An Open Letter To The Aberdeen City Council

Dear Aberdeen City Council,

You have done your best to create instability and truly life threatening conditions for those on the streets for many years now. When will this stop? When you have eradicated the unhoused and the poor to make way for your plans for gentrification? Well we are getting organized too. We have no plans of stop

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An Open Letter To The Aberdeen City Council

Dear Aberdeen City Council,

You have done your best to create instability and truly life threatening conditions for those on the streets for many years now. When will this stop? When you have eradicated the unhoused and the poor to make way for your plans for gentrification? Well we are getting organized too. We have no plans of stop

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/an-open-letter-to-the-aberdeen-city-council/

#TheHarborRatReport #800080

An Open Letter To The Aberdeen City Council

Dear Aberdeen City Council,

You have done your best to create instability and truly life threatening conditions for those on the streets for many years now. When will this stop? When you have eradicated the unhoused and the poor to make way for your plans for gentrification? Well we are getting organized too. We have no plans of stop

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/an-open-letter-to-the-aberdeen-city-council/

#TheHarborRatReport #800080

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A report back on the recent Dual Power Gathering West that happened in the woods outside of so called Portland , OR at the start of June.

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/a-report-back-dual-power-gathering-west/

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A Report Back – Dual Power Gathering West

You find yourself in the middle of the woods, surrounded by the hum of anarchists chatting and the enticing smell of curry and campfire. Without your headlamp, you can't see anything except the stars through the tree tops. Your cell phone hasn't gone off in days. You are somewhere special, and everyone here knows it. What's happening here, what yo

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Queer Armed Joy: Report Back From Vancouver’s Big Gay Wedding

Dozens of local queers in Southwest Washington State celebrated the unofficial start of summer this year with a ‘Big Gay Wedding’, gathering from morning till afternoon on a warm holiday weekend — right outside of a Christian Nationalist hate church that preaches LGBTQ eradication.
Directed and cheered on b

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Episode 7 Interview With Dr. Aaron Goings

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S: This is Sprout

C: and

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/episode-7-interview-with-dr-aaron-goings/

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Local Leftist Festivities Fall Flat?

Since 1886, May Day has been an important holiday for the global working class. This history is often repressed in this country, being one of a minority that doesn't celebrate International Worker's Day on May first, despite being the country which served as the catalyst that created the holiday after the Haymarket Massacre of 1886. In an attempt to rekindle

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/local-leftist-festivities-fall-flat/

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100 Year Anniversary of the Murder of William Mckay

McKay was an activist and union supporter who was shot in the back of the head while on the picket line in Aberdeen, Washington on May 3, 1923
The Lumber Elite
Despite the widely held conception of lumbermen as freewheeling individuals, mill owners and boss loggers required little prodding to form their own associations to co

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/100-year-anniversary-of-the-murder-of-william-mckay/

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March 2023 News Roundup

Monthly Radical News Roundup:
PNW News
Aberdeen
https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/report-back-on-city-sweep-3-10-2023/
In the middle of a cold March morning The City of Aberdeen destroyed multiple peoples’ homes
After delivering a 72-hour notice  on Monday, the City moved in around 10am on Friday with bulldozers and dump trucks in order to com

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/march-2023-news-roundup/

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New article, "The Problem With Good Cops" discusses the Police, their effect on our communities, their goals in society, and why the "good cop" you know may not be as good as you think.

Check it out at our website https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-problem-with-good-cops/

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The Problem With Good Cops

by Fox
Every day people in this town who are unhoused and spend their nights along the city streets of Aberdeen are moved along each day by the police in this town. Even those in camps allowed by the City are routinely swept out of their spot to "clean". This process of cleaning involves moving people out of the structures they've built and demolishing them, along with any be

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-problem-with-good-cops/

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Crimethinc: A Field Guide to Wheatpasting

Everything You Need to Know to Blanket the World in Posters
by Crimethinc

Like graffiti, wheatpasting is a direct action technique for communicating with your neighbors and redecorating your environment. Because it’s easy to mass-produce posters, wheatpasting enables you to deploy a nuanced, complex message at a large number of locations with m

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/crimethinc-a-field-guide-to-wheatpasting/

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Report Back on City Sweep 3/10/2023

In the middle of a cold March morning The City of Aberdeen destroyed multiple peoples' homes
After delivering a 72-hour notice on Monday, the City moved in around 10am on Friday with bulldozers and dump trucks in order to commit an illegal sweep of the River St encampment of unhoused individuals.

Many people had no time to prepare as the week

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/report-back-on-city-sweep-3-10-2023/

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To pair with our recent interview on It Could Happen Here, we are releasing this companion article, "The Dichotomy Between Urban and Rural Political Organizing"

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/category/harbor-rat/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/rural-organizing-part-1-ft-andrew-110058824/

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The Dichotomy Between Urban and Rural Political Organizing

by Fox

This is an article meant to pair with our recent interview along the same topic on It Could Happen Here. The interview can be found at the end of the text.

The Dichotomies

Here in a small rural town we face a large opposition in the form of right wing extremists, both institutional and grassroots.

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-dichotomy-between-urban-and-rural-political-organizing/

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Problematizing Permaculture

How to Safeguard Ecological Movements from Far Right Infiltration and Co-optation

“THE TRAGIC REALITY is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them.
“We should cease to look to

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/problematizing-permaculture/

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The Politics of Permaculture, a Review

Social Movement or Cult?

In his book, The Politics of Permaculture, Terry Leahy describes permaculture as being guided by the charismatic authorities who initially developed the design system. Leahy adopts the Weber definition of the term 'charismatic authorities' such that the authority is "tied to an individual personality who is considered extrao

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/the-politics-of-permaculture-a-review/

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January 2023 News Roundup

In local news:

Within Washington

[Aberdeen]

C: As February approaches there is still no cold weather shelter in Aberdeen, and from the sounds of it, there wont be. In addition, the nearby city of Westport has had some recent controversy around their shelter.

In recent weeks, formal requests by Westport city officials, which echoed public push back against the shelter

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/january-2023-news-roundup/

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Red Harbor: The IWW in Grays Harbor, Washington

By Aaron Goings

Via Raccoon

Grays Harbor is as an inviting starting point for a history of Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies) in the Pacific Northwest because any study of this region should place this militant revolutionary organization and the dramatic labor confrontations it waged at or near the center.  This

https://sabotmedia.noblogs.org/red-harbor-the-iww-in-grays-harbor-washington/

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