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“Today, in a joint action with Canada, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or “Samidoun,” a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.” This targeting of the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoners Network is a huge escalation in the zionist counterinsurgency and weaponization of terrorist designations against liberation movements. Now is the moment all anti-zionist organizations should be standing by Samidoun in their righteous cause. Follow Samidoun's work: - x.com/SamidounPP - samidoun.net - t.me/samidounnetwork

FREE PALESTINE! STOP COP NATION! FREE THE PEOPLE! FREE THE LAND! BRING THE WAR HOME! After a year of the Zionist entity’s newest assault on Gaza, the struggling and free people within the belly of the beast specifically in amerika have been able to achieve no real material gains for the people of Palestine. We have protested, we have occupied space in our universities, and we have removed our occupations In hopes that our universities will divest without us forcing them to. It’s time we cast away all illusions. We must recognize that the struggle for Palestinian liberation is intertwined with the struggle for the liberation of the occupied Black Nation within the heart of the beast known as amerika, we must act and move along this basis. The same occupation army that is responsible for the genocide of Palestinians is also responsible for the centuries-long genocide of Black people in amerika. We are sick and tired of getting beat by pigs, Mass arrested, and having nothing come from it. We are sick and tired of performative actions, which do nothing for the people of Palestine and the occupied Black Nation. As the students of Birzeit Universit, Ghent and Amsterdam University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Cal Poly Humbolt, and so many more bases of fighting and struggling students have shown us, real change can be made from within the belly of the beast. As the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, The Revolutionary Action Movement, and other organizations who took up the gun to free themselves, their people, and their land from amerikan occupation and racism have shown us, real change can be made from the belly of the beast. But this change is only possible when we leap from a false sense of peace to the realization of the combative nature of our struggle. Show up at Washington Square Park on October 17th at 5 pm. Let your voice be heard, let your actions speak for themselves, and develop a genuine combative spirit capable of resisting empire from within.

Anonymous submission: Early Monday morning October 14 before the start of the work week the offices of local weapons manufacturers Ghost Robotics was targeted with a message for Ghost Robotics and their backer the University of Pennsylvania: Ghost Robotics and Penn, THERE'S BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! The UPenn run campus known as Pennovation in the Grays Ferry neighborhood where Ghost Robotics has its offices was coated with a mix of red paint, broken glass, nails, and messages from Philadelphians to Ghost Robotics and their landlord and backer UPenn: no business as usual for evil fucks who make murder tech! ... As we cross the threshold of one year since the people of Palestine took a bulldozer through the apartheid wall, we must reflect on how far we have come, and how far we still have to go to see the liberation of Palestine and the liberation of all people from colonialism, militarism and imperialism. This last year of resistance to apartheid and genocide has mobilized millions, and support for the people of Palestine is stronger than ever before. Even still, the US and Israeli backed assault on the Levant carries on, with escalations in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran, and doctors estimating that 200,000 people have been killed. If the US government won't stop sending weapons to Israel, we hope people will do what they can to stop the weapons themselves. So long as Ghost Robotics exists and until Palestine is free, people in Philly and around the world will continue to fight against agents of genocide. Revolution until Liberation. Free Free Palestine!  Read the full communiqué

Article commemorating the Al-Aqsa Flood from student movement publication Frontlines [Excerpts] With this article, we articulate five direct lessons for the student movement and broader mass movement in amerika, bestowed on us through the militancy and struggle represented by Operation Al-Aqsa Flood: 1. Escalation is the path to change: We must assess the failure of the student intifada, and the broader movement. We must take to heart the call of the students in Gaza to begin "a new revolutionary phase of comprehensive escalation." Statements from Gazan students require us to reflect on the line between reform and militancy. We have a particular duty, as students in the imperial core, to not bend at the knees of opportunist politicians and movements, and to hold the line on truly revolutionary politics. 2. Our vision must extend beyond what the enemy imposes on us: It is clear that with these efforts from our enemies, we must intensify our struggle against the mindset instilled by the universities. We must go look beyond our lives as students and partake in struggles in our broader communities. The student movement can only be successful should it link and subordinate itself to the broader revolutionary struggle. 3. The revolutionary cause is a self-sacrificing and optimistic one: We reject the tendency in the pro-Palestinian movement to avoid risks, to be overly pessimistic, and to cower in the face of repression. Assurance of victory should not be a prerequisite to struggle. Our enemy is stronger than us, but the Al-Aqsa Flood taught us that the myth of their infallibility can be shattered. 4. Strategy is necessary to continue escalating: We put forward the correct conception that escalation and organization form a contradiction. What does this mean? It means that escalation is only possible through mass work, outreach and sometimes grueling efforts to mobilize masses of people, and that escalation in turn develops those who have been organized and brings us closer to the goal of stopping this country's support for genocide. 5. We must draw a line of demarcation: What is a line of demarcation? It is making it clear who are our (potential) allies, and who are our enemies. A figurative line that distinguishes us from those who oppose us. It is taking action against our enemies and taking action to build and care for our movement. Read the full article: https://readfrontlines.org/[article]-flood-the-belly-of-the-beast.html @frontlinespub and @LRSwashtenaw on instagram

Summary of zionist casualties since the beginning of the month, by zionist admission: October 1st - 7 settlers killed in "Tel Aviv" operation, several wounded. Iran's True Promise 2 operation destroys zionist military infrastructure. October 2nd - 9 soldiers killed in Lebanon; 40 wounded, 8 seriously (Maroun Al-Ras and Odaisseh). October 3rd - 1 officer killed in Lebanon October 4th - 2 soldiers killed in Golan (Iraqi drone); several wounded. 20 dead and wounded in Maroun Al-Ras. October 6th - 1 soldier killed in Bir Al-Sabi' operation, 10 wounded; one soldier killed in northern Gaza Strip and one critically wounded. October 7th - 2 soldiers in Lebanon; 1 soldier critically wounded in northern Gaza Strip. October 8th - 3 soldiers seriously wounded October 9th - 2 settlers in Kiryat Shmona; 40 soldiers wounded October 10th - 1 soldier in Lebanon, a settler from Khdeira operation, 3 soldiers in Gaza (Jabalia) October 11th - 1 soldier killed in "Yir'on", one seriously wounded; 1 soldier killed in Gaza (Rafah) October 12th - 15 settlers wounded on northern front; a soldier seriously wounded on Lebanese border, and a soldier seriously wounded in southern #Gaza Strip. October 13th - 4 soldiers killed, over 110 wounded (30 on northern border; 80 in "Binyamina" operation) Total in 13 days: At least 36 settlers and soldiers killed; At least 250 wounded. Gaza: 5 killed Lebanon: 13 killed Occupied interior: 16 killed (9 from Palestinian operations; 7 from Hezbollah operations) Occupied Syrian Golan: 2 killed This list, spanning all fronts, is very incomplete, as zionist censorship is at its highest level since the beginning of the war. For example, field reports today confirmed 30 killed and wounded in Ramia, while 20 others were killed and wounded in Maroun Al-Ras a few days ago. Today, we witnessed a drone from Gaza directly hit a group of soldiers, and the zionist media was silent. Security incidents regularly are regularly mentioned in hushed tones across zionist media, but few make it past censors. The final word remains for the field, as zionists live their darkest days in the last year, displaced and dead, as our resistance inflicts retribution for the crimes against our people.

🚨 BREAKING: A large number of martyrs and wounded as the IOF once again bombs the tents of the displaced inside of Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, central #Gaza Strip. Crews are facing difficulty recovering the wounded amidst the fires. It is the fourth time this month that the tents in Al-Aqsa Martyrs' hospital were bombed, in addition to a horrific massacre that took place in a mosque across the street last week.

🔻📸 23 Flock Cameras Disabled in Atlanta On the night of October 2, three groups engaged in a coordinated attack against Flock Safety license plate readers/surveillance cameras in the Atlanta Metro Area. This action was inspired by the communique “From A Matter Of Principle To A Matter Of Tactics” posted to Scenes on July 27, 2024, to develop the tactical muscle of coordinated attacks as force multiplier. The city was divided into four quadrants, with each group selecting a quadrant. 23 cameras were disabled in total. 13 cameras were completely destroyed using various methods. Several were cut from poles and destroyed, either after the pole had been shaken down or the camera was pulled off by someone standing on another’s shoulders. Some (not all) Flock poles are two poles screwed together which can be unscrewed using T27 security bits easily acquired at hardware stores, so the entire top pole containing camera and solar panel is removed in seconds of ease! 10 cameras had their lenses spray-painted by someone standing on another’s shoulders. While this obviously does less economic and physical damage, it is quick and nearly silent. Pay close attention to how long it takes to clean up this work. Previously it has taken Flock up to a month to replace broken or missing cameras. As long as there is the political will to surveil us anywhere and everywhere we turn, cameras will continue to proliferate. As long as they do, one must find new and creative ways to blind them. Atlanta’s back on top of the Flock game. Anyone wanna come for the high score? -xoxo Via scenes.noblogs.org

Anonymous submission: On the week of October 7th, marking one year into the genocide, St. Louisans took autonomous action, making visible the blood local war profiteers have on their hands, and demonstrating that these criminals are not welcome in our city. St. Louisans targeted Leidos, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin that works hand in hand with the IOF by providing screening technologies for checkpoints, providing system "modernization" to further the colonization of the Naqab, and is building prototypes for a high-energy laser weapon called the "Iron Beam." The Leidos in Israel team themselves admit they are "embedded " in the Zionist project and they have no home here in St. Louis. St. Louisans also targeted ICL (Israel Chemicals Ltd), which processes and distributes phosphorus products mined by Bayer, sold to the U.S. Army to produce white phosphorus munitions, which are being illegally deployed in Gaza and Lebanon. ICL's mines in the Naqab in occupied Palestine have repeatedly depleted and poisoned water resources; communities around the globe with ICL operations have experienced similar violations. Meanwhile, ICL has received $197M from the US government to expand operations in St. Louis. The US war machine, in all its facets, is not welcome here in St. Louis. Inspired by the brave Palestinian resistance fighters and liberation movements across the globe, we will continue to fight these local props of US empire until the whole beast comes crashing down.

Martyr Sayyid Nasrallah: "Israel is an executive tool in the project of Western American hegemony over our region. It plays an executive and procedural role in the service of American hegemony over our region, so they protect it everywhere in the world. Even in the Security Council, the veto is forbidden, they provide financial, economic and military support, and if it is seriously endangered, they will fight to defend it. This is Israel. Imagine if America's day came to be weakened or expelled from the region or preoccupied by internal socio-economic issues, what would be the fate of Israel? Is this Israel viable in our region? Never, Israel is truly an American tool. Today, the Palestinian people and the peoples of the region, especially the Lebanese people, who have suffered from Israeli aggression, Israeli occupation and Israeli massacres bear the burden of the American hegemony project. Who bears the primary responsibility for all of Israel's crimes, its massacres, the occupation and what it is doing today in Jerusalem, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and inside Palestine before Netanyahu and the terrorist army of Netanyahu? It is America and the successive American administrations." Via Louis Allday

📍Fashion Institue of Technology, New York TAKE A BUILDING CHALLENGE: FIT SJP HAS DE-OCCUPIED SHIREENS (FELDMAN) HALL FOR THE SECOND TIME ARREST HAS BEEN THREATENED BODIES NEEDED ASAP Via National SJP

This is a statement on behalf of Behind Enemy Lines, the anti-imperialist organization that organized the 8/20 protest, and a group of DNC arrestees, a number of whom have court this morning.  - - -  We're here on October 10th, a year after the historic jailbreak from the Gaza prison by the Palestinian resistance, and the subsequent US-Israel genocide unleashed against the people of Palestine. Those US-made bombs have slaughtered well over 100,000 Palestinians, and the genocide has shown no sign for stopping, expanding to the West Bank, to Yemen, and to Lebanon where over 2,000 people have been killed in the last month alone.  In August, Brandon Johnson and the City of Chicago rolled out the red carpet for the people responsible for this genocide, some of the most monstrous criminals on the planet today: Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala, the people who have rubber stamped every check, who have co-signed every bomb, the people who have joined Israel at every step of this genocide with full knowledge of the families extinguished, the prisoners tortured and sexually assaulted, the churches, mosques, schools and hospitals leveled. In defense of this DNC, what we call the Death and Nakba Coronation, Brandon Johnson and his henchman CPD superintendent Larry Snelling occupied the Near West Side of Chicago with thousands of the CPD's killer cops, in a massive show of force and intimidation.  Johnson and Snelling succeeded in taming some of the protesters, by tangling permits and promises of porta-potties. Not everyone. Not us.  On August 20th, we rallied in front of the Israeli consulate to demonstrate our support for the people of Palestine, and tried to march to confront the war-makers in the citadel of the United Center.  Instead, Snelling and Johnson made clear that they stand with genocide over the people of Chicago and staged a police riot. Protesters were beaten with batons, thrown against concrete planters, and brutally arrested.  After being arrested, they were held for hours in dark vans, and then again for hours in unhygienic jail cells.  Now the city of Chicago wants to subject us, alongside the other people it unjustly arrested during the DNC, to death by a thousand cuts: months of byzantine bureaucratic court hearings, dragged out over months. Just last week the city's lawyer claimed that they need an additional two months to review hundreds of hours of police body camera footage. It was reported yesterday that the city has paid out more than $100 Million in police misconduct lawsuits over the last five years. How much money does it cost to prosecute us? When the schools are in desperate need of funds and the CTA is barely functional, why is it a priority of Brandon Johnson to pursue dozens of prosecutions of people who stood up to genocide? How much does it cost for the law department to review hundreds of hours of footage and drag us to court every other month? Ten's of thousands of dollars? More?  However much the city throws at us, we won't back down. Whatever indignities and injustices we faced and are facing are nothing compared to what people in Gaza are going through. On August 20th, we demonstrated that people in this country will not go along with the genocide program, no matter what party carries it out. We'll continue to live up to that obligation, by getting the backs of the people who dare to resist, by refusing to take any deals, and by continuing to expose everyone who collaborates with the US-Israel genocide, from Genocide Joe to Brandon Johnson.  Drop all the charges against DNC protesters!  It's right to rebel against genocide!  Reshare on Twitter

🔻 Anonymous submission targeting a war profiteer's home in Philly: "On the morning of October 10, an autonomous group targeted the home of Gavin Kenneally, co-founder and CEO of Ghost Robotics in Philadelphia. The group painted "Funded By Genocide" across his garage, and "I Make Killer Dogs" on the sidewalk, threw paint at the door and ring camera, and smashed windows. We firmly say -- we don't want your dog shit in Philadelphia! And we don't want it anywhere! Gavin's home is currently listed for sale for a whopping $1.9 million dollars. While his autonomous robots are shipped across the world to patrol and surveil Palestinians, Gavin awaits the sale of his lavish home he's made with dirty money. Other manufacturers of autonomous robots have stated their commitment to not arming robot dogs, but Ghost Robotics has positioned themselves as the dealer for these weapons. They clearly have no shame or concern about their robot dogs being used to surveil and kill people. No genocide profiteer should sit comfortably in their home -- we commit to draining funds from Gavin, to reminding him that his robot dogs are agents of U.S. imperialism, and to closing down Ghost Robotics. Until all people are able to live safely and freely in the place they call home, we commit to fighting for our collective liberation."

🔻STOP COP CITY! STOP COP NATION! STOP COP WORLD! What began as a call to Stop Cop City is now a call to Stop Cop Nation. Follow instagram.com/stopcopnation, and share what you’re planning + access resources at stopcopnation.com. CALL TO ACTION: On October 22nd, 2024, organizers fighting cop city police training facilities across the so-called United States are joining the October 22nd Coalition’s Day of Action to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. We are also calling on all cities fighting local cop city projects to #StopCopNation. Learn more and submit your local action to be added to our map at StopCopNation.com #StopCopNation

“Let us sum up as follows our aspirations for victory. Destruction of imperialism by means of eliminating its strongest bulwark: the imperialist domination of the United States of North America. To take as a tactical line the gradual liberation of the peoples, one by one or in groups, involving the enemy in a difficult struggle outside his terrain; destroying his bases of support, that is, his dependent territories.”

57 years ago today, on October 9th 1967, Argentinian doctor, guerrilla fighter/leader, and revolutionary Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian forces. His previous capture was accomplished with the help of the CIA. Unity of Fields remembers him by sharing his text, “Message to the Tricontinental.” https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1967/04/16.htm

On Monday 10/7 about 100 students from the Claremont Colleges held a divestment rally that led to the occupation of Carnegie Hall at Pomona College on Monday. Starting at 10:07, an homage to the anniversary date, students walked out of classes and announced: "Hello, today, Oct. 7th marks one year since israel’s intensified genocide in Gaza. While we attend class, israel has destroyed all universities in Gaza and is invading Lebanon. I am walking-out of class to rally with the 60+ student orgs demanding Pomona divest from weapons manufacturers, because there can be no business as usual during genocide. Join me and walk-out---there’s safety in numbers." Once inside, demonstrators used signs to obscure windows and barricaded/zip-tied exits. The protestors were all masked/bloc-ed up and escaped without arrest, several exiting through open windows on the second floor. (No face, no case!)

Long live the Student Intifada 🔻 STOP COP NATION 🐷🔥

From New York City: THE NYC REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH CALLS FOR A WEEK OF ACTION FOR COPS OFF CAMPUS FROM OCTOBER 14-22. We are fed up with police repression and violence on and off campus. Whether it be the "public safety department" on CUNY campuses, the occupying NYPD in black and working-class neighborhoods, or the private security forces at private institutions and SUNYs, pigs must be expelled and fired from every single NYC campus, block, and neighborhood. Over the last year, we have put our bodies on the line for Palestinian liberation. We have been beaten senselessly by the same pigs who roam the hallways and the entrances of our campuses. Despite our efforts business is still as usual, so therefore we call for a week of action against cops on campus from October 14-22.

Another anonymous submission from UMass Amherst: On Monday 10/8, autonomous activists at UMass Amherst zip tied banners to the campus center. We urge student activists to escalate, and to challenge the status quo at their universities. Challenge the apolitical student body to take a side through visible actions. Statue also hit. We will not stop until UMass Amherst cuts ties with war profiteers, and Palestine is liberated.

Unity of Fields is permanently banned on Instagram. We won't be back. We're not surprised at the escalating censorship after we posted dozens of direct actions on the anniversary of the heroic Al-Aqsa Flood. Subscribe to our Telegram, follow our Twitter, bookmark our website, and save our email (the_unity_of_fields@proton.me) to stay in touch. For more, read the recent Unity of Fields article on censorship: We are entering into a regime of direct censorship. Indirect forms continue to be used in an attempt to intimidate the masses into censoring themselves, but that intimidation increasingly comes in the mode of direct censorship, making examples of the individuals and organizations acting as hubs of communication by singling them out for punishment... Given the obvious weaknesses and dangers of electronic communications in resistance work, as underlined by current events, we must begin the process of establishing and strengthening in-person communication and material distribution of resistance propaganda... This does not mean we should stop using electronic communications altogether... The goal should be to seize as much benefit as possible from these modes of communication, while not becoming overly dependent or exposed, and while building out alternative distribution networks. Consequently, while endeavoring to access all electronic channels under cover of anonymity, we must move to more censorship resistant channels; for example, from Twitter and Instagram to Telegram. We should expect to make moves of this type repeatedly as electronic channels that were previously resistant to censorship become compromised, and new channels are developed in response. Over the longer term, we must create and strengthen distribution networks for material propaganda (books, zines, pamphlets, etc.) while inculcating a culture that prioritizes these forms of communication over electronic forms. Link to digital security resources