On January 18, people across the world will commemorate the life of Tortuguita, the forest defender who was killed by police one year ago while defending Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. We honor Tortuguita's courage and sacrifice.

Consider organizing an event in your community, as well. 🖤🏴

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity

#StopCopCity

Comment faire plier une entreprise : la méthode SHAC

https://crimethinc.com/2008/09/01/comment-faire-plier-une-entreprise-la-methode-shac-1

Au cours de la décennie 2000-2010, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) a mené une campagne internationale d’action directe contre Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), la plus grande société d’expérimentation animale d’Europe. En ciblant les investisseurs et les partenaires commerciaux de HLS, SHAC a amené à plusieurs reprises HLS au bord de la faillite. Il a fallu l’aide directe du gouvernement britannique et une violente contre-offensive judiciaire internationale pour maintenir l’entreprise à flot. Plus récemment, il a été question d’appliquer la méthode de SHAC dans d’autres contextes, comme la défense de l’environnement et le mouvement anti-guerre.

Mais qu’est-ce que la méthode SHAC, précisément ? Quelles sont ses forces et ses limites ? S’agit-il, en fait, d’une méthode efficace ? Et si oui, pour quoi faire ?

#Français

Getting There: The Road to the Zapatista Encuentro

https://crimethinc.com/Encuentroad

The Zapatistas burst onto the world stage on New Year's Day 1994 with an uprising that established an autonomous zone in Chiapas. Thirty years later, at the opening of 2024, they hosted a gathering to commemorate those events and look to the future. In this report, our correspondent describes a series of adventures the road to this gathering, and what they found when they arrived.

The 2024 Zapatista Encuentro

A Report-back with Footage of a Play about the Movement to #StopCopCity

https://crimethinc.com/Encuentro2024

Participants in the Weelaunee Solidarity Collective describe their experiences at the gathering celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, including their reflections about what the ongoing Zapatista project can teach aspiring revolutionaries elsewhere around the world.

We also share footage of the play they performed at the gathering in memory of Tortuguita, who was murdered one year ago today.

Today, we honor the memory of Tortuguita, who was murdered one year ago by mercenaries from the Atlanta Police and Georgia State Patrol while defending Weelaunee Forest and an inhabitable future for all of us.

Cop City represents a possible future in which ever more resources will be invested in training and militarizing massive bodies of police that will control the rest of us by brute force. For those employed in the violence industry, it represents a tremendous opportunity. The police murdered Tortuguita in order to secure the right to hoard all your tax dollars for themselves and their allies.

By contrast, Tortuguita's courageous conduct stands as an example to us all. In a time of economic desperation and catastrophic climate change, it’s up to us to show that solidarity and the desire for freedom are more powerful than selfishness and the readiness to obey.

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity

#StopCopCity

Seven years ago, on January 20, 2017, police surrounded and arrested over 200 people in the vicinity of a confrontational march against the inauguration of Donald Trump. Prosecutors brought identical felony charges against almost every single arrestee in one of the most dramatic escalations of state repression of the Trump era. For a year and a half, people around the United States mobilized to support the defendants and beat back this attempt to set a new precedent in repression. The J20 case was one of the most important court cases about the freedom to protest in modern US history—and the defendants won.

Now, in response to the movement to #StopCopCity, prosecutors in Georgia are trying something similar, pressing RICO and domestic terrorism charges against dozens of people who were arrested at random. We strongly recommend reading this overview of the legal support strategy that defeated the J20 prosecution.

"We’ve Got Your Back: The Story of the J20 Defense"

https://crimethinc.com/J20legal

Today, we remember how, on the first day of Trump's presidency, several hundred brave people converged at Logan Circle in DC to demonstrate the tactics that millions would later be compelled to adopt during the uprising of 2020.

https://cwc.im/J20Analysis

Famously, one of them punched fascist organizer Richard Spencer in the face—and got away with it.