Filed under: Anarchist Movement, Announcement—Youth Liberation Front https://itsgoingdown.org/july-25th-day-of-action/
The Youth Liberation Front (YLF) makes the following call for a day of action in solidarity with the ongoing
resistance in Portland.
On July 25th, youth abolitionists are calling for a national and global march against the institution of policing. We are demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Stephon Clark, Philando Castille, Eric Garner, Quanice Hayes, Patrick Kimmons, Sean Monterrosa and the thousands more taken by the hands of racist police.
Time and time again, the neo-liberal state has offered promises of “reform” with no real action ever taken. The time for discussing reform is over, we need full abolition for our communities to be safe and free from rampant police terror.
We are calling on all abolitionists, youth or non-youth, to coordinate mass protests on July 25th to show the world that the fire of this uprising is still burning strong, and that flames will just keep getting bigger until the police state has been dismantled once and for all.
This call to action comes right after Trump has announced he will be sending the federal troops that have been occupying Portland, Oregon, all across the nation.
The Federal Government has already waged war against Portland, which has been protesting everyday for 50 days straight, and now feds are going to war against protesters everywhere in an attempt to take control and snuff out the fire of this uprising. We must become more powerful than them.
Form an affinity group.
Coordinate an action.
Get tactical.
Mask up.
Bring a friend.
Show up.
–PNW Youth Liberation Front.
-Marin Youth Liberation Front.
-Tennessee Youth Liberation Front.
-Direct Action Alliance.
–Maryland Youth Liberation Front.
-Olympia Youth Liberation Front
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Portland Is Coming Together Against the State: Some Notes
Filed under: Action, Anarchist Movement, The State—Anonymous Contributor
This short report on the current situation in Portland was originally published by Black Powder Press.
cover image from Robert Evans
Last night saw one of the largest, most rowdy, and well prepared crowds at the justice center in PDX in over a month. Protesters came out with helmets, shields, goggles, gas masks, medical supplies, laser pointers, spotlights, and as seen in this video, the knowledge, materials, and confidence to deal with tear gas.
Some canisters were returned to sender, while others were simply extinguished by pouring water on them. As we all know now, they are heat activated and just require getting squirted with a half a squirt bottle or dropped into an open jug of water.
The mom-bloc (also being referred to as ‘mom-tifa’) was also out in force tonight and on the frontlines, facing off with the pigs and protecting the crowd with their bodies and determination.
The rumor is that the mother of Donovan Labella, the protester who the feds put in critical condition with a fractured skull after shooting him in the head with a impact munition from a shotgun last week, called for moms to come out and essentially fight for a better world for their children and do everything they can to keep them safe.
And the moms have answered that call. Saturday was the first appearance of the moms as a force, and last night their numbers had by multiplied several times. “When the moms come out to fight, the empire has already fallen.”
The night saw extended clashes and an escalated level of violence from the feds, who were clearly unhappy with the huge crowd who was there to expel them. Several rounds of tear gas didn’t deter the crowd, who regrouped over and over and marched back to the justice center and federal courthouse repeatedly.
Momentum is building in Portland as tactics escalate. As many liberals (and everyone to the right of liberals) would have you believe, the burning of the Portland Police union building last night did not alienate people from participating. In fact it did the opposite, as more and more people have become inspired with the ferocity that people are showing as they fight against this despicable system that was founded on the back of genocide against the continent’s original inhabitants and the labor and death of Black bodies stolen from across the ocean.
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