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Arson suspected in fire at L.A. City Hall, officials say – Los Angeles CA (USA)

Arson suspected in fire at L.A. City Hall, officials say – Los Angeles CA

July 07, 2023

The Los Angeles Fire Department’s arson team is investigating a fire that occurred Saturday night on the second floor of City Hall, authorities said.

Police believe that someone may have started the fire by throwing an unknown object through a window in the building.

“Initially it appears a suspect outside of City Hall threw an object … into the office, breaking the window and causing the fire,” said Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Officer Warren Moore. There was damage inside one of the offices, he said.

The fire alarm on the second floor was activated at 8 p.m. Saturday, Moore said.
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Switch off! – the system of destruction

Switch off!  – the system of destruction

About 20 people storm a construction site of the Coastal Gas Link pipeline in western Canada. They are armed with axes and flares, threaten employees, hijack heavy construction vehicles, destroy the site’s building and ultimately the vehicles themselves. The damage amounted to millions. That was almost a year ago. It is still unclear who sabotaged the construction of the pipeline in the province of British Columbia. Fracked gas was soon to flow through the pipeline, which runs right through indigenous land, to the West Coast, from where it would be shipped on to Asia.

A call…

Whether you occupy universities, schools, trees or streets. Whether you spend your nights worrying or sabotaging. Whether you strike or write about it.

The certainty that the current system will result in the collapse of the massively damaged ecosystem has already inspired countless people to resist. Tens of thousands are taking to the streets against the “business as usual” of the capitalist machinery, people are resisting the destructive large-scale projects en masse, the infrastructure of the system is being blocked and courageous fighters are setting fire to the machines that are being used to rob them of the very basis of life. What we need in the struggle against the destruction of nature and the resulting social misery is the shared pursuit of real revolutionary rupture and freedom of all. Pursuing an initiative that rejects all compromises and cosmetic corrections of the state and brings about a transformation of our social relations. Because the destruction of the planet by the neoliberal economic system is inextricably linked to patriarchal patterns of thought, racism and colonialism. The initiative for this must necessarily come from below. From the struggles of the excluded. From the struggles of those who enact a self-organized solidarity against the state’s promises of salvation. From the struggles of those who see that there can be no compromises in the fight against the systemic destruction of the biosphere.
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Munich (Germany): one relay antenna less

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Munich , one relay antenna less

Around 2:20 a.m. on Saturday night, July 16, a relay antenna was set on fire in Forstenrieder Park, near the town of Pullach (a southern suburb of Munich). It was at this time that the cell phone operator lost all signal, before sending a team to the site the following day at around 1pm (a Sunday), who could only observe that its installation had been burnt down during the night before the fire extinguished itself, without however completely destroying the tower.

The authorities, for their part, obviously do not presume a technical fault – the familiar police theory of the self-combustion of relay antennas is now a bit forced – but rather a “crime affecting State Security”, leading them to entrust the investigation to the K43 police station (“far-left political criminality”).

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Berlin (Germany): the cars of screws under fire

Berlin:the cars of screws under fire

Around 2:30 a.m. on Friday night, July 1, several cars once again went up in smoke in front of Moabit prison. This time, two cars and a van went up in flames on Alt-Moabit Street, but Berlin police deplore the fact that “at irregular intervals, cars parked opposite Moabit prison catch fire, including several belonging to prison employees”.

[Translated from the German via Berliner-Zeitung, June 30, 2023]

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Rhine coalfield (Germany): coordinated sabotage of three coal mines

Hot sabotage of cable ducts: cutting off the juice to RWE!

From de.indymedia, July 13, 2023

On the night of July 5 to 6, we carried out simultaneous acts of sabotage using incendiary devices on three cable ducts in the Rhine lignite mining area. The attacked cables supply, among other things, the coal silos in the Hambach and Garzweiler open-cast mines, as well as the coal silo in the Fortuna mine. The aim of the action was to interrupt the coal supply to the Neurath and Niederaußem power stations and possibly force them to shut down. Unfortunately, according to press reports, we didn’t use enough accelerant to cause serious damage. We’ll have more next time! Nevertheless, this action shows that fossil fuel companies like RWE are vulnerable. And who knows, maybe we indirectly contributed to the Hambach mine transformer fire on July 11, which paralyzed the entire mine.

In particular, coal silos are an important infrastructure for supplying power plants. Most of the power cables between substations and coal silos are open-air and easily accessible. Attached below are maps where the routes of the cables that supply these coal silos are shown in red.
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USA: 20 machines across 6 sites of the construction of the mountain valley pipeline were sabotaged – Appalachia

20 machines across 6 sites of the construction of the mountain valley pipeline were sabotaged – Appalachia

An invitation and reportback from a productive fourth of july party

On the fourth of july, 20 machines across 6 sites of the construction of the mountain valley pipeline were sabotaged, using a variety of means to render them inoperable. Machines are often left unguarded, and when they’re not, the security are just prats. It was easy and fun. We gave a big cheer when these machines were seen being hauled off the mountains back to the industrial hellscapes they come from.

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Munich (Germany): burning data cables under the bridge

Munich : burning data cables under the bridge

In Munich on Friday night, July 8, at around 4 a.m., two excavators were set alight on a construction site next to the Herzog-Heinrich bridge, which crosses both the Isar river and the canal. And it’s fair to say that the construction machines, whose engines caught fire, were admirably positioned, as data cables for telecom companies run under this bridge, which in turn caught fire, along with the bridge’s substructure. An expert must now examine the structure to decide if and when it can be reopened to traffic.

According to the police, the damage and location point to arson. Not least because the Herzog Heinrich Bridge is only a few meters south of the Leinthaler Bridge, which was the scene of an arson attack in December 2019. This attack destroyed two large Vodafone fiber-optic cables located along the two bridges, which supplied power to major companies such as BMW, as well as the Munich municipal services’ northern thermal power station. It was an act of solidarity that raised the proposal: “Let’s cut off the juice to the climate killers”.
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Brussels (Belgium): Copshops go up in flames too!

Brussels: Copshops go up in flames too!

Saint-Gilles police station burnt down last night!
Sud Infos, July 7, 2023 (excerpt)

According to witnesses, it was around 3 a.m. on Thursday night when a hooded individual threw a Molotov cocktail at the front door of the Parvis de Saint-Gilles police station, which consequently burned.

The fire also caused some damage to the station’s reception area, but this was limited given that the premises were armored from that point on. Investigations are underway to identify the arsonist.

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Italy: The internationalist anarchist fortnightly “Bezmotivny”, year III, number 11, 12 June 2023, is out

The internationalist anarchist fortnightly “Bezmotivny”, year III, number 11, 12 June 2023, is out

Summary:

— The man who fell to earth, “The lives of others”

— Revolution, “The postponement”

— “The wind of anarchy”

— “Call for international action in solidarity with the anarchist on hunger strike G. Michailidis”

— “Stop cop city. International call for solidarity with anarchists in Atlanta, USA”

— “News from Sicily. New military projects”

— Someone* from the territory that isn’t, “Against militarism. For a life outside States”

— “Vademecum for friends of the struggle”

— “Massacre of Via dei Georgofili. Anarchist investigated”

— Alfredo M. Bonanno, “Love and death”

— Assembly of solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and the revolutionary prisoners, “One more thousand insusceptible of repentance. Contribution to the mobilisation in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito”

— “Operation Panico”

— “Greg arrested”

— an anarchist, “Con l’acqua alla gola. An anarchist look at the flood in Romagna”

— Brígadas Anárquicas Luis Ramírez Olaechea, “Explosive attack against the Fundación Paz Ciudadana”

— “UK: revolt in Cardiff”

— “Cardiff. A riotous night of vengeance, rage and defiance”

— “Patras. Barrage of attacks on banks”

— “Thessaloniki, Greece. COSMOTE van set on fire”

— “Roussillon, France. Sabotage of the high-voltage line feeding the Hexcel company in solidarity with Serge”

– “Toulouse, France. No metro no work”

“Bezmotivny”, internationalist anarchist fortnightly, year III, number 11, June 12, 2023. To receive copies and/or subscribe, write to the following e-mail address senzamotivo@riseup.net or to the postbox: Bezmotivny, c/o Casella postale 59, 54033 Carrara (MS).

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Munich (Germany): the TV truck didn’t make it through the night

Munich : the TV truck didn’t make it through the night

At around 3:40 a.m. on Sunday night, June 26, a satellite transmission truck belonging to the ZDF television network was set on fire in Munich’s Glockenbach district. The precious technological cargo of the special truck is certainly unusable, and the damage is enormous: several hundred thousand euros.

The burnt-out TV truck was part of a mobile production center, which had broadcast live from St. Maximilian’s Church on Sunday morning the mass of nationally renowned pastor Rainer Maria Schiessler. After the broadcast, the satellite broadcast vehicle was due to remain in front of St. Maximilian’s church until Monday… except that it didn’t make it through the night.
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Atlanta police vehicles vandalized, motorcycles near academy set on fire overnight (USA)

Atlanta police vehicles vandalized, motorcycles near academy set on fire overnight

Three police vehiclesvandalized, and several police motorcycles were set on fire overnight.

Officers were dispatched around 1 a.m. to 890 Memorial Drive regarding damage to vehicles.

Upon arrival, they discovered three APD vehicles with broken windows. The Path Force Unit is located at that address.
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Munich (Germany): a new relay-antenna goes up in flames

Munich : a new relay-antenna goes up in flames

At around 3 a.m. on the night of June 9, a new relay-antenna went up in flames in the Waldtrudering district to the east of Munich. The Telekom antenna, some 30 meters high, was engulfed in flames that could be seen for miles around. Material damage is estimated at around one million euros.

State Security (Staatsschutz) was in charge of the investigation, and in this case the K43 police station, responsible for left-wing organized crime. In recent years, unknown assailants have repeatedly set fire to relay-antennas and fiber-optic infrastructure in and around Munich. Total damage: around four million euros.

[German press summary, June 9, 2023]

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Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings (USA)

Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings

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At this point, many anarchists in the US are already familiar with how tiqqunists destroyed the struggle at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD (Zone to Defend) occupation in France in favor of legalization and property ownership [1]. The narrative that this tragic conclusion to the decade-long struggle was actually a victory has been regurgitated ad nauseum by tiqqunist platforms in the US. For example, Ill Will Edition’s “The Strategy of Composition” is about applying this “strategy” to the struggle against Cop City: “The territorial phase of the struggle took shape gradually over a ten year period from 2008 until its eventual victory in 2018, and has since continued to nourish collective experiments on the Zone to this day”.

The next initiative of the ex-ZAD tiqqunists failed when those familiar with their methods of recuperation and authoritarianism sabotaged their attempts to take the vanguard of a ZAD located in Carnet. Comrades from the Carnet ZAD along with those from several other struggles co-authored a statement outlining the attempts at cooptation and centralization, which we included as an appendix in this zine as an inspiring example of anti-authoritarians making a struggle inhospitable to authoritarian power plays.
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Switzerland ,EN/DE/ IT : 10 Civil Protection Vehicles & 3 Military Vehicles Set on Fire.

Swiss neutrality does not exist

Switzerland, which regards itself as neutral so it can maintain its privileged role as the world’s financial hub, actually bears a lot of responsibility for many wars around the world. The Swiss arms industry exports weapons everywhere, even to countries where there are armed conflicts. Lately it has even relocated some manufacturing facilities abroad so as to circumvent laws that would “ban” arms exports to countries at war, for example to Ukraine, aligning itself fully with NATO’s warmongering interventionist rhetoric.

Switzerland’s role as a financial marketplace and leading commodity trader makes this state a major player in the devastation of the planet and the plundering of the resources of countries in the global south, fueling conflicts and forcing people to leave their countries of origin. Not content with sowing misery all over the world, it prides itself with “defending” its borders against the migration “threat,” with its military guarding the borders and civil defense soldiers running deportation centers.
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Today’s Figures on the Riots (France)

Today’s Figures on the Riots

 In total, between the night of June 27 to 28 and July 2 to 3, there were officially 12 031 vehicles burned, 2 508 buildings burned down or damaged, including 273 police and gendarmerie premises, 105 town halls burnt or damaged, 168 schools were attacked. 722 law enforcement personnel were injured.

3,625 people were taken into custody throughout the territory (1,124 of whom are minors). Among all those arrested, « the average age is between 17 and 18 (…) the youngest is 11 years old and the oldest 59 years old, one third are minors”, “60% of the total have no criminal record”, «10% of the people arrested are non-French and there have been 40 placements in administrative detention centres» according to the Minister of Interior. Of the detained persons, 990 of the age of majority and 253 minors were referred to the prosecutor’s office, and 480 of the age of majority were referred to the court for immediate appearance. To date, 380 people have been sent to prison, whether they have been sentenced or placed in pre-trial detention pending trial.

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