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Turn Off Your Phone
and other basic digital security strategies

This is designed to be a beginner level introduction to digital security. While a phone isn’t likely to be the thing that gets you in trouble, once a crime is committed digital data is one of the first places authorities will look for evidence. If your data can be accessed retroactively, it may be used in a legal case against you. It offers a basic steps to minimize the risk that comes with using digital devices and offers helpful tips to make their use safer.

This Will Be an Uncomfortable but Necessary Read
An Informative Open Letter and Call to Action to "Vancouver" Organizers

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn’t growing, if it’s stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is. . .”
Assata Shakur

We are a group of organizers, artists, disabled and immunocompromised activists, and community members writing to express our grief and solidarity in proactively requesting increased COVID protections in our community in the spirit of harm reduction, disability justice, and fighting genocide and mass deaths on all lands.

Decolonize Means Attack
A Third-Worldist Anarchist Perspective on "Adventurism" and Settler Communism

Betray your race, your class, bring total annihilation to the American Dream. The prisons must be burned and the pipelines must be sabotaged. Every single act of insurrection, every delay to construction of the colonial machines, every factory shuttered and shipment sabotaged is infinitely more valuable than the empty promises of the party builders and so called “Revolutionaries”.

Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
Symptoms & Antidotes

Culture reflects the beliefs, values, norms, and standards of a group, a community, a town, a state, a nation. White supremacy culture is the widespread ideology baked into the beliefs, values, norms, and standards of our groups (many if not most of them), our communities, our towns, our states, our nation, teaching us both overtly and covertly that whiteness holds value, whiteness is value.

It teaches us that Indigenous people and communities no longer exist, or if they do, they are to be exoticized and romanticized or culturally appropriated as we continue to violate treaties, land rights, and humanity. It teaches us that people south of the border are “illegal.”

It teaches us that Arabs are Muslim and that Muslim is “terrorist.” It teaches us that people of Chinese and Japanese descent are both indistinguishable and threatening as the reason for Covid. It pits other races and racial groups against each other while always defining them as inferior to the white group.

Don’t Film, Act
A Call for Confrontation

Your footage will not save anyone, you are not exposing some unknown side of the American cop. We know what the police are, and we know what they do. It’s what they’ve always done. The footage of the murder of Eric Garner didn’t prevent the murder of George Floyd. The footage of the murder of George Floyd didn’t prevent the murder of Tyre Nichols. And the footage of the murder of Tyre Nichols won’t prevent the next cop from killing the next person whose name will be added to a list that has grown so long that its growth is assumed to be inevitable.

In the most unambiguous terms I can muster, whether captured on a body cam or a cell phone, whether amassing retweets on Twitter or opening the hour on the nightly news,
footage will never be able to prevent the violence captured within its frame. Once it has been filmed, you are too late. We are all too late. The moment of potential intervention is gone.

But we don’t have to film.
We don’t have to be passive observers when the violence of
policing breaks out in our proximity.
We can act.

Settlers on the Red Road
A Conversation on Indigeneity, Belonging, and Responsibility

We need to talk about what is happening. We need to develop our own critique against this Native homeopathy bullshit or risk losing the very real bonds of solidarity forged between anarchists and Indigenous resistors across Turtle Island over the last decades. This is not to say that anarchists have not fucked things up and lost relationships in other ways: by swooping in and ditching early, by not repping their own politics, by breathing way too much air, or simply not knowing much about the history of this land. They definitely have. But having to add “letting their friends play Indian” to that list feels like a real shame. Of all the settlers here on Turtle Island, anarchists have the most to offer Indigenous struggle and the closest shared vision of a decolonial future. I say this as both a Michif halfbreed and an anarchist.

Madness, Disability, and Abolition
A Call for Movement Solidarity + Healing in Autonomous Communities

In 2020, police abolition erupted into popular discourse following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and others. With one out of four U.S. prison inmates testing positive for COVID-19 in some facilities, calls for prison abolition have also attained a new prominence. We want to abolish these systems of violence – but what does that mean for the psych ward?

This essay explores responses to that question in two parts. Part one focuses on the intersections between abolition, madness and disability. Part two focuses on ways we can continue the fight for mad and disabled communities while creating an abolitionist future.

Another Word for Settle
A Response to Rattachements and Inhabit

When we acknowledge the kinds of lives that settler colonialism continues to produce for settlers and try to find the causes for the clear disparity, we equip ourselves with the knowledge of our context necessary to change it in effective ways. When we flee the feelings produced by this disparity by rejecting a label, we may come to believe we can think or magic our way out of real structures. It is the conditions that need to be fought, not the emotions they produce…