Global Noise Demo: NYE 2011/2012

Outside & inside prisons, jails, and detention centers everywhere.

This event is inspired by the North American call out for a day of action against prisons in the New Year of 2011, which remains relevant unchanged:

Noise demos outside of prisons in some countries are a continuing tradition. A way of expressing solidarity for people imprisoned during the New Year, remembering those held captive by the state. A noise demo breaks the isolation and alienation of the cells our enemies create, but it does not have to stop at that.Prison has a long history within capital, being one of the most archaic forms of prolonged torture and punishment. It has been used to kill some slowly and torture those unwanted – delinquents to the reigning order – who have no need of fitting within the predetermined mold of society.

Prison is used not only as an institution, but a whole apparatus, constructed externally from outside of the prison walls. Which our enemies by way of defining our everyday life as a prison, manifest themselves in many places, with banks that finance prison development (like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Bank of the West, and Barclays), companies that are contracted for the development of prisons (like Bergelectric Corporation, SASCO Electric, Engineered Control Systems, MacDonald Miller Facility SLTNS and Kane MFG Corp.), investors in prison development (like Barclays Intl. and Merrlin Lynch) to the police and guards who hide behind their badges and the power of the state.

Solidarity is not only an expression by way of our own revolutionary poetry which is defined by a developing anarchist analysis, but as an expression of actions put into practice within the social war daily. That is why we propose to others who have a certain reciprocal understanding of the prison world and the conditions it creates to remember this day, to mark it on their calendars. To locate points of attack. To not limit ourselves to just a noise demo, but proliferating actions autonomously from one another. That break the mundane positions we lock ourselves into by our own internalization.

To all our comrades known and we have yet to know. Just because we have not met, does not mean we do not act in affinity with one another. Our struggle continues not only on the outside, but on the inside as well. Prison is not an end, but a continuation. Through individual and collective moments of revolt, by the methods one finds possible. Like fire our rage must spread.

Against prison, and the world that maintains them.

For the social war.

In memory of those currently imprisoned.

Link to the international flier.

Broadway bank window busted… again: The night of the 10th/Union raid, a Broadway bank was again the victim of vandalism. According to the police report on the incident, a double pane window on the backside of the Broadway Chase was shattered sometime Friday night or Saturday morning by an unknown vandal. Police believe a heavy object like a rock or a brick was used unlike a recent attack at the US Bank on Broadway in which a man was seen using a hammer to shatter glass. The Chase outlet at Broadway and E Thomas is a frequent target for vandalism. In early November, a pepper-spray melee broke out in the street in front of the bank as protesters and police clashed following the arrest of five people who had chained themselves together inside the bank. A week later, a Bank of America branch in Madison Park suffered significant damage when its ATM was set on fire.

reposted from Capitol Hill Seattle

Broadway bank window busted… again: The night of the 10th/Union raid, a Broadway bank was again the victim of vandalism. According to the police report on the incident, a double pane window on the backside of the Broadway Chase was shattered sometime Friday night or Saturday morning by an unknown vandal. Police believe a heavy object like a rock or a brick was used unlike a recent attack at the US Bank on Broadway in which a man was seen using a hammer to shatter glass. The Chase outlet at Broadway and E Thomas is a frequent target for vandalism. In early November, a pepper-spray melee broke out in the street in front of the bank as protesters and police clashed following the arrest of five people who had chained themselves together inside the bank. A week later, a Bank of America branch in Madison Park suffered significant damage when its ATM was set on fire.

From Register Guard. Bob Keefer. Nov 28.

Chancellor’s house hit:
Apparent supporters of UO President Richard Lariviere vandalize the Eugene residence on Sunday

As forces for and against last week’s state Board of Higher Education decision not to retain University of Oregon president Richard Lariviere prepared to converge on the board’s meeting today in Portland, vandals struck the official Eugene residence of Oregon University System Chancellor George Pernsteiner early Sunday morning with a storm of eggs and the spray-painted message: “The Hat.”

The message refers to La­riviere’s habit of wearing a fedora around campus, which has become festooned with posters and banners — some prominently displayed in Autzen Stadium during the Civil War football game on Saturday — saying “I Stand With The Hat.”

Aside from the spray-painted graffiti, no damage was reported in Sunday’s 1:30 a.m. attack at Treetops, the state chancellor’s elegant residence south of the UO campus, near where Fairmount and Spring boulevards meet in Eugene’s southeast hills.

Pernsteiner and his family were home during the early morning attack. He was awakened by the family dog but didn’t realize what had happened until later in the morning, when he saw cars spattered by eggs in the driveway and found an envelope that may contain a message.

“We were all there,” Pernsteiner said Sunday. “The dog woke me up. I had no idea why. I thought he needed to go out.”

He let the dog out the front door while, apparently at the same time, a group of people was pelting the back of the house and two cars parked there with eggs and spray painting the driveway. Pern­steiner said he found an egg-spattered envelope outside the house and turned it over, unopened, to the UO Department of Public Safety. DPS is investigating the case with help from Oregon State Police, a UO spokesman said.

The nighttime attack was documented by a reporter and a photographer — tipped in advance — from the Oregon Daily Emerald student newspaper. “I was just told something was going to happen at Treetops at around this time,” said photographer Aaron Marineau, who captured a shot of the perpetrators running away down Spring Boulevard that was posted on the Emerald’s website Sunday. “I felt sort of bad when I saw what happened.”

Marineau said he and Emerald reporter Sam Stites arrived at Treetops about 1:30 a.m. and heard “banging and loud smashing noises.” A group of eight to 10 people, their faces obscured by masks or sweatshirt hoods, came running toward them and then past them into the night.

“We didn’t get a great look at anybody,” he said.

The news that Lariviere’s one-year contract with the state system of higher education would not be renewed has caused a storm of protest from supporters on campus and off, from Nike chairman and co-founder Phil Knight to faculty members and administrators, students and alumni.

The popular president has frequently been at odds with the higher education board and Gov. John Kitzhaber for his efforts to privatize the publicly owned university, as well as for giving top UO administrators pay raises at a time when campus employees are facing furloughs.

Laviviere sent a message by e-mail Sunday night to faculty, staff and students saying he has been humbled by their support, “but your cause should not be my employment status,” the statement said in part. “Your cause must be how Oregonians will be educated. Your cause must be how institutions like the University of Oregon can be strong in a state with weak public resources.

“I urge those of you who plan to rally or attend the state board meeting to focus your time, energy and efforts, not on questioning the wisdom or process of the decision. Instead focus yourselves on the larger cause of meaningful policy reforms that will benefit the UO, the system of higher education, and the state of Oregon.

“The conflicts that resulted in my termination are a symptom of the broken system of governance and funding in Oregon higher education that desperately needs changing if the state … is going to achieve the greatness we all aspire to. You know that. This is why there has been the outcry — the genuinely amazing outcry — from so many of you.”

At midday Sunday, eggshells and dried yolk still spattered the driveway at the chancellor’s formal residence. Ron Lattion, a maintenance coordinator at the UO, was working on his day off with a pressure washer to remove the spray-painted words from the driveway.

Phil Weiler, a spokesman for the university, said that even though there was no serious damage to property, the university would pursue the vandals “aggressively.”

The 8,111-square-foot house, donated to the OUS in 1938, is the official residence of the chancellor, but Pernsteiner and his family maintain a home in Portland and stay here only during occasional visits.

Meanwhile, the UO Alumni Association has chartered two buses to take Lariviere supporters to today’s meeting.

Pernsteiner, who plans to attend today’s meeting, declined to speculate on what action the board will take today.

The higher-ed board has yet to take any official, on-the-record action supporting Pernsteiner’s decision not to renew Lariviere’s contract.

“I expect the board will take a vote,” Pernsteiner said. “But what will happen? We’ll see what their vote will be when we get there.”

Police have raided several Northeast Portland homes taken over by anarchists who claimed they were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Police were tipped off about the situation Sunday. Responding officers found that the squatters had changed the locks on the homes.

Inside they found anarchist literature, drugs and weapons, including machetes.

“There’s the body armor in there, the bucket of projectiles: broken up concrete, rocks,” Portland Police Sgt. Jeff McDaniel told KGW. “There was some body-armor-type stuff for someone who might want to fight the police for one of the protests.”

But he explained that most of the protesters were non-violent.

“The sad thing is they’re trying to associate themselves with the Occupy movement, which has basically been peaceful,” he said. “But this clearly shows that [the anarchists] truly want to come down there and cause problems.”

The owners of the homes asked that the addresses not be released.

Police detained one man found inside a home. He said he had lived there for a week. He was given a warning for trespassing.

reposted from: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Police-raid-Portland-homes-taken-over-by-anarchists-134591538.html

On the night of November 28th, 2011, we sabotaged a rail line in Southern Oregon as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt the flow of commerce on the West Coast. We got tired of watching trains pass through our towns loaded with lumber, ore, cheap commodities, and other resources pillaged from the earth without consequence. We didn’t do this out of a desire to create a more green, sustainable or humane civilization–we want nothing less than to see the total failure of this sick and rotten society.

This action was not only easy to carry out, but positively satisfying. We used 4AWG copper wire with the ends stripped of insulation and wrapped around the two sides of the track with the rest of it buried in the middle, which falsely indicated to a sensor that there was a train stopped on the railway.

We did this in solidarity with currently imprisoned members of the Long-Live Luciano Tortuga Cell/Indonesian FAI, to whom we send our most passionate revolutionary greetings.

On the night of 11/28 we sabotaged a railroad line in occupied Samish and Lummi territory, also known as northern Washington state. Copper wire was wrapped around railroad lines which caused a false signal, blocking the line. The daily subjugation in a society predicated on social control, surveillance, and oppression in its seemingly infinte manifestations was broken in this act of rebellion. For the diffusion of attacks against capitalism and civilization! For an untaming of our spirits and a sharpening of teeth!

In solidartity with the rebels Billy, Silvia, Costa and Mario and eco-prisoners everywhere.

Freedom and wildness.

reposted from: http://anarchistnews.org/node/19567

Seeking revenge for Occupy Oakland, someone shattered nearly all the windows and defaced a North Seattle Bank early this morning, according to the Seattle Police Department.

Police say someone used a tool to break windows and an ATM screen at the bank, located in the 1000 block of northeast 63rd Street around 2:50 a.m. “Revenge for Occupy Oakland,” was also spray painted on the bank’s southwest exterior wall.

Damages to the bank are estimated to be tens of thousands of dollars.

On Thursday, Occupy Oakland protesters and police became confrontational when a driver was unable to deliver portable toilets to their camp because he did not have the proper permit, according to the Contra Costa Times. Police also cleared campers from a vacant lot Wednesday, after they had taken it over a day earlier, according to the Mercury News.

It is unclear what the person was seeking revenge for.

reposted from: http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/1132

In the past anarchist websites like thisisourjob.noblogs.org where shut down temporarily on wordpress.com, as well as other blogs on different sites. This could lead to similar actions on wordpress.com for continual war, that is why we have decided to move from wordpress.com to noblogs.org mainly for our ability to stay anonymous and continue. Noblogs and similar sites do not log ip addresses, they will let a user use TOR, and it is run by anarchists… wordpress.com logs ip addresses, will not let you use TOR, etc. If you run a blog on wordpress.com/blogspot.com or any of these other sites, we highly recommened you move to noblogs.org, nostate, or anarchyplanet.org. Please check out the anonsec pamphlet on computer security for more information on anonymity online and ip addresses.

On the night of monday the 14th 9 windows of a bank of america where smashed out with rocks. This was a gesture of solidarity for our comrades in oakland and chapel hill. For an indefinite general strike, an occupation of territory and the permanent conflict with the existing order.

– some anarchists

reposted from: http://pugetsoundanarchists.org/node/1097

anonymous communique:

“On the evening of September 24, we visited the mink farm on Savola Road in the outskirts of Astoria, Oregon, cutting holes in their fences before making our way through their sheds and opening cages.

Capitalism is cancerous and deadly to every life it comes into contact with. We’re not interested in reforms and stall tactics, nor in the continuance of a culture that views lives as an economic resource.

On these cooling autumn nights we warm our fingers on the breeding records we took from your sheds and throw into our fire, and take comfort in seeing that some of us still have it in them to run into the wilderness beyond the fences.

For those whose sympathies lie with laws and commerce over lives, look around: retailers and restaurants are catching fire, windows are broken, tires slashed, and security costs are rising. Now might be a good time to consider another line of work.

This action was dedicated to the radical teachers, gardeners and foragers, to those embezeling from corporations, sharing indigenous skills, setting fires, molotoving cops, and all those working to challenge capitalism’s deathgrip in their own communities. Your work inspires us.

Fewer calls to action, more action.

The Gordon Shumway Brigade”

According to media reports, late on Saturday, September 24 approximately 300 mink were released from cages at the Western Star Fur Farm (92326 Conroy Road) in Astoria, Oregon.

reposted from: http://directaction.info/news_sep27_11.htm