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NEW CALEDONIA: THE KANAK INSURRECTION AND THE NICKEL INDUSTRY
08/06/2024 via: sansnom Translated by Act for freedom now!
13th May 2024. The shopping centre « Kenu In » goes up in smoke from the first night of the insurrection
Despite the efforts of the French colonial authorities, who day after day backed with numerous press releases are announcing a return to normal, the situation in New-Caledonia is far from being settled four weeks after the outbreak of the uprising of a part of the Kanak youth. And some signs are unmistakable, such as the continuation of the curfew (18h-6h) at least until June 17, the requisition of petrol stations for the exclusive use of cops and military that has just been lifted on June 8th, or the fact that the international airport of La Tontouta remains closed «until further notice». Only the airfield of Magenta has been open to commercial flights again since June 5th, or internal flights to New Caledonia to Lifou, Ouvéa and Maré, and nearly 500 French tourists are still blocked on the island after three weeks. As for the North of New Caledonia, it is the army that takes charge directly of the supplying (and therefore rationing and priorities) of the stores, managing the containers that arrive at Koné by barge.
At present, despite the pressure of the 3,500 cops and soldiers sent to the scene, some roadblocks in the neighbourhoods of Nouméa or along the 50 km road leading to the airport, are still being re-erected by Kanak insurgents after their dismantling, without omitting to trap them with gas cylinders at times or even prepare some little surprises for the blues: on June 4th in Dumbéa, for example, a gendarme fell down a manhole after walking on branches that had been placed over it to mask the opening. “With a depth of 1m20, concrete re-inforced irons 2 mm in diameter had been positioned vertically at the bottom to create piles. The gendarme was impaled by one leg and a metal stake that had got in between his bullet-proof vest and body vest, which had pierced but without penetration thanks to the Kevlar plate.”
In total, of this archipelago of 270,000 inhabitants, 212 police officers and gendarmes have been injured since May 13, but also a significant number of Kanaks that the authorities officially refuse to account for, but which we know is considerable and sometimes very serious: several insurgents have lost an eye or had facial bones smashed following shots from police flash balls, others have bullet wounds and are in coma.
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South London ,UK : KANAK INSURRECTION, DISCUSSION EVENT 25TH OF JULY AT TOUCHPAPER ANARCHIST LIBRARY
THE FRENCH COLONY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC KNOWN AS ‘NEW CALEDONIA’ is the site of three open-pit nickel mining operations (an essential component for state-of-the-art batteries and in stainless steel production) exploiting a quarter of the world’s nickel reserves. The air and water is polluted with the acrid discharge of metal processing, with the island under the yoke of a colonialism which has not slackened since its infamous use as a prison colony. In recent weeks this centuries-old domination has been shaken to its core by the revolt of the indigenous Kanak youth.
The colonial economy in the hands of French administrators holds the country to ransom, dictating everything in the society to the benefit of foreign multinationals. Historically they have recruited opportunist puppets within the indigenous Kanak liberation movement to keep a lid on rebellion (one of these was memorably silenced in 1989 by the gunshots of a rebel who wouldn’t accept ‘peace accords‘ with colonialists to be signed on his behalf).
Earlier in May, the latest intrigue by France to rig the electoral system was the trigger for a new explosion of rebellion, surging against the men and structures of power. At the time of writing this revolt is far from over.
Kanak rebels have paralysed the capital city, cut all air traffic and have brought nickel production to a grinding halt. The images of the last weeks have been of burning barricades, thousands or French soldiers and police deployed to this imperial frontier, and shocked Foreign tourists evacuated from their island holidays on emergency military flights.
The international media is the voice of the enemy, and so the information we have is of little serious value, and is thin on the ground, but we want to make an effort to grasp something of this revolt from far away because it is a war which we are involved in whether we realise it or not.
Everywhere around us is the noxious electric garbage (e-vehicles, ‘renewable’ energy storage) whose metallic components have been ripped out of the ground that this unconquerable people are fighting on. Venerated by the faithful dogs of power as ‘progress’ we know what the demand for raw materials and energy tor the ‘electrified’ economy means: ecological carnage and colonial slaughter in the frenzy to construct a sterile, artificial world.
One small part of this global geography of domination is now a site of rebirth tor the social war. For all lovers or freedom then, whose desire is for these storms to engulf the maps of this controlled world, it is necessary to try to hear and to reply: so that revolt speaks to revolt, individual or collective, in a cacophony which reverberates through borders. Anywhere, everywhere.
A direct action group activists , target more from 21 Barclays banks across England and Scotland.
A Palestine Action and shut the system activists , have taken radical direct action in frustration with Barclay’s paltry progress on changing their climate destroying and genocidal financing.
the windows of branches of Barclays Banks were smashed and red graffiti sprayed over the buildings.
Lyon, France: Down with DETS, long live housing for all
Down with DETS, long live housing for all
Indymedia Lille / Friday May 24, 2024
On the night of May 22, the windows of the DETS were shattered in support of all the people on the streets.
DETS is the state organization that finances emergency accommodation and housing for homeless people.
It is they who, in conjunction with the prefecture, chose to leave 14,000 people on the streets. In Lyon, you have to wait 5 years for social housing, 3 years for emergency accommodation.
On May 22, 2024, the solidarités femmes a la rue [solidarity between women sleeping rough] collective occupied the Chanfray gymnasium, evicted the same evening by the police at the request of the town hall, like 2 weeks before at the Dargent gymnasium.
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We are watching you: Leonardo Bristol, UK
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Bristol is a city which hides its dark past and present behind a veneer of subversive culture and liberalism.
The history of exploitation and oppression that the cities wealth was
built upon is thriving today in the area of Filton. Home to the
Ministry of Defence and many arms companies, this is a part of the city that tries to stay hidden. Elbit have been the target of many actions, and have finally had their Bristol lease terminated when it is next due for renewal (to be replaced with another monstrosity we are sure).
We wanted to higlight the role of another company: Leonardo. Leonardo is one of the world’s largest arms manufacturers, making arms sales of $11.2 billion in 2021.
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Tenants Raging Against Airbnb (Canada)
Tenant rage strikes again!
In view of tenants’ day, we decided to answer the call for the creation of collaborative art on Airbnbs, because we’re sick and tired of passing by housing that serves above all to enrich shitty fucking landlords rather than house our neighbors. We will never any longer ignore these new buildings destined only for short-term rentals, while we struggle to put a roof over our heads.
Athens,Greece: ” total liberation’’ library opening at the open squat OutsideHill at the streffi hill in Exarxeia area.
MONDAY MAY 13 , HOURS 5pm-11pm
MONDAY 27 MAY, 6 PM OCCUPATION OUTSIDE HILL EXARCHEIA
OPEN LIBRARY
“TOTAL LIBERATION”
The “total liberation” open library is an experimental project of solidarity and collective reading. The basic vision of the library is to spread the ideas of total liberation through the prism of antispeciesism, to create a pole of attraction, transmission and intersection of the ideas of the liberation of animals and the earth in the context of the anarchist struggle. At this stage, for some time, it will have a mobile format with some titles from the catalogue available for some hours at a predetermined point at a given time.
Surveillance Countermeasures
From No Trace Project
In the past decades, the surveillance capabilities of State actors have greatly diversified, thanks in part to new technological developments such as video surveillance, mobile phones and DNA sampling. Despite this, physical surveillance — the direct observation of people or activities for the purpose of gathering information — is still widely used by State actors, in particular in cases where other surveillance techniques are not effective. Our Threat Library references examples of the use of physical surveillance against anarchists and other rebels.
Surveillance Countermeasures is a 2019 book on physical surveillance and the mitigations one can take to protect against it, written by former U.S. spy Aden C. Magee. It extensively covers topics such as the principles and tactics of surveillance operations, surveillance detection, and anti-surveillance.
We believe this book can be an essential read for anarchists and other rebels at risk of physical surveillance by law enforcement or intelligence agencies.
Download: PDF available at the Surveillance Archive (.onion link)
Limassol, Cyprus: Comrades head outside the TAE Police station in solidarity of murdered migrant from Bangladesh. 10 arrested, two wounded.
A protest took place in Limassol on Saturday, 13 April, 2024 concerning the death of a migrant worker from Bangladesh on Wednesday 17 April.
In a statement calling for a protest circulating on social media, it is mentioned that “the fact that migrants chose to risk their lives rather than be in the hands of the state shows us the treatment that migrants receive when they are in the hands of the state and how just the thought of being deported makes risking their lives a one-way street.”