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 …
It’s official – all charges against Ojore Lutalo have been dropped. Details will follow.
The following from author Gabriel Kuhn, via his PM Press page: Sometimes you experience the ultimate anti-climax. With three PM Press books released these months, I had been planning for about a year to come for an extended speaking tour to North America this spring. A couple of months ago, …
It has been just four months since Ojore Lutalo left the prison gates, “free” after over a quarter century behind bars. A combatant with the Black Liberation Army, Lutalo (like so many other POWs and political prisoners) had been subjected to isolation-torture, an attempted depivation of all social contacts meant …
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 …
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 …
The day started out with good news: a combination of comrades and liberal supporters of academic freedom and freedom of speech had stood up to the right-wing campaign against Ray Luc Levasseur. These folks had taken a stand in the small university town of Amherst, Mass., organizing an event where …
Bowing to pressure from the New Jersey Fraternal Order of Police, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Union, and assorted right-wing gutter journalists, and the Governor of Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts has caved, pulling the plug on a talk by Ray Luc Levasseur that was to take place next week.Ray Luc …
“Tortuga” is the name of the collective house where Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlager live. Madison and Wallschlager are the two anarchists who were arrested at the G20 protests in Pittsburgh in September, accused of using twitter to help demonstrators avoid the cops. Following their arrest, Tortuga was raided by …
The following from out west, via Mostly Water: The JIG is up! Gord Hill Threatened with Rendition by Olympic Cops By Gord Hill; October 20, 2009 – Vancouver Media Co-ophttp://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/1985 [Note: See also Statement by Gord Hill Regarding Visits by Olympic Police Agents.] Occupied Coast Salish Territory Yo Weeksus, I, …