Reportbacks from May Day Actions

Here are highlights from some anonymous reportbacks of actions taken here in Asheville, and submitted to Hellbender.

First, we hope you all had a wonderful May 1st. But more importantly, we hope that taking action (whether you report back on it or not) continues to take place around town beyond designated days of radical remembrance. Every day should have just as much potential for direct action as the next, irregardless of the history of the date. But we did enjoy the May Day bingo call to action. The setup was nice because it not only gave some a bit of direction in a time swirling with confusion and inundation of abysmal news on repeat, and the bingo board itself had variety. The bulk of the tiles were actions some of us take on a regular basis, but to coalesce those efforts with fun and solidarity, and spark engagement with action in new ways and possibly a few new faces felt good overall.

 

 

“…snuck into a parking garage where residents of some downtown condos have spots late last night, and surprise surprise first car I see is a bougie ass porsche or mercedes or whatever the fuck luxury SUV. So slashed the tires and tagged it up— HAPPY MAY DAY XO”

 

 

” Sent some moneys to Sean Swain’s support fund!”

 

 

 

“Last night a couple of us went out to the rich neighborhood by the grove park country club (barf) and stole as many flags as we could find off people’s porches. Unfortunately that was only 2, but that’s two less american flags up! Also we tagged up the country club with “EAT THE RICH” and some circles As.”

 

 

 

 

 

” this il mountain goatee fucked a whole foods security camera up with a big ol brnach fuckamazonfuckamazonfuckamazonfuckamazonfuckamazon  “

 

 

” pro-tip on dumpster fires: you really don’t need much gasoline to get it going. Too much makes dumpster go BOOM. “