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Cellphone Antenna Sabotaged with Fire, Bristol

Cells of Fire: Storm of Butterflies | 21.05.2010 18:17 | Ecology | Social Struggles

FOR SELF-ORGANISATION & ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCE

May 21, 2010, approx 2.30am.

A 'T-mobile' repeater was destroyed by fire. All effort was made not to endanger any life and the mast was chosen due to its distance from residential buildings and activity. The fence was cut with bolt-croppers and placed at the base of the antenna, wrapped around the electrical cables powering the mast, was a cut tyre filled with rags soaked in paraffin. Soaked rags were also tied to the cables and tucked into the tyre. Firelighters were used to ignite the lot. The antenna was situated near the central Temple Meads railway station close to a new 'urban development' area.

Destructive acts against the telecommunications infrastructure of capitalist economy are simple and reproducible, as are attacks against other facets of industrial society. The system relies on a network of cables, antennas and power units to enforce and sustain its exploitation. Far from being a faceless abstract enemy, the conduits of commodity production remain attackable at many points, vulnerable to our courage, rage and joy.

We dedicate this action to the arrested anarchists Constantino, Luca and Silvia in Switzerland, accused of conspiring against a nano-tech facility; to all the prisoners of the social struggle in Greece and to all those who have begun to fight, in a myriad of places, of different tongues, races and names.

FOR INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE & CAPITAL

Cells of Fire: Storm of Butterflies



Cells of Fire: Storm of Butterflies

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Good action

21.05.2010 22:22

I like this sort of action. It's direct with none of this fannying around business. If you build it we will burn it sort of thing. Personally whoever you are, I applaud your actions.

Hit corporate business, wherever and whenever!

Soil dweller


Vodaphone will love you

22.05.2010 12:06

Hang on a minuite, if you burn down all the capitalist telecoms infrastructure our phones and internet won't work. Every mast that comes down will cut some one off, and that could be you or me next.

In any case if you burn down T-mobile masts, Vodaphone will love you. Their profits have doubled while T-mobile continue to fall despite rising customer numbers.

 http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/Dealer/T-Mobile_revenue_and_profits_down,_customers_up.aspx
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10120973.stm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Capitalist Bastard


Organising is hard, let's just burn shit.

22.05.2010 13:54

"Destructive acts against the telecommunications infrastructure of capitalist economy are simple and reproducible,"

And a bit pointless.

CH


Capitalists know they can get us hooked

22.05.2010 16:27

Mobiles and internet show how quickly we become dependent on capitalism. 20 years ago ordinary people lived with neither, now I spend £50 a month on them, which I think is about average. But if push came to shove, I wouldn't die if I got cut off. Younger people who have grown up with the mobile, have never been further than a buttons push away from help and support or a lift home in the car from mom. New generations are becoming progressively less independent as a result. Being able to organize daly life without any infrastructure provided by some form of external organization would make us true anarchists. I would be interested to know wether those who carried out this "direct action against capitalism" have mobiles and internet themselves or wether they used them to organize this "action"

would be anarchist


dumb

24.05.2010 18:41

The real story here is that some knobheads get a buzz out of arson. So they justify it to themselves by wrapping it up in somekind of 'fight capitalism' excuse.

I very much doubt these same people go around helping little old ladies with their shopping.
Its just not exciting enough as wearing balaclavas and burning paraffin

Will it change anything? Of course it won't
If you really want to make a difference, help the old people in your community - thats something meaniful and worthwhile.

Also, how can you spend £50 a month on phone?!
I wouldn't even know how to begin to spend that much.
I probably spend a tenner at most - but i'm from the pre-mobile phone generation.

There was a day when we didn't have mobiles or the internet. We actually managed to meet up with each other and get things organised mainly through "courtesy". SImple things like not being late when meeting people. Now people just ring up to say "I'm going to be 20 minutes late". Mobile have made people rude and discourteous. Thats not a fault of the phones, its a fault of people.

loot


down with this sort of thing

25.05.2010 12:34

blah blah bleurghhh

cry minge woan


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