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President’s Day observes the birthday of George Washington. For our part, we observe this day by remembering the courageous enslaved people and indentured servants who sought to escape from captivity under George Washington and the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks. https://crimethinc.com/Washington

Some background about the upcoming week of action scheduled in Atlanta to defend the forest, starting March 4: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/2023/02/16/pressure-mounts-against-cop-city/

The Uprising in Peru In December 2022, a wave of popular protests led by campesino and Indigenous movements swept Peru, defying a state of emergency and police violence that has claimed more than 60 lives and injured thousands. We spoke with participants in Periodico Libertária, an anarchist publication that has emerged as part of the resistance to the Peruvian regime. Their goal, as they put it, is “the total liberation of the Andes and of all the territory dominated by the murderous state called ‘Peru.’” https://crimethinc.com/Peru2023

The one thing that seems to link all these people is the desire for Vladimir Putin to have a free hand in Ukraine. Even Medea Benjamin—who celebrated Trump giving Erdoğan permission to invade Rojava and called that "anti-war"—was persuaded at the last minute not to speak by her organization, Code Pink, for fear that doing so would associate her with an anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-feminist, Islamophobic and white nationalist agenda. Our debate with Hedges in 2012: https://cwc.im/postdebate Say no to red-brown alliances.

For over a decade, the pundit Chris Hedges has been a weathervane for bad politics. In 2011, he assisted the FBI in devising a divisive narrative that they used to target participants in the Occupy movement, famously calling the black bloc "The Cancer in Occupy." Under Trump, he joined the President in demonizing "Antifa," accusing anti-fascists of "violence" at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville and asserting that the neo-Nazis who carried out a lethal car attack there were "victims." Today, he will be participating in a supposed "anti-war" protest in Washington, DC along with white supremacists who attended that rally in Charlottesville—on the premise that "The left has become largely irrelevant in the US because it is incapable of working with the right." Consult It's Going Down for a full list of the fascists, authoritarians, and conspiracy theorists participating: https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazis-claim-anti-war-protest-dc/

Why is Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the donors to the Atlanta Police Foundation, which is trying to destroy the forest in Atlanta in order to build Cop City? It makes sense, if you think about it: corporations like Norfolk Southern depend on police violence to suppress protests that might otherwise force them to minimize the risks that their profiteering exposes others to. Police are an essential element in their strategy of raking in profits while offloading the costs onto forests, small towns like East Palestine, and ordinary people like us. We need an ecological movement that can defend our communities. Otherwise, we will end up ruled by oligarchs in an uninhabitable world. https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/2023/02/16/pressure-mounts-against-cop-city/

Since we published our classic text about the relationship between love and revolt—back in 1997—it has only become more difficult to imagine a life guided chiefly by joy and shared desire, a form of collective rebellion animated by the same passion that inspires romantic love. As far as we're concerned, that only makes it more pressing. https://crimethinc.com/fallinlove "Falling in love is the fundamental revolutionary act, the prerequisite for resistance to today’s tedious, socially restrictive, culturally constrictive world."

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Injury against Erasure, Damage against Time—Two Stories about Love and Death https://crimethinc.com/injury Two retellings of a classic story, the tale of the lovers who secure a single night together before one of them is to be executed. The one who is to go free urges her partner to leave marks on her body by which she might remember him, yet try as they might, she comes away bare.

Today, it has been three years since Aragorn! passed away—a tireless polemicist and a fierce partisan of anarchist infrastructure. His absense still haunts us. https://crimethinc.com/Aragorn Please read Leona's and Klee's eulogies and Aragorn!'s text "Locating An Indigenous Anarchism," all here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-black-seed-issue-8

Here are some of the stickers we have published over the two and a half months since Elon Musk banned us from Twitter to curry favor with fascists. Help us keep reaching people! Make the streets speak our name! https://crimethinc.com/store

While the Italian prison system seeks to bury the anarchist Alfredo Cospito both figuratively and literally, the fascists who hold power in the Italian government want to purge Italian archives of documents relating to resistance throughout history. https://centrostudilibertari.it/en/comunicato-attacco-asfai-eng

We Remember Jen Angel: A Eulogy https://crimethinc.com/JenAngel We mourn the passing of Jen Angel, a tenacious anarchist organizer whose efforts spanned the better part of four decades. We were fortunate to know Jen. In this eulogy, we review some of Jen’s many contributions over the years and share some memories from those she inspired.

Today's new episode of our podcast—the sixth in two weeks—includes an up-to-the-minute interview with an Italian anarchist regarding the hunger strike of the prisoner Alfredo Cospito and the protests supporting him in his demand to be released from permanent solitary confinement. https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/90 Today, Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike for 113 days. His life hangs by a thread.

This body cam footage is from the police raid on the forest in Atlanta on January 18. Moments after police opened fire and killed Tortugita, an Atlanta Police officer can be heard saying, "You fucked your own officer up" in reference to the trooper who was shot that day. For weeks, Atlanta politicians and police have denied that there was body cam footage relevant to the killing. https://linktr.ee/atlpresscollective

Punk - Eine gefährliche Utopie https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/13/punk-eine-gefahrliche-utopie-eine-aktualisierende-ruckschau-auf-die-beziehung-zwischen-punk-und-anarchismus-1 Wie ist Punk aus den Gegenkulturen der 1960er Jahre hervorgegangen, die er angeblich ablehnte? Warum spielt Punk Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts eine so zentrale Rolle beim Wiederaufleben des Anarchismus auf der ganzen Welt? Wie hat Punk die partizipativen Medien des digitalen Zeitalters vorweggenommen? Und was kann uns Punk und sein Erbe heute lehren? “PUNKROCK IST GLEICH ANARCHIE PLUS GITARREN UND DRUMS. ALLES ANDERE WÜRDE NUR BEDEUTEN SICH ZU UNTERWERFEN.” #Deutsch

Solidarität mit Alfredo Cospito https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/03/solidaritat-mit-alfredo-cospito-ein-italienischer-anarchist-im-hungerstreik-gegen-die-isolationshaft Seit dem 20. Oktober 2022 befindet sich der italienische Anarchist Alfredo Cospito im Hungerstreik und fordert ein Ende seiner Isolationshaft unter dem “41bis”-Regime. Zum Zeitpunkt des 3. Februars 2023 hat er 107 Tage ohne Nahrungsaufnahme verbracht. Im Laufe der letzten dreieinhalb Monate verlor Alfredo mehr als 45kg. Bobby Sands, Mitglied der Irish Republican Army, der während seines Hungerstreiks im Jahr 1981 in das Parlament gewählt wurde, starb nach 66 Tagen ohne Nahrung. An der Schwelle zum Tod wurde Alfredo nun in eine medizinische Einrichtung verlegt. Sein Leben hängt am seidenen Faden. #Deutsch

The new affinity group handling our audio efforts has been doing amazing work. In less than two weeks, we've released five new episodes of our podcast—over four hours of material—presenting a total of nine articles in audio form. https://crimethinc.com/podcast Subscribe to our podcast if you want to be able to listen to articles as we publish them, rather than reading them.

A joint statement from anarchists in the region about the earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria this week: https://www.yeryuzupostasi.org/2023/02/07/joint-declaration-from-anarchists-lets-build-solidarity-and-the-struggle-against-this-order%ef%bf%bc/ Disaster aid is not reaching northern Syria as a consequence of the hostility of the Assad regime and the neighboring governments. If you want to donate to a project that will reach people in northern Syria, you could try this: https://molhamteam.com/en/campaigns/439

In the words of one self-effacing old-timer who attended the release event for "Smash the System: Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance," who had heard the Sex Pistols when they first came out and saw Crass perform not long after, "Punk isn't just a style of music—it is also an approach to political action in which you make up for your theoretical deficiencies by means of the speed and urgency of your delivery." https://crimethinc.com/PunkUtopia