Our Greek friends from The Void Network have had a horrible incident happen in Berkeley California. Their vehicle has been broken into and their livelihood has been taken. This threatens the rest of their tour and the great success of their tour up till now. The tour has been possible up till now by people passing the hat. This has been (barely) enough to cover gas but this situation requires explicit help.
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There is a widow in upstate NY who reels from a double-whammy of a brilliant, successful husband who confessed to a sexual assault and the memory of his ashes arriving 6 months later from Maine State Prison (MSP) with the notice that he had died of “natural causes.” Then another whammy–finding out 6 weeks later, after she had buried him, that it was a homicide and that prison officials had known as much within minutes of his death–officially, within 2 days.
How can we know what is going on and fast when we take to the streets? An effective communication system is the life-blood of any skirmish, uprising or revolution. Timely information can provide nourishment and animation to all other aspects of a resistance project. Without the ability to communicate with our comrades we would become isolated and will not be able to effect real or substantial change. In this essay we will look at the sociological and technological underpinnings of various communications systems that have been used when we gather to take our resistance to the streets. We will examine the shortcomings of previous models and see how they can be improved upon to create a system that allows us to employ fully the passion of our dreams and resistance.
Immigration laws are immoral and therefore should be abolished, not tolerated with reform. The reasoning in support of nationalism is the same as that of racism. Both -ism's are equally evil and their reasoning ploys equally stupid. Like war, those who can't uncompromisingly stand against immigration law can stand for little-to-nothing.
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On Friday March 19th, the Food not Bombs collective in Ft Lauderdale organized a Really Really Free Market in the Stranahan Park. It all began like a normal Food not Bombs, which serves every Friday in the park, as several organizers showed up at 5:00pm. Initially, there were around 20 or so people sharing and eating at food not bombs. at the same time, other activists showed up and began setting up the Really Really Free Market. Throughout the hour, many more people began to arrive, and there were a couple large piles of clothes, books, magazines and music albums.
Not too surprisingly, whenever organizationalist, leftist anarchist tendencies cast about for justification for their amalgamations of anarchist theory with leftist politics, they invariably seem to latch on to Jo Freeman’s now quite dated essay titled The Tyranny of Structurelessness. In fact, the recently spreading infatuation with the Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by Peter Arshinov, Nestor Makhno et al amongst some less self-critical and more leftist anarchists has led to quite a proliferation of anarchist web sites featuring Freeman’s not-too-veiled attack on anarchist theories of organization.
Turkish bourgeoisie is singing the same old jingoist songs from the mouth of Turkish PM. They threatened to expel immigrant Armenian workers. Erdoğan, the Turkish prime minister, in his visits to England implied to BBC that if the western states continue their recognition policy of Armenian genocide of 1915, then they might expel Armenian immigrant workers.
Swiss confectionary giant Nestle is set to make hundreds of workers redundant in the Moscow region after announcing that it is shutting down one of its factories.
Welcome to the biggest social media/PR disaster yet. This one is a DOOZER. Food giant Nestle, who is currently under pressure from environmentalists raging about deforestation and palm oil, because the subject of a swelling (and still growing) storm of user comments and attacks via Twitter and especially Facebook. The cause? Operators of the Facebook page took a hostile approach to consumers/critics.
On the one hand, society, the world of labour, the unemployed, who are suffering the effects of the harshest attack in recent years (wage cuts, job losses and terrorism from the bosses), all of us who have to take loans to survive from month to month, all of us have been forced to survive in the galleys of modern cities by a rotten, corrupt and unjust system and quits to work to cope on profits of companies and enterprises.
Anarchists in London, Ontario are pleased to announce that we have formed a collective and are in the process of planning the biggest anarchist event our city has ever seen! On October 22-24, 2010, all roads lead to LONDON! We are now looking for accomplices!
Yes, anarchists are opposed to nationalism in all its forms. British anarchists Stuart Christie and Albert Meltzer simply point out the obvious: "As a nation implies a state, it is not possible to be a nationalist and an anarchist." [The Floodgates of Anarchy, p. 59fn]
Think back seven years ago to this day. Where were you on March 19th, 2003, when the invasion of Iraq began? Did you see “Shock and Awe” footage of the orange explosions in the clear Baghdad sky, piped in grainy TV shows, lit at night with the green glow of CNN cameras? Did you read the tickertapes under these images of neighborhoods lit on fire? Over those next days, did you, like many of us, collapse in overwhelmed grief and rage, frantic at not knowing how we could stop our government's onslaught?
Liu Xia's matrimony day in 1996 incited out to be great credentials for a following fourteen years of tied together life. She as well as her groom, Liu Xiaobo, ate a medium celebratory lunch with relatives. Then she returned home, withdrawal her brand new father to go upon portion his judgment in a re-education-through-labour camp.
The Self Described Anarchist Collective is pleased to announce the schedule of events for the inaugural Anticapitalathon (TM) Games. The events will be held from April 23 through April 25 in Washington, DC, and are timed to coincide with the annual spring meetings of both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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