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Minneapolis, USA: Attack on Bank of America in Solidarity With Arrested Forest Defenders

Posted on 2022/05/21 by darknights

We smashed up the windows of the Bank of America on Hennepin Ave in MPLS, and painted the front to read “DEFUND COP CITY.”

Our attack was in solidarity with those arrested in the recent raid on the forest, and we pray for the safe return of our comrades and a continuation of the fight for life against cop city and hollywood dystopia. Bank of America will need to end their sponsorship of the Atlanta Police Foundation or they will continue to be under threat from our friends across the so-called united states.

a toast to the nights we gave ’em hell.

FUCK COP CITY
FUCK HOLLYWOOD DYSTOPIA
FREE THE FOREST DEFENDERS
TRUST GOD, FUCK 12

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Atlanta Forest, Atlanta Police Foundation, Bank Attack, Bank of America, Cop Raid, Hollywood Dystopia, Minneapolis, USA, Window Smashing, “Cop City”

Minneapolis-Saint Paul, USA: Bank of America Attacked to Stop Cop City

Posted on 2022/03/31 - 2022/03/31 by darknights

January 31st, 2022

In solidarity with the 4 forest defenders arrested this week in the fight to #stopcopcity, autonomous vandals smashed the windows of Bank of America, one of the largest sponsors of the Atlanta Police Foundation. The building was also redecorated to read “STOP COP CITY”

Those wanting to support the fight can donate at atlsolidarityfund.org and get plugged in at defendtheatlantaforest.com

Free the brave, fuck the boys in blue.

Atlanta will remain a forest.

– Received Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Posted in Direct ActionTagged #stopcopcity, Atlanta Forest, Atlanta Police Foundation, Bank Attack, Bank of America, Minneapolis, St Paul, USA, Window Smashing, “Cop City”

Philadelphia, USA: Banks Attacked in Solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders

Posted on 2022/03/29 by darknights

This month we sabotaged card slots of Wells Fargo and Bank Of America in Center City, Philadelphia. This attack was done in solidarity and complicity with those disrupting the construction of a police training grounds in Atlanta. Cops in Atlanta want to cut down a forest to build a mock city to practice squashing uprisings. In response, individuals are occupying, protesting, and sabotaging. People have started staying in the forest and fucking with the construction. The Atlanta Police Foundation is being funded by Wells Fargo and Bank Of America. We are excited to hear about construction workers being chased out and construction vehicles being messed up.

As proponents of self-directed revolt we decided to target the banks contributing to building the cop city. We hope that by communicating our action others feel encouraged or inspired to attack and disrupt the social order in their own context. While it would be preferable if the police project in Atlanta collapsed, for us destruction is an end in itself. We take pleasure in disrupting capital.

Our sabotage involved collecting plastic cards, which we cut into thirds. The purpose of this was to prevent the cards from easily being removed. Before going out we wiped down the pieces with gloves on and dressed anonymously. We inserted the pieces into atm and door card readers after putting a strip of super glue onto them. One benefit of this action is that it fucks up the machine without making a lot of noise or seeming out of place. We feel this is relevant to point out because the cop city is an example of the police preparing for mass unrest and we feel it is strategic to be able to act discreetly in light of increasing policing and surveillance.

Fuck cops
Fuck banks and money
Solidarity and complicity with the feral anarchists in Atlanta
Death to civilization
Long live anarchy
Chaos forever

– Received Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Atlanta Forest, Atlanta Police Department, ATM, ATM Attack, Bank Attack, Bank of America, Philadelphia, Sabotage, School of the Americas, USA, Wells Fargo, “Cop City”

Madrid, Spain: Caixabank attacked

Posted on 2022/03/06 by darknights

A Caixabank attacked in solidarity with the companions accused of setting fire to an ATM of Bankia

The windows of a Caixabank (formerly Bankia) are broken in solidarity with our comrades accused of burning a Bankia ATM.

Fire to the banks!

Via: Attaque

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Bank Attack, Bankia, Bankia case, Caxiabank, Madrid, Spain, Window Smashing

Ottawa, Canada: RBC Branch Redecorated in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

Posted on 2022/01/08 by darknights

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Fire extinguisher full of white paint was used on the facade of a RBC branch located in Ottawa during the holiday week.

The action was meant as an answer to the calls to action from the Gidimt’en clan who retook possession of “Coyote Camp” with their allies. We stand in solidarity with the Wetʼsuwetʼen nation and against KKKanada’s genocidal project.

Fuck CGL, Fuck the RCMP, fuck RBC, Shut down KKKanada and get the fuck out of the Yintah!

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Bank Attack, Canada, CGL, Coyote Camp, Gidimt’en Clan, Paint Attack, RCMP, Royal Bank of Canada, Wet’suwet’en, Yintah

Milan, Italy: Bomb against Unicredit

Posted on 2022/01/08 by darknights

The clamour of revolt shattered the silence of a freezing winter night. Anarchist violence was unleashed against Unicredit, exploding in the night against one of its Milan branches in the neighbourhood of Barona. An explosive device placed on the threshold of the institute destroyed the entrance and adjacent cash machines.

The bank giant, chaired by ex-minister of the economy Padoan, is the second most important bank in Italy and can be found in eighteen countries. It has been financing exports of arms and military systems for years, and among its shareholders is Black Rock, a world leader in investment funds. In a world where banks have the power to determine market trends and people’s lives, direct attack on these structures is one of the best weapons of struggle.

Revolutionary solidarity and complicity with anarchist prisoners in the world, proud of their path of struggle.

Nothing is over.

No surrender.

 

Source: Il Rovescio

Via & Translated by Act For Freedom Now!

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Anti-Militarist, Bank Attack, Black Rock, Bombing, Italy, Milan, Unicredit

Thessaloniki, Greece: Taking responsibility for an attack on a bank by Μητροπολιτική Ομάδα Καταστροφών [Metropolitan Catastrophes Group]

Posted on 2021/12/05 - 2021/12/05 by darknights

Source: athens.indymedia Translated by Act for freedom now!

6/12 marks the 13th anniversary of the murder of the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the cops Korkoneas and Saraliotis. “Normality” died overnight. The straw that broke the camel’s back led thousands of pupils, students, migrants, workers from all over the country to take to the streets, to violent demonstrations, to mass strikes, to attacks against State and capitalist targets.

December 2008 became the vehicle of an uprising that gave hope to those oppressed and excluded by the State and capital. Overnight, after years of social “stability”, the proletarian riots of December reopened the stakes of social resistance and revolution in post-communist Greece. The 2008 uprising, the occupations, the clashes, but above all the realization that we have nothing to lose and the perception that the enemy is not invulnerable, left an important legacy for the resistances in the decade of repression, poverty and exploitation that followed.

Today, 13 years later, in times of crisis, the State is stepping up its attack on those from below. Having abandoned the public health system in the midst of a pandemic, it has chosen the path of repression. It beats up students, abolishes university asylum, targets squats, bans demonstrations, unleashes a wave of persecution against anarchists and militants without evidence with the sole aim of cutting off any prospect of uprisings in the here and now. Continue reading “Thessaloniki, Greece: Taking responsibility for an attack on a bank by Μητροπολιτική Ομάδα Καταστροφών [Metropolitan Catastrophes Group]” →

Posted in Direct ActionTagged 6th December 2008, Alexis Grigoropoulos, Bank Attack, Greece, Greek Riots 2008, OLA (Popular Fighters Groups), Polykarpos Georgiadis, Repression, Thessaloniki, Μητροπολιτική Ομάδα Καταστροφών - Metropolitan Catastrophes Group, ΜΠΟΥΡΛΟΤΟ!

Thessaloniki, Greece: Claim of responsibility for breaking of banks and ATM’s

Posted on 2021/11/04 by darknights

In the evening hours of Friday 22/10 in Athens, a chase is carried out by the Dias (motorcycle unit) on a passing vehicle as it did not stop at the corresponding signal. Three Roma were in the vehicle. The chase started from the neighborhoods of Egaleo and ended in the streets of Perama. Unfortunately, the end of the chase took place with the car being riddled with 38 bullets while trying to extricate itself. The result was the death of the 18-year-old passenger, Nikos Sampanis, and the injury of the third passenger, while the driver managed to escape in order to save his life while the bullets were raining down behind him.

The first moves of the state, the media and the cops were out of the laundering manual in order to de-escalate any reaction. The state at first took a ‘cautious’ attitude towards the incident by arresting the cops, but without much success because support for them could not be kept hidden for too long by various politicians. The media unleashed a racist barrage against the victims, being Roma, in order to highlight how dangerous these people are and to justify the actions of the cops. However, the occupants of the car were unarmed and there was no such suspicion. Their only ‘weapon’ was their colour and their position at the bottom of the social stratification. As for the cops themselves, in order to justify their actions they employed the tactic of lying and victimization, saying that in trying to extricate the vehicle, he rammed them with the clear aim of killing them and that this was evident from the fact that 7 of them were injured. Of course, audio-visual footage came to flatly contradict these statements.

In the following days we witnessed attempts to build a profile of hard robbers as to the faces of the three Roma, but all of them , being lies, fell on deaf ears, The truth, the only truth was and is one. Cops and the state murdered a child. Racism, bigotry and power armed the hands of the cops who fired that night, not fear for their lives. After all, since when is failing to stop a vehicle at a cops signal punishable by the death penalty and on the spot? But as harsh as the truth is unfortunately we are not falling from the clouds. This is not the first time that state and capital have left cold bodies behind. Whether they come from the bullets of the cops or from the arbitrariness and impartiality of employers, from exploitation and oppression, as in the latest example of the dead 45-year-old worker Dimitris Daggli, who was dismembered by a crane bridge at the Cosco piers in the port of Piraeus. All these people will never return to their families and for a piece of bread, for a starvation wage, they paid the price with their lives. The price of being born poor in a world of the rich. And it won’t be the last time that state and capital murder only if they cease to exist. Only if those at the bottom, the exploited and the oppressed raise class barriers. Only if we overthrow the system that sows death and sorrow.

So we too wanted to put a small stone in the mosaic of class resistance and solidarity by carrying out coordinated attacks with hammers on banks and ATMs on Tuesday night 26/10, 2 in Lagada Street in the western part of Thessaloniki and one in Karamanlis Street in the eastern neighborhoods.

NOT TO GET USED TO DEATH

ORGANIZE AND STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY AND FREEDOM

Nikos Sampanis Brigade

Source: Athens IMC

Posted in Direct ActionTagged ATM, ATM Attack, Bank Attack, cop killing, Greece, Nikos Sampanis, Perama, Roma, Thessaloniki, Window Smashing

Montreal, Canada: RBC Targeted in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Posted on 2021/10/03 - 2021/10/03 by darknights

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info

Canada is a lie. Reconciliation is dead. After night fell on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, RBC was targeted in the center of Montreal’s financial district. The Royal Bank of Canada is an investor in the Coastal GasLink pipeline. While they stage orange shirt photo ops to proclaim their commitment to reconciliation, CGL is attempting to drill under Wedzin Kwa, the sacred headwaters of the Wet’suwet’en people, with the help of the RCMP threatening, arresting, and torturing land defenders.

By morning they covered up the message we left them: “RBC funds colonialism. CGL off the Yintah”. Ashamed, RBC?

Reconciling with Canada’s genocidal history means confronting the institutions and infrastructures that reproduce colonial violence in the present. CGL, its investors, and the RCMP are playing with fire by prolonging their occupation of Wet’suwet’en territory.

(A)

Posted in Direct ActionTagged Bank Attack, Canada, CGL, Coastal GasLink pipeline, Montreal, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, RCMP, Royal Bank of Canada, Wedzin Kwa, Wet’suwet’en

U$A: US Bank Attacked in Los Angeles, California

Posted on 2021/09/01 - 2021/09/01 by darknights

The U.S. Bank building in downtown Los Angeles was subject to an anti-capitalist attack on August 27.

A group of about 20 people descended upon the building’s main foyer at 5th Street and Grand Avenue, hammered the plate-glass windows and spray painted messages.

Others used paint to scrawl messages such as “Burn All Banks” and “ACAB,” and “Land Back,” a reference to the Land Back initiative, an effort to re-establish indigenous people’s political control over land that has historically belonged to them prior to colonization.

The group succeeded in shattering the front door and destroyed most of the huge plate-glass windows lining the lobby.

The group left the area expediently, and were able to avoid the pigs.

Source: AMW

Posted in Direct ActionTagged ACAB, Bank Attack, Burn All Banks, Colonialization, Graffiti, Indigenous, Land Back Initiative, Los Angeles, US Bank, USA, Window Smashing

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