cars of tesla attacked with bitumen

“In the night of February 26th we have coverd at least 12 luxury cars and one company car of Tesla, on their premises in the Essener Straße in the north of Hamburg (Germany) with bitumen. Solidary greetings to the squatters* of the forest in Grünheide.”

[editor note: this text is a translation found here. The original text is in german: https://de.indymedia.org/node/68295 ]

tesla is a company that benefits from the ideology that all the problems of this world can ultimately be solved by the further development of technologies. An important part of their image is that the technologies they are working on (for example, they are pioneers in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving) have a value for the general public in social, environmental and safety areas. We reject the constant perfection of human beings through technology, as it is associated with the extension of control and the further restriction of freedom. We also oppose the destruction of nature, which, contrary to popular claims, is inevitably accompanied by the expansion of technology.

[some notes: Technology is not a neutral object, that could be used either for good or for bad. It got designed under specific social systems, to usualy be aplied in very specific ways. It is important to integrate an understanding into our analysis, of the context technology is being aplied to. One of such context is a climatecrisis caused by extractivism, colonialism and capitalism. Technology created by reprocuding that, will always be a threat to our climate, not a solution. And whenever it claims to be a solution it creates delution, hindering us to find out what is nessesary, what is really necessary to counter this climate crisis.

“technological development do not happen in a vacum. They are heavily influenced by and benefit those that exert power over others. I would argue that most technological advance is made in context were the state expands its ability of economic growth and social control.

technology is based within existing political systems. And systems of powers, that come to shape how such technology is and can be used. [within our political system] technology is being used to propel and buttress the capitalist economic system.

“Claims that ‘technology is neutral’ ring hollow in a world dominated by powerful states and capitalist social relations. It’s clear to anyone keeping score that those who control and shape technological development and mass production are best situated to reap the benefits.

Qutes are taken from this documentary, done by anarchists critical of technology and its current development:

Trouble 19: Quiet Storm

We do not make the ridiculous judgment that technology is bad. From what – historically based ethics anyway? We say it is violence and social war. Our criticism is directed against the technological appropriation of life processes.
Quote from a zine in german worth of reading:
https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2018/12/DELETEA4_web.pdf

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How hypocritical the Tesla corporation is can just be seen in Brandenburg.
Within a few days Tesla has destroyed 90 hectares of forest in Grünheide (Brandenburg) to build a huge factory in the name of progress and profit. 65 hectares are still to follow. Symbolically, a few animals were “saved” for the press, which are to be resettled, while 30 “harvesters” machines slaughter countless animals and their habitat in record speed.

 

We think it’s great that a couple of tree pirates* have occupied the forest twice within a short period of time, to defend themselves against the clearing.
In a place like this, there aren’t always many people who fight against such a plan. But we can do something against Tesla everywhere, because in almost every town and also in some villages there are locations of them.

[tesla.com/findus]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200219161455/tesla.com/findus?bounds=50.034535973301956%2C-67.69189571875%2C28.263710960523248%2C-130.84130978125&zoom=5&filters=store%2Cservice%2Csupercharger%2Cdestination%20charger

We propose a decentralized fight against the Tesla factory and all other technology sites.