police – Autonomedia

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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Zine: They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas

SpokenNothing — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:49:54 +0000

Anonymous Transmission This zine, “They Have Names and Addresses in Central Texas,” lays out a brief summary of the stakes of the fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, and discusses local actors involved in the construction of the project (such as Atlas Technical Consultants). This anonymously published zine has recently been in circulation at …

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ATL to ATX: Vigil & Altar In Honor of All Victims of Police Violence

SpokenNothing — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:28:24 +0000

Anonymous transmission On Wednesday, January 18th the police shot and killed a protestor in the Weelaunee Forest in Southeast Atlanta. Theywere protesting the construction of “Cop City”, a proposed police militarization facility that, if built, would be the largest in the nation. As 2022 came to a close, the Austin Police officers who murdered Alex …

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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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Sweeps Contractors & Camping Ban Proponents

SpokenNothing — Mon, 03 May 2021 19:28:39 +0000

A listing of major individuals & organizations involved in attempts to terrorize & displace the city’s unhoused population. While Prop B has passed, one could still take action against those who pushed for it, as they are agents in the broader trend of displacement and class war in the city. Matt Mackowiak: [See Here For …

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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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