This week, we mourn the loss of George Floyd and the thousands of other people whose lives have been stolen by police killings.

We can honor their memory by fighting to put an end to the institutions that treat human beings this way.

https://cwc.im/endpolice

This is a good week to make the signs in your neighborhood more articulate.

Acquire plastic yard signs, stencil your message on them, drill holes in them, and follow the instructions in the diagram.

For more like this:

https://cwc.im/Recipes

https://kolektiva.social/@municipaladhesives

A year ago, demonstrators in Minneapolis brought the murder of George Floyd to everyone's attention by laying siege to the Third Precinct. In this analysis, some of the participants outline how they ultimately succeeded in forcing the police to withdraw.

https://cwc.im/ThirdPrecinct

The Hot Potato Changes Hands

https://cwc.im/ChileElection

The corporate media are heralding the Chilean elections as a victory for “independent” politics—but what will this mean for the autonomous movements that gave the left politicians momentum in the first place? Our correspondent in Chile explores the irreconcilable tension between the politics of representation and the politics of direct action.

This is the latest development in a story that has been going on for years, from the “Pink Tide” that brought left politicians like Lula to power in Brazil to the victory of Syriza in Greece following the movements of 2011. Yet left parties have struggled to deliver on their promises, and even more extreme right-wing politicians have succeeded them—Bolsonaro in Brazil, New Democracy in Greece. How can social movements navigate the situation arising from left electoral victories, so as to ensure that their prospects are not tied to the fate of political parties and governments?

In the year since the George Floyd uprising, both far-right reactionaries and liberal Democrats have sought to conceal the fact that together, we have the power to abolish the police and make a new world.

We remember this moment—exactly one year ago tonight. May we never forget.

https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1266213711167045632

The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report

https://cwc.im/HaifaRevolt

An anonymous participant documents the May 2021 revolt in Haifa and the surrounding area, and the ensuing far-right violence and repression—exploring the tension between horizontal resistance and state power.

"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals."

Mikhail Bakunin was born on this day in 1814.

“To love is to desire the liberty, the complete independence, of another person; the first act of true love is the complete emancipation of the object of our love; one can truly love only a perfectly free being, independent not only of all the others, but even and especially of the one who loves him, by whom he is loved and whom he loves himself—here is my profession of political, social and religious faith.”

-Mikhail Bakunin, March 29, 1845, in a letter to his brother Paul.

Have you seen these stickers around your neighborhood? If not, you can deal with the situation here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/police-not-welcome

For those who imagine that all that is necessary to fix everything is for the left to win the elections, we recommend studying the experiences of the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil, Syriza in Greece… and Salvador Allende in Chile.

This analysis from Chile gets into the details:
https://cwc.im/ChileElection

As Brazil nears a half million #COVID19 deaths, sadists are moving the Copa America there:

https://twitter.com/RedeInfoA/status/1399824991651352580

Regarding authoritarianism and virus denialism in Brazil:
https://cwc.im/VirusofPopulism

Why the World Cup was a disaster for people in Brazil even before the pandemic:
https://crimethinc.com/2014/06/12/feature-why-riot-against-the-world-cup

Though both Trump and the Democratic party worked to change the subject from abolishing the police to electoral politics—a year ago, Newsweek reported that the burning of the Third Precinct was more popular than any of the candidates in the 2020 election.

https://cwc.im/Uprising2020

Take two: Here is our revised report on why public officials were not able to evict George Floyd Square—the autonomous zone at the site where Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.

https://cwc.im/GeorgeFloydSquare

Now with more of the gritty details.

#GeorgeFloydSquare

Dos textos en español:

La Revuelta en Haifa: Informe de un Testigo Ocular

https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/29/la-revuelta-en-haifa-informe-de-un-testigo-ocular

Un escrito anónimo remitido desde la Palestina Ocupada, que documenta y analiza los sucesos acaecidos el pasado mes en Haifa y el área circundante.

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Chile: La Papa Caliente Cambia de Manos

https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/28/chile-la-papa-caliente-cambia-de-manos-pero-que-significa-la-victoria-electoral-para-los-movimientos-autonomistas-1

El fin de semana del 15 y 16 de mayo de 2021, los votantes en Chile eligieron a los delegados que asistirán a la convención que compondrá una nueva constitución para el país. La derecha fue decisivamente derrotada en estas elecciones. Los medios tradicionales han anunciado este resultado como una victoria de la política “independiente”—pero ¿qué significado tendrá esto para los movimientos autonomistas que dieron impulso a los políticos izquierdistas en primer lugar?

"Struggle! To struggle is to live, and the fiercer the struggle the more intense the life. Then you will have lived, and a few hours of such life are worth years spent vegetating. Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life."

—Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchist Morality”

Today is June 11, the annual day of solidarity with long-term anarchist and earth liberation prisoners.

You can read all about the history of this day here:

https://cwc.im/june11

We'll introduce a few of the prisoners who deserve your support—and what you can do to help.

Eric King is a vegan anarchist political prisoner who has been in solitary confinement for over 1000 days with no legal justification, in violation of federal statutory policy.

About his situation: https://theintercept.com/2021/05/28/bop-prison-white-supremacist-anti-fascist/

Support site:
https://supportericking.org/about-eric-2/

Fidencio Aldama is serving 15+ years in Sonora, Mexico for resisting a pipeline crossing his community’s land.

As people unite to #StopLine3, colonial borders must not stop our solidarity.

Letters: https://bit.ly/3xajg1U

Donate: https://bit.ly/3w8QnTu

Marius Mason, a trans Green Scare prisoner, is an anarchist environmental, animal liberation, and labor activist serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet.

Support site:
https://supportmariusmason.org

For a full list of current political prisoners—including anarchists and other activists involved in Indigenous and Black/New Afrikan resistance and earth and animal liberation—consult this invaluable resource from the New York City Anarchist Black Cross:

https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2021/06/nycabc_polprisonerlisting_jun2021.pdf

A tremendous number of people across the United States are facing charges, currently jailed, or serving sentences stemming from the George Floyd uprising. There's a lot of work to do.

If you can, please get involved in legal support and prisoner solidarity organizing!