Posted on 04/20/2017 6:52:09 PM PDT by markomalley
Early in the morning of April 20th we poured concrete on the train tracks that lead out of the Port of Olympia to block any trains from using the tracks. We took precautions to notify BNSF (the train company) – we called them and we used wires to send a signal that the tracks were blocked. We did this not to avoid damaging a train, nothing would bring bigger grins to our faces, but to avoid the risk of injuring railway workers.
This action was done to disrupt the movement of trains carrying proppants used in natural gas fracturing. These train tracks are part of a system of pipelines, fracking wells, mines, clearcuts, control centers, fiberoptics, dams, highways and factories that cover the planet and are physical manifestations of a process that is destroying the ecosystems, cultures, and inhabitants everywhere. Behind this network of infrastructure there are politicians, CEOs and bureaucrats who have private security, cops, prison guards, non-profit directors, PR consultants and the legacy of 500 years of colonization to back them up. We oppose all of these manifestations, infrastructural, personal and ideological. We blocked the train tracks because we want to blockade the entire web of domination that is slowly killing us.
We were inspired to take this action by acts of resistance taking place across turtle island and the world, particularly the fierce indigenous resistance of water protectors against the Dakota Access Pipe Line, the encampment blocking a train full of fracking material on these same tracks in Olympia this past November, and the clandestine attacks against pipelines in Florida, South Dakota and Iowa.
We also were emboldened by the spirit of all those who have risen against the white supremacist police in Furguson, Baltimore, Oakland and elsewhere, as well as by the riotous opposition that has characterized the first few months of Donald Trump’s reign.
Resistance to this many-tendriled death machine has and must take many forms. Some have set their goals narrow and try just to stop the port from shipping proppants. We are aiming beyond, for a liberation that destroys all vestiges of oppression and colonization leaving us free to experiment with ways of living in cooperation on our own terms. We want to unlearn the legacies of domination that we have inherited. We need a diverse and vibrant resistance composed of more forms of destruction, mutual aid and solidarity than we can yet imagine.
This action and actions like it are quite easy to do yourself. This only took a few hours and a little bit of planning. The hardest part was calming our nerves. Particularly easy was placing wire on the tracks to send a signal to the train company that the tracks were blocked. This action can and has been easily repeated wherever train tracks are. For more info on how to do this check out this explanatory video.
Concrete on the tracks is just a start
Rest in Power James Marker!
Free Red Fawn!
-some anarchists
They won’t last long.
Should be a capital offense.
That is only a disclaimer used for public consumption. In reality, leftists love to commit violence against people. They have always been, and will always remain, violent.
Hmmm, I seem to remember German saboteurs during WWII who landed on the East Coast in a submarine; all but one were executed in short order — the exception, IIRC, is the one who turned himself and the others *in*.
Ping.
B.S. - The U.S. Congress has FAR more power than the other two branches combined. Everyone in D.C. knows this.
Our 'domestic terrorists' are our state-elected representatives.
This action was done to disrupt the movement of trains carrying proppants used in natural gas fracturing.
In other words you did it to hurt America. That make you a terrorist.
sounds like terror group
Who ARE these sociopaths?
Causing a train wreck would bring smiles to their faces?
What if a tanker car spilled toxic waste?
That's not so environmentally "friendly" is it you a$$holes?
And if you killed the train operating crew, would THAT be OK?
Don't forget that the left wants us all out of our cars and riding trains.
These creeps are the biggest, most violent group of hypocrites on the planet. (Which they clearly DON'T care about!)
10 years hard labor (breaking concrete, maybe?)
Furgason????.....what happened in Furgason?
well, still, Furguson?...I was so shook up by that declaration that I misspelled the word they misspelled.
As they type it out on their Mac computers.
“Attention FBI and Homeland:”
Nearing the time to give the FBI ‘something to lose’ since they are not just ineffective, but complicit.
See the Antifa crap at Berzerkly? The FBI could care less about RICO type activity admitted to by their very membership.
F the FBI and Comey.
Life sentence with possibility of parole after 20 maybe.
Trump has successfully driven the Left completely over the edge. He is continually poking them with a stick to keep them stirred up. His re-election is assured.
http://q13fox.com/2016/11/18/protesters-removed-from-olympia-train-tracks-nearly-a-dozen-arrested/
11/18/16
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Police say about a dozen people were arrested early Friday morning in Olympia.
Officers cleared protesters from the train tracks by 7 a.m. Police said they arrested six people near the railway and at least five others who were actually on the tracks.
About 30 people had been on the tracks for three days, police said.
Shame of it he was receiving taxpayer dollars for years.
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