Anonymous communique / Anarchist News
With anger and love we hiked through this southeastern Florida forest and threw 6” nails into the gears of the capitalist death wish. The spikes were driven into countless trees in the areas of Briger already bought and sold for destruction. Slash pines, scrub oaks, saw palmettos, cabbage palms, even invasive melaleuca and Australian pines. Some spiked high, some low—some visible, many hidden. We left nothing safe to cut. Signs were hung near the edges of the forest as a warning to would-be forest levelers:
“THESE TREES ARE SPIKED – WILL DAMAGE MACHINERY. FUCK ALTON. <3: YOUR ENEMIES”
The Kolter Group and The Scripps Research Institute want to turn this forest into woodchips so they can actualize their vision of infinite industrial growth. These money-hungry psychopaths intend to replace this wild and thriving place with an upscale neighborhood called ‘Alton’ and a bio-tech lab where animals will be tortured in the name of corporate-sponsored ‘science.’
We pulled survey stakes and buried them in the woods. We tore the markings off trees. We worked with heavy hearts knowing that we may be the last humans to enter this forest without chainsaws in our hands… that if no one intervenes the creatures surrounding us will be crushed beneath the treads of machinery so that the rich can expand their kingdoms… that without a fight soon the only animals living on this piece of Earth will be those forced into cages as test subjects of poisons and genetic manipulation.
Before the rising sun threatened to expose us, we took rest in beds of pine needles, listened to the growls of bobcats and songs of chuck-will’s-widows, and spoke words of solidarity and gratitude for those who’ve risked their freedom to defend the Earth. Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, and so many others.
This is only one step. Kolter, Scripps: Cease all plans for construction in the Briger Forest.
If you escalate, we will escalate.
<3,
your enemies
