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"Contrary to the promises of Israeli politicians, neither the apartheid policies of the Israeli government nor the brutality of the Israeli military have brought safety to anyone in the region. There is no way to stop to the bloodshed without putting an end to the colonial oppression of Palestinians. "In any struggle, those who have the most power and access to resources have the most leverage in determining what form the conflict will take. The Israeli government has exponentially more arms and funding than any Palestinian group; across the course of decades, it has inflicted exponentially more casualties. Some of its staunchest supporters are Christian nationalists and neoliberals seeking leverage in the oil-rich Mideast. Any effort towards change in the region must begin by confronting their support." You can print this poster here: https://crimethinc.com/posters/free-palestine A zine about how to make wheatpaste for postering: https://crimethinc.com/zines/field-guide-to-wheatpasting

We have prepared a zine version of our analysis, "Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement." https://crimethinc.com/zines/why-the-state-cant-compromise-with-the-gaza-solidarity-movement Please print these out and distribute them.

Tanto en el campus como fuera, la policía es una fuerza invasora de mercenarios. Han utilizado una violencia brutal para reprimir las protestas contra el genocidio en Gaza porque su función principal es imponer un orden social injusto. Todo movimiento que busca hacer del mundo un lugar mejor en algún momento se topa con la policía. https://crimethinc.com/2011/10/25/siete-mitos-sobre-la-policia "Señores, vamos a aclarar las cosas de una vez por todas: la policía no está para crear desorden, la policía está para mantener el desorden" Richard Daley, alcalde de Chicago #Español

Both on campus and off, the police are an occupying force of mercenaries. They have used brutal violence to suppress the protests against the genocide taking place in Gaza because their primary function is to impose an unjust social order. Every movement that seeks to make the world a better place eventually comes up against the police. https://crimethinc.com/police "Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all—the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder." -Chicago mayor Richard Daley

How can it be that immediately after Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli military is preparing a ground invasion of Rafah? The invasion is bound to cause the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian children. Many figures in the Israeli government have made it clear that their chief goal is to render Gaza completely uninhabitable. "The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz." -David Azulai, head of the City Council of Metula "The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely, that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts." -Fredy Perlman, himself Jewish and one of the few members of his family who survived the Holocaust https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide

We, Too, Remember Aleksei Sutuga: The Life of a Russian Anarchist and Anti-Fascist https://crimethinc.com/Socrates Aleksei Sutuga grew up deep in Siberia, in Irkutsk—the city to which Mikhail Bakunin was once exiled, not to mention many other Russian rebels. Known to his friends as Socrates, Aleksei became involved in the Russian anarchist and anti-fascist movements. His life is the subject of a recently published book. The interviewees recount how anarchism reemerged in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sharing their memories of Socrates, they explore the relationship between hardcore punk, straight edge, veganism, anarchism, anti-fascism, and a variety of other forms of activism. They describe how Socrates and his comrades became locked in a brutal conflict—first with neo-Nazis, then with the Russian authorities. At the invitation of our Russian comrades, we have contributed an introduction to this book, exploring why his story is important for people outside Russia.

セコイアの木からオリーブの林へ、コミューンは拡大する カルポリ゠ハンボルト校の樹木占拠からの声明 https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/29/sekoianomu-karaoribunolin-he-komiyunhakuo-da-suru-karuporihanborutoxiao-noshu-mu-zhan-ju-karanosheng-ming 私達は、カルポリ゠ハンボルト校のテリトリーを確保するために樹木占拠を行っている人々から声明を受け取った。ここに、この声明を、占拠された大学の画像と、他大学でテント村に参加している人々に向けたカルポリ占拠参加者による呼び掛けの動画と共に紹介する。 #日本語

The Encampments Spread to Mexico https://crimethinc.com/encampmentUNAM On May 2, students from a number of schools and student organizations across Mexico City launched a Palestine solidarity encampment in the heart of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), within view of the Okupa Che, a 24-year-running anarchist squat that once served as the UNAM’s largest auditorium. They established the encampment as an expression of solidarity with the wave of university encampments taking place in the United States against the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza. By the end of the encampment’s first day, it already involved fifty tents, a free kitchen, and the visual redecoration of the space around it with messages of solidarity with Palestine. We conducted this interview in person with a well-connected participant.

Spanish anti-fascist prisoners celebrate their liberation from the Nazi death camp at Mauthausen with a banner on May 5, 1945. https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement—And What That Means for Us https://crimethinc.com/Encampments2024 On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the New York City police department in a failed attempt to evict the encampment, students across the country established encampments and occupations of their own. Why are the police being so heavy-handed? Why are the media contorting themselves into increasingly bizarre contradictions to condemn the protests? Why are the Democrats and the Republicans united in opposing these protests? And how is it that, in their haste to crack down, university administrations, politicians, and police appear to have forgotten the basic principles of protest management? In this analysis, participants in the movement explore the strategic questions it confronts today.

We've prepared a zine version of the statement we received from participants in the now-legendary occupation of Cal Poly Humboldt in solidarity with people in Gaza. They explain why they set up a tree occupation to defend the space, exploring how the struggle for the liberation of Palestine is connected with many other struggles. https://crimethinc.com/zines/from-redwood-trees-the-view-of-a-new-world-being-born Please print these out and distribute them! “We are not just working to destroy the nightmare of the world as it currently exists—we are also defending the seed of the world to come, defending a life worth living and sharing with others.”

Not only did the police fail to protect the students who were killed by a shooter in Uvalde—now the police are the ones carrying out shootings at schools themselves. https://crimethinc.com/TheirGuns

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Defending the Camp," describing the experiences of participants in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gaza solidarity encampment. https://crimethinc.com/zines/defending-the-camp Please print these out and share them!

Happy May Day! 🏴🏴🏴 For a short history of this day of celebration and resistance across a century and a half: https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

For May Day, we present an excerpt of a text published today in Russian by the anarchist project akrateia.info. We've translated it because it is a beautiful and inspiring expression of how the struggle for liberation and mutual aid has persisted across centuries against all odds. "Mayday is an international distress signal in radio communications, similar to the SOS signal in telegraph communications. This is an approximation of the French phrase 'm'aidez,' a shortened version of the phrase 'venez m'aider'(meaning 'come to my aid,' 'help me'). On this day, we offer to come to each other’s aid (what Peter Kropotkin called 'mutual aid'). "We appeal to you: wherever you are—under fire, in a hospital, in prison, in a foreign country, trying to find a way to earn money, in your native country where you risk becoming a victim of torture by the authorities—we want to remind you that you are not alone. We want to be with you in spirit, no matter how difficult it may be right now. "Anarchism never died. Throughout the bloody history of the 20th century. it survived and developed. If you are reading these lines, that means you are also involved in our great cause. How many times have anarchist periodicals addressed their readers on May 1? How many times have anarchists feared that anarchism might die and totalitarian countries and fascists would win? "We will continue, as our predecessors did. We will not give up because we are coming to help each other."

For May Day, we present an excerpt of a text published today in Russian by the anarchist project akrateia.info. We've translated it because it is a beautiful and inspiring expression of how the struggle for liberation and mutual aid has persisted across centuries against all odds. "Mayday is an international distress signal in radio communications, similar to the SOS signal in telegraph communications. This is an approximation of the French phrase 'm'aidez,' a shortened version of the phrase 'venez m'aider'(meaning 'come to my aid,' 'help me'). On this day, we offer to come to each other’s aid (what Peter Kropotkin called 'mutual aid'). "We appeal to you: wherever you are—under fire, in a hospital, in prison, in a foreign country, trying to find a way to earn money, in your native country where you risk becoming a victim of torture by the authorities—we want to remind you that you are not alone. We want to be with you in spirit, no matter how difficult it may be right now. "Anarchism never died. Throughout the bloody history of the 20th century. it survived and developed. If you are reading these lines, that means you are also involved in our great cause. How many times have anarchist periodicals addressed their readers on May 1? How many times have anarchists feared that anarchism might die and totalitarian countries and fascists would win? "We will continue, as our predecessors did. We will not give up because we are coming to help each other."

Defending the Camp A Report from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gaza Solidarity Encampment https://crimethinc.com/UIUC All around the United States and now in Canada, Australia, and several European cities, students have established encampments protesting the bloodshed taking place in Gaza. Over the past few days, more than a thousand people have been arrested in police raids targeting these encampments. Yet despite the high-profile assaults on Columbia University and other occupations, many encampments have managed to stand their ground, even in the face of repeated police attacks. In this report, participants in the Gaza solidarity protest encampment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recount their experiences learning to hold their ground.

In bringing in thousands of police with batons, shields, less-lethal grenades, and chemical weapons to brutalize student protesters, the administration of Columbia University shows that all of its rhetoric about "student safety" is mendacious. Like the other university administrations around the country that have done the same thing, they are simply pursuing profit and authoritarian control. If we want people in Palestine, students in the United States, or anyone else to be safe, it's up to us.

Thousands upon thousands of police are surrounding Columbia University and raiding the building occupation there now, determined to crush the movement in solidarity with those experiencing genocide in Gaza. Every time a mercenary puts on an NYPD uniform, selling their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder, they are committing treason against humanity. We salute the courage of those occupying the university. This struggle is far from over. Background on the movement at Columbia: https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

If you are participating in protests, encampments, or occupations, you should understand how to dress to minimize your risk factors. Most importantly—if you wish to protect your privacy, you will need an outfit that conceals your identifying features, and you have to be able to change into it in a location that is not under surveillance. You should wear that outfit for the entire duration of the activity, then change out of it in a location that is not surveilled. You should not be seen with any elements of that outfit before or after. Consider reading these short instructionals: Fashion Tips for the Brave https://crimethinc.com/fashiontips The Femme’s Guide to Riot Fashion https://crimethinc.com/riotfemme