Holding in my heart: each and every person (except the police) who was at a music festival in the Weelaunee Forest one year ago today. Those performing. Those dancing and reveling. Those resisting. Those doing logistics and care. Those mourning Tortuguita. Those savoring moments of reinspiration and respite, joy and connection. Those looking out for others.

Especially those brutalized, arrested, and detained that day, and now facing heavy yet absurd charges.

Cops ruin everything, from March 5, 2023, in Atlanta to March 5, 2024, in Gaza, to all the days in between.

Courts aren't any better, even when they purport justice or rule something "a genocide." Prisons and militaries, states and borders, continue apace, churning out death.

We know this.

(At this point in human history, everyone should.)

What we too often overlook amid the despair, intensity, and trauma of these times is: we are the ones who make music. Even when it feels a whisper. Or when we feel as if we're humming alone or singing aloud with only a few friends. Our tunes float from forests and rivers to mountains and seas, in melodic forms that no cop, court, or country can see, hear, or comprehend. They take the shape of everything from rituals of resistance to jail solidarity and collective defense, to our many imaginative direct actions, dreamy do-it-ourselves spaces, mutual aid through asundry disasters, and communal care, to our ability to find cracks of possibility even when their walls seem impenetrable.

Still, anniversaries can feel hard. Our bodies remember, even if our minds try to block them out.

Let's all hold all of those (except the cops) who were at a music festival a year ago in our hearts, and others grappling with the state's crackdown on @stopcopcity as a movement, until all the charges are dropped, #UntilAllAreFree—everywhere.

#AllCopsAreBad
#AllCourtsAreBad
#ACABincludesIOF
#CareNotCops
#AllComradesAreBeautiful
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

(photo: #ACAB Palestinian solidarity sticker seen recently on Stone Mountain in so-called Georgia; while they last, these stickers are free at @community_books_ga)

All comrades are beautiful, yes?

I could you some comradely help, knowing that at least some of you beautiful people will come to my aid.

I’m looking for print media contacts who, in turn, I can reach out to with a press release for a warm-and-fuzzy antifascist project. (Yes, sometime we have wins here and there, including adorable ones!)

I’ll be sharing the actual project soon—stay tuned to my IG and you’ll hear way too much about it in the coming weeks. For now, though, I’m trying to get all the anarchic ducks in a row, so to speak, and that includes a solid list of radical, progressive, and friendly mainstream print media folks.

After all, who doesn’t need some good news these days, particularly when it involves kids, possums and a unicorn, and metaphorically in this project, beating fascists at their own game? (How’s that for provoking your interest, even just a little bit?)

Email me (cbmilstein [@] yahoo) with any and all media contacts—the more specific, like solid writer and/editor names, the better.

#AlwaysCarryABook (another teaser for this project)
#AllCopsAreBad
#AllChristofascistsAreBad
#ACABincludesIOF

(photo: #ACAB hand-lettered in Sharpie, as seen on a #CareNotCops stroll a few weeks ago on stolen Cherokee lands)

Cops shutting down an #independentNews outlet in the #USA?

Maybe we should #protest for the rights of all #journalists including #JulianAssange, still in prison for helping reveal #warCrimes and abuses of power?

A stark reminder that using anonymising systems like #I2P and #Tor is vital in delivering #news in today's age of #massSurveillance and #corporateTotalitarianism.

Also #AllCopsAreBad.

This week graduate students and a postdoc at UC San Diego got arrested and charged with 'vandalism' and 'conspiracy' for a labor protest. They wrote with chalk and washable paint about the fact that the University has not paid them enough as dictated by the union contract and table talk. The University, specifically the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, changed their appointment percentage from 50% to 43% in order to avoid giving them a raise.

Here is a local news article about it: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/06/30/uc-san-diego-student-workers-arrested-after-allegations-of-conspiracy-and-vandalism

They are gathering signatures on this petition:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-uc-to-drop-their-charges-against-protesting-workers

Please share it widely!

A couple weeks ago, the university leveled student conduct violations against grad students who staged a protest at an alumni event about the same labor violations from the university, and other similar issues. They accused the students of assaulting the chancellor and threatening health and safety, when the action was completely nonviolent. The student conduct process is still ongoing...

In summary, the university's retaliation is very overpowered compared to the modest demands and peaceful demonstrations from the grad student and postdoc workers.

Moreover, this is another reminder that the cops are not your friends, no matter how nicely you behave.

"Bundesinnenministerin Faeser will nach den Ausschreitungen in Leipzig bei Demonstrationen hart durchgreifen", aber nicht bei eskalierenden Bullen, stattdessen kündigte sie an "die linksextreme Szene im Blick zu behalten" und dann dankte sie alle Bullen während der Polizeipräsident darauf hinwies es sei erforderlich gewesen durch "Stärke zu deeskalieren".

Wow und ihr Framing wird nicht hinterfragt. Wow, aber ein Angewidertes. #AllCopsAreBad #AbolishThePolice #acab

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/leipzig-krawalle-tag-x-104.html

Mir kommt es so vor als ob Deutschland bereits ein Bullenstaat ist.
#acab #AllCopsAreBad All !!!!!!!!!

Clearly someone has many big feelings about and against cops, which is as it should be. Or else they simply wanted to drive the point home to each and every passerby on these stolen, surveilled, policed lands of Tio’tia:ke/Montreal. Or maybe they want to extra annoy any cop who drives by. Or perhaps they believe that “three’s the charm” to cast the spell of abolition.

No matter the reasoning, including that maybe they were using up the last bits of various cans of different-colored spray paint or were practicing different lettering styles, it’s always a good day to publicly declare #AllCopsAreBad. That is, until this acronym only means, plain and amazingly, #AutonomousCommunitiesAreBeautiful because policing is obsolete.

For now, don’t be on the fence about police (unless you’re tagging it with #ACAB).

#WhichSideAreYouOn
#CareNotCops
#TowardAWorldWithoutPolice

Die Megavo-Polizeistudie ergab (ohne die Polizei Baden-Württemberg, die sich entzog): "Ein Grund, Angst zu kriegen".

https://www.kontextwochenzeitung.de/debatte/629/ein-grund-angst-zu-kriegen-8815.html

Tomorrow is the second bond hearing for the nearly two-dozen people snatched by cops from a music festival in Weelaunee Forest on March 6, jailed ever since, and charged with “domestic terrorism” for caring about this planet and all of its inhabitants. May our hearts and solidarity be with all the arrestees and their many loved ones and supporters on what may be an extra stressful day.

Defend the codefendants.

Defend the earth.

@defendATLforest

Donate toward the long solidarity struggle ahead against this state repression. Contribute to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund at http://www.atlsolidarity.org.

#AllCourtsAreBrutal
#AllCopsAreBad
#DropTheCharges
#StopCopCity
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

(photo: One of many, many #ACAB tags spotted on the wintery, inching toward springlike, streets of Tio’tia:ke/Montreal)

"Bis in den Kern verrottet
Ein Bericht attestiert der Londoner Polizei eine tief sitzende Kultur der Diskriminierung und Gewalt. In Deutschland gibt es bisher nicht mal Studien."

Es dürfte in Deutschland genauso sein!

#AbolishThePolice #AllCopsAreBad

https://taz.de/Londoner-Polizei-und-Diskriminierung/!5920168/

https://twitter.com/magpiekilljoy/status/1619349075245273089

https://twitter.com/williamcson/status/1618302727985201152

#WARNING: This #story #contains #graphic #images.

"There are calls for calm in the city of #Memphis, #Tennessee, after the release of a #video showing an #altercation which #resulted in the #death of #TyreNichols.

#Charges against the #five #police #officers were announced yesterday, ahead of the video's release. North #America correspondent Barbara Miller reports from #Washington."
#acab #AllCopsAreBastards #kkkops #kkkopsAndKlan #kkkop #fascism #statism #unitedstates #AllCopsLie #AllCopsAreBad #AllCopsAreRats #allcopsareevil #AllCopsAreRacist #AllCopsAreCowards #AllCopsAreKillers #AllCopsAreGroomers #allcopsarederekchauvin #humanrightsnow #humanrightslaw #humanrights #imperialism #policebastard #capitalism

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-28/us-police-release-tyre-nichols-arrest-video-showing-assault-/101902496

https://youtu.be/AvxqtFjg0IQ

We don’t need videos.

As the Ayotzinapa 43 families have been saying since 2014, after 43 beloveds in Iguala, Guerrero, were disappeared and likely murdered, including by police, “We want them back alive.”

Meaning: they never should have been killed.

We shouldn’t need videos to somehow prove that we want every single person murdered-by-cop to be alive. That their names should still be spoken to them, here in this world. That each and every person assassinated by police was loved and lovable, and never deserved that kind of death.

We shouldn’t need videos as evidence that there are no good cops.

The proof is in the grieving people left behind, the uprisings fueled by rage and sorrow, the abolitionist and stop cop cities/academies organizing and direct action, the myriad forms of solidarity, the murals and tags on urban walls, the DIY altars.

“We want them back alive.”

For that to have full meaning, we want and need and fight for a world without police.

#AllCopsAreBad #ACAB
#NoMoreStolenLives
#CareNotCops
#AllComradesAreBeautiful
#TowardAWorldWithoutPolice
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon

(photo: downtown storefront boarded up with plywood and then tagged with graffiti asserting #NoGoodCops and #Fuck12 as seen on stolen Ho-Chunk lands in so-called Madison, WI, after the windows were smashed during the George Floyd uprising in 2020)

[Part 1 of 3] If trees could talk, they wouldn’t talk to police.

Or, for many of us, since we know that trees can and do talk in various ways, we’re sure that they would never, ever talk to the police. Especially since many of those cops want to cut them down!

We also know that trees can and do lend solidarity aplenty, whether to the ecosystems of which they are a part, those humans who sit with them, or by nonconsensually giving up their lives and limbs to be turned into paper for, say, postcards.

The trees’ sacrifice doesn’t have to be in vain. Postcards, too, can lend solidarity, and in defense of the trees and, particularly right now, those humans who are forest defenders.

This week, six folks were arrested in Weelaunee Forest on the stolen lands now called DeKalb County, Georgia, as police cracked down hard on @defendatlantaforest and @stopcopcity. They were charged with “domestic terrorism” and then denied bond.

The trees know, as we also do, that protecting forests—including by gathering in them to make and share food, engage in sacred rituals, offer and learn skills, play music and dance, and assorted other communal, life-giving activities—is the exact opposite of those charges, and that trees and people should be free.

For now, that forest (and all trees, no doubt) and those who are doing on-the-ground jail support in the Atlanta area are asking for all of us to send postcards to the six jailed forest defenders. (Scroll through the infographics here for exact instructions.)

Each postcard will not only bring care and comfort to the six forest defenders who are likely going through a range of hard/scary/stressful emotions and times but is also an implicit #ACAB to the cops and courts.

Somehow, if those postcards that used to be trees could talk, I suspect they’d glad to be bearers of solidarity—but remember, make sure your postcards don’t inadvertently talk to the cops either (again, read the instructions here carefully!).

(photos: both were taken in mid-October when I had the blessed pleasure of visiting this forest during sukkot 5783/2022)

#ForestsNotFascism
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon
#AllCopsAreBad #AllCourtsAreBad
#DefendAtlantaForestDefenders

gouge out the eyes of the panopticon

https://www.anarchistart.net/

#anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #directaction #surveillancestate #panopticon #acab #1312 #allcopsarebad #allcopsarebastards #killthecopinyourmind #killthecopinyourhead #bottomstopsweallhatecops