The following excellent article about killing cops in Oakland is from the radical queer Back Back News blog : Lovelle Mixon, Police, and the Politics of Race/Rape by Raider Nation Collective( raidernationcollective [at] gmail.com)Monday Apr 13th, 2009 3:40 PM In short, there are those who are automatically guilty and those …
Just like to quickly give props to this blog, which i just had pointed out to me: Pass the Roti on the left hand side – a good source of progressive and antifascist news and analysis from and about South Asia. Check it out!
The following is an important article by Dr. Atul Gawande, on the subject of isolation-torture as it is practiced in u.s. prisons. The article appeared in the March 30, 2009, edition of The New Yorker, and is available on their website here. One of the most striking things for me, …
Ron Jacobs, author of The Way the Wind Blew: a history of the Weather Underground, has reviewed Projectiles for the People, Volume 1 of The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History. You can check it out on the Counterpunch website: http://www.counterpunch.com/jacobs04102009.html “The editors of this work, J. Smith and André …
An excellent statement from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, FIERCE, Queers for Economic Justice, the Peter Cicchino Youth Project and the Audre Lorde Project, about how hate crimes legislation is a bad idea, as is incarceration as a solution to violence in our communities: SRLP announces non-support of the Gender …
Brilliant fucking action by persons unknown in Montreal, who have very recently engaged in an educational graffiti campaign exposing the sordid history of police murder in this city. As an article in today’s edition of La Presse, with the scandalously biased headline “Des graffitis haineux contre le SPVM” (“Hate Graffiti …
TO VIEW VIDEO AT ORIGINAL LOCATION CLICK HERE Video footage obtained by the Guardian shows that Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at last week’s G20 protests in London, had been attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton-wielding police officer in riot gear. Reports are that …
The following announcement from the Revolutionary Communist Party (the on based in Quebec, not to be confused with the Avakian-led group in the united states!), regarding the opening of their new bookstore in Montreal. The original French is available in pdf here. The Opening of the Maison Normal Bethune The …
Comrades in Calgary seem to be getting mixed results against the Aryan Guard vermin in their town.The Aryan Guard is a neo-nazi outfit based in Calgary – for a good quick overview on the group, i’d recommend checking out this pdf from One People’s Project. The AG’s recent activities include …
The Spanish State is cracking down on the Basque nationalist left. From Reuters on March 23: MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish judge Monday charged 44 Basque nationalists with membership of the militant separatist movement ETA, which the Spanish government calls a terrorist organisation. All were members of three banned separatist …