from PSA:
Support Pax and the Grand Jury resistance!
Come check out the skills we got up here in the PNW. There’s gonna be wrestling, western boxing, muay thai and bands. Food, refreshments and t-shirts will be available. All donations go to the Pax support and Grand Jury Resisters support funds. This event will be held in Portland at 3806 SE 34th ave from 1pm til 8 or 9.
from SAY NOTHING:
“I’m feeling pretty solid, aren’t you?”
I just got a call from my lawyer telling me not to come to the Grand Jury tomorrow. The date is being pushed back again. He will let me know the new date when he knows for sure and I will let you all know.
I do not know if the other people also had their dates changed yet. Stay tuned.
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UPDATE: All of the grand jury subpoenas for August 30 which are known to have been served were rescheduled for September.
from the Committee Against Political Repression:
My name is Leah-Lynn Plante, and I am one of the people who has been subpoenaed to a secret grand jury, meeting in Seattle on August 30.
Leah-Lynn Plante on refusing to testify at the August 30 grand jury
This will be the second time I have appeared before the grand jury, and the second time I have refused to testify. The first time was on August 2. I appeared, as ordered, and I identified myself. Then the US Attorney asked if I would be willing to answer her questions. I said, No, and was issued another subpoena, this time for the 30th.
A month later, my answer is still the same. No, I will not answer their questions. I believe that these hearings are politically motivated. The government wants to use them to collect information that it can use in a campaign of repression. I refuse to have any part of it.
It is likely that the government will put me in jail for that refusal.
I hate the very idea of prison. But I know, if I am sent there, I will not be alone. I can only speak for myself, but I have every faith that the others subpoenaed to these hearings will likewise refuse. And I know that hundreds of people have called the US Attorney demanding that they end this tribunal. Hundreds of organizations, representing thousands of people, signed onto a statement expressing solidarity with those of us under attack and demanding an end to this sort of repression.
I know that those people will continue to support me, and the others subpoenaed, and the targets of the investigation. That spirit of solidarity is exactly what the state fears. It is the source of our strength, yours and mine. And that strength shows itself in every act of resistance.
from Indybay:
for the silent ones
In this morning’s early hours, a Wells Fargo Bank branch had two of its doors and all four of its ATMs glued shut.
This small act of sabotage was in solidarity with those resisting, by whatever means, the grand jury in Seattle. We also would like to express our complicity with Mario and Felicity in Mexico, and with CeCe in Minnesota.
Prisoners to the streets!
from Contra-info (translated by PSA):
On the night between 21 and 22 August, the bank Crédit Mutuel, located on Avenue Gaulard, was attacked with paint.
21 August 2012 – Bank attacked (Besanzon, France)
We threw eggs filled with red and black paint on the facade: This action was done in solidarity with our comrades who are resisting the grand jury in the northwestern U.S.. We likewise send our support to LA Anarchists, rebels of the world for anti-authoritarian ideas and / or actions of disobedience and resistance to the capitalist system: strength and value to our comrade Luciano “Tortuga” recently condemned by the Chilean state, Kelly, convicted of involvement in the riots of the counter-G20 Toronto (Canada) in 2010.
Last month, the Credit Agricole bank, from 50 meters, was the target of vandalism: the glass facade exploded with a cinder block donated by the city of Besançon, which is doing work for the tram.
It is only the beginning!
Anarchist Solidarity with the current social war prisoners!
from Anarchistnews:
My house was raided by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force last month. Like an anonymous comrade who is laying low to avoid a subpoena, I want to make it very clear that I am not a victim. As an anarchist I am opposed to the state in its entirety – it is my enemy. To call myself a victim is to accept powerlessness, even though these raids and the grand jury are clearly responses to anarchists acting in revolt, asserting our power.
This last month has brought me intense sadness – I have found myself crying at work, while listening to cheesy folk punk, while looking at pictures of puppies. But I also feel overwhelming joy at the love I have felt from my friends and comrades, and from anarchists around the world. It is true that sometimes anarchists serve Food Not Bombs and live in collective houses, but it is also true that sometimes anarchists throw rocks through windows and fight the police. To highlight one at the expense of the other would be a mistake. I love anarchism for all of those reasons: as a tendency we act to make our lives more bearable in the here and now, AND we attack the institutions that make our lives miserable. Anarchism is dangerous and confrontational and uncompromising, and I love it for that.
We also need to be honest with ourselves about how dangerous we can be: we can’t act surprised every time the state is repressive. The fact that the state is coming down in such a heavy-handed fashion right now in the Northwest means we’ve been doing something right. That doesn’t mean that we should be reckless or welcome repression, but that the state wouldn’t be paying any attention to us if we weren’t a real threat.
7 August 2012 – Vandalized cop cars (San Francisco, CA)
I don’t know what the future holds for me. My life right now is in a surreal state of suspension – waiting for what could be any number of potential outcomes. I have several indications that I am a target of the grand jury investigation. In a year I could be in prison, or this could all be an unpleasant memory. No matter what the outcome, I know that I have support and solidarity from friends and comrades, known and unknown, around the world. We will get through this stronger, more resilient, and more rebellious than ever before.
If the state wanted to isolate anarchists from each other or stop the spread of social revolt, it has failed miserably. Since the raids I have made many new friends and comrades, and grown much closer to friends I already had. I don’t really believe in community, but these events have shown me the importance of networks of support and friendship.
“We’ve been given a neutral idea of friendship, understood as a pure affection with no consequences. But all affinity is affinity within a common truth. Every encounter is an encounter within a common affirmation, even the affirmation of destruction.” – The Coming Insurrection
Thank you to everyone who has been doing direct support work. Just as importantly, thank you to everyone who has engaged in a solidarity action – whether that be a demo in front of a courthouse, graffiti, a banner hang, or broken windows and slashed tires. Reading all the communiques that have poured in from around the world has been incredibly heartwarming. The state may try to stamp out revolt in one place, but time and time again it will find that like dandelions, we continue springing up in other places as soon as the state’s back is turned. We are far too free and wild to be eradicated! Let’s send our seeds of revolt out on the wind in every direction!
Love and solidarity,
a Portland anarchist
from Indybay:
(A) Fuck Off Yuppies (San Francisco, CA)
In the early morning of August 22 in San Francisco’s Mission District, we joyfully attacked all presence of gentrification and yuppie windows we could find. These malicious acts were done in solidarity with those in the Pacific Northwest resiting Grand Jury’s. New and old condos, cafes, BMW’s, Porsches, Mercedes, antique stores, fine restaurants, modern furniture stores, among many others, had their windows permanently etched with (A), DIE, Die Yuppie Scum, Fuck Off Yuppies, Yuppies Out!, and a variety of other obscenities.
To our companions currently facing or who do face Grand Jury’s in the future: SAY NOTHING! You have waves of invisibles behind you ready to coalesce from the woodwork and attack at the ready.
(A) Die Yuppie Scum (San Francisco, CA)
The people and businesses we attacked, with smiles and laughs, have for decades and still continue to actively displace and destroy the generations of families in The Mission while continuing the project of capital by commodifying and compartmentalizing all modes of existence and ways of being. This project of capital is enforced and backed-up in every regard with the constant harassment, beatings and murders of the San Francisco Police Department. In this regard we send our fiercest love to those who recently rendered unusable SFPD and OPD vehicles – We see your actions, are inspired and continue the attack. It’s so easy!
We also send our revolutionary fire to the Tinley Park 5, The Cleveland 4, Cece Mcdonald, Eric McDavid, Marie Mason and all others who attack the existent.
from PSA:
The zine that was released upon the world weeks ago entitled “We Will Not Cooperate” has been updated with a more comprehensive list of solidarity statements and attacks.
Disseminate wildly.
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Remember the call for the August 24-31 week of solidarity actions!
Overnight on August 15th, some tires rebelled against their existence and decided they’d rather deflate than carry out the task imposed on them:
This small action is a modest contribution in solidarity with the anarchists imprisoned in the U.S. Northwest after attacks against domination –or rather, in solidarity with those who remain silent as they face Grand Juries. This is also dedicated to those incarcerated as part of the “Ardire” and “Mangiafuoco” operations.
Hoping that an epidemic of tire suicides will ensue,
Truly yours,
Some deflated tires–deflated, yet not resigned.
* “Zone d’attente”, “Centres de Rétention Administrative” : jail-like structures where immigrants deemed illegal are locked up.
** The french expression “dégonflé” both means “deflated” and “chicken/coward”
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from Nantes Indymedia:
Dans la nuit du 15 au 16 août, des pneus se sont rebellés contre leur existence et ont préféré se dégonfler que d’exécuter la tâche qui leur était imposée:
– un utilitaire Orange (exploite les prisonniers)
– une voiture Veolia (nucléaire)
– une camionnette de la Croix-Rouge (gère la zone d’attente de Roissy et des CRA dans plusieurs pays)
– un utilitaire Sunland Energies d’Avenir
– deux voitures de Vinci (construit des taules)
– une voiture de la préfecture
– une voiture SPIE (nucléaire et vidéosurveillance)
Les pneus de 17 vélib’ se sont également suicidés, fatigués de transporter bobo du travail à la maison. De même pour quelques 4×4 et une Porsche.
Cette petite action est une modeste contribution à la solidarité avec les anarchistes incarcéré-e-s dans le Nord-Ouest américain suite à des attaques contre la domination; en tout cas à celles et ceux qui restent silencieux-ses face aux Grand-Jurys. Une dédicace aussi aux incarcéré-e-s des opérations “Ardire” et “Mangiafuoco”.
En espérant que s’ensuive une épidémie de suicides de pneus.
Des pneus dégonflés mais pas résignés.
from PSA:
On August 17, 2012, a group of anarchists converged on the corner of Georgia and Richards in the heart of the downtown vancouver cluster fuck of consumerism for a banner drop they will not soon forget. The banner read “FUCK THE FBI (A)(E)”, and along with the banner flew down four hundred of leaflets explaining the action to bystanders and future comrades. This is only a minuscule action in solidarity with grand jury resisters, the Cleveland 4 and all imprisoned anarchists worldwide. We will continue our fight for Total Freedom.
Fuck the FBI (A)
FUCK GRAND JURIES! FUCK THE PRISONS! FUCK THE COURTS!
(A)
Anarchist Solidarity
