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Intellectual Nonsense and the Fear of Rationality
We are sometimes alone. In those solitary moments when we attempt to make sense of the world, we may harmlessly come across certain books which strike us as vague and obscure, written by ‘philosophers’ and critics whose knowledge of politics, … Continue reading
FBI Affidavit Demonstrates Political Nature of FBI Investigation
from Committee Against Political Repression. Oct 21: On October 18, SeattlePI.com ran an important article, “Agent: FBI tailed Portland anarchists headed to May Day riot.” While the piece describes previously unavailable details of the FBI’s investigation into the May Day … Continue reading
The Grey Clouds Come Rolling In: Words from a Grand Jury Resister
PugetSoundAnarchists.org. Oct 10: Today was the first day where it actually felt like the rainy season I’ve grown to know over the past five years. Today was also the day that the third grand jury resister, Leah Lynn-Plante was taken … Continue reading
Seasol: Pegasus Pizza Pays Up
Seattle Solidarity. Oct 3: Pegasus Pizza Pays Up Luis and SeaSol have won our second fight against Pegasus Pizza. A few months after our last encounter, Luis was fired for being a few minutes late due to delays in his … Continue reading
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Seattle: archives – Seattle Group Bulletins #1-60 (1965 – 1971) now online
A-Infos. Oct 1: (en) US, Seattle Group Bulletins #1-60 now online Date Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:46:08 +0200 The Seattle Group Bulletins were published between 1965 & 1971 & all 60 are now online & fully searchable. —- The Seattle … Continue reading
No Repression: In Regards to Snitchjacketing
No Repression. Oct 2: Snitch Jacketing is a term originally used to describe an FBI tactic for sowing divisions within a target group through spreading suspicion of an informant. It has been used as an interrogation technique as well, feeding … Continue reading
Vancouver BC: a reflection on Woodsquat, Woodward, Gentrification in the Downtown East Side
The Dominion. Oct 3: The Cornerstone of Gentrification in the Downtown East Side From the Woodward squat ten years ago, to a displaced neighbourhood by Isaac Oommen, Photos by Murray Bush – Flux Photo VANCOUVER—Towering 43 storeys at the corner … Continue reading
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Tagged BC, East Van, Gentrification, Vancouver, Woodsquat
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Seattle: Northwest African American Museum Isn’t The Real Museum!
Wake Up God Dammit. Sept 18: Seattle’s Northwest African American Museum: It Isn’t The Real Museum! By Leith Kahl. September 13, 2012 (Note: This article assumes that the reader is aware of the African American holiday known as Juneteenth, … Continue reading
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Tagged NAAM, Seattle, Wake Up God Dammit
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We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation
warmachines.info. Sept 16: New Book Chapter: “Messy Hearts Made of Thunder” Team Colors is pleased to announce that our chapter “Messy Hearts Made of Thunder: Occupy, Struggle, and Radical Community Organizing” has just been released as part of the We … Continue reading
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Tagged #OWS, AK Press, Andy Cornell, Chris Dixon, George Caffentzis, Kevin Van Meter, Kristian Williams, Team Colors
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Drawing (A) Militant Resistance: Interview with Indigenous artist and author Gord Hill
Profane Existence. Sept 16: Interview by Comrade Black Gord Hill is probably one of the most sought after speakers, writers and artists in regards to anarchism, militancy and Indigenous sovereignty in our area. His style is unique, drawing on his … Continue reading
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Victoria: Audio of Mel Bazil – “Transcending Rights” talk at (A) Bookfair
BC Blackout. Sept 14: Mel Bazil – Transcending Rights This year’s Victoria Anarchist Bookfair was focused on “150 years of resistance to Colonialism.” Mel Bazil a Gitxsan/ Wet’suwet’en warrior involved with the Unis’tot’en camp gave an awesome and inspiring workshop on … Continue reading
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Grand Jury Resistance Rally Daylights Secret Government Tool of Oppression
Portland Occupier. Sept 12: Back in the day, civics class taught us that the grand jury was among the government institutions that made the United States the greatest country on Earth. It was a shining example of our commitment to … Continue reading
Notes for this Thursday’s Grand Jury Hearing
Say Nothing. Sept 11: We have received confirmation that the Asst. US Attorney presiding over this grand jury has already obtained immunity for one, if not both, of the subpeanuts for the 13th. This means that those granted immunity will … Continue reading
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Because We Must: Statement in opposition to state, grand juries, and in support of its resistors
Because We Must. Sept 12: Friends and comrades, My name is Matt Duran and I will do everything I can to resist this Grand Jury. I’m releasing this as it’s come to my attention that the strategy my lawyer and … Continue reading
Portland Radicle: Home is Where Our Hearts Are
Portland Radicle. Sept 12: When we engage in revolutionary work, we’re acting from a deep place of caring: caring for ourselves, for our fellow humans, for the planet—sometimes all of these, sometimes just one. At times, we forget to care … Continue reading
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Pacific Trails Must Fail! – Contrubutions Towards an Uncompromising Opposition Against the PTP
BC Blackout. Sept 10: Contrubutions Towards an Uncompromising Opposition Against the PTP Many people are aware of the epic ‘Northern Gateway’ pipeline project Enbridge is seeking to push through. A smaller but growing number are realizing that the Pacific Trails … Continue reading
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Tagged Pacific Trails Pipeline, Raven Coal, Vancouver
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Recomposition: At War With Calendula
Recomposition. Aug 29: At War With Calendula by Peter Small businesses are widely believed to be better places to work or better for the planet or both. They’re not. Small businesses are just smaller, less successful versions of large businesses, … Continue reading
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“Solidarity is what the state fears” – Leah Lynn Plante
##UPDATE## BecauseWeMust.org. Aug 29: TODAY is a national call-in to support grand jury resisters in the Northwest. Here’s the call-in information, and a wonderful statement from Leah-Lynn Plante about her non-cooperation: http://nopoliticalrepression.wordpress.com/ Meanwhile, in the Bay area, another grand jury resister … Continue reading
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Militant Anarcha Feminism on Vancouver Island – “An Explosive Interview with a KKKanadian Urban Guerrilla” (2010)
Anarcha Library. Aug 24: Militant Feminism: An Explosive Interview with a KKKanadian Urban Guerrilla (2010) By Comrade Black Juliet Belmas was arrested in January 1983, at the age of 19, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison for her … Continue reading
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Tagged AMEX, Anarcha Feminism, Camas, Cold Lake, Comrade Black, History, Victoria, Wimmin’s Fire Brigade
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Law & Disorder Video: Decolonization Means Prison Abolition
via Because We Must. Aug 14: [vimeo https://vimeo.com/47494666 w=500&h=281] Here is another great discussion that we were able to film at the Law & Disorder conference in Portland this past April. In this video, Decolonize PDX discusses why they felt … Continue reading
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Tagged Because We Must, Decolonize PDX, Law & Disoder, portland
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Rose City Antifascists expose nazi neighbors and coworkers during Day of Action, Call for Community Responses
via Rose City Antifascists. Aug 14: Rose City Antifascists expose nazi neighbors and coworkers during Day of Action, Call for Community Responses On July 31, as promised, Rose City Antifascists delivered a message to white supremacist organizers our state. We … Continue reading
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Law & Disorder video: Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex
via Because We Must: [vimeo https://vimeo.com/47264191 w=500&h=281] Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex: Towards a Queer, Trans and Feminist Abolition Politic Another gem from the Law and Disorder conference in Portland, OR. A wonderful thought provoking panel by Eric Stanley, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gender, Law & Disoder, portland, prisons, Video
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While the whole world is burning
Portland IMC. Aug 9: Defeat is imminent. Take a shit where ever you please and walk away hand in hand with progress; that deceitful old man. Always waiting for that mental ceiling to collapse, to bring the weight of the … Continue reading
Will Potter: The Grand Jury is About Intimidation, and Social Mapping of Anarchist Movement
Green is the New Red. Aug 9: The Stranger’s Brendan Kiley (featured here previously reporting the case of D.K. Pan) has an excellent article on the Seattle grand jury targeting anarchists. Here’s an excerpt from “Political Convictions?: Federal Prosecutors in Seattle … Continue reading
I Tell Em, Slow Down, You Know You Can’t Catch Me.
PugetSoundAnarchists.org. Aug 8: I would like to start by saying that I send nothing but love and unbreakable solidarity to my alleged subpoenaed non-cooperating comrades, especially Leah. Whether we called each other friends in the past or have never even … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlanta, Bloomington, FBI, Grand Jury, Minneapolis, Seattle, Solidarity, St. Louis
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An Occupy Portland Memoir: “No Gods, No Masters: Anarchy In Theory and Practice”
From Modern Mythology – by Rusty Shackleford. August 7: No Gods, No Masters: Anarchy In Theory and Practice “Even if the world was to end tomorrow, I would still plant a tree today.” -anon A timeline of my involvement with … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameron Whitten, Evictions, Guerilla Gardening, NE PDX, Occupy Portland, ploc, portland, Squats, St. Johns, Woodlawn
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Political Convictions? – new Stranger article about Grand Juries and Anarchist Materials
From The Stranger. Aug 8: Political Convictions? Federal Prosecutors in Seattle Are Dragging Activists into Grand Juries, Citing Their Social Circles and Anarchist Reading Materials by BRENDAN KILEY On Thursday, August 2, at roughly 12:45 p.m., a small woman with … Continue reading
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Tagged Grand Jury, May Day, NLG, Olympia, portland, Say Nothing, Seattle, Stranger, Will Potter
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Hunting Witches in the Pacific Northwest: On the Grand Jury Targeting Anarchists
Tides of Flame. Aug 7: On August 2nd, 2012, a large group of people converged on the Federal Courthouse on Stewart Street to support those who were summoned to appear before a Federal Grand Jury* recently convened in Seattle. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Grand Jury, Olympia, portland, Seattle, Tides of Flame
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Tell It Like It Isn’t: Portland Police and Press Smear Anarchist Squatters
From Portland Radicle. Aug 7: {PDF file} TELL IT LIKE IT ISN’T: PORTLAND POLICE AND PRESS SMEAR ANARCHIST SQUATTERS Anarchists have taken a beating in the press as of late. Since the eviction of a squat on North Mississippi last … Continue reading
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Tagged Evictions, Fuck-corporate-media, KATU, NE PDX, portland, Radicle, Squats, Woodlawn
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Lenin Was a Clown: Organizations Are Obstacles to Organizing Ourselves
PugetSoundAnarchists.org. Aug 6: The following is a response to certain claims from a piece by The Black Orchid Cadre. There is much to be said response to their claims, but the arguments addressed here are the ones this author felt … Continue reading
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There is no “anti-vanguard” vanguard: an anarchist responds to BOC
AnarchistNews.org. Aug 5: The following is a comment from Black Orchid Collective, written in direct response to “Between the Leninists and the Clowns”I appreciate some of the criticism in this piece as well as the comments. I’ll also repeat Nate … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomia, Black Orchid, Clowns, L@s Quixotes, Lenin, Seasol
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Call for replies to “Between the Leninists and the Clowns”
The clown / Lenin article caused much ado about nothing, and much of a lot of many things were left of the picture. The article is worth archiving, and posted below. Replies have been written or half-written already, and so … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomy, Black Orchid, Clowns, D12-Blockades, Decolonize, GLITUR, Kasama, Lenin, Maoism, May Day, Occupy Seattle, Red Spark, Seattle, Sojourner Truth, WTO
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Student Insurgent: A New Home Occupation in Portland by the Blazing Arrow
Student Insurgent Blog. Aug 5: Home Occupation in Portland by the Portland Liberatory Organizing Council (PLOC) Portland, OR — On Sunday, August 5th, residents of NE Portland held a block party in the historically black Woodlawn neighborhood, to celebrate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blazing Arrow, Gentrification, ploc, portland, Woodlawn
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subMedia: Cascadia FBI Attack
From subMedia.TV. July 29: (start @ 4m57s) Download Video – Translate On my way home from Barcelona, I made a pit stop in Toronto and Montreal to see friends and check out the anarchist scene out east. I was able … Continue reading
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Tagged Anaheim, Cleveland, Grand Jury, subMedia, Unis'tot'en, Wet’suet’en
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“If An Agent Knocks” – .pdf & “When An Agent Knocks – Talk About It” .pdf
The pamphlet might be of use. ##### From Center for Constitutional Rights: IF AN AGENT KNOCKS (the booklet) — What to do if you or your organization are targeted by federal law enforcement Download the English version. Descargue la versión … Continue reading
To Hear and Be Heard: Anarchy and Critique
PSA. July 23: The anarchist project is one of constant dialogue and critique. Our ideas are not separate from our actions; theory is not separate from practice. Through the course of our activities it becomes necessary to reevaluate our positions … Continue reading
PDX Occupier: Restoring Trust, Breaking ICE’s Hold
via Portland Occupier. July 17: This does not look good. It is hot at 11 a.m. as I stand under a tree at the Martin Luther King Junior Worker Center, just south of the Interstate 84 overpass. There are about … Continue reading
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Tagged Deportations, ICE, NAFTA, portland, TRUST Act
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PDX Radicle: The Error of Patriotism
Portland Radicle. July 16: Emotion, social identifier, politician’s tool—patriotism is a complex topic to address. It is most concisely defined in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as “love of one’s country, identification with it, and special concern for its well-being … Continue reading
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A Comedy with Claws
From The Stranger– by BRENDAN KILEY A Comedy with Claws Accidental Death of an Anarchist was first staged in 1970, but it is still depressingly relevant. Italian playwright Dario Fo based this farce about police brutality, civil unrest, and the … Continue reading
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Seattle: Photos of undercover cops
via All Power to the Positive. July 14: KKKops Pathetic Attempt At Infiltration At The March In Support Of Red Spark Collective and Against Police Terrorism. Take a good look at these pics. If you can match a name, badge … Continue reading
Seeing the Strings: Capitalism and Ecology
via Vancouver Media Co-op. July 7: “Seeing the Strings: A Series of Teach-Ins on the Oppressions that Hold Capitalism Up” presents Capitalism and Ecology. http://seeingthestrings.wordpress.com Teach-in at China Creek park. Presentations and a workshop to explore: Can capitalism ever be … Continue reading
Tides of Flame: 1-YR Anniversary Issue #21 OUT NOW
PugetSoundAnarchists.org. July 4: Our new ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!! issue is out, loaded with all sorts of goodies regarding Queers Fucking Queers, the dumbass police, and all other manner of joy, rebellion, and freedom. Read: http://tidesofflame.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/tof21read1.pdf Print: http://tidesofflame.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/tof21print.pdf
A Society Gone Wrong – Gitxsan Against Enbridge
via Gitxsan Against Enbridge Blog. June 26: A Society Gone Wrong By John Olson, Gitxsan Unity Movement June 26, 2012 Gitsegukla, B.C. The Gitxsan Treaty Society (GTS) had it all set up, a game plan, an agenda they would carry … Continue reading
Portland: Corporate Media article about recent raids on squatters
Here is the link to the corporate media story: – Oregonian article by Casey Parks But here below is the (revised) post on Indymedia taking offense that police would use the police raid on a squatted house to once again … Continue reading
Oakland to Seattle: Solidarity Against Police Brutality
Black Orchid. June 29: Oakland to Seattle: Solidarity Against Police Brutality This statement was written by participants in the Justice for Oscar Grant movement in Oakland, including the group Advance the Struggle. Please distribute widely, to help build for tonight’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Orchid, Queer Liberation, Seattle
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Seattle: Anti-detention expansion fliers
Black Orchid. June 28: No throwing away our youth! no new juvie! BOC and friends have been flyering every weekend for the last month and a half against the city rebuilding and expanding the Central District juvenile detention center. There … Continue reading
Why Travis Baumgartner is not an Anarchist
from anonaminita. June 22: I’ve been reading news this week about an armored car worker from Calgary who gunned down his co-workers and fled with the cash in the vehicle. After a massive search he was caught near the Lynden, … Continue reading
Seattle: Mayor McGinn Vs.The Community At N.A.A.M.
from Wake Up God Dammit! June 22: By Wyking. I was at the meeting that was held on Juneteenth. I found it ironic that the staff of a Black history institution nor the elected Mayor acknowledged the significance to US … Continue reading
Symbolism of the Cascadian Flag
via Portland Occupier. June 22: I designed the Cascadian flag, aka the Doug, way back in the mid 1990s when I was a graduate student studying in Eastern Europe. Though I totally love the people, cultures and landscape of Eastern … Continue reading
Seattle: FBI Harrassment in Seattle
via PugetSoundAnarchists.org. June 17: FBI Harrassment in Seattle – Some Tips on Staying Strong Over the past few weeks the FBI has contacted and spoken with at least two individuals who have been involved in Occupy Seattle. In both instances, … Continue reading
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Gitxsan: Blockade reflection, turmoil, and call for actions
via Gitxsan Against Enbridge. June 16: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE UNITY As I sat on the front line of what used to be the blockade in front of the former Gitxsan Treaty Society (GTS) Offices, watching the staff that the … Continue reading
To All Of My New-Age-y Friends: With All Due Respect, Please Wake Up
via Deconstructing the Manifest. June 14: For example, this is stupid. I once noted, to a friend, that those of the New-Age persuasion are friends of the Earth, and therefore are certainly friends of mine. However… The Archdruid makes … Continue reading
Tides of Flame: analysis of 1856 and colonization of Puget Sound tribes
via AnarchistNews.org. June 10: 1856: Battle of Seattle The land you are standing on was once free. Before the foreign ideas of property and law were forcefully imported from Europe into the Puget Sound, the land belonged to no one … Continue reading
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Tagged Decolonize, Leschi, Nisqually, Seattle, Tides of Flame, Yakima
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Portland: The Whole World Stops Watching
via Portland Radicle. June 9: By Mike and Emily Occupy is dead. Its original incarnation has reached its memetic peak, and it cannot re-create a spectacle akin to that of last fall. Mainstream media, crucial to popular awareness of Occupy … Continue reading
Seattle: Cafe Racer shootings, TOF
Tides of Flame. June 8: We Are All We Have: On the Cafe Racer Shootings A question always haunts violent tragedies: Why did this happen? Easy answers abound. The mourning public blamed the Columbine school massacre on Marilyn Manson and … Continue reading
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Tagged Mental Health, Seattle, Tides of Flame
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Portland’s Section 8 shifted east of 82nd Avenue
anonaminita. June 5: There’s a 4-part investigation of the fair housing failure of Portland in The Oregonian, which is shitty newspaper, investigating gentrification for whatever reason. Read the full report here. Also, fact that the city wants to move all … Continue reading
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Tagged Fantasies, Gentrification, portland, Section 8, Southeast PDX, Squats
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A Gitxsan reply to government’s recuperative role in the Gitxsan Treaty Society
Gitxsan Unity Movement blog. May 30: Gitxsan Treaty Society… Government pawns? Once again the Gitxsan Treaty Society (GTS) refuses a great opportunity to end the Gitxsan Crises and have our Nation move forward. The Gitxsan Unity Movement has written the … Continue reading
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Black Orchid: New Jim Crow, Capital, and the Fool’s Game of “Public Consensus”
Black Orchid Collective. May 27: New Jim Crow, Capital, and the Fool’s Game of “Public Consensus” Michelle Alexander’s recent sensation The New Jim Crow reveals a pattern of racial oppression repeatedly reconstituting itself. Just as Jim Crow replaced slavery, the … Continue reading
Analysis of Montreal from Vancouver: “Denounce & Destroy! …understanding and respecting the reformist/revolutionary spectrum”
via Vancouver Media Co-Op. May 24: Denounce & Destroy! …understanding and respecting the reformist/revolutionary spectrum The ongoing Student Movement in Quebec, at a glance, is an excellent example of healthy social movements at work; withstanding internal tensions and avoiding typical … Continue reading
The Fight for a Life Worth Living: A Statement on Seattle’s 2012 May Day Events from Organizers
from Occupy Seattle Note: The following statement is being released on behalf of a group of organizers of Occupy/Decolonize Seattle’s May Day events who have chosen to speak as a group regarding May 1st and the controversies in the media … Continue reading
Militancy for Liberation – Portland Liberation Organizing Council
PLOC would like to offer an analysis of what we believe it means to operate from a framework of militancy based in community organizing. Militancy for Liberation Read, share, and discuss. PLOC will be hosting an open movement conversation to … Continue reading
We are Contagious: a gift to those who desire social revolt
PSA. May 21: Barcelona: March 29, 2012 London: March 26, 2011 Seattle: November 29 – December 2,1999 Paris: May, 1968 Cairo: January 28, 2011 Athens: December, 2008 Oakland: November 2, 2011 These are the days my dreams are made of. … Continue reading
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Tagged insurrectionary anarchism, Seattle
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a Crisis Management Blog has just heard about the black bloc
Kinda fuckn late in the game huh? This will summarize: The press will be assaulted, managers of crisis will be destabilized, authorities disarmed, guardians of capital fall from power. Get prepared mothafuckaz, we are the black swans and the octopi. … Continue reading
Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 is Nothing New “a pre-planned narrative”
via The Indypendant. May 20: Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 is Nothing New “a pre-planned narrative” The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Cleveland, May Day, NATO, NoNATO, War on Terror
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Government Dividing The Gitxsan
Gitxsan Unity Movement. May 19: GOVERNMENT DIVIDING THE GITXSAN If the Government had there way, they would be happy keeping all First Nations in the country divided. They would benefit from the extraction of the resources on traditional territories while … Continue reading
Gitxsan: a Critique of social control in treaty societies and the state
Gitxsan Unity Movement. May 18: CORRUPTION AND VOTE BUYING IN ALL GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESS Or Why the Gitxsan Indians Are Broken Along with Everything Else Merv Ritchie When did purchasing a yes vote with money and benefits become legal? Apparently … Continue reading
Why are U.S. Politicians Quiet About Europe’s Meltdown?
because they’re afraid! – * ### ### ### ### ### ### ### from Portland Occupier. May 18: Why U.S. Politicians Are Quiet About Europe’s Meltdown by Shamus Cooke After the Greek elections struck fear into the hearts of the global … Continue reading
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Tagged Austerity, Collapse, EU, Greece, Italy, Naomi Klein, Portugal, Spain
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Cascadian Flag in Adidas commercial for “a new revolution”
The only thing interesting about this is that a corporation is usingbioregional overtones to market a new commodity. Seeing as a lot of anarchists are into the idea, I still don’t understand why Cascadia has a flag. *fox ### … Continue reading
Toghestiy Letter: PTP will not be allowed in Wet’suwet’en Yintah!
Hell yeah… * ### ### ### ### ### from Unistoten Camp: Letter: Proposed Gas Pipelines will not be Allowed to be Constructed on Unceded Wet’suwet’en Territories “We will stop them at our traditional boundary lines and prevent them from proceeding … Continue reading
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Tagged BC, Pacific Trails Pipeline, Tar Sands, Unist'hot'en, Vancouver, Wet'suwet'en
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Gixtsan: Treaty’s Board of Directors ordered blockade removal
via Gitxsan Unity Movement. May 16: Finger Pointed at the Gitxsan Treaty Office Board of Directors Recently the former Executive Director of the Gitxsan Treaty Society (GTS) claimed that the injunction to remove the blockade in front of the Gitxsan … Continue reading
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Tagged Dawamuukw, Delgumuukw, Gitxsan, Guuhadakw, RCMP, Uksmukmawil
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Abolishing the Police (video) – Rose City Copwatch
from Because We Must. May 13: Abolishing the Police This is our first published workshop video from the 2012 Law and Disorder Conference in Portland, OR. We hope you enjoy this video, and the ones to come! For this … Continue reading
Antifa Alert: Portland Neo-Nazi May Be Gathering Information on Leftists
from Rose City Antifascists. May 13: Alert: Portland Neo-Nazi May Be Gathering Information on Leftists Rose City Antifa wishes to alert anti-racists and allies about Thomas Fredrick Christensen, AKA “Trigger Tom,” a white supremacist currently a part of the … Continue reading
Olympia: Fuck The Police March, for Bradden Ferber [Saturday, tonight! #M12 – 9PM]
from (A) Wild Harbor: Olympia FUCK THE POLICE march this Saturday, May 12, 9 PM at 4th and Columbia in light of the recent police shooting of Bradden Ferber Bradden who? Bradden Ferber was a 53 year-old “unemployed attorney” who … Continue reading
Analysis of Canadian anti-Mask Bill, doubling penalty to 10 years
Vancouver Media Co-Op. May 11: Canadian Anti-Masking Bill Imminent Proposed Concealment of Identity Act Nears Approval A new bill aimed at making the wearing of masks illegal during riots or “unlawful assemblies” is now closer to becoming law in Canada. … Continue reading
The Magnificent Community of Rioters
PSA. May 11: The Magnificent Community of Rioters “Whether this negation manifests itself without betraying itself or whether its forces will be hijacked once again to serve the calculated spread of disaster has nothing to do with necessity; it depends … Continue reading
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May Day: A Strike Is a Blow
Crimethinc. May 10: May Day: A Strike Is a Blow As the momentum that originated with Occupy Wall Street tapers off, May Day 2012 saw anarchists on the West Coast consolidate their gains in the street with actions from Los … Continue reading
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Tagged Albany, G20, Los Angeles, May Day, Music, Oakland, portland, Reportbacks, San Francisco, Seattle, Squats, Vancouver, BC, Westcoast-Solidarity
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Why the media must be assaulted; SPD puts out snitch call
A-News. May 9: Why The Media Must be Assaulted Although the author of this piece believes that members of the main-stream media should be assaulted *strategically* at any place and time, this piece was heavily influenced by what I saw … Continue reading
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Tagged Fuck-corporate-media, G20, May Day, Repression, Seattle, Snitching, Toronto
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The Only Eulogy I’m Writing Is The State’s
via Human Iterations. May 3: The Only Eulogy I’m Writing Is The State’s One of my oldest friends, probably the comrade I’ve known the longest beside my dad, was arrested this morning by armed thugs and charged with literally 72 … Continue reading
Radical Geometry: A Constructive Critique of the Radical March on May Day
via Portland Occupier. May 9: Radical Geometry: A Constructive Critique of the Radical March on May Day by Gina Ronning OK radicals–it’s time to sit down and have a serious conversation on what it means to have strategy and tactics … Continue reading
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Calling Out Brian Sheppard – Primal War
via This Is Primal War. May 4: Calling Out Brian Sheppard Reading Brian Sheppard’s half-cocked analysis of Anarcho-Primitivism, by way of Bakunin 1, has been beneficial to me for at least one reason; it has reminded me of the garbage … Continue reading
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