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Police raids in #Athens and #Berlin: And again they create a criminal organization

Berlin. Athens. September 16. 2020. The searches today, which included our anarchist library, are nothing new. But this time the authorities are stepping up their efforts. Five people are affected, who are accused of having founded a special, conspiratorial and criminal association or of being members of it. For this reason, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office is investigating under paragraph 129 and the BKA visited the people concerned at home, sometimes with pulled guns.

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Abolitionism against #pandemic – Policing in the #Philippines

The demand for abolition becomes urgent in the face of a highly militarized response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

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Nine Mile Ride: Why Police Reform Always Results in More Police Violence, Not Less

Policing is many things and all of them are about mobility. Police arrest mobility through traffic stops and checkpoints, interrupt mobility with borders and curfews, monitor mobility by helicopter or camera, force mobility by firing tear gas or sending in police dogs.

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#Seattle, #WA: Black Bloc Attacks Two Police Precincts in One Night

Seattle. WA. On Monday night, August 24th, a crowd of roughly 200 in black bloc gathered at Cal Anderson Park ready to march. The park has been the site of multiple stand-offs with the police recently, as a previously unoccupied shelter-house in the park has been cracked open and taken over to provide hot meals and shelter for unhoused people. Police have multiple times swept the park and arrested anyone literally caught in their way, yet the occupation of the building continues, providing much needed support services for the most vulnerable in our community at the height of a pandemic.

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Probation Office Burned Down the Second Night of #Kenosha #Wisconsin Uprising

Kenosha, a city of about 100,000 people halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee along Lake Michigan, rose up in protest for a second night Monday and early Tuesday after Kenosha police officers shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, about 5 p.m. Sunday.

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Revolutionaries Attack Police and State Buildings Around US

Revolutionaries attacked a police union building in Portland, set fires outside a precinct in Seattle, and attacked the State Capitol building in Madison in solidarity with Jacob Blake, a Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Also in Denver, armed revolutionaries attacked police headquarters, set fires and injured a pig.

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#Ontario: Details of Police Surveillance Targeting Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Organizing

So-called Canada. ON. North Shore Counter-Info has received legal documents that have not yet been made public containing details about recent investigations targeting anarchists in Southern Ontario who have been engaged with Wet’suwet’en solidarity organizing in 2019 and 2020. Many of these details confirm practices of surveillance that many suspect take place, but that aren’t usually taken seriously. This includes collaboration by big tech companies, tracking devices, and long periods of active surveillance.

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#Kenosha #Wisconsin Erupts After Police Try to Execute Jacob Blake

Jacob Blake was shot by an officer of the enemy in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday. Blake, 29, had been working on breaking up a fight, when he returned to his vehicle with his 3 sons inside. The pig grabbed his shirt and shot him 7 times as he was turned away. Blake is currently in intensive care, fighting for his life.

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#Pittsburgh, #PA: An Anarchist Statement on Unmarked Vans

Pittsburgh. PA. A statement by some Pittsburgh Anarchists on disappearing protesters into unmarked vans in Pittsburgh.

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