Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression

https://crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake

Ahead of the sixth week of action against a proposed police training facility in Atlanta, this analysis explores the strategic challenges facing the movement to stop Cop City, chronicling the actions of the movement and the reactions of the authorities throughout 2023.

In setting out to stop the militarization of police, people in Atlanta are taking on an institution that has become increasingly central to governance, soaking up more and more resources of society as a whole. This is an important document of one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, exploring questions that will soon become pressing everywhere.

#StopCopCity
#defendtheAtlantaForest

Today, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Michael Register announced that he is stepping down, being demoted to a job in Cobb County. Michael Register took over as the GBI Director last August. He has presided over controversial efforts to frame forest defenders and abolitionists as "domestic terrorists," doling out blanket terrorism charges for as little as sitting in a tree or posting on social media. Working with GBI in January, Georgia State Patrol killed forest defender Manuel Teran, known as Tortuguita, and GBI hastened to cover up the circumstances of the murder.

Yet this sadistic authoritarianism has not secured Michael Register the prestigious career he desired.

crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake

#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest

What's more, the Dekalb County District Attorney has withdrawn from 42 cases involving people accused of participating in the efforts to #StopCopCity. The Georgia state Attorney General is still pursuing charges.

This shows that fractures are finally opening up in the halls of power between Republicans and Democrats over how aggressively to prosecute those who protest against channeling a vast proportion of public resources into police militarization.

As tensions escalate between the Wagner private military force and the official Russian military, one can't help but think of the civil war that erupted in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (described here: https://crimethinc.com/Sudan).

This is where militarization leads. As governments and corporations are relying more and more on brute force to suppress social unrest and channeling more and more resources towards police and private security towards that end, they are creating the conditions for horrific civil wars on an ever-widening scale.

This gives us another lens through which to read the events of January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC (see https://crimethinc.com/January6). It also drives home the importance of the fight to #StopCopCity and block the militarization of the police.

Vladimir Putin has some nerve to say that Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion is "pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide."

Torturing and assassinating dissidents was fratricide. Invading Ukraine was fratricide. Anarchy is the opposite of fratricide, the opposite of civil war: it is the condition that prevails when people do not compete to rule each other. Totalitarianism always leads to bloody conflicts for power.

We have translated two statements from clandestine anarchist groups in Russia about the mutiny of the Wagner company and what it means for the future of the country. One is the Movement of Irkutsk Anarchists; the other is the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists.

You can read them here:

https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

Życie pośród wstrząsów

Walka przeciwko Cop City mierzy się z bezprecedensowymi represjami

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/21/zycie-posrod-wstrzasow-walka-przeciwko-cop-city-konfrontuje-sie-w-bezprecedensowymi-represjami

Osoby uczestniczące w ruchu śledzą trajektorię walki z Cop City przez rok 2023, analizując jego strategię w obliczu bezprecedensowych represji.

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"No somos mártires"

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/21/no-somos-martires-un-mensaje-de-serge-que-sobrevivio-a-un-intento-de-asesinato-a-manos-de-la-policia-francesa

Un mensaje de Serge, que sobrevivió por los pelos a un intento de asesinato a manos de la policía francesa.

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Ruští anarchisté o Wagnerově vzpouře

Prohlášení Hnutí irkutských anarchistů a Bojové organizace anarchokomunistů (BOAK)

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/rusti-anarchiste-o-wagnerove-vzpoure-prohlaseni-hnuti-irkutskych-anarchistu-a-bojove-organizace-anarchokomunistu-boak-1

Zde jsme narychlo přeložili dvě prohlášení ruských anarchistických skupin.

#Čeština

Russische Anarchist*innen über den Putschversuch von Wagner

Kampforganisation der Anarcho-Kommunist*innen und Bewegung der Irkutsker Anarchist*innen

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/russische-anarchistinnen-uber-den-putschversuch-von-wagner-kampforganisation-der-anarcho-kommunistinnen-und-bewegung-der-irkutsker-anarchistinnen

Texte russischer Anarchist*innen über den Putschversuch von Wagner.

#Deutsch

We've added a statement by the editorial committee of Autonomous Action, Russia's most consistent anarchist publishing platform, to our collection of statements by Russian anarchist groups regarding the mutiny of the Wagner private military company and the situation it creates:

https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

Руските анархисти за бунта на ЧВК “Вагнер”

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/ruskitie-anarkhisti-za-bunta-na-chvk-vaghnier-statements-from-three-anarchist-organizations

По-долу можете да прочетете три бързо преведени изявления от руски анархистки групи.

#Български

A sighting of our Gender Self-Determination poster in the window of an ice cream store, courtesy of kamcc71 on Tw*tter.

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-self-determination-poster

Since the statements that we published from anarchists in Russia were composed, Yevgeny Prigozhin has announced that his forces that were bound for Moscow have turned around, following negotiations with the ruler of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Prigozhin may have bitten off more than he can chew, but so has Putin in Ukraine—or else he would not have needed Prigozhin in the first place. It remains to be seen how this crisis will play out in Russia in the long run. In Turkey, the failed coup attempt of 2016 enabled President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to consolidate power, but any sign of weakness and disunity can only imperil Putin. The volatile and unpredictable situation that our comrades predict in Russia is likely still ahead of us. It will be for the best if the forces contending in it are not two rival totalitarian despots, or at least, not *only* them.

http://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

Rosyjscy Anarchiści O Buncie Wagnera

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/rosyjscy-anarchisci-o-buncie-wagnera-statements-from-three-anarchist-organizations

Poniżej przetłumaczyliśmy pośpiesznie trzy oświadczenia rosyjskich grup anarchistycznych.

#Polski

Мнения анархистов в России насчёт мятежа “Вагнера”

Заявления трёх анархистских организаций

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/mnieniia-anarkhistov-v-rossii-naschiot-miatiezha-vaghniera-zaiavlieniia-triokh-anarkhistskikh-orghanizatsii-1

Уже после появления этих заявлений Пригожин объявил, что его силы, направлявшиеся в Москву, повернули назад после переговоров с президентом Беларуси Александром Лукашенко. Возможно, Пригожин откусил больше, чем мог прожевать. Впрочем, как и Путин в Украине, иначе Пригожин был бы ему не нужен.

Нестабильная и непредсказуемая ситуация, которую наши товарищ_ки прогнозируют в России, скорее всего, ещё впереди. Будет лучше, если противоборствующие в ней силы не будут двумя соперничающими тоталитарными деспотами, или, по крайней мере, не только ими.

#Русский

À propos de la mutinerie de Wagner, communiqués d’anarchistes russes

Prises de parole de trois organisations anarchistes

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/a-propos-de-la-mutinerie-de-wagner-communiques-danarchistes-russes-prises-de-parole-de-trois-organisations-anarchistes

Nous avons traduit à la hâte trois déclarations émanant de groupes anarchistes russes. Tous sont clandestins par nécessité. Le premier est basé en Sibérie, le second est l’Organisation de combat anarcho-communiste, que nous avions interviewé l’année dernière, et le troisième est le collectif éditorial Avtonom, sans doute la plus importante plate-forme de publication anarchiste encore en ligne.

#Français

Anarchici russi sull’ammutinamento della Wagner

Dichiarazioni da tre organizzazioni anarchiche

https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/24/anarchici-russi-sullammutinamento-della-wagner-dichiarazioni-da-tre-organizzazioni-anarchiche

Qui abbiamo tradotto in fretta e furia tre dichiarazioni di gruppi anarchici russi.

Da quando sono apparse le seguenti dichiarazioni, Prigozhin ha annunciato che le sue forze dirette a Mosca hanno fatto marcia indietro, a seguito di negoziati con il sovrano della Bielorussia, Aleksandr Lukashenko. Prigozhin può aver fatto il passo più lungo della gamba, ma lo stesso ha fatto Putin in Ucraina, altrimenti non avrebbe avuto bisogno di Prigozhin.

La situazione volatile e imprevedibile che i nostri compagni prevedono in Russia è probabilmente ancora di fronte a noi. Sarà meglio se le forze che se la contenderanno non saranno due despoti totalitari rivali, o almeno non solo loro.

#Italiano

Anarquistas Russos Sobre o Motim do Grupo Wagner —
Declarações de Três Organizações Anarquistas

Traduzimos três declarações de grupos clandestinos anarquistas russos sobre o motim dos mercenários do grupo Wagner. A primeira está sediada na Sibéria; a segunda é a Organização de Combate Anarco-Comunista; e o terceiro é o editorial coletivo da Avtonom, a plataforma anarquista mais significativa da Rússia.

Leia aqui:

crimethinc.com/MotimWagner

#Português