Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

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Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

Participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to stop federal agents from harming their community.

In this report, participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to defend their community from federal agents. This details the response to the initial raids, the standoff at the detention center, and how a crowd chased ICE out of Chinatown later that night.

On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles. Don't let them keep harming people. You can print this poster out here: 📄.pdf

Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity

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Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism

To get the most out of mutual aid, we ought to create participatory commons in which everyone can contribute and there is no fundamental division b...

Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need. This has contributed to a situation in which conventional non-profit organizations are rebranding themselves with the language of “mutual aid,” while some anarchists have given up on the concept entirely, fed up with a rhetoric that some say amounts to “mutual aid being good and radical, and charity being bad and conservative.” Is there more to the distinction than this? How can we unlock the revolutionary potential of mutual aid?

Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out” How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid

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Minneapolis to Feds: "Get the Fuck Out"

Two firsthand accounts detailing how people in the Twin Cities responded to a federal raid.

An array of federal agencies attempted to carry out a coordinated raid in Minneapolis on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, precipitating an angry response. Locals surrounded the federal officers and police, chanting “Get the fuck out!” and eventually forcing them to retreat. We present two firsthand accounts of the events of June 3 along with a few strategic reflections on how best to resist these raids.

Today is the birthday of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. A Russian comrade of ours prepared this photoessay and virtual tour of his birthplace and family home, Priamukhino, including the museum documenting his life and the lives of his relatives and friends—since it's not easy to visit Russia these days.

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A Virtual Tour of Priamukhino, the Bakunin Family Estate and Museum

A virtual tour of the family home of Mikhail Bakunin, including the museum documenting his life and the lives of his relatives and friends.

Five years ago today, after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, demonstrators forced them to abandon the Third Precinct and set it on fire—a profound act of solidarity and faith in the possibility of social change. This account describes how they did it:

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The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis

Anonymous participants in the uprising in Minneapolis explore how a combination of tactics compelled the police to abandon the Third Precinct.

Not long after, a Newsweek poll found that fully 54% of those questioned believed the burning of the Minneapolis Police Precinct was justified after George Floyd’s killing. At that time, Joe Biden was polling around 46% and Donald Trump at 38%. Never let them tell you resistance can't be popular.

Donald Trump's plan to waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to throw a military parade on his birthday this June is not just the whim of an aging autocrat. It is intended to send the message that we are now living in an authoritarian dictatorship. Every mercenary who serves him is an enemy of all humanity.

We honor the life of Sebastião Salgado, who passed away yesterday. Our Brazilian comrades introduced us to his photography twenty-five years ago. You may have seen it in some of our efforts since then. Again and again, in illuminating social struggles around the world, Salgado took the side of the oppressed.

In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have reportedly murdered at least 93 people in Gaza. Israeli soldiers were caught on video shooting at foreign diplomats in the occupied West Bank. Hundreds of thousands in Gaza are on the brink of starving to death. Let's keep things in perspective.

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Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love

An anarchist from occupied Palestine makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation and explores what it means to act in solida...

Today, the 61 people facing trumped up RICO charges for opposing the construction of Cop City, a police militarization facility in Atlanta, assembled for a court date. All around the country, people dropped banners expressing solidarity with them. These pictures show banners in Chicago, Minneapolis, and New Orleans. The fight is far from over. To keep up with the cases: https://weelauneethefree.org/ For background on the fight to #StopCopCity:

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Cop City Is Everywhere

The movement to stop Cop City was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges w...

"The arrival of the second Trump era has vindicated the decision to focus on resisting police militarization. Every repressive policy that Trump decrees will be imposed by police and other state mercenaries."