Just a quick heads up that Michael Novick has written a brief response to Don Hamerquist’s Thinking and Acting in Real Time in the Real World. It is up on the excellent Three Way Fight blog, at http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2010/03/michael-novick-responds-to-thinking-and.html Just to recap, Michael is the editor of Turning The Tide, publication …
Via Electronic Intifada, this news that Martin Kramer of Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is calling for genocide of Palestinians as a solution to imperialism’s hiccups in the Middle East. Of course this kind of thinking is neither new, nor limited to the Middle East, nor in fact …
Scott Weinstein is a comrade, as well as being a registered nurse. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans he traveled to New Orleans where he stayed for months, helping out at the Common Ground medical/community clinic. Immediately following the earthquake, Scott made his way to Haiti to do what …
As detailed previously on this blog, a month ago Ojore Lutalo was arrested and accused of making terrorist threats while traveling home on the train from an anarchist bookfair on the west coast where he was speaking. The story floated was that someone had overheard him having a suspicious phone …
The daily newspaper of the 2010 Anti-Olympic Convergence, a project of the Vancouver Media Co-op.The Vancouver Media Coop is releasing a broadsheet every day of the Anti-Olympics Convergence.Today’s issue includes reports and photos about Saturday’s actions in Vancouver, including a legal update and a round-up of absurd Police behaviour Download …
The International Communist League, represented in (english) Canada as the Spartacist League, have a theory of anarchism emerging specifically as a result of the “low tide” or “movement interregnum” that followed the last cycle of struggle. In other words, in pissing-contest fashion, the line is put forth that because the …
It’s tempting to make some snide comment about the colonizer needing the colonized to explain to them the meaning of their own movies. But you don’t need to have your ear to the ground to hear that that’s (one half of) the buzz around Avatar. More true would be the …
It’s official – all charges against Ojore Lutalo have been dropped. Details will follow.
The following is an important statement from Adoptees of Color, regarding the current hype about [mostly white] people in imperialist countries rescuing Black and Brown people in the neocolonies, in the current instance Haiti. Statement on HaitiJanuary 25, 2010 This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees …