Its Different Online was handed to me at a recent zine fest, it’s a great pocket sized read on general online security and a great place to start if you want to take your online presence seriously which is important now more than ever. Thank you to the author for letting me post it here for others to download, fulfilling Rat Distro’s commitment to the free spread of information.

New zine submitted anonymously, Ground To A Halt: A Guide to Non-Violent Workplace Sabotage

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Lot Cop

Since around 2018, “Lot Cops,” as they are affectionately named, have been keeping a semi-watchful eye on parking lots around the so-called United States. As the surveillance state grows larger, the places we can escape seem to be shrinking. Once a place for drug deals and other state-deemed “illegal” activities, they are now monitored by cameras that can run night and day with little interference. Just a few weeks ago, I watched as a person physically fought off two Walmart employees as they tried to exit the store with an unchecked bag. Did they make it to their car? I thought as I saw another employee chase them down, would they even be safe? Would the cameras outside in the parking lot catch them leaving and cause more problems? For $35,000, companies can place these mobile surveillance trailers in parking lots or construction sites armed with lights, cameras, solar panels, and wheels. The lot cops impersonate the essence of the ever-watchful police state without actually having a cop presence. The colors I’ve seen them in are either construction site yellow or cold steel gray with flashing blue police lights. They make themselves known to hopefully deter the common “criminal” from grabbing anything they want. This is what the state has resorted to; this is another visible crack in the ever-failing system of capitalism. They are starting to realize that they can’t stop us all. I think there are a lot of ways we could counteract these ever-watching cameras, and I dare you and your friends to do the same and see what fun ideas we come up with.

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Camping

It has been almost a month since the first “Solidarity Encampment” was erected by students in the US, and since then, hundreds have sprouted up around the world. In the past few weeks, I have visited local encampments, read many zines on occupying and holding space, watched videos on older student lock-ins and protests, watched in real time the police brutalize and tear gas multiple camps around the nation, and watched as Zionists assaulted people that could have been me or my friends. Watched as college administrators paid crews of cleaners to clean blood off streets where encampments were raided hours prior. One night on the camp, after a few hours of work, I laid on the cold grass and ate some dried mango that someone had donated. I looked up at the night sky and relaxed as I thought of how this was the closest thing to an autonomous zone I had ever been in. an area without police or rules, free food, water, shelter, books, zines, music, daily speakers and teach-ins, a bubble outside of the hellish world that we have created for ourselves, a place where I can act independently and freely without threat of arrest or otherwise. I know now that, just as the thousands that used to protest in the street just a few months prior, these encampments will soon end either by burn out or by forceful removal by the state. I am not a student. I decided long ago that school was not the place for me, or at least not in its current state, but I believe that these students are doing amazing things, risking almost everything to disrupt the system. But with this in mind, we must learn something from the camps we need to adapt to and continue. I can’t help but think that we need to be doing more. Is camping at a university all I can do to stop the war machine? I’ve said this once recently, and I think it’s true: For the Encampments to Continue We Need Continuous and Planned Escalation of Tactics on A Local and National Level. We need more people, especially students, to view universities as adjacent to prisons because they are not far off. Universities are just as violent as police stations and should not be exempt from any tactics of destruction or otherwise. These are places that promise you a good life and job after putting you into incomprehensible amounts of debt and stress all so they can use your money to fund genocide, invest in private stock exchanges, or build cop cities, not to mention the hierarchical system they uphold within campus. We have a fire going, but we need to keep up the pressure from politicians to universities to whoever is at the Met Gala. The only way we can stop them is together, and we need everyone we can get, for all our actions are incendiary and our spark only grows.

I believe that we will win.

-Sylo

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