skull wheel

after the revolution. . . i go to have my back examined

by beautiful women with ice cold hands and death stars !

after we lost the revolution. . . we castrate ourselves

after the revolution. . . all of our numbers are written on cream colored walls

after we lose the revolution. . . we open all ages art galleries

we bury the homeless and pay our taxes and talk about other things

after the uprising. . . our homes are really foreclosed

after the apocalypse. . . we view each other through tiny windows of ice

after the activists leave. . . the militants take up arms and block the roads

we put away the polite signage

buy, possess, trade new weapons of imaginable charm

paint everything FUCKING RED !!!

move on to other adventures. . . in grey

1/2 the color of my true love's flag

after the insurgency. . . everything is fuckable

after the revolution fails. . . we are crushed, poisoned and left for dead
after the revolution. . . we live in what we find, brown and worn, stained silver squeals



NE!L~ fir real !!!

Kerry Cunneen interview reprint

Radio interview with Kerry Cunneen

Grand Jury resister Kerry Cunneen gave an interview to Finn’s Revolution radio show. Here is a rough transcript of the interview:
Question: What is anarchism and how did anarchists find themselves at May Day in Seattle?
Kerry: Anarchism is a political philosophy centered on the idea that a society without domination is better suited to foster the wellbeing of its members. Anarchists are necessarily anti-capitalists because capitalism hinges on exploitation and economic division in society. We also oppose the concentration of power that we refer to as the state. These various bodies of law, force, and control seek to contain the possibilities for society and compel us all to perpetuate capitalism. There are many other forms of social domination that anarchists will fight to abolish, such as racism and patriarchy, that are also deeply entwined  with capitalism.
As for May Day, it is, among other things, an anarchist holiday. It is a day that commemorates the militant labor struggle for the eight hour work day and the anarchists who were killed or imprisoned by the state for participating in this struggle. In Chicago, where the labor struggle was particularly militant, the police opened fire on a picket, killing and wounding picketers. The next day a demonstration was called and a bomb was thrown at the police line, killing an officer and wounding others. The state tried eight anarchists for the murder, and regardless of whether they were at the demonstration or not, all eight were sentenced to death or life in prison. We take May Day as a chance to remember these militant struggles and to inspire us to keep fighting against the state that wants us submissive or dead. Every year there are demonstrations and other events in cities all over. In the Pacific Northwest, Seattle was calling out to anarchists to come together and have a really massive anti-capitalist march. Many anarchists answered the call and showed up in Seattle that day.
Question: What was May 1, Seattle all about? Were there progressive groups involved? What was your involvement? Were you arrested or investigated? If so, how were you treated?
Kerry: There were a lot of events and marches scheduled for May Day in Seattle
this past year. A lot of them were related to occupy. I can’t say much about
the organizing of Seattle’s May Day because I don’t live there and was not
part of the organizing. I can say that May Day demonstrations have in many
places become somewhat placid, not resembling the spirit of resistance to
state control. They often get city permits, and designate peace police to
make sure the march is whatever the organizers want it to be. The anti-
capitalist march in Seattle was organized to be different. This march was
meant to be a disruption of capital. It was unpermitted and there was no
leadership in the march or expectation of abiding laws.
I was in Seattle at the anti-capitalist march on May Day. It was a glorious
day for anarchists, in my opinion. We effectively disrupted the goings on of
downtown Seattle. I was not arrested or anything, but clearly I have
become involved in the investigation somehow. But, with secret
investigations it is difficult to glean much information.
Question: Some people are appalled when property damage and injury occur in these kinds of events. What can you say regarding that?
Kerry: I would say that property destruction is an important tactic in the fight
against capitalism. I think property destruction does a number of things that further the struggle against domination. For one, it solidifies for us and reminds us that the powers we fight are not abstract and insurrmountable. They are
vulnerable to attack. I think also that when an institution which forcibly
maintains power over us is targeted by property destruction, this will often
resonate with others who experience the violence of that institution. It
makes us feel less alone and less like victims. I think that property destruction has a good effect on those who carry it out as well. I think most people need to unlearn submission and show themselves that they have the capacity to act for
their own liberation. I think that when people burn cop cars, break bank
windows, or blockade a road (thwarting the transfer of goods and or law
enforcement) they are also demonstrating to themself some of the
magnitude of their ability to resist. I think too that in some cases the
economic damage of property destruction can be effective against the state
and capital. It is not as though breaking windows is an end goal, but it is a
tactic that people shouldn’t thoughtlessly cast aside as if it were the
introduction of violence into the fight against the state, instead of the
response to endless state sponsored violence.
There are many flawed arguments against property destruction, but
without a specific one to debunk, I would only extrapolate on this point that
in general people are accustomed to experiencing and absorbing state
violence as normal. There is a desensitization and sometimes a blame
shifting that goes on to justify state violence against people. But, when
people fight back against these concentrated powers it is sensationalized
and often viewed as unprovoked or illegitimate. In the case of a
demonstration in the streets, it is really awful to hear someone criticize the
breaking of windows as they gloss over the acute violence at the hands of
the state. Demonstrations are often brutally repressed, people are beaten,
pepper sprayed, arrested and imprisoned and this is expected and often
accepted by witnesses and people in general. How can a rational person
deny efforts of resistance the use of violence against those who hold it in a
monopoly? We want to win, we really mean to destroy capital, and for that
we will need to be open to the idea of property destruction. We have to
strip capital of its power over society. This is not an easy or voluntary
occurrence but one that is achieved by force. Property after all, is a farce.
Question: Kerry, you, Maddy, Matt & Kteeo are currently refusing to cooperate with a Grand Jury in Seattle which is investigating events which occurred during May Day protests last year. First, why do you think the government has subpoenaed you and has decided to pressure you to testify? And why are all of you refusing to appear?
Kerry: I don’t know why I was subpoenaed to the grand jury. I am an Anarchist, I am known to have been in Seattle on May Day and the Feds are grasping at
straws trying to make a case against Anarchists in whatever way they can.
I doubt they have any idea who broke the courthouse windows nor do they
care. I think they are using the attack on the courthouse as a pretext to
bring down a heavy hand and try to scare Anarchists away from militant
resistance. It isn’t working and I am glad to think that this is frustrating to
the state.
I refuse to appear because I despise the state. They are working to undo
everything that Anarchists stand for. I refuse to help them on the principle
that prisons should be abolished. I refuse them because I am in complete
support of the crimes they are investigating. I refuse them with a visceral
hatred for the law and all of the lives they ruin. I am glad for the little bit of
resistance I can provide in denying them information. I respect and admire
Matt, Kteeo and Maddy for making the sacrifice that is involved in sitting for
and undetermined jail sentence. I just am not personally willing to take a
step in the direction of my own jail cell.
Question: Clearly the government is attempting to intimidate you and anarchists and activists in general. First by calling you to testify in a Grand Jury setting thereby trying to force you give up your right to remain silent which exists in standard judicial courts, and then by jailing some of you to wear you down. Can they legally keep any of you in jail indefinitely until you testify, and just how long do all of you think this can last? Can you talk about what legal actions are being taken on your behalf?
Kerry: The state has the power to do lots of things, legal or not. Legally though,
people can be held in civil contempt for not testifying for a period up to 18
months or whenever the grand jury ends, whichever comes first. The grand
jury is slated to end by March of 2014 so there could be a lot of people in
jail for a long time over this. There are currently no legal actions being
taken on my behalf that I know of. I am not in need of any legal help unless
I am arrested. There doesn’t seem to be much that lawyers can do to help
people who are subpoenaed. All of the attempts to get the subpoenas
thrown out have been laughed out of the courts. They are going to do all
they can to turn people against their principles. I don’t see it working with
most Anarchists though.
Question: Kerry, where can listeners find out more about all this, and what can they do to get involved and help?
Kerry: So, the support group for the subpoenaed folks has a website. It is
nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com. That is where you can go for news
and updates about the grand jury in the Pacific Northwest. It is also where you can donate some much needed money which will help us fill the commissary of
the folks in jail so they can continue to write letters, eat and such things.
We also need money for lawyers fees and in case of indictments coming
from the grand jury. There is a support site for the 5 people recently
indicted for alleged crimes during the various marches of May Day in
Seattle. The site is seattleantirepression.wordpress.com. There is also a
site, saynothing.info which is cataloging the numerous actions of property
destruction which are being carried out in solidarity with those resisting the
grand jury and its targets.
I would say that people can help by holding fundraisers and other events to
raise money and awareness about what is happening. You can contact
either support groups to figure out how to set something up in your area.
Probably the most important thing though, is that people continue to
struggle in the spirit of the anti-capitalist march on May Day. People need
to attack, in whatever way they feel they can, the institutions that hold us
down. We are all inspired by resistance and it helps those of us facing
repression to know that we don’t struggle alone.

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The Zapatistas

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Zapatistas The Zapatistas, an indigenous army in southern Mexico, rose up on January 1, 1994 to protect their territories and communities from the damaging effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement and capitalism in general. They have fought with guns, with protests, with their words, with solidarity projects, with radio stations, and more. And through nearly… [Read more…]

Boston Tea Party

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Boston_Tea_Party_Currier_colored Although disguising themselves as Mohawk–perhaps a symbol of resistance and insubmission–was a serious act of indecency, given the colonialists’ role in the genocide against the Mohawk and other indigenous nations of North America, their defiance of the British East India Company and the British government was well founded, and their decision to mask their identities… [Read more…]

Interior Minister Puig

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Mayor Bloomberg

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Michael_R_Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg: Billionaire, politician, New York City mayor, evictor of Occupy Wall Street, sexual harrasser, and promoter of pacifism. In 2004, he made the news for offering museum and hotel discounts and a slew of other bribes to protestors coming to oppose the Republican National Convention, on the condition that they identify themselves as peaceful… [Read more…]
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Zorro

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Wildcat 1968

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V

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Jean Quan

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Slave insurrections

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slave-rebellon Slaves plotting revolts against plantation owners and colonial governments often used codes, secret meetings, and masks to protect their identities as they organized, carried out revenge attacks, or rose up and fought for their freedom.

The Oakland Commune

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Gene Sharp

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The Autonomen

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The Defense Department

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Robin Hood

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The Stimulator

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Mondays in the Sun

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Tampa Police Chief

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The Asturian Miners

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Soy compañero!

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25-s-que-soy-companero-cono During an anti-austerity protest in Madrid on September 25, 2012, an undercover police officer dressed in black was tackled and beaten by fellow cops as he cried out, “I’m a colleague!” The youtube video of the event is hilarious, showing how stupid and brutal the cops are, but it was immediately seized on by pacifists to… [Read more…]

The French “ninja”

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LO protest08.JPG One of the biggest newspapers in France, Le Monde, spreads the accusation made by Stalinists that an anarchist who kicked a protestor trying to stop another anarchist from smashing a bank was in fact a police infiltrator. It turns out, the rioters were not “false anarchists” but real people angry at the banks. The supposed… [Read more…]

Vancouver Olympics

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Canada criminalizes masking

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blackbloccanada A new Canadian law will punish masking more harshly than rioting. The government wants us to mask up? Really? After decades of combative liberation movements by indigenous people, anarchists, and others successfully using masks to protect their identities while fighting back against the wealthy and their guard dogs, the Canadian government has passed a new… [Read more…]
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Mexico City rioters are cops?

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Masked protestors carry out the wounded during heavy fighting with police in Mexico City Offering no evidence other than that other “commentators” have made the accuasation, a US newspaper spreads the claim that rioters in Mexico City are police infiltrators. This accusation was originally made, also without evidence, by left-wing and NGO-paid activists who see the anarchists and the common people rioting in the streets as a pesky competitor… [Read more…]
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Mexico City riots, December 2012

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Protect Yourself

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Black Bloc in the protest against the G20 in Toronto Sometimes, it is necessary to go against what the mainstream considers “acceptable”, to break the law in order to do the right thing. Those who mask up and smash corporate property or riot in the streets have decided that the system needs to be abolished, that the laws are oppressive, or that those who make… [Read more…]
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The Barcelona Starbucks

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The burned Starbucks the media referred to as a small coffeeshop. After the general strike and riots of March 29, 2012, the mainstream media in Spain described a Starbucks that got torched as a “small coffeeshop”. This is a really common trick, to describe a multinational as a small, family owned business. If a small business truly is smashed in a riot (and this rarely happens),… [Read more…]
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The protestors of Tahrir Square

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A flyer in Arabic advising protestors how to dress to protect themselves from surveillance and police weapons The protestors of Tahrir Square. They often wore masks to protect themselves from tear gas or from being identified by the police as they took to the streets to topple the Mubarak dictatorship. Contrary to the media, they have not won or given up yet, and they continue struggling against the new democratic government (because… [Read more…]

Why they don’t want us to wear masks

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tahrir Is the Black Bloc a police tool? From the Arab Spring to the student protests in Montreal to the Plaza occupation movement in Spain to the Occupy movement in the US, people are giving up on pacifism… http://violentanarchists.wordpress.com/about/
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When the provocation is real

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Anarch2 It’s true that real provocateurs exist, and we need to protect ourselves from them. While targeting Occupy Cleveland, the FBI sent an infiltrator to rope some kids into a plot to blow up a bridge. A few years earlier a paid FBI informant manipulated her lover into supporting her plot to blow up a dam… [Read more…]
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