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A Requiem for the Olympia Blockade
November 30, 2017 12:13 pmI didn’t see it until 8:30 in the morning, while shirking my duties and privileges as a college student to pay attention... Read Full Article
Autonomous, not Atomized: Reflections on the Port of Olympia Blockade
November 29, 2017 7:09 pmdisclaimer: this statement, as with every other statement released by accomplices within the olympia stand, does not represent the views of the... Read Full Article
Commune Against Civilization: Dispatch #2 from Olympia Blockade
November 24, 2017 4:02 pmDispatches from an uninvited guest on COAST SALISH TERRITORY SQUAXIN AND NISQUALLY LAND “The institution of Slavery is the principal cause of civilization.... Read Full Article
Commune Against Civilization: Dispatches from Olympia Blockade
November 20, 2017 5:00 pmDispatch #1 from an Uninvited Guest on COAST SALISH TERRITORY, SQUAXIN AND NISQUALLY LAND – It’s been one year since the Olympia... Read Full Article
URGENT: Olympia Blockades Again!
November 17, 2017 7:00 pmAt the time of this posting, people are gathering at the downtown Olympia intersection of 7th Ave & Jefferson to block a... Read Full Article
Olympia Blockade: Direct Action in Defense of Mother Earth
November 17, 2016 1:49 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down This short documentary film interviews active participants in an ongoing blockade of trains which are carrying fracking materials.... Read Full Article
Solecast: Long Live the Olympia Fracking Blockade
December 12, 2017 2:53 pmListen and Download Here In this episode of the Solecast I chatted with 4 participants from the Olympia Fracking Blockade, an occupation that... Read Full Article
Medford, OR: Train Stopped In Solidarity with the Olympia Train Blockade
November 30, 2017 12:22 pmThe following anonymous communique was submitted to Puget Sound Anarchists, and claims that individuals in solidarity with the #OlympiaBlockade took the following actions. For... Read Full Article
Olympia Stand Blockade Raided on the Twelfth Day
November 29, 2017 9:18 pm“the police raid was accompanied by officers in full riot gear and an MRAP, an armored vehicle used by the U.S. military…”... Read Full Article
Train Stopped and Banner Dropped in Solidarity with #OlympiaBlockade
November 28, 2017 4:39 pmIn solidarity with the ongoing #OympiaBlockade, people are taking action in solidarity. According to an anonymous post on Puget Sound Anarchists, persons unknown shorted... Read Full Article
Commune by the Tracks: Discussion on the #OlympiaBlockade
November 25, 2017 1:58 amIn this episode, we discuss the ongoing Olympia blockade against fracking proppants with several locals who have watched the blockade, also known... Read Full Article
Audio Report: Behind the Anti-Fracking Blockade in Olympia
November 20, 2017 8:15 pmDownload and Print PDF Here Photo from Tony Overman from The Olympian Over the past several days, a blockade has sprung up in Olympia,... Read Full Article
The Olympia Commune and the Blockade of the Port
December 19, 2016 12:43 amFrom Transmetropolitan Review It started out simply enough. Someone ran in front of the tracks and stopped a train. The grain cars attached... Read Full Article
Olympia: Solidarity Needed with Ongoing Fracking Blockade
November 15, 2016 2:02 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down At the time of this writing, on November 14, 2016, railroad tracks leading into the Port of Olympia... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: Alfredo Bonanno Memorial
December 31, 2023 2:00 amReport back originally published on Puget Sound Anarchists on memorial for Alfredo Bonanno in so-called Olympia, WA. For background, see this recent... Read Full Article
Lacey, WA: Report Back from ‘Blockade the Genocide’ Action
December 19, 2023 12:57 pmReport back on blockade of Amazon distribution center for their role in support the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Originally posted to Puget... Read Full Article
Chehalis Territory: Forest Defenders Launch Blockade to Stop Logging of the ‘Chameleon’ Timber Sale
September 30, 2020 1:49 amReport on ongoing clear-cut logging blockade of old-growth forest west of so-called Olympia, Washington on Chehalis territory. Follow the campaign here. Donate... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: All Eyes on the Wet’suwet’en
January 16, 2020 4:42 pmA report on recent solidarity initiatives with the Wet’suwet’en struggle in Olympia, Washington. Originally posted to Puget Sound Anarchists. On December 31st, 2019... Read Full Article
This Is America #84: Kentucky Miners Blockade Coal Train
August 6, 2019 11:33 pmWelcome, to This Is America, August 6th, 2019. In this episode, we bring you an interview with both a miner and an... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: Black and Green Ball to Benefit Mattole Forest Defenders
December 17, 2018 2:37 pmThe Mattole Forest Defenders invite you to the the Green and Black ball, a winter formal dance on December 20th. We will... Read Full Article
March in Olympia Decries Gentrification and Police Killings – Celebrates May Day a Day Late
May 3, 2018 6:37 pmThe following anonymous report was originally submitted to the website, Puget Sound Anarchists, which we repost below. On May 2nd a little... Read Full Article
From Olympia, Long Live the Commune, Long Live La ZAD
April 16, 2018 2:30 pmThe following report back was originally posted to the counter-info site, Puget Sound Anarchists. We gathered on the railroad tracks where the Olympia... Read Full Article
The Olympia Communard, Issue #1
November 29, 2017 11:45 amEleven days on, the blockade of fracking proppants at the Olympia Port holds strong. The blockade has grown from a makeshift barricade... Read Full Article
Decolonize Turtle Island: Olympia to Unist’ot’en & Beyond
November 27, 2017 1:05 pmOLYMPIA-UNIST’OT’EN-GASPESIE-SECWEPEMCUL’ECW DECOLONIZE TURTLE ISLAND For the last 10 days, an encampment has been blocking the train tracks that lead out of the... Read Full Article
Donate to Olympia Stand
November 23, 2017 6:32 pmDonate Here Olympia Stand, a climate justice coalition, has constructed a blockade of an oil fracking train departing from the Port. As we... Read Full Article
How do We turn Olympia Stand into the Olympia Commune?
November 20, 2017 2:10 pmThis editorial from Puget Sound Anarchist, a counter-information site in the Pacific Northwest, writes about the ongoing anti-fracking blockade of #OlympiaStand, and... Read Full Article
Blockade the Catastrophe, Build the Commune, Decolonize Turtle Island: A Call for Solidarity
November 19, 2017 8:17 pmThe following submitted report comes from Olympia, where people are blockading train tracks that are carrying fracking equipment. Squaxin & Nisqually Land... Read Full Article
Shabbos Behind the Barricades: Some Notes from Olympia Stand Round 2, Day 1
November 18, 2017 5:14 pm“A local politician showed up and over half the encampment came to the front to heckle him by name until he left.... Read Full Article
An Analysis of May Day 2017 in Olympia
May 29, 2017 5:25 pmIn downtown Olympia around 6:30pm a relatively diverse group of around 75 people, mostly in black bloc,1 began to assemble at 4th... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: May Day Reportback
May 3, 2017 2:18 amA group of about 100 people, mostly in black bloc, gathered at 4th and Capitol in downtown Olympia at 6pm last night... Read Full Article
J20 in Olympia, WA: Youth Take the Streets!
January 24, 2017 10:29 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down Many have planned, speculated and awaited what J20 would look like this upcoming election cycle. In Olympia, a... Read Full Article
Queers get rowdy in Olympia
December 11, 2016 1:27 amSubmitted to It’s Going Down The night of December 9th, a group of wild queers took the streets of Olympia, WA for a... Read Full Article
Olympia: Report Back From Barricade Standoff
November 19, 2016 9:03 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down Early in the morning of November 17, 2016, a coalition of law enforcement agencies, including local and railroad... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: To Block the Train, Fight the Police
November 15, 2016 5:17 pmFrom Puget Sound Anarchists To stop the train, to stop fracking, to be together on the track, we must fight the police.... Read Full Article
Olympia, WA: North Dakota Fracking Equipment Blocked, Train Tracks Barricaded
November 12, 2016 10:51 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down Around 12:30 on the afternoon November 11th, 2016, a small group of people blocked a train carrying hydraulic... Read Full Article
National Mobilization: Blockade and Shut Down White Supremacy in Sacramento
May 25, 2016 2:13 pmSubmitted to It’s Going Down On Sunday, June 26th, the Traditionalist Worker Party, the Golden State Skinheads, various white supremacist gangs, and Neo-Nazi... Read Full Article
2017: Capacity Expands, the State Responds, Full Steam Ahead
January 4, 2018 8:15 pmIf 2016 was a year of marathon non-stop action, then 2017 was a rollercoaster ride of extremes, made up of equal parts... Read Full Article
Commune Against Civilization Compilation Pamphlet and Introduction
December 14, 2017 9:52 pmThe following is an introduction to a new pamphlet compilation of Commune Against Civilization, a series that documented the recent anti-fracking railroad blockade... Read Full Article
Commune Against Civilization #4: Nothing is Over
December 1, 2017 7:03 pmDispatches from an uninvited guest on COAST SALISH TERRITORY, SQUAXIN AND NISQUALLY LAND What follows is not an official position of the... Read Full Article
Commune Against Civilization #3: The Encampment Grows
November 27, 2017 6:09 pmDispatches from an uninvited guest on COAST SALISH TERRITORY, SQUAXIN AND NISQUALLY LAND “In the winter of 1846, Levi Smith and Edmund... Read Full Article