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While some wring their hands about the return of Donald Trump, others are getting organized to resist and defend each other. Read reports from Festivals of Resistance that drew hundreds of people to dozens of events around the United States this past weekend. https://crimethinc.com/festivals2025 We can do this!

Assembled at his inauguration, we see the oligarchs who lined up to bring Donald Trump back to power. Capitalism has always meant rule by billionaires, but it is especially noxious that this particular billionaire has returned to office by pretending to oppose "the elite." In fact, the new Trump administration represents the intensification of state violence for the benefit of the ultra-rich. They regard the rest of us as disposable resources in their quest for total domination. We have to fight them with everything we have. https://crimethinc.com/resist2025

Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families. In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts and demonstrations. There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other. https://crimethinc.com/ICEage

Yesterday, the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. From a statement: "The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable." "Viva Tortuguita And All Land Defenders."

El Argumento por Resistencia A qué nos enfrentamos y cómo podría ser la lucha https://crimethinc.com/zines/el-argumento-por-resistencia-a-que-nos-enfrentamos-y-como-podria-ser-la-lucha La vision es clara. Ganaremos bajo nuestros propios esfuerzos. Los tiempos de Trump no estan en el pasado, lo estamos navegando. La mejor manera de afrontarlo, es luchando. #Español

In 2017, it made sense to concentrate numbers in DC to demonstrate what resisting Trump could look like. The tactics that a few hundred people employed on the first day of Trump's presidency were being used by hundreds of thousands by the summer of 2020. In 2025, the second round of this fight is about to begin all across the country with mass deportations and repression. This time, people are gathering in their communities to share skills and prepare: https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance The struggle continues.

After the 2017 inauguration, we published a blow-by-blow account and analysis of the day's events, showing how demonstrators took on much better-equipped adversaries and why police lost control, distilling the strategic lessons. It still makes for instructive reading: https://crimethinc.com/J20analysis

After the protests at the 2017 inauguration, a fierce legal struggle ensued, as prosecutors attempted to put protesters in prison for decades for the alleged crime of wearing black in the vicinity of a march. In the end, the prosecution was completely defeated—a crucial victory for the freedom to protest and resist. Solidarity among the defendants was crucial in this struggle. This is how they won: https://crimethinc.com/J20legal

To capture the protests against Trump’s 2017 inauguration from multiple vantage points, we prepared a Choose Your Own Adventure game based on the experiences of participants in the black bloc march and the notorious court case that followed it. You can play it here: https://crimethinc.com/j20simulator

In 2017, demonstrators blockaded six of the fourteen security checkpoints around the inaugural parade for several hours. Some locked themselves to the fences meant to keep them out. You can read our live updates from the day here, in reverse chronological order: https://crimethinc.com/j20live Shortly before Trump's inaugural parade in 2017, hundreds of people gathered for an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist march. This was the notorious J20 black bloc, which left wreckage in its wake. Though it ended in mass arrests, the police lost control of the streets for the rest of the day. The suit-and-tie fascist Richard Spencer had showed up to the 2017 presidential inauguration, hoping that Trump's success would bring fascism to power. When a participant in the black bloc punched Spencer, the punch became world-famous, reassuring millions that they would not be alone fighting fascism.

The history of anarchist involvement in counter-inaugural protest stretches back to the 1960s. This article traces it from 1969 to 2013: https://crimethinc.com/ungovernable "After police drove them back from the parade route, 300-400 'ultramilitants' raged through five city blocks, smashing the windows of banks, businesses, and police cruisers, writing graffiti, chucking bottles and stones at police and soldiers, and repeatedly burning American flags." That was 1969. In 2001, 600 anarchists marching in a black bloc broke through a secret service checkpoint, nearly reaching the parade route, and raised the black flag at the Navy memorial as Bush's motorcade drove by. https://crimethinc.com/five In 2005, anarchists once again marched on the inauguration, then took the streets once more that night in a raucous march that damaged banks and a police substation in a gentrifying neighborhood. https://crimethinc.com/2005inauguration

As Trump prepares to take power once again, this is a good time to revisit how anarchists responded last time he entered office. In 2017, thousands assembled in DC to disrupt the inauguration and set a precedent for resistance in the Trump era. https://crimethinc.com/J20analysis

Yesterday, over 600 people gathered in Sacramento to participate in a variety of discussions and trainings about community defense. At the same time, 200 gathered in Chicago to prepare to fight mass deportations. Next weekend, gatherings like these will take place all around the US. You can see a list of these here: https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance

Nessun Dio https://crimethinc.com/2000/09/11/nessun-dio-1 Non esistono il bene e il male, non esiste un bene o un male universale, i sei solo tu... e i valori che scegli per te stesso. #Italiano

The Ex-Worker podcast: Sacrificial Violence and Retribution https://crimethinc.com/exworker109 We explore the public responses to two different extrajudicial killings—and what they tell us about the different forms of violence contending in our society today. Very important as we return to the Trump era.

This is Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Capitalism is humanity making war on itself in slow motion—but the process is speeding up. The climate crisis is just one aspect of this catastrophe. No solutions will come from corporations or politicians. We have to take action to defend each other and address the root causes. https://crimethinc.com/Climate2024

If you are organizing an event in this vein and you need a poster design to promote it, just download this one and add the details in the empty space provided! https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#posters

This weekend and next, events will take place around the country in response to the call for Festivals of Resistance before Trump takes power. This is a crucial chance for communities to come together and build skills for collective defense. Check out the list here: https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#events

Сопротивление местному авторитаризму и многополярному империализму в Грузии Углубленный анализ оппозиционного движения https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/11/soprotivlieniie-miestnomu-avtoritarizmu-i-mnoghopoliarnomu-impierializmu-v-gruzii-ughlubliennyi-analiz-oppozitsionnogho-dvizhieniia-1 Демонстрации в Грузии выходят за рамки выбора между Европой и Россией, отвергая как местный авторитарный режим, так и иностранное экономическое господство. #Русский

What's striking about the manifesto left by the Trump supporter who shot himself and set his truck on fire outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas is that the desire to harm others merges with the urge to self-destruction. Arguably, this characterizes millions of Trump supporters. It's no coincidence that a man the FBI described as a "heavily decorated combat veteran" would end his life saying "I needed relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Being a killer for hire weighs heavy on the conscience. These mercenaries are damning themselves to living hell so that billionaires like Trump and Musk can turn a profit. This tormented anger is common among Trump supporters. On some level, they sense that the climate disasters smashing their communities are caused by the oil profiteers they defend—that they are more to blame for the problems of this society than undocumented people or trans people. Their self-righteousness masks self-hatred. Their fantasies of civil war conceal a desire to kill themselves.