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CALL TO ACTION: CAPTURE THE FLOCK

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That’s right. We’re playing the game where you dodge pigs, bootlickers, and snitches to steal their treasures while keeping your teammates from getting tagged. Maybe you’ve heard of Flock, the expressly evil surveillance company that’s been putting a creepy red (or sometimes green) eye (sauron-style) on every street corner to support ICE (https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/), extend the police state into Black and brown neighborhoods to hasten gentrification (https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/security-camera-system-specifically-for-neighborhoods), prosecute people seeking abortions (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down), incarcerate people taking action against fascist car salesmen (https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-vehicles-car-showroom-georiga/)… the list of evil doing goes on. This doesn’t even include the amount of fucking water and rare-earth minerals it takes to build their not-cute data centers and drone and camera factories.

Yet the shame continues! August 4-6, Flock is holding a conference in Atlanta, GA, at the Intercontinental Buckhead (https://www.flocksafety.com/flock-forward), with a cast of truly ghoulish characters— the police chief who presided over Memphis police officer’s murder of Tyre Nichols, loss prevention heads, drone as first responder advocates, and the company’s own C-Suite. We think the fuck not; let the games commence!

OBJECTIVE:

Fuck these flocks. In the run-up to this conference, we have an opportunity to have some fun with their investments that are terrorizing our neighborhoods and poisoning the earth. Success will look like disabling their hardware, disrupting their supply chain, and damaging their reputation by embarrassing them at their stupid little show to discourage potential investors and contractors.

This edition of the game runs for a limited time only. As Flock scales up through lucrative new contracts (like those being hawked at their summer conference/circle-jerk) and brand new factories, their technologies will evolve. Let’s clip their wings by August 4 to show investors that Flock brings crime to the streets.

HOW TO PLAY:

BEGINNER:
• Add to this map of flocks https://deflock.me/; https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969945-apd-cam-and-lpr-list-export-202306202/
• Make and distribute agitprop
• Research and publish investor/contractor/collaborator information

INTERMEDIATE:
• Join the leaderboard by destroying physical cameras and posting your city’s tallies to counterinfo sites. https://unravel.noblogs.org/new-zine-birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/,
• Conduct hardware research on their newest tech by dismantling cameras, investigating, and reporting findings
• Theatrics, shenanigans, and tomfoolery at their August conference

EXPERT:
• Production facilities, personnel, transportation, oh my! Tread lightly and choose wisely; you’re soundly in enemy territory here.

EXTENSION PACK:
• Coordinate with other AGs, city events like large protests or adverse weather conditions, and other contextual factors to maximize your impact & design your own strategies.

The announcers of this game take inspiration from Richmond, Philadelphia, and other campaigns calling for a concerted focus on Flock and other cameras. Credit goes where it is due for inspiration.

Have fun!

Announcing the 2025 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in Asheville, NC

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Announcing Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in Asheville, NC in 2025.

Mark your calendar for the 2025 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair (ACAB), September 27th and 28th on Cherokee land in Asheville, NC.

Over the course of five years (plus a pandemic interruption), ACAB has grown far beyond our initial aspirations, with each iteration more ambitious than the last. At the end of the 2024 bookfair, we reflected on how—without intention—the bookfair had become a national gathering, anticipated and attended by comrades living thousands of miles away.

While this is a source of joy for us, the scale also complicates our collective efforts. We quietly joked about “degrowthing” the bookfair, subverting the more-is-better assumption of endless expansion; but after Hurricane Helene, it truly became necessary for us as organizers to envision a lighter, more regionally responsive bookfair.*

In 2025, we intend to focus on the unique contributions organizers, thinkers, and actionists living in the South and Appalachia can bring to anarchist and autonomous movements. We invite comrades in the region to gather for a weekend to nourish our connections and stoke our resistance in the struggles that lay before and ahead of us.

Falling on the one-year anniversary of the historic storm that laid waste to these mountains, we invoke this iteration of ACAB as an opportunity to reflect on the lessons learned from a year of responding to both ecological disaster and the ongoing disasters of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and state power. How can anarchism provide a compass for building the worlds we desire as forces of oppression tighten and the pace of collapse escalates?

Please plan to bring good ideas, good friends, and good trouble!

* ACAB remains an event that welcomes attendees from anywhere, we just want to be clear that the gathering we’re planning in 2025 will be more modest in scale, with content largely tailored to our region.

Source: It’s Going Down

Disloyalty day: a call for disruption on May 1st, 2025.

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Anonymous Submission:

May 1st is known in our circles as May Day. It’s a day to honor the haymarket martyrs and the struggles of workers and anarchists around the world.

In this settler-colonial empire, every year on May 1st, the us government declares “loyalty day” a day to pledge allegiance to the sore on the face of the earth known as the USA.

This year, The regime has shifted from insidious liberal violence to open fascism, the flouting of laws that they profess to believe in, the disappearance and deportation of thousands of our friends and neighbors.

On May first, let us declare our disloyalty to the empire and our solidarity with each other through attack. Let us hold marches, parties, demonstrations. Let us sabotage the colonial regime by any means we see necessary. We will destroy what destroys us.

“They Can’t Beat All of Us”

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From CrimethInc.

A Reportback from the Florida Abolitionist Gathering

From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of abolitionists and anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (FAG). Across a passionate weekend of workshops, films, food, debate, ritual, and protest, the contours of a robust regional resistance movement came into focus. The intergenerational, heavily queer and trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the prison-industrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast.

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Washington, DC: DMV Anarchist Bookfair, May 17

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From DMV Anarchist Bookfair

The DMV Anarchist Bookfair will be a space where authors, publishers, activists, and community members come together to explore alternative perspectives, exchange ideas, and question conventional notions of power and authority.

We will feature workshops, book and zine vendors, artists, and music. Beyond serving as a marketplace, our vision is to create a space for connection and empowerment.

The DMV Anarchist Bookfair is committed to inclusivity and accessibility. We ask that patrons wear masks while attending, and we will provide masks at the event. We welcome any and all individuals who are interested in contributing to a more just and equitable society.

DMV Anarchist Bookfair
May 17th 2- 8 pm
1525 Newton St NW DC

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