True, but for big ones, like the No Kings protests (supported by the Democratic Party), with permits and permission from local authorities, the police generally do nothing because the organizers act as their own police, forcing protesters into the confines of the sanctioned portion of the street or sidewalk.

But if the protesters get unruly and violate the rules of the organizers, or local laws; if spontaneous, unsanctioned protests erupt; if protesters begin burning garbage cans and vandalizing buildings; or if they engage in civil disobedience that disrupts business as usual; the police get involved quickly, bashing heads, launching gas, kettling, mass-arresting and sometimes even shooting protesters, bystanders and the press.

#howardzinn #protest #directaction #civildisobedience #police #freespeech

Two italian Anarchists, Alessandro Mercogliano (Sandro) and Sara Ardizzone, died on Friday in an explosion on the outskirts of Rome. According to italian regime sources, they were preparing explosives in a cottage in the Acquedotti park area.
Both Mercogliano and Ardizzone were veterans of the Anarchist movement in so-called italy. Mercogliano was arrested in 2016 and accused of association with the Informal Anarchist Federation (Federazione Anarchica Informale - FAI). Upon his arrival in ferrara prison, he refused to provide fingerprints or have his photograph taken, and was sentenced to 15 days in solitary confinement. Sentenced to five years, he was acquitted on appeal in 2020.
Sara Ardizzone was charged with robbery in 2023 for stealing a stall and political propaganda of the right-wing lega nord party. In 2021 she had testified as a defendant in the “Operation Sibilla” proceedings, following a nationwide sweep of searches and arrests by carabinieri (italy's regime militarised police). At the hearing she stated to the judge, “As an Anarchist, I am an enemy of this state and any other state. I hate the current existing order and those who hold it; therefore I believe in the righteousness of the violence of the oppressed against their own chains and against those who tighten them.”
Italian mainstream media has variously speculated that the two were preparing to attack a police station, arms company leonardo, or train lines. It was also suggested they intended to highlight the case of Alfredo Cospito. The latter Italian Anarchist is serving life without parole under the harsh 41-bis regime. In May, a court is set to rule on easing his prison conditions, which include solitary confinement 22 hours a day. Cospito was sentenced to 10 years in 2012 for shooting the head of the italian nuclear power company in the knees. Whilst imprisoned, he was convicted of the 2006 bombing of a carabinieri barracks in which unfortunately no state terrorist died.
Anarchist groups in so-called italy have released a statement in solidarity with Sara and Sandro, stating “they will always be a piece of our heart, a heart that can’t do anything other than reject the writing obituary"

#DeathToStateTerrorists #Resistance #violence #Anarchonihilism #killtherich #acab #fightthestate #eattherich #Anarchy #postleft #individualism #insurection #directaction #Chaos #freedom #liberty #killallcops #destroyregime #AllSoldiersAreBastards #killalljudges #DeathToRedScum #KillAllHierarchists #BurnPrisons #FuckTheUSA #FireToThePrisons #insurrection #italy

'The Earthquake Faction' launches by setting ablaze Elbit's Israeli weapons manufacturing centre in the Czech Republic.

Part of the underground group’s communiqué reads:

“On 20th March 2026, the Earthquake Faction struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems’ “Centre of Excellence” was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel’s biggest weapons producer.

Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed.

The site is used to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia.

The Earthquake Faction is an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.”

The Earthquake Faction’s full communiqué and more videos/images are on their website: https://earthquakefaction.net

The group’s action was also posted on Telegram at t.me/earthquake_faction

Today in Labor History March 24, 1987: 250 ACT UP members protested at Wall Street to demand greater access to experimental AIDS drugs and for a coordinated national policy to fight the disease. Seventeen ACT UP members were arrested.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #activism #civildisobedience #directaction #ACTUP #aids #HIV #wallstreet #lgbtq

Razzien in #Berlin und #Brandenburg wegen Anschlag auf #Stromnetz .

‚An mehreren Orten in Berlin hat es am Dienstag Durchsuchungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Anschlag auf das Stromnetz in #Adlershof im September 2025 gegeben.

Durchsucht wurde anderem in Wedding, Prenzlauer Berg, Neukölln und Kreuzberg, wie Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft gemeinsam mitteilten. Des Weiteren waren Objekte in Kyritz (Ostprignitz-Ruppin), Hamburg und Nordrhein-Westfalen betroffen. Insgesamt wurden demnach 17 Objekte von 500 Einsatzkräften untersucht, 14 davon in Berlin.

Die Ermittlungen richteten sich den Angaben zufolge gegen vier Personen im Alter zwischen 28 und 35 Jahren. Nach Informatinen der Deutschen Presse-Agentur (DPA) handelt es sich um zwei Männer und zwei Frauen.

Festgenommen wurden die Verdächtigen laut DPA aber nicht. Haftbefehle können nur bei dringendem Tatverdacht und entsprechenden Beweisen erlassen werden…..‘

https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2026/03/durchsuchungen-berlin-strom-anschlag-polizei.html

Demnach also auch wieder ein reiner Einschüchterungsversuch?
Solidarität an alle Betroffenen!

#Sabotage #DirekteAktion #DirectAction #Repression #Polizei