From No Trace Project
The No Trace Project is launching a new initiative, the Anti-Repression Talks, to encourage discussion of surveillance and security issues within and between informal anarchist networks, on an international level. We believe that many anti-repression practices are more powerful when they are carried out across a network, rather than only by specific affinity groups.
The Anti-Repression Talks will be a series of sessions, each on a different topic, and each lasting three months. During a session, participants are encouraged to form local study groups with people they trust to discuss the topic of the session — we provide resources and discussion points to help kickstart those discussions. At the end of a session, an international online chat takes place, where participants can anonymously meet to discuss their thoughts and findings. After a session, its findings are published on the No Trace Project website, including any materials contributed by study groups and a summary of the online chat.
The first session, Anti-Repression Talks #1, will address the topic of preparing for physical surveillance and will take place in October, November, and December 2024, with the online chat taking place on January 4, 2025. The findings will be published here.
Physical surveillance
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.
Continue reading Anti-Repression Talks #1: Preparing for Physical Surveillance
collegato in videoconferenza. A seguito della rimozione del reato associativo, i compagni sono inquisiti a vario titolo per 19 capi d’accusa, tra cui quello principale, per istigazione a delinquere con la circostanza aggravante della finalità di terrorismo, riguardante la redazione e la distribuzione del giornale anarchico “Vetriolo”. Le altre imputazioni (tutte, tranne quattro, aggravate dalla finalità di terrorismo) riguardano sette episodi di scritte murali e due affissioni di striscioni, la pubblicazione di un volantino del Circolaccio Anarchico di Spoleto, di due testi di Alfredo Cospito per delle iniziative specifiche a Bologna e in Francia, di cinque testi nei primi mesi del Covid-19 e della prima edizione del libro Quale internazionale?, nonché il danneggiamento di alcuni veicoli di Poste italiane a Foligno durante lo sciopero della fame delle compagne anarchiche contro la sezione AS2 femminile interna al carcere dell’Aquila (2019).
