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In-depth video: Friday night's siege of a Frederick, MD home by ICE
This battle culminated a siege of Frederick by ICE that had gone on 36 hours when ICE backed by county cops assaulted the house. Sometime before the assault it became clear that one house was the objective of the siege.
Defenders had vowed "we leave when they leave" and delivered on that promise. With the enemy's target known community defenders and a lot of neighbors tightened up their defense of that house.
In the opening stage of their attacked, ICE drove on the sidewalk, threatening to ram the defenders.
Note that ICE has become infamous for shooting when these roles are allegedly reversed.Defenders did not retreat from that attack. Instead they tightened up around the house itself, and set up an arm-locked blockade. ICE then violently assaulted the blockaders.
One ICE orc beat a woman with an Asp metal baton before dragging her out of the way. She was strong enough to get right back up after that beating, not even shaking it off.
What a warrior!After gaining access to the house, ICE was unable to find the person they intended to kidnap. This made their whole mission a failure by definition. After a total of about 38 hours of siege, ICE slinked away in defeat.
Frederick 1, ICE zero!
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In-depth video: Friday night's siege of a Frederick, MD home by ICE
This battle culminated a siege of Frederick by ICE that had gone on 36 hours when ICE backed by county cops assaulted the house. Sometime before the assault it became clear that one house was the objective of the siege.
Defenders had vowed "we leave when they leave" and delivered on that promise. With the enemy's target known community defenders and a lot of neighbors tightened up their defense of that house.
In the opening stage of their attacked, ICE drove on the sidewalk, threatening to ram the defenders.
Note that ICE has become infamous for shooting when these roles are allegedly reversed.Defenders did not retreat from that attack. Instead they tightened up around the house itself, and set up an arm-locked blockade. ICE then violently assaulted the blockaders.
One ICE orc beat a woman with an Asp metal baton before dragging her out of the way. She was strong enough to get right back up after that beating, not even shaking it off.
What a warrior!After gaining access to the house, ICE was unable to find the person they intended to kidnap. This made their whole mission a failure by definition. After a total of about 38 hours of siege, ICE slinked away in defeat.
Frederick 1, ICE zero!
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In-depth video: Friday night's siege of a Frederick, MD home by ICE
This battle culminated a siege of Frederick by ICE that had gone on 36 hours when ICE backed by county cops assaulted the house. Sometime before the assault it became clear that one house was the objective of the siege.
Defenders had vowed "we leave when they leave" and delivered on that promise. With the enemy's target known community defenders and a lot of neighbors tightened up their defense of that house.
In the opening stage of their attacked, ICE drove on the sidewalk, threatening to ram the defenders.
Note that ICE has become infamous for shooting when these roles are allegedly reversed.Defenders did not retreat from that attack. Instead they tightened up around the house itself, and set up an arm-locked blockade. ICE then violently assaulted the blockaders.
One ICE orc beat a woman with an Asp metal baton before dragging her out of the way. She was strong enough to get right back up after that beating, not even shaking it off.
What a warrior!After gaining access to the house, ICE was unable to find the person they intended to kidnap. This made their whole mission a failure by definition. After a total of about 38 hours of siege, ICE slinked away in defeat.
Frederick 1, ICE zero!
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In-depth video: Friday night's siege of a Frederick, MD home by ICE
This battle culminated a siege of Frederick by ICE that had gone on 36 hours when ICE backed by county cops assaulted the house. Sometime before the assault it became clear that one house was the objective of the siege.
Defenders had vowed "we leave when they leave" and delivered on that promise. With the enemy's target known community defenders and a lot of neighbors tightened up their defense of that house.
In the opening stage of their attacked, ICE drove on the sidewalk, threatening to ram the defenders.
Note that ICE has become infamous for shooting when these roles are allegedly reversed.Defenders did not retreat from that attack. Instead they tightened up around the house itself, and set up an arm-locked blockade. ICE then violently assaulted the blockaders.
One ICE orc beat a woman with an Asp metal baton before dragging her out of the way. She was strong enough to get right back up after that beating, not even shaking it off.
What a warrior!After gaining access to the house, ICE was unable to find the person they intended to kidnap. This made their whole mission a failure by definition. After a total of about 38 hours of siege, ICE slinked away in defeat.
Frederick 1, ICE zero!
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In-depth video: Friday night's siege of a Frederick, MD home by ICE
This battle culminated a siege of Frederick by ICE that had gone on 36 hours when ICE backed by county cops assaulted the house. Sometime before the assault it became clear that one house was the objective of the siege.
Defenders had vowed "we leave when they leave" and delivered on that promise. With the enemy's target known community defenders and a lot of neighbors tightened up their defense of that house.
In the opening stage of their attack, ICE drove on the sidewalk, threatening to ram the defenders. Note that ICE has become infamous for shooting when these roles are allegedly reversed.
Defenders did not retreat from that attack. Instead they tightened up around the house itself, and set up an arm-locked blockade. ICE then violently assaulted the blockaders.
One ICE orc beat a woman with an Asp metal baton before dragging her out of the way. She was strong enough to get right back up after that beating, not even shaking it off. What a warrior!
After gaining access to the house, ICE was unable to find the person they intended to kidnap. This made their whole mission a failure by definition. After a total of about 38 hours of siege, ICE slinked away in defeat.
Frederick 1, ICE zero!
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Wow! Kudos to #KindlingCollective for hosting this event! Giving back to those who give so much!
#BelfastME - Kindling Collective Rest and Recharge Fall
October 10, 2026
"About this trip:
Rest and Recharge is an event for folks who take part in #CommunityCare work who are looking for rest and connection.
KC is committed to creating programming that is responsive to our community. We’ve heard from folks who are deep in local community care work that they are exhausted, overwhelmed and struggle to find time to rest. In collaboration with #MCHT , we put together two day events inviting organizers to be with the land and seek rest/play. Join us for the second of these events on October 10th in the Belfast area (specific location provided after registration). #DanielleArroyo and #DaeneKugel will hold this space and offer a guided #NatureWalk and optional #crafting projects. Music and vibes courtesy of Kafari. Lunch will be provided.
Who is a community care worker?
Someone who spends time doing work (for pay or not) that supports the people in our community who need it most. This includes but is not limited to:
- #MutualAid / food delivery / #cooking & shopping for folks / #farming & #FoodSovereignty
- #StreetMedicine
- #Doula / #DeathDoula / #GriefWorker
- #Policy / #advocacy work / #LegalSupport
#CommunityDefense / #documenting law enforcement
- #SocialWork / #CaseManagement
- Community based health care
- #Elders / #KnowledgeHolders / #storytellers "This event is for Queer / BIPOC participants only!
"Queer events are designed as an affinity spaces for queer and trans people of all racial identities. If you think you might be queer or trans, you are queer enough. While we love our allies and advocates, if you’re not queer, don’t come to these events.
BIPOC events are for Black, Indigenous, and people of color of all genders and sexualities. If you’re not BIPOC, do not attend these events!"
Free
25 spots leftFMI and to register:
https://www.kindlingcollective.org/events/restandrecharge#SolarPunkSunday #MaineEvents #GBLTQEvents #BIPOCEvents #RestAndRecharge #SpendTimeInNature #BuildingCommunity
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...the leaderboards where you can see how your contributions stack up against the rest of the community.
Every submission helps strengthen the intelligence used by CERTs, CSIRTs, and security teams around the world to identify and take action against malicious infrastructure.
Join the community and turn what you’re seeing into intelligence that helps protect others.#ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurity #Spamhaus #InfoSec #CommunityDefense
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Lightfighter/117044660797349612
FYI
Shotguns for Home Defense by the Queer Armorer
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Lightfighter/117044660797349612
👇 I concur. At least for USians.
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📍 The last of the public stops are settled and confirmed.
The route is real. The flyers are done. The 1979 Ford Econoline is getting pointed toward the road, which is either inspiring or deeply irresponsible. Probably both.
🚐 Sabot Media is heading out for rural / urban solidarity: talks, zines, interviews, workshops, field reports, and conversations with people keeping each other alive without permission.
🌾 These stops are about connecting the fights across the map.
Small towns and cities.
Backroads and blocks.
Punk houses and community spaces.
Kitchen tables and organizing rooms.
People who stayed, people who left, and people trying to build something worth coming home to.🎙️ Come through if you’re nearby. Bring questions, stories, friends, local history, people we should interview, and whatever road support you can throw in.
💸 This is still a fundraiser. Gas, food, repairs, printing, and gear all cost money because capitalism remains unimaginative and rude.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund🔥 Same fight across the map.
🛣️ The divide is manufactured. The road is not.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #CommunityDefense #SolidarityNotCharity
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📍 First public events are ready to post.
More stops are still being confirmed, but these ones are ready to share.
🚐 Sabot Media is taking the 1979 Ford Econoline on the road for rural / urban solidarity: talks, zines, interviews, workshops, stories, field reports, and conversations with the people keeping each other alive without permission.
🎙️ Come through if you’re nearby. Bring questions. Bring stories. Bring people we should interview. Bring gas money if the spirit moves you and your wallet has not already been devoured by the empire.
📅 Confirmed public stops:
Seattle
Sunday July 26, 4 PM
Pipsqueak
173 16th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122Portland
Tuesday July 28, 7 PM
Free People’s Society Library
1810 SE 10th St, Unit A, Portland, OR 97214Portland
Wednesday July 29, 11 AM
IYKYK
Ask around. Word of mouth only.Portland
Wednesday July 29, 4 PM
Social Justice Action Center
400 SE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97214Portland
Wednesday July 29, 7 PM
Makin’ Groceries
7137 NE Fremont St, Portland, ORCorvallis
Thursday July 30, 4 PM
Manyworld
1013 NW Taylor Ave, Corvallis, OR🌾 More stop details coming as they lock in for Olympia, Walla Walla, Tri-Cities, and Eugene.
🛠️ We still need help making the road real: hosts, interviews, food, floor space, local contacts, gas, repairs, printing, and gear.
💸 This is still a fundraiser. The route costs money because apparently radical media cannot yet be powered by spite alone. Shame.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund🔥 Same fight across the map.
🛣️ The divide is manufactured. The road is not.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #FundTheRoad #FundTheRoute #RoadTripFundraiser #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #CommunityDefense #SolidarityNotCharity
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⛽ Fund the route.
The dates and cities are set. The stops are still building. Now we need the road money to actually make this happen, because unfortunately the 1979 Ford Econoline has not yet accepted political theory as fuel.
🚐 Sabot Media is heading out to document rural / urban solidarity across the map: interviews, zines, workshops, conversations, field notes, and stories from the people keeping each other alive without permission.
📍 Current route:
Seattle
Aberdeen
Olympia
Walla Walla
Tri-Cities
Portland
Eugene
Corvallis🌾 This trip is about connecting rural and urban struggle without flattening either one.
Not charity.
Not tourism.
Not pity.
Not extraction.Same bosses.
Same landlords.
Same cops.
Same abandonment.
Same fight across the map.🎙️ We’re looking for workers, organizers, artists, mutual aid crews, union folks, anti-fascists, old punks, community spaces, and people with stories that should not disappear.
🛠️ The fund pays for gas, food, repairs, gear, printing, and all the little emergency costs that show up the second a broke media project tries to leave town. Charming arrangement. Very normal society.
💸 Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Send the link around either way.
Every donation becomes miles, interviews, zines, workshops, voices, stories, and connections across the route.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund🔥 Help make the road real.
🛣️ Same fight across the map.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #FundTheRoute #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #SolidarityNotCharity #SupportIndependentMedia
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The money isn't the point. The point is that a lie built to erase two people who told the truth collapsed in a courtroom, and the truth-tellers walked out whole. Solidarity you can feel in the hands — a name on a witness list — is the only kind history records.
#LGBTQ #QueerNews #Pride #TransRights #Solidarity #QueerJoy #CommunityDefense #News #Resist #LoveWins #Gaelic
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⛽ Put fuel in the story.
The Sabot Media road trip fund is what turns this from a good idea into a moving van, a working recorder, a full tank, a stack of zines, and actual interviews across the map.
🚐 We’ve got dates and cities set. Stops are still building. The 1979 Ford Econoline is getting pointed toward the people, places, crews, histories, and fights that don’t usually get documented unless somebody broke and stubborn goes to find them.
🌾 This trip is about rural / urban solidarity.
Not charity.
Not pity.
Not city people “discovering” small towns.
Not rural people being written off until the far right shows up pretending to care.Same bosses.
Same landlords.
Same cops.
Same extraction.
Same abandonment.
Same fight across the map.🎙️ We’re collecting stories, interviews, zines, workshops, conversations, warnings, lessons, and receipts from workers, organizers, artists, mutual aid crews, union folks, anti-fascists, old punks, community spaces, and people keeping each other alive without permission.
🛠️ The fund pays for gas, food, repairs, gear, printing, and the thousand tiny costs that appear the second you try to do something useful outside your house.
📍 Route stops include Aberdeen, Olympia, Seattle, Walla Walla, Tri-Cities, Portland, Eugene, and Corvallis.
💸 Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Send the link around either way.
Every dollar becomes miles, voices, stories, resistance, and community.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund🔥 Same fight across the map.
🛣️ Help keep the story rolling.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #FundTheRoute #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #SolidarityNotCharity #SupportIndependentMedia
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💸 The route is forming, but the fund has to move with it.
The dates and cities are set. The exact shape of each stop is still being built. That means this is the moment to help make the road real.
🚐 Sabot Media is taking our 1979 Ford Econoline on the road to document rural / urban solidarity, labor struggle, mutual aid, anti-fascist organizing, radical history, independent media, and the people keeping each other alive without permission.
⛽ This trip needs money before it needs aesthetics.
Gas.
Food.
Repairs.
Oil.
Gear.
Printing.
Emergency van problems.
The thousand small costs that appear the second you try to do anything useful outside your house.
📍 We’re building stops in and around:
Aberdeen
Olympia
Walla Walla
Tri-Cities
Portland
Eugene
Corvallis
Oxbow
🎙️ We’re also booking interviews, looking for hosts, floor space, driveway space, venues, food help, local contacts, and people who know where the real stories are buried.
🌾 Rural and urban struggle are not separate worlds.
The divide is manufactured.
The road is not.
🛠️ If you want this project to happen, this is the part where we need material support.
Donate.
Share.
Send the link around.
Throw in gas money.
Connect us with hosts.
Help keep the van moving.
💥 Every donation turns into miles, interviews, field reports, connections, and stories carried across the map.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
🔥 Help fund the road before the road eats us alive.
🛣️ Same fight across the map.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #SolidarityNotCharity #SupportIndependentMedia
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📍 We don’t just need towns.
We need names.
🎙️ Sabot Media is booking interviews for the road trip, and we’re asking people to help us find the folks we should be talking to before we roll in half-prepared and deeply caffeinated.
🌾 Who should we interview?
Rural organizers.
City organizers.
Workers.
Union folks.
Mutual aid crews.
Anti-fascists.
Artists.
Zinesters.
Independent media people.
Old punks with receipts.
People holding down community spaces.
People who know the history because they lived it.
People everyone says, “you have to talk to them.”
🏚️ We’re looking for stories about abandonment, organizing, survival, labor, community defense, media, housing, food, land, fascist creep, small-town resistance, city burnout, and the ways people keep each other alive anyway.
🧱 Rural and urban struggle are not separate worlds.
The divide is manufactured.
The road is not.
📼 If someone comes to mind, tag them.
If they should not be tagged publicly, DM us.
If you can introduce us directly, even better. Human networks remain inconveniently useful.
🛠️ We also still need hosts, floors, driveways, venue leads, food, gas money, and repair support to keep the 1979 Econoline moving.
💸 This is a fundraiser and a call for connections.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
🔥 Send us your people.
🛣️ We’ll bring the mic.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #RuralOrganizing #UrbanOrganizing #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #ZineCulture #SolidarityNotCharity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser
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📷 🎙️ We’re looking for people to interview on the Sabot Media Road Trip.
🛣️ Our exact itinerary is still coming together, but the dates and locations are set. We’re hitting the road to document rural / urban solidarity, radical history, labor struggle, mutual aid, anti-fascist organizing, independent media, community defense, and the people keeping each other alive without permission.
📍 We’re looking for interviewees in and around:
Olympia
Seattle
Walla Walla
Tri-Cities
Portland
Eugene
Corvallis
🌾 We want to hear from rural organizers, city organizers, workers, artists, old punks, union folks, mutual aid crews, anti-fascists, zinesters, media makers, community weirdos, people who stayed, people who left, and people trying to come home.
🧱 The divide between rural and urban struggle is manufactured. We’re interested in the people building roads across it.
📼 If you have a story, a project, a warning, a grudge, a history, a lesson, or someone we absolutely need to talk to, message us.
🛠️ We also still need venue leads, food, gas money, repair help, and local contacts. Because apparently vans do not run on revolutionary conviction alone. Rude.
💸 This is a fundraiser. Every share, donation, couch, driveway, meal, and connection helps make the trip possible.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
🔥 The divide is manufactured.
🛣️ The road is not.
DM for more info.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #RuralOrganizing #UrbanOrganizing #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense #ZineCulture #SolidarityNotCharity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser
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📷 💸 So what does the road fund actually cover?
Not vibes. Not branding. Not some imaginary nonprofit retreat where everyone learns to say “capacity” with a straight face.
🚐 It covers keeping a 1979 Ford Econoline alive long enough to carry us from town to town.
Gas.
Oil.
Repairs.
Gear.
Random ancient van problems that will absolutely appear at the worst possible time.
🛣️ It covers travel between rural towns, cities, ports, farms, punk houses, bookstores, union halls, kitchen tables, backroads, and wherever else people are holding the line.
🍞 It covers food, coffee, water, basic supplies, and the unglamorous shit that keeps people functional while doing media work on the road.
🎙️ It helps cover gear, recording, documentation, interviews, field reports, printing, promotion, and getting these stories back out into the world instead of letting them rot in a phone folder called “audio final maybe.”
🌾 This project is about rural / urban solidarity.
It’s about documenting the fights, histories, crews, warnings, lessons, and survival networks that institutions ignore until they can exploit them.
🧱 The divide is manufactured.
The road is not.
🛠️ Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Connect us either way.
Host us. Feed us. Point us toward a story. Help keep the van moving.
Donate / share / send help:
bit.ly/sabotfund
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #IndependentMedia #AnarchistMedia #Antifascist #LaborHistory #CommunityDefense
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The Madison IWW General Defense Committee builds working class power through community defense, supporting workers who face persecution for organizing. They focus on labor struggles, defending marginalized communities, and countering ruling class propaganda. An injury to one is an injury to all.
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States at the Core (STAC) is hosting a Smash Authoritarianism Summer Camp! #Resist #Resistance #CommunityDefense funraise.org/give/States-...
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States at the Core (STAC) is hosting a Smash Authoritarianism Summer Camp!
#Resist #Resistance #CommunityDefense
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States at the Core with Melissa Ryan recording
#Resist #Resistance #CommunityDefense
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CW: ICE / Immigration Enforcement
Organized Power in Numbers hosts a monthly Neighborhood Defense Training on Zoom — May 14 at 5pm PT. The training covers how to canvass your community and prepare local businesses in case of an ICE raid. Register even if you can't attend live; recording and materials sent afterward.
https://organized-power-in-numbers.solidarity.tech/neighborhood-defense-trainingAlso, subscribe to our newsletter here → https://azadvocacyhub.ghost.io/#/portal/signup
#ImmigrantRights #ICEResistance #ArizonaOrganizing #CommunityDefense #Arizona
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🛣️ They want the city and the backroads suspicious of each other.
🏚️ They want rural people isolated, ignored, mocked, and abandoned until the far right shows up with a clipboard, a flag, and a fake rescue plan.
🏙️ They want city people burned out, priced out, surveilled, and convinced there is nothing past the last bus stop but enemies and dead ends.
🧱 That divide is not natural.
It was built.
By bosses.
By landlords.
By cops.
By extraction companies.
By politicians.
By media machines.
By every institution that needs us lonely, suspicious, and easy to manage.🚐 We’re not buying it.
Sabot Media is hitting the road because the map they gave us is a lie.
🌾 City blocks and backroads are part of the same fight.
Ports and farms.
Trailer parks and tenements.
Union halls and punk houses.
Mutual aid tables and kitchen tables.
Strike funds and bail funds.
Forest roads and alleyways.
People who stayed, people who left, and people trying to come home.📼 We’re going town to town to listen, document, connect, agitate, and carry stories across the distance they tried to turn into a wall.
📍 If your town has a fight, a lesson, a warning, a project, a history, a grudge, a crew, or one old anarchist everyone should have interviewed years ago, message us.
🛠️ If you can host, feed, connect, donate, offer floor space, point us toward something real, or help keep the van alive, reach out.
💸 This is a fundraiser. We need gas, food, repairs, lodging, gear, and enough road money to make this project actually happen.
Donate / share / send help:
Https://bit.ly/sabotfund🔥 The divide is manufactured.
🛣️ The road is not.
#SabotMedia #SabotMediaRoadTrip #RuralUrbanSolidarity #MutualAid #RadicalMedia #AnarchistMedia #IndependentMedia #CommunityDefense #LaborHistory #Antifascist #SolidarityNotCharity #FundTheRoad #RoadTripFundraiser #SupportIndependentMedia
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🏴 #BreakingTheICE: In April, #anarchists from the Twin Cities who resisted the #ICE occupation will tour the US, recounting their experiences and organizing practices. 🤝 At each stop, they will share rapid-response network tactics, explore how #Minnesota disrupted Operation Metro Surge, and draw lessons for defeating fascism through collective self-organization. 💪 Get dates and details at @CrimethInc 👉 https://en.crimethinc.com/2026/03/23/breaking-the-ice-lessons-from-the-resistance-in-minnesota-a-countrywide-speaking-tour #abolishICE #anarchism #antifascism #antifa #solidarity #selfempowerment #mutualaid #communitydefense
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Rapid response training Feb 25, 6pm. Learn to monitor ICE, support people at risk of detention, and keep families together. Sign up to get the location!
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The Best Camo Pattern for US Civilians (by Region and Terrain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6wAAqJ9yy0
This video goes over my common, affordable recommendations for each of three regions/terrain profiles in the US. I also give some suggestions for excellent, albeit less common camo patterns that might be a good fit for where you live....
#Camouflage #Recommendations #CommunityDefense #SelfDefense #Regions #Protection #BlackFlagCivilian
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“Riding on the learning edge of a whirlwind” (Interview)
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Last night, generous Portlanders heard word that some ICE agents were new to legal cannabis culture so the city did what it does best and showed them how to hotbox. Just another classic example of Portland’s unmatched passion for tourism and community spirit.
We stand with Portland.
Drop a ✊💙 for our fellow #BlueCrew members holding the line, defending dignity, and never backing down.
#ProudBlue #Solidarity #CommunityDefense #PowerToThePeople #AbolishICE
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OPENLY executed. OPENLY, OBVIOUSLY politically assassinated. Period.
#ARRESTTRUMP
#GENERALACTION
#COMMUNITYDEFENSE
#ICEISNTIMMIGRATIONICE IS NOT FOR IMMIGRATION! Time to recognize this.
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#MutualDefense #Solidarity #NoKings #Antifa #Anarchist #Socialist
#CommunityDefense #ICEProtests #Portland #KristiNoem #Trump #Authoritarianism
#Resist #Disrupt #DirectAction #DefundThePolice #JuryNullification
#SecurityCulture #SnatchSquadsWhat's happening right now with the request from Kristi Noem according to Donald Trump to use full force on protesters demonstrating in front of ICE facilities only goes to show how very real the state's insatiable need for blood is.
The state drops its need for war, like a dead mouse on every country's doorstep, even our own, in order to satiate this thirst. This is America, this is what our country has always been. As disgusting as what's happening now is, it is not new.
We sit weeks, days, hours, if not moments away from watching our allies being slaughtered in our own towns by the very forces "intended" to keep them safe from horrors like this. This is not a drill and it is not hyperbole. The rhetoric has been tested, the laws are being preemptively written to criminalize dissent, and the paramilitary forces are being ideologically vetted for their willingness to pull the trigger on their fellow citizens. The call for "full force" is a deliberate and calculated signal, a green light for the kind of violence we have seen deployed against Black and brown communities for generations to now be officially sanctioned against anyone who stands in the way of the state's agenda.
This moment demands that we look directly at the machinery of repression and understand its components. It is the police in tactical gear, but it is also the legislators writing the "anti-riot" laws that equate to crushing resistance with claims of terrorism. It is the governor calling for violence, but it is also the media apparatus that will frame any resistance as unprovoked aggression. It is the orange goblin king baying for blood, but it is also the silent complicity of a political class that has already conceded to fascism for a taste of power. They are not hiding their intentions anymore. They are telling us, in plain language, that they view our assemblies, our solidarity, our cries for justice as existential threats to be crushed without mercy.
This is why our old models of resistance are insufficient. Marching with permits, appealing to the conscience of politicians who have none, relying on the very systems designed to pacify us these are luxuries from a bygone era that is crumbling before our eyes. The state has declared its hand. It does not seek to manage us it seeks to eliminate us. The labels they use, like "domestic terrorist," are not descriptions they are death warrants. They are intended to isolate, to criminalize, and to justify the coming violence in the eyes of a populace conditioned to fear the word "terrorist" more than they fear the death of their neighbors.
Therefore, our only logical and moral response must be the rapid, deliberate, and organized construction of networks of mutual defense. This is not a call for reckless violence it is a call for profound, community based solidarity. It is a recognition that when the state vows to use full force, our survival depends on our ability to have each other's backs without question or hesitation. Anarchists, socialists, abolitionists, community organizers, medics, legal observers, and every person who sees the nightmare on the horizon must now begin the serious work of forming pacts of protection.
These pacts are not abstract. They are built on concrete actions. They mean establishing clear and secure communication channels now, before the phones are shut down or the networks are monitored. They mean training together in de-escalation, first aid, and legal rights, so that when a protest is kettled or raided, we have medics who can treat gunshot wounds and legal teams who can track the arrested. They mean creating rapid response networks that can alert entire cities when a demonstration is under attack, mobilizing observers and support at a moment's notice. They mean setting up community defense patrols that can monitor police movements and protect vulnerable neighborhoods from targeted incursions.
Crucially, this extends to material support. It means building community bail funds that are robust and readily accessible, so no one sits in a cage because they cannot pay for their freedom. It means creating safe houses and escape routes for those who are targeted for arrest or worse. It means sharing resources, from food and water to protective gear, ensuring that no one is left exposed because of poverty. This is the practical meaning of solidarity it is the commitment to ensure that the risks we take are shared and the burdens we carry are collective.
The goal of this mutual defense is not to win a street battle with the police. The goal is to make their intended violence as difficult, costly, and visible as possible. The goal is to ensure that when they move against one of us, they find a hundred of us, standing together, documenting, resisting, and refusing to be scattered. It is to transform their easy targets into unbreakable formations of community resilience. We must make their bloodlust so public, so messy, and so morally repugnant that it shatters the illusion of their authority.
History has shown us that the state's appetite for violence is only checked when it meets organized, unyielding resistance. They rely on our fear, our isolation, our disorganization. Our task is to weaponize our solidarity. Let the calls for "full force" from the Kristi Noems and Donald Trumps of the world serve as our final wake up call. The time for vague solidarity is over. The time for specific, actionable, and sworn pacts of mutual defense is now. Find your people. Make your plans. Swear your oaths. Let them know that if they come for one, they come for us all, and we will not make it easy for them. Our communities are not their hunting grounds. We will become ungovernable not through chaos, but through an ironclad commitment to protecting one another from the storm they are so desperate to unleash.
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When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-kv3wdqqNo
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager who looked out for me. 60 years ago, he was murdered by the Klan for registering Black voters in Mississippi. Let me tell you about my friend, Mickey.
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