A call to action flyer in a halftone, RISOGRAPH-style inspired by retro movie posters. The title sweeps across the top in an off-center arc in purple, black and blue, stacked off center from each other. Below is a bust of a greek god in black and magenta with old skool CCTV cameras in slimy green for eyes. Across the cameras, spraypainted words say "ACAB" "BECOME UNGOVERNABLE" "DESTROY ICE". Below that are the circle a anarchism symbol and the iron front AntiFa symbol on each side of the date "JULY 2025" an

We, your friendly neighbourhood anarchists from Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York City, Akron, Atlanta, Baltimore, Winston-Salem, and Montreal, linked together by a common mission, implore you to join us in dismantling the surveillance apparatus and, from its remains, creating new tools which facilitate learning, art-making, life saving, and liberation.

In light of current events and recent reporting, it has become clear the surveillance apparatus is expanding at a rate that may soon lead us to cross the point of no return. Every camera puts each and every one of us at risk. From baby monitors to metro cameras to bird feeder cams, internet-connected cameras vulnerable to nonconsensual access allow our whereabouts to be within reach of anyone with a keyboard and are already being leveraged by agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Our private conversations are recorded by every doorbell camera as we move down each block in our neighbourhoods. License plate readers log locations of our vehicles, filling in a map of our travel habits for police and feds alike. Facial recognition paired with gait recognition paves the way for each of us to be identified & monitored anywhere there is a live feed. Artificial intelligence systems supercharge data scraping and analysis of footage captured from both protest livestreams and videos shared on social media, exponentially increasing the repression the state is able to deploy at any given time. Drones used for warfare are being utilized to surveil our cities and our acts of dissent.

Now, more than ever, and with no end in sight, we are vulnerable to racist stop-and-frisks, abductions, deportations, arrests for engaging in sex work, prosecutions for seeking healthcare like abortions or gender-affirming treatments, and more.

Reading the news about the ever-increasing potential of the surveillance apparatus quickly leads one to despair and that's an understandable response. It is overwhelming and far too much for a singular person to take in much less take on. We, a humble syndicate of anarchists, have come to remind each other that it is not too late if we take action now. We intend to spearhead a mission which mobilizes each and every one of us to fight back. After all, collective action is made up of innumerable individual actions.

We ask: What art can be made from scrap silicon boards or infrared LEDs? What lifesaving equipment can be made from waterproof housings? What music can be listened to with leftover transistors and wires? What music videos will be shot on DIY camcorders? What can we do in honour of our liberation when we know we aren't living in a panopticon?

Like the legend of Argos Panoptes of ancient Greek mythology, we intend to fight in the name of Hermes to slay the giant. Together, as a faction, we can reclaim our privacy and autonomy. Together, we can Blind The Beast.

Operation Hermes begins July 2025.

Comments

EmmaAintDead Fri, 06/27/2025 - 06:22

So... Camover from the late 2000s/early 2010s but without teeth? We can say "get out there and destroy all the cameras" without any consequences, so why not say it? Why self-censor or cloak it as some kind of art project or mutual aid thing? Destroy all the cameras! C'mon! Break their shit! Its fun and cool and doesn't have to be some nerdy "helping each other" thing!

anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 09:06

In reply to by camover (not verified)

https://phlanticap.noblogs.org/call-for-a-spirited-summer-game-camover-…
The Philly Camover call original text:

CALL FOR A SPIRITED SUMMER GAME: Camover 2025 PHILLY!!!
June 20, 2025

Cameras suck! They’re evil and they pry into our daily life and expose our networks, movements, and habits.
In 2013, someone called for a game, Camover. The goal? Get as many cameras as possible off the streets of Berlin.
The rules? Record your kill, use any method you like, and disable them shits.
We’re in Philly and it’s 2025 so recording your kill is fucking stupid we’re nixing that rule. Dress good move smart and get rowdy and creative !
Some tactics and strategies from years passed include: grappling hooks, spraying them out, smashing them up, fucking removing them, flex seal, etch bath, I’m sure you could think of more. In the passed 7 years, Philly’s camera system has gotten too good. They can pan they can zoom and feeds over periods of time can be aggregated and sorted thru by AI. This spells danger for radicals insurgents guerillas and criminals of any milieu. The solution is simple and it was implemented systematically by various crews during the George Floyd uprising. Strategy and tactics were employed to defeat surveillance, and in the blind spot of the state, anarchy bloomed.
Every camera is a cop, this destroying one is about half as good as gouging a pig’s eyes. Claim your kills by reporting (brief text description with location and method if you like) them to camoverphl25@proton.me or don’t. All I really care about is hamstringing the surveillance state, so let’s all have a fun summer and get free!
Game is over on the last day of August, the crew with the most kills gets Nothing because bragging is dumb and unsafe. Love y’all! Kisses

I am (banned) Makhno (not verified) Fri, 06/27/2025 - 12:15

I absolutely deplore this call to damage important and useful devices like surveillance cameras on public or private property. I've heard it is possible to blind them with those little hand-held lasers that can be bought in stores, but I hope that isn't true. I certainly wouldn't want any one to engage in guerilla theatre, like Bill Brown and the Surveillance Camera Players. Remember, Big Brother is watching you!

EmmaAintDead Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:38

This is the only good comments section. I am so happy to see camover getting a second round!

anon (not verified) Thu, 07/03/2025 - 06:56

CALL TO ACTION: CAPTURE THE FLOCK
https://dirtysouth.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/02/call-to-action-capture-t…

That’s right. We’re playing the game where you dodge pigs, bootlickers, and snitches to steal their treasures while keeping your teammates from getting tagged. Maybe you’ve heard of Flock, the expressly evil surveillance company that’s been putting a creepy red (or sometimes green) eye (sauron-style) on every street corner to support ICE (https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-netw…), extend the police state into Black and brown neighborhoods to hasten gentrification (https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/security-camera-system-specificall…), prosecute people seeking abortions (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-use…), incarcerate people taking action against fascist car salesmen (https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-vehicles-car-showroom-georiga/)… the list of evil doing goes on. This doesn’t even include the amount of fucking water and rare-earth minerals it takes to build their not-cute data centers and drone and camera factories.

Yet the shame continues! August 4-6, Flock is holding a conference in Atlanta, GA, at the Intercontinental Buckhead (https://www.flocksafety.com/flock-forward), with a cast of truly ghoulish characters— the police chief who presided over Memphis police officer’s murder of Tyre Nichols, loss prevention heads, drone as first responder advocates, and the company’s own C-Suite. We think the fuck not; let the games commence!

OBJECTIVE:

Fuck these flocks. In the run-up to this conference, we have an opportunity to have some fun with their investments that are terrorizing our neighborhoods and poisoning the earth. Success will look like disabling their hardware, disrupting their supply chain, and damaging their reputation by embarrassing them at their stupid little show to discourage potential investors and contractors.

This edition of the game runs for a limited time only. As Flock scales up through lucrative new contracts (like those being hawked at their summer conference/circle-jerk) and brand new factories, their technologies will evolve. Let’s clip their wings by August 4 to show investors that Flock brings crime to the streets.

HOW TO PLAY:

BEGINNER:
• Add to this map of flocks https://deflock.me/; https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969945-apd-cam-and-lpr-list-e…
• Make and distribute agitprop
• Research and publish investor/contractor/collaborator information

INTERMEDIATE:
• Join the leaderboard by destroying physical cameras and posting your city’s tallies to counterinfo sites. https://unravel.noblogs.org/new-zine-birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock…,
• Conduct hardware research on their newest tech by dismantling cameras, investigating, and reporting findings
• Theatrics, shenanigans, and tomfoolery at their August conference

EXPERT:
• Production facilities, personnel, transportation, oh my! Tread lightly and choose wisely; you’re soundly in enemy territory here.

EXTENSION PACK:
• Coordinate with other AGs, city events like large protests or adverse weather conditions, and other contextual factors to maximize your impact & design your own strategies.

The announcers of this game take inspiration from Richmond, Philadelphia, and other campaigns calling for a concerted focus on Flock and other cameras. Credit goes where it is due for inspiration.

Have fun!

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