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Portland Hillsboro, Oregon (USA) : FIRE AT HILLSBORO DATA CENTER

On Thursday, May 23rd, a thick cloud of putrid black smoke rose over Hillsboro, OR. The smoke was from an early morning fire at one of the massive data centers based in the city. According to local media, the fire originated from batteries inside the Digital Realty (PDX 11) data center. Unfortunately, the flames did not spread to the rest of the data center and the damage was minimal. Firefighters let the fire burn itself out for five hours. The fire caused major disruptions on the web, including big outages to X/Twitter, which was reportedly one of the companies leasing space at the data center. There is currently no public information about the cause of the fire.

Hillsboro, Portland’s Western neighbor, is home to several major data centers that are the engines of digital control and technological domination. Incentivized by tax breaksand lax regulations, Hillsboro (AKA the Silicon Forest) has become an important international hub for the tech industry. Data centers and chip manufacturer like Intel have expanded their footprint there in recent years, and the AI boom is likely to bring in more new construction. This rapid expansion requires hugely increased power supply; the upgrade of existing transmission infrastructure, the installation of new “green” energy facilities in Eastern Oregon, and even proposals to construct nuclear power plants along the Columbia river. Portland General Electric (PGE) planned on clearcutting several acres in Forest Park to make way for new high-voltage pylons. From Against the Silicon Forest: “These power lines are designed to bring power to the Silicon Forest, most notably given the timing of this expansion, to Intel, whose largest operating hub lies just a short distance west of Forest Park.” The project is currently in limbo, awaiting the next action from PGE (PGE can choose to appeal the land use ruling and win approval from the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals).

Data centers in Hillsboro, Oregon.

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Greece: Casus Rebelli 4 Initiative for total army refusal (athens)

Press here to download the file in pdf format.

Contents:

  • Editorial
  • For solidarity to army refuser Ella Keidar Greenberg (Israel)
  • Refusal Statement: The imperative is Refusal
  • Against military service and for the rejection of all militarism (Hamburg)
  • Toulouse, au centre des guerres
  • Militarism and “anti-militarism” in Bristol and beyond
  • The Local Face of Militarism (Slovenia)
  • Solidarity to the regions of Palestine – Insubordinates to the slaughters of state and bosses
  • Burnt flags look beautiful
  • Nations are not vegeterians…

 

EDITORIAL

We have entered a condition in which the war rhetorics, actions and policies are proliferating and presented by the dominant groups as a ‘natural’ outcome – for some of its actors inevitable and for others legitimate – of the immediately preceding era, that of fear and imperilment. Now, the economic plunder, the strategies of customs tariffs and inflation, with all the techno-scientific controls at their side, are expressed in warlike terms.

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Number of the day: a 50% increase of physical attacks on the war economy

The news came to us from a specialist journal that not many read, other than those interested, and from someone who is usually more discreet, but who felt that the time was serious enough to sound the alarm.

In the April 14, 2025 issue of the monthly magazine L’Usine Nouvelle, an interview with General Philippe Susnjara, head of the French Defense Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRSD) we learn about the “radicalization of certain anti-militarist groups”, with the very interesting consequence of “potentially curbing increases in the rate of production driven by prime contractors in the midst of a war economy”. And just to give a few tips to enthusiasts of the topic, another business journalist added the next day on a state radio station that “it’s the SMEs in the sector that are most exposed. They are more numerous, less protected than the major companies, and often ill-prepared.”

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Library, Solidarity Events, e.t.c.

The Anarchist library is closing permanently due to the closure of The Field which has kindly hosted us since August 2023. (South London,UK)

The last normal Touchpaper opening will be Tuesday 22nd April. After this we will not have a permanent place for the library or discussions (for the foreseeable future).

But TOUCHPAPER DISTRO will continue! And TOUCHPAPER ‘SOCIAL STUDY CIRCLE’ will start meeting soon, in whatever places we can find to gather in.

For anyone interested in circulating, reading and discussing anarchist texts and ideas, please join our mailing list by emailing [email protected]

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Threat Library: Case against Louna, France

From Threat Library – Repressive Operations

On the night of May 4 to May 5, 2024, an excavator was set on fire at the construction site of a highway project.[1] On October 12, 2024, Louna was arrested and accused of setting the excavator on fire. Several other people were arrested and released soon after.

CCTV footage from the arson site showed two people setting fire to the excavator, and one of them burning themselves accidentally. In the hours following the arson, Louna was brought by car to a nearby hospital, where she was admitted for burns allegedly compatible with those visibly suffered by the person who burned themselves in the footage.

After her arrest, Louna was detained in isolation for four months — she was in isolation because she was in a men’s prison despite being a (trans) woman.[2] After her arrest, she claimed responsibility for the degradations against the excavator. She is currently under judicial supervision pending trial.

Techniques used

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Zine: The Struggle Against Ghost Robotics

It is unclear what the struggle for Palestinian liberation will look like in the coming days. At the time of this writing a ceasefire has just been reached between Hamas and the Zionist entity, at the same time the Zionist entity continues to devastate Gaza and the West Bank.

Last year a specific struggle against a local technology company connected the dots between Palestinian liberation, local gentrification, education, militarism, and borders. The company in question, Ghost Robotics, has come under fire for creating robot dogs used by the Israeli Defense Forces.

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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece, Library

The most beautiful days are when it rains…stones on the streets (Athens,Greece)

FR:

THE BEST DAYS ARE WHEN IT RAINS…

The rallies of February 28th have left a resounding impression behind them. Everyone (government, think tanks, parties, media) sees the crowd gathered in terms of statistics and votes, “national mourning”, “indignation” and “expectation of a better state”. It is a convenient reading: it is wise to homogenize the widespread social dissatisfaction and anger – not only for the Tempi – under pandemic “national needs” because it is dangerous. To fit it into molds of loyalty and “peaceful protest” . To give “presence” to the Constitution – as if it were not a strike – but a social media event. To make the Tempi case a riddle to be solved by “experts” and “uneducated judges”. The people who took to the streets had somehow to conform to a savoir vivre defined by some abstract “common mourning”, to define themselves permanent victims (a favorite role of the left) who are only seeking a little state care and affection and not to express their anger at the oppression they receive on many fronts. To be indignant about the “cover-up” while forgetting something basic, that there is a permanent and concrete “cover-up”: in the world of the state, the bosses and the patriarchy, “accidents” happen to disposable lives. So it’s not just trains, but all of everyday life: from accidents in the workplace (45 dead already in 2025), the “deflected” police bullets on the bodies of “undesirables”, to the murders of immigrants at the borders…

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Cops and robbers? A history of investigative techniques 2025

Imprisoned for publishing an anarchist newspaper

In what follows, we’re going to tell you about the miserable endeavor that kept the Munich State Protection busy for two years: how the hell they managed to steal the blood of anarchist N. for a DNA sample. The Bavarian cops spared no expense or effort to carry out this operation, and some of the methods they employed may well be of interest to you. At the end of the text, you’ll also find a list of other investigative measures used by the Munich police during this investigation.

Recently, on February 26, 2025, anarchist comrades N. and M. were arrested. The initial arrest warrant was issued with the charge of criminal conspiracy, for publishing (together with another person) the anarchist periodical Zündlumpen.

More details on these charges can be found here.

What is policing?

One could say that the police are nothing more than a permanent military occupying force on a particular territory, attempting to project its power across space (and time) by means of technological tools. Our dear detectives Obermaiers, Findeisens, Unglaubs, and Rinds understood this perfectly, participating in a reading group called “EG Schrift” [“Special Writing Investigation Group”], which was certainly informative for them. But nobody understands this better, to the point of having managed to fool entire squads of cops for years, than the famous Bavarian “folk heroes”. All of them thieves and poachers, like the Bavarian Hiasl or the brigand Kneißl, and not forgetting all the peasant deserters during the first revolutionary uprisings against the (Bavarian) authorities. However, it’s not just these famous figures from a long-forgotten era, but also countless present-day individuals who still manage to escape the clutches of the henchmen of the (renewed) Bavarian dynasty, exposing them more or less mercilessly to public ridicule.

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Return Fire vol.6 chap.8 – winter 2024-2025 releases, part ii

We present the second part of this winter’s double-issue (part i here), and a separate version of the covers if you’re printing yourself. Contents follow:

Green Anarchy in the UK
(posing the old question anew)

L’Espoir C’est La Lutte
(strategy for subversive encounters)

‘The Position of the Excluded’
& ‘Thrown Out of the Troika of History to the Wolves of Memory’

The Kanak Insurrection and the Nickel Industry
(anti-colonial uprising in the age of “green” energy)

Calling It Terror
& ‘A Lose-Lose Situation’

Avoiding the ‘Peaceful Protest’ Trap
(getting street-wise for the coming round of confrontations)

Follow the Fires
& ‘Identity Precedes Ideology’

Beyond the Screen, the Stars
& We Close the Door

Poems for Love, Loss and War

Memory as a Weapon
(a window into mind-sets of revenge and pleasure in (pre-)revolutionary times)

Rebels Behind Bars
(text by prisoners & repression news)

Wounded Healers
(review: Derrick Jensen’s ‘Anarchism & the Politics of Violation’)

The Darkness Criticizes the Wolf for Howling at the Moon
(countering revisionism in anti-authoritarian spiritualities)

…and more!

In coming days, the six supplement zines to this double-chapter will be uploaded and announced, along with other website additions and news.

For a March 8th of memory and struggle,

R.F.

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Joint Munitions Command production, storage, and distribution facilities across the USA

2025/03/06

The following dossier contains descriptions of all Joint Munitions Command production, storage, and distribution facilities from the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant to the east coast. It does not include dedicated JMC demilitarization facilities.

Each document is a guide to the facility location, its purpose, its function and known links within military and civilian arms manufacture, and its connection to this wider network via military-designated strategic rail (STRACNET). These facilities are not wholly dependent on rail for shipping, but the nature of the military equipment they produce guarantees that much of it must move by rail between manufacturing locations and to east coast ports for transport to Israel or supporting US installations and vessels in the region.

These facilities covered here are, from west to east:
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