anti-police – Autonomedia

Goodbye Southby: The 1st Annual SmashXSmashWest in Review

SpokenNothing — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 03:44:43 +0000

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal Strolling down the thumping, plastered downtown streets that SXSW treat as its campus, you are likely to have a free can of “C4” shoved in your face. This energy drink named after an explosive is the perfect symbol of what the festival-conference has to offer: a cloying and too seamless …

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Reportback from #StopCopCity Solidarity Demo in ATX

SpokenNothing — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:44:45 +0000

Anonymous Transmission Greetings from central Texas. This Thursday a few forest freaks made their way over to the Atlas headquarters for a noise demo. Atlas is a billion dollar company whose subsidiary Long engineering has been building cop city. We came with noise makers and banners expressing our affection for Atlas CEO Lonnie Joe Boyer …

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“How Far We’ve Come”: Austin in the Streets Against Attacks on Abortion Access

SpokenNothing — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:48:50 +0000

Anonymous transmission originally published on It’s Going Down. We have swapped out some of the media at the end of the article. The memory of 2020 is still around and led to a pretty inspiring demo in Austin, TX. Crowds protesting the ascendance of patriarchal state denials of abortion access, have shown their boldness, and …

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Austin Police Association President’s Car Vandalized

SpokenNothing — Mon, 10 May 2021 21:06:05 +0000

On May 10th, we found out that Ken Casaday–president of the Austin Police Association, and director of the anti-homeless organization Save Austin Now (which was responsible for the passage of Prop B, the renewed camping ban), had his car vandalized. We love getting good news on a Monday. We hope the culprits disappear, never to …

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Call for Decentralized, Autonomous May Day Actions!

SpokenNothing — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:29:51 +0000

An Anonymous Transmission The Message More than a year and a half into a set of escalating crises–a global pandemic that has bled the poor and working classes dry while enriching the ruling classes, a globalizing insurrection against anti-Black police violence, a State whose violence has not ceased with a simple change in the figurehead–we …

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The Rundberg Rebellion: A Retrospective

SpokenNothing — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:32:12 +0000

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal Revolt, of the sort that exceeds the form of permitted street marches and sign-waving rallies, has rarely manifested in Austin’s streets. As such, its occurrences–such as the wave of activity that came with the George Floyd rebellion–deserves attention and uplifting in our historical memory. Four years ago, at the beginning …

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Keeping Austin Criminal: An Insurgent Review of 2020

SpokenNothing — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 18:48:04 +0000

Austin Autonomedia: Keep Austin Criminal 2020 was a year of insurgent milestones in Austin–an explosion of autonomous initiatives, a proliferation of insurrectionary tactics and revolt, and the weaving together of new connections between fragmented worlds inhabiting this territory. We’ve decided to forefront some of the highlights of this year, to celebrate the high points of …

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Protestors Scare Austin Police Association President Out Of His Home

SpokenNothing — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:49:04 +0000

An important message from Ken Casaday, president of the Austin Police Association. This comes after two protests at his home, in respond to Casaday’s general advancement of police violence and his atrocious comments regarding the murder of Garrett Foster. Original here Got a something you need to publish? Send it to us! We take …

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What We Know About Logan Bucknam

SpokenNothing — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 02:35:55 +0000

Austin Autonomedia: Keeping Austin Criminal On the evening of June 27th, a group of protestors who had assembled to counter a “Blue Lives Matter” demonstration was attack by a white man in a car who aggressively drove into the crowd. Witnesses reported the man pointing a gun at protestors as well. While no shots were …

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Deep In The Heart of Texas: The Car Demo Form as Attack on Economic Circulation

SpokenNothing — Mon, 11 May 2020 16:02:06 +0000

An anonymous transmission from a participant in the Rent Strike ATX car demo on May Day On May 1st, a caravan of around 30 cars proceeded down I-35 as part of a May Day car demonstration hosted by Rent Strike ATX. Some cars bore banners and signs reading “Rent Strike,” and “Justice for Mike Ramos,” …

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