The Pittsburgh chapter of the National Lawyers Guild has a new zine with Know Your Rights information for Allegheny County. As state repression ramps up, it’s important to know what your rights are. As the zine says, asserting these rights isn’t a get-out-of-arrest free card but you’re much better off having this knowledge than not. […]
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Community Warning: Federal Grand Jury, March 2025
Submission received early March 2025 On Friday, March 7th at roughly 09:00 AM a community member was approached by two federal agents outside of her home in on her way to work. The agents identified themselves as with the FBI and said they wanted to ask her some questions. They showed her a picture of […]
New Zine: Pgh Anarchy Projects March 4 2025
The cool folks at Stormbringer Press have asked us to host a copy of the March 4 edition of their zine “PGH Anarchy Projects”. It’s a nice little guide (that is also published elsewhere online and off) to some of the initiatives in the area with contact info for some of them. This site is […]
Event Series: Prisoner Letter Writing at Roboto
Submission received late February 2025 TL;DR – Come write letters to prisoners at the Mr. Roboto Project, 3rd Sunday every month, 1430 – 1530 (230p-330p) Prisoners who have gone to jail and come back talk about how letters they received from the outside helped them keep their spirits up and stay connected to the outside […]
Antifascists Chase Fascist Singer Michale Graves Out of Town
Submission received in mid-late February 2025 Fascist musician Michale Graves has abandoned his planned Pittsburgh show after getting canceled from three different venues. Graves, a former singer with the post-Danzig Misfits, is a member of the Proud Boys and founder of the Conservative Punk website who participated in January 6. He originally planned to play […]
Community Warning: Joe LeVasseur, Serial Abuser
We received a submission detailing a pattern of physical, sexual, and other abuse over the course of decades by Joe LeVasseur, a Pittsburgh area anarchist and activist. Joe is a jiu jitsu black belt and former MMA fighter and was extremely physically dangerous during the relationships described in the submission. Please read the full submission […]
Our Glorious Masked Militants
submission received in early February The oldhead homie says, The context for what follows is this: An anarchist assembly was held in Pittsburgh sometime in 2024, during which some attendees got upset with someone for not wearing an N95 mask. The other discussion topics (federal charges, grand juries, new police training facilities, squatting, […]
ATTACK AS IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE
Anonymous submission received in mid-January 2025 There exists an insidious drive to assimilate revolt into politics. Attack must be justified by the deservingness of its target, its material effect, or the positioning of it in an abstract conflict. I am no moral actor. I do not concern myself with cause-and-effect. I regard it all […]
Federal Grand Jury Community Warning, Jan 2025
Anonymous submission received early January 2025 Community Warning, 2025-01-21 Situation There is a federal grand jury sitting in Pittsburgh. At least two people have been subpoenaed to testify before it. This grand jury is at least partially focused on the criminal cases of MH and TL who were arrested earlier this year on charges related […]
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We’re doing another one of these. Yeah yeah, yet another counterinfo site in a sea of them, but we think it’s important. Pittsburgh is buzzing and we want to publish your stuff. Zines, reportbacks, communiques, rants, etc. pghcounterinfo@riseup.net – can’t wait to hear from you. Click through for more.