Oakland, CA: May Day clashes last into the night

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

UPDATE: The May Day protests escalated in Oakland throughout the night, leading to 23 arrests including one for suspicion of felony assault on a peace officer. At about 9:30 p.m., a police car was set on fire. In San Francisco, about 200 protesters fought with police at the occupied building at Turk and Gough Streets. One man, Jesse Nesbitt, was arrested and booked for felony aggravated assault of a peace officer for allegedly throwing bricks from a rooftop at officers on the ground below. SFPD reported that Nesbitt instead struck a protester. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, another man, who threw pipes from a similar vantage point, damaging a police car, was not found. According to KGO, about two dozen people were taken into custody as the building was cleared on Wednesday morning. Continue reading →

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Montreal, QC: 100 arrested in May Day riot (update)

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

Updated May 5 with corrected text of personal account and photos from sabotagemedia:

Another day of clashes with the cops and attacks on the State and Capital (TD and BMO banks, some stores, Loto-Québec and cop cars) in the ongoing uprising in Montreal. Continue reading →

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Seattle, WA: Mayor’s home attacked

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

Seattle police are investigating after vandals threw rocks through windows at the home of Mayor Mike McGinn following violent May Day protests. Continue reading →

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Portland, OR: Another incendiary attack on Wells Fargo bank in wake of May Day actions

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

communique from pugetsoundanarchists:

As a follow up to May Day, another window has been shattered along with a molotov cocktail tossed inside a Wells Fargo branch in NE Portland, adding to the bank’s previously smashed and burned window, which still remains boarded up next to the fresh damage. Continue reading →

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Mexico: Riot police bus torched in Mexico City

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from Liberación Total (April 30, 2012) translated by This Is Our Job:

Don’t you have any other excuses besides a simple short circuit?

Could it be because we took action right in front of you and you didn’t even realize it? Continue reading →

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Cleveland, OH: 5 arrested in alleged explosive attack plot

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

Five self-described anarchists have been arrested in a plot to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, but the public was never in any danger, the FBI said Tuesday. Continue reading →

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Seattle, WA: May Day riot downtown

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

Tuesday’s violent May Day protests resulted in eight arrests and damage to downtown buildings that will cost tens of thousands of dollars, authorities said.

Some businesses were forced to close early and commuters were delayed for hours as the annual day of protest got out of hand. Continue reading →

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San Francisco, CA: Pre- May Day riot in Mission district

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

A group of protesters vandalized dozens of businesses, cars and any property they came across as they marched through the Mission on Monday night. One person was arrested, according to Sgt. Daryl Fong, but no details about the arrest have yet been made available.

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Urgent: Pre-May Day raids of anarchists’ homes in New York City

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from anews:

This morning around 6:30am at least two houses were raided by NYPD detectives. In both cases, the cops used the pretext of spurious arrest warrants to gain access to apartments of local anarchists. The warrants were for individuals unconnected to those homes, but allowed cops access to one and apparently justified them forcibly breaking into another.

Continue reading →

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With the Chicago martyrs in memory, 1886 – 2012

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from vivalaanarquia, transl waronsociety:

It is not murder, however, of which you have convicted me… but for anarchy, so the condemnation is—that I am an anarchist! … I say to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!
–       Louis Lingg * Continue reading →

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Montreal, QC: Six police vehicles smashed

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from the press:

MONTREAL – Six Montreal police cars were vandalized early Friday and a 22-year-old man was being questioned by police. Continue reading →

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Montreal, QC: Update on the recent wave of actions

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

here’s an update of recent events in Montreal surrounding the Student Strike from sabotagemedia:

April 12th
A mass of youth broke into and ransacked the University of Montreal after a court injunction was granted to the university against student striker.

the same evening a crowd stoned the windows of banks, vandalized a copcar and threw projectiles to the cops. Continue reading →

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Bolivia: Claim for arson of a National Bank ATM

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

from liberaciontotal, transl waronsociety, communique:

We claim responsibility for the burning of an National Bank of Bolivia ATM, again in the Miraflores area, in the early hours of Thursday the 26th.

This bank is one of the many institutions that finance the destruction of the earth, of which we are a constituent part. Continue reading →

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Seattle, WA: Bank of America branch hit with incendiary device

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Gabriella Segata Antolini

WOS note: The following report does not mention it, but another press report showed agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on the scene in addition to the agencies mentioned below.

from the press:

SEATTLE – A Bank of America branch in Columbia City was damaged overnight when someone tossed an incendiary device at the business, Seattle police said. Continue reading →

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