A microphone is found in a car. It is hidden inside the vehicle. The night before the device was found, one of the car’s windows was broken, a few things inside it were stolen, and four men were seen tampering with the vehicle – the theft was presumably a cover-up for the device installation.
Electrical Substation Attacks Analysis
Of all critical infrastructure sectors, utilities have been the most popular for targeted physical attacks lately. In fact, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)’s Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC), there were almost 1,700 physical security incidents reported to the E-ISAC in 2022, an increase of 10.5% from 2021.
While typical physical security incidents against utilities and substations involve vandalism, tampering, arson, and ballistic damage, most do not result in grid impacts; however, a trend toward more serious events occurred in 2022. As reported extensively in November 2022, a series of attacks occurred at six different substation facilities in Oregon and Washington state, five of which resulted in power disruptions. Then in December, gunfire disabled radiators and circuit breakers in two North Carolina substations, causing major outages for 42,000 customers during a cold spell in the area; and two Seattle substations were damaged resulting in Christmas outages.
Continue reading Electrical Substation Attacks Analysis – USA
In light of the actions that happened last month, I wanted to encourage everyone to revisit this post. Many of the points made about riotous moments apply to clandestine action as well.
If the people at 890 Memorial Drive intended to burn the vehicles, it was not a good idea to smash windows. Not only does this increase the risk of leaving DNA, breaking a window is very loud and likely to attract attention from passerby — which is exactly what interrupted that action, according to police. As demonstrated in this video, a firestarter cube, placed directly on a front tire (or the rear tire on the same side as the gas tank), is sufficient to assure the destruction of the vehicle. Once lit, it takes about five minutes for the firestarter to fully ignite the tire, which is plenty of time to leave the area unnoticed in most cases. Firestarter cubes can be purchased or racked at any grocery store. Cottonballs covered in vaseline can also work as a firestarter.
Munich : new construction machines burn to the ground
But who said summer wasn’t conducive to incendiary attacks on structures of domination? Not the police in Bavaria’s capital city, at any rate, where these have not ceased. On July 8, a construction machine set fire under the Föhringer Ring in the north of Munich, destroying the telecoms cables running along the bridge. On July 16, a cell phone antenna caught fire in Forstenrieder Park, south of Munich. Then on July 26, five construction machines at the Martinsried subway station were hit by flames in Planneg, this time in the west of the city. And on July 27, at around 10.30pm, a forestry machine used for felling large trees was engulfed in flames in the Perlach forest, south of the city, again causing over 100,000 euros worth of damage.
All this anonymous destruction is enough to make uniforms dizzy, as they no longer know which Saint to turn to or which direction to dig, so much so that helicopters have even taken to circling the skies over Munich at night, in search of saboteurs. All to no avail.
Continue reading Munich (Germany): new construction machines burn to the ground
London. Mass sabotage of surveillance cameras
Le Matin (Switzerland), August 18, 2023
London police reported on Friday that hundreds of cameras had been sabotaged in the run-up to the controversial extension of the tax on the most polluting vehicles, scheduled for the end of the month in the British capital. Restricted to central London when it was introduced in 2019, the ULEZ (ultra low emission zone) had already been considerably expanded in 2021 and is due to be extended to the whole of Greater London on August 29.
The extension of the tax, in the midst of the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, has been strongly criticized by local residents, and some opponents are attacking the cameras placed on the roads – which are supposed to read license plates to check that the vehicle is exempt or that the tax has been paid.
Continue reading London (UK): 288 surveillance cameras sabotaged in four months
The Fenix 2 trial
On 18 and 19 September 2023, at 8:30 a.m., the District Court in Most will hold the next hearing in the Phoenix 2 case.
https://antifenix.noblogs.org/post/2019/03/27/what-is-fenix-2-about/
The main charges concerned the support and promotion of the Network of Revolutionary cells (SRB) https://revolutionarycells.noblogs.org/, insurrectional anarchism, as well as blackmail and harm of others property. SRB focused several years on sabotage of the property of police and capitalists. So far, no one was convicted and condemned for these actions.
Static Noise – Benefit gig w/ Swaraj Chronos/Bug Central/Ashes of Death/Grunt/Revival of Death/Hearse Pileup
A solidarity benefit gig for Boris, an anarchist comrade in France who in 2021 was sentenced to 2 years in prison for burning down radio towers that housed the communications networks of the French police as well as all four mobile network operators.
During his time in prison a fire in his cell left him tetraplegic, and in need of a “state”-of-the-art wheelchair if he is to be mobile again.
Update 25/8/23/, Cops are currently evicting Zizania squatted social center. We will update soon with plans for solidarity and resistance.
update 29/8/23, Cops are now putting sheet metal on the windows of Zizania. There are OPKE cops at the door.
We call for an immediate gathering at the corner of Feron and Aristotelous.
25/8/23 , ZIZANIA squatted social center in Viktoria and Ano Kato squated steki in Patissia have been evicted.
Zizania is a squatted social center that opened in early April 2021, during the second lock-down and shortly after the events of Nea Smyrni. In this context, we chose to open a squat in Viktoria– having in mind the hard repression that hit the squatting movement over the last years, the huge loss of organising spaces, the policing and privatisation of public spaces, and the marginalisation of the area of Viktoria and its struggles. We chose to squat this specific building both for its central location and its 30 year old history of being a self-organized space(with breaks) in this neighborhood of the marginalised, the left aside,the undesirable.
Viktoria is where we live, where we met, and in different ways became part of the area’s constant struggles. It’s a neighborhood of the marginalized— migrants, queer people, sex workers, drug users, poor people, and those the state and society pushes to the outside. It is created and maintained by racist police checks, fascist attacks, sexist harassment, forced social isolation, and deep housing precarity while replicating Greece’s external borders in its criminalisation of people of color through barriers to healthcare, documents, work and education.
Continue reading Athens,Greece: ZIZANIA squatted social center in Viktoria and Ano Kato squatted steki in Patissia have been evicted,and some symbolic actions round Europe.
Update on the review hearing for the precautionary measures of the operation ”Scripta Scelera” and details of the solidarity fund
Informing you that the review hearing for the precautionary measures of the operation Scripta Scelera in relation to the new repressive measures ordered by the judge for preliminary investigations Ghio concerning the procedure Scripta Scelera against the anarchist fortnightly “Bezmotivny” has been fixed for August 28th at the court of Genoa from 9am. An operation that on August 8th led to 11 house searches (among which that of the Anarchist Cultural Circle “Gogliardo Fiaschi” in Carrara), massive seizures of newspapers and publications (as well as phones, computers, etc.) and the notification of an investigation concerning 10 anarchist comrades, for whom the il public prosecutor Manotti had originally requested arrests on two occasions, from July 2022 and in March 2023.
From the second request, from which derives the order of the GIP leading to the operation of 8th August, with house arrests with all restrictions for four comrades of Carrara and five obligations to remain, with night curfew from 19.00 to 7.00, among whom also comrades in Aquila, Lucca and Spoleto.
Continue reading Italy: Update on the review hearing for the precautionary measures of the operation ”Scripta Scelera” and details of the solidarity fund
Today, 29 August Thomas was released after almost 27 years imprisoned!Best action during the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners!First prize: FREEDOM!We are all really happy and wish Thomas all the best and welcome home!
We still share his letter of solidarity for this years week.
Thanks for supporting the Week of Solidarity for many years.
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Solidarity greetings for the Soli Week for Anarchist Prisoners 2023
Also here from Freiburg in southern Germany, solidarity and warm greetings for the Soli Week. For almost 27 years I have been observing the world behind bars from the perspective of a prisoner. First in pre-trial detention, later in criminal detention and finally since 2013 in preventive detention. Preventive detention was introduced in Germany in 1933, yes, it was the Nazis who amended the criminal law accordingly on 24.11.1933 – since then, people can be held in prison in Germany for an unforeseeable period of time even after serving their prison sentence. In the 1990s and 2000s, other European countries followed suit, always in the name of “public security”: Belgium, France, Sweden, Great Britain, Switzerland and many more.
In many cases, normal imprisonment is already a death sentence in instalments, first the soul dies, and often in the end the body dies as well. Just a few weeks ago, a man in his early 40s took his own life in the Freiburg preventive detention, apparently seeing no realistic prospect of regaining his freedom. His wife, children, adoptive mother and siblings mourn him – but so do some of the other inmates. However, it must be clear that prisoners also have the right to take their own lives. No one should be allowed to forbid them to do so. But it must also be asked what responsibility the state institutions bear for such a decision? It would be too easy to release them from their responsibility by referring to the autonomous decision of the respective inmates.
Continue reading Thomas Meyer-Falk is free!!! (Germany)
“I wish I could transform myself into a wolf, so I could sink my teeth into the womb of society in an orgy of destruction.” Bruno Filippi
From some corner of the Chilean prisons
Having finished my daily hours in the courtyard, from my cell I throw myself into writing a few lines in order to find a brief moment of freedom that will interrupt my prison reality.
If I think of anarchist solidarity, the first thing that comes to my mind is my arrival in prison, when my comrades who had already been held hostage for various political reasons took charge of orienting me and gave me the tools to survive in this hostile and indifferent world.
Continue reading Letter from Ambro – anarchist prisoner in Chile for the Week of Solidarity
Prison and resistance. Talk with Gabriel Pombo da Silva 28 August in Leipzig.
In the framework of the international week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners, this Monday, the 28th of August, there will be a talk with Gabriel Pombo da Silva at the Karl-Helga.
Gabriel is a well-known anarchist militant with a long history, who has spent more than 30 years in different prisons for his activities. On this occasion, we will talk about what this week of solidarity means and how important it is; at the same time, we will remember our comrades who are still behind bars or who have left us. For his part, Gabriel will tell us about his current situation (recently released), the repression of the anarchist movement and the meaning of prison within the system of domination and why we anarchists oppose it.
The talk will be streamed and will start at 6pm.
We invite you to bring something to eat to share with other participants.
Drinks will be available on site.
Monday, 28 August 6pm @ KarlHelga Leipzig
Arson Attack Against a Vehicle Owned by Environment-Destroyer Züblin in Berlin
(B) Switch Off! Neighborhood and environment destroyer Züblin
Somebody has to build all this shit, the highways through forests, the jails, the palaces of the rich in the formerly green backyards of Berlin’s old buildings, the concrete aisles along the banks of the Spree River.
As we walk through the city, we repeatedly encounter the signs of a handful of companies that want to use them to mark who owns the city. Among them is Züblin, a construction corporation that pours cement on the explosive increase in rents. Züblin has long been active in the business of the capitalist attack on our living spaces, and was already targeted forty years ago for this reason, when construction machinery burned because of its involvement in the construction of Runway West in Frankfurt. During the Nazi regime, Züblin used forced laborers at Frankfurt Airport. Through its connection with Strabag, Züblin has become one of the leading tree killers, see the expansion of the A49 through the Danni or A66 through the Fechenheimer forest.
A small fire for solidarity/ un petit feu au soutien
Following the call for practical support for the fights in France this weekend, we decided to do what we could here and placed a small fire starter under a miles sharing car in the night of the 14th to the 15th of July as a salute to our French comrades. Suivre l’appel au soutien pratique pour France ce week-end, nous avons décidé de faire ce que nous pouvions ici et avons placé un petit allume-feu sous une voiture de Miles dans la nuit du 14 au 15 juillet en guise de salut à nos camarades français.
Following the call for practical support for the fights in France this weekend, we decided to do what we could here and placed a small fire starter under a miles sharing car that was left waiting in Columbiadamm in the night of the 14th to the 15th of July as a salute to our French comrades.
Continue reading EN/FR/ : A small fire for solidarity/ un petit feu au soutien (Berlin,Germany)
For an internationalist and anti-authoritarian mobilisation against the war. Second meeting in Rome, September 2nd, 2023
The discussion about the war in Ukraine on July 22nd in Rome was well attended by comrades and comrades from different territories and cities. A shared will emerged to help stop a massacre that threatens to drag us all — on this or that side of the frontline — towards an abyss with no return (be it the nuclear apocalypse or a state of permanent war between the different capitalist blocks, the repercussions of which are already being felt in our latitudes: war economy, increasing militarisation of society, demonisation of opinions, attack on all social and class struggles, iron fist against subversives and opponents…).
