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Three Denver banks attacked

July 14, 2009 by Anonymous

On the night of Monday, July 13th, we attacked three separate Wells Fargo banks in Denver. At each location we smashed out their windows and at one we broke through the glass door, entered through it, and smashed up the ATM inside.

We did it in rage against capitalism and other prisons. Wells Fargo funds GEO group, the private prison company that's building a new prison in Aurora just a few miles from here.

Of course, we'll attack Wells Fargo banks even if they stop funding prisons. We are not issuing demands. We posted here to say, "hello." And to say, "that was easy and lots of fun." We covered our faces and uncovered our weapons, smashed their glass and made our escape.

Targets are everywhere. Join in if you wish.

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I understand your anger

July 15, 2009 by phil, 18 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3667

I have to say I understand your anger at both the prison industry and the banking industry. These to have been tied together for some time. America has 5% orf the worlds population and 25% of all the prisoners on the planet. We are a prison state and yet we kid ourselves that we are the land of the free. I have to say I can't help but feel a little joy in how it must have felt to do what you did. Be careful, you can count on the fact that if you did this and if as a result of your actions you are caught you will get no mercy. There is no mercy or compassion in this soulless system that passes for justice. Be careful.

I speak for no one but myself but I would like to say that I feel many people out there can't help but feel the way you do. I know I have great sympathy for your actions.

unfortunately

July 15, 2009 by tina braxton, 18 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3668

The damage will be paid for by insurance. If a lot more people take this kind of action, insurance premiums will go up, to pay for the increased costs. The cost will then be passed to consumers, in the form of higher service charges. Or it will be passed to workers, in the form of wage cuts or fewer benefits. Banks have lots of low-wage workers, including many who make minimum wage or just slightly more. Only a few are making the big bucks (and the big bonuses).

Just to point out

July 15, 2009 by phil, 18 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3669

Insurance companies make premiums based upon risk. If banks are frequently attacked and have more claims it is only the banks that will have higher premiums. Yes this may well come out of the employees pocket who works for the bank. But, these are banks not credit unions. These institutions have profited from not just the prison industry but from the who neo-conservative movement with its love of the "Shock Doctrine" and Milton Freedman's free market strategies which directly benefited people like Pinochet, Yende (sp?), Suharto, the former Shaw of Iran, Saddam Husein, and most recently the gutting of Irak for the profit of big business.

Yes, some low wage workers will be hurt perhaps. Yet, does that consequence mean that people should sit on there hands and do nothing? I personally can't help but feel that big banks (I do not speak here of small comunity banks and credit unions) such as Wells Fargo are much like the oligars of Russia after the country was gutted in its rush to capitalism. These low paid workers at the banks are just trying to make it. I get that. Yet, the harm and suffering of thousands under the aid of these institutions demands some kind of action.

I wish I had a good answer but I don't. I do know that if I was granted a wish, any wish. The destruction of neo-conservatism and the eradication of the freedman school of economics would be high on my list despite any short term pain it may cause some people.

I don't have a good answer either

July 15, 2009 by tina braxton, 18 weeks 5 days ago
Comment id: 3670

We need to bring down capitalism. But I don't think breaking a bank's windows will accomplish that.

One other thing that worries me. Banks have cameras everywhere. And ANY violation of law committed at a bank is automatically a federal offense. Even spitting on the sidewalk, if that sidewalk is bank property, is a federal offense. I don't want to see dedicated activists facing federal charges for acts like this.

agnostic

July 15, 2009 by Stanley, 18 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3672

It is hard to tell the effects of such things. (Symbolically, ecologically, if they serve as an excuse for them to make things worse, etc.) so therefore I can neither support nor condemn this action.

However, emotionally I find it exhilarating.

becoming what you hate

July 16, 2009 by Anonymous, 18 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3676

Can a panel of glass be neoconservative? Can an ATM perpetuate the prison-industrial complex? An ATM is nothing more than a glorified piggy bank. To smash it in order to spite the money it represents is childish. This act of violence is nothing more than consumption, a stimulus to the apparatus that keeps running the very system you are trying to protest . Money doesn't disappear, it circulates. What you have done is simply to move that money from one bank to another, from Well Fargo to its suppliers, and as others have pointed out, possibly from its low-wage workers to its managers.

What do you gain by becoming your enemy to destroy it?

Rebuttle to Become what you hate

July 16, 2009 by phil, 18 weeks 3 days ago
Comment id: 3678

Listen to your logic. by your reasoning protest is futile. You seem to feel that there is no point to both protest or validity the harm these large corporations do to people. Corporatism is evil and a close relative of fascism. The concept of tricle down economics is a lie. People who believe in it fall into two categories the first being; those that have been convinced to act against the self interest of all workers and themselves; and the second category the rich who want only more at the general expense of everyone else.

No one including these individuals has a problem with money. The problem is how and who controls that money. The foolish will say that people like these protesters want to control how others us and spend their money. The trueth is these activist want a far and free playing feild where workers are not exploited by a power hungry few who convice the masses that they act in the interests of all.

Capitalism that is unregulated is slavery to all but a few!!!

and what about you?

July 17, 2009 by Anonymous, 18 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 3681

The prison-industrial complex and it's supporters/financiers don't smash windows as economic attacks or symbolic resistance. It locks people in cages and holes, severely tortures them physically, emotionally and psychologically. It makes humans slaves(check the 13th amendment). It rips apart families. Is this what you're comparing a few smashed windows and an ATM to? Do these windows represent money? Or do they represent some peoples unwillingness to sit idly by while governments around the world and here in the US execute a war on people of color, poor people, and politically active people.
And while the banks profit margins soar, they will always have excuses to exploit their workers, just as all corporations do year after year. I have worked for quite a few big ones and there's always a reason to fuck over even the best workers.
Money is circulating from Wells Fargo to its suppliers- and it probably knows why since this was posted. More attacks on WF have happened in other places. Whether it changes their practice or not, they'll know why the inconvenience has been perpetrated on them. They know they're being watched and that some people will act against them.
Go moralize with the prison guards and cops and judges and see how far that gets you, probably about as far as it will here.
Besides, whoever did this doesn't answer to you or me.

What do you gain by moralizing with people in ways that aren't even logical?

Atleast people are doing something

July 16, 2009 by Anonymous, 18 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3677

Regardless of who ultimately pays for the damage I can't imagine that it is good for the bank. Eventually minor vandalism with turn from an annoyance to a real financial burden. I support these attacks and stand in solidarity with them.

Solidarity!

July 18, 2009 by BringItDownNow, 18 weeks 2 days ago
Comment id: 3683

Direct action gets the goods!

becoming what you hate....

July 24, 2009 by Anonymous, 17 weeks 3 days ago
Comment id: 3706

Circular logic for the motherfucking win.

construction, not destruction

July 29, 2009 by Anonymous, 16 weeks 4 days ago
Comment id: 3722

It's a shame. You could have spent that energy organizing a cooperative resource for your neighborhood, given those black clothes that you had to throw away to someone who needed them, or used that time to write a letter to a prisoner.

I understand direct action; it's important and useful if you pick your spots. But, you will never change anyone's minds by breaking their windows, and they'll just print more money. Consider defining yourselves in terms of what you're in favor of rather than what you're opposed to. You can gain public support that way and effect real change on something other than plate glass.

where does it lead

September 20, 2009 by Anonymous, 9 weeks 1 day ago
Comment id: 4011

does it broaden or reduce the movement?  despite its physical nature, smashing these things really is only symbolic - the bank will not be hurt by them so where would the next step be? in portugal the entire finance system was nationalized after sit ins of the bank workers. organizing to that effect would seem a far bigger danger to the banks than this very risky action. 

be careful with these actions and please way out the benefit. there's not too much threatening about another activist in prison.

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