Indigenous – Dark Nights

Minera Aclara: Rare Earths, Geopolitics and Extraction in Abya Yala (Chile, Brazil)

Posted on 2025/12/01 - 2025/12/01 by darknights

Minera Aclara is a project promoted by the company REE Uno SpA, now known as Aclara Resources, which aims to extract rare earths from two sites, one in the hills of Penco, territory occupied by the Chilean state, and the other in Goiás, Brazilian territory. Rare earths are a set of 17 minerals mainly used for weapons and the technology industry (batteries, luxury electric cars, wind turbines, etc.), everything that is sold today as green technologies. These technologies, which are not for mass use but rather for industry and the military and economic elites, are sustained by the extraction of raw materials from Abya Yala region and other territories that have historically faced colonization by world powers. Currently, Penco and Goiás are territories that are in the global spotlight of extractivism, representing a strategic point in the war for control of the production of these substances.

The project to be installed in Penco consists of three rare earth extraction zones, consisting of open-pit mines with a diameter of approximately 45 hectares, equivalent to 45 soccer fields, and a depth of between 40 and 60 meters, which is where the concentrations of these minerals are found. On the other hand, the module that they intend to install in Goiás comprises an expandable area of 1,500 hectares.

What do we know about rare earth mining?

For years, China has controlled rare earth mining, generating more than 95% of the world’s production of this mineral alloy. A terrible example of the consequences of this industry was what happened in Baotou, the world’s largest supplier of rare earths, where a former pasture was turned into a toxic lake of waste from the extraction process, “composed of a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material used to process the 17 most sought-after minerals in the world.”[1]

But this monopoly is being threatened by other capitalist powers: the US and Canada, which intend to compete with China for control of rare earth extraction. This is where the territories of Abya Yala, from the colonialist perspective of these two countries, appear as key suppliers for carrying out this plan, just as Boutu was for China. Currently, the company Minera Aclara presents itself to the outside world as a “sustainable” alternative to the Chinese extractive market and aims to compete against Chinese control through the extraction of rare earths in Goiás, Brazil, and Penco, Chile. Continue reading “Minera Aclara: Rare Earths, Geopolitics and Extraction in Abya Yala (Chile, Brazil)” →

Bremen, Germany: Fire for Tesla! Charging stations and switch cabinets set alight!

Posted on 2025/11/25 by darknights

Switch off Tesla! Switch off AI capitalism! Switch off fascism!

Smash COP30: Last week, representatives of UN member states flew into Belém, Brazil, with their insanely large entourage of journalists, security forces, and scientists to ponder their inaction, take group photos, and announce statements they will not keep. All this while we are governed by people who care more about supplying German industry with enough critical raw materials and positioning themselves for careers after their term in office than trying to prevent the complete destruction of the Earth.

Belém has been upgraded for tourists, the rich, and politicians because of the COP summit. While tourists stroll along the shiny new harbor dock, houses have been cleared and the exploited and poor pushed to the margins of the city. Neighborhoods have been buried under concrete. It is the same dynamic of gentrification and repression that we know from other meetings of the world’s powerful.

The tradition of colonization manifests itself through the exploitation of the rainforest, industrial agriculture, mining, and oil production, which destroy indigenous territories. Solidarity greetings to the indigenous people who stormed the climate conference building and sparked a moment of revolt. https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/klimakonferenz-cop30-indigene-aktivisten-protest-100.html

We think this is a good moment to point out that we should not believe their lies for a moment longer. The displacement in cities, the destruction of the earth, the colonization of territories—all these struggles are interconnected.

That is why we set fire to four Tesla charging stations and two adjacent switch cabinets with gasoline. Let’s sabotage this deadly regime! Let’s sabotage their (green) capitalism!

Musk stands for exactly this logic and is not without reason the richest person on this planet. We want to see his empire in flames!

Switch off Tesla! Switch off AI-Capitalism! Switch off Fascism!

Press:

~~https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/stadtteil-obervieland/e-ladesaeulen-brennen-in-bremen-kattenturm-polizei-sucht-zeugen-doc83at0p5a4fn1f8s4rdtl~~

Source: Tumulte

Via: Attaque

Chile: Interview with the band La Lira Libertaria

Posted on 2025/02/16 - 2025/02/16 by darknights

Chile: Interview with the band La Lira Libertaria

Interview between the band La Lira Libertaria in Chile and JURNAL ANARKI in Indonesia.

1. What motivates you in creating this band? The song “Armate” feels like a homage to the memory of insurrectionary Mauricio Morales, how do you elaborate your music and band with anarchist revolt?

The band was formed to show political solidarity and fill the spaces that we frequented around 2009 and a little before: squat houses and social centers mainly. At first the Lira was a paper piece of popular poetry that we printed that year and that rescues the tradition of the popular poets of the late 19th century and early 20th century, but with anarchist content. The formation as a musical band began later around 2010 in the context of the “Bombs Case” and sought to contribute to the spaces that were hit. The song Ármate is undoubtedly a tribute to the comrade Mauricio Morales Duarte who fell in action on May 22, 2009. The lyrics are an adaptation of one of his poems, and the girl who sings it with us was his partner, which is little known. We wrote it for the second commemoration of his death, and we presented it at the now defunct “Cueto con Andes” social center, where Punky Mauri himself visited and contributed to. Some time later, comrade Luisa Toledo would make her words even more well-known: beautifully violent. Sometimes people confuse this and think that they are words from our dear grandmother Luisa, but she took them because it was her favorite song by the band. That way, the songs and its stories are directly related to our recent political processes, and to the revolt and resistance against the neoliberal model in Chile.

2. From our informal discussion in the past you hinted that most of you come from the specific tendency of combative anarchy, can you tell us more about this?

Yes, we all met at the time we were studying, around 2006 onwards, and we were part of the riots and street-based struggles, like so many young people in Santiago. That is why we lived through the processes of the student rebellions of those years and the protests for the release of political prisoners, environmental projects, the denunciation of capitalist democracy and the anarchist movement.

The insurrectional anarchist movement was constantly attacking the system in that decade and even later, when the band was already formed. That’s what our songs are about, that’s why in them there are stories of attack, escape, prison and joyful rebellion too. The band grew up with this marginal discourse, and with the October 2019 revolt it achieved greater notoriety, since it had been talking about the contradictions of the capitalist model for a long time.

3. People from non-latin speaking countries are amazed by the growing anarchist tension in Chile, especially the diverse anarchic movement, the regeneration of the youth, and the especially heavy repression that the anarchists faced amidst all of this yet still retain their combative and insurrectionary action – what’s really making all of this possible?

As I see it, the commitment to the struggle is explained since it is part of generations and generations of combatants, since the times of dictatorship (1973-1990) and even before. It is linked to our families, to our disappeared detainees, and to the indigenous culture itself, which tells us that the Mapuche tirelessly resisted the Spanish.

In that political environment we grow. This is even stronger considering that democracy stained its hands with the blood of the fighters against the dictatorship, and imprisoned those who continued fighting against capitalism. Figures like Claudia López, murdered in the commemoration of the coup d’état in 1998, and so many other Chilean and Mapuche young people, this fueled since childhood our desire to fight, our desire for freedom and our love for our compañeros.

Perhaps that is the most important component, and what explains everything: the love of the struggle and the memory of the comrades who fell fighting and those who still fight to this day. That is why anarchists, despite being beaten time and time again, maintain their action, because it is also a way of carrying within us our beloved compañeros who were taken from us. Continue reading “Chile: Interview with the band La Lira Libertaria” →

Berkeley, California, U$A: Student Intifada as our Historical Duty: Fulfill it or Betray it

Posted on 2024/06/06 by darknights

Around 4am on June 1 2024, an incendiary device was placed below a UC Berkeley police vehicle parked in front of UCPD station. The device was lit underneath the back left wheel of a police SUV, placed between the tire and underside of fuel tank. There were too many people around at the time to see the final result. Unsure if it caught the tire and fuel tank. But the device has enough fuel in it to torch the entire car if it was successfully placed.

This act was done in retaliation against UCPD, for their attack on students yesterday on a different campus and to retaliate against the University of California for its support for the zionist israel settler colony. More specifically – this attempt to torch a police car in front of the university was in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings assaulted by the zionist state in Rafah. It came from a place of love for Palestine, and love for revolution and liberation of all oppressed people.

This act was:
In solidarity with the students attacked by the fascist police state at uc santa cruz. In solidarity with the students attacked by zionist street collaborators at uc los angeles. In solidarity with the uc berkeley students seizing the time and taking back Hines Hall.

In solidarity with the resistance axis for Palestinian life, liberation, and total decolonization of the zionist occupied lands. For an end to the genocide of our beloved Palestine, and an end to the anti-Black and colonial genocide destroying our loved ones here.

A life worth living is a life in solidarity with our Palestinian siblings, who face down the settler’s scope with every movement, or every day. A life worth living is a life in solidarity with the Ohlone people. We continue to return the land with this offering. A life worth living is in solidarity with our Black and Brown siblings continuously surviving and thriving in the face of genocidal state violence here in the Bay Area.

Blessed is the flame that burns down the settler-plantation.
Blessed are the rockets that will free thousands of prisoners held captive by the zionist settler entity and US colonizer police state.
May the spirit of Revolutionary Anti-colonialism unearth the truth from beneath these occupied lands.

Our heart will forever be tied to the fate of Rafah

Knife to the throat of zionism

Death to amerikkka

Glory to the martyrs

Source: Abolition Media

Northvolt, Canada: The poison-tree will fall

Posted on 2024/05/27 by darknights

Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info (French)

Let the axe
Strike at the root, the poison-tree will fall

On Sunday, May 5th, five incendiary devices were placed at the Northvolt construction site in Quebec. This action was taken to damage machinery and reduce the project’s ability to continue. Unfortunately, these devices failed to ignite. If there is one takeaway to share, when choosing materials consider how weather (high humidity or rain) might decrease the chances of a device igniting. The longer the timer, the longer the device will be exposed to environmental factors thereby decreasing the window of success.

Why choosing to attack and damage property? While Northvolt, a transnational corporation, sells themselves as the leader of the green transition, they are in fact its headstone. The electric vehicles the company plans to provide with their batteries are a false solution to the environmental destruction caused by industrial society; rather this expension of the automotive industry is only allowing the devastating impact of car infrastructure to continue. With this project, Canada’s insatiable appetite for natural resources will only grow. Lithium mining, which is essential in the process of producing Northvolt’s “green” Lithium Ion batteries, is poisoning human communities and entire ecosystems across the land. Lithium is already being extracted from unceded Indigenous territories here in “Quebec”, with many new mines planning to start operating in the next few years. With this kind of mega project, lakes, forests and wetlands will disappear under new roads and pit mines. First Nations will loose access to their traditional territories and with that loss, the ability to practice and sustain their ancestral ways of living and relating to the land. They will be surveilled and harassed by workers and security. The animals of these territories will die or will have to migrate elsewhere as their homes are destroyed.

Has anyone else noticed how quiet the land around Northvolt has become since they chopped down the trees and destroyed the wetlands? It’s eerily silent.

Capitalism and the State are in league, dumping public funds into private corporations that will only worsen the ecological crisis across the globe. This is why we must act, and more often than not, we must act beyond the laws imposed on these lands by governments. The Quebec government has already dropped regulations put in place to protect the environment and looked the other way while Northvolt violates numerous laws and codes. This is because Legault’s government (like any colonial gorvernment), is politically invested in making this project happen. However, the future remains to be written. We still have choices to make. We still can act! We must not be guided by crooked laws, but by the love and care we and others have for the collective health of all beings, the land, the water and the desire for a better world through struggle against colonial structures. Armed with our convictions, let us go into the night and choose to take the necessary risks to fight for a livable future.

[EN/ES/PT] Porto Alegre, Brazil: Barricade against the Temporary Framework, ten years after June 2013

Posted on 2023/06/16 by darknights

At nightfall on June 13, choosing the date in memory of the historic protests of 2013, we set up a barricade in the center of the city of Porto Alegre, one block away from the Three Powers Plaza (Government Palace, Legislative Assembly and Palace of Justice). But it was not simply an act of memory, we also responded to the call for the struggle of the indigenous people against the Temporary Framework (1). The Colonial usurpation is a reality that affects our daily lives and we need to fight it.

Aware of the war that domination (corporations, agribusiness, political parties and religious brainwashing) has declared on us, which is confirmed every hour through the genocide of peoples, the devastation of the earth and the cult of money, it is insufficient for us to assume the role of situational analysts. Massive information, within everyone’s reach, makes it clear that it is not for lack of data that some choose, as a way of life that some choose, as a way of life, devastation, aggression, genocide, or that they choose to collaborate with those who carry out all this. Thus, the word alone is not enough to combat so many attacks on life.

Few are the victories, that in these lands we can collectively celebrate, the 2013 protests were precisely one of those rare victories that was achieved in the streets, and that was given by the force of violent action, not by the meek parade that the parliamentary leftists desire and propose, nor by the acts of patriotic submission that the right-wingers mentally affected by the hallucination of the red threat perform.

It was chaos, disorder, leaderless vandalism, and the lucid vision of the rejection of impositions, segregations and oppressions, which bent the arm of power. And all the politicians, be they of the left or right, know, with fear, that this is the force that overthrows any tyranny. Some people, collectives and individuals also know this, but we know it with joy and with the search to expand the revolt.

We send, with the heat of this barricade, a complicit gesture to all those who are in struggle against the Temporary Framework, against the legalization of the plundering of lands from indigenous people, making combative blockades as the Mbya Guarani Community of Jaraguá in Sao Paulo.

And may the heat of this barricade also warm the hearts of our anarchist comrades in prison: from Chile to Greece, from Italy to Russia: Alfredo Cóspito, Anna Beniamino, Juan Sorroche, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Claudio Lavazza, Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziottis, Toby Shone, Boris, Ivan Aloucco, Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Joaquin Garcia.

–

Text of the pamphlet that flew on the barricade:

We need to be aware that 1988 is just the date that marks a new cycle of exploitations and is not the Time Frame of the history of any people.

Already 2013, is the date that teaches us that fighting does not mean begging for attention from the institutions.

Because all violent action is justified by centuries of domination, our proposal is simple: Attack what attacks us.

Anonymous Society of Friends of the Black Bloc.

–

To read the official citizenry’s version:

https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/notícias/cidades/manifestantes-colocam-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-histórico-de-porto-alegre-1.1047259

https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/grupo-poe-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-de-porto-alegre,e519ce39e664c7c2068b8a4e69f599a538fcmjar.html

(1) Bill of the Brazilian Parliament that proposes that the recognition of indigenous territories be demarcated by the presence of communities in 1988, the year of the beginning of the Political Constitution of the Brazilian State in force, omitting the processes of invasion, colonization and expulsion that took place since the XVI century against the indigenous people, who had to abandon their territories and dislocate countless times. This bill, which is currently being voted on, also proposes to legalize a series of exploitations on these lands.

–

En Español:

Porto Alegre: Barricada contra el Marco Temporal, a diez años de Junio de 2013

Al caer de la noche del 13 de junio, escogiendo la fecha en memoria de las protestas históricas de 2013, armamos una barricada en el centro de la ciudad de Porto Alegre, a una cuadra de la Plaza de los Tres Poderes (Palacio de Gobierno, Asamblea Legislativa y Palacio de Justicia). Pero no fue simplemente un acto de memoria, también respondemos al llamado a la lucha de los pueblos nativos contra el Marco Temporal (1). La usurpación colonial es una realidad que afecta nuestro día a día e necesitamos combatirla.

Conscientes de la guerra que la dominación (empresas, agro negocio, partido políticos e lava cerebros religiosos) nos ha declarado, la que se confirma a cada hora mediante el genocidio de los pueblos, la devastación de la tierra y el culto al dinero, nos resulta insuficiente asumir el rol de analistas de coyuntura. La información masiva, al alcance de todos, deja en evidencia que no es por falta de datos que algunos escogen, como forma de vida, la devastación, la agresión, el genocidio, o que escogen colaborar con quien lleva adelante todo eso. Así, la palabra sola no es suficiente para combatir tanto ataque a la
vida.

Pocas son las victorias, que en estas tierras podemos celebrar colectivamente, las protestas de 2013 fueron precisamente una de esas escasas victorias que se consiguió en las calles, y que se dio por la fuerza de la acción violenta, no por el desfile manso que desean y proponen las izquierdas parlamentaristas, ni por los actos de sumisión patriótica que realizan las derechas mentalmente afectadas por la alucinación de la amenaza roja.

Fueron el caos, el desorden, el vandalismo sin líderes, y la visión lúcida del rechazo a las imposiciones, segregaciones y opresiones, las que doblaron el brazo al poder. E todos los políticos, sean estos de izquierda o derecha, saben, con miedo, que esa es la fuerza que derrumba cualquier tiranía. Algunos pueblos, colectivos e individualidades también sabemos eso pero lo sabemos con alegría y con la búsqueda de expandir la revuelta.

Mandamos, con el calor de esta barricada, un gesto cómplice a todos quienes están en lucha contra el Marco Temporal, contra la legalización del saqueo de tierras a los pueblos nativos, haciendo bloqueos combativos como la Comunidad Mbya Guaraní de Jaraguá en Sao Paulo.

Y que el calor de esta barricada caliente también el corazón de nuestros compañeros anarquistas en prisión: De Chile a Grecia, de Italia a Rusia: Alfredo Cóspito, Anna Beniamino, Juan Sorroche, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Claudio Lavazza, Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziottis, Toby Shone, Boris, Ivan Aloucco, Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Joaquín García.

–

Texto del Panfleto que voló en la barricada:

Necesitamos ser consciente de que 1988 es apenas la fecha que marca un nuevo ciclo de explotaciones y no es el Marco Temporal de la historia de ningún pueblo.

Ya el 2013, es la fecha que nos enseña que luchar no significa mendigar la atención de las instituciones.

Porque toda acción violenta está justificada por siglos de dominación, nuestra propuesta es simplemente: Atacar lo que nos ataca.

Sociedad Anónima Amigos del Black Bloc.

–

Para leer la versión de la ciudadanía oficial:

https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/notícias/cidades/manifestantes-colocam-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-histórico-de-porto-alegre-1.1047259

https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/grupo-poe-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-de-porto-alegre,e519ce39e664c7c2068b8a4e69f599a538fcmjar.html

(1) Proyecto de ley del Parlamento brasileño que propone que el reconocimiento de territorios indígenas esté demarcado por la presencia de comunidades en 1988, año de inicio de la Constitución Política del Estado Brasilero vigente, omitiendo los procesos de invasión, colonización y expulsión que se sucedieron desde el siglo XVI contra los pueblos nativos, que tuvieron que abandonar sus territorios y dislocarse incontablemente. Este proyecto de ley, que está siendo actualmente votado, también propone legalizar una serie de explotaciones en estas tierras.

–

Porto Alegre: Barricada e panfletos contra o Marco Temporal, a dez anos de junho de 2013.

No cair da noite do 13 de junho, elegendo a data em memória dos históricos protestos de 2013, armamos uma barricada no centro da cidade de Porto Alegre, a uma quadra da Praça dos Três Poderes (Palácio do Governo do Estado, Assembléia Legislativa e o Palácio da Justiça). Mas não foi apenas um ato de memória, também respondemos ao chamado de luta dos povos nativos contra o Marco Temporal. A usurpação colonial é uma realidade que afeta nosso dia-a-dia e precisamos combatê-la.

Cientes da Guerra que a dominação (empresas, agronegócio, partidos políticos e lava cérebros religiosos) tem nos declarado, o que se confirma a cada hora no genocídio dos povos, na devastação da terra e na devoção ao dinheiro, nos resulta insuficiente assumir o papel de analistas da conjuntura. A massiva informação ao alcance de todos evidencia que não é por falta de informação que alguns elegem como forma de vida a devastação, a agressão, o genocídio, ou a colaboração com quem faz isso tudo. Assim, somente a palavra não basta para combater tanto ataque à vida.

Poucas são as vitórias que podemos celebrar coletivamente, 2013 foi uma vitória nas ruas, que se deu pela força da ação violenta e não pelo desfile manso que desejam as esquerdas parlamentares, nem pelos atos de submissão patriótica que fazem as direitas, mentalmente afetadas pela alucinação da ameaça vermelha.

Foi o caos, a baderna, o vandalismo sem lideranças, com a lúcida visão do rechaço às imposições, segregações e opressões, as que dobraram o braço do poder. E todos os políticos, sejam de direita ou esquerda, sabem, com medo, que essa é a força que derruba qualquer tirania. Alguns povos, coletivos e individualidades também sabemos disso, mas com alegria e procura de expansão da revolta.

Mandamos um aceno com o calor desta barricada a todos que estão em luta contra o Marco Temporal, contra a legalização do saque das terras dos povos nativos, realizando bloqueios combativos como o da Comunidade Guarani de Jaraguá em São Paulo.

E que o calor desta barricada aqueça também o coração dos anarquistas em prisão pelo mundo do Chile à Grécia, da Itália à Rússia: Alfredo Cóspito, Anna Beniamino, Juan Sorroche, Gabriel Pombo da Silva, Claudio Lavazza, Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziottis, Toby Shone, Boris, Ivan Aloucco, Monica Caballero, Francisco Solar, Joaquin García.

–

Texto do panfleto:

Precisamos ser cientes de que 1988 é apenas a data de um novo ciclo de explorações e não o Marco Temporal de nenhum povo.

Já o 2013 é a data que ensina para nós que lutar não significa mendigar
a atenção das instituições.

Porque toda ação violenta está justificada por séculos de opressão,
nossa proposta é simplesmente: Atacar o que nos ataca.

Sociedade Anônima Amigos do Black Bloc.

–

Para ler a versão da cidadania oficial

https://www.correiodopovo.com.br/notícias/cidades/manifestantes-colocam-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-histórico-de-porto-alegre-1.1047259

https://www.terra.com.br/noticias/grupo-poe-fogo-em-pneus-no-centro-de-porto-alegre,e519ce39e664c7c2068b8a4e69f599a538fcmjar.html

Minneapolis, USA: Public Works Truck Lit on Fire in Response to Evictions

Posted on 2023/03/01 - 2023/03/01 by darknights

On the early hours of the 24th, in response to the eviction of indigenous elders, land defenders and allies from the roof depot in East Phillips, a Minneapolis public works truck near the depot was lit on fire.

Why light a truck on fire?
The city of Minneapolis continues to ignore the most vulnerable people who live here. The roof depot is an abandoned building which the city wants to demolish and use to expand the public works facility. If the depot is demolished in its current condition, it will unearth plumes of arsenic into the air. East Phillips is one of the most diverse neighborhoods of Minneapolis and is already experiencing pollution and environmental racism.

The community of East Phillips has made their demands for environmental justice known for over a year. The community wants the property converted into an urban farm. Despite overwhelming public response, the city is pushing forward with their plan. A burnt-out truck is a small price to pay to protect the health and safety of our neighbors.

We acted autonomously and encourage others to take matters into their own hands.
We stand in solidarity with comrades in Atlanta who seeking to stop the construction a cop training ground in the Weelaunee forest.

Defend the depot
Vive tortugita
Fuck 12

Source: Abolition Media

Canada: Solidarity Rail Sabotage in Eastern Ontario

Posted on 2022/11/16 by darknights

Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info

In the early hours of Nov 5, groups of anarchists acted in solidarity with Sleydo’s call for action to support the ongoing Wet’suwet’en battle to protect the yintah and kill the drill. Rail lines were sabotaged at several points in a disruption of business-as-usual along main arteries of the freight system. They will continue to be sabotaged at random far into the future, at every corner of rail line across the turtle’s back.

Others are encouraged to take this route however, wherever, and whenever they can – grab yourself some bolt cutters or copper wire. Grab a friend or go alone. Enjoy the birds, the wind, the silence.

The night sky yawns and the stars and moon stare down at us, working in the night. They cast their gaze upon us near and far, as they do also on the shimmering waters of the Wedzin Kwa. The drilling begins, and while we weep for the water, the salmon, and our beloved dead, our rage begins to burn, a lit fuse.

CGL, RBC, Kkkanada – you are not safe and you have ignited something that will never die.

Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada: RBC – Divest from CGL

Posted on 2022/04/14 by darknights

Anonymous Submission to North Shore Counter-Info

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity
Monday April 11th, 2022
Tiohtià:ke/Montreal

In the early afternoon, a small group of anarchists snuck into the RBC offices at Place Ville-Marie. Armed with flyers, stickers and spray paint cans, they left a message for the bank: DIVEST FROM CGL. Since the Fall of 2021, the Wet’suwet’en have been actively campaigning for RBC to stop funding the destruction of their land, but RBC continues to ignore them.

As long as RBC is funding pipeline projects, they will find us in their way.

– some fucking angry anarchists

Further Reflections On Ongoing Anticolonial Solidarity:

Imminent Threat:
Coastal Gaslink (CGL) is set to drill under the Wedzin Kwa this Spring 2022. The people, land, language and culture of Wet’suwet’en as well as the animals residing on these territories are facing annihilation of their lifeways. For those who have heard the call to action, this upcoming year is crucial to the future of Wet’suwet’en self-determination and sovereignty. Continue reading “Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Canada: RBC – Divest from CGL” →

Hamilton, Canada: RBC Branches Attacked For Funding Pipeline

Posted on 2022/04/12 by darknights

Anonymous submission to North Shore

This week across southern ontario and quebec, we’ve lost count on how many RBC branches were targeted (we estimate 10+) for disruption and attack. So-called toronto, hamilton, montreal… friends in places as small as orillia and as distant as nanaimo. These actions respond to a need to target investors in the Coastal Gaslink pipeline project – which is currently behind schedule thanks to the direct attack that took place in february as well as the successful campaigns to block the project thus far lead by Gidimt’en Clan – but is still rapidly being constructed on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

RBC is one of its largest financial backers, and in the past week and preceding months, has been the subject of pressure tactics ranging from direct action interfering with bank branches, to pushing elites/clients to pull their money out of RBC accounts, to organizing to disrupt RBC’s Annual General Meeting in Toronto. The message is clear: the Royal Bank of Canada needs to divest from CGL immediately.

In hamilton, where we’re writing from, bank branches were vandalized, had their locks glued, and ATMs damaged. We chose these methods to directly interfere with the operations of the bank, hurt them financially and in their public image, and to contribute to the spread of easily-replicable, anonymous actions.

RBC was the central target this week, but they are not alone in complicity. We can also set our sights on other big banks, TC Energy, many related contractors and developers, the RCMP, and the State of so-called Canada.

This is only going to escalate. CGL, and their financial allies like RBC, perpetuate the situation by continuing their exploitative projects and violent attacks on Wet’suwet’en territory. The Wedzin Kwa remains under the looming threat of being destroyed via drill. Elders, matriarchs, supporters, comrades, and land defenders face daily assault. We all need to prepare for more, to respond with more boldness, to do more damage. If they push, then we then will push back, but harder. With only a bit of planning and courage, we can act in ways that feed our spirits and keep the fight alive. Stay safe, and we look forward to seeing your work out there in the days to come.