A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security Fighting Back, Staying Free
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?
 How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder this kind of repression? In this anonymously submitted text, one affinity group explores how they address these questions. Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years. image
Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud—one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists. We review Rosebud's story and the history of People's Park here:
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In Memory of Rosebud, Defender of People's Park
On the 30th anniversary of her death at the hands of police, a poster in memory of anarchist and People’s Park defender Rosebud Abigail Denovo.
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Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles today, kidnapping over a dozen people in what they called "Operation Trojan Horse." They borrowed this tactic from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi group that rents box trucks to transport its members to marches. Now that the fascists hold state power, they are using the same tactics on a larger scale. But as frightening as is to have state fascists in military gear carrying out surprise assaults on our streets, remember—this tactic has been producing diminishing returns for non-state fascists. The less popular they become, the more rapidly they have to move and the more vulnerable they are to mass resistance. Watch for an opportunity and treat them like the scum they are.
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Eight Things You Can Do to Stop ICE
Defend your community from ICE! A guide and handout to print and distribute.
Security Culture: A poster
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Security Culture
Security Culture Because what they don’t know can hurt them. Security culture is a set of shared practices that minimize risk. Even in an incre...
 This poster introduces the basics of security culture—a set of shared practices designed to minimize risk for everyone. Please distribute these at demonstrations and post them in community spaces. "Because what they don't know can hurt them!" image
On this day in the year 1900, the anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto of Italy.
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Gaetano Bresci: Tyrannicide and Defender of the People
Bresci risked his life to save Errico Malatesta from an assassination attempt, then gave his life to impose consequences on the king for overseeing...
 In this history, we remember an Italian immigrant who risked his life to save Errico Malatesta from an assassination attempt, then gave his life to impose consequences for the slaughter of hundreds of poor workers. We include translations of Malatesta’s and Leo Tolstoy’s reflections on Bresci’s attack and an Italian folk song inspired by Bresci’s deed. image
Right now—before the next wave of street protests—is the best time to learn how to make and use shields and reinforced banners. Protect yourself and your community from rubber bullets, water cannons, batons, pepper spray, surveillance, and snatch squads.
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Reinforced Banners
This guide explores how to construct reinforced banners that can function as a mobile shield wall during demonstrations.
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“The One the State Missed”: Karl Garside, Animal Liberationist, 1966–2025 A Life Lived Freely in Defiance
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“The One the State Missed”: Karl Garside, Animal Liberationist, 1966–2025
Karl Garside was among Britain’s most prolific Animal Liberation Front militants, dedicating over 40 years to the fight for total liberation.
 From sabotaging hunts and burning abattoirs to exposing cruelty through covert investigations, Karl Garside was among Britain’s most prolific Animal Liberation Front militants, dedicating over 40 years to the fight for total liberation. image
July 13 will make 6 years since Willem Van Spronsen sacrificed his life to take action against ICE. He was killed while attempting to disable the buses serving a private detention facility imprisoning immigrants. He knew what the consequences would be. From the vantage point of 2025, we can see that he correctly identified ICE as representing the forefront of both totalitarianism and ethnic cleansing. Take a moment to read his final statement.
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On Willem Van Spronsen’s Action against the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma
We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the US.
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ICE is attacking immigrants for now, but their goal is to subjugate all of us. Fighting for our neighbors today is a way of fighting for ourselves tomorrow. Map the infrastructure that ICE depends on. Publicize their vulnerabilities. Popularize simple, reproducible ways to impose consequences every time that ICE inflicts harm on a community. Don't just react to their attacks—choose the time and place of confrontations. Take the initiative.
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Seven Steps to Stop ICE
Seven Steps to Stop ICE 1) Form resistance groups. Form tight-knit groups to play roles in the resistance. You and your friends may already form ...
 "If we know, and do nothing, we are worse than the murderers hired in our name. "If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own—which it is—and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night." -James Baldwin, writing to Angela Davis while she was in captivity, November 19, 1970 image
Are you in Atlanta? Don't miss this free punk show at the Fulton County Courthouse at 8 am on July 7—part of a rally supporting Ayla King at their first day of trial on RICO charges. On Ayla's first visit to Atlanta, police snatched them at random out of a crowd of hundreds at a music festival. Ayla was charged with domestic terrorism on account of an act of sabotage that happened almost a mile away while the music festival was in progress, and later charged with violating the RICO act. These charges constitute judicial harrassment aimed at intimidating an entire movement. The prosecutors are not just despicable and dishonest—they are intent on eroding everyone's freedom to protest. Solidarity with Ayla King.
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The Trial of Ayla King
Ayla King was scheduled to be the first of the Stop Cop City defendants absurdly charged with violating the RICO Act to go to trial.
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