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5 Surveillance: For Good — and for Evil
7 The Spread of Technological Surveillance
8 Physical Surveillance: Tailing Someone on the Move
11 Physical Surveillance: The Art of Blending In
12 Turning the Tables on Surveillants

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“The resistance practices shown here may also inspire people from other partial struggles. “The interruption of electricity, goods or data streams with the aim of disturbing the functioning of capitalist logic or the infrastructure of the ruling order has always been a form of resistance.” We hope this reading can be helpful as a “spark of inspiration” for your very personal blockade and sabotage experiences.”

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“The resistance practices shown here may also inspire people from other partial struggles. “The interruption of electricity, goods or data streams with the aim of disturbing the functioning of capitalist logic or the infrastructure of the ruling order has always been a form of resistance.” We hope this reading can be helpful as a “spark of inspiration” for your very personal blockade and sabotage experiences.”

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From Insurrection Magazine #4

Secwepemc Ts’ka7 Warriors deactivate Imperial Metals Ruddock Creek mine road.
International Statement, October 14, 2014

With much discussion with Elders Councils and around Sacred fires and ceremonies the Secwepemc Ts’ka7 Warriors have acted out their collective responsibility and jurisdiction to and in the Ts’ka7 area by deactivating the Imperial Metals Ruddock Creek mine road.

Imperial Metals Corporation never asked for or received free, prior and informed consent to operate in Secwepemc Territory.  The Imperial Metals Mount Polley mine disaster, in the area known as Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe, the absolute destruction and devastation of our Territory has never been answered for.  No reparations have been made.    Instead Imperial Metals continues to force through another mine in our Territory while criminalizing the Klabona Keepers of the Tahltan Nation also exerting their jurisdictional and withholding consent from the same company.

The Ts’ka7 (Tumtum Lake Area) area is a Sacred and important area for the Secwepemc.  These are our Sacred Headwaters where the glaciers meet and melt and have fed the creeks and rivers in our Territory for thousands of years.  Our Kikye7e call this our food cupboards.  It is where we hunt, it’s where we harvest our food and our medicines.  It is the birthing grounds for our water and our salmon.  We live off this land.  Our land is our survival.  We need the land the land doesn’t need us.  Mother Earth carries on but it is our survival that is dependent on the land and the water.

The genocidal displacement of the Secwepemc from their Homelands through starvation, fear and assimilation by the state and industry being acted out by Imperial Metals stops now.  We are committed to the ongoing protection of our Territory.  Our salmon is sacred, our land is sacred, our Women are sacred, our water is sacred and we the Peoples, the rightful title holders are the decision makers and we will protect them.

Agreements made by elected chief and council do not have authority and do not represent us.  This is a warning to Imperial Metals Corporation:  Leave our Lands and do not come back.  This is a warning to the provincial government: You do not have jurisdiction on this Land to issue permits to any corporation.  This is a warning to investors (including the province), contractors, suppliers and subsidiaries:  Divest from Imperial Metals Corporation.  We the Secwepemc, united, will not allow Imperial Metals Corporation to continue. Secwepemc Law will prevail in our Territory.

Secwepemculecw wel me7 yews, wel me7 yews
Secwepemc Ts’ka7 Warriors

From Warrior Publications

(Technical details are in bold.)

Let’s go on strike!

This is the reason why today we sabotaged a part of the railway infrastructure near Ostkreuz (eastern crossroads) of the German capital. We cut the protection grilles of a bridge of caves below the doors and put fire in order to provoke a short-circuit of about one hundred signal, telecommunication and electric caves. We did our best to avoid damages to people. The relevant security systems for the management of the German Railway have been affected.

Our action is a halt signal. We had enough!

Berlin is the capital of one of the main arms exporters. Berlin is the capital of the most powerful country in the EU. In Berlin the end of nuclear power was announced but it will take long before nuclear plants are stopped. For the moment it is just a pseudo-end of nuclear power.

We are all responsible for what is happening. We all have the possibility to say: stop! Not with us. We go on strike against this excruciating and murderous normality. Something must change. Radically.

Mobility ensures precisely the smooth continuation of this normality. Our intention was to interrupt it, even if briefly. This kind of mobility has nothing to do with freedom or freedom of movement.

Freedom of movement does not exist for all the people on this earth. Refugees have freedom of movement only up to the borders of the EU.

After so many catastrophes we had enough. There nothing to discuss about the immediate cessation of nuclear power. We are no longer into it.

Images from Fukushima, powerless engineers, nuclear fusion kept under secret, forced evacuation of victims of radiations and hired workers no longer willing to sacrifice themselves for the profit of energy companies.

Committees of experts, ethic committee, committee for the safety of reactors – all this is bullshit: stop nuclear power now! Nobody has to trust their life into the hands of politicians servants of economy. Control and dominion over people are the real incidents in the history of humanity. There exists no government we might like, not even a little bit. Nuclear technologies and nuclear waste are being transported along the German railway. Both of them guarantee the continuation of the functioning of nuclear reactors. Both of them guarantee huge profits to the nuclear lobby and to the industry.

Since the beginning of the anti-nuclear movement, nuclear power has been imposed with violence, often against the will of people.

Even if the next Castor train arrived at destination, it would not be manageable on a political level. There are no cops who can save it. Nor can the military do it. It will bring about insurrection!

Deutsche Bahn AG, a public company, transports German weaponry to the harbours and airports from where it is taken to wars all over the world. Relations of dominion in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya etc have been protected thanks to these weapons. They have been also used recently to stop thousands of refugees. For example, Libya was provided with helicopters, weapons and surveillance technology. German is one of the main arms exporters in the world. Germany makes huge profits out of this. And it wages war when its interests, energy sources for example, are at stake. Berlin is the capital of Germany waging war.

Social conditions are unbearable. They must be changed now by all those who had enough. There will be no pacific choice without disruptions of normality and of the dominant class. The helplessness of many demonstrators is obvious. Why not to disturb the work of energy companies? Why not to block their provisions? Why not to occupy workplaces? Let’s go on strike against the normality of work, consume, bowing down, make profits and accept things as they are! Sabotage is a form of strike. It is a form of refusal, which disrupts the rhythm of this shit present. Where it does not work as usual, it becomes possible as an alternative. Let the bosses wait for us…

A society without dominion is possible!

We go on strike and sabotage daily destruction!

Let’s switch off nuclear reactors – now and forever! All over the world!

Let’s dismantle energy companies and arms factories, let’s destroy weapons and their routes of transports!

Open borders for all refugees!

The thunder of Eyjafjallajokull

A year ago, the Icelandic volcano went on strike against the European economic life. After just thundering at first, the volcano spitted out so much dust until 22nd May 2010 that all air traffic had to stop for seven days – lucky strike!

From Act for Freedom

• Overview of the Design, Construction, and Operation of Interstate Liquid Petroleum Pipelines

(Technical details are in bold.)

Fennovoima-Rosatom tries to build a new nuclear power plant to Pyhäjoki, Finland. Nuclear energy is by every standards outdated technology, financially unprofitable, increases the centralization of energy production and produces hazardous nuclear waste for generations to come.

On top of it all, Fennovoima-Rosatom is destroying unique nature as we speak and messing up the Bay of Bothnia. Chosen location is a crappy one for a nuclear power plant by any means. Close to sea, close to groundwater. For example, the builders need to lift the ground level with meters to even get to start the constructions.

On tuesday 12.4. at 06 in the morning we blocked the traffic at the only road leading to the construction site and the landfills from continuing by burning a crappy car filled with car tires etc. in the middle of that Fennovoima road.

Paintjob on the car said “Dialog Devil”. That’s our dialogue and that’s what we have to say to everyone demanding dialogue with Fennovoima-Rosatom.

From Act for Freedom

(Technical details are in bold.)

A major railroad was sabotaged during the evening of Wednesday June 13th, in a farming area near Farnham, Quebec, in response to the call by the CLASSE for a day of nation-wide actions against the Montreal Conference of the International Economic Forum of the Americas.

The train signals system was turned on by sabotaging the electric box that controls the signals near an intersection, which eventually prompted the train traffic to be suspended for a moment. This location was carefully picked up, not only for the easy task it was, but above that for the crucial nature of the merchandise it transports, including a lot of filthy oil coming from the tar sands in the West, before this sole railway divides into different destinations such as Sherbrooke city, Bromont’s techno-park (which hosts some of the biggest names in the high-tech industry, including the infamous IBM) and further down on to New England.

This was just a beginning. There are many more fluxes that are crucial to the functionning of this system of oppression and its Holy Merchandise, and we are committed to do it again, and strike targets that will always hurt them more. Given our indefinite number (that ain’t an « invisible committee » for nothing), it is strongly recommended that each and every striker or supporter gets her/his hands dirty, alone or into groups, because we do not believe that these feel-good demosntrations will be enough to make Power change his mind. And the proof is in plain view… months of strikes, and even with our many fine hits and great achievements, especially in the face of the judicial/police despotism, the government still won’t give a damn about our most basic demands, and the cops are now clamping down on mainstream dissenters like they’d do with dangerous criminals. We are under a dictatorship, because liberty is now being considered a high crime.

To let this train ride -this very train that allows them to profit from the devastating exploitation- is to collaborate in silence. We say: « ENOUGH WITH THIS SHIT! » This can’t go on like this. The techno-industrial society, because it intoxicates the living and destroys conditions of life, must be FORCED to a stop, or else it’ll soon be forcing us into mass graves! Fukushima was only the first sign of this ongoing catastrophy.

So we will make sure that the capitalists are paying for their abuse. Maybe the bill wasn’t very heavy, but we all can add our two cents!

Sabotage isn’t some vanguardist tactic or some childish vandalism, neither it is a provocation on the part of « smashers from outside of the movement » just as the filthy cops dare to spit in our ears (but who’s still stupid enough to even listen to them?). It has long been a completely rational and legit course of action, that empowered ALL of the strikes that changed history. In the face of a machine that’ll never discuss anything and always enforces its conditions through dictates, sabotage is one of the means to communicate revolt by putting it in relation with a wider uprising, and by imposing our own conditions to the crooks in power; that they walk along with these, or die along with their system!

This small gesture of resistance to the one-way train of industrial capitalism that has now become completely out of control was committed in solidarity with all the arrestees before and during this Grand Prix weekend (where the police has put their lives on the line for Bernie Ecclestone, notorious wealthy fascist) especially with Mathieu Girard, brutally arrested and detained during the funeral of his sister (our condoleances, comrade) and Andrea Pilote, arrested on the highway in strangely the same manner they shot the legendary Jacques Mesrine. Even if we do not know them, our hearts burn with blazing solidarity for these two comrades who fell victims of police violence. We also feel as much solidarity towards the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) folks in Europe and South America, and for the native people around the planet who still are struggling for their land.

– Invisible Committee for the End of Their History

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