November 2009
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An Interview with the Tweeting Anarchist, Elliot... →
When Jackson Heights resident Elliot Madison learned last week that charges against him had been dropped by the Allegheny County District Attorney in Pennsylvania, he had little reason to celebrate. The 41-year-old Queens social worker was arrested during the G-20 in Pittsburgh, while he was using Twitter to alert other protesters about the movements of police. The formal charges were...
October 2009
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Automatic Insurrectionary Manifesto Generator →
February 2009
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Revolt Spreads Across the Globe as “Crisis”... →
After numerous European governments expressed fear that the unrest in Greece would spread to neighboring countries and perhaps around the world, the spreading global revolt has taken on another tone: that of confronting the elite for their manipulation of the economic “crisis” (which is really a systemic collapse) in order to consolidate yet even more wealth as the masses of the world suffer the...
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The Anti-Empire Report →
Change (in Rhetoric) We Can Believe In by William Blum
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The Self Described Anarchist Collective Calls for... →
Six years of war and occupation of Iraq have come and gone. Lives left tattered amongst the ruins. The US armed forces and their co-conspirators in the military-industrial complex, along with their friends on Wall Street and K Street, continue to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan with impunity. Meanwhile, Obama mania has rendered much of the left fixated on electoral politics.
Clearly, we are at a...
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We, The Anarchists - An Interview with Stuart... →
Anarchist participation in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 remains one of the most complicated, inspiring, and troubling moments in the history of anti-authoritarian activism. Even today, more than seven decades later, historians and militants continue to study and debate the events.
One such person is Stuart Christie, a longtime anarchist, whose recent book, We, The Anarchists! A Study of...
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Governments across Europe tremble as angry people... →
France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battle. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produce.
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Announcing ATubes Feburary 2009 - The Anarchist... →
To commemorate the exciting developments at Anarchist News and in anarchodom around the world we have created a static page for the Anarchist News newsletter ATubes. The latest and greatest ATubes will always be there. Check out This months issue.
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Italy: FdCA COuncil of Delegates statement: The... →
The so-called reform of the bargaining system and the agrement between industry associations, the government and the CISL, UIL and UGL unions comes during an extremely difficult moment, socially and politically, for the workers’ movement because of the economic crisis. Apart from making life extremely difficult for millions of workers and pensioners, the economica crisis is a time when the...
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US, Anarchists Against the Wall Tour the Bay Area... →
Schachaf Polakow, a member of Anarchists Against the Wall, will give three presentations in the Bay Area that will include film and photos, and will focus both on AATW’s recent work in solidarity with Gaza and their ongoing work in the West Bank.
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The Institute for Experimental Freedom is back on... →
As you may have noticed by the frequent posts on this blog, The Institute for Experimental Freedom is beginning to take ourselves a bit too seriously again. After an extended summer excursion, a long hiatus for some and a drawn out moment of offensive for others, we’re back on our grizzly.
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Reflections of a 1960s radical →
From the abandoned squats and rundown tenements, a longhaired band of lost young souls roamed the streets of the Lower East Side. Opting out of peace-loving fringes, they pocketed switchblades in their black leather jackets, denounced “Flower Power” in the name of “Armed Love,” and touted mimeographed flyers bearing angry manifestos. They were simply, crudely, locally—the Motherf**kers.
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U.S. Homelessness Surges as Funding Falters →
Shelters across the country report that more people are seeking emergency shelter and more are being turned away. In a report published in December, 330 school districts identified the same number or more homeless students in the first few months of the school year than they identified in the entire previous year. Meantime, demand is sharply up at soup kitchens, an indication of deepening...
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Galveston After Ike - Two public housing complexes... →
The Galveston Housing Authority will demolish two public housing developments and renovate two others, board members decided Wednesday. Board members agreed to tear down Oleander Homes, 5228 Broadway, and Palm Terrace, 4400 Sealy St., but it’s not yet clear what kind of housing will replace those developments. It will take at least two years to replace that public housing, said Harish...
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Over 1000 illegally assemble to protest World... →
It was a cold and cloudy afternoon in Geneva when people began assembling on the Rue du Mont Blanc not far from the central train station. Despite a decree issued by the city council a week beforehand banning the protest, between 1000 and 2000 activists showed up nevertheless to express their opposition to the 2009 World Economic Forum, symbol of capitalism and corporate globalization, currently...
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Radical Activism Visual Archive →
Since September 2008, the Radical Activism Visual Archive is archiving the visual memory of contemporary radical activism (anarchist tendencies). Digital format images of all kinds (posters, flyers, magazines covers, illustrations, etc, except photographs) are archived. I am seeking the collaboration of activists (or anyone else) to find visual material about direct action, anarcho-primitivism...
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Palestine-Israel, Just another week of AAtW... →
Wednesday we participated in the demonstration against the separation fence in Ni’ilon and visited there the Holocaust exhibition in the municipality building. On Friday we participated in the usual demonstrations against the separation fence in Bil’in, Ni’ilin, and Um Salmuna. In Bil’in we had a reinforcement support from the leftist Palestinian Front of struggle. We also...
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Switzerland, Media, Tear gas fired during violent... →
Protests at the Davos World Economic Forum have turned violent, with police using tear gas to disperse demonstrators. It is reported that a crowd threw bottles at police when they were blocked from entering the city centre. A police spokesman estimated that there were 350 to 400 people in the crowd. He said there have been 16 arrests, though dozens more protesters were briefly detained. The rally,...
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US, Boston, Anarchist journal - BAAM #17 -... →
On January 16, a march and a rally were held to protest the ongoing genocide by Israel in the Gaza Strip. Approximately 300 people gathered in front of 20 Park Plaza, home of the Israeli consulate, to express their outrage and revulsion at Israel’s massacre of the Palestinian people. For over three weeks, the Israel “Defense” Force deployed advanced military weapons against a...
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Update on Infoshops →
If you want to talk about real hope and change, check out the growing decentralized network of anti-profit community spaces around the world. Just since we printed the 2009 organizer, we’ve heard about a whole bunch of new spaces. Each of these spaces is the culmination of community, engagement, and a vision of a different way for people to relate to each other - pursuing cooperation and...
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Massive protests across France over the... →
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets and staged strikes across France to protest the government’s handling of the country’s economic crisis. Public and private sector workers are demanding greater protection for their jobs and salaries, and better efforts by the government to stimulate the economy.
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U.K.: Wave of university occupations in solidarity... →
Students across the country are holding occupations and sit ins in solidarity with Gaza. SOAS shut down a MOD exhibition and kicked off military recruitment off campus whilst students at LSE declared victory after seven days when the university agreed to all of their demands. Nottingham students occupied a room in the law and social sciences building on Wednesday 28th; the University has...
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Dismissed workers occupy factory in Poland →
200 workers recently dismissed from Thomson in a Warsaw suburb occupy factory in the hopes of getting promised compensation. Thomson factory in the Warsaw suburb of Piaseczno produces TV glass (screens and tubes). A few years ago, the Indian firm Videocon purchased all of Thomson’s TV glass factories. Videocon planned to restructure the company and introduce LCD production in Piaseczno. Of...
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Is Recent Jailing of Anti-HLS Activists a Call to... →
With the recent sentencing of seven activists to long prison terms in the UK for protesting animal torture at notorious contract-testing laboratory Huntingdon Life Sciences, authorities and the animal abusers they protect have drawn a line in the sand. Those who advocate effectively for animals must now either scurry for cover, or rise up stronger to finally abolish the exploitation, oppression,...
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The last stop for a young utopian →
Kirsten Brydum pedaled away from the Howlin’ Wolf club into the darkness of another American city that she didn’t know very well. It was 1:30 a.m. She rode a black cruiser bicycle with a basket on the back, borrowed from friends of friends. In nearly every city she had visited on her 2-month-road trip, it seemed someone was willing to lend her an old bike.
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Malaysia: Fed Up, Ethnic Indian Rubber Workers... →
Shanmugavalli Rajagopal, 43, is one determined woman. Retrenched as a rubber tapper in July, she has been asked to vacate her plantation house. But she isn’t budging. “If we clap with one hand, there is no sound,” she says, motioning with one hand. “But if we all work together, we can achieve something.” Just a year ago, such fighting words would probably not have...
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General Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine... →
General Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine denouncing the Israeli occupation forces arrested 334 Palestinian workers in Israel. Shaher Saad expressed the Secretary-General of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine for the censure and condemnation of the Israeli occupation forces arrested more than 334 Palestinian workers working inside the Green Line, saying it is a flagrant...
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Food, Finance and Democracy in Crisis →
Even as the current global financial crisis claims more innocent victims every day, the central value of Raj Patel’s address was that he articulated a long-range, historical, in-depth analysis of how the crises of hunger and food insecurity and the rules of “free market” capitalism have developed together and are inextricably intertwined.
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Platform minimum of Czechoslovak Anarchist... →
What we don’t like? On one hand is it a capitalist system, which creates inequalities – poverty of the majority and richness of a small number of the privileged, and this way leads to clear social injustice and oppression. On the other hand is it a state, which coming out of its historical essence, serves the privileged minority to secure its richness and interests above all. Even so called...
January 2009
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Britain, Cardiff Anarchist Network - South Wales... →
If you’re under 25, there’s a good chance you’ve have your ears pierced…by the Mosquito, a nasty device that emits a very loud, high-pitched noise. Howard Stapleton, the inventor, has made an even louder model and a cute version for the child-hating homeowner. Stapleton’s company Compound Security Systems Ltd is based in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. - KILL THE...
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A statement from the Icelandic anarchist... →
The Icelandic Government has Collapsed… and what? The Icelandic Government has collapsed and some people talk about a revolution. In a way it is true. Simply ordinary people turned this government down by writing articles, holding speeches, noise demonstrations, bonfires, car horns, direct action, civil disobedience and sabotage. A nation that before had no sign of life, only citizen...
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Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity #107... →
One child in eight in less developed countries gets no primary schooling, according to UNESCO. Of the approximately 75 million children who receive no primary schooling, about 55% are girls. In sub-Saharan Africa one-third of all children receive no schooling. - Each of the 12 Residential Institutions Redress Board members took home an average of €135,583 last year for listening to the horrific...
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Boston, Anarchist journal - BAAM #17 - A... →
On January 9, 2009, the Boston Fire Department’s Ladder 26 experienced brake failure, causing it to race down Parker Hill Ave. on Mission Hill. The crew, unable to stop their truck, threw on the sirens as they sped into the intersection of Huntington Avenue, plowed over a brick wall and then crashed into a high-rise apartment building. Lt. Kevin M. Kelley, 52, who was riding in the...
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Arrests of anarchists in Tyumen →
Today 29th of January in morning (local time) two active anarchists, Kender and Rustam were arrested in Tyumen and their homes were searched. At least one more house was searched as well. Currently they are arrested and interrogated, at this point they face charges according to statute 214 of Russian criminal codex (vandalism), which when carried with “a group of people” is a felony...
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Subversion, Anarchy and Art at Baton Rouge Gallery →
Baton Rouge Gallery’s Flatscape Video Art Series will once again push the boundaries of acceptable art with its program “Subversion: Anarchy, Art and Activism.” Spread out over three nights in the upcoming months, this visual experience will examine all types of subversive acts: from something as common as graffiti art to more radical acts such as anarchism.
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Edward Carpenter, father of the twenty-first... →
Like Mahatma Gandhi, with whom he shared many ideas, Edward Carpenter abandoned a comfortable social position to adopt a thoroughly sceptical view of society’s values and conventions. His life’s work was pursued through a series of overlapping circles and causes – socialism, anarchism, sex reform, female emancipation, environmentalism, vegetarianism, nudism and animal rights – but despite the...
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Ireland: Scuffles at Waterford Crystal plant after... →
Hundreds of workers occupied Ireland’s world-famous Waterford Crystal factory last night after being tipped off by text messages that they had lost their jobs. Scuffles broke out as private security teams brought in by receivers tried to prevent employees from storming the plant at Kilbarry, outside Waterford city. Union officials, who learnt in advance of the announcement by the receiver,...
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The End Of Alternative Comic Strips →
Earlier this week Village Voice Media suspended publication of all its comic strips across its entire chain of alternative weekly papers in a cost-cutting move. Let me restate this so the significance sinks in: Village Voice Media suspended publication of ALL its comic strip across its ENTIRE CHAIN of alternative weekly papers. For those who don’t know, Village Voice Media owns fifteen...
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Did Darby Entrap McKay? No Verdict Until at Least... →
The question before the jury is whether or not McKay was entrapped by Brandon Darby, activist turned FBI informant, to possess unregistered destructive devices (count 1), illegally manufacture the devices (count 2), and possess such devices that had no serial number (count 3). For the entrapment defense to succeed, the jury must decide that Darby “induced or persuaded” McKay to...
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BART Officer Who Shot Oscar Grant Free On Bail →
On January 30th, bail for BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was set at $3 million and it was reportedly immediately posted. Mehserle claimed he was reaching for a taser when he accidentally grabbed his gun (which was loaded and with safety off) and shot to death Oscar Grant, who was lying face down on the ground.
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What About Closing Angola, Mr. Obama? →
The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is already notorious for a range of offenses, including keeping former Black Panthers Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, in solitary for over 36 years. Now a death penalty trial in St. Francisville, Louisiana has exposed widespread and systemic abuse at the prison. Even in the context of eight years of the Bush administration, the behavior documented at...
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Unconventional Action in the Bay is Coming Out →
Attention all anarchists, anticapitalists, antiauthoritarians, troublemakers, and rabble-rousers across North America! We’re writing to let you all know that UA in the Bay, the Unconventional Action branch in the San Francisco Bay Area, is still alive and kicking and we are calling out to all groups across the country to continue the fight as well!
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UK: Local government unions submit derisory pay... →
The unions represent more than one million council staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the claim covers all grades of workers in local government, from refuse collectors to teaching assistants, parks staff to librarians, and comes as local government unions and employers begin binding arbitration over last year’s pay claim.
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Super Bowl halftime sponsor Bridgestone Firestone... →
Since 1926, Bridgestone Firestone has operated the world’s largest rubber plantation in Harbel, Liberia . Workers on the plantation have long faced incredibly poor living and working conditions. Firestone rubber tappers live in crowded shacks without running water, electricity or indoor latrines and are required to meet an unreasonably high production quota in order to receive their meager...
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Lafayette, Indiana: New IWW branch forms →
It’s official: on Jan. 21st of 2009 the motion was passed to form the Lafayette, Indiana area GMB of the Industrial Workers of the World. This is the only established branch in Indiana. Our branch began with a single individual five years ago who instilled in others the spirit to agitate for workers’ control of industry. Gradually, we’ve grown in numbers, now having 14 strong...
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The First to Fall: Protesters Topple Icelandic... →
Unrest has spread across the globe as people are losing their jobs, watching their savings vanish before their eyes while banks and other multi-billion dollar institutions are bailed our by their governments. Iceland, a typically tranquil country, has been turned upside down with social unrest, and recently gained the notoriety of being the first government toppled by its people through street...
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US, San Francisco, The Anarchist Cafe is on! →
The Anarchist Cafe will happen on Friday, March 13th 7-10 p.m. the night before the Anarchist Bookfair.
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Ireland's anarchist paper Workers Solidarity #107... →
Anarchists want to change the world. Instead of the present order – capitalism – with its focus on inequality and profits for a few, we want to build a new society based around the principles of participatory democracy, freedom and production for need not profit. For anarchists the type of society we want to build is best summed up by the slogan: ‘To each according to their needs, from each...
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US, Boston, Anarchist journal - BAAM #17 The Great... →
You may have heard the punchline: 2.3 million gallons of molasses in waves 15-40 feet high traveling at 35 miles an hour flooded Boston’s North End in January 1919. Untold numbers of horses, dogs and rats were smothered, 150 people were injured, 21 working people and children were killed while wooden houses, a brick fire station and the elevated rail were destroyed.
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Old-style street revolts seem to have rattled... →
President Sarkozy must regret an idle boast that he made last summer about his success in taming the French fondness for strikes. Thanks to his virile stand against the unions, big stoppages were a thing of the past, he said. “Nowadays, when there’s une grève, nobody notices.”