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May Day 2012 Around the World

Today marks May Day, which is traditionally celebrated around the world as Labor Day. This year's events are being reinvigorated by the growing and pervasive Occupy Wall Street movement.

  • Vermont: 2000 people marched in Vermont yesterday for the Put People and the Planet First rally. This was the largest weekday demonstration in the history of Vermont's Capital City (population: 7800).
  • Seattle: Seattle police pepperspraying protesters on 6th Ave near Pine. Windows at Niketown smashed
  • Oakland: Protesters have been ordered by police to clear the area of 14th and Broadway
  • Downtown Seattle descending into spots of chaos. Police now giving chase to black-clad protesters
  • Seattle: Crowd of 1000-1500 marching
  • NYPD has shut down Williamsburg bridge to car traffic.
  • Over 20,000 Tunisians in May Day march for national unity
*New York: The New York Times, May 2nd – The Day After
*Mother Jones: Occupy May Day, As It Happens
*Why All the Smashy-Smashy? A Beginner's Guide to Targeted Property Destruction.
*Bay Area: May Day protesters shut down Marin ferries
*Occupy's May Day protests off to slow, soggy start in NYC
*Occupy May Day begins
*May Day’s Radical History: What Occupy Is Fighting for This May 1st
*Occupy Detroit Plans May Day Actions, Re-Occupation Of Grand Circus Park
*Seattle: May Day protests: traffic jams or worse?

 

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anOther Story Of Progress - a new anti-civilization documentary.

Alternative Media

anOther Story Of Progress covers various issues, such as environmental destruction, indigenous resistance and insurrection - from a primitivist perspective. It also features primitivist thinkers such as John Zerzan and Layla AbdelRahim, as well as activists Vandana Shiva and Ana Maria Lozano from Justicia y Paz - to mention just some of the people appearing in the film.

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Blockupy Frankfurt Update: Individual bans withdrawn, Actions start

Europe

On Tuesday police started to surround the camp with fences. Also the surroundings of the neighbouring ECB has been fenced off with barbed wire.

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Raoul Vaneigem: Beyond the Impossible

Anti-Capitalist Movement

The impossible is a closed universe. Nevertheless, we possess the key to it and, as we’ve suspected for millennia, its door opens on a field of infinite possibilities. More than ever, this field belongs to us, to explore and cultivate. The key is neither magic nor symbolic. The ancient Greeks called it “poetry,” from the verb poiein, to construct, to fashion, to create.

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The New Repression: May Day 2012, Berlin

On May Day 2012, anarchists around the US succeeded in precipitating clashes on a larger scale than in previous years. But it’s important to strategize ahead of our immediate problems, in order to be prepared for the subsequent challenges we will face when we succeed. This report from the May Day 2012 mobilization in Berlin offers a cautionary tale, showing how the commodification of rebellion, the influence of accommodating movement leaders, and the rhetoric of creating safe spaces have been used to neutralize a popular tradition of resistance. If revolt continues to gain momentum in the United States, we can expect to see some of these strategies employed here as well.

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Banned in Victoria

Anarchist Opinion

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. On May 12, 2012, the book launch event that was scheduled at Camas Books in Victoria, BC to celebrate the publication of the latest collection of my anarcho-surrealist writings, Scratching The Tiger’s Belly (Eberhardt, 2012), opened on a decidedly sour note. Upon my arrival at the bookstore, I was met by a member of the Camas collective. Without blinking an eyelash, he informed me that while they were still willing to make good on their promise to hold the Scratching The Tiger’s Belly booklaunch at the store that night and stock it thereafter; my previous book, Swift Winds (Eberhardt 2009) was no longer welcome on the store’s shelves. And so unfolds the saga of how Swift Winds was banned in Victoria by the Camas bookstore collective upon the request of none other than Allan Antliff.

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Ah-Anti-Anti-Capitalista

Anarchist Opinion

I often wonder what the cops, passersby, media types, etc. are thinking when occupiers break into the joyous song/dance of ah-anti-anti-capitalista.

Here in the Land of the Free™, we are consciously conditioned to worship capitalism (and capitalists) so I'll bet some outsiders perceive such a chant as a very convenient excuse to dismiss Occupy Wall Street (OWS) as -- pick one -- naïve, anarchist, communist, socialist, anti-American, selfish, lazy, or "too radical."

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Occupy Abay - Day 8

Anarchist Movement

Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a concert. Later, a freemarket was opened, where everyone could leave their goods and gather what was left by other people. Tomorrow 15th of May, there will be a lecture on free non-capitalist economy in the camp.

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Major League Baseball Puts an End to Racist Logos

Sports

  The organization hasn’t changed its mind on the team name and iconography of the Atlanta Braves, which (along with those of the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins) have vexed American Indians for years. No, what MLB has shut down is a mom-and-pop organization that has been producing shirts with the Braves logo misspelled “Barves.” The made-up word became a Twitter joke when careless (or illiterate) Braves fans habitually mis-typed their team’s name; eventually tagging your tweets #BARVES or #GOBARVES became the ironic way to cheer on the Braves.

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New Orleans: Summer 2012 Free Skool Classes

Anarchist Opinion

The Greater New Orleans Disorganization of Anarchist Federated Affinity Conspiracy of Sellers of That Fire presents   SUMMER 2012 Free Skool Classes   What, y'all thought every pain-in-the-ass idealist had skipped town to beat the heat? Those days are over! We go HAM year-round; projects never falter not for a MINUTE. We keep it tight, tighter than the wind-up pocketwatch of an OCD steampunk. 

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Thinking About Anarchism and Organisation

Anarchist Opinion

An accusing finger is pointed at anarchists any time the word organisation is mentioned. Many people believe that anarchism is against organisation and just another word for chaos, but is it? The simple answer, of course, is no, but that does not explain the confusion surrounding the question, nor the accusations thrown at anarchists.

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Ireland: Unlock NAMA Unveiled

Europe

Unlock NAMA (UN) hit the headlines in January after occupying a NAMA building in Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. The aim of the occupation was to open a NAMA building to the public for a day and hold a series of talks on the subject. The group, along with around sixty supporters, were eventually evicted by the Gardaí after the intervention of the receiver but that was only the beginning of the campaign.

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20 Years After the L.A. Riots, Revisiting the Rationality of Revolt

North America

We look critically at the political significance of the Los Angeles riots/rebellions of 1992 and their aftermaths. Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, two revolutionary thinkers from the African Diaspora, we also offer these reflections as challenges to hegemonic (or dominant) ideas of law and order, reason and rationality, and offer the rallying cry, shared by continued voices of protest, for new concepts and commitments in the struggle for freedom and a more humane world.

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Chomsky: Do We Have the Makings of a Real Revolution?

Anarchist Opinion

Unless the spirit of the last year continues to grow and becomes a major force in the social and political world, the chances for a decent future are not very high.

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NYC -- Accused Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond in Court, Monday May 14

SolidarityJeremy Hammond is a 27-year-old political activist from Chicago, Illinois. He is currently incarcerated at the federal jail in New York City, charged with hacking conspiracies carried out by the LulzSec/AntiSec wing of Anonymous. His four co-defendants, Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Darren Martyn and Donncha O'Cearrbhail, are awaiting extradition from Britain and Ireland. The charges include the hacking of Stratfor and HBGary Federal, two private security firms contracted to spy and collect intelligence by governments and corporations. They are also charged with focusing on law enforcement by hacking the Arizona Department of Public Safety, infamous for its racist immigration policies.
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US claim of Iran-al-Qaeda 'deal' discredited

Imperialism
That claim was presented in a way that suggested it was supported by intelligence. It now appears, however, to have been merely a propaganda line designed to support the Barack Obama administration's strategy of diplomatic coercion on Iran.
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NATO: Occupy to #SaveOurClinics! From Mental Health Movement Chicago

Occupy Wall Street

To all our family from the global 99%, To all those who believe that healthcare is a human right, To all those coming to protest NATO and its wars for profit around the globe, To all those who have struggled with mental illness personally or with loved ones, To all those who have been denied healthcare, To all those who have waited all day in emergency rooms, To all those public servants facing layoffs or cuts to salary and pension, To all those who are sick and tired of being sick and tired, To all those who believe that another world is possible beyond this madness.

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