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10th Annual NYE Noise Demo (For Real)

SpokenNothing — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:36 +0000

An anonymous transmission We did our math wrong last year! This year, the actual 10th annual New Year’s Eve Noise Demo was a blast of sounds and fireworks. A few dozen rowdy rebels marched to the jail with noisemakers, a sound system, and tons of fireworks. The following was read out before the noise demo …

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Luigi Rally, Austin TX

SpokenNothing — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:26:02 +0000

an anonymous transmission On December 21st, 6 Luigi’s took a couple banners to the Lamar pedestrian bridge in downtown Austin, and danced to the Mario theme song. Pedestrians, cheered, wrote letters to Luigi, and even took photos with the banners. Letters ranged from heart wrenching stories about family members being denied healthcare to love letters. …

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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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Imagine a Free Palestine: A Thought Experiment About A Saturday March

SpokenNothing — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 15:51:44 +0000

Report-back anonymously submitted Imagine that you have witnessed four months of unrelenting genocide. Imagine that the government you live under and pay taxes to is sponsoring and encouraging that genocide. Imagine that all over the country, for four months, people have been engaging in brave protest and resistance to that genocide—blocking bridges, freeways, train stations; …

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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 Goes #AllOut: Autonomous Antifascists Assemble

SpokenNothing — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 05:56:44 +0000

Submission from a few black flags #AllOutATX was the final act in a month of struggle against fascism in central Texas. While the ongoing Occupy ICE San Antonio encampment faced attacks from Patriot Front, local police, and the FBI,this marked the final event of #AllOutAugust, which had been a series of successes from Portland to …

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NAVIGATING OUR WAY OUT: REPORT-BACK FROM J20 DEMONSTRATIONS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

SpokenNothing — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:35:15 +0000

Originally published by the Autonomous Student Network at UT. This report-back from the Inauguration Day protests is offered on our site as a critical snapshot of a moment in autonomous activity in Austin. This report-back marks an attempt to forge an anarchistic pole in a moment rife with conflicts between groups over tactics, ideology, and …

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