sent to Earth First! Newswire
An autonomous group dropped a banner as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began on Central Park West in New York City today. Its message, NO THANKS FOR COLONIALISM, NO FORGIVENESS FOR GENOCIDE, hung along the route for the duration of the parade, a crack in the highly surveilled and commercialized spectacle of colonial amnesia. At the same time, across the bridge in Brooklyn, another autonomous group dropped a banner from the BQE, reading FUCK YOUR TURKEY, LAND BACK—a moment of confrontation for people driving upstate for their business-as-usual Thanksgiving celebrations.
This land is watered by blood, and every harvest reaped is the result of genocide. Fuck Thanksgiving, a nation-wide whitewashing of the holocaust carried out by European colonizers against millions of indigenous people, in the name of a nation that gorges itself on murder and plunder every day. From Plymouth Rock to Palestine, no forgiveness for genocide.
A banner will not weaken our enemies, but working together on actions like these can make us stronger in the protracted struggle for life free of the settler state. Far bolder action is necessary. Those who seek to end colonial and imperialist domination are honing their ability to carry out collective action in clandestinity. And they are looking for friends. Together we will destroy this empire.
-some people