Flock destroyed in Eugene, OR

2 Flock cameras were destroyed in so called Eugene OR the other night. Those of us responsible reject the tech bro dystopia that the city of Eugene has decided to sign up for. We refuse to live in a world that looks more like a panopticon than a free society. Cameras that track and store our every move for the ever widening eye of the empire will be brought down no matter how many time the city repairs them. Flock cameras do not protect us they only protect the wealthy and their property who look down on us in the south hills as if they were better than us. They do nothing to stop the abuses we see each day, such as our friends having their only earthly possessions stolen by the city parks department under the approving gaze of the cops. Flock can only be used against us. It was revealed just this week that Flock was used to track down a woman who had a self managed abortion in Texas. The only answer is to smash Flock cameras everywhere and we will do just that.

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FIRE AT HILLSBORO DATA CENTER

On Thursday, May 23rd, a thick cloud of putrid black smoke rose over Hillsboro, OR. The smoke was from an early morning fire at one of the massive data centers based in the city. According to local media, the fire originated from batteries inside the Digital Realty (PDX 11) data center. Unfortunately, the flames did not spread to the rest of the data center and the damage was minimal. Firefighters let the fire burn itself out for five hours. The fire caused major disruptions on the web, including big outages to X/Twitter, which was reportedly one of the companies leasing space at the data center. There is currently no public information about the cause of the fire.

Hillsboro, Portland’s Western neighbor, is home to several major data centers that are the engines of digital control and technological domination. Incentivized by tax breaksand lax regulations, Hillsboro (AKA the Silicon Forest) has become an important international hub for the tech industry. Data centers and chip manufacturer like Intel have expanded their footprint there in recent years, and the AI boom is likely to bring in more new construction. This rapid expansion requires hugely increased power supply; the upgrade of existing transmission infrastructure, the installation of new “green” energy facilities in Eastern Oregon, and even proposals to construct nuclear power plants along the Columbia river. Portland General Electric (PGE) planned on clearcutting several acres in Forest Park to make way for new high-voltage pylons. From Against the Silicon Forest: “These power lines are designed to bring power to the Silicon Forest, most notably given the timing of this expansion, to Intel, whose largest operating hub lies just a short distance west of Forest Park.” The project is currently in limbo, awaiting the next action from PGE (PGE can choose to appeal the land use ruling and win approval from the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals).

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May Day Picnic

May 1st, 2025 – Peninsula Park, Portland – 4:30-7pm

Let’s celebrate the arrival of spring and the indomitable spirit of anarchy! A chance to make new friends and reconnect with old friends. Please bring snacks and games to share, poetry, stories, and other readings, and photos, flowers, and any other offerings you’d like for a memorial to fallen comrades.

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Running a Bail Fund: An Introduction

“This documentation is intended to share knowledge
about operating a bail fund to support protestors. While
it discusses legal, jail, and prison support, bail is the
primary focus. Our experience is around operating a bail
fund for protestors arrested at a series of related protests.
We are not experienced with running a permanent bail
fund for a broader range of arrestees, although much of
guide is applicable beyond supporting protestors.”

PDF: bailfund

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Fire Destroys Mansion Under Construction

[FROM MAINSTREAM MEDIA]

A large fire destroyed a 12,000-square-foot single-family home in east Clark County early Sunday morning, fire officials said.

Just after 4:37 a.m., firefighters from East County Fire and Rescue were called out to a construction site on Northeast Livingston Mountain Circle.

The first crews found a fully involved fire at the home, still under construction. Wind from the east caused problems, and one nearby house was threatened as the fire burned vegetation around the two-story home being built.

No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is under investigation by the Clark County Fire Marshal’s Office.

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This Rose Has Thorns 2024: A year of anarchic attacks in so-called Portland

A few years ago, in the aftermath of the George Floyd rebellion in Portland, a zine was made chronicling the autonomous attacks that proliferated across the city as public
demonstrations increasingly became a dead end. Feeling
inspired by the daring attacks against authority that occurred
in 2024, we decided to create an (incomplete) compilation zine. Some of the attacks listed here were explicitly claimed by anarchists, while others were done by perpetrators with
unknown motivations, but whose actions we think are of
interest to anarchists. All of the attacks mentioned here took
place outside of publicly announced events.

Here’s to a 2025 full of joy and destruction! Long Live Anarchy!

Links to download PDFs:

rosethornsreading

rosethorns-booklet

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Some Initial Thoughts On Unity Of Fields

[I am writing as an insurrectionary anarchist in the u$a and speaking to that context]

Unity Of Fields is a counter-info project that emerged in August of 2024. They describe their project as “a militant propaganda front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism.” It used to be Palestine Action US and has since changed its orientation. It has a website and some social media accounts, some of which have are banned at the time of this writing, they seem to be most popular on Telegram. Although it links to mostly anarchist sources for technical knowledge, Unity Of Fields does not seem to be an anarchist project and their political reading and media suggestions are all over the map. They suggest classic decolonial texts by Fanon and Cesaire, Black liberation writings from the BLA and BPP, texts from various Palestinian resistance factions, as well as authoritarian communists like Lenin and Mao among others.

Mostly their website is a clearing house for news, action analysis, and communiques. Many of the communiques posted are original submissions though they also repost from other counter-info projects and from social media. They also post some of their own original writings to their website. The fact that they post sketchy criminal stuff and link to technical advice on how to better carry out insurrectionary forms of struggle is probably a large part of why they are discussed in anarchist circles at all.

What does the emergence of a project like Unity Of Fields mean for us as anarchists? For one thing Unity Of Fields expands some spaces we occupy as anarchists — the combative struggle space and the digital counter-info space. We are clearly not the only ones re-coloring walls, opening windows, and carrying out our little sabotages and then writing about it, though at least for now others seem to look to our collective knowledge and experience for technical guidance. We are sharing a struggle space, one which is not limited to riotous moments and combative demonstrations, with other rebels who have made themselves visible to us. We are being included (at least some of the time) in a dialogue with other rebels through the sharing of our words and news of our actions, and anarchists have shared writings from Unity Of Fields on our own websites.

Local struggles against zionism, imperialism, and colonialism are visibly taking on more destructive, decentralized, anonymous, and autonomous approaches, a long-term dream of insurrectionary anarchists, yet new questions arise for us. How do we want to contend with other rebels with whom we have ideological differences and tactical similarities? How do we avoid getting lost in the vanguardist, unifying, nationalist tendencies that often accompany revolutionary leftist approaches to combative struggle? Are we interested in conspiring with these others outside the spontaneity of spiky demonstrations, occupations (and potentially riots), and if so how? Continue reading “Some Initial Thoughts On Unity Of Fields”