𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 🏴

Back in July, an NYC group called the Transit Liberation Front smashed 10 subway fare machines, causing $40k damages to the police/surveillance state. Just a few days ago, NYPD committed a mass shooting on the MTA, provoking mass anger, fare resistance, and anti-police mobilizations in response. Look back at the Transit Liberation Front communiqué here... "We may not yet face the same violence in the metropole as we see at the margins, but, as the resistance grows and the intifada is globalized, they are certainly getting ready in case we get too rowdy, too ungovernable. We are the frogs in the slowly heating pot. Disabling these machines is just one small act of resistance, one that requires no more than a good, heavy hammer (16 oz. or more, no wooden handles), some safety equipment (goggles and protective gloves), and a solid plan for concealing your identity. Bring a friend to watch your back and go to town. Smash an OMNY, cover a camera, break one of their stupid video ads. Join the Transit Liberation Front today!"

Check out our new zine How to Topple a Colonial Statue https://backlashblogs.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/how-to-topple-colonial-a-statue-read_4ricvh.pdf

Diversity 👏 of 👏 tactics 👏

RISE AND SHINE NAARM* TODAYS THE LAST DAY OF THE GENOCIDE EXPO Two comrades have locked on to a car on Kings Way Bridge. Come down, mask up, block up, get your goggles and let's make the last day UNFORGETTABLE!

The @disruptlandforces picket in Naarm/Melbourne today was met with massive police repression. Victoria Police used pepper spray, rubber bullets, flashbangs, tear spray and OC pellets against anti-war and pro-palestine protesters to push them away from the convention centre.

Breaking! Autonomous activists have shut down the roads entering Webb Dock, stopping workers and trucks from entering the shipping terminals for Toll Group and Victoria International Container Terminal (VICT). This action targets Toll Group, a logistics company actively facilitating the global transfer of arms, including for display at Disrupt Land Forces, and VICT, a terminal that contracts with "israeli" national shipping carrier ZIM and its partners. This is a purposeful economic disruption to further anti-zionist and anti-imperialist causes. It aims to economically disrupt the flow of capital to the zionist economy and the global logistics of arms supply. Activists reaffirm their commitment to material solidarity with all Indigenous peoples who face and resist the forces of imperialism, colonisation and capitalism, from the occupation on this continent to the occupation in Palestine. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

"THE NORTHERN TERRITORY has elected another Country Liberal Party Government. This iteration comes complete with a platform that prioritises lowering the age of criminal responsibility to ten years and reintroducing spit hoods." https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/nt-kicks-off-opportunity-plan-by-locking-up-children-and-throwing-away-key,18922

Melbourne is hosting the nation’s largest weapons tradeshow at a time when the worst atrocity since World War II, the Gaza genocide, is taking place. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/a-one-stop-genocide-shop-disrupt-land-forces-nathalie-farah-on-the-imperative-to-mobilise/

"Free Kanaky / Fuck France" Graff piece in Magandjin / Brisbane in solidarity with the anti-colonial struggle in French occupied Kanaky (so called New Caledonia)

Prisoner solidarity has never been so important https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/24/prisoner-solidarity-has-never-been-so-important/

Authorities are treating a movement which seeks to disrupt a global weapons manufacturing trade show as more of a threat than the supply of the killing machines themselves. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/joining-disrupt-land-forces-is-a-moral-duty-in-times-of-genocidal-decay/

Anonymous submission from a group of antifascist networks in so-called 'melbourne': "In the wake of the heinous & racist riots in the UK & the NSN feeling emboldened to attempt to normalise their presence in the streets of our cities, a solidarity action was held to say FCK NSN, FCK EDL, N@ZI SCUM GO TO HELL! Systems of oppression always work to uphold one another and we cannot rely on the state to keep our communities safe. Community safety is maintained when we take to the streets and fight back. Don't rely on any entity that claims authority or experience over you, liberation is a community effort, take autonomous action. Join your local antif@scist network, train, organise and bash fash."

First Nations elder Jim Everett is asserting his unsevered right of sovereignty in the face of charges of trespassing over his attempts to protect old growth forests. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/no-jurisdiction-over-first-nations-jim-everett-puralia-meenamatta-on-sovereigns-of-country/

Victoria police are increasingly employing heavy-handed tactics against pro-Palestinian protesters, routinely deploying pepper spray and calling in the riot squad. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/our-actions-are-having-a-political-impact-disrupts-wars-nathalie-farah-on-rising-direct-action/

Australia has agreed to let the US and UK use parts of our nation as dumping grounds for their nuclear waste. https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/aukus-may-not-guarantee-any-subs-but-it-does-ensure-us-jurisdictional-drift/

Here we go again? Maybe? This film was made in 1992 and it features interviews with BLF unionists and organisers including John Cummins, telling the story of the ALP's attacks on workers in the construction industry from 1986 to 1991. https://youtu.be/QIYb45qfIAU?si=5AfUZqN2FwYb7dcr