what was happening when.
their protest marshals watched gala attendees drive into the event.

It is clear that JVP Bay Area had no interest in actually stopping the gala
from happening. Why not? JVP on the East Coast has done civil
disobedience and direct action. This event was a fundraiser for the IOF by
an organization that raised almost 90 million dollars last year. If this was
not a time and place where disruption was needed, when and where is?

PEACE POLICING

Early in the demonstration, as shown in the attached map, the protest
marshals allowed the police to cut through the crowd and form a police
line on Skyway Road between the protest and the Fairfield Inn entrance
later used as an alternate route by gala attendees. The protest marshals
then formed a line with the police and told the crowd to turn their backs
on the police, as well as on a small group of zionist counter-protestors that
had recently arrived. Despite the protest marshals' efforts, counter
protestors had an "israeli" flag stolen from them, got hit with a stick, and
were peppersprayed.

The actions of the protest marshals, although disobeyed by some, were
unfortunately generally effective in decreasing conflictuality within the
crowd and setting a tone of obedient and compliant protest. The most
liberal elements of the crowd took this as a signal to deputize themselves
as peace police and harass those trying to actually shut down the
fundraiser.

When participants of the demonstration attempted to take down
barricades separating the crowd from the gala's venue, the peace police
filmed and took photos, physically interjected, put the police barricades
back together, and yelled at those attempting to push forward for "stirring
shit up." Why show up to a fundraiser for an army committing genocide if
not to stir things up? The organizers leading chants of "there is only one
solution: intifada, revolution" showed themselves to be no more than
counter-revolutionaries with zero desire to actually confront the kkkops
and zionists right in front of them. The co-optation of this revolutionary
language is disrespectful to every Palestinian martyr who has fought for
their life, land, and freedom.

Many in the crowd, however, were ready to do more and eager to actually
stop the fundraiser from occurring. They raged as donors for the genocide
pulled up in their luxury cars. As the people seethed, the "organizers"
colluded to channel that anger and readiness for action into nothing but
chanting.

The protest was literally corralled to prevent the crowd from disobeying
the kkkops or actually stopping the fundraiser from happening. We have
to say it again: THEY MOVED THE CROWD TO LET THE IOF
DONORS ENTER AND THEY PREVENTED ANYONE FROM
PUSHING FORWARD TO DISRUPT THE FUNDRAISER. This kind
of liberal symbolic protest is a demoralizing farce...bringing people out to
stand in the street while accomplishing absolutely nothing when both the
target and objective are so clearly present.

‘Where were the lessons of the anti-police rebellions of the past fourteen
years in the Bay Area, from Oscar Grant to George Floyd? Why were the
"organizers" so quick to encourage obedience to the police? Have they
forgotten the role of the police within white supremacist capitalism, or are
they just eager to capitalize on respectability politics by distancing
themselves from the struggle for Black liberation and revolutionary
abolition?

If these "organizers" had not engaged in their authoritarian peace policing,
this fundraiser would have been shut down. Instead, what was likely
hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised for the "israeli" occupation
forces and the donors were able to enjoy their gala smugly without any
consequence. And the JVP Bay Area security team helped the genocide
funders safely drive inside.

AJVP national board member named Lisa Rofel told the news, "the nicest
thing we could say is that it's in bad taste." When fascist zionists are
actively raising money to fund genocide, you want to say "the nicest
thing"? You think it's "in bad taste" to give tens of millions of dollars to
the IOF death machine? We call it genocide and we call it complicity.

Shouting "shame on you" means nothing to the gala donors. They are
proud of their donations. Shutting down the gala was a bare minimum of
the consequences they need to experience.

WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED?

JVP Bay Area, what is your strategy for actually disrupting the genocide in
Gaza? When you look at historical and current struggles for liberation, do
you think people win by being law-abiding, staying obedient, and allowing
business as usual? Why are you aggressively preventing protesters from
"stirring shit up" while doing literally nothing to prevent rich zionists
from giving money to "israeli" occupying forces? What did you accomplish
JVP Bay Area? You aggressively policed and corralled protesters while
actively helping the donors get safely to this fundraiser, the IOF thanks
you for your service.

   

To those of you who showed up and wanted to actually shut down this
fundraiser for genocide, we have heard many of you express feelings of
grief that protesting this gala "did nothing." We agree: nothing was done
to stop the Palestinian genocide on Sunday. Our hearts are with you in this
grief. We ask you to remember the rage you felt as you were forced to
stand peacefully while funders of genocide drove by you in Teslas and the
A Communique on Sabotaging
Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting
Down Friends of the IDF

* Infrastructure sabotage at the November sth ‘Friends of the I.D.F’ Gala*

For Palestine.
To rebels everywhere.
‘With deepest love and ancestral rage,

‘We gathered with heavy hearts and humble hands holding a
promise for a world safer from white supremacist, settler-colonial
violence. Those who declare war on original peoples and pillage
sacred life and land will face retribution. There has been a great
fire building, may it overflow and take all enemies of life with it.
May it create fertile grounds for victory against violent occupiers.

‘We took it upon ourselves to make sure these fascists could not
gather. Rather than the constant reactivity and rigidness of mass
protest spectacles, we wanted to hit them where it fucking hurts.
On November sth, the Zionist fascist scum, “Friends of the IDF,”
who represent the interests of wealthy American capitalists in
their direct support of the settler colonial state of Israel and its
continued campaign of genocide and apartheid against the
Palestinian people, attempted to hold a fundraiser gala at Hiller
Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California.

The IDF are known to kidnap, torture, kill, and rape Palestinians,
as well as disrespect the bodies of martyrs. They are among the
most deplorable people to ever walk the earth.

Despite reports and appearances otherwise, this fundraiser was
effectively shut down within the first hour. Donor attendees
began hurriedly leaving in a steady stream at the start of what was
planned to be a full evening of blood money raising. This
disruption, however, was not achieved by the tame, above-ground
rally being safely contained by both the police and the rally
organizers themselves, at a far distance from the unbothered
attendees. These symbolic and futile attempts to shame and
appeal to the moral conscience of individuals who have no shame
or conscience, will always fail.

You cannot do damage to the Zionist project by merely engaging
with its facade; you must strike at its soulless heart. You must
strike at its veins (supply chains, logistics, cash flows,
infrastructure).
‘While the liberals were congratulating themselves for having their
nonthreatening photo op parade out in front of the gala, our
people were out of sight at work on the veins of the building.
Palestinians have suffered decades of Israeli soldiers and settlers
restricting and destroying their access to water, often bricking up
or concreting any water source not directly under strict control of
the occupation forces, cutting off Palestinian access to the Jordan
River while draining it to near extinction for settlement mono-
crop agriculture, shooting holes in Palestinian water towers,
bombing Gazan water treatment facilities, poisoning Palestinian
springs and enforcing water apartheid in order to exert total
control over Palestinian life. We decided to give these Zionist
bootlickers a taste of their own medicine.

‘We cracked open the water main for the building housing the
gala, switched it off, and filled the box with fresh concrete. This
form of sabotage is quick and incredibly easy to replicate, and the
tools are quite cheap. It also renders the building in question
completely uninhabitable and unusable. We had a good laugh
imagining these fascist motherfuckers driven out of the gala by
the stench of overflowing toilets, unable to raise any more money
for genocide. As we did we were reminded of how Israeli settlers
flood Palestinian olive groves with sewage, poisoning food
sources, destroying livelihoods.
There are specialized tools that can make this job easier to
perform and faster.

1) Water main shut off tool
2) Irrigation lid tool / large screwdriver
The steps are as follows:

1) Lift lid off water box

2) Identify the valve, usually rectangular

3) Turn valve to be perpendicular to the pipe
4) Add a lock to the available hole

5) Fill hole with concrete

6) Put lid back on

At 6:40 PM, just 40 minutes into the gala, we put an end to things
before they even began. No auction, no speeches, no propaganda
screening, thus cutting off one stream of funding for genocide and
apartheid. Donors began sneaking out of the backdoor of the
space around 7PM, escorted by fascist police and private security.
Around 7:10, a utility truck arrived to attempt a repair. They failed
to do so, as our successful sabotage held. The building was
evacuated. The Zionists ran home with their tails between their
legs, their facade of security and impenetrability proven
vulnerable.
‘We hope that this will inspire other autonomous actors to strike
at the infrastructure of genocide everywhere it can be found.

While the Zionist occupation forces deliberately target
Palestinian infrastructure to render human survival impossible, we
must turn these same tactics on the oppressor, targeting the civil,
economic, and political infrastructure that feed the Zionist
project, starving it of the resources that sustain its existence and
enable its genocidal violence. The targets are here and
everywhere. We send a message that there will be no safe space
for genocidal capitalism. There will be no safe space for fascist
Zionist terror. Wherever you amass, we will find you and shut you
down.

This was executed by a group of autonomous anti-Zionists and
anarchist saboteurs. We have no name. We are not an
organization. We are not an entity. Do not try to find us. We are
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SFGH UCSF Healthcare Workers Protest Israeli-
US Genocide In Gaza Against Palestinians

Tue, Nov 7 IndyBay

Healthcare workers are mobilizing to demand a end to the bombings and
the attacks on hospitals and patients. They called this an open genocide
supported by Biden, Pelosi and the Democrats as well as the Republicans.

San Francisco healthcare workers from San Francisco General Hospital
and UCSF walked off the job and rallied on Friday November 4, 2023 to
protest the massacre and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
They talked about the conditions of healthcare workers and their patients.
Over 100 healthcare workers walked out at San Francisco General Hospital
and rallied to demand an end to the massive criminal bombing of the people
of Gaza and the genocide of Palestinians. Their anger and pain over the
attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers who are taking care of the
injured was powerful as they recounted the stories of workers under these
conditions.

They were also angry that Hospital management and City officials are
telling healthcare workers to remain silent about the massacres and loss of
life caused by US supported Israel. The continuing actions by Israel and the
US to allow these war crimes have led to the death of over 8,000 including
thousands of children by the US supported Israeli military. They also
condemned the Democratic Party politicians in California and nationally
who have supported the continued terror and war crimes by Israel and the
US government.

Trade unionists including Brenda Barros, SEIU 1021 San Francisco
General Hospital Chapter president and Lisa Milos a member of CWA
UPTE UCSF talked about the fight at the SF Labor Council on a labor
boycott of Israel and the shutdown of discussion by action of AFL-CIO
president Liz Schuler who sent a letter to the Council ordering them not to
talk about a boycott of Israel. The leadership of the SF Labor Council also
colluded with the Zionists to stop any solidarity action by San Francisco
trade unionists. Speakers talked about what what healthcare workers in the
US need to do about it.
 
Massive Opposition to APEC Summit
Thousands of Police and Metal Walls Isolate Elites

from the People in San Francisco
https://Awww.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/18/18860538.php

As billionaires and politicians met behind ten-foot-high metal walls in San
Francisco from November 11-17, tens of thousands of demonstrators protested outside.
Member nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit claim
to have "Inclusive, Collaborative Solutions for Just Transitions," but opponents call
this greenwashing and maintain that years of corporate neoliberalism are responsible
for economic inequality, oppression, the climate crisis, and war. Ahead of the
summit, streets were pressure washed and unhoused folks were pushed out of sight.
Police were omnipresent throughout downtown San Francisco. Police with dogs
patrolled the restaurant terraces at the Embarcadero Ferry Building.

Twenty thousand "No to APEC" protesters kicked off a week of
demonstrations on November 12. On November 15, a huge metal wall
separating the APEC economic-military elites from the rest of the world
was the scene of one of the larger demonstrations. Demonstrators hoisted
huge banners inviting the war criminals to leave the city. Prominent
among activists were the most immediate victims of the global
corporatists, native peoples and Pacific Islanders. The action focused on
many issues: militarism, poverty, fossil fuel, climate chaos, and the
Palestinian struggle.

On November 15, in front of the metal wall fortifying the APEC summit
entrance, protester Sarah White was brutally assaulted by APEC attendee
Michael Davies. Knocked unconscious, she fell to the ground, hitting her
head on the metal barrier. Sarah's jaw was broken in multiple places; she
suffered bleeding on the brain and will require surgery. Davies was charged
with assault and arraigned on November 21.
11-13 | “SF Says No to APEC”
Protest Demonstrations

‘When it comes to calling out APEC, the global conspiracy of corporate
elites, for the scam that it is, San Francisco came through. What's more,
there will be an another march in two days, on the 15th.

‘Twenty thousand rallied and marched down Market Street.... The protest
march was organized with spaces between groups making it look like a
series of successive marches. The march turned left on sth Street and
marched to Howard Street. And then it stopped. Twenty thousand people
at 5th and Howard not knowing where to go. A sort of on-the-spot rally
was held. The police did not know what to do either. Many on
motorcycles went every which way, about 50 on foot came and went, then
about five vans full arrived, addressed the issue of a stopped driver less car
with Palestinian slogans spontaneously spray-painted on it. Most people
then went home.

Organizers spoke and drew clear links between the ongoing genocide in
Gaza, corporate plunder of land and violation of labor rights, heightening
militarization, and the neglect of people’s basic needs like food, housing,
and healthcare. Violette Mansour from the Palestinian Youth Movement
said of APEC ministers and corporate representatives, “They are
conspiring to figure out how they can make a profit off of the death of our
people, how to make a profit off the plunder of our land.” Speakers
condemned “Genocide Joe” for his unconditional support for Israel’s all
out war against the Palestinian people, which has resulted in the deaths of
over 4,000 children. Participants chanted, “from Palestine to the
Philippines, stop the US war machine!”
Criticism was not only reserved for Biden. “The leaders meeting this week
are some of the most egregious perpetrators of violence against women,”
said Katie Comfort of the International Women’s Alliance, who cited the
example of Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea. Yoon recently rolled back the
demands of justice for "comfort women" in order to sign a new military
agreement with Japan and the US.

Kobi Guillory, a Chicago public school teacher and Board member of the
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression noted, “All of
our movements are connected by a common enemy, which is US
imperialism. We are here protesting against APEC because imperialism
always violates the right of self determination of oppressed people.”

“We know this is not just a moment, this is a movement,” Mansour
concluded. “Today is just the first day of shutting it down!” Despite being
surrounded by swarms of police and secret service, the crowd dispersed
peacefully chanting, “We'll be back!” Organizers are planning another
mobilization...to disrupt the APEC CEO Summit that will spotlight
multinational corporations - Boeing, Chevron, Amazon, Meta, and
Google, to highlight their roles in the heightening economic crisis,

people’s suffering and destruction of the environment.

 

 
Protests against AFL-CIO
Support for Palestinian
Genocide; No to APEC in San
Francisco

Despite the genocide underway in Gaza, the AFL-CIO leadership and
most other unions are either silent or supporting Zionist Israel.

On November 9, as part of a global day of action, trade unionists and
workers rallied at the offices of the AFL-CIO in New York City and San
Francisco to protest the union leadership’s collusion with Israel and with
the Israeli trade union federation Histadrut, which is based on the
apartheid system. The Histadrut was actively involved in supporting the
apartheid regime in South Africa with arms and other military equipment.

‘As part of the global day of action for the Palestinian people and workers a
“speak out” was held at the San Francisco Labor Council rally, to protest
the AFL-CIO's support for US and Israel continued genocide against
Palestine people and workers. The AFL-CIO has refused to even support a
cease fire and also in September 21, 2021 sent a letter to the SF Labor
Council saying they could not discuss the issue of a labor boycott of Israel
for the illegal occupation and attacks on Palestinian people.

Speakers talked about the institutional power and role of AIPAC by SEIU
87 president Olga Miranda who is also a vice president of the San
Francisco Labor Council. There was also a similar demonstration in New
York City at the AFL-CIO.
"GayPEC" Pinkwashing APEC
afterparty met with unpleasant
protestor surprise

While the San Francisco 2023 APEC conference promotes the
image of a country club for CEOs, billionaires, heads of state,
and sellout diplomats alike, protestors have had other plans. It
seems no matter where attendees go there are angry, defiant
protestors to greet them. What's a corrupt climate killing
crony to do? Wednesday afternoon, after a thousand people
blockaded the heart of the conference in downtown SF,
thousands marched for a ceasefire in Palestine beginning at
Embarcadero and blocking the financial center of Market
Street. How annoying! After that, the President was surely
hoping to have a calm evening. Instead, protesters learned of
his whereabouts at the Palace Hotel and demonstrated there
as well. At that same time, some APEC-goers thought they
could pinkwash their way into the historically queer district of
the Castro with an event they dubbed "GayPEC." It was
hosted by the gentrifying yuppie bar BEAUX SF https://
www.beauxsf.com, which was formerly the much beloved
Street Light Records. Shameless APEC attendees were easy to
spot by their blue blazer suits that looked nothing like the
communities they spent the day exploiting. Protesters yelled
chants such as "Street Sweeps Kill Queers, APEC, APEC
outta here!" as well as "APEC conference not so fine, we
support Palestine!" The small but lively crowd engaged
attendees 1:1 in heated dialogue while onlookers read picket
signs and asked questions. One little girl stopped in her tracks
for a couple minutes to stare at an image from the beloved
Studio Ghibli movie My Neighbor Totoro, which depicted the
eponymous forest guardian. The sign read:

"Totoro says: No to Pinkwashing Genocidal Climate Killers!"

Many of the APEC attendees seemed to want to "convince"
NozAPEC protestors that they (APEC goers) were "the good
guys" doing the right thing. One person announced "I'm a
diplomat, and some conversation is better than none!" To
which a protestor replied "And who is the conversation with?
Is China Labor Watch there? Were workers and climate
activists invited? NO!" One protestor commented, "this is
literally the definition of Pinkwashing" while another schooled
an attendee on the corrupt track record of Scott Weiner and
the genocidal policies of a certain Joe Biden. After increasing
frustration, an APEC sympathizer called a protestor "a retard
in a wheelchair" while another complimented the "large
vocabulary" of activists in a troll-y, sarcastic tone. When trying
to "just ask questions" though, they were shouted down with
chants for climate safety, ceasefire in Gaza, and the queer
community of San Francisco. It was clearly a damper on their
festivities and a reminder that San Francisco is not for sale, no
matter who you think you are.
Thursday, 11-16 // As Biden Visits, Bay Bridge
Shut Down to Demand Gaza Ceasefire and
End of US Military Aid to Israel

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While President Biden was in San Francisco, over 200 Bay Area residents
shut down the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge, demanding that Biden
call for an immediate ceasefire and end US military aid to Israel. “We are
beyond grief watching thousands of our loved ones murdered by the Israeli
military. There is a genocide happening in Gaza, and President Biden is
hosting cocktail parties in San Francisco right now,” said Aisha Nizar with
the Palestinian Youth Movement. “We refuse to stand by as our elected
officials pay for and cheer on the genocide of Palestinians. Biden must call
for a ceasefire now.”

A multiracial group of Bay Area residents locked arms and unfurled a
banner reading “Biden Harris: Ceasefire Now’ across all lanes of traffic
while 200 people held a “die-in”, covering their bodies in white sheets and
placards that read “11,000 dead”.

  

According to the Palestinian health ministry, the Israeli military has killed
over 11,100 people in the past month — that is 1 in every 200 people.
According to the UN, over 1.5 Million Palestinians in Gaza have been made
homeless due to the carpet bombing of their homes.

“President Biden could end this genocide today, but instead, he's using our
tax dollars to pay for it,” said Shana Kim, with Bay Area Palestine Solidarity
(BAPS). “I was born in San Francisco, land that was also violently stolen
from the Ohlone people through a genocide. The billions that Biden is
sending to fund Israel’s war crimes is money that we need to be using here
for housing, healthcare, and education.”

This action is part of a surge in civil disobedience around the country,
including Jewish community-led shutdowns of Grand Central Station in New
York City and Arab-led actions to stop military vessels from transporting
weapons to Israel.
 
Stanford Students Rise Up as Japan's
Kishida and S Korea's Yoon Speak on Campus

November 17th - a demonstration supported by a coalition consisting of dozens
of student and community organizations protested outside the Hoover Institution
on the campus of Stanford University. Hoover Institution is a campus think tank
that primarily supports new and ultra-conservative administrations and policy
positions.

The student rebels anchored their protest in a grieving ceremony, honoring victims
of US imperialism including “comfort women”, sex slaves who were forced into
service of Japanese soldiers during that country’s occupation of Korea. Dohee Lee,
whose dance style is rooted in Korean shamanism, ritually transformed the
mourning into defiant anger at Yoon and Kishida. President Yoon recently rolled
back the demands of justice for "comfort women" in order to sign a new military
agreement with Japan and the US. Demonstrators called for a world free of
imperialism for all people.

Students emphasized the need for an end to the genocide in Palestine, brutal
oppression of labor rights by ROK leaders, and the huge US military presence in
the Philippines and throughout the Pacific. They marched through the campus
stopping at key locations for speeches encircling the Hoover Institution, a partisan
think tank that primarily supports conservative administrations and policy
positions.

As the speaker event was held on the last day of APEC, students also denounced
that economic cooperation summit. After three hours, as the Yoon/Kishida event
was ending, protesters waited vigilantly outside the speaking event, hounding the
Yoon and Kishida APEC envoys with loud chants, drumming and raised fists. The
envoys tried to move the cars to hide the heads of state from the
demonstration.Organizers stated: “Our coalition echoes the existing calls for
divestment from defense corporations that our student allies have made. Where
imperialists and their compradors go, our protests will follow. We will be back!”

From Palestine to the Philippines

‘Stop the US War Machine
Defend Gaza,
Graffiti Bomb the
Burbs

Free the Land!

by #(0_0)_@ on IndyBay (Fri, Nov 17th)

Friends got together and graffiti-bombed the so-called 'east bay' cities of
pleasant hill’, ‘martinez’, ‘concord’, and ‘walnut creek’

With grief-filled hearts and a desire for revolutionary
vengeance, some friends got together and graffiti-
bombed the so-called ‘east bay' cities of ‘pleasant hill’,
‘martinez’, 'concord', and ‘walnut creek’ ~ in solidarity
with the palestine resistance. In case you didn't know,
this is unceded Ohlone and Miwok territory. It's a short
travel from ‘oakland’ or south bay, where some friends
came in from. We wandered around hitting ‘pleasant hill’
and ‘walnut creek’ with particular intensity - bombing
messages like: DEFEND GAZA and OHLONE- MIWOK -
GAZA - LAND BACK.
We ended the night a banner drop in ‘walnut creek’ over
680, at the trinity and oakland blvd overpass! The
banner in our shared pictures says "From the River to
the Sea, DEFUND Israel" [with flames]

There is a lot of open space to tag and experiment with
attack and direct action out this way. Nights are quiet,
not a lot of people on the road. There is a surprisingly
low level of surveillance in lots of areas, or at least we
presumed much greater for how much ‘wealth’ there is
out here. And barely any police at night outside of the
downtowns and city-centers. Not sure if there are
enough pigs in each of these cities to even cover the

necessary ground... (\”)_/~

Anyway,
long live the Intifada

- some anarchists
 
 
Ten thousand acts
of graffiti vandalism
in solidarity with the
people of Palestine

by An anarchist writer

A communique from a bay area anarchist writer engaged in an endless
campaign against all forms of captivity and colonization

 
This is mostly for the graffiti writers here but maybe others can
take something away too.

That morning | was getting ready for work when | heard the voice
of a doctor in Palestine say that he is unwilling to leave his patients
behind to try to save his own skin. Something in his voice cut me
and | fell to my knees and wept. Graf has been a way for me to
deal with these kinds of feelings since | was a kid. And so that
night | went painting. | very rarely write anything other than my
name and my crew. | will not explain why. I'm writing this to those
who already know. But tonight | decided to write "free palestine"
too. The first one | did was a hangover on a piller on the freeway. |
ran out dodging cars and jumping into bushes. Like an idiot |
brought only one can and it clogged after the first line. So | ran
back got another can and did it all over again. In that moment |
discovered that writing this specific thing meant something to me
right now. And so | did what | have always done when | felt like
this. | wrote it again and again and again and again.

| did not stop writing my name that night. | tried to separate the
spots and colors. Use a different handstyle depending on what |
was writing. | was actively trying to cover my tracks. A different
game to play than the myth-making of bombing.

And so | continue because now this means something to me.
Something clicked that first night which made me feel connected to
whats happening in Palestine and everyone experiencing grief,
rage, despair. Last night | used the cover of the rain. Tonight | will
find more ways. Like | always have.

| believe in the seasoned graf writer and | believe in myself. | know
that years of sneaking, boosting, evading, fighting etc have given
me access to a criminal stealth that normal people can't fathom. |
have done dirt with a group of writers and I've done dirt with
people who do not write. Writers move different.

So what am | trying to say? I'm saying that writers have the skills
to cover our cities in whatever we want. Because we already do.
Taki183, Cornbread, Tie1, Dream TDK and countless others have
shown us the way. We do not have to go to protests to hold up
signs and be policed by a bunch of vest-wearing activists to be
heard and seen. If one writer decides to get a messege out there,
it will be out there. And there are thousands of us in the Bay.
Millions in the world.

Peace to everyone on a similar path. | see you.
Stay up.
RIP ANGUS, TIE, DREAM, TUCAN, ANEMAL, GHOST,

NAUTICAL, KERSE, TAKO, JADE, ORFN, KZAM

-A bay area anarchist writer
 
I1I-20

BANKO REMEMBERED,
WALGREENS SMASHED

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/20/188605 5 1,php

“On this day of Trans Remembrance
the Ingleside Walgreens was
smashed in the middle of the

night as we remembered the murder

of Banko Brown by the Walgreens
security guard named Michael

Earl-Wayne Anthony over a handful

of snacks.”

“Banko Brown is never coming
back, but evicting Walgreens is
something we can do together.
Avenge Banko Brown!”
Nationwide S ubsidiary
Attacked in East Bay

On the early morning of Wednesday, November 22, | smashed
all 7 windows within reach at Pcf Insurance Services in Walnut
Creek, CA. | also painted “Uncover Cop City” on the front of the
building so they’d know why I came. Pcf is a subsidiary of
Nationwide, which | learned from Nationwide’s own website at
https://agency.nationwide.com/ . Nationwide is the insurance
provider for Cop City, and they have thousands of locations like
this all across the country, also listed at
uncovercopcity.blackblogs.org. Without an insurance provider,
Cop City can’t be built.

Breaking windows is simple and exhilirating. Remember that
video where the Atlas exec said they dropped the contract
because so many of their windows got smashed? Let's do that to

Nationwide ©

Viva Tortuguita!
Viva Weelaunee!
Hasta la victoria siempre!

scenes.noblogs
11-24

Youth 4 Palestine
Blocks Macy's in
Black Friday
Protest

 
11/24
Shellmound 2 Shellmound:

Past, Present, & Future

On friday morning, people gathered at the at the West Berkeley
Shellmound for a 3 mile prayer walk to the Emeryville
Shellmound. Land Back!

 
 
11/26
Tenants Fighting Eviction

Picket KP Market, Threatening
Boycott

by Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC)

A crowd of some 75 tenants, protesting the landlord’s eviction-via-disrepair campaign,
marched from 2341 Valley Street to the Telegraph Avenue grocer and picketed
throughout the afternoon ahead of a Dec. 4 hearing with the Oakland rent board

(RAP).

 
On Sunday, Nov. 26, the Valley Street Tenant Council and Tenant and Neighborhood
Councils carried outa noisy picket at KP Market, owned by landlord Byong Yu

A crowd of some 75 tenants, protesting the landlord's eviction-via-disrepair campaign, marched from 2341
Valley Street to the Telegraph Avenue grocer and picketed throughout the afternoon. Waving handmade
picket signs, we distributed hundreds of leaflets in English, Spanish, and Korean demanding dignified
housing, and dropped a banner from the rooftop of 2341 Valley St.

   

“Ifsomething is broken, we have to fix it because they won't show up,” said Gabriela, who has lived with her

son at Valley St. for 12 years. “We need dignified housing to raise our children.”

    

“We are here in protest with the community because of all the irregularities, like the heat we don’t have,” said
Antonia, another council member picketing with young children. “Last year was the coldest, and we had a
newborn. It’s inhumane that they do this to us, and won't respond.”

‘The council has collectively petitioned the Oakland rent board (RAP) over Yu's systematic reduction of
services at 2341 Valley St., and their hearing is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 4.

     

The tenant union will boycott KP Market unk
demands for dignified housing conditions,
Street.

landlord Byong Yu meets the tenant:
nd ends constructive eviction at 2341 Valley

 

   

In addition to owning the popular neighborhood grocer, Yu is a major Oakland landlord who enjoysa powerful
role with the Koreatown Northgate (KONO) business improvement district. Just behind his flagship busi
however, Yu is subjecting his tenants at 2341 Valley Street to severe and protracted habitability issues in an
attempt to empty the 41-unit apartment building.

   

ness,

 

‘The multilingual, working-class tenants of this rent-controlled housing have long complained to management
and city officials about leaks, pests, security concerns, mold and lack of heating.

 

 

In the past two years, inspectors have issued Yu four notices of violation for missing radiators, chronic leaks,
mold, infestation, and crumbling drywall. Still, Yu has refused to make repairs.

Now, more than 20 units in the building sit empty.
Early in the pandemic, Yu's tenants formed the Valley Street Tenant Council in affiliation with Tenantand

Neighborhood Councils (TANG) to collectively resist the landlord’s constructive eviction, demanding repairs
and dignified housing conditions for their families and neighbors.
 

“This isn'ta boycott — yet,” read the tenant union’s picket handout. “To Byong Yu, our apartments are worth
more with no one living inside. But we won't be evicted!”

Formal evictions are soaring since local politicians lifted pandemic-era restrictions, and landlords such as
Byong Yu persist in using harassment and disrepair to displace tenants.

 

Landlords disproportionately mark working-class people of color for eviction. And whether or not the eviction
proceeds through the court system, landlords often recruit the cops for assistance.

   

Across the Bay Area, tenants have organized into councils and associations to pressure landlords
directly for repairs and rent reductions, and to fight against all forms of eviction.

With collective power, tenants can challenge the institutional drivers of gentrification —
landlords and the real-estate industry, and all of their partners in office — for control over our
own lives.

  
 
    

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11/28
MAY THE ANTAGONISM

GENERALIZE

as read on anarchistnews.org

Ieis late November, 2023. For the last seven weeks, the world has watched as the
Israeli state has (with massive aid from the U.S. and most European governments)
continued its decades long escalation of colonial violence against the Palestinians.
Using the October 7th attack by Hamas militants as justification, the Israeli state has
demonstrated the logical conclusion of their settler-colonial project through escalating
their violence (once again) to genocidal scale. In these seven weeks more than 15,000
Palestinians in Gaza have been murdered, including more than 5,000 children.
Hundreds of thousands have been internally displaced. This is to make no mention
of the incredible violence waged by the Israeli state against Palestinians within what is
recognized as the Israeli border and within the West Bank. This horror has no sign of
slowing down (I write this in the midst of a supposed temporary ceasefire which
Israel has already violated, and vowed to resume their genocidal violence once it has
ended). This is far from the only horror this world of death machines is enacting at
this moment. Ethnocidal violence in Sudan and the Congo continue to rage to the
benefit of the US., Chinese, and European governments and corporations in their
ever-growing hunger for the accrual of natural resources. Azerbaijan continues to
escalate violence against Armenians at ethnocidal scale in large part thanks to the
explicit support of the Israeli (and by proxy the US) state by way of weapons
shipments.

In the US. (the context of which I will focus on for the remainder of this piece), as
of October 31st of this year police have murdered at least 1,082 people, putting us on
pace for the deadliest year of police violence since 2022, which was the deadliest year
of police violence since 2021, which was the deadliest year of police violence since
2020. US prisons and jails currently keep nearly two million people in cages. All of
this while the foundation mythos is used as justification for celebrating nearly 300
years of genocidal, settler-colonial, violence that continues every day this country is
allowed to go on existing, The existent world is built upon, sustained by, and ever
reproducing horrifying systems of inconceivable brutality. We exist in a world of
death machines.

 
Formal “revolutionary” orgs in the US continue to fail to materialize any meaningful
resistance to these machines other than arguing for why the world would be better
with their leaders in the driver’s seat. Given their predisposition to think capture of
the state apparatus is the primary goal at hand, they remain incapable of undermining
the violences inherent to this world of states. Outside the formal org, clandestine
action has been occurring in many (often meaningful) ways, however despite being a
sign that revolt may be spreading among some faction of society, these actions have
not been enough to change the present state of things.

IE we are interested in really destroying the institutions of our suffering and actually
ending the incredible capacity for genocidal violence this world of states reproduces
(rather than continuing to react to specific manifestations of that violence), we must
find ways to generalize a culture of antagonism to the existent world and its death
machines. Without cultivating such a culture in which individuals are able to articulate
their suffering and resist that which kills them, we will forever be limited to selecting
the next firing squad to turn on those of us who will accept nothing less than a life
worth living, I want more than this world of death. I want the antagonism to
generalize

  

What Do I Mean by Generalized Culture of Antagonism

When I speak of a culture of antagonism, I’m referring to a set of social relations
where 1) resistance is not an act or performance reserved for specific persons in
specific places during specific moments but rather an inseparable part of how we
orient and understand daily life, where 2) we navigate our physical, social, economic,
and political locales with intentional desire to undermine present systems of suffering
in order to genuinely live differently, and where 3) we are capable of recognizing the
interconnectedness of seemingly disparate struggle so as to articulate that
interconnectedness in our acts of resistance. Speaking towards generalization refers to
making this framework of struggle as reproducible and accessible as possible without
compromising what desires we wish to bring about or undermining our rejection of
the machines/systems killing us.

 

To put this framework into contrast with another prominent framework, I understand
generalization as being at odds with the vanguardist politics of many formalized
organizations (especially those which prescribe statist solutions to the violence
inherent to the state). I use “vanguardist” to denote groups (formal or otherwise) who
exceptionalize their acts of resistance and/or who allude to there being a “true/
correct” form of resistance which they are ostensibly leading. By exceptionalizing acts
of resistance, the vanguardist makes those acts less reproducible, making it appear as
though resisting inherently requires particular expertise or training, Thus, the
vanguardist reinforces the notion that it’s only by joining their (or a similar)
organization that meaningful action may be taken.

When we exceptionalize resistance we reinforce the same pit of disempowerment
wielded by the systems killing us, only this time with an optimistic sheen. We give
leverage to the notion that individuals are powerless and that most do not have the
ability or knowledge to meaningfully resist their own oppression. We effectively tell
ourselves and others to spectate and cheer for the self-described revolutionary groups
that do emerge, and maybe even join them if we're brave enough. However, through
this framework, we fail to develop any real critical analysis through which we are able
to articulate our own desired way of existing and we fail to undertake organizational
practices that might actually bring about those desires. Political action becomes just
another part of the spectacle and we (save for the select few) remain looking for
orders to follow.

 

If we are to genuinely pursue a world in which all are able to dictate the terms of their
lives, then a “generalized culture of antagonism” must also connote a culture in which
we work to improve one another's capability (as we improve our own) to articulate our
present suffering (in both its individual manifestations and interconnected systems).
‘At the same time, we must expand our capacity to imagine other ways of existing
beyond this world of racial capitalism, of work, of police and prisons, of borders and
states and every other machine of death whose barrel seems to ever more deeply
press into our skull.

Pushing Towards Generalization

 

So, if we're on the same, or at least a similar, page regarding the importance of
developing a culture of antagonism (and the role of generalizability in that
development) the obvious question is how do we do it, both within our scenes/
communities and writ large? While I wor't claim to have some divine knowledge to
declare the singular path towards such a culture, I want to offer some starting points
that I hope you will kick around (and maybe even get some friends together to
discuss)

Firstly, I believe we need to be brave, we need to be earnest, and we need to be willing
to take risks that potentially make us vulnerable. In order for antagonism to
generalize, it needs to be (at least in some way) accessible, meaning a person not
already part of a political scene/community has access to it. This means prioritizing
things like open assemblies, zine distros, and other visible, encounterable, projects.
Such projects open physical and temporal space for people to engage with ideas they
largely won't encounter elsewhere (especially outside of the internet), while also
allowing for people to take what they find useful and leave what they don’t. Any
project that encourages earnest discussion increases all of our capacities for critical
analysis of the present state of things. If they’re done well, these spaces also offer the
potential for meaningful connection to develop between individuals who might
otherwise never meet. This could mean more affinity groups at the next demo or
moving around in the dark, more folks at the next prisoner letter writing night, or just
a few more friendly faces around town to look towards when the cops fuck us up (or
better yet, when we wish to strike back).

Clandestine action can also contribute to the generalization of this culture of
antagonism, though it does not inherently contribute. Again, leaning on the idea of
accessibility, clandestine action best generalizes when it can be understood as
reproducible. This is best conveyed through communiques that offer at least some
detail of why and how a particular action was taken. Even a few sentences to say “We
did *this thing* because we hate the police” disseminated in an accessible way can
mean the potential propagation of the act they reference. This can be done through
flyering town, online communiques, tabling reportbacks, or even graffiti. We can also
spread the word of actions we’ve heard about happening elsewhere but thought were
cool enough to share with others.

We can call our own demos rather than waiting for the formal organizations to throw
a march (or parade) together, which we'll attend and then complain about later to our
friends, We can set goals with our affinity group and encourage others to do the same.
We can set the tone we desire with music or fireworks, and we can remain nimble in
our targets and trajectories to make it more difficult for police to plan ahead.
Whenever the formal orgs do call their protests we can disseminate flyers ahead of
time to call for blocs to form up in specific locations so that we may find one another
and be able to better identify (and make use of) interesting moments in what might
otherwise be a relatively uninteresting action.

‘The theme that underlines all of these possible approaches is the refusal to
exceptionalize or specialize any act or project. Anyone can call for and facilitate an
assembly, anyone can put together a distro project (and we should do what we can to
pool resources that make taking on such a project more accessible). Anyone can climb
out of their window at night with a crowbar or rattle can in hand. Anyone can throw a
brick or tell a cop to fuck off. The goal of generalization is not to increase the
number of people who call themselves anarchists but rather expand the capacity for
all of us to believe ourselves capable of really fighting against that which is killing us.
We all carry the potential to resist in our fists and in our chests. The project for those
of us interested in generalization is to encourage the transfer of the potential held in a
fist into the momentum of an arm in motion.

 
On The Importance of the Night Time Stroll (or Cruise, or Ride, or Roll)

One thought experiment I’ve found useful in encouraging motion in myself, and you
may find some use for, is the idea of the Night Time Stroll (though it doesn’t
necessarily need to be at night). Think about taking a daily or nightly walk (or drive, or
ride, etc) around your town, alone or with a few friends. While you are walking think
about the broader systems and institutions of suffering that eat away at you, that you
spend your waking hours railing against (if only in your owa mind). Think about how
those systems materially manifest. Where do those manifestations appear, what do
they look/sound/smell like?

While you're walking be intentional in taking in your surroundings. Let your footsteps
follow whatever catches your eye/mind. Consider the architecture around you.
Consider the economic and social function of the structures you observe. Can any of
these structures be understood as manifestations of the broader systems and
institutions you desire to fight against. Think about what interventions might
undermine the form and function of those manifestations.

 

When you get home from your walk, sketch or journal what felt most noteworthy. Set
up a weekly time to hang out with a few friends (who also take similar walks) to talk
about what you've observed that week. Share ideas about worthwhile interventions
and seriously consider what it would mean to attempt those interventions. Plan a time
to take an excursion together, and then intervene. If you are unable to pull a group of
friends together, it’s still worthwhile to set aside intentional time to consider your
observations and potential interventions, it might just mean adjusting how certain
interventions would be approached.

The Secret is to Really Begin

The phrase is near cliché among insurrectionary (and other) anarchists at this point,
but it only reached that status because of its resonance. I guarantee that anyone who
has meaningfully fought back can attest that in the moment resistance something
changes in your head. It might have been the first time you threw a bottle or tear gas
canister back at the riot line. Maybe it was the first time you de-arrested a friend in the
crowd. Maybe it clicked with the sound of broken glass or with the sight fear in a
cop’s eye. Whatever that moment looked like for you, once you knew what you were
capable of, that you could act instead of only spectate, a whole new world of
possibilities opened before you. Put plainly, it is that feeling I wish to see generalize
more broadly.

 

 
In full honesty, I don’t know if the type of generalization I speak of is possible in the
context of the US and I’m certainly under no impression that, if it is possible, that it
would be easy to achieve. However, I recognize that my ability to act for myself is
dependent on the ability of others to act for themselves, and so my ability to resist to
the extent that I desire is directly tied to the ability of others to resist. So, the project
of generalizing antagonism and resistance as daily life is where I place my focus.
Everything seems impossible right up until it doesn’t. Prior to 2020, I imagine most in
the US did not think they would ever see a police precinct of a major city burn to the
ground so thoroughly that it would set off weeks of cop cars burning and centers of
commerce being smashed up in hundreds of cities throughout the country. ’'m not so
naive as to believe that assemblies and distro projects can materialize mass revolt, but
P’m also not so cynical as to believe there is no use in fighting against my own
brutalization (or that of any other) or that such brutalization is simply inherent to
existence. The world being the way that it is does not mean it must be that way.

 

Twant so much more than what this present world of death machines allows. If we
wish to truly live differently, we cannot wait for particular manifestations of the death
machines to reach their crisis point before we decide the time is right to act against
them. Every state holds within it the potential for inconceivable, genocidal violence.
Every police precinct the potential for brutalization and imprisonment. Wherever
capital has a stranglehold on daily life there will be exploitation and brutality in the
pursuit of its accumulation. This violence, brutalization, and exploitation will always
be borne most intensely by those most marginalized by the present state of things.
Every prison and every precinct, every border wall and every immigrant detention
center, every weapons manufacturer and every military recruitment center is reason
enough to act.