In the early morning of August 1st, a group of anti-colonial anarchists took out all the
windows to the Tucson office of G4S. This action was taken in solidarity with those
surviving and struggling in Occupied Palestine and also as a strike against border
enforcement on Occupied Tohono O'odham land in southern Arizona. It is also a gesture of
solidarity to those planning on blocking Israeli commercial ships from docking in Oakland
on August 2nd. ---- G4S provides security and infrastructure for a number of Israeli
prisons and checkpoints in the occupied territories. Since Palestinian Prisoners' Day of
2012, G4S has been the target of an international campaign as a result of these
operations. ---- G4S is involved in incarceration, immigrant detention, and deportation
globally. When people in what are called the U.S.-Mexico borderlands are apprehended on
immigration-related charges, it is G4S-operated buses that transport them to detention
centers, courthouses, and ultimately to the border for deportation. In the recent past,
there have been multiple actions against these buses, including a blockade of the G4S bus
depot. A recent action against the buses transporting people to Operation Streamline
effectively blocked the criminal prosecution of nearly 70 detainees.
G4S is only one of many entities directly implicated in occupation and militarization on
the so-called U.S.-Mexico border and in Palestine. Israeli contractor Elbit systems was
recently awarded a DHS contract for surveillance infrastructure in southern Arizona, based
largely on the company's work on Israel's apartheid wall. Struggles against borders here
and the fight for a free Palestine are intertwined in their common resistance to colonialism.
It is hoped that this action can be another push in the collaboration between
anti-colonial, anarchist, and no borders movements. It is also a call to continue the
local momentum towards more disruptive and confrontational actions against the systems
that seek to control us. We will experiment relentlessly with ways to make these systems
totally unworkable on the ground.
It is feasible to attack!
Against all borders and prisons
Towards the total abolition of Border Patrol, The Police, and all pigs everywhere
Free Palestine
- some anti-colonial anarchists on Occupied Tohono O'odham Land
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