The day of September 22nd was an important breathe of fresh air, as if the lid had finally come off. We were in no doubt about the fact that it would be Palestine to reignite social anger and not internal politics. For example, the “let’s block everything for Gaza” has challenged the security decree more than protests organised around that specific issue have done until now.

The historic cycle of war we have entered puts lives and therefore struggle initiatives on to a necessarily international level, which is reflected in the internal front. If ideas often diverge, feelings have something universal about them. That emotions against the genocide were growing was palpable: the general strike gave them the chance to express themselves. The fact that sentiment turned into mass participation was also due to the partial and opportunistic legitimation – at the humanitarian level – by the media and the cultural world, due to the involvement of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
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DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX — The US Attorney will provide evidence in a Fort Worth federal courtroom on Tuesday substantiating their claim to have probable cause to hold those known as the Prairieland Defendants.

This marks the first time since the initial arrests on July 4th at the widely publicized protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center that the state will have to provide any details in court about their case aside from the complaints released in early July.
What: Preliminary hearings for Prairieland ICE Detention Center protestors
When: Tuesday, September 30th starting at 9:00am
Where: Federal Court, 501 W. 10th Street, Fort Worth, TX

Bus shelters and windows broken, bins burned, barriers piled up, urban fittings dismantled, graffiti on walls, this was the Aurillac city centre spectacle last night after the violent incidents that took place for the first evening of the street theatre festival. According to the news in La Montagne, confirmed by ICI Pays d’Auvergne, it was the interpellation of a young man surprised while spraying on a wall, that set off the violence. A number of festival-goers leapt to his defence, very soon joined by others, some of whom were masked.
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WHILE MISERY EXISTS, WE CHOOSE REBELLION

Everyone who has lived here knows that there are two Portlands: the Portland of the wealthy elite and their yuppie lackeys and the Portland of the poor, of the rabble. The architects of this misery are trying to ease the tension building on the fault line between these two cities using political games, counter-cultural branding, rainbow washing, and welfare “services” that amount to breadcrumbs laid in a mouse trap.

Their vision for the city and larger region is crystal clear: they intend to transform the Columbia River valley into a new Silicon Valley, using the forests and rivers to power its factories and Portland as the playground for the influx of tech workers that is already very much underway. Portland lies at a critical crossroads not only of these plans for the region, but also of the larger designs of domination for its ongoing wars against life itself. Oregon’s existing “semiconductor cluster” produces microchips that are the heartless core of the machine that spreads war across the earth, that deports and imprisons according to a logic of profit and control, that ruthlessly exploits those who manage to evade outright capture. And they’re being made right here.

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We block everything! September 10, France

A short update on the September 10th protests in Paris and France.

Since dawn in dozens of cities in France, the “Block Everything” movement began with the aim of closing the highways around the cities and blocking traffic. In some areas, this was achieved by completely closing roads, highways, and even entire cities, while in Paris, an attempt was made to block the ring road that separates Paris from the suburbs. The cops were ready with 80,000 of them throughout the country. From 6 am, the roadblocks, the blocking of stores/companies/supermarkets such as Carrefour (also targeted in solidarity with Palestine), train stations and high schools, in hundreds of places, began. The cops’ order was to immediately intervene in the blocking points, with beatings and arrests (over 500 arrests in the whole country).

Of course, the forces of repression in many of the points found themselves disorganized and surprised by the movement, as they found resistance and counterattacks. Many of the blockades lasted for hours, even the whole day, while others were quickly dispersed, however, turning the “retreat” into spontaneous marches and alternative targets. People stayed on the streets from dawn until night, disrupting normality by any means, from fanfare to clashes. Some interesting actions were:

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