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🚨 Anonymous submission from MIT: Actionists took hostage a painting of MIT founder's wife, an abhorrent slave owner. They replaced the painting with a memorial to Isabella Gibbons (an abolitionist and one of the slaves the MIT founder owned) and Yaqeen Hammad (an 11yo Palestinian girl who was murdered by the zionist entity just hours ago), in protest of MIT's collaboration with the genocidal zionist entity and US military. "We took the enslaver off her pedestal and built a memorial to Yaqeen and Isabella as a testament to the solidarity that has long united the Palestinian and Black struggles for liberation." "We will not forget MIT's complicit in genocide. If MIT doesn't end this, we will."

🚨 BREAKING: At least 19 martyrs have ascended in the IOF's bombing of the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School in Daraj, Gaza City. Bodies of the displaced are charred beyond recognition.

Dhoruba Bin-Wahad on George Floyd. Long live George Floyd, long live the George Floyd Rebellion, may every precinct burn. Write to political prisoners who are still locked up for participating in the 2020 uprising: uprisingsupport.org

Happy African Liberation Day! Tune into the All-African People's Revolutionary Party webinar happening right now: tinyurl.com/AfricaForAfricans AAPRP-INTL.ORG

Escalate for Gaza! Bring the war home! Globalize the intifada! Free Elias Rodriguez! Free them all!

🚨 Palestinian resistance factions have released urgent statements condemning the systematic starvation and siege imposed on Gaza, rejecting occupation-designed aid mechanisms, and calling for decisive international and popular action. 🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Systematic starvation and the ongoing siege of Gaza are colonial tools aimed at displacing and uprooting our people and breaking their will," the Front warned, rejecting "attempts to impose control over the distribution of humanitarian aid by U.S. security companies" and insisting that "UNRWA is the qualified and mandated body to take responsibility for distributing aid." ♦️ Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "The trickle of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip will not resolve the hunger crisis," the Democratic Front stated, cautioning that the proposed distribution plan would "herd residents into collective pens," and urging that the crossings be opened "so aid can flow freely and reach all areas of the Strip." ⬜️ Ahrar Movement: "International silence has reached the point of absurdity," the Movement declared, accusing the occupier of "drawing up humiliating mechanisms with fully complicit American companies… imposing a new reality that herds our people into fresh Nazi-style camps," demanding UN action to "reinstate UNRWA’s operations," and urging Arab and Islamic peoples to "break this deadly siege." ⚪️ Mujahideen Movement: "We strongly condemn the global paralysis and silence in the face of the siege-and-starvation policy that the zionist entity has imposed on our oppressed Palestinian people in Gaza for many long months," the Movement said, describing the aid scheme planned "in cooperation with American companies" as "another face of… starvation and siege," and calling on the Ummah to "break the state of helplessness and humiliation" and stand with "the oppressed Palestinian people." ⚔️ Popular Resistance Committees: "The siege and the systematic zionist starvation policy are a fully-fledged war crime," the Committees declared, warning that militarizing aid seeks to "turn the Gaza Strip into isolated detention camps," and vowing that "the Resistance will not stand idly by," pledging to "sever every treacherous hand" that undermines the internal front.

International Coordinator of @Samidoun_Network Charlotte Kates: It is very concerning to see that many people do not seem to recognize that "Israeli embassies" are the mechanism that markets genocide to the world, the place where the deals are made to sell and buy the weaponry, centers of intelligence gathering. Zionist "embassy staff" are the closest thing to IOF soldiers you'll find in most countries. These institutions are the distributed directors of genocide around the world. They also actively participate (see: Britain) in demanding & directing the repression of protest movements... ...As long as this persists, as genocide continues daily with no justice whatsoever from any domestic or international entity but for Yemen, Hezbollah & the Palestinian resistance, humans whose conscience is tormented by the horrific crimes will find ways to impose accountability. All those who want to end the genocide who have come out to condemn, speculate about, and degrade Elias Rodriguez would be well served to think about instead how they can escalate meaningful consequences on the war criminals through organized mass action. Weekly demos, appeals to the conscience of the imperialists, and the aesthetic of resistance are insufficient to address the crime of genocide. This should be a moment for self-criticism and deepened action, not for arrogant musings over the rage of many put into action.

"According to the PFLP, the enemy camp is a triad: The Israeli Entity (Zionist movement), global imperialism, and Arab reactionaries. This, the Front argued, was a precise diagnosis of the conflict. Consequently, it maintained that targeting the enemy should not be restricted by geography, since the enemy itself had made the entire world a battlefield." Behind the Enemy Everywhere: Return of Palestinian External Ops? by Moussa al-Sadah

“It is good if the enemy attacks us, for it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves.” - Mao The New York Post wrote an entire article about our tweets. The reason they are so "shocked" is because the vast majority of the Palestine solidarity movement decided to condemn this act of resistance. We are living in a time of extreme cowardice. The least we can do is support those who take matters into their own hands. No amount of fearmongering will stop us from supporting armed resistance to Zionism and imperialism. The enemy will not be able to end resistance here or anywhere.

🇱🇧 Khiam Prison Liberation - the 25th anniversary (Media 1/2)

Elias Rodriguez’s neighbor told mainstream media that Rodriguez displayed in his window a photo of six-year-old Palestinian Wadee Alfayoumi, who was stabbed to death by his family’s zionist landlord in 2023 in Chicago.

Statement on My Politically-Motivated Detainment by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol by Calla Walsh (2/2) My trip to Cuba was completely licensed and legal, but it is futile for revolutionaries to base our politics, especially our defense of people facing repression, in the empire's framework of legality. Revolution will always be illegal. Like the zionist genocide against Palestine, the U.S. blockade against Cuba is also illegal under international law, however, the empire continues to function on a basis of complete impunity for its ongoing and rampant violations of international law and fundamental human rights... It is not lost on me that upon my return from Cuba, falsely characterized by imperialist propaganda as a brutal, repressive police state, I was immediately surrounded, detained, and harassed by dozens of armed state agents multiple different times. I would have been surprised if this didn't happen — it was the only welcome back I could imagine receiving in the U.S. where our daily lives are characterized by violent state repression, and I have become unavoidably numb to body pat downs, strip searches, chains and shackles, and the deprivation of my "rights" through my own experience of incarceration. Looking back, it would have been smarter to leave the phone behind in Cuba and travel completely deviceless. This incident was the second time my phone has been seized by federal authorities since the Al-Aqsa Flood, first in November 2023 by the FBI after my arrest for attacking an Elbit Systems factory in New Hampshire with Palestine Action U.S.. Enabling my personal phone to get seized is one of the greatest tactical errors I have ever made; it exposed and endangered not only me but every single contact I had on that phone. This time, I traveled with a phone I bought and used only for this trip, and I factory reset the device before leaving Cuba, wiping all its data, leaving only a sticker on the back quoting the great martyr Jonathan Jackson: HELL WILL BE THEIR REWARD. My advice to fellow organizers is to never fly or cross borders with your personal devices, to use strong alphanumeric passcodes and encrypted messaging platforms, and for riskier activities, to use burner phones, secure operating systems like Graphene OS, or no devices at all. Develop an understanding of digital security and threat modeling, and research these tools, rather than implementing them for the sake of implementing them. More importantly than specific tools or tactics, we must put politics in command and develop our political framework for as to why greater levels of security are necessary: because fascism has been here since this empire's very inception, we are in a state of war, and one day all our work, even legal aboveground work, will be targeted, and is too risky to be kept in a glasshouse. This trip to Cuba was my first time traveling outside of the U.S. since the State of New Hampshire banned me from leaving the country and deemed me a flight risk (using my past three trips to Cuba as a justification) while I was facing 37 years in prison in 2023/2024. I am not a "perfect victim" and you cannot defend me based on my innocence. I am guilty of wanting to destroy imperialism by any means necessary. I have a criminal record, I have been under federal investigation for years, and I morally and politically support the Axis of Resistance and all liberation movements falsely labeled as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Specially Designated Nationals, and State Sponsors of Terrorism. No intimidation enacted by amerikan, gusano, or zionist thugs could possibly force me to back down from these beliefs — that we must lift all U.S. sanctions and abolish the terror lists and designations, that we must respond to fascist repression by building unity in resistance, and that we must uphold armed struggle against imperialism, abroad and here, such as the alleged actions of political prisoner Elias Rodriguez, who brought the war home. History will absolve us, and hell will be their reward.

Statement on My Politically-Motivated Detainment by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol by Calla Walsh (1/2) After spending a month in revolutionary Cuba, I was welcomed back to the Great Satan by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) detaining me, interrogating me, and seizing my phone in Miami International Airport on 19 May 2025. Every step of the way both to and from Cuba, I experienced endless harassment, secondary screenings, and physical groping by Transportation Security Administration (TSA). All of this indicates to me that I am on some sort of domestic terrorism watch list, as a result of my anti-imperialist political activity and my criminal record for taking direct action to resist the amerikan-zionist genocide against Palestine... Last month comrade Musa Springer was also detained for hours, intensively questioned, groped, and had their devices seized when they returned from Cuba, specifically for their support for Palestine and the student intifada. CBP regularly detains U.S. citizens traveling from Cuba, often at random, but these are new, targeted escalations. All this intimidation serves to break our bonds of international solidarity and discourage us from learning from one of the greatest human achievements in history, the Cuban Revolution, which the U.S. blockade, regime change programs, and counterinsurgency warfare are attempting to strangle to death. In recent months the U.S. Empire has intensified its war against Cuba, attacking Cuban international medical brigades and international travel to Cuba, two major lifelines for the Cuban economy, which the U.S. has besieged for over 60 years with genocidal, unilateral, extraterritorial sanctions. U.S. diplomats in Cuba appear to be provoking a complete rupture of diplomatic relations. On 13 May 2025, the State Department re-listed Cuba (along with Iran, Venezuela, Syria, and the DPRK) as a country not fully cooperating with the U.S. on terrorism because Cuba has given asylum to U.S. citizens fighting for national liberation from the U.S. Empire like revolutionaries from the Black Liberation Army and the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña.

Anonymous submission:On May 7th, Columbia University Public Safety trapped students inside Butler Library after they established the Basel Al-Araj Popular University. Students launched the university to "exert sustained pressure on university administrators to divest from the Zionist entity," as CUAD explained in a statement. After trapping them inside for hours and assaulting multiple students, CU Public Safety invited the NYPD on to campus, who sent multiple protesters to the hospital, arrested over 80 students, and held them for 14 hours. To this we say: ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS. In retaliation for their flagrant assault, we smashed CU Public Safety's windows and sprayed ACAB on the building's facade. Even though there were piggies inside at the time, and the area quickly swarmed with NYPD afterwards, they were powerless to catch us. We are putting the pigs on notice! Whether you wear the NYPD uniform, CU Public Safety, or any of the other fascist police agencies in this city who have brutalized Palestine solidarity protesters in the past 20 months, we are coming for you next. Anyone who enacts state violence on our movement will pay a high price. Long live the student intifada! Keep fighting on campus, in the community, and everywhere we face fascist zionist oppression. We got your back.

The condemnation game never leads anywhere except to defeat for everyone, and the only way to win is not to play. The challenge for all of us is to do _better_ in organizing, acting and imposing a material cost on the genocidaires, to live up to the Yemeni example."

International Coordinator of @Samidoun_Network Charlotte Kates: "A few points on repression and resistance: Repression is already happening, and it has been for a long time. I am speaking only here about repression targeting the Palestine liberation movement, and not about repression targeting Black Liberation, Puerto Rican Independentistas, Indigenous liberation, green anti-corporate movement, etc. There are 2 men serving 65-year sentences in US jails for sending humanitarian charitable aid to Palestine. Rasmea Odeh was deported for being a former political prisoner. The Sami al-Arian case: I remember when Dr Sami was a fundraiser, one of the best in the country, at Palestine events, and when he was targeted, and after he won, how he spent years in house arrest and imprisonment on "contempt" charges because he wouldn't be an informant on a grand jury against other Palestinians (one of whose son-in-law has now been targeted in the latest repressive onslaught). He was deported as a hero. These are often called the "post-911" cases, but the HLF was raided days before 9-11-2001. Mazen al-Najjar and other Arab men spending years in immigration detention (it wasn't called ICE yet) on the basis of secret evidence, just like Palestinians in administrative detention. "Special registration" and self-deportation. The way the Islamic Association for Palestine disappeared overnight -- or seemed to, for a student at the time -- and was forced to after years of work and being one of the strongest community organizations. This was post-Oslo/Second Intifada/post-911 repression. In many ways, it was equal or worse to the situation today, but without social media. It wasn't Canary Mission that propelled the government to attack, it was Emerson and his "research" association that spied on Palestinian conferences. This isn't even going back to the era of the LA8 case (which stretched on into this era with the use of new laws), Operation Phoenix, the deportation of Ziad Abu Ein and other Palestinians, and other related cases of the 1970s and 1980s. Coming up to present time, the designation of @Samidoun_Network as an SDGT/"Terrorist Entity" last October is not an insignificant moment, and not only for those of us closer to the matter. It was meant to impose a new set of political boundaries, and justified through blatant lies. So much of the discussion about resisting repression is instead about how to best comply with the repressive demands and minimize risk. While that can be valuable individual advice, it does not address the needs of a movement, which is to confront and overturn the attacks. In all of these past cases, in today's ICE attacks, in the FBI raids, in the assaults on Cop City protesters, let's be clear: Repression is the fault and the responsibility of the imperialist/Zionist power carrying out the repression, not of those who resist it. Repression is not going to begin because someone took a direct action. Repression has been going on. It is already taking place. There is a great danger that repression finds a home in the movement; that is, that enforcing compliance becomes the norm rather than the exception. So when we speak about the coming repression, let's be clear, it's already here and it's been here, and the fact that someone took a step to seriously escalate their confrontation of the occupation entity and its official, full-on, governmental representatives, is not the cause. It is very clear that people, at a mass, human level, are very much done with the genocide. Every time someone announces a march, the post is full of comments saying we need to impose a cost on the occupation, and simply demonstrating is not enough. It is an entirely logical expectation that, in many cases, people, whether in a group or as individuals, will rise to the level of the circumstances Palestine (Yemen, Lebanon and Syria, and Iran) are facing and seek to impose a meaningful cost.

The Panther 21 in an Open Letter to the Weather Underground, 1971: "We have had too many martyrs. We desperately need more revolutionists who are completely willing and ready at all times to KILL to change conditions. Just to be ready to die does not make a revolutionist—it just makes a martyr—”revolutionary suicide” and “only those who die are proven revolutionaries”—are bullshit—tripping escapist bullshit-—a revolutionist escapes death as a natural phenomenon, but MUST be ready to KILL to change conditions. Revolution is ARMED STRUGGLE—revolution is VIOLENCE—revolution is WAR—revolution is BLOODSHED—and the “duty of a revolutionary is to make revolution".... In conclusion—we would like to leave these few thoughts—We wish you revolutionary victory in all that you do. But remember—the degree of racial co-existence greatly depends on your successes. Secondly—remember that this is not a national war, but a global war—and we who are in the eye of this evil, monstrous octopus—we who are in the belly of the beast—a lot depends on us! Thirdly—remember “In a revolution one wins or dies!” The stakes are very high—humanity versus inhumanity—do you recall the old “Ask what you can do for your country?”—Destroy it—mentally, morally, psychologically, and physically—destroy it. And whatever you do—do it good! Your fellow guerillas in the revolution."

"ESCALATE FOR GAZA, BRING THE WAR HOME" communiqué by political prisoner Elias Rodriguez now available in zine form to print/fold on the Unity of Fields website: https://unityoffields.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/eliasrodriguez.pdf