Report on solidarity blockade on April 15th in Olympia, WA. For a full roundup of actions, go here. An international call went out for a coordinated economic blockade for a free Palestine [1] for April 15th. While many people probably decided to go north to Seattle, where they blockaded the Sea-Tac [2] international airport, a small group of us got together and decided to plan what we could to here in Olympia. It’s cool and important to go support other cities actions, but we also gotta fight on our turf because no one else will. About 25 of us met up in Heritage park, we had 4 large banners ..read more

Announcing a new zine publication on the Balagoon Boxing Club in so-called Philadelphia, PA. Originally posted to Bash Back! News.  Download and Print Zine-Imposed PDF For Reading PDF Growing out of the strong antifascist movement in Philadelphia, anarchists have been fight training together here for the better part of a decade. The current iteration grew out of a group that would meet about once a week prior to the pandemic. A few people in Philly had taken advantage of some financially feasible trial periods at Muay Thai gyms or were more consistent in their Muay Thai training gene ..read more

Photo by Shay Horse On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a guest who discusses the mass mobilization to defend the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, which was attacked by far-Right Zionists on April 30th and then by hundreds of riot police on May 1st, who made over 200 violent arrests. During our discussion, our guest breaks down how the UCLA encampment grew in the face on continued harassment and attacks from far-Right pro-Israel counter-protesters. These attacks escalated on April 30th, when a group of Zionists attacked barricades erec ..read more

Kite Line reports on the Palestine solidarity encampment at Indiana University in so-called Bloomington, IN. https://media.blubrry.com/wfhbinterchange/wfhb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/KITELINE_Episode362-DunnMeadowLiberatedZone.mp3 Eight days ago, students and others established a tent camp – a Liberated Zone – at IU’s Dunn Meadow, as part of a national rising tide of protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Within hours, Indiana State Police arrived from Indianapolis and attacked the students, injuring dozens and arresting 34 students and faculty. The protesters were undaunted, rebuilt their ..read more

A reflection on how the rhetoric and push for violence against anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era echos calls from politicians and media today. Yesterday was the anniversary of the Kent State University massacre. On May 4th, 1970, the National Guard fired into a crowd of people at a sit-in called to protest Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and the presence of military on campus. US troops shot 13 students, murdering four. When I close my eyes at night and see the reflective smirk of Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers who dragged off my classmates, barking at ..read more

A critical look at claims that Evergreen University in so-called Olympia, WA has divested from the state of Israel following protests on campus. Yesterday, the Cooper Point Journal ran a story with the headline: TESC AGREES TO DIVESTMENT: Greeners say ‘The Struggle Continues! In uncritical, triumphalist language, the article summarizes the terms of a supposed agreement entered into between four individuals claiming to represent the “Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and The Evergreen State University (TESC). Despite the article’s claim that the agreement represents “won divestment processe ..read more

Announcement for June 11th 2024, a day of international solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. For more information, go here. We once again approach June 11th, a day of remembrance and active solidarity, in a world of multiple crises and struggles for liberation. All of these are interconnected; there are no separate worlds. Across borders, languages, contexts, and identities, both catastrophes and victories of spirit and defiance reverberate around the globe. One environment is not untouched by another. The personal is not separate from the political. The positive project is not sepa ..read more

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about mutual aid initiatives with Palestinians under siege in the occupied territories. By land and by sea, global mutual aid and solidarity work is rising to the occasion to meet another existential threat to humanity’s continued existence: war and genocide. In every disaster, mutual aid and solidarity are how people survive. The disaster of war is no exception. Every atrocity, filling up international news headlines and social media feeds alike, has been answered by persistent humanity; a groundswell of collective care and support. A flotilla nears, med ..read more

Reflection on the importance of supporting the growing anti-war movement. Before a reader jumps to any preconditioned presumption, I’ll qualify as such: I was raised in a relatively conservative Jewish household. I am a longtime Sonoran Desert dweller, I earned three degrees at the University of Arizona (’13, ’16, ’21), and my doctoral dissertation focused on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. But more than any of that, I am a person trying to move through this world with great care for others, for the land. Are you one, too? On March 26, 2024, Vanderbilt students began a sit-in that’s since ..read more

A report on the encampment at Arizona State University (ASU) in so-called Tempe, Arizona. Originally published on Living and Fighting. A comrade and I arrived at Arizona State University around 11 am on Friday, April 26, hoping to witness, support, and participate in the campus occupation in solidarity with the people of Gaza. We arrived to find a densely clustered collection of tents on the lawn of ASU’s Old Main building, surrounded by about 100 people chanting, singing, and drumming their expressions of solidarity with Palestinians and their condemnations of the Israeli state. Across from t ..read more