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🔻A group called the Transit Liberation Front smashed 10 OMNY machines in subway stations across NYC in response to a call from Black revolutionaries in Atlanta calling for a summer of resistance against the US & Israel's colonial/state violence & surveillance. Here's Part 2 of their communiqué (source): 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! –The Transit Liberation Front (2/2)

🔻A group called the Transit Liberation Front smashed 10 OMNY machines in subway stations across NYC in response to a call from Black revolutionaries in Atlanta calling for a summer of resistance against the US & Israel's colonial/state violence & surveillance. Here's Part 1 of their communiqué (source): Recently, Black Revolutionaries in Atlanta sent out a call for a Summer of Resistance, a sustained, militant, and decentralized campaign targeting the multitude of appendages of the settler-colonial so-called United States, its Zionist client government, and their many accomplices in promoting a genocidal agenda in Palestine that is killing tens of thousands. In response, we turned our attention to the MTA and the touchless payment system, OMNY, that it is trying to shove down New Yorkers' collective throat. These machines represent a world in which we must trade away our privacy for the right to move about our own city. The existence of OMNY and the city's desire to phase out all other methods of payment is an obvious ploy to increase surveillance and further violate our communities by policing the main arteries of transit for everyday New Yorkers — as if the subways weren't fucking crawling with police already. We smashed ten of these machines in multiple subway stations across the city. We estimate that this is equivalent to about $40,000 in damage. OMNY is in part result of a contract between the MTA and Cubic Corporation, a sprawling multinational entity owned by the private equity firm Veritas Capital [9 W. 57th St.] Veritas's portfolio also includes Peraton, which is working with the Department of Homeland Security to build HART. This advanced surveillance system will compile and centralize biometric and other data on nearly 300 million individuals, further facilitating DHS's campaign of terror against immigrants and communities of color. This database, of course, will soon be open to Zionist security forces through DHS's Enhanced Border Security Partnership, which promises rapid mutual biometric intelligence sharing among the Zionist entity, US, UK, and EU. Veritas is invested in the oppressive technologies shoring up the imposed colonial borders that have been constructed on Palestinian land and between the United States and Mexico, ripping apart traditionally Indigenous territories. Here, at the margins, we see the extremity of state violence enacted against those it has decided to keep out by any means necessary, through both active violence—when the Zionist military murders Palestinians in cold blood—and passive, when US agents allow families to drown in the Rio Grande before their very eyes. These horrors are manifold, and Veritas is profiting from them. If your city has a public transportation system, it is likely to be linked to Cubic and Veritas. Chicago's Ventra system, London's Oyster, the Breeze card in Atlanta, and countless other systems inside and outside of the US are all Cubic endeavors. Your governments are selling you out to a private company that actively promotes the imperialist projects from Palestine to Mexico. Why? In our view, they are rolling out an ever-more militarized version of the already extant police state. Cops flooding the subway and National Guard bag-checks are only the beginning. They are relying on us growing accustomed to being controlled in every aspect of our lives, of us willingly giving up our privacy in exchange for their rotten idea of "safety." There is no safety under occupation, and we are indeed living on occupied territory. (1/2)

🚨 COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED IN HARVARD SQUARE: Two people have locked down to a reinforced barricade along with dozens more linking arms and blockading both entrances of Chase Bank, whose parent JP Morgan holds shares in Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons firm. With bank employees unable to get inside, Chase has already lost a third of its work day! We'll be here in Harvard Square shutting them down until closing time at 1PM. COME JOIN US! The Chase branch is located at 9 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Despite the rain, the blockades are holding strong 💪. Folks are chanting “every day, rain or shine, we will fight for Palestine!" Via BDS Boston: https://x.com/BDSBoston/status/1812108254404546561

This "Independence" Day, Palestine Action NYC strikes Magellan Aerospace in Corona, Queens, who makes F-35 jet parts for Lockheed Martin to bomb Palestinians and flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. GENOCIDE PROFITEERS OUT OF QUEENS! We must escalate for Gaza. This is just the beginning. Protests are not enough. Empty calls for the dismantling of the system are not enough. In our capitalist society, we must strike where it hurts them most: their wallets. Art reads: FUCK MAG, YOU KILL KIDS 🔻 Reshare on Palestine Action US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9Ln0RltTEo/

🔻Anonymous submission: “In the early hours of July 8, Maersk's warehousing and distribution service center in romulus, mi was targeted by an autonomous group.The Maersk entrance was beautified with statements like "Fuck Maersk" and "Cut ties with genocide." This action was done in line with the Palestinian Youth Movement's Mask Off Maersk campaign, as Maersk plays a direct role in committing and continuing the genocide of the people of Palestine. In the last nine months, Maersk has transported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons components to the top 5 weapons manufacturers in the US for assembly. Without Maersk those weapons would not reach israel. We demand that Maersk stops shipping weapons to the zionist entity, and that they cut ties with genocide. Until then, we will continue to escalate against all empires and those that fund and empower them. We encourage all those who read this to take action against the genocidal supply chain and against colonialism, in whatever form it may appear.” #MaskOffMaersk #Escalate4Gaza Repost on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9KEbCSuf3E/

“Blessed is the flame that burns the settler plantation.” Happy July 4th to all those fighting for the death of empire. #escalate4gaza

🚨TODAY: FLOOD JULY 4TH FOR GAZA! ⏱️ Gather 6pm Rally 7pm 📍Washington Square Park (NYC) 🇵🇸 Bring Palestinian flags! 📱FOR UPDATES/INFO: Twitter/X: @wolpalestine Telegram: t.me/wolprotest

🔻Anonymous Submission: The Olympic track trials took place on Kalapuya Land in so-called Eugene from June 21st to June 30th. Over the course of the trials, resistance took the form of marches and attacks on symbols of imperialism and the Olympics throughout the town. Report backs were received on two autonomous actions that happened in the early hours of June 27th: ~~ June 27, Nike Building on Kalapuya Land, so-called eugene, oregon In the early-morning hours of June 27, a group took it upon themselves to respond to a call to action to disrupt business as usual in so-called eugene. As this city focuses on the spectacle of the olympic track trials, we must remember that there will be no business as usual until Palestine is free. In mere minutes the atrocious, neon-orange, nike building got a makeover. Some windows were smashed, an inflatable entrance was slashed, and some red paint splattered on the walls. The group left a single tag reading “Free Gaza,” to make their intentions even more clear. While nike likes to pretend it is “progressive,” the company very actively supports genocide. Nike regularly sends athletic equipment to the isr*eli defense forces, and regularly contributes to isr*eli zionist organizations. Nike has funded and collaborated with isr*eli athletes and sports associations based in isr*el. This action is the least that they deserve. As always, let this serve as a reminder that we can always take things into our own hands. With Love, Rage, and Solidarity, Free Palestine. ~ Early morning on June 27th, local Olympics targets that are symbols of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism were attacked during the Olympic Track and Field trials, which serve to legitimize US & "Israeli" global terror and genocide. A University of Oregon mural on Franklin boulevard near the trials was redecorated with a paint-filled fire extinguisher and multiple spray-painted stencils to condemn the University's role in facilitating genocide abroad and forced displacement at home. We will not tolerate complicity in genocide. Zionist and American fascism are laying waste to the Palestinian people who are refusing their disappearance with a bravery and steadfastness that we must uplift with our whole beings in action or else drown in the blood of our wavering inaction. The targets are everywhere. We have waited too long. We must take all necessary action against our genocidal state for liberation. The horrors of genocide are not an isolated elsewhere but are ever-present in the concrete here and now. The Olympics, built on the blood, labor, and displacement of oppressed peoples everywhere, serve only to legitimize empire. In the tradition of Indigenous resistance to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, we say No Olympics on Stolen Land. In the tradition of the anti-fascist 1936 People's Olympiad, we say No Olympics of Fascist Terror. In the tradition of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics that spawned GILEE, a direct tie between the fascist US police and the fascist IOF, we say fuck your Olympics and Stop Cop City. Here in Eugene, the Olympic trials bring an inordinate amount of gentrification, policing, and the violent evictions and forcible displacement of houseless people from public space. These imperialist incursions into our community are rapidly changing the landscape of this city, bringing only profits drenched in the blood of genocide and the violence of the state upon our own oppressed. There are no separate worlds. Resistance until victory! Free Casey Goonan! Free Jack Mazurek! Freedom to all fighting people! Victory to the Palestinian Resistance!

🚨Building occupation alert - SAVE THE DC: ALL OUT TO SUPPORT THE OCCUPATION! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY CENTER! URGENT CALL TO ACTION: FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE FORCED DISPLACEMENT OF DEMOCRACY CENTER TENANTS! COME TO THE DC NOW! BRING A FRIEND AND WEAR A MASK! Activists have occupied the Cambridge Democracy Center in order to combat and resist the unilateral decision made by its NGO owners to shutter the space, implicitly in response to community opposition to their permitting Zionist organizations to use it as an organizing space. The DC has been a fixture of movement and political organizing in the city and its loss would be a crucial blow to the progressive ecosystem. Since the decision was made to shutter the space, a committee of stakeholder organizations has attempted -- without success -- to pressure the owners (the Foundation for Civil Leadership, a nonprofit run by billionaire Ian Simmons) to negotiate with the community and turn the space over to the groups who have depended on it for over two decades. These tactics have had no effect. Only direct, militant struggle can ensure that the people can win their demands from enemies like Simmons and his ilk, members of the capitalist ruling class (regardless of their progressive veneer). Yesterday morning, courageous militants did just that. They escalated the struggle, seizing control of the building and declaring it the People's Democracy Center, calling on all of us to stand with them and keep the space alive for future generations of organizers and artists who might call it home. It is our responsibility to answer their call and stand with our comrades. ALL OUT TO DEFEND THE OCCUPATION! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY CENTER! Follow @peoples.democracy.center on Instagram for updates

🚨EMERGENCY ACTION: FLOOD JULY 4TH FOR PALESTINE AND AGAINST EMPIRE! 🚨 📍Washington Square Park 🗓️ THURSDAY, July 4th ⏱️ 6PM 📱FOR UPDATES/INFO: Twitter/X: @wolpalestine Telegram: t.me/wolprotest As Palestine resists the most intense period of the U.S.-backed genocide since 1948, Congo, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon, Yemen, Haiti, Kashmir and countries all across the world continue to resist U.S. imperialism. July 4th is not a day to be celebrated while the U.S. wraps its hands around the necks of the world in the pursuit of hegemony, resources and exploitation. As Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled explains, "Any strike anywhere against US imperialism is a step towards freedom."

Via BDS Boston: Help keep the fire against Elbit Systems going! Join us this Wednesday July 3rd 12pm at 130 Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge to disrupt Elbit's workday operations. Bring pots, pans, drums, and other noisemakers. And please mask!

Action in Michigan: On June 30, an autonomous group targeted the world's 25th largest weapons manufacturer, Rolls-Royce and MTU America, headquartered in Novi, MI. MTU developed the MT883 engine, which powers israel's main battle tanks, and is the only major component of the Merkava tank that is made outside of israel. israel used this tank extensively in its 2006 invasion of Lebanon and its 2012, 2014, 2021, and 2023-2024 assaults on Gaza, including the attack on the Al-Shifa Hospital. These engines are also used for the Zionist entity's navy, powering around 80% of its boats. The tanks and boats used to destroy refugee camps, demolish homes and hospitals, and maintain the suffocating blockade on Gaza can only function with american manufacturing, labor, and financial support. As beneficiaries of this imperial system, our duty to Palestine is to damage, disrupt, and destroy the colonizers' operations by any means necessary. We call on revolutionaries across the world to take decisive, escalatory action to halt the war machine, from Cop City, to Weapons Corridor, to Silicon Valley. Glory to our martyrs, power to our freedom fighters! Long live the Intifada!

Via BDS Boston: 🚨 The campaign against Israel’s top weapons supplier Elbit Systems EXPANDS. Community members rally at the $15 mil. home of Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation CEO Peter Palandjian, demanding he evict Elbit’s medical subsidiary KMC from its “Cambridge Innovation Center”! In 2021, Elbit and KMC moved into 130 Bishop Allen Drive in Central Square, owned by International’s US REIF. The location helps them take advantage of local talent and licensing opportunities through biotech companies, universities and programs like MIT's Industrial Liason Program. Central Square residents want more affordable housing and community spaces, not weapons companies who rent from obscenely rich landlords like Palandjian. He and Intercontinental are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians by renting to Elbit. We say: Evict Elbit Now! Intercontinental also donates to the pro-Israel ADL. Major civil rights & progressive groups have criticized the ADL’s right-wing advocacy harming marginalized communities. ADL employees even spied on supporters of Nelson Mandela’s ANC in the 80s, denouncing it as anti-Israel. If you work in Cambridge or live in the Boston area, join BDS Boston on Wednesdays at noon for our weekly pickets at 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139.

🚨NEW YORK CITY🚨 CONFRONT GENOCIDE JOE AT 311 W34th ST‼️🇵🇸 Travel in groups and get there however you can.

Protesters outside the Trump-Biden debate in Atlanta: “We say fuck the police! We will burn it down and take what’s ours in the streets. And that isn’t an empty threat, it’s a promise. The days of protest are behind us, and to be peaceful in the Belly of the Beast that commits unlimited genocide against the Global South is a DISGRACE. It is time that we follow the lead of the militants of oppressed nations. It is time to change our orientation from one of protests to one of resistance. We say, behead the two-headed beast! We will take what’s ours in the streets. They demand we limit our protest to civil disobedience and banner drops. We say, we refuse your genocidal peace!” Police vastly outnumbered protesters tonight, as the guard dogs of the entire shit show we just witnessed at the debate. They attempted to kettle the crowd and have shuttled in prison buses, while helicopters flew overhead. They’re the reason why this failing system continues. Cop City is for days like today. Nothing will change while the pigs continue to guard these corpses in suits. What happened today in Atlanta highlights the importance of preparing for the next debate, which much be stopped. Via Pal Action Instagram

CNN headquarters in Atlanta on May 29, 2020. CNN is hosting the debate tonight between two candidates who fully support the genocide in Palestine. Biden. Trump. Two talking heads. Same imperial beast. Via Pal Action Instagram.

This morning in Georgia, via Stop Cop City: Six protestors have been arrested following a car blockade/lockdown at the entrance of Hudson Technologies in Smyrna. One protestor locked down to a concrete-reinforced car, effectively shutting down the location for several hours. Other protestors were arrested today by Smyrna police as part of a rally. The tarp reads "Drop the contract or we'll be back!" Hudson Technologies committed to a 250 million dollar contract with the Department of Defense to export oil, gasses, and fabricated containers to foreign militaries-namely, including the Israeli military carrying out the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. All six protestors arrested are charged with loitering and prowling, improperly stopping in the roadway. Photos of the rally where 5 arrests occured shows protestors standing to the side of the road. The sixth protestor faces additional charges including pedestrian in the roadway and obstruction. The group Atlanta against Genocide released the following statement: "The spectacle of a Presidential debate is sham when both candidates support genocide and ethnic cleansing. But it's fitting that this debate is happening in Atlanta - a city where democracy is being eroded, and where residents are being denied an opportunity to vote on the fate of Cop City. Amidst this political landscape, direct action is our only option." https://www.instagram.com/p/C8t8vgwugbB

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JUNE 27, 2024 CONTACT: Micah Herskind atl.debate.protest@gmail.com 404-567-6191 PROTESTORS CONVERGE IN ATLANTA TO OPPOSE THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE With neither presidential candidate commited to ending genocide in Palestine or halting spread of "Cop City" training facilities, protestors argue the debate gives an illusory choice. What: STOP THE DEBATE! PROTEST When: Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 8pm Eastern Where: Home Park (1015 Tumlin ST NW, Atlanta, GA) ATLANTA, GA -- On Thursday, June 27th, people will converge in downtown Atlanta to protest the first 2024 presidential debate between Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The Stop the Debate! protest follows waves of protests condemning the genocide in Palestine and the development of police militarization facilities (known as "Cop Cities") in Atlanta, New York City and other cities. Since October 7th, the Israel military has, with the support of United States military aid, killed at least 40,000 Palestinians, with at least 14,000 children dead and more than 20,000 missing. Haydee Anderson, an Atlanta resident and organizer with the Ad-hoc Committee to Stop the Debate, stated "The U.S.-backed genocide in Palestine hinges on the rise of authoritarianism and police militarization in the U.S. It requires us to be passive, or to be made passive through fear, police violence, and political repression. But many in the U.S. are instead taking action." The presidential debate is slated to air to millions of homes from CNN studios at the Ted Turner Campus (1050 Techwood DR NW, Atlanta, GA, 30318) in Atlanta. The debate comes as Mayor Andre Dickens faces widespread condemnation for anti-democratic practices toward the referendum to stop Cop City. The $100M police training facility under construction in Dekalb County would host tactical exchange with the Israeli military through the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program. Yesterday, protestors occupied the office of Mayor Andre Dickens to demand he put Cop City on the ballot. "It's ironic Atlanta is hosting the first presidential debate. Atlanta has been a laboratory for anti-democratic governance. For the last year, the City of Atlanta has blocked the referendum on Cop City at every possible turn, despite 116,000 Atlantans signing a petition to put the facility to a vote," said Jordan Wright, an Atlanta resident and member of the Ad-Hoc Committee to Stop the Debate. Since 2021, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and the Atlanta City Council have refused to heed over 30 hours of public comment in opposition to Cop City. The City has also stalled the referendum process, suppressing the petition through legal channels. Similarly, approval ratings, polls and protests alike demonstrate that Biden has failed to abide popular mandate on the Palestinian genocide. "What is the choice here? Most Americans are against US involvement, but Biden continued to arm and fund this war." says Parker Morris, an Atlanta-area resident and voter. "Those of us who desire freedom--worldwide, from Atlanta to Palestine and beyond--see no real differences between the two presidential candidates. To us, the election offers only the illusion of democracy." ###

BREAKING: This morning, Palestine Action occupied the inside of Grid Defence Systems, a military hardware supplier for Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons firm. From inside, arms components are dismantled and shipments destined for Elbit are completely shattered. This company, based in Buckinghamshire, also supplies parts for Leonardo, Thales and MBDA missiles. During our previous action at Kent’s Israeli weapons factory, many suppliers were discovered. Unless they cut ties with Elbit, we will shut down each one of them. This is for Gaza.

🚨EMERGENCY ACTION: FLOOD MANHATTAN FOR PALESTINE AND LEBANON! 🚨 📍Madison Square Park 🗓️ FRIDAY, June 28th ⏱️ 5PM 📱FOR UPDATES/INFO: Twitter/X: @wolpalestine Telegram: t.me/wolprotest Palestine suffers massacre after massacre while inspiring the world with its resistance. Lebanon, which has been getting bombed by the IOF for months, is moving increasingly into the cross-hairs of the zionist and U.S. war machine due to their unwavering support for Palestine. Escalation in Lebanon could break out at any time, so we too need to escalate 🔻🇵🇸🇱🇧