Saguaros & Sabotage – Page 2 – Counter-Info for the Valley of the Sun

Phoenix: Demonstration Against ICE, Against the Border Regime! Saturday 6/14 8PM

Posted on 2025/06/11 - 2025/06/11 by Arms of The Saguaro

Saturday 6/14 8pm

4th Street and Roosevelt

Downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Row Demonstration Against Ice. Against the Border Regime.

Autonomous organization everywhere to break the repressive normality.This Saturday we show our strength with the simple demand, against all immigration enforcement, against ICE and against the southern borders. Assert that the land Arizona occupies has always been a place of migration. Where anyone can go back and forth freely. Our history is not a short one and we will defend and assert it.

The neighborhoods that rise consistently against these attacks should never be isolated.

So, we bring rebellion to economic centers that fuel state and capitals tenuous grip on normality. In solidarity with the neighborhoods that have rebelled for generations. In solidarity with fighters all over the country that show up daily against ICE, against the military and against the order that supports them.

We call on those who want to do the same, everywhere else. This weekend in the evening. Let’s make it happen.

Let’s head into the streets and build strength for the moments and years to come.

Saturday 6/14 8pm Downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Row 4th street and Roosevelt Against Ice. Against the Border Regime.

All are welcome. Feel free to write your own call for your group or crew.

Banners. Signs. Masks. Anything and everything is all good.

– Comrades

As the valley goes into summer, Phoenix keeps the heat on

Posted on 2025/06/01 - 2025/07/01 by Arms of The Saguaro

Written and Experienced by Maxwell Edison

As we round the final stretch into June, we’re entering protest season and things are getting a whole other kind of hot out on the street (not just our temperatures reaching into the low triple digits). Mutual Aid, community building, and resistance against the growing fascist threat don’t take a pause for the weather, and on Saturday two groups did just those in spite of the sun.

“Claim No False Victories: a Report Back From a (Failed) Deportation Defense” Zine

Posted on 2025/05/27 - 2025/06/21 by Arms of The Saguaro

from MBTA Distro

This zine and reportback was originally posted to the MBTA Distro website, discussing a failed action that took place on occupied Wampanoag and Narragansett land, so-called “providence, rhode island”.

Its analysis of the failures of the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), and how it chooses to portray these failures to its own benefit are pertinent to the struggles of anarchists across Turtle Island, and so we have chosen to repost it here.

read // print

original article text below

War Criminals, Prison and Surveillance Profiteers Courted by Law Enforcement at Dystopian Phoenix Trade Show

Posted on 2025/05/22 - 2025/06/21 by Arms of The Saguaro

from Left Coast Right Watch

by Arizona Right Watch

article in zine format

By 7 A.M on April 8th, the Phoenix Convention Center ballroom was beginning to fill up. Attendees included local law enforcement and top officials from an alphabet soup of agencies: the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP), U.S. Customs and Border Protections (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

From the Border Wall to the Freeway and Red Light Cameras, Death to the Surveillance State!

Posted on 2025/05/20 - 2025/05/20 by Arms of The Saguaro

By G

On May 7th, 2025, the city of Tempe put its new Vision Zero plan into action, partnering with Mesa-based traffic and surveillance company Verra Mobility to erect 14 new red light cameras across the city. This comes 14 years after Tempe’s first traffic photo enforcement system, forced upon us courtesy of surveillance company Redflex, was deactivated in 2011. They claim that these new cameras, and the ‘enforcement’ that will come with them, are the solution to our dangerous roads. Rather than redesigning for pedestrian and driver safety, expanding public transit, or creating car free zones, city council has predictably seized upon the opportunity to expand the reach of policing and the surveillance state even further into our lives.

Phoenix: Help Reopen Anarchist Space, Make Total Destroy

Posted on 2025/05/19 - 2025/07/08 by Arms of The Saguaro

from anarchistnews.org

by MAKE TOTAL DESTROY

WHO THE FUCK

We’re just trying to make money to reopen our community space.

Destroy

In an effort to try and subvert existing structures, the homies in Phoenix have been trying to buy a bus. This bang bus will be used as a way to create, destroy, learn, unlearn, play, anti-work, and explore with one another. Phoenix lacks the kind of meaningful radical distribution that we envision and, rather than whining continually about the declining Cool People scene in the area, we’re just gonna do it ourselves.

Tesla Cybertruck Arson – Mesa, Arizona

Posted on 2025/05/19 - 2025/05/19 by Arms of The Saguaro

from Unravel and Mainstream News

Mesa police officers arrested 35-year-old [name] on suspicion of setting a Tesla Cybertruck on fire in the early morning hours of April 28.

Officials said [name] rode up on a bicycle and opened the door to a “suspicious van” parked near the dealership at Southern Avenue and Sossaman Road. “The Tesla Security Center provided photo evidence of the arson suspect and officers were able to match the photo to [name],” the bicyclist, Mesa police Detective Brandi Myers said in a statement.

Two for Two

Posted on 2025/05/19 - 2025/05/19 by Arms of The Saguaro

from Living & Fighting

By Anonymous

This week, Tucson saw two successive wins in the fight against state violence. Two demonstrations, organized in earnest but with cautious and liberal strategies, didn’t go quite as planned.

Birds of a Feather Destroy Flock Together

Posted on 2025/05/17 - 2025/06/21 by Arms of The Saguaro

zine download: read // print

from Dirty South

WHAT IS FLOCK?

Flock Safety is a mass surveillance start up based in Atlanta, Georgia that promises law enforcement and private business AI surveillance, license plate reading (LPR) technology, and real time alerts. Founded in 2017, the company now claims presence in 4,000 cities across 42 states.

A Report Back from the ASU Liberated Zone

Posted on 2025/05/17 - 2025/05/18 by Arms of The Saguaro

From Living & Fighting

April 2024

Anonymous

A comrade and I arrived at Arizona State University around 11 am on Friday, April 26, hoping to witness, support, and participate in the campus occupation in solidarity with the people of Gaza. We arrived to find a densely clustered collection of tents on the lawn of ASU’s Old Main building, surrounded by about 100 people chanting, singing, and drumming their expressions of solidarity with Palestinians and their condemnations of the Israeli state. Across from the protesters, blocking a lane of traffic on University Drive,was a similarly dense cluster of a dozen Tempe and ASU police cars. Their red and blue sirens flashed as the officers looked on at the nascent occupation, which they had failed to crush earlier that morning.