Doom to the Pipeline (Unity of Fields interview of protester facing felonies)
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DOOM TO THE  PIPELINE  UNLTY OF FIELDS INTERVIEW WITH A PROTESTOR FACING FELONIES FOR RESISTING THE MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE
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Unity of Fields interviewed a comrade facing felony charges for protesting the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300-mile fossil fuel project blocked and delayed by court orders until the Biden administration pushed it through in mid-2023. In relation to alleged actions against the pipeline, over 100 activists have been arrested over the course of 6 and a half years across Virginia and West Virginia, with charges ranging from criminal trespass to felony joyriding and abduction. In addition to the criminal charges, the MVP also filed a civil suit against dozens of activists, accusing them of causing millions of dollars in damages and financial losses. On 25 February 2025, Branch and their codefendant will be facing trial for their ‘misdemeanor charge and pre-trial for their felony charges. There will also be others in court that day facing trial in relation to other alleged MVP actions. The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.  ity oF felds 3
Unity of Fields: What’s up comrade Branch? What s the struggle that you were engaged in for this partieular action, allegedly? What are the pigs trying to charge you with?  Branch: Well, on October 16th, 2023, an action occurred against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) on Peter’s Mountain. Dozens of actionists stopped work all day on the pipeline. I am being charged in relation to this action. They charged me with abduction and obstruction of a vehicle worth over a thousand dollars. Those are my two felonies, and I’m also being charged with conspiracy to injure the reputation of a business. That’s my misdemeanor. And yes, that is a real charge in the state of Virginia  UoF: Joke of a cracker state.  Branch: Plenty of people have asked me, so for reference, everyone, we did not kidnap anyone.  UoF: But they’re trying to pin that on you. Branch: Yeah, I mean, all these charges are bullshit. 1 didn’t do any of the  things they are accusing me of, they’re just trying to pin all these charges onme and my codefendants.  UoF: Typical pig behavior. So you were detained in October?  Branch: Yeah so all this shit happened in October and then at the end of November 20:  . retroactive warrants were issued against me for these made-up charges. It was active in Virginia and other surrounding states. UoF: How extensive was the warrant?  Branch: It was a few states, it was issued in Virginia and extraditable in a few others. I can’t remember exactly which ones right now, but they were like, “We’ll expand it to all 50 states if you don’t come to turn yourselfin during this time frame.” So I went and turned myself in December 2023. 1 had to go to Giles County, Virginia. For reference, on the day of the action, two people were arrested and they were not initially charged with kidnapping and they got bailed out. A few weeks later at their arraignment they were arrested again—which never happens—charged ‘with kidnapping and were held for a few days before being released.  . doom 1 the ppetine
UoF: Can you speak about your experience being detained in jail? How long were you in there? What were the other people like? How did the pigs treat you?  Branch: So | turned myselfin and then I had a magistrate hearing, They were actually about to give me bail, and the magistrate changed their ‘mind, shredded my bail papers and was like, no bail. And then I basically had to be taken to jail and I ended up having a hearing the next morning where they granted me bail at $25,000. The prosecutor was actual pushing for no bail. He was like, “Don’t give her bail, don’t let her leave the state.” All this shit. The judge ended up giving me bail and I was bonded out later that day. I don’t remember the exact time, but Lonly really spent aday, maybe little over a day, in jail. So I got bonded out, which means 10% of the bail was paid.  When I was in there, they kept us in the holding cell for a few hours initally and I could hear from the other side. They had a two-way that you can’t see through but the pigs could see you. Some of it wasn’t too well patched, so I could still see through the corner and I was quiet fora see to hear ‘em. And they were basically like, “Listen to whatever she says, she’s a pipeline protestor.” So most of the time,  just shut the fuck up. T Knew they were listening. They took s to the county jail there, the River County Jail. It’s essentially the equivalent of Rikers in New York. I was in solitary confinement there for a few hours, and also, when they took us up there, they fucking shoved me in the back of this fucking van. That was a rough ass ride up there, up a fucking mountain. I was shackled and I had to make sure [ didn’t slide and fucking hit my head on the metal cage in there.  Uo: Yeah, rough riding like Freddie Gray shit, pigs kill people that way. Okay, so how did you hear about the MVP, why did you want to be involved and what did you think about the movement when you were there? We’re curious about the racial composition and class composition and political ideology guiding the movement,if there was one.  Branch: I’ve been involved with other stuff before MVP and I knew of the MVP struggle. I had friends who live in Virginia and West Virginia, so | Knew the MVP is just a carbon bomb. We don’t have that much time left to stop climate change. And not just that, the pipeline also has contracts with ‘weapons manufacturers and basically they power certain—hold up—  ity oF felds s
lemme just pull up the name. They power different weapons facilities, including ones that are under contract with BAE Systems, which is a zionist weapons manufacturer that produces white phosphorus. And the MVP struggle has been going on for years. The pipeline has leaked and it goes over so many waterways and runs the risk of posioning so many people. 5o its affecting the people that live there. I knew people down there and al this stuff and I was like, “Yeah, I’m going to go down there and try to help out any way I can.”  UoF: The general vicinity around the pipeline is populated by a lot of poor people, I’m assuming.  Branch: Yeah, I mean, most of Appalachia is poor. Most of the neighborhoods the pipeline goes through are just poor, rural neighborhoods. It’s all just making Appalachia a sacrifice zone for pipelines so they can extract and poison people there and kill people in Palestine. MVP is a fracked gas pipeline. And of course, gas and ol are the ‘gears of imperialism. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of Amerika, of  imperialism here and all over the world. So of course they’re going to want it and the imperial core doesn’t care who they hurt, That’s just how it goes.  As far as race and clas  g0, there was definitely a lot of white people there because alot of Appalachia is white. There were also people of color, but it was majority white and most of the people there were poor people.  UoF: I believe it was the Battle of Blair Mountain that was one of the largest armed uprisings since the Civil War. It was in Logan County, West Virginia, and I’m pretty sure it was the largest number of Amerikan pigs that were killed in one battle in the history of this country. They were striking coal miners and they actually marched to the local jail and broke out all of the workers who had been imprisoned for violating the martial law orders that were put in place.  Branch: Appalachia has a long history of militant struggle. I think people look down on it and they Il be like, “Oh, these places are just poor.” But  ‘militant struggle comes from lived experience, of course. It doesn’t come from anything else. It comes when you are feeling that boot on top of you.  UoF: Yeah, Appalachia is such an interesting case. Obviously we know that the average Cracker Amerikan is a reactionary little eichmann, but that’s  . doom 1 the ppetine
not totally the case in Appalachia. And the people I’ve talked to who have worked on MVP stuff, most of them white working class people, they are super militant about anti-racism, specifically. It’s honestly so fucking cool. ‘The people reading this, I hope they take note of this. Hard erackers do exist! Like the Irish, the IRA especially, I’d kiss the ground Brendan Hughes walked on, Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn and David Gilbert and the militant anti-racist Appalachians—but hard crackers need to be throwing down and serving the struggle to end Babylon.  Branch: Exactly. If you’re a hard cracker: fucking do some militant shit ‘That’s my message. If you get anything out of this interview: HARD CRACKERS GO DO SOME SHIT! Fuck some shit up!  UoF: Welove it. Branch: Avoid getting caught though.  Uo: Crucial piece! We love this so much. Your energy is such a beautiful energy to bring to the struggle.  I don’t know how much you know about this, but I am curious, how do the local people that are not activists feel about all of the MVP militancy? Do you think most of them are on board or are there tensions between them and the activists?  Branch: A lot of people have supported the fight against MVP because the pipeline is affecting their communites. It’s going over waterways where it can leak. The pipeline also runs the risk of bursting and ifit does, so many poor communites will be in the blast radius of it. MVP has tried to take people’s land to use for the pipeline. A lot of people don’t like that, which is understandable. How are you going to come and poison my land, my water, my air, and turn us into a sacrifice zone?  UoF: I remember another comrade who was involved in the MVP stru ‘mentioning an older reactionary white man who resented the protestors until the pipeline poisoned the stream in his own backyard, and then he.  started going to the camp and organizing with yall. So you feel, and this is  generally the sense we have gotten, that there’s a ot of popular support?  Branch: There is, which is really fucking cool.  ity oF felds 7
S0 the pipeline was completed and became “functional” last summer, but just six days before they started operatingit, one of the jumper pipes burst during routine maintenance. It essentially just burst because the pipeline has been rotting for years, exposed to the sun and elements. Engincers have said this pipeline has a lot of flaws and is at very high risk of just blowing up on its own and potentially making a massive spill and poisoning everyone in the area  UoF: Could you speak alttle bit more to your experience of facing repression over the past year and a half? How do you contextualize the charges you’re facing in the national wave of repression against anti- zionist protestors, against Stop Cop City protestors?  Branch: I mean in terms of the repression, they’re definitely trying to get me and my codefendants on these charges, and if convicted, it could mean decades behind bars. The abduction charge can carry 20 plus they’re definitely trying to scare people away from doing shi, just as we’ve seen over and over again. And not only am I being charged with this bogus stuff, I’m also being sued along with over 40 people who have taken action against MVP who have also, at one point or another, been placed on this SLAPP civil suit.  Imean, maybe I’ma bit of a fucking arrogant idiot, but I honestly haven’t really been thinking about [the case] much, which is a lttle bit of a crazy thing to say. And yeah, this s a part of a national wave of repression. We see the RICO charges in the Cop City movement, and how the state has come down on people protesting the genocide in Palestine. The tactics they used to come after people who have taken action against Cop City, ‘we see the state exporting those tactics to use on us fighting the MVP, and ‘we see them export these tactics such as retroactive warrants to come down on Palestine protesters. We have seen the proliferation of cop cites being built all across this settler colony.  But yes, it sucks. It’s definitely repression and it definitely limits what [ am able to do. I have to be careful now with my organizing, I can’ get arrested because of course if I get arrested, that means being shipped back there to jail until trial. And obviously that would not look good because ‘under Virginian law, let’s just say they don’t ike it when you do certain things.  i doom 1 the ppetine
UoF: One of the most repressive cracker states out there.  Branch: But definitely it has affected me in terms of limiting what I do and Ihave to be more careful because I could be sent to jail or if I do something, you never know what surveillance they could have on you. So Ljust have to be more careful in that sense. And honestly, the process is the punishment, They want to drag it out as long as possible to basically.  try to keep people from doing more things to keep us tied up with this legal stuff. We see this tactic over and over again. They press these BS charges to scare people, to intimidate people and basically to make sure that you’re fighting this case, so you can’t really do much else besides that. It has definitely made it harder to find work or get an apartment. But besides that, I’ve continued to organize, just not doing anything illegal.  I’m not going to stop organizing. I’m not going to stop because people are still dying in Palestine. People are still dying here. How could I stop when all this shit’s happening? I’m just like, fuck it. If they want to do this shit, they’re going to do this shit because that’s what the state does, but no ‘matter what, [ won’t stop. If they want to come for me, let them come.  Uo: s the repression breeding more resistance? What does the future look like for militant struggle?  Branch: I mean, I’ve always believed in militancy and yeah, this has made ‘me more militant honestly. I’m just like, you know what? This repression is going to happen but we’re going to have to keep doing this. But also it ‘made me realize that yes, while the action I took that day was good, and | donot regret takingit, I regret doing it in the way I did because it ended upin people getting arrested. Of course the state is always going to come down on us ifthey find us, but we shouldn’ give them the chance. The tactics of locking down and your standard civil disobedence tactics are not the best thing, and looking, in hindsight, T wish that maybe we had done something else. We definitely have to build an underground. There’s only going to be more repression, and it’s alsolike, how can we ever defeat Amerikkka? How can we ever bring the imperial core to ts demise if we don’t have a real militant underground?  alws  Ireally don’t think anyone should ever do your standard civil disobedience tactics where you stay there evenif the pigs show up, essentially at that point of putting yourselfin the postion to be arrested.  ity oF felds s
No, that should never be the goal because those types of arrests aren’t doing any! movement. Instead of accomplishing anything it just increases surveillance, whe by simply planning actions and not getting caught, rather than putting ourselves conclusion, do not fucking do that. Don’t ever fucking do that. Get the fuck out of  because if you do dip, you can fight more the next day.  UoF: Since this is an interview with Unity of Fields, could you speak at all to whe MVP movement, and what you think a unity of the fields would look like in a rev United States?  Branch: Definitely we saw the unity of fields with all these different people comi ‘The whole campaign against the pipeline has lasted years. People have worked w really hard to figure how to talk about these things. I’m like, “what’s not going to 4+ years or life, which is also on the table?” My God. Well, also shout out to my pr makes balloon animals. He runs a balloon company on the side and his name is Jesus Christ. Yes, I’m very much living in a cartoon.  steps under  Inthe not re baren milita build efforts done of mil very §  ® doom 1 the ppetine
hing except taking people out of the n people could be doing a lot more in an exposed position. So yeah, in ‘there. Do your actions and dip  e you saw unity and struggle in the plutionary situation in the so-called  g together to take these actio ith cach other for it. Of course,it’s land me in prison for the next osecutor Bobby Lily, who obby Lily.  .y amongst militants, we have to come together and actually take more militant action. We need to take to build an underground, because right now there really isn’t a cohesive sround and that needs to change. imperial core, how can we say we stand with the resistance in Palestine? We’re Ay doing much. Yes, I’ve done these actions, but what I did was the absolute inimum. There are people who are doing way, way more. Living in imperial e have to take these steps right now. There are a lot of divisions even amongst wts and amongst ourselves, and we need to actually cohesively come together to real underground. We’ve seen waves of militancy in the imperial core with the toStop Cop City in Atlanta. In pipeline struggles over the years, people have alve shutoffs, they’ve done a multitude of things. So we’ve seen all these pockets tancy, but nothing has made a cohesive front. It’s all fragmented. It’s all very, agmented. And  ity oFelds “
even now in the movement, there is no militant aboveground in terms of propaganda and support for actions. Yes, an aboveground has to be limited. You can’t do certain actions, but there’s also no militant political line. Most of the aboveground leftin this country s very adjacent to NGOs, which take energy and feed it back into upholding this racist settler colony welive in. It’s very a bad state where we are at now. While yes, a lot of people in the movement will say, “Oh we have leftist politics, we are communists or anarchists,” in reality, despite what most label themselves, most of them are just more liberals. At the end of the day, most of their actions and what they say are like, “oh, we are anti-war,” and it’s like, no, we should be pro-people’s war! That’s what we have to be. We are not anti- ‘war. We have to be pro-people’s war because we as people who live in Amerika in the imperial core, every day we go on is the day that more ‘people die both here and around the world because it revolves around  blood. We cannot simply have a march where we shout at empty buildings  or take isolated.  ns and pat ourselves on the back. Even the MVP actions that have occured over the years have caused delays, and delayed the completion by a long time, but people have to do more. We have to organize and get to a point of militaney where we can actually threaten the United States because we have to build towards a revolution. And right now, we are not even at step one of building a revolution.  UoF: We’re still trying to get people to admit that the United States is the. enemy, and that’s not a good thing. Slowly but surely people are getting it though.  Branch: More people are definitely starting to get it but there are still alot who don’t. Even stuff around Palestine, there will be people who openly support Hamas, but they’re still slightly liberal in the sense that they don’t ‘want to take escalated action or they don’t even support escalated action. It’s one thing to not be able to take it yourself. Some people genuinely have circumstances preventing them from doing that. And maybe they’re just genuinely really scared.  There are people who definitely have valid stuff to say, but some of these people will not even support people who take action and are going through repression. They will not publish a statement of support, even a post on social media. There is actually very, very little support for militants outside of their own little militant group. We don’t really have much prisoner support for people like Casey Goonan who hasn’t been  u doom 1 the ppetine
getting much public support. Yes, they have their committee, but it’s not like everyone’s talking about Casey. Even the people who were facing charges for going to the Brooklyn Museum exccutives’ houses. Not many people have been talking about them. Even for Cop City, it’s sort of going back into the periphery where people aren’t talking much about the people who are currently facing repression for Cop City, and that issue. We also don’t have any organized prisoner support or it’s not even at the forefront of people’s minds.  UoF: There is a real problem with the way that prisoner support is being organized right now. It’s all about separate campaigns for individual prisoners, it moves us away from the idea that prisoners constitute a cohesive political, social group and that we must engage in solidarity and struggle on those grounds. Political prisoners in particular, people who, are in prison because of their political work, constitute an essential part of our movement, and I agree that we have basically abandoned them and the idea that they are the vanguard of revolution in this country.  Branch: There has been a large abandonment of people who are currently facing charges or people who are currently in prison. Casey Goonan is one of the people who is in jail from the wave of last spring’s student uprisings. Yet most people don’t know about them. That’s not a good thing. And we see in places like Palestine, there is a very vibrant community to help prisoners.  UoF: That’s the whole heart ofit.  Branch: Yeah, it’s the flood. In the Al-Agsa Flood, they call prisoners their North Star. And if we are going to build up towards a revolution, our prisoners have to be our North Star too.  UoF: That’s exactly right. And I think part of understanding that prisoners constitute their own social group means that we have to fight for them as a group. Now it’s like, fight for this one prisoner or this other prisoner. Help this or that isolated campaign. Where I’m hearing this critique from the most is from our elders that came out of the sixties movement. They say, “look, when our people were locked up, we had organizations that helped every single person that was locked up for poli comrades who were locked up were able to continue organizing inside.” It wasn’t pick and choose and let them rot. Now its like each person has  Ireasons and the  ity oF felds 5
their own separate political prisoner support network, siloed off and disconnected from the movement. It’s the same problem of fragmentation as with underground or clandestine militancy.  Branch: We lost a lot to COINTELPRO. We have to build back up. In terms of prisons and abolition in general, yes, we should support political prisoners, but we should also support people in prison as a whole. We have to actually carry out abolition, for everyone, not just the people we know or the people directly involved in struggle. There’s people inside who are genuinely suffering, who don’t have support. Honestly, if I go to prison, to be for real, I’l have support, Ill be fine. I know my commissary ‘will be filled by my friends every day. If anything happens to me, everyone’s going to create a fuss about it, the other people in these prisons, they Il die quietly. No one s there to help them.  there were other women in the cell next to ing. This was right before the holidays, and  When I went in jail that day me, and one of them was ¢  she was like, “I’m not going to be with my kids for the holidays.” She was really crying. Who’s going to help her or another person? When I got released on bond, someone else got released with me. She got her clothes back and she was like, “Oh my God, they’re still intact.” The clothes that she was arrested in, because she was in this jail for seven months, she’s  not been convicted of anything. She was in there for seven months and she was in another jail before that for another seven months. So she’s been locked up for a total of 14 months until that day that we got released. She. hasn’t been convicted of anything, she’s just been rotting in different jails for the past 14 months. Her clothes were still dirty when they gave it to her with the mud that she was arrested with that day.  In the jail there, they literally had a drawing making fun of the prisoners ‘They had it in the manual, they had to use the manual because the fuck ass idiot pig didn’t know how to fucking fingerprint me. She had asked  someone else to come. She was like, “I haven’t released a prisoner since  October, so someone needs to remind me how to do this process again.” ‘They hadn’t fucking released anyone since fuck ass October! And then we literally got released and she was trying to say Merry Christmas to me! A pig! And I was like, “Fuck you, bitch.” Ljust kept saying that over and over again as we walked out of the jail,like, “Fuck you fuck you fuck you.” Anyway, people have to understand that we need support in ja  " doom 1 the ppetine
Andalso to tie back to the MVP, I am sure you all saw the hurricanes that happened and all the flooding. It destroyed Appalachia and the county I got arrested in, Gilles County and the neighboring counties. River County Jail. Allthat area was flooded and no data was released, but some of the, women that I was in jail with might’ve died if they were still in there because of all the flooding. Everything was flooded. I remember just picking up my phone and looking at the photos and I could see the entire jail the area I was in, all flooded.  S0 people have to understand that we really actually have to support people in prisons. We need to have an organized support for prisoners that have taken political action and also support people in general. e need abolition for all, and that’s not going to happen without a revolution. And honestly, all prisoners are political prisoners.  UoF: Any last words?  Branch: So in October of 2023, we saw the Al-Agsa Flood happen and it surged more militancy from people and all this action, but at the end of the day, we still haven’t seen much progress. And it’s just like how I said carlier, how can we truly claim to be in solidarity with people without taking real action? And I think people have to understand, we all post about Hamas, we post about stuff, we’re in support, but at the end of the day, Amerika is still bombing them with the bombs that are coming from us. And it’s very hypocritical, even of me to be like, oh yeah, I support Hamas when in reality we haven’t taken much action truly in support of them. And I was saying earlier, we need to build all this infrastructure. We need to rebuild so much to get to revolution. We need to rebuild prisoner support. We need to rebuild community defense in poor neighborhoods. We need to rebuild armed community defense. We need to invest in our. communities. So it’s not simply taking action, but it’s also building up that base because in you see in places like Palestine—Hamas—they’re able to go and hide within their communities.  UoF: The popular cradle!  Branch: Yeah. We don’t have much of a popular cradle here, and we have to go about building it So not only do we need to take militant action, we need to do different types of militant action, which you all can guess, but I won’t be listing them here for obvious reasons. But we also need to arm  ity oF felds .
ourselves and we also need to build up, like I said, prisoner support, armed community defense, self-defense and actual systems, and not scattered systems, of mutual aid. Real mutual aid systems that are centralized in communities. I see a lot of people shitting on mutual aid, andit’s like, to be honest, yes, we need the action, but we also need mutual aid and we need it in a real centralized fashion because it’s like if we don’t have community and we don’t have armed community, which will be one of the most important basics of building a revolution, we’re not going to have one. We can run around, do whatever the fuck we want, but at the end of the day, if we don’t have a popular cradle, we will never get anywhere. We will be snuffed out in two seconds. So its like we truly have to take example of Palestine or other revolutions, and we have to take lead from them and actually build towards a real revolutionary movement here. Because right now I also see a lot of people including militants being like, “Oh, it’s going to take years before we reach a revolution.” Well, yes, but we don’t really have that much time. Revolution is not going to happen if we don’t make it happen. And right now we’re running on a ticking clock with climate change. With people outside dying, people all over the world dying. The longer we take as we sit here in the comfort of the imperial core being like, “We can’t do this. We can’t do that.” It’s going tobe more bodies. It’s going to be more bodies every single day, every single second.  UoF: As George Jackson said, if there are going to be funerals, let there be funerals on both sides.  Branch: Right, and right now there’s only bodies on one side here. UoF: Yeah, and as the Red Army Faction said in the Urban Guerrilla Method, “By the time the conditions for armed struggle are right, it will be  too late to prepare for it.”  Branch:  think a lot of people don’t understand we can create the conditions for armed struggle right now. We actually can eraft a stor,  we want to. But people in the imperial core, including so-called militants. I’m sorry but to be real, even I can’t really claim to be militant. I don’t think any of us can rightfully claim to be militant in any sort of fashion.  UoF: Not really. We agree.  % doom 1 the ppetine
Branch: We have to step up our game and we have to step it up now. Even with all this repression, there has to be more because this is what the state has done and is always going to do. We truly have to coalesce to bring the Al-Aqsa Flood here. You have to bring the Flood here. We have to destroy. the United States of Amerika. And it can’t be 20 years from now. It’s going tohave to be in the near future.  One other thing I’m going to say, I think one of the most important things people have to remember, and this was told to me by my friend, is that we have to fight til the end of the line and pass that line. So even when you think your back is up against the wall, you have to fight even more. And I think, yes, while we’re all afraid of repression or dying or any of that sort of stuff, I’ve been in situations like that before, but at the end of the day, why is my life more valuable than anyone else’s? Than people in Palestine and people all over the world, people in the Congo and Haiti? Those people are dying too. If1 go to jail, okay, my life’s not worth more than them.  And we have to also understand that yes, in a revolution we may lose each other and we don’t want to, but we lose 8o much more if we don’t take that step. And I think at the end of the day, our own mortality is honestly the ‘most powerful thing we can have. That’s the one thing that we can be in control of. The state may try to kill us, but we can decide whether or not it’s going to be on our terms. And if that sacrifice is going to make sure peaple in the future have a better life because the United States of Amerika will no longer be here, because like you said, there needs to be bodies on both sides, and there will be bodies on both sides. The revolution is going to happen. It’s going to happen at some point.  UoF: Period.  ity oF felds v
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FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF AMERIKA, OF IMPERIALISM HERE & ALL OVER THE WORLD.  HOW CAN WE EVER BRING THE IMPERIAL  CORE TO ITS DEMISE IF WE DON’T HAVE  A REAL MILITANT UNDERGROUND

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Unity of Fields interviewed a comrade facing felony charges for protesting
the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a 300-mile fossil fuel project blocked
and delayed by court orders until the Biden administration pushed it
through in mid-2023. In relation to alleged actions against the pipeline,
over 100 activists have been arrested over the course of 6 and a half years
across Virginia and West Virginia, with charges ranging from criminal
trespass to felony joyriding and abduction. In addition to the criminal
charges, the MVP also filed a civil suit against dozens of activists, accusing
them of causing millions of dollars in damages and financial losses. On 25
February 2025, Branch and their codefendant will be facing trial for their
‘misdemeanor charge and pre-trial for their felony charges. There will also
be others in court that day facing trial in relation to other alleged MVP
actions. The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Unity of Fields: What's up comrade Branch? What s the struggle that you
were engaged in for this partieular action, allegedly? What are the pigs
trying to charge you with?

Branch: Well, on October 16th, 2023, an action occurred against the
Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) on Peter's Mountain. Dozens of actionists
stopped work all day on the pipeline. I am being charged in relation to this
action. They charged me with abduction and obstruction of a vehicle
worth over a thousand dollars. Those are my two felonies, and I'm also
being charged with conspiracy to injure the reputation of a business.
That's my misdemeanor. And yes, that is a real charge in the state of
Virginia

UoF: Joke of a cracker state.

Branch: Plenty of people have asked me, so for reference, everyone, we did
not kidnap anyone.

UoF: But they're trying to pin that on you.
Branch: Yeah, I mean, all these charges are bullshit. 1 didn't do any of the

things they are accusing me of, they're just trying to pin all these charges
onme and my codefendants.

UoF: Typical pig behavior. So you were detained in October?

Branch: Yeah so all this shit happened in October and then at the end of
November 20:

. retroactive warrants were issued against me for these
made-up charges. It was active in Virginia and other surrounding states.
UoF: How extensive was the warrant?

Branch: It was a few states, it was issued in Virginia and extraditable in a
few others. I can't remember exactly which ones right now, but they were
like, “We'll expand it to all 50 states if you don't come to turn yourselfin
during this time frame.” So I went and turned myself in December 2023. 1
had to go to Giles County, Virginia. For reference, on the day of the action,
two people were arrested and they were not initially charged with
kidnapping and they got bailed out. A few weeks later at their
arraignment they were arrested again—which never happens—charged
‘with kidnapping and were held for a few days before being released.

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UoF: Can you speak about your experience being detained in jail? How
long were you in there? What were the other people like? How did the pigs
treat you?

Branch: So | turned myselfin and then I had a magistrate hearing, They
were actually about to give me bail, and the magistrate changed their
‘mind, shredded my bail papers and was like, no bail. And then I basically
had to be taken to jail and I ended up having a hearing the next morning
where they granted me bail at $25,000. The prosecutor was actual
pushing for no bail. He was like, “Don't give her bail, don't let her leave the
state.” All this shit. The judge ended up giving me bail and I was bonded
out later that day. I don't remember the exact time, but Lonly really spent
aday, maybe little over a day, in jail. So I got bonded out, which means
10% of the bail was paid.

When I was in there, they kept us in the holding cell for a few hours
initally and I could hear from the other side. They had a two-way
that you can't see through but the pigs could see you. Some of it wasn't too
well patched, so I could still see through the corner and I was quiet fora
see to hear ‘em. And they were basically like, “Listen to whatever she says,
she's a pipeline protestor.” So most of the time, just shut the fuck up. T
Knew they were listening. They took s to the county jail there, the River
County Jail. It's essentially the equivalent of Rikers in New York. I was in
solitary confinement there for a few hours, and also, when they took us up
there, they fucking shoved me in the back of this fucking van. That was a
rough ass ride up there, up a fucking mountain. I was shackled and I had
to make sure [ didn't slide and fucking hit my head on the metal cage in
there.

Uo: Yeah, rough riding like Freddie Gray shit, pigs kill people that way.
Okay, so how did you hear about the MVP, why did you want to be
involved and what did you think about the movement when you were
there? We're curious about the racial composition and class composition
and political ideology guiding the movement,if there was one.

Branch: I've been involved with other stuff before MVP and I knew of the
MVP struggle. I had friends who live in Virginia and West Virginia, so |
Knew the MVP is just a carbon bomb. We don't have that much time left to
stop climate change. And not just that, the pipeline also has contracts with
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lemme just pull up the name. They power different weapons facilities,
including ones that are under contract with BAE Systems, which is a
zionist weapons manufacturer that produces white phosphorus. And the
MVP struggle has been going on for years. The pipeline has leaked and it
goes over so many waterways and runs the risk of posioning so many
people. 5o its affecting the people that live there. I knew people down
there and al this stuff and I was like, “Yeah, I'm going to go down there
and try to help out any way I can.”

UoF: The general vicinity around the pipeline is populated by a lot of poor
people, I'm assuming.

Branch: Yeah, I mean, most of Appalachia is poor. Most of the
neighborhoods the pipeline goes through are just poor, rural
neighborhoods. It's all just making Appalachia a sacrifice zone for
pipelines so they can extract and poison people there and kill people in
Palestine. MVP is a fracked gas pipeline. And of course, gas and ol are the
‘gears of imperialism. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of Amerika, of

imperialism here and all over the world. So of course they're going to want
it and the imperial core doesn't care who they hurt, That's just how it goes.

As far as race and clas

g0, there was definitely a lot of white people there
because alot of Appalachia is white. There were also people of color, but it
was majority white and most of the people there were poor people.

UoF: I believe it was the Battle of Blair Mountain that was one of the
largest armed uprisings since the Civil War. It was in Logan County, West
Virginia, and I'm pretty sure it was the largest number of Amerikan pigs
that were killed in one battle in the history of this country. They were
striking coal miners and they actually marched to the local jail and broke
out all of the workers who had been imprisoned for violating the martial
law orders that were put in place.

Branch: Appalachia has a long history of militant struggle. I think people
look down on it and they Il be like, “Oh, these places are just poor.” But

‘militant struggle comes from lived experience, of course. It doesn't come
from anything else. It comes when you are feeling that boot on top of you.

UoF: Yeah, Appalachia is such an interesting case. Obviously we know that
the average Cracker Amerikan is a reactionary little eichmann, but that's

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not totally the case in Appalachia. And the people I've talked to who have
worked on MVP stuff, most of them white working class people, they are
super militant about anti-racism, specifically. It's honestly so fucking cool.
‘The people reading this, I hope they take note of this. Hard erackers do
exist! Like the Irish, the IRA especially, I'd kiss the ground Brendan
Hughes walked on, Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn and David Gilbert
and the militant anti-racist Appalachians—but hard crackers need to be
throwing down and serving the struggle to end Babylon.

Branch: Exactly. If you're a hard cracker: fucking do some militant shit
‘That's my message. If you get anything out of this interview: HARD
CRACKERS GO DO SOME SHIT! Fuck some shit up!

UoF: Welove it.
Branch: Avoid getting caught though.

Uo: Crucial piece! We love this so much. Your energy is such a beautiful
energy to bring to the struggle.

I don't know how much you know about this, but I am curious, how do the
local people that are not activists feel about all of the MVP militancy? Do
you think most of them are on board or are there tensions between them
and the activists?

Branch: A lot of people have supported the fight against MVP because the
pipeline is affecting their communites. It's going over waterways where it
can leak. The pipeline also runs the risk of bursting and ifit does, so many
poor communites will be in the blast radius of it. MVP has tried to take
people's land to use for the pipeline. A lot of people don't like that, which
is understandable. How are you going to come and poison my land, my
water, my air, and turn us into a sacrifice zone?

UoF: I remember another comrade who was involved in the MVP stru
‘mentioning an older reactionary white man who resented the protestors
until the pipeline poisoned the stream in his own backyard, and then he.

started going to the camp and organizing with yall. So you feel, and this is

generally the sense we have gotten, that there’s a ot of popular support?

Branch: There is, which is really fucking cool.

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S0 the pipeline was completed and became “functional” last summer, but
just six days before they started operatingit, one of the jumper pipes
burst during routine maintenance. It essentially just burst because the
pipeline has been rotting for years, exposed to the sun and elements.
Engincers have said this pipeline has a lot of flaws and is at very high risk
of just blowing up on its own and potentially making a massive spill and
poisoning everyone in the area

UoF: Could you speak alttle bit more to your experience of facing
repression over the past year and a half? How do you contextualize the
charges you're facing in the national wave of repression against anti-
zionist protestors, against Stop Cop City protestors?

Branch: I mean in terms of the repression, they're definitely trying to get
me and my codefendants on these charges, and if convicted, it could mean
decades behind bars. The abduction charge can carry 20 plus
they're definitely trying to scare people away from doing shi, just as
we've seen over and over again. And not only am I being charged with this
bogus stuff, I'm also being sued along with over 40 people who have taken
action against MVP who have also, at one point or another, been placed on
this SLAPP civil suit.

Imean, maybe I'ma bit of a fucking arrogant idiot, but I honestly haven't
really been thinking about [the case] much, which is a lttle bit of a crazy
thing to say. And yeah, this s a part of a national wave of repression. We
see the RICO charges in the Cop City movement, and how the state has
come down on people protesting the genocide in Palestine. The tactics
they used to come after people who have taken action against Cop City,
‘we see the state exporting those tactics to use on us fighting the MVP, and
‘we see them export these tactics such as retroactive warrants to come
down on Palestine protesters. We have seen the proliferation of cop cites
being built all across this settler colony.

But yes, it sucks. It's definitely repression and it definitely limits what [
am able to do. I have to be careful now with my organizing, I can' get
arrested because of course if I get arrested, that means being shipped back
there to jail until trial. And obviously that would not look good because
‘under Virginian law, let's just say they don't ike it when you do certain
things.

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UoF: One of the most repressive cracker states out there.

Branch: But definitely it has affected me in terms of limiting what I do and
Ihave to be more careful because I could be sent to jail or if I do
something, you never know what surveillance they could have on you. So
Ljust have to be more careful in that sense. And honestly, the process is
the punishment, They want to drag it out as long as possible to basically.

try to keep people from doing more things to keep us tied up with this
legal stuff. We see this tactic over and over again. They press these BS
charges to scare people, to intimidate people and basically to make sure
that you're fighting this case, so you can't really do much else besides that.
It has definitely made it harder to find work or get an apartment. But
besides that, I've continued to organize, just not doing anything illegal.

I'm not going to stop organizing. I'm not going to stop because people are
still dying in Palestine. People are still dying here. How could I stop when
all this shit's happening? I'm just like, fuck it. If they want to do this shit,
they're going to do this shit because that's what the state does, but no
‘matter what, [ won't stop. If they want to come for me, let them come.

Uo: s the repression breeding more resistance? What does the future
look like for militant struggle?

Branch: I mean, I've always believed in militancy and yeah, this has made
‘me more militant honestly. I'm just like, you know what? This repression
is going to happen but we're going to have to keep doing this. But also it
‘made me realize that yes, while the action I took that day was good, and |
donot regret takingit, I regret doing it in the way I did because it ended
upin people getting arrested. Of course the state is always going to come
down on us ifthey find us, but we shouldn' give them the chance. The
tactics of locking down and your standard civil disobedence tactics are not
the best thing, and looking, in hindsight, T wish that maybe we had
done something else. We definitely have to build an underground. There's
only going to be more repression, and it's alsolike, how can we ever defeat
Amerikkka? How can we ever bring the imperial core to ts demise if we
don't have a real militant underground?

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Ireally don't think anyone should ever do your standard civil
disobedience tactics where you stay there evenif the pigs show up,
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movement. Instead of accomplishing anything it just increases surveillance, whe
by simply planning actions and not getting caught, rather than putting ourselves
conclusion, do not fucking do that. Don't ever fucking do that. Get the fuck out of

because if you do dip, you can fight more the next day.

UoF: Since this is an interview with Unity of Fields, could you speak at all to whe
MVP movement, and what you think a unity of the fields would look like in a rev
United States?

Branch: Definitely we saw the unity of fields with all these different people comi
‘The whole campaign against the pipeline has lasted years. People have worked w
really hard to figure how to talk about these things. I'm like, “what's not going to
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makes balloon animals. He runs a balloon company on the side and his name is
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together and actually take more militant action. We need to take
to build an underground, because right now there really isn't a cohesive
sround and that needs to change.
imperial core, how can we say we stand with the resistance in Palestine? We're
Ay doing much. Yes, I've done these actions, but what I did was the absolute
inimum. There are people who are doing way, way more. Living in imperial
e have to take these steps right now. There are a lot of divisions even amongst
wts and amongst ourselves, and we need to actually cohesively come together to
real underground. We've seen waves of militancy in the imperial core with the
toStop Cop City in Atlanta. In pipeline struggles over the years, people have
alve shutoffs, they've done a multitude of things. So we've seen all these pockets
tancy, but nothing has made a cohesive front. It's all fragmented. It's all very,
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even now in the movement, there is no militant aboveground in terms of
propaganda and support for actions. Yes, an aboveground has to be
limited. You can't do certain actions, but there's also no militant political
line. Most of the aboveground leftin this country s very adjacent to
NGOs, which take energy and feed it back into upholding this racist settler
colony welive in. It's very a bad state where we are at now. While yes, a lot
of people in the movement will say, “Oh we have leftist politics, we are
communists or anarchists,” in reality, despite what most label themselves,
most of them are just more liberals. At the end of the day, most of their
actions and what they say are like, “oh, we are anti-war,” and it's like, no,
we should be pro-people’s war! That's what we have to be. We are not anti-
‘war. We have to be pro-people's war because we as people who live in
Amerika in the imperial core, every day we go on is the day that more
‘people die both here and around the world because it revolves around

blood. We cannot simply have a march where we shout at empty buildings

or take isolated.

ns and pat ourselves on the back. Even the MVP
actions that have occured over the years have caused delays, and delayed
the completion by a long time, but people have to do more. We have to
organize and get to a point of militaney where we can actually threaten
the United States because we have to build towards a revolution. And
right now, we are not even at step one of building a revolution.

UoF: We're still trying to get people to admit that the United States is the.
enemy, and that's not a good thing. Slowly but surely people are getting it
though.

Branch: More people are definitely starting to get it but there are still alot
who don't. Even stuff around Palestine, there will be people who openly
support Hamas, but they're still slightly liberal in the sense that they don't
‘want to take escalated action or they don't even support escalated action.
It's one thing to not be able to take it yourself. Some people genuinely
have circumstances preventing them from doing that. And maybe they're
just genuinely really scared.

There are people who definitely have valid stuff to say, but some of these
people will not even support people who take action and are going
through repression. They will not publish a statement of support, even a
post on social media. There is actually very, very little support for
militants outside of their own little militant group. We don't really have
much prisoner support for people like Casey Goonan who hasn't been

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getting much public support. Yes, they have their committee, but it's not
like everyone's talking about Casey. Even the people who were facing
charges for going to the Brooklyn Museum exccutives' houses. Not many
people have been talking about them. Even for Cop City, it's sort of going
back into the periphery where people aren't talking much about the
people who are currently facing repression for Cop City, and that
issue. We also don't have any organized prisoner support or it's not even
at the forefront of people’s minds.

UoF: There is a real problem with the way that prisoner support is being
organized right now. It's all about separate campaigns for individual
prisoners, it moves us away from the idea that prisoners constitute a
cohesive political, social group and that we must engage in solidarity and
struggle on those grounds. Political prisoners in particular, people who,
are in prison because of their political work, constitute an essential part of
our movement, and I agree that we have basically abandoned them and
the idea that they are the vanguard of revolution in this country.

Branch: There has been a large abandonment of people who are currently
facing charges or people who are currently in prison. Casey Goonan is one
of the people who is in jail from the wave of last spring's student
uprisings. Yet most people don't know about them. That's not a good
thing. And we see in places like Palestine, there is a very vibrant
community to help prisoners.

UoF: That's the whole heart ofit.

Branch: Yeah, it's the flood. In the Al-Agsa Flood, they call prisoners their
North Star. And if we are going to build up towards a revolution, our
prisoners have to be our North Star too.

UoF: That's exactly right. And I think part of understanding that prisoners
constitute their own social group means that we have to fight for them as
a group. Now it's like, fight for this one prisoner or this other prisoner.
Help this or that isolated campaign. Where I'm hearing this critique from
the most is from our elders that came out of the sixties movement. They
say, “look, when our people were locked up, we had organizations that
helped every single person that was locked up for poli
comrades who were locked up were able to continue organizing inside.” It
wasn't pick and choose and let them rot. Now its like each person has

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their own separate political prisoner support network, siloed off and
disconnected from the movement. It's the same problem of fragmentation
as with underground or clandestine militancy.

Branch: We lost a lot to COINTELPRO. We have to build back up. In terms
of prisons and abolition in general, yes, we should support political
prisoners, but we should also support people in prison as a whole. We
have to actually carry out abolition, for everyone, not just the people we
know or the people directly involved in struggle. There's people inside
who are genuinely suffering, who don't have support. Honestly, if I go to
prison, to be for real, I'l have support, Ill be fine. I know my commissary
‘will be filled by my friends every day. If anything happens to me,
everyone's going to create a fuss about it, the other people in these
prisons, they Il die quietly. No one s there to help them.

there were other women in the cell next to
ing. This was right before the holidays, and

When I went in jail that day
me, and one of them was ¢

she was like, “I'm not going to be with my kids for the holidays.” She was
really crying. Who's going to help her or another person? When I got
released on bond, someone else got released with me. She got her clothes
back and she was like, “Oh my God, they're still intact.” The clothes that
she was arrested in, because she was in this jail for seven months, she's

not been convicted of anything. She was in there for seven months and
she was in another jail before that for another seven months. So she's been
locked up for a total of 14 months until that day that we got released. She.
hasn't been convicted of anything, she's just been rotting in different jails
for the past 14 months. Her clothes were still dirty when they gave it to
her with the mud that she was arrested with that day.

In the jail there, they literally had a drawing making fun of the prisoners
‘They had it in the manual, they had to use the manual because the fuck
ass idiot pig didn't know how to fucking fingerprint me. She had asked

someone else to come. She was like, “I haven't released a prisoner since

October, so someone needs to remind me how to do this process again.”
‘They hadn't fucking released anyone since fuck ass October! And then we
literally got released and she was trying to say Merry Christmas to me! A
pig! And I was like, “Fuck you, bitch.” Ljust kept saying that over and over
again as we walked out of the jail,like, “Fuck you fuck you fuck you.”
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Andalso to tie back to the MVP, I am sure you all saw the hurricanes that
happened and all the flooding. It destroyed Appalachia and the county I
got arrested in, Gilles County and the neighboring counties. River County
Jail. Allthat area was flooded and no data was released, but some of the,
women that I was in jail with might've died if they were still in there
because of all the flooding. Everything was flooded. I remember just
picking up my phone and looking at the photos and I could see the entire
jail the area I was in, all flooded.

S0 people have to understand that we really actually have to support
people in prisons. We need to have an organized support for prisoners
that have taken political action and also support people in general. e
need abolition for all, and that's not going to happen without a revolution.
And honestly, all prisoners are political prisoners.

UoF: Any last words?

Branch: So in October of 2023, we saw the Al-Agsa Flood happen and it
surged more militancy from people and all this action, but at the end of
the day, we still haven't seen much progress. And it's just like how I said
carlier, how can we truly claim to be in solidarity with people without
taking real action? And I think people have to understand, we all post
about Hamas, we post about stuff, we're in support, but at the end of the
day, Amerika is still bombing them with the bombs that are coming from
us. And it's very hypocritical, even of me to be like, oh yeah, I support
Hamas when in reality we haven't taken much action truly in support of
them. And I was saying earlier, we need to build all this infrastructure. We
need to rebuild so much to get to revolution. We need to rebuild prisoner
support. We need to rebuild community defense in poor neighborhoods.
We need to rebuild armed community defense. We need to invest in our.
communities. So it's not simply taking action, but it's also building up that
base because in you see in places like Palestine—Hamas—they're able to
go and hide within their communities.

UoF: The popular cradle!

Branch: Yeah. We don't have much of a popular cradle here, and we have
to go about building it So not only do we need to take militant action, we
need to do different types of militant action, which you all can guess, but I
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ourselves and we also need to build up, like I said, prisoner support,
armed community defense, self-defense and actual systems, and not
scattered systems, of mutual aid. Real mutual aid systems that are
centralized in communities. I see a lot of people shitting on mutual aid,
andit's like, to be honest, yes, we need the action, but we also need mutual
aid and we need it in a real centralized fashion because it's like if we don't
have community and we don't have armed community, which will be one
of the most important basics of building a revolution, we're not going to
have one. We can run around, do whatever the fuck we want, but at the
end of the day, if we don't have a popular cradle, we will never get
anywhere. We will be snuffed out in two seconds. So its like we truly have
to take example of Palestine or other revolutions, and we have to take lead
from them and actually build towards a real revolutionary movement
here. Because right now I also see a lot of people including militants being
like, “Oh, it's going to take years before we reach a revolution.” Well, yes,
but we don't really have that much time. Revolution is not going to
happen if we don't make it happen. And right now we're running on a
ticking clock with climate change. With people outside dying, people all
over the world dying. The longer we take as we sit here in the comfort of
the imperial core being like, “We can't do this. We can't do that.” It's going
tobe more bodies. It's going to be more bodies every single day, every
single second.

UoF: As George Jackson said, if there are going to be funerals, let there be
funerals on both sides.

Branch: Right, and right now there's only bodies on one side here.
UoF: Yeah, and as the Red Army Faction said in the Urban Guerrilla
Method, “By the time the conditions for armed struggle are right, it will be

too late to prepare for it.”

Branch: think a lot of people don't understand we can create the
conditions for armed struggle right now. We actually can eraft a stor,

we want to. But people in the imperial core, including so-called militants.
I'm sorry but to be real, even I can't really claim to be militant. I don't
think any of us can rightfully claim to be militant in any sort of fashion.

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Branch: We have to step up our game and we have to step it up now. Even
with all this repression, there has to be more because this is what the state
has done and is always going to do. We truly have to coalesce to bring the
Al-Aqsa Flood here. You have to bring the Flood here. We have to destroy.
the United States of Amerika. And it can't be 20 years from now. It's going
tohave to be in the near future.

One other thing I'm going to say, I think one of the most important things
people have to remember, and this was told to me by my friend, is that we
have to fight til the end of the line and pass that line. So even when you
think your back is up against the wall, you have to fight even more. And I
think, yes, while we're all afraid of repression or dying or any of that sort
of stuff, I've been in situations like that before, but at the end of the day,
why is my life more valuable than anyone else's? Than people in Palestine
and people all over the world, people in the Congo and Haiti? Those people
are dying too. If1 go to jail, okay, my life's not worth more than them.

And we have to also understand that yes, in a revolution we may lose each
other and we don't want to, but we lose 8o much more if we don't take that
step. And I think at the end of the day, our own mortality is honestly the
‘most powerful thing we can have. That's the one thing that we can be in
control of. The state may try to kill us, but we can decide whether or not
it's going to be on our terms. And if that sacrifice is going to make sure
peaple in the future have a better life because the United States of
Amerika will no longer be here, because like you said, there needs to be
bodies on both sides, and there will be bodies on both sides. The
revolution is going to happen. It's going to happen at some point.

UoF: Period.

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FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE
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