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Number of the day: 2 million

via: sansnom

Already energy-hungry, data centers have redoubled their appetite with the recent development of generative AI, which requires colossal computing capacities to process the information accumulated in gigantic databases. In 2024, these infrastructures will only account for around 1.5% of the world’s electricity consumption (415 terawatt-hours, TWh), but this has already increased by 12% per year over the last five years. And there’s more to come.

“Electricity demand from data centers worldwide is expected to more than double by 2030 to around 945 TWh, slightly more than Japan’s total electricity consumption today,” according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) published on Thursday, April 10. Locally, “a 100-megawatt data center can consume as much electricity as 100,000 households” annually, but tomorrow, “the largest data centers under construction today will consume twenty times as much”, equivalent to the consumption of two million households.
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¡Punky Mauri Presente! In memory of Anarchist Mauricio Morales, 22 MAY 2009 -22 MAY 2025

“Arm yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, until everything bursts. Because, remember that any violent action against these promoters of in- equality is plainly justified by the centuries of infinite violence they have subjected us to.
…Arm yourself and combat their terrorism, burn, conspire, sabotage, and be violent, beautifully violent, naturally violent, freely violent.”
Mauri

Mauri, you’re present in every attack in the social war, in every attempt to destroy this society and in every beautiful act of prisoner solidarity….

We won’t and don’t want to forget you.

Your memory pertains to incandescent revolt and to us who hold fire in our hearts and hands.

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Switzerland/Germany : Sabotaging capitalist normality – Attack on the railway infrastructure (Border zone between Switzerland and Germany)

Sabotaging capitalist normality – Attack on the rail infrastructure

During the night of 9th April, we set fire to railway signal and electric cables with a number of incendiary devices in various places near Basel.

The cops and the media have kept quiet about our action up until now.

Situated on the borders between three countries with maritime links going as far as the North sea, a highly developed rail and motorway network as well as an airport, the town of Basel is a central logistic node for the flux of goods that keep capitalist normality functioning. Given that we have a very low opinion of this state of affairs, we attacked its infrastructure to put a stop to it, at least for a moment.

Our attack was specifically aimed at the transboundary rail transport of goods and people and the rail link to the port of Kleinhüningen. One of the most important north-south links in Europe passes by Basel. The line between Rotterdam and Genoa belongs to the program Trans-European Transport Network and is constantly under expansion. The three Rhine ports of Basel carry out 10% of Switzerland’s foreign trade. About a third of its imports of petroleum products is loaded on to trains and lorries here. One container in four going to Switzerland passes through the ports of Basel. Loaded with merchandise made starting from raw materials plundered from all over the world or construction material with which more and more motorways, banks and jails are being built, the ground is sealed and everything living is buried under a thick layer of concrete.
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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

(Greece) FOR THE ATTACKS AT VOULIAGMENIS AVE. ON DAFNI AREA IN ATHENS

Small acts of revenge for the murdered people of our class.

Rich people don’t travel by train

Two years after the State – Capitalist Crime of Tempi, two days
after the February 28 uprising, we chose to attack some prominent
representatives of the dictatorship of the capital.

The branches of Elpedison and NRG, “alternative” providers of
electricity and accomplices in robbing the lower classes
through overpricing electricity, saw their storefronts shatter.

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Munich (Germany): the beautiful fires of April

Map of the series of “unsolved” incendiary attacks in the city of Munich from 2019 to 2025, published by the local press (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, April 22, 2025)

The wave of repression (searches, summonses and arrests) against the anarchist milieu in Munich at the end of February has not succeeded in putting an end to sabotage against the city’s critical infrastructure, as demonstrated, for example, by the two incendiary attacks carried out in the course of last April.

On Tuesday night, April 9, at around 3:20 a.m., the emergency control center of Deutsche Bahn alerted the police to a cable fire in a manhole in Obermenzing, a district to the northwest of Munich. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the cable systems running alongside the tracks, with 8 of them going up in smoke: three copper cables, three fiber-optic cables and two cables used for train signalling. Rail traffic was severely disrupted throughout southern Germany, and the Nuremberg (Bavaria)-Erfurt (Thuringia) high-speed line in particular had to be closed, as the damage caused all signals in this area to turn red. Deutsche Bahn also had to cancel around 96 trains and divert 16 others.
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(Chile) “…Hundreds of Stars with a Beating Heart” Event for Comrade Punky Mauri

“…Hundreds of Stars with a Beating Heart” Event for Comrade Punky Mauri

Wednesday May 21, 2025
Start: 3:00pm

– Workshops
– Screenings
– Discussion
– Collection for prisoners
– Vegan food and tea
– Anarchist propaganda (bring your own)

[More information soon]

Gather:
Sebastián Oversluij Seguel Anarchist Library | biblioangry.noblogs.org
biblioangryantiso@riseup.net

 

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May 6, 2025 / informativoanarquista
Translated by Act for freedom now!

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(Colombia) Rebellion Flowers from the Barricades | 1M 2025- Bogotá

May 6, 2025 / informativoanarquista translated by Act for freedom now!

Rebellion Flowers from the Barricades | 1M 2025- Bogotá

“There’s a calm in arousing shadowy memories of a Chicago that May doesn’t allow us to forget. For today, let May come overflowing from its own heart.”

Autonomous mobilization from rebellious and libertarian affinity, without political parties, bosses, or exploiters.
Walking the streets together with the student bloc of the UPN to strengthen organization, solidarity and mutual aid between the oppressed.
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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece

Athens, (Greece) : Claim Action by Provocateurs of the social peace : WE DO NOT FORGET-WE DO NOT FORGIVE THE STATE-CAPITALIST MURDER AT TEMPI

WE DO NOT FORGET-WE DO NOT FORGIVE
THE STATE-CAPITALIST MURDER AT TEMPI

Following the large rallies for Tempi that took place on 28/2 and the
riot outbreak, especially in Athens, in the early hours of Tuesday 4/3
we carried out a symbolic attack with colors at the branch of the
Ministry of Transport in Piraeus, at 5 AIGALEO Street, at the building of the Attica Regional Administration-Regional Administration of Piraeus and Islands.

The Ministry of Transport is the relevant state body responsible for the train collision in Tempi, as the ministry responsible for all
transportation infrastructure.

The issue of the state-capitalist murder of 57 people in Tempe and the injury of at least 87 others came to the fore again two years later, with the publication of expert findings, which refer to the presence of flammable (illegaly transported) materials on the train, which are related to the explosion that followed the collision of the two trains.
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BALKAN ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2025, THESSALONIKI 15-18 MAY –  OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

On the 7th of July 2024, during the general assembly of the participants of the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair in Pristina, there was a proposal that the next BAB take place in Thessaloniki. The collectives and individuals from Thessaloniki who were present asked for ten days to think about it and respond. After a meeting of the Thessaloniki collectives that have worked together within the BAB framework and the Balkan Solidarity network, the answer was yes: The 17th Balkan Anarchist Bookfair will take place in Thessaloniki, from Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 May 2025. It was also decided that the organizing assembly would be formed after a call to all collectives of Thessaloniki, but also to collectives from other cities (Athens, Ioannina) that have also worked together within the BAB and the Balkan Solidarity network.

The Balkan Anarchist Bookfair has never just been about books. We have always understood it as one more tool that strengthens our collectives, organizations, relations and networks on a local, a regional and an international level, as a space where we exchange our ideas and plans and also bring together our practices, organizing models and experiences of struggle, our participation in social movements. In September 2024, in a joint assembly held in Thessaloniki with all the collectives of the city that responded to the invitation to participate in the organizational assembly, we set the goal of bringing together the largest possible number of comrades from all over the Balkans in order to discuss, in an organized way, our agreements and disagreements and to make concrete proposals for common struggles and actions. We agreed to have as an initial agenda for BAB2025 the common topics discussed at the Ljubljana and Prishtina bookfairs (2023 and 2024) and started to set up the different working groups.
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(Chile) The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives

The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives

May 7, 2025 / informativoanarquista  Translated by Act for freedom now!

Claudio Crespo has been identified as the cop who shot and mutilated the eyes of a young person on November 8, 2019, when the October revolt was in full swing. A few days ago, the CIPER media released body camera footage of the chilean police [1], in which phrases can be heard like: “we’re going to shoot your eyes out”, “let the fucker burn” or “all these fuckers have to get killed“. In other audiovisual recordings he can be observed tearing out a lock of hair from a detainee’s head and sending a photo of it as a trophy to a Whatsapp group called “Scissors” where it seems it was common practice for these miserable police to send records of their “trophies”.

Days after the release of these videos, the cop Claudio Crespo affirmed that “I regret nothing” and “I don’t give a shit”. [2]

Does this surprise us? No. The police is the armed wing of the powerful, defenders of the flesh and blood of property, modern pacifiers who for a salary have decided to take up arms against those who challenge normality and confront a system of life sustained by hierarchies and obedience using the various practices of political violence. In this sense, the words of the cop in question represent the dynamics of the police, who possess no codes at the time of confrontation and make morbid, mocking remarks as a kind of gesture to show their masters that they work to defend their interests. Like a gaucho hanging the dismembered body of a cougar from the pediment of the plots in Patagonia, so the bosses know about their work, unaware that, at some point, the hunters will become the hunted. Continue reading (Chile) The Night in Black May When the Mauricio Morales Revolutionary Cells Attacked a Business of the Cop Claudio Crespo with Explosives →

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Val d’Oise, France : new incendiary attack against NGE in support of Louna

Indymedia Lille, February 10, 2025

New incendiary attack against NGE in support of Louna in Val d’Oise. The GIEC announces the resumption of demolition work on the Roissy-Picardie link.

Last weekend, anarchist lightning struck a second time at the same site, where NGE and Egis are building the Roissy-Picardie rail link.

Armed with rage at the news of the extension of Louna’s pre-trial detention (accused of having set fire to an NGE machine), we wanted to add our own contribution. So, on a quiet night, two machines were attacked. At least one of them ended up completely engulfed in flames.

This site had already been targeted at the end of January by anarchists in support of the zadists against the A69 and the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed train line. The communiqué claiming responsibility for the action prompted us to take a look, and add a little smoke. As a reminder.
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(Chile) Propaganda for a New Black May in the May 1st March

May 6, 2025 / informativoanarquista

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Flyer: “EMBRACING CHAOS – On May 22, 2009, anarchist comrade Mauricio Morales died in action when an explosive artifact that he was carrying to the evil prison guard school in the Matta neighborhood detonated prematurely.

Mauri’s life in tension, for Anarchy, shows us that carrying ideas into practice isn’t a game, nor a fashion. To risk the street and one’s life also means assuming that this path continues to the very end.

Brother Mauri… new warriors and your comrades carry you in our daily lives, in our memory and our active hands that always look to attack Power and its accomplices.”
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B(A)D NEWS 90 – Angry voices from around the world

Welcome to BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World, a monthly English-language podcast by the international A-Radio Network #90 for April 2025! This month, we feature five segments:

  • First up, you’ll hear Črna Luknja from Radio Študent in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with an interview about the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair with organizers of the upcoming Balkan Anarchist Bookfair that will take place from May 15-18th, 2025 in Thessaloniki. More information, the call and the program for the bookfair can be found here: https://bab2025.espivblogs.net/
  • Next, Frequenz-A shares an interview recorded on April 13, 2025 with Eylem a transwoman and an activist from Istanbul about current protest, queer and feminist perspective, anarchist participation and needs of solidarity. The links on the media which Eylem is mentioning in the talk:
  • Then, Črna Luknja returns with an interview about Disgraça, an anarchist social center active in Lisbon since 2015. In March 2024, they started a process of collectively purchasing the space, as an effort to avoid paying (an always rising) rent, and secure it for the years to come. Lisbon has been devastated by real estate speculation, the housing crisis and the elitisation of culture. Various politically-engaged social centers in the city are facing evictions, seeing their contracts finishing, with no possibility to open new spaces…
  • Following this, A-Radio Berlin interviews a member of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Revolutionaries, also known as Tameio, concerning solidarity and anti-repression work in Greece.
  • And finally, Parias of Athens shares an interview about the new case of political prisoner Nikos Romanos, represented by a person from the Nikos Romanos Solidarity Initiative.

We hope you enjoy this episode and check it out monthly by visiting A-Radio-Network.Org, where you can find other member shows, a back catalog of episodes and information about our network including how to join. Also, we have a mastodon account on Kolektiva.social where we occasionally post. Take care!

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Montreal,Canada :Three Murders in 24 Hours. Night Attack on Police Training College. Justice for Abisay!

EL  FR

On Monday night, April 14th, anarchists entered Collège de Maisonneuve, which hosts the police training program, Techniques policières. The entrance was painted with “MINI COPS = FUTURE KILLERS” and “JUSTICE FOR ABISAY CRUZ” as well as other tags like “3 STATE MURDERS IN 24H” and “MAKE FASCISTS AFRAID”. A fire extinguisher filled with paint was very helpful, and a window was smashed.

We do not forget the murders and abuses committed by the Montreal police over the last few weeks; readers, please spread the popular vengeance. To the students of the Techniques policières program: drop out and change paths, it is not a safe future, neither for us, nor for you.
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Burning Cables For Beginners a.k.a. Anti-Civ Arson Booklet

Translated from German. Also available in French.

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” – Mario Savio

The cornerstone of a sustainable arson campaign is reliable delayed ignition. However, for small groups without a secure procurement network (which is most of them), many older instructions for making timers are simply no longer feasible.

The rise of online stores in recent years has made it almost impossible to get transistors or ICs from local electronics stores with cash. Even if there is such a store in your area, caution is advised as the police are sometimes surprisingly good at tracing back electrical components. Internet ordering is also unfortunately not an option for our purposes. If you try to solder the required parts out of cheap devices from the dollar store, you will quickly realize that the surface mount device (SMD) components used today are usually much too small to solder by hand.

This guide therefore came out of the desire to share our experience with materials that are readily available at supermarkets or hardware stores. It can also be considered an update to the ELF guide “Setting Fires with Electrical Timers”, which is still well worth reading.

– Angry Birds Commando, Fall 2024

See warriorup.noblogs.org for the full guide.