Scenes From The Atlanta Forest Website Is Offline
From Unravel
November 23, 2024
This project has come to a close.
From Unravel
November 23, 2024
This project has come to a close.
In the past several weeks, we used hammers and knives to sabotage multiple Waymo self-driving vehicles in San Francisco. We attacked Waymo in solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Google, together with Amazon, has a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to “Israel” and its military as part of Project Nimbus.
From Unoffensive Animal
January 22, 2024
In Memory of Tortuguita
19th January, North UK
Received anonymously via email:
“Under the dark blanket of the night we broke into a caged chicken egg farm and took ten chickens away from the bars and into freedom. Thousands were left behind in a dystopian barn, imprisoned to produce profits for a farmer who sees them as nothing else but stock.
Vertiv Corporation Trucks Set On Fire – Milwaukie OR
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
August 30, 2023
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
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
August 30, 2023
To the individuals who wrote the theses on “anti-tiqqunism”, we don’t want to spend a lot of time on you, because there’s better things we could all be doing like actually defending the forest, and we are glad some French comrades who have had horrible experiences with appelistes (the French tiqqunists who sold out anarchists at the Zad in order to negotiate for state-sanctioned land projects) got to you first on here. We hope people check out the links they shared about the history of the Zad, in reading these pieces we see familiar parallels to the specific ways militants have already been fucked over in Atlanta.
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
July 2, 2023
Original title: Breaking Ranks: Subverting the Hierarchy and Manipulation Behind Earth Uprisings
At this point, many anarchists in the US are already familiar with how tiqqunists destroyed the struggle at the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD (Zone to Defend) occupation in France in favor of legalization and property ownership [1]. The narrative that this tragic conclusion to the decade-long struggle was actually a victory has been regurgitated ad nauseum by tiqqunist platforms in the US. For example, Ill Will Edition’s “The Strategy of Composition” is about applying this “strategy” to the struggle against Cop City: “The territorial phase of the struggle took shape gradually over a ten year period from 2008 until its eventual victory in 2018, and has since continued to nourish collective experiments on the Zone to this day”.
In suggesting these two different goals, the film effectively reprises two different theories of propaganda of the deed that are often conflated, one which emphasizes propaganda, and another which emphasizes deed. “Let us act,” writes anarchist Paul Brousse, shortly after the crushing of the Paris Commune, “if only from the point of view of propaganda. Perhaps victory will crown our efforts, and if it is martyrdom let us remember that the idea does not perish by the sword, does not fall beneath bullets.” Where the goal is consciousness raising, the propagation of the idea of anarchy, or the Commune, then failure does not matter so much. Italian anarchists such as Errico Malatesta, however, had a different idea, and emphasized the power of such acts to inspire imitators, if selected correctly.
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
May 19, 2023
A response to “Storming In”
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
Anarchists and other radicals face a chronic dilemma when it comes to deciding who to align ourselves with in the course of a particular struggle. [...] This historical problem is one of many that the authors of “The Forest in the City: Two Years of Forest Defense in Atlanta, Georgia,” published in February, shrug aside in favor of a compromised approach that they offer as though it were a self-evident movement strategy
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
March 7, 2023
After reading A Few Words Against Rats (see below), we wanted to address a point that is not specifically mentioned: anarchist or anarchist-adjacent journalists. No one should be filming or photographing riotous moments, no matter who is holding the camera, without exception.