Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, was liberated from a tiny cage in the Central Park Zoo in New York City by a courageous act of anonymous animal liberation on February 2, 2023. He became a symbol of freedom for countless New Yorkers.

Flaco passed away this week after a year at liberty. We mourn his death—just one of countless creatures killed by a metropolitan environment that is hostile to life itself.

The Wildlife Conservation Society issued a statement saying "The vandal who damaged Flaco’s exhibit... is ultimately responsible for his death” and calling for the New York Police Department to make arrests. Maybe they should change their name to the Wildlife Incarceration Society.

The problem is not those who liberate animals from cages. The problem is that our society's relationship to the biosphere is destructive to all forms of life. We need human and animal liberation on a much larger scale.

Flaco showed us that, given the chance, we all have what it takes to be free. Let's make a world that is safe for us all.

Until every cage is empty. 🏴🦉

Today marks two years since Russia initiated the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.

https://crimethinc.com/AntiwarRussia2022

The invasion would never have been possible if Putin’s regime had not spent the past decade crushing every social movement in Russia—using torture to extract false confessions from arrestees and imprisoning or assassinating countless people. But this is not limited to Russia alone.

Everywhere on earth, governments are relying on more and more repressive and invasive policing to control restless populations. The war in Ukraine is part of a story that is familiar in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan, Palestine, and elsewhere. It represents the same strategy that governments around the world are employing within their territories, expanded to the scale of geopolitics: the recourse to brute force to suppress resistance and extend control.

Wherever we fight against state repression, we are fighting against a future of war.

In this picture, anarchists march today in Vilnius.

Tonight, demonstrators marched through Tucson, Arizona in solidarity with the movement to #StopCopCity. Windows were broken at PNC Bank, which funds the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and Wells Fargo. A Wells Fargo executive is on the board of the Atlanta Police Foundation, the organization that is pushing for the city of Atlanta to channel untold millions of dollars into the construction of a wildly unpopular police militarization facility.

https://crimethinc.com/copcities

*Note: We're extending issue 5 sub period to August 25th. We still need more fiction submissions.*

We're taking time this week to clarify each of our four journal topics and what we look for in submissions. Today we'll focus on:

🏴ANARCHISM:🏴

Anarchy is essentially a social and political theory against domination and oppression.

Despite what your terrible friends have told you, anarchy is not chaos. Instead it's self-determined order that champions the individual as a free & equal being committed to upholding freedom & equality in their community.

Opposing capitalism & government, anarchy offers ideas for a society based on liberty, equality & solidarity.

Beyond these tenets, anarchist visions for a better society are not prescribed or fixed, but are fluid according to the real conditions and ideas of the people living in the community.

So we look for submissions that:

1) Critique capitalism, government, or other forms of domination

2) Meld anarchist ideals of individual autonomy and care for the community

3) Show acts of solidarity, mutual aid, or resistance against oppression.

You don't have to be an anarchist to submit to Radon. Many of our authors do not yet use that label for themselves, but all still identify with its critiques of capitalism and social domination and fight with their words for a brighter future.

What we look for are ideas common among anarchists, socialists, libertarian communists, and leftists—that individuals are worthy of both freedom and equality.

And that a community built on solidarity and mutual aid is how we can achieve a better world.

Issued on July 26, 1948, Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 eradicated segregation in military. The response from the military units, however, ranged from muted to outright hostility. This was no surprise. Truman’s decision & the reactions to it symbolized Black Americans’ broad struggle for dignity, respect, opportunity, and freedom in the United States of America.

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The Times is right — e-bikes are a scourge and we must do everything we can to protect our fragile SUV-driving elites from these teen terrors. I propose we construct a nationwide network of separated e-bike enclosures to segregate these monsters from god-fearing motorists.

I’ve attached one such example from a European petrostate that has spent years valiantly protecting cars from the ravages of cycling. With work, we may be able to reduce the number of cyclist-on-motorist deaths to zero.