Our latest report from Greece details the conclusion of the hunger strike of political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas—the clashes in Nea Smirni and all around Greece in response to continuous police brutality during the lockdown—and more.

https://cwc.im/GreeceApril2021

#antireport

"What did you do during the Trump era?" a liberal asked a Portland anarchist.

"Oh, you know... we fought cops, blockaded fascists, occupied ICE facilities, defended families from eviction, and confronted DHS every night."

"Wow, Portland sounds pretty cool," said the liberal. "Where I live, all those things are illegal!"

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Tools and Tactics in the Portland Protests:

https://cwc.im/PortlandTactics

Last summer, when Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, people demonstrated what police abolition could look like.

Politicians shifted the conversation to proposals to defund the police—which went nowhere.

Today, the police are still killing. It really is up to us.

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1381435131873828865

After the murder of Daunte Wright, this is a good time to repeat some protest basics.

Roll with an affinity group:
https://cwc.im/affinitygroup

Dress to preserve your privacy:
https://cwc.im/fashiontips

Security culture:
https://cwc.im/texts/security

Direct action:
http://cwc.im/directactionguide

And here is a thread about how to protect your privacy via phone safety at demonstrations—before, during, and after the protest:

https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1267555867840393222

Stay safe out there, everyone!

Reports of looting in Minneapolis again tonight.

This is the self-organized redistribution of wealth—from those who benefit from lethal white supremacist capitalism to those who suffer and die under it.

As someone put it last year, they have stolen more than we could ever loot.

A year after the George Floyd uprising, what has changed—and what can we learn from this?

https://cwc.im/DaunteWright

An account from Minneapolis, discussing the past 48 hours of grieving and revolt in response to the police murdering Daunte Wright.

Months ago, people in Portland sent gas masks to Minneapolis to prepare for the next stage of the struggle against police violence.

Last night, medics were able to stay behind and help others evacuate through the tear gas in part because of those masks.

This is what solidarity looks like. Take care of each other—so we can be effective everywhere.

For more information about how to protect yourself with gas masks and goggles, you can consult this guide:

https://cwc.im/GasMasks

Here is a guide to choosing a helmet that is right for you:

https://cwc.im/helmets

And here is a guide to body armor:

https://cwc.im/bodyarmor

Extreme militarized police violence took place in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota tonight, as police and National Guard fired projectiles at demonstrators equipped only with umbrellas and threatened them with live ammunition:

https://twitter.com/daviss/status/1382162743235579904

"We don’t want no more casualties—we don’t want no more martyrs—we don’t want nobody else getting hurt out here tonight."

-Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, subtly threatening demonstrators last night.

https://cwc.im/DaunteWright

Under Republicans or Democrats—police are an occupying army. Rest in power Daunte Wright. Let's make a world without police.

Some on the ground analysis from Minneapolis right now:

"The thing that's lacking from last year is the variety of roles and the participation of people from outside the leftist milieu. Namely, there needs to be a more tactical approach to this protest instead of just using the aesthetics of militancy (the shield wall) without the actions that back it up (light mages, ranged attacks, fire mages, barricades). I keep hearing on the stream "stop throwing shit" people don't realize that even sporadic projectile usage can make cops hesitant to move forward. When facing a long line of riot cops, your best friend is distance. It's what exhausted the police outside the 3rd precinct.

Also the sideshow crowd that came out to the uprising was very effective, the cars blocking streets and doing burnouts to generate smoke provided a diversion and helped boost morale, almost like a "mounted bloc" if you will

Bottom line is the uprising last year was effective because it was an incredibly diverse cross section of the south Minneapolis population representing many different walks of life and bringing many different tactical approaches, and the collective intelligence that was developed organically in the streets

This time around I fear there's been too much specialization of the role of "front line militant" and it's making it easier for the cops to drive a wedge between that militant frontliner identity and the "peaceful protester" and the complete isolation of the looters as being entirely apolitical and outside the insurgency entirely instead of active participants in it and its most avant garde section. The looters have taken the mantra "Be water" to heart and decentralized the action allowing it to spread into all corners of the metro area, never staying in one place long enough to be apprehended by police while still expropriating thousands upon thousands potentially millions of dollars in products and doing just as much if not more in financial damages.

We need to avoid specialized roles, we need to get ahead of the badjacketing and white washing, we need to continue articulating why looting is good, why barricades are good, why throwing stuff at police defensively is good, we need to remind people that "be water" means we don't stay stuck at one location but move and flow freely, staying out of reach of the law when we need to and crashing like waves on them when the opportunity strikes. We cannot possibly hope to defeat the largest police mobilization in Minnesota history with symmetrical warfare tactics, we must fight them on our terms. The state has nothing but time, we have nothing but numbers, we win by attrition. We exhaust them, we waste their time, we deceive them, we distract them."