(Berlin) Fire of the AI ​​war industry! CleanTech Business Park Marzahn sabotaged

We have made the call “AI starts here" took to heart and attacked one of the most sensitive areas of civil-military technology. Through targeted arson¹ on dozens of power cables, we interrupted the power supply to the CleanTech Business Park on the outskirts of Berlin-Marzahn, thereby cutting the lifelines of several companies that, with their semiconductors/microchips, precision machines and high-performance electronic components, form the brain and heart of the technological attack. Specifically, our sabotage is aimed at the production halls of Swissbit Germany AG, Finetech and Emerson/Flexim. All three companies produce dual-use products. These are used in supposedly civil areas such as data centers, aerospace, oil and gas production, nuclear reactors, wind turbines and mining, as well as in almost all modern weapons systems. Even a short power outage can cause significant damage to their highly specialized production facilities that was our intention.

We have long considered whether sabotage of power lines is currently an appropriate means in the fight for a different, fairer world. Given the impact of the power outage in January following the sabotage of the Lichterfelde gas power plant, we did not take this decision lightly. The fact that we decided to do this anyway is primarily a consequence of the failure of other forms of protest and action. In view of the global escalation of wars, arms races, species extinction, environmental destruction, flood disasters, forest fires, heat deaths and increasing fascism, these have often proven to be inadequate. We believe that the era of symbolic politics and goodwill must come to an end. We want to effectively and immediately interrupt the processes of capitalist exploitation and inflict noticeable economic losses on those who benefit from war and environmental destruction. Just like others have done in recent months. In addition, the attention such an action generates is said to cause lasting damage to Berlin's image as an investment location for technology and defense companies. We currently believe that all of this is urgently necessary and is the declared aim of this interruption. But when it comes to repression and state violence, the path of nighttime sabotage also seems safer to us than, for example, B. Demos that are increasingly characterized by harassment, intimidation and brutal arrests.However, in view of increasing fascismization, we consider allowing ourselves to be arrested during on-site actions - as others from the climate justice and anti-war movements do - to use court cases as a stage and to appeal to the conscience of the prevailing jurisprudence, or to hope for the cops' leniency when clearing sit-ins, to be dangerous and naive. Nevertheless, our full solidarity goes out to all those affected by repression.

Another criterion for carrying out our action was that a power outage, the extent of which we could not fully estimate in advance, is less severe in late summer temperatures for those who may be affected and who are not the actual target of our action. We tried to minimize unwanted effects by choosing the location of our intervention. Ultimately, it is not in our interest to hold the entire population and/or individuals accountable. Rather, our intention is to hold accountable and shut down institutions and companies that fuel the fatal race of technological feasibility and profit from militarization in order to stop the AI ​​madness and warmongering before the next military escalation occurs.

We see responsibility for possible consequences for third parties as well as politicians. With massive rearmament and increasingly aggressive war rhetoric, the country is constantly turning the escalation screw, while there is no effort to decouple military targets from the civilian infrastructure. Quite the opposite! Berlin wants to become an AI and armaments metropolis. Companies are spread across the entire city that are among the big winners of the new era with their war equipment and corresponding technologies. As always, at the expense of social achievements. They don't even stop at residential areas, as the Rheinmetall factory in Wedding or the many planned data centers show. However, the interconnection of civil and military infrastructures is neither new nor accidental. Strictly speaking, much of what shapes our society is a result of military-strategic considerations. The rulers consciously exploit this to abuse their own population as a protective shield and to delegitimize attacks on their war logistics. With some success, as we must acknowledge.

But what is the alternative to that? Collect signatures? To submit to fate? Build bunkers? Do nothing and hope for better times? Certainly not! Especially since this privilege is only available to a very small part of the world's population anyway.

Fortunately, there are other options too. Because there are still weak points, gaps and refuges in the network of digital dominance, so subversive actions are certainly possible. If we do not want to wake up soon in a techno-fascist dystopia in which everything alive has been quantified, suffocated and reduced to a predictable and easily controlled form by the patriarchal grip, this is also imperative. That's exactly what some of the most powerful men strive for. Technologies such as AI offer them unique opportunities that are unprecedented in human history. The perfidious thing is that with every interaction in the digital space we feed their machines and thus actively contribute to our own alienation and oppression. Feed by feed, tweet by tweet – towards the abyss in real time.

These technologies are devastating our planet, poisoning our souls and colonizing more and more habitats. They also serve as amplifiers of authoritarian worldviews. They are the work of the devil and must be shut down. The most effective way to do this is to disrupt their infrastructure and supply chains. Just like we did last night in Marzahn. Aware that a single action does not make a revolution, this fire of confidence still wants to counter the fatalism of our time and encourage others to take action.

Furthermore, our sabotage is also based on the fact that the question of who will prevail militarily on the battlefields of the future and claim global supremacy depends on who has powerful, high-quality semiconductors. Even though every war and every military is equally heinous, history teaches us that we would do well if it is not Germany. After all, the fascist forces in this country have long been in the starting blocks and as it turns out, their stirrup holders from the bourgeois parties will not hesitate for a second this time to line up for the people and nation when the time calls for it. After all, it is they who are currently equipping the police authorities with more and more secret service powers, setting up a brutal and inhumane deportation regime with the GEAS asylum system, or rolling out the red carpet full of surveillance and war technologies for subsequent governments that would have made the Nazis of that time green with envy. Anyone who has not yet completely retreated into the dull filter bubbles of TikTok memes already knows about the serious interplay of racist ideologies and the possibility of data-based state destruction of “unwelcome” ethnic groups and people. Trump, Netanyahu and their “communist” counterpart Xi Jinping have long since proven it. For us here, the consequence of this can only mean one thing. German war capability and military ambitions to become a major power must be prevented at all costs. We still have the opportunity to do so.The question is what price the individual is willing to pay for it. We have made a decision and put our personal freedom into the balance. “Never again” is now!

Let's sabotage their war machine - Against the technological attack!

Solidarity, mutual aid and direct action in response to a world in flames!

Love goes out to the ULM5, Daniel V. and to all anonymous saboteurs, angry birds, volcanoes, fireflies, anarchists, antifa and the like...

Children of wrath

1 We used time-delayed incendiary devices as described in the brochure “Spectrum of rebellious ideas" are described on page 21. We have previously tested these under various climatic conditions. They seemed to us to be simple in construction and at the same time very reliable.

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