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Berlin, Germany: Fire for Tesla

Posted on 2024/02/11 by darknights

Two Teslas were set on fire in Rummelsburg on February 7 and two Tesla charging stations on Vulkanstraße on February 8.

We think that Tesla is an ideal target for our attacks.

Because:

> Several armies use Tesla’s Starlink satellite system in their wars. Including Israel in Gaza. Also Ukraine. Tesla’s Starlink infrastructure is an important military player and attacks on Tesla can be a sign everywhere: against every war!

> Tesla is a symbol of “green capitalism”. But it is anything but green: the lithium batteries come from toxic mines in Chile and devour other rare metals, which means misery and destruction for the mining areas. “Green capitalism” stands for colonialism and land theft!

> Tesla wants to further expand its Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin. We want to defend ourselves against this! We don’t want any more Teslas on the roads! The Gigafactory became known for its extreme exploitation conditions. In addition, the factory contaminates the groundwater and consumes huge amounts of this already scarce resource for its products.

> Tesla is militarizing our roads. Their cars are equipped with high-resolution cameras. In “guard mode”, they film everything and everyone. Make sure to make yourself unrecognizable during actions.

> Elon Musk is an arsehole!

Therefore:

Let the air out of the tyres of expensive cars? great.

Even better: let Teslas burst into flames everywhere!

A few barbecue lighters and spring can begin!

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/339237

Via & translated by Abolition Media

Frankfurt, Germany: Switch Off – the system of destruction! Teslas torched

Posted on 2023/09/21 - 2023/09/21 by darknights

Last week, the International Motor Show (IAA) took place in Munich. Once again, all kinds of corporations were able to show off their great, shiny cars at this summertime trade show and congratulate each other on their economic successes in their air-conditioned conference rooms, limousines and exhibition halls.

At the same time, there’s a fire again this summer in Rhodes. In Portugal. On Maui.

At the same time, the homes of many are being flooded. In Slovenia or in Austria.

The livelihoods of many are destroyed. These deadly disasters have many causes. The IAA is one of them. We say switch off the system of destruction!

Therefore we torched some new Teslas in Frankfurt tonight. As a salute to the protests in Munich. As one attack among many on the destructive auto industry.

Tesla is one of our most prominent enemies. The company represents like no other the ideology of green capitalism and the ongoing global and colonial destruction. Electric motors are constantly presented as the clean alternative. This is a cynical lie. Like other corporations, Tesla exploits resources worldwide. The raw materials needed for the batteries of electric cars, such as lithium and cobalt, are mined in Latin America or Africa under lousy conditions. For transport and production, fossil fuels are needed despite the great green coating.
All this always happens in connection with the oppression of indigenous communities, whose resistance must be a signal for us to act.

Tesla accepts all this to produce cars that can creep around here in the inner cities. That show every day: There is prosperity. But just not for everyone. In the corporate logic, only a few are entitled to own such cars. It is a class issue who drives or is allowed to drive these cars. Continue reading “Frankfurt, Germany: Switch Off – the system of destruction! Teslas torched” →

The Simplest Way to Burn a Vehicle

Posted on 2023/09/01 - 2023/09/01 by darknights

In light of the actions that happened last month, I wanted to encourage everyone to revisit this post. Many of the points made about riotous moments apply to clandestine action as well.

If the people at 890 Memorial Drive intended to burn the vehicles, it was not a good idea to smash windows. Not only does this increase the risk of leaving DNA, breaking a window is very loud and likely to attract attention from passerby — which is exactly what interrupted that action, according to police. As demonstrated in this video, a firestarter cube, placed directly on a front tire (or the rear tire on the same side as the gas tank), is sufficient to assure the destruction of the vehicle. Once lit, it takes about five minutes for the firestarter to fully ignite the tire, which is plenty of time to leave the area unnoticed in most cases. Firestarter cubes can be purchased or racked at any grocery store. Cottonballs covered in vaseline can also work as a firestarter.

I’m not sure how long of a time-delay the people who burned the motorcycles were aiming for. It seemed like they used delays that were not sufficiently tested, which resulted in at least one failed incendiary device being recovered. Unless it was important to have a longer time-delay, I think that placing firestarters directly on the tires would have worked better. This method is much less likely to leave DNA traces because there is no need to construct an incendiary device or to carry accelerant at all. This is the beauty of targeting vehicles with rubber tires! Fuel tanks can be punctured or the hoses that run from them cut for another source of accelerant.

Incendiary devices with long time-delays are better suited to heavy machinery with treads, or to structure fires, so I encourage everyone to keep working on their designs! But in the meantime, let’s not overcomplicate things. I’d like to issue a friendly challenge to all individuals and AGs in the movement to take a little break from internet discourse, get outside, and set some shit on fire!

Don’t forget to take all reasonable precautions to minimize DNA evidence. And please be careful about surveillance footage, although avoiding it completely is almost imposssible in Atlanta.

Submitted Anonymously Over Email

Source: Scenes from Atlanta Forest

DN: Please also read the following which recommends using wrapped/packeted firelighters that don’t leave a trace unlike other firelighters such as what is shown that can crumble and leave behind evidence. https://darknights.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/12/pdf-how-to-burn-cars-manuals/

U$A: Vertiv Corporation Trucks Set On Fire – Milwaukie OR

Posted on 2023/09/01 by darknights

Last week, to commemorate the International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners, under the cover of darkness a small incendiary device was placed on the wheel arc of a Vertiv truck located on the edge of a sleepy office park in Milwaukie OR. The delay was lit before we disappeared back into the forest

Vertiv Corporation develops critical support equipment and services for commercial IT systems—technology that is utilized by United States military in addition to state and federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and ICE. Vertiv is part of the broad corporate infrastructure of state repression that condemns us all to a world of mass surveillance, borders, and militarized police

AGAINST COP CITY

This action was inspired in part by the continued militancy and creativity of the movement to stop the construction of Cop City in Atlanta GA. Cop City is a testing ground for other law enforcement agencies across the country to construct similar facilities—continuing a broader trend towards the militarization of policing and domestic counter-insurgency. For their part, Vertiv is a supplier to the Atlanta Police Department. Just in the year 2023 alone, the APD paid Vertiv $168,315 to utilize their technology.

Cop City is everywhere, so our resistance will be everywhere. March 5th was our call to war…

For Tort

For Rayshard Brooks

March 5th Movement (M5M)

Source: Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

Chile: Arson attack on Red bus in Estación Central in solidarity with political prisoners

Posted on 2023/08/07 by darknights

In the early morning of Monday, July 31, a group of people who boarded as passengers, intimidated the driver, got off the other passengers and sprayed benzine to set fire to a Red bus on Las Rejas Avenue, next to Lo Errazuriz Park.

According to the Minister of Transportation Juan Carlos Muñozs, “this is a matter of investigation, however, preliminary information indicates that it is likely to have been intentional. Of course, we find this much more than regrettable, it is condemnable”.

A banner read: “Subversive Solidarity between peoples in resistance! Freedom to the subversive, anarchist and Mapuche prisoners: Luis Tranamil, Nelson Queupil, Rodrigo Cáceres, Daniel Canio, Mónica y Francisco, Mauricio Hernández, Tomy Moto, Caso Susaron and Caso Gendarmería. Our path is and will be the weichan!!!” Continue reading “Chile: Arson attack on Red bus in Estación Central in solidarity with political prisoners” →

Santiago, Chile: Incendiary attack on Red bus in Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño school by Zukato

Posted on 2023/08/07 by darknights

On Tuesday, August 1, an incendiary attack was made on a Red bus outside the Liceo Barros Borgoño in solidarity with the Liceo de Aplicación student and classmate Zukato. A weapon was also displayed from the windows of the front of the establishment, intimidating the presence of the Carabineros who arrived to extinguish the fire on the bus and transfer it to the terminal to be inspected.

A banner and pamphlet read: “Zukato, we support you with kaos and rebellion” and “Solidarity and newen to those who do not hesitate to attack this world of misery. We call for solidarity with compa Zukato, who was injured and has been caught up in the morbidity and criminalization of the bourgeois press. In this same way we make it clear that as combative and subversive supporters we are not even in the sewer with their media, dominated and manipulated for the good of the powerful. Newen and speedy recovery for Zukato! Continue reading “Santiago, Chile: Incendiary attack on Red bus in Liceo Manuel Barros Borgoño school by Zukato” →

Bremen, Germany: Arson Attack on the Car of Bremen’s Senator of the Interior Mäurer

Posted on 2023/07/30 by darknights

Arson Attack on the Car of Bremen’s Senator of the Interior Mäurer

Switch OFF! the System of Destruction

Lina, Leon, Janis, Philipp, Johann, Martin, Clara, Paul, Jan…this is for you!

You did and do the right thing: organizing militant attacks against the capitalist system and all its assholes is important and necessary! Just like organizing to go underground and explore uncontrolled landscapes.

We set off a firebomb under the Audi of Bremen’s Interior Senator Mäurer near his front door on Weidedamm in Findorff, Bremen on July 19, 2023.

It feels like Mäurer has always been the senator for the interior, but for at least 16 years his job has been the unscrupulous implementation of the murderous European and German refugee regulations in the area of the Hanseatic city of Bremen. He was recently reappointed as the city’s chief manhunter for another four years. During his long tenure, he is responsible for thousands of deportations, arrests and imprisonments with all kinds of consequences for those affected. He has always backed murderous cops, such as the killers of Qosay Sadam Khalef and Mohamed Idrissi.

Mäurer had so-called “danger spots” set up in order to be able to carry out “independent-suspicion checks”. Twice a year, at the conferences of the interior ministers, he and his colleagues sing the chorus: “more weapons, tougher laws, more prisons…”.

This was also the case in June 2023, when shortly after the extreme tightening of EU refugee policy, the conference of interior ministers demanded further powers. 2000 km of border fences, tens of thousands of deaths in the Mediterranean, all this was still not enough for them.

Against left-wing radical subversion, Mäurer relies on observations and house searches. He provided administrative assistance for a year-long observation of the “Querlenker” car pool by federal authorities, which was carried out at great technical expense. During the presentation of the last Bremen report on the protection of the constitution, he speculated that the relative calm among “left-wing extremists” could be deceptive. He could be right.

The ongoing destruction of the earth, climate disasters, drought, water shortages, hunger and wars for the remaining resources, will force millions more people to flee. Military and police authorities of Fortress Europe will fight these people even harder. Also because of this:

Switch OFF! the system of destruction – NOW!

With our small fire we also remember two revolutionaries who died last year: Ronald Fritzsch and Rolf Heißler. Both began to organize militantly at the end of the 1960s. Later, they fought as urban guerrillas with the June 2nd Movement and the RAF (Red Army Faction), and after their arrests, many years in jail. We will not forget their energetic commitment to a communist or anarchist future.

Militancy 2023, far from being the last generation!

AG (Autonomous Groups) unrestrained and rampant*.

“If rabbits had shotguns, not so many would be shot!”

(* Haldewang’s** predication for left-wing radicals)

******

**Translation note: Haldewang is the the president of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Source: https://de.indymedia.org/node/292875

Via: Abolition Media

Translated by Nae Midion

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the grenade attack upon a vehicle of a prison officer in Haidari by ‘Conspiracy Vengeance’

Posted on 2023/07/15 - 2023/07/31 by darknights

The group “Conspiracy Vengeance” claimed responsibility for a grenade attack upon a prison officer’s car in Haidari at dawn last Saturday (8/7).

Received anonymously:

In the current days it is obvious that the right-wing government has as its primary goal a junta mentality for the benefit of the few and against the many marginalized social groups. The regime of police democracy is growing, the repressive mechanisms are getting stronger and stronger. Cops shoot and kill without any consequence, cops invade universities. The slightest dissenting opinion is immediately attacked and silenced by the state of difference and decadence. In these circumstances, this whole repressive mentality has also passed inside the walls. Any form of protest and assertion of the self-evident needs of the prisoners finds “walls raised” and is immediately attacked by the scum and their courtiers who run the prisons. The prison guard in question, Dionysis Tsirgiotis, the chief prison guard at the Korydallos prison, is at the forefront of all events in every way against the prisoners. He is at the forefront of the investigations carried out by the prison guards in the cells of the prisoners. His words, his manner and the line he has drawn in the prison are clearly against all prisoners, preventing them from having a smooth coexistence under confinement. This particular prison guard aims to make life difficult for the prisoners and to climb by any means and through any means to the highest levels of power within the walls. We chose to attack his vehicle with a grenade to make it clear that there will be consequences and immediate responses to any form of behaviour, actions and decisions taken by ridiculous little petty people who think they can impose themselves on the backs of the cops and judges.

This time we sent a message to one of the thousands of scum who are plaguing the country and especially the prison system. You must understand that we can attack whenever and wherever we want, understand that you are NOT immune. No prison guard, no warden, no prosecutor should sleep peacefully serving the interests of the cops and the government against the prisoners. We can just as easily next time make sure that the grenade does not ONLY cause property damage. So think very carefully before making any decision against the prisoners.

NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING CONTINUES. The responsibility is assumed by the group CONSPIRACY VENGEANCE

Mezzovico, Switzerland: ‘Swiss neutrality does not exist.’ Incendiary attack on ten civil defense vehicles and three army vehicles (June 18, 2023)

Posted on 2023/07/11 by darknights

Swiss neutrality does not exist

Switzerland, which regards itself as neutral so it can maintain its privileged role as the world’s financial hub, actually bears a lot of responsibility for many wars around the world. The Swiss arms industry exports weapons everywhere, even to countries where there are armed conflicts. Lately it has even relocated some manufacturing facilities abroad so as to circumvent laws that would “ban” arms exports to countries at war, for example to Ukraine, aligning itself fully with NATO’s warmongering interventionist rhetoric.

Switzerland’s role as a financial marketplace and leading commodity trader makes this state a major player in the devastation of the planet and the plundering of the resources of countries in the global south, fueling conflicts and forcing people to leave their countries of origin. Not content with sowing misery all over the world, it prides itself with “defending” its borders against the migration “threat,” with its military guarding the borders and civil defense soldiers running deportation centers.

Campaigns against compulsory conscription in Switzerland have been pacified by the introduction of civil protection and civil service. We believe that anarchist antimilitarism should not be limited to the rejection of the military or even to total desertion from every obligation this state imposes on us but should turn into attack.

For this reason, in the night from the 17th to the 18th June, in Mezzovico, Ticino, we have set fire to ten vehicles of the civil protection, which were totally destroyed and three military vehicles, which regrettably only partially burned.

We state with strength of our ideas and actions our solidarity with all anarchists taken hostage by the state and take this opportunity to greet those on the hidden paths of freedom. Those who struggle will never be alone.

Swiss neutrality does not exist. Where there is capitalism, there is war.

Death to the state, long live Anarchy

[Published in German and English on July 7, 2023 at https://barrikade.info/article/6040 | Italian translation published at https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/11/la-neutralita-svizzera-non-esiste-attacco-incendiario-contro-dieci-veicoli-della-protezione-civile-e-tre-dellesercito-mezzovico-svizzera-18-giugno-2023/ | Image taken from mass-media]

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Incendiary attack against a vehicle of the Penitentiary Service of the Devoto Prison

Posted on 2023/07/06 by darknights

Moving around the Villa Devoto prison, I left an incendiary device, which after a few minutes ignited and fulfilled its intended purpose, under a vehicle used to transport prisoners.

The event occurred on Sunday, May 7, 2023 in the early morning, after 3 o’clock, in Pedro Lozano corner Bermudez, Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires.

Anarchist

Source: Contra Info