May 2025 – Saguaros & Sabotage

“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

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.

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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.

“Who Called ICE?”: A Reportback from the Struggle Against State Terror

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

from Living & Fighting

By Anonymous

In the late afternoon of May 12th, a small crowd convened along the street at North Wilmot Road in Tucson, Arizona just outside of St. Joseph’s Hospital. The crowd numbered somewhere in the range of 50-100 people: an eclectic mix of local anarchists, subculturally-affiliated 20-or-30-somethings, boomer activists, petition circulators, journalists, at least one priest, and representatives of various activist organizations, including Derechos Humanos and the local Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) chapter—each clad in their usual bright red shirts.

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Posted on 2025/05/16 - 2025/05/18 by Arms of The Saguaro

gonna knock your socks off