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Woman Dies in 107-Degree Cage in Prison: SWOP Remembers Marcia Powell

Reposting this important piece from Bound not Gagged: Woman Dies in 107-Degree Cage in Prison: SWOP Remembers Marcia Powell For Immediate ReleaseContacts: SWOP-USA 1-877-7… ext 2Liz Coplen- SWOP-Tucson Peggy Plews- Arizona Prison Watchinfo@swop-tucson.org freemarciapowell@gmail.com On Friday December 18th sex workers from around the country are gathering to remember Marcia Powell, a …

Upping The Anti #9

The latest issue of this volume of theory and action just arrived in my mailbox – which means it’s available to all of you via leftwingbooks.net (just click on the image, or right here). Here’s the table of contents, to whet your appetite: IntroductionLetters to the EditorEditorialInterviews Eli Clare: Resisting …

Undercovers and "Security Experts" re: 2010

Two reports in regarding police infiltration, surveillance and smears in the lead-up to the 2010 olympics in b.c. First, the No2010 blog tells us that Victoria Police Chief Jamie Grahamhas been bragging about undercover penetration of the anti-2010 activist scene, joking (?) at a security conference about how the bus …

Against Anti-Prostitute Violence

From Stella, Montreal’s sex-worker advocacy group: Stella invites you to support our actions in December to denounce violence against sex workers and to fight for our rights and the recognition of our work. The criminalization of our work robs us of the right to security. Security that is much needed: …

New PM Press Books Just In!

A bunch of beautiful new books for your reading pleasure, from my pals at PM Press… all available from leftwingbooks.net: The Story of Crass Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher and Steve Ignorant. price: $20.00 (US) Click …

Gilbert Achcar: Why Holocaust Denial Is on the Rise in the Arab World

The following from Gilbert Achcar: What pushes Arabs to deny the existence of the Holocaust? How and why does Israel continue to instrumentalize the memory of the destruction of European Jewry? What was the attitude of Arab intellectuals during the Second World War? Why does Ahmadinejad incessantly brandish the denial …

Video Footage from Censored UMass Talk

Part One you can watch the video via youtube, and then afterwards the next one should come up as an option – or you can continue down in this blogpost though that may be hard on computers with slow connectionsPart Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six Part …

Cops Protest Our Movement (big surprise)

The following piece by Amber Eastman Black appeared in the Northampton Media as a follow-up to the censored Ray Luc Levasseur talk last Thursday: Levasseur Forum Inspires Police ProtestParticipants and audience members at a Thursday night forum held at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass entitled “The Great Western …