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  • Letter to Stener Sørensen AS

    Yesterday the demolition of our house got accepted. The demolition company that was hired to tear down the squatted house of the AFS is Stener Sørensen AS.

    To ask the company to drop out of the agreement with Asker kommune please send them the following message. The companies email address is firmapost@ssas.no.

    View the English version of the letter here

    Dear management and employees,

    We are writing to you because we hope you will take a moment to think about what role you can play in what is now happening in Hurummarka.

    You are asked to demolish the house that activists have used as a symbol of their opposition to the plans for a new weapons factory. For many of us, this is about far more than a house. It is about which direction we want Norway to take.

    We believe that the world does not need more weapons, more weapon parts or greater production capacity for war. Every day we see images of civilians affected by armed conflicts – children, families and local communities who lose everything. At the same time, we are in the middle of a natural crisis, where valuable forests and biological diversity are constantly being destroyed.

    We therefore ask you to ask yourselves: Must this be your mission?

    No one can bear responsibility for the world’s conflicts alone. But every company and every person can make choices about what they want to contribute to. By refusing this assignment, you can send a strong signal that conscience and ethical responsibility must sometimes outweigh a contract.

    If the demolition is carried out, many will feel that it will become a symbol of economic interests being put before nature conservation, democratic engagement and opposition to increased weapons production. We sincerely hope that you do not want to be remembered for having contributed to this.

    We therefore ask you to withdraw from the assignment and let other solutions be considered. It takes courage to say no, but precisely such choices help to define who we are – both as people and as businesses.

    We hope you listen to your heart before the excavators are started.

    With hope for consideration and humanity,

    Greetings, one of many who want to preserve Hurummarka and work for a more peaceful future.


    Kjære ledelse og ansatte,

    Vi skriver til dere fordi vi håper dere vil ta et øyeblikk til å tenke over hvilken rolle dere kan komme til å spille i det som nå skjer i Hurummarka.

    Dere er bedt om å rive huset som aktivister har tatt i bruk som et symbol på motstanden mot planene om en ny våpenfabrikk. For mange av oss handler dette om langt mer enn et hus. Det handler om hvilken retning vi ønsker at Norge skal ta.

    Vi mener at verden ikke trenger flere våpen, flere våpendeler eller større produksjonskapasitet for krig. Vi ser hver dag bilder av sivile som rammes av væpnede konflikter – barn, familier og lokalsamfunn som mister alt. Samtidig står vi midt i en naturkrise, der verdifull skog og biologisk mangfold stadig bygges ned.

    Vi ber dere derfor om å spørre dere selv: Må dette være deres oppdrag?

    Ingen kan bære ansvaret for verdens konflikter alene. Men hver bedrift og hvert menneske kan ta valg om hva de ønsker å bidra til. Ved å avslå dette oppdraget kan dere sende et sterkt signal om at samvittighet og etisk ansvar noen ganger må veie tyngre enn en kontrakt.

    Dersom rivningen gjennomføres, vil mange oppleve at den blir et symbol på at økonomiske interesser settes foran naturvern, demokratisk engasjement og motstand mot økt våpenproduksjon. Vi håper inderlig at dere ikke ønsker å bli husket for å ha bidratt til dette.

    Vi ber dere derfor om å trekke dere fra oppdraget og la andre løsninger bli vurdert. Det krever mot å si nei, men nettopp slike valg er med på å definere hvem vi er – både som mennesker og som virksomheter.

    Vi håper dere lytter til hjertet før gravemaskinene settes i gang.

    Med håp om omtanke og medmenneskelighet,

    Hilsen en av mange som ønsker å bevare Hurummarka og arbeide for en mer fredelig fremtid.

  • Call for support❤️‍🔥

    Asker Municipality has now applied to tear down the house, the fire department is assessing fire safety. We see this as clear preparations for a possible eviction. That’s why we need you now: Have strategic debates with us about whether evictions are a meaningful strategy. Make plans for how to keep this struggle alive even after possible destructions. Co-create ways of living in harmony with all these wonderful beings around us.

    Block genocide. Protect Avgrunnsdalen. 🐛🐞

    Please come and stay, organise solidarity actions, or write an email to support from away.
    🌐 knuskrigsmaskinen.noblogs.org
    📪 knuskrigsmaskinen@disroot.org

  • “A letter from the Abyss” zine is out

    The text originally published on Rupture Press is now also available as a booklet version on our mobilization material and mobiliseringsmateriell subpages.

  • You Don’t Have To Do This Alone

    We just published a proposal for how locals in Hurum can start organizing around the Environmental Impact Assessments by Norconsult titled “You Don’t Have To Do This Alone – Organizing Community Resistance in Hurummarka”. The text is available in English and Norwegian on our new subpages Get Organized / Organiser dere. On these you can also find a booklet version of the text for printing (only in Norwegian at the moment).

    Get organized!

  • Radio Avgrunnen

    Avgrunnsdalen now has its own online radio channel at avgrunnen.com 📻!!

    Check out this wonderful page that a fellow bird made!

    Listen 24/7.

    More content will come! 📡🔘❤️🌞

  • RUPTURE PRESS: A letter from the Abyss

    Check out (and share widely!) our recent blog post on RUPTURE PRESS.

  • What is Midsummer?

    In many northern countries peoples celebrate Midsummer.

    🌾 HISTORICALLY 🌾
    … this day marks the midpoint of the growing season, halfway between planting and harvest.

    ☀️ ASTRONOMICALLY ☀️
    … speaking, summer begins on the solstice, which is always around the 20th of June. At this moment, the Sun reaches its highest and northernmost points in the sky, and Earth’s North Pole tilts directly toward the Sun. It’s the longest day of the year. The sun does not even disappear at night in some more Nordic regions of the world. In fact, the Sun’s declination path appears to stop before reversing direction. “Solstice” is a combination of the Latin words sol for “sun” and stitium for “standing.” In late December, the Sun appears to stand still again, when we experience the winter solstice—the shortest day.

    💐 TRADITION 💐
    Celebrations for Midsummer typically begin on Midsummer Eve. Dancing, eating, bonfires, collecting flowers and way more! Which traditions are actually getting practised depends on the area and the people you are with.

    👉 At our celebration we will have a diverse mix out of different practices and it also highly depends on who brings what knowledge. We are really existed to create our own tradition with you!

  • Greetings to the Banny forest occupation!

    While we are still giggeling about the fact that the municipality requested the police to evict us citing AI-genereated praragraphs, another local government has dilegitimized itself by evoking the executive force on local resistance with questionable legal footing. This time it happened to a forest occupation close to Frankfurt, Germany called Banny against a gravel company taking away the local forest. There – evicting people – the cops had to stop mid-eviction and left the forest still occupied. The court had confirmed doubts about the legal construction, the municipality had created.
    The pattern of government caring less about law or quality or foundations of life of the people we expect it everywhere.
    So it is only a question of time and place when governing bodies will cast aside their virtue. With their decision to unquestionably follow governmental orders, the police facilitate this foreseeable problem.

    We stand in solidarity with everyone who fights this!

  • Speech at Anti-Racist Demonstration in Oslo, 20.05.2026

    Yesterday, we participated in the anti-racist demonstration in Oslo organized by Handala forening. Thanks for inviting us! Below you can find our speech:

    Hello, we are Knus Krigsmaskinen!

    On April 2nd we squatted the abandoned military barrack in Avgrunnsdalen, Hurummarka to defend the forest from being turned into an explosives factory for Chemring Nobel.

    Chemring, the Norwegian ministry of defense, and the Norwegian state are enforcing this plan by subjecting the local population to an audacious sham democratic process. The locals know this, and together with them, our resistance shines like a bright fire in a dark night.

    Already today, Chemring produces explosives on the Hurum peninsula in their factory in Sætre. The explosives manufactured there are used in the american produced Hellfire-missiles, which are widely used in israel’s genocide on Palestinians. Chemring Nobel and Nammo also secured themselves a twelve year agreement with German Diehl Defence last year, who is itself is in close cooperation with the israeli weapons industry.

    Needless to say, imperial wars, settler colonialism and genocide are inherently racist. The plunder and devastation of land and resources can only be justified through a white supremacist logic that decides who plunders and who is plundered. This logic is sustained through a deeply engrained nationalism. As a prime example of upholding this racism, Norway supplies the US, NATO and German military with essential components for their imperial endeavors under the nationalist rhethoric of self-defense.

    Through this nationalism, Norway’s complicity in the genocide on Palestinians is directly linked to its own internal colonization of Sápmi.

    For the land is being scarred and the waters poisoned to extract resources including wood, metals, and electricity, to host paying tourists, to process digital information in data centers, and to force Norwegian culture and a “modern” lifestyle as they call it, into dominance – and not least: to satisfy the material and energy demands for an ever increasing war machinery. 

    Racism in Norway also takes the shape of politicians who call reindeer herding a threat to “progress” and demand that reindeer districts have less power over their territories. It takes the shape of killed reindeer, harassment during military exercises, and a structural exclusion of the Sámi parliament from decision making power.

    Pretenses of a progressive national identity exist only in nationalism’s paradigm of erasure. Last Sunday’s display of Norwegian national pride, which entails countless Norwegian flags placed also on traditional Sámi territories, AT THE SAME TIME as norway and norwegians continue to colonize Sámi lands and people, shamingly proves this point. So does calling Sápmi Norway or calling Riehpovuotna Repparfjord. These names should mean places, inlets and mountains – and kin. Norway continues to be a settler colonial state and many of the worst perpetrators sit on company boards or in parliaments. For example, the company Nussir ASA blasts a tunnel into the mountain Nussir to get at copper, gold, and silver, and dumps the tailings into the inlet Riehpovuotna, poisoning and filling it again – as they done before in the 1970s. The owner of Nussir ASA is the Canadian Blue Moon Metals inc., who also runs a mine on indigenous territories in the so-called US.  One of Blue Moon Metals main investors is Hartree Partners LP, with offices no fifteen hundred metres from here on Fjordaleen 16, only naming some targets. Of course, there are many more. 

    The EU critical raw materials act has spurred on a whole host of mining projects in Sápmi in the name of a green transition that does not in fact transition away from anything but instead only means more production and consumption, industry and land grabs. Their so-called progress is nothing but a tool on the belt of capitalist civilization and in the hands of the likes of Nussir ASA, LKAB, Talga AB, Anglo American Services. 

    We now lived in Avgrunnsdalen for almost two months and established an AFS, an actively defended zone, or aktivt forsvart sone in Norwegian. We will stay until the factory will no longer be built. Each day we spend in Avgrunnsdalen, our hearts are with those who’ve lost their lives, their loved ones, or their lands while facing the unimaginable horrors of imperial and colonial aggression. 

    We also stand in solidarity with the flotilla activists being intercepted by israeli forces earlier this week, and with the 47activists are going to court in Vestre Finnmark Tingrett in Hámmár­feasta on the 2nd of June for resisting against the Nussir mine in Riehpovuotna.

    At this very moment, racism in Norway takes the shape of compliance with genocide against Palestinians, as well as the active colonization of Sápmi. Genocide and colonialism are at this very moment profited from and produced, among other places, in Hurumlandet, and it must be stopped there and now. Let’s stand side by side in the fight.


    Freedom for every colony, solidarity means attack! 

    Join us in Avgrunnsdalen. Join our midsommer camp! All infos on our website. 

    Knus Krigsmaskinen! 
  • “Democracy! Bread and Circus!”

    🎪🤹  Welcome to the performance “Democracy! Bread and Circus!” directed by the Norwegian Defence States Agency, Chemring and Asker Municipality. All decisions have been made, come in and watch the play Democracy!”

    11 May, Tofte Secondary School: What was supposed to be a model for democratic participation and transparent planning from the Norwegian Defence States Agency and Chemring, has turned out to be exactly the opposite: a well-directed mock process. The recently launched planning report and the so-called “People’s Meeting” are nothing more than a play designed to give citizens the illusion of influence, while the decisions have already been made.
    It is very gratifying to see that so many of the locals are not fooled by the leather process, but possess a lot of important knowledge and put the Norwegian Defence States Agency to the wall.

    How has the Norwegian Defence States Agency reached its conclusions? Have they changed the criteria or were the criteria also decided in advance? We cannot accept that the Norwegian Defence States Agency continues to use “open meetings” as an excuse for a lack of genuine dialogue. A planning process that is not willing to accept criticism and adjust its course is not a planning process, it is a decision-making machine. When Chemring Nobel, Asker municipality, the Norwegian Defence States Agency and the State are united in not allowing the local population to take part in deciding whether there should be an explosives factory at Hurum or not, the local population should take matters into their own hands.

    We also invite you to our open meetings in Avgrundsdalen. Boycott or disrupt all of the leather processes set up by the Norwegian Defence States Agency and Asker Municipality, support us in the Avgrunnsdalen Valley and help build up direct democracy and real resistance to the war machine.