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“These free human beings of planet Earth need to be liberated”: An Interview with a Delaney Hall Frontliner

Republished From Perilous Chronicle

In response to a hunger strike and labor strike inside an immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey called Delaney Hall, hundreds have gathered outside the facility, providing material support to the resistance within by blocking ICE vehicles coming in and out of the jail. Rebels outside have showed remarkable courage in facing down lines of ICE agents, taking blows and faces full of pepper spray and coming right back to hold the line. 

A similar event took place at Delaney Hall almost exactly one year ago. Together, these events stand out in the historical record as extremely rare, and perhaps even unprecedented in the contemporary era, instances of resistance inside being met with simultaneous insurgency outside the facility. They reveal an immediately actionable abolitionist praxis in the face of ascendent fascism.

We were lucky enough to get to talk to someone fresh off the front lines at Delaney Hall as they were heading home still exhausted from the battle with flailing ICE agents desperate to maintain their fragile order. The following interview was a collaboration between Perilous Chronicle and Living & Fighting.

Perilous Chronicle: What is Delaney Hall and what’s been going on there this week?

Anonymous: Delaney Hall is down an the industrial area of Newark, New Jersey. It’s part of an ongoing federal plan to build a network of concentration camps for mass deportation efforts and civil disobedience control.

This particular facility, Delaney, is privately run by Geo Group and they are directly profiting from the immiseration and suffering of these people under torturous conditions where there has been fetid, maggoty food, there have been regular beatings and violence beyond the initial incarceration, beyond the abductions. There has been no medical care for those with chronic illness and people, especially children and elderly people, have fallen ill as a result of the horrid conditions inside. Bathrooms that are unfit for human use, fluorescent lighting and insufficient bedding, people sleeping on hard floors. And so the people incarcerated in this concentration camp have come together to hunger strike and labor strike for their freedom and for the basic human dignity that is the birthright of every person.

And then the people outside are standing in solidarity with the folks inside. It’s very clear to those of us in the struggle that the mass incarceration of human beings is unacceptable. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s an affront to everything humane and upright.

Perilous: What your involvement’s been like?

A: I learned about the hunger strike slash labor strike through the kind of decentralized web of activists and anarchists and learned about the context for what was happening and decided that I needed to be there in solidarity. I think that if you’ve got clear moral vision for the world and some human compassion, you can’t help but come to the side of anyone standing against the empire and standing for human dignity.

And so my involvement up to this point has been entirely on the ground, showing up to protect comrades through de-arrest and through medical support and standing on front lines linked other comrades ready to hold the line against ICE as they try to get vehicles through. They were trying to transfer the hunger strikers from Delaney to another facility nearby to quash the resistance and to demoralize those who were participating. But that seems to have failed and the numbers have grown each night as more and more people become aware. We have succeeded in temporarily halting the movement in and out of the facility. People were able to block the road with debris and cause traffic jams. Comrades were able to directly put their bodies in front of the line of ICE Gestapo and in front of their vehicles to stop them from coming in and out.

But ultimately the fact that the state has sent so many well-armed, well-equipped thugs to put down this peaceful protest means that when they make the call and when they charge the line, there’s very little that we as unarmed people can do to resist that. I mean, other than just hold up our shields and hold the line and stay linked and push back. But they’ve been deploying less lethal munitions. They’ve been tasing people pepper spraying, pepper balling, beating people with batons and their fists and their boots, even pushing people under vehicles. So far there have been a few arrests and a couple of major injuries.

Perilous: When did you first become aware that people were gathering outside the facility?

A: I first became aware over the weekend. I believe it was Sunday [May 24, 2026] during the afternoon. And I knew that there was gonna be a need for more people and that as someone of a political consciousness for resisting empire and for bringing about the society of the children through the revolution of the heart, we have to go there and be there in numbers to actually fight and not just allow the liberal peace police to show up and essentially co-opt the efforts and momentum of the movement toward some milquetoast electoral reform policy.

When Andy Kim was there and the liberal mainstream were there, they’re talking about things like, “oh, we need to have meetings with elected officials. We need to have not-fetid food and not unusable, inhumane bathrooms.” Those are less than the minimum of what is acceptable. These free human beings of planet Earth need to be liberated.

Perilous: Can you tell us more about the barricades? Where specifically are people building them? What are they building out of them out of? How long have they been up? Are they getting torn down and then rebuilt?

A: Yeah, so they are being built up and then torn down. The big barricade was put up, I believe, on Monday or Tuesday. And then by the time I got out there last night, it had been bulldozed. It was composed of all kinds of things: wooden palettes, plastic traffic barriers, and a lot of 25-pound paver stones taken from the ICE facility front lawn, the retaining wall for their yard. Which I thought was cool, fuck their landscape.

Perilous: And so people have this barricade and then they’re positioning themselves behind the barricade, is that correct?

A: Yeah, so there have been some more temporary, minimalist barricades, just of debris, so as to stop vehicle traffic on the street that the concentration camp is on. And then there was a more semi-permanent barricade a couple of days ago that was composed of things that I mentioned, that people were able to stand behind. But in the days since that that’s been cleared, there have been direct, violent confrontations between the stormtroopers and the people standing in solidarity.

Just kind of as a note for the historical record is that while the people have done an extraordinarily fine job and disciplined job and resisting the state thugs directly, there is an ongoing working out of how to deal with press that want to be right on the front line and in the way. We’re trying to hold a line and prevent the movement of vehicles and the press is totally disorganized. They’re standing between protesters and ICE and they’re creating a more dangerous situation for everyone involved. Just by being undisciplined and not allowing us to do what we need to.

Perilous: About how many people would you say are out there or have been out there?

A: It’s been up and down numbers wise. It seems to have been increasing over the last few days. I would say that the highest number that I saw last night [Wednesday, May 27, 2026] seemed to peak at around 100 with maybe half or 60% of those people having shown up with personal protective equipment and shields, ready to throw down.

Perilous: And so in addition to blocking the driveway of the facility, people are also blocking the road in front of the facility?

A: That’s correct. I believe that was a new development as of Wednesday night: an attempt to cause a traffic jam so that even if the ICE thugs could break our line, they still couldn’t get their vehicles out in a timely fashion. Strategically, tactically, a lot of it is delay and impede rather than stop entirely. With the numbers that we have and with the munitions available to both sides, it’s not feasible to have a direct full force confrontation. So we’re picking strategic battles and doing the utmost to delay.

Perilous: You’re describing that some of the people who have shown up appear to be already skilled in confrontations like this. Maybe some of this is learned organically or in the moment, but others seem to show up with shields, ready to go. Do you have any idea where this learning process has occurred or if this movement is being fed from the history of other recent movements? Any lineages you can draw that you sense happening there?

A: Oh, absolutely. I mean, just within my very narrow and short period of political consciousness, you can see major influences and learnings and teachings from those involved in the Black Lives Matter struggles, those from the Atlanta Stop Cop City struggle, those from Standing Rock. There were Indigenous folks out there, those from the Palestine Solidarity/anti-zionist movement who have a lot of experience fighting and taking on cops directly. So yeah, I mean, the empire has been violently repressing social movements for hundreds of years. And I think that the consciousness that has developed around what must be done to resist the empire and to build something in its place has only grown, especially over the last 60 years since the Civil Rights movements and the Black Power movement. Yeah, these young people in the hundreds of thousands see themselves as directly opposed to the empire. They have no allegiance to any flag and they’re willing to fight on those grounds with what they’ve learned from forest defense and land defense and water defense and anti-carceral and anti-police struggle. It’s really cool to see.

Perilous: Do we know anything about what’s going on inside the facility right now?

A: I think as of today, I saw on Democracy Now! that one of the individuals who first started the hunger strike has been moved to a facility in Elizabeth [New Jersey]. And we know that the labor strike and the hunger strike are ongoing. Every night, the people detained there have been flashing their lights and appearing as silhouettes in front of the windows, letting the people outside know that they’re there and that they can perceive that something is happening outside. And so the people outside then can get real loud and hopefully reach the ears of the people inside. But yeah, just more of the same abuses and crimes against humanity that have been going on for quite some time are still happening as we speak.

Perilous: What do you foresee happening moving forward? Does anyone have a sense of where this standoff is going to lead?

A: Well, I think my hope is that, as the days go on, a critical mass will be reached such that it becomes impossible for the number of ICE that they have at the facility to break the line and to get vehicles in and out. Ideally, the facility is stormed and the people are liberated, but what’s likely to happen, I won’t speak into existence, you know?

For every facility that joins the effort, for every population that comes out to fight and to resist the fascists, the better our odds grow, because as we’ve seen from protest movements internationally, especially in Hong Kong, we know that having decentralized pockets of resistance is more effective and that it’s impossible then to mobilize sufficient forces at each of the requisite battlefields or scenes of engagement. So I would just want readers to know that even if it feels like your small community can’t field a full-on on resistance, perhaps you can distract or draw forces from a major conflict that’s happening elsewhere.

Perilous: Are there any other stories you wanna tell about what you saw?

A: I will say that the overwhelming feeling of love and solidarity between the people that have shown up is just such a beautiful thing to witness. Everyone there is dedicated to keeping one another safe in the face of such violence and repression. Folks have thrown their own bodies between the fascists and their comrades to protect them. Folks have jumped in with shields to protect or to de-arrest their comrades. And what’s more, when I witnessed the kind of tactics that the people are using versus the tactics that ICE is using, it’s so clear that they don’t have the same kind of stick-to-it-iveness, stick-togetherness that we do. They aren’t looking out for one another in the same way. They’re breaking their lines to pursue individual personal vendettas and rage. They’re wild-eyed. They’re clearly very fearful and the people have remained stalwart and disciplined in the face of that.

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

“These free human beings of planet Earth need to be liberated”: An Interview with a Delaney Hall Frontliner

Republished From Perilous Chronicle

In response to a hunger strike and labor strike inside an immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey called Delaney Hall, hundreds have gathered outside the facility, providing material support to the resistance within by blocking ICE vehicles coming in and out of the jail. Rebels outside have showed remarkable courage in facing down lines of ICE agents, taking blows and faces full of pepper spray and coming right back to hold the line. 

A similar event took place at Delaney Hall almost exactly one year ago. Together, these events stand out in the historical record as extremely rare, and perhaps even unprecedented in the contemporary era, instances of resistance inside being met with simultaneous insurgency outside the facility. They reveal an immediately actionable abolitionist praxis in the face of ascendent fascism.

We were lucky enough to get to talk to someone fresh off the front lines at Delaney Hall as they were heading home still exhausted from the battle with flailing ICE agents desperate to maintain their fragile order. The following interview was a collaboration between Perilous Chronicle and Living & Fighting.

Perilous Chronicle: What is Delaney Hall and what’s been going on there this week?

Anonymous: Delaney Hall is down an the industrial area of Newark, New Jersey. It’s part of an ongoing federal plan to build a network of concentration camps for mass deportation efforts and civil disobedience control.

This particular facility, Delaney, is privately run by Geo Group and they are directly profiting from the immiseration and suffering of these people under torturous conditions where there has been fetid, maggoty food, there have been regular beatings and violence beyond the initial incarceration, beyond the abductions. There has been no medical care for those with chronic illness and people, especially children and elderly people, have fallen ill as a result of the horrid conditions inside. Bathrooms that are unfit for human use, fluorescent lighting and insufficient bedding, people sleeping on hard floors. And so the people incarcerated in this concentration camp have come together to hunger strike and labor strike for their freedom and for the basic human dignity that is the birthright of every person.

And then the people outside are standing in solidarity with the folks inside. It’s very clear to those of us in the struggle that the mass incarceration of human beings is unacceptable. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s an affront to everything humane and upright.

Perilous: What your involvement’s been like?

A: I learned about the hunger strike slash labor strike through the kind of decentralized web of activists and anarchists and learned about the context for what was happening and decided that I needed to be there in solidarity. I think that if you’ve got clear moral vision for the world and some human compassion, you can’t help but come to the side of anyone standing against the empire and standing for human dignity.

And so my involvement up to this point has been entirely on the ground, showing up to protect comrades through de-arrest and through medical support and standing on front lines linked other comrades ready to hold the line against ICE as they try to get vehicles through. They were trying to transfer the hunger strikers from Delaney to another facility nearby to quash the resistance and to demoralize those who were participating. But that seems to have failed and the numbers have grown each night as more and more people become aware. We have succeeded in temporarily halting the movement in and out of the facility. People were able to block the road with debris and cause traffic jams. Comrades were able to directly put their bodies in front of the line of ICE Gestapo and in front of their vehicles to stop them from coming in and out.

But ultimately the fact that the state has sent so many well-armed, well-equipped thugs to put down this peaceful protest means that when they make the call and when they charge the line, there’s very little that we as unarmed people can do to resist that. I mean, other than just hold up our shields and hold the line and stay linked and push back. But they’ve been deploying less lethal munitions. They’ve been tasing people pepper spraying, pepper balling, beating people with batons and their fists and their boots, even pushing people under vehicles. So far there have been a few arrests and a couple of major injuries.

Perilous: When did you first become aware that people were gathering outside the facility?

A: I first became aware over the weekend. I believe it was Sunday [May 24, 2026] during the afternoon. And I knew that there was gonna be a need for more people and that as someone of a political consciousness for resisting empire and for bringing about the society of the children through the revolution of the heart, we have to go there and be there in numbers to actually fight and not just allow the liberal peace police to show up and essentially co-opt the efforts and momentum of the movement toward some milquetoast electoral reform policy.

When Andy Kim was there and the liberal mainstream were there, they’re talking about things like, “oh, we need to have meetings with elected officials. We need to have not-fetid food and not unusable, inhumane bathrooms.” Those are less than the minimum of what is acceptable. These free human beings of planet Earth need to be liberated.

Perilous: Can you tell us more about the barricades? Where specifically are people building them? What are they building out of them out of? How long have they been up? Are they getting torn down and then rebuilt?

A: Yeah, so they are being built up and then torn down. The big barricade was put up, I believe, on Monday or Tuesday. And then by the time I got out there last night, it had been bulldozed. It was composed of all kinds of things: wooden palettes, plastic traffic barriers, and a lot of 25-pound paver stones taken from the ICE facility front lawn, the retaining wall for their yard. Which I thought was cool, fuck their landscape.

Perilous: And so people have this barricade and then they’re positioning themselves behind the barricade, is that correct?

A: Yeah, so there have been some more temporary, minimalist barricades, just of debris, so as to stop vehicle traffic on the street that the concentration camp is on. And then there was a more semi-permanent barricade a couple of days ago that was composed of things that I mentioned, that people were able to stand behind. But in the days since that that’s been cleared, there have been direct, violent confrontations between the stormtroopers and the people standing in solidarity.

Just kind of as a note for the historical record is that while the people have done an extraordinarily fine job and disciplined job and resisting the state thugs directly, there is an ongoing working out of how to deal with press that want to be right on the front line and in the way. We’re trying to hold a line and prevent the movement of vehicles and the press is totally disorganized. They’re standing between protesters and ICE and they’re creating a more dangerous situation for everyone involved. Just by being undisciplined and not allowing us to do what we need to.

Perilous: About how many people would you say are out there or have been out there?

A: It’s been up and down numbers wise. It seems to have been increasing over the last few days. I would say that the highest number that I saw last night [Wednesday, May 27, 2026] seemed to peak at around 100 with maybe half or 60% of those people having shown up with personal protective equipment and shields, ready to throw down.

Perilous: And so in addition to blocking the driveway of the facility, people are also blocking the road in front of the facility?

A: That’s correct. I believe that was a new development as of Wednesday night: an attempt to cause a traffic jam so that even if the ICE thugs could break our line, they still couldn’t get their vehicles out in a timely fashion. Strategically, tactically, a lot of it is delay and impede rather than stop entirely. With the numbers that we have and with the munitions available to both sides, it’s not feasible to have a direct full force confrontation. So we’re picking strategic battles and doing the utmost to delay.

Perilous: You’re describing that some of the people who have shown up appear to be already skilled in confrontations like this. Maybe some of this is learned organically or in the moment, but others seem to show up with shields, ready to go. Do you have any idea where this learning process has occurred or if this movement is being fed from the history of other recent movements? Any lineages you can draw that you sense happening there?

A: Oh, absolutely. I mean, just within my very narrow and short period of political consciousness, you can see major influences and learnings and teachings from those involved in the Black Lives Matter struggles, those from the Atlanta Stop Cop City struggle, those from Standing Rock. There were Indigenous folks out there, those from the Palestine Solidarity/anti-zionist movement who have a lot of experience fighting and taking on cops directly. So yeah, I mean, the empire has been violently repressing social movements for hundreds of years. And I think that the consciousness that has developed around what must be done to resist the empire and to build something in its place has only grown, especially over the last 60 years since the Civil Rights movements and the Black Power movement. Yeah, these young people in the hundreds of thousands see themselves as directly opposed to the empire. They have no allegiance to any flag and they’re willing to fight on those grounds with what they’ve learned from forest defense and land defense and water defense and anti-carceral and anti-police struggle. It’s really cool to see.

Perilous: Do we know anything about what’s going on inside the facility right now?

A: I think as of today, I saw on Democracy Now! that one of the individuals who first started the hunger strike has been moved to a facility in Elizabeth [New Jersey]. And we know that the labor strike and the hunger strike are ongoing. Every night, the people detained there have been flashing their lights and appearing as silhouettes in front of the windows, letting the people outside know that they’re there and that they can perceive that something is happening outside. And so the people outside then can get real loud and hopefully reach the ears of the people inside. But yeah, just more of the same abuses and crimes against humanity that have been going on for quite some time are still happening as we speak.

Perilous: What do you foresee happening moving forward? Does anyone have a sense of where this standoff is going to lead?

A: Well, I think my hope is that, as the days go on, a critical mass will be reached such that it becomes impossible for the number of ICE that they have at the facility to break the line and to get vehicles in and out. Ideally, the facility is stormed and the people are liberated, but what’s likely to happen, I won’t speak into existence, you know?

For every facility that joins the effort, for every population that comes out to fight and to resist the fascists, the better our odds grow, because as we’ve seen from protest movements internationally, especially in Hong Kong, we know that having decentralized pockets of resistance is more effective and that it’s impossible then to mobilize sufficient forces at each of the requisite battlefields or scenes of engagement. So I would just want readers to know that even if it feels like your small community can’t field a full-on on resistance, perhaps you can distract or draw forces from a major conflict that’s happening elsewhere.

Perilous: Are there any other stories you wanna tell about what you saw?

A: I will say that the overwhelming feeling of love and solidarity between the people that have shown up is just such a beautiful thing to witness. Everyone there is dedicated to keeping one another safe in the face of such violence and repression. Folks have thrown their own bodies between the fascists and their comrades to protect them. Folks have jumped in with shields to protect or to de-arrest their comrades. And what’s more, when I witnessed the kind of tactics that the people are using versus the tactics that ICE is using, it’s so clear that they don’t have the same kind of stick-to-it-iveness, stick-togetherness that we do. They aren’t looking out for one another in the same way. They’re breaking their lines to pursue individual personal vendettas and rage. They’re wild-eyed. They’re clearly very fearful and the people have remained stalwart and disciplined in the face of that.

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Unoffensive Animal: **REMEMBERING KARL.**

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2025/07/27/remembering-karl/

Original article published on the HSA website. Tap and donate some coins to them! “One of the brightest flames in Britain’s animal rights movement has gone out. Karl Garside, Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist , hunt saboteur and investigator has passed away aged 59 from heart disease. For more than four decades on the frontlines … Continue reading "REMEMBERING KARL."

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Unoffensive Animal: **REMEMBERING KARL.**

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2025/07/27/remembering-karl/

Original article published on the HSA website. Tap and donate some coins to them! “One of the brightest flames in Britain’s animal rights movement has gone out. Karl Garside, Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist , hunt saboteur and investigator has passed away aged 59 from heart disease. For more than four decades on the frontlines … Continue reading "REMEMBERING KARL."

#Reportback

An interesting #reportback here from an American in #Prague.

#Solidarity with the #squatters.
Fuck #Lidl.
Fuck #AirBnB.
Fuck the #Police.

Read the #Report:
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/06/30/squat-solidarity-prague-reportback/

Support us:
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An interesting #reportback here from an American in #Prague.

#Solidarity with the #squatters.
Fuck #Lidl.
Fuck #AirBnB.
Fuck the #Police.

Read the #Report:
https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/06/30/squat-solidarity-prague-reportback/

Support us:
https://www.patreon.com/c/Organise

All Power to the Escapees: Death to ICE and Fire to the Prisons!

Anonymous Submission To Jersey Counter-Info

A few days ago riots broke out at the federal ICE detention center, Delaney Hall, in Newark, NJ. Detainees faced increasing abuse and starvation from their jailers and fought back, reportedly setting fires and knocking down an internal wall used to contain them.

At the same time, Delaney Hall was swarmed by waves of protestors who slowed operations and drew the attention of ICE and other federal pigs away from the events occurring inside.

Protestors stood their ground and prevented ICE vans from entering the facility and thinned out the number pigs helping to prevent the riot from being quelled.

During this juncture 4 men, who were kidnapped and imprisoned at Delaney Hall by ICE, were able to make their escape from the heavily fortified facility. As of now, they are still free, liberated from detention.

Because of the brave actions of the individuals detained inside Delaney Hall and the protestors outside, 4 people were able to escape and gain freedom.

It doesn’t matter how fortified the state’s prisons or detention centers may be, how many federal pigs there are, what weapons they have to brutalize people, solidarity can and will WIN.

Keep fighting, by any means necessary.

#anticolonial #Antifascist #general #news #reportBack #solidarity

Flyer fun for SmashX25

Flier fun in downtown Austin! Satirical flier calling out Mayor Kirk Watson for his corruption, and a flier calling Musk a UGLY ASS NAZI LOSER

Many fliers also seen for this app to invest with billionaires and war profiteers

https://austinautonomedia.noblogs.org/flyer-fun-for-smashx25/

#Communique #action #diy #flyer #reportback

This morning the City of Seattle stole our mutual aid supplies.

One of our community members did a report back on this morning's sweep.

Instead of 24 hour notice(as required by law) the city provided residents only 15 minutes warning!

Follow @SeattleSanchez here on mastodon or @craftingsoundmeaning on TikTok for more OTG updates:

📽️ https://www.tiktok.com/@craftingsoundmeaning

#BLMG #Valentines #ACAB #Homeless #Garden #MutualAid #PNW #ReportBack

This morning the City of Seattle stole our mutual aid supplies.

One of our community members did a report back on this morning's sweep.

Instead of 24 hour notice(as required by law) the city provided residents only 15 minutes warning!

Follow @SeattleSanchez here on mastodon or @craftingsoundmeaning on TikTok for more OTG updates:

📽️ https://www.tiktok.com/@craftingsoundmeaning

#BLMG #Valentines #ACAB #Homeless #Garden #MutualAid #PNW #ReportBack

Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info

Back in early July 2023, a Philadelphia couple Mark Kauffman and Sara Sheaffer, were revealed to be the leaders of the Tri-state area neo-nazi crew S14. Since then several other S14 members have been unmasked such as Mathew Bair, Paul Minton, and Daisy McGowan. Antifascists have been continuing to turn up the heat on S14 members, exposing their cross over membership with other fascist groups and extensively doxxing them.

Since his July doxxing, Kauffman has been publicly attempting to hide his own fear by trolling antifascists and doubling down on his fascist activity. With he and Sheaffter feeling the pressure, area antifascists got together a few days ago to apply even more, by flyering Mark Kauffman and Sara Sheaffer’s neighborhood.

Kauffman and Sheaffer live in North Phialdelphia on E Wishart Street.

Kauffman and Sheaffer live in North Philly, specifically in the larger Kensington area. The E Wishart Street and surrounding community are predominantly Latino, further making Kauffman and Sheaffer’s very public neo nazi status and activities particularly dangerous for those around them.

Antifascists posted up English and Spanish language fliers on Kauffman and Sheaffer’s street, all over the adjacent side streets, and in the wider Kensington community. They were also able to pass out fliers to community members and discuss Kauffman and Sheaffer’s presence in the neighborhood. All community members that antifascists spoke to were rightfully shocked, angered, and pissed off that nazis were living next door to them. Antifascists gave interested community members stacks of fliers for further dissemination.

If you are interested in using and downloading either flier they are listed below.

S14 members: You were warned that if you did not dissolve your organization and cease activities that there would be real world repercussions. Five of your members have now been doxxed and Kauffman and Sheaffer’s entire community knows exactly who they are. If you refuse to comply there will be further consequences.

#antifascist #general #hate-watch #news #report-back #s14

https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/report-back-s14-leaders-mark-kauffman-and-sara-sheaffers-neighborhood-hit/

Republished From Act For Freedom Now!

Unravel is a counter-information project with an insurrectional perspective that aims to connect acts of negation and attack in the so-called USA. Those in power want our acts to remain disparate and disconnected, the spark that drives each of us shielded from the other’s view. By weaving together the threads of action, this project hopes to draw throughlines in the struggles that anarchists engage in, in order to broaden and amplify shared projectualities.

Domination and authority cross us in a tangled and knotted web of ever more interconnected systems; unraveling this network at one point has the potential to create a cascade that throws everything into disarray, opening spaces for freedom. This website is explicitly anarchist, and accepts/reposts communiques, reportbacks, analysis, calls to action, events, and mass media articles about unclaimed acts of vandalism, sabotage, arson, or destruction.

Actforfree receive and spread.

#anarchism #communique #general #news #report-back #republished

https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/annoucning-unravel-noblogs-org/

Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info

On April 14, 2023 regional TERFs, organized by Jennifer Thomas, descended on the state capital to hold a “women’s free speech rally”. Their goal was to pressure the government into change existing state laws, which help prevent trans people convicted of crimes, namely trans women and femmes, from being placed in prisons which are in-congruent with their gender identity.

Jennifer Thomas, also known by her Twitter handle RevFemStBeat, publicly organized her rally two months in advance through social media and filed for a permit to host her rally for April 14, 2023 from 12pm to 4pm at the state capital building in Trenton. Thomas thoroughly documented her planning publicly via social media, and in doing so was able to butter up her online TERF community to raise money to support the event.

Despite all of her bravado about her bravery and experience protesting to her online friends, Thomas is used to regularly getting her ass kicked, thrown out, and shut down wherever she appears. She and her TERF crew have been run out of New York City, Port Townsend, Washington, and the United Kingdom, among other places. Her experience in Trenton, NJ, was no different.

In response to Thomas’ plans to hold her “women’s free speech” rally, local queer antifascists planned a counter demonstration for April 14 in Trenton. The queer antifascists collaborated with different regional groups and individuals, and were able to loop in striking Rutgers union members to form a united coalition against the TERFs and their rally.

Thomas advertised her rally online hoping to draw in attendees from the public. She received virtual recruitment help from Known Heretic, or Amy E. Sousa, a TERF YouTuber, and the Gender Mapper, Alix Aharon, a hate monger who documents and makes public doxx lists of gender clinics. These lists are often utilized by the far-right. Thomas received on-the-ground help from a team of east coast TERFs.

All of the east coast TERFs that helped Thomas on the ground, many of whom spoke at the event.

Unfortunately for Thomas her propaganda push was unsuccessful and the only people who attended in support of the rally were her team of TERF’s slated to speak and their boyfriends and husbands.

Thomas’ poorly attended rally with other TERFs and their boyfriends/husbands, and Trenton cops placed to serve their interests.

Thomas and her group arrived at 11:45am at the capital building and began to set up around the erected police barriers and launched their live feed via Amy Sousa on YouTube. Almost immediately upon setting up and beginning their speeches the TERFs were drowned out by queer antifascists.

Jennifer Thomas unable to speak due to the noise tactics utilized by counter-protestors.

Queer antifascists and other collaborators led the initial disruption actions, preventing the TERFs from being able to broadcast their hate by using megaphones, music, and air horns.

The arrival of the Rutgers Union member contingent

The contingent of Rutgers union strikers, fresh off directing their own protest against the University, showed up on the scene en masse shortly after to offer their support. The large group of Rutgers Union strikers used their megaphones and numbers to completely stop the rally for a period of time causing confusion amongst the TERFs. Thomas and her goons couldn’t seem to process solidarity in action. She and several other TERFs, including an enraged Brittany Ortiz, then took turns yelling at the crowd about their transphobia.

The coalition of counter protestors descending upon the TERF rally, drowning out Jennifer Thomas and her friends.

Brittany Ortiz struggling to be heard with the level of noise coming from counter-protestors.

Ortiz is a long time TERF collaborator of Thomas and has her own YouTube channel where she spreads lies and propaganda against trans people. Ortiz is someone to watch out for as her energy and demeanor on site at Trenton was the most chaotic and prone to direct physical violence against trans people. Ortiz lives in Philadelphia and is employed as a midwife.

Over the course of the next hour and a half, the counter-protestors repeatedly caused the TERFs to halt their speeches and disrupted them from being heard. Additionally, their live feed being broadcasted by Sousa was delayed and disrupted several times, causing both the YouTuber and Thomas visible frustration. Sousa ended up stopping live stream early and then tried to grift her followers into donating more money to Thomas and herself.

Amy Sousa visibly perplexed over the broadcast being disrupted.

After all of these setbacks and interruptions by counter protestors, Jennifer Thomas and her fellow TERFs were forced to end their rally two hours early. They rushed off the scene in a disorganized hurry and sped out of their area for fear of being confronted face to face by counter protestors. All in all the broad coalition of antifascists, Rutgers union members, and assorted others were successful in shutting down the event and showing Thomas and her crew what happens to TERFs and anyone else that props up the far-right in New Jersey.

Brittany Ortiz’s vehicle that she and other TERF’s tried to escape in. It is a blue Mazda sedan. Ortiz concealed the license plate in an attempt to conceal identifying information.

Despite what went down on April 14, Thomas, Amy Sousa, Brittany Ortiz, and the other TERFs present declared “victory”. Thomas even went on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, directly before he was fired, and was interviewed about the day’s events. Thomas and friends can lie to themselves, their followers, and the general public all they want, it doesn’t change the fact that they were kicked out of NJ and failed miserably.

#analysis #general #labor #lgbtq #news #report-back #solidarity

https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/terf-rally-in-trenton-nj-shut-down-by-antifascist-coalition/

Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info

Sometime in the spring of 2023, some Jersey anarchists and our comrades got together to address the pervasive issue of littering and dumping in the Pinelands. Thanks to already-existing mutual aid networks we were able to gather supplies and start collectively rehabilitating dumping spots in the region.

The Pinelands are part of Lenapehoking and were once in the care of Unami-speaking Lenape before it was subjected to hundreds of years of settler-colonialism and capitalism. And for what? The forest and land has been destroyed, dotted with reminders of long-dead munitions, glass, iron, and steel factories. Industry barons like the Whartons established massive extractive operations and company towns that put a stranglehold on the area. Now, just a few generations later they are nothing but crumbling monuments to corporate greed. The land was stolen from its traditional caretakers just to become a sacrifice zone for the state, corporate entities, and reactionary individuals. Whether it’s the military leeching PFAS into the soil and water, businesses poisoning waterways by dumping construction waste into streams, or individuals dumping personal trash, it all contributes to the destruction of the Pinelands.

We don’t have any faith that the state or capitalists are going to take responsibility for poisoning the Pinelands, so it’s up to us and every day people who respect the land to do so. While there is an overwhelming amount of work left to do, we found it pretty easy to mobilize and take action.

We started out by first doing some prep work and identified known dumping sites and the type of dumping happening at each location. (Depending on the kind of waste you are dealing with whether hazardous, medical, or construction for example, your approach, supplies, and tactics may vary). Next, we gathered needed materials and supplies for each site.

At one site, which was not frequented by the public, we filled over 15 garbage bags with dumped items and hauled away roughly 100 lbs of garbage. For this particular location we made sure to bring plenty of trash bags and wear gloves and pants as the risk of being both bitten by ticks and coming into direct contact with poison oak was high.

A few of the 15 trash bags equaling over 100 lbs in total we hauled away from one dump site in the Pinelands.

At another site, which is frequented by the public, we permanently installed a garbage can, a 50 gallon plastic drum, and stuffed it with bags to encourage shared community responsibility over the flow of trash.

The 50 gallon plastic drum took some prior modification to get it ready for the site however, so if you are looking to try this out this is what you will need to do: 1. Find a 50 gallon plastic drum. There are many ways to easily acquire them from liberating them from a local park to even checking dump sites as they are an item that is sometimes discarded. 2. Acquire a cordless drill to do needed modifications (most cordless drills will do the trick). 3. Drill drainage holes in what will serve as the bottom of your barrel to prevent water accumulation and stagnation. 4. If the top is still on your barrel or some trimming is needed you can use a saw to take it off (even a basic handsaw can get this done simply). 5. Find a way to secure your barrel at the dumping site. In our case we used a heavy duty ring and some other materials. 6. Decorate (if you want) and secure the barrel.

The drainage holes we put in prior to installing the barrel at the dump site.

Prior to decorating it, we took measures to secure the barrel from being stolen or removed.

The finished, modified 50 gallon drum-turned-garbage can.

This process overall could take some trial and error but is easily replicated and can be done pretty much anywhere with a small budget. It may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to what other things that need to be done but it’s a small step toward building dual power within our communities. We hope that others will take similar action, since there is no barrier to entry, and that trying to improve our relationships to the land and to each other is worthwhile.

In the words of comrade Lorenzo “Orso” Orsetti “Every storm starts with a single drop. Try to be that drop.”

-some anarchists

#analysis #antifascist #general #mutual-aid #news #report-back

https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/in-defense-of-the-pinelands-jersey-anarchists-tackle-dumping-problem-in-so-called-south-jersey/