Marc Turns 30
This is Marc; a charming and horrendously dubious character that has existed in our lives long enough for us to notice how the downfall of their teeth seems to act in some bizarre accordance with society’s decline.
Although we all want to continue watching the strange ways in which the world prepares for the climax of 2012, most of us would like to do this while our good friend is not in pain, or losing part of their face to a Boca burger.
Sometimes we forget that wearing the true mark of the proletariat can physically hurt and traumatize us. As comrades, we must remind ourselves to make attempts at healing these wounds, especially when they have become unbearable.
Fuck dental insurance and teeth pigs! Let’s put what little money we have where Comrade Marc’s mouth is! Join this glorious endeavor and let’s fix them teef! If twenty people each give a benjamin we’ll have it. Go team care-machine!
Italy: Claim of responsibility for the armed attack against Roberto Adinolfi of Ansaldo Nuclear
OLGA CELL
INFORMAL ANARCHIST FEDERATION
INTERNATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY FRONT
“The government of science and of men of science cannot fail to be impotent, ridiculous, inhuman, cruel, oppressive, exploiting, maleficent. We may say of men of science, as such, what I have said of theologians and metaphysicians: they have neither sense nor heart for individual and living beings. In so far as they are men of science, they have to deal with and can take interest in nothing except generalities; that do the laws” – Michael Bakunin
“In Japan we had over ten thousand dead, but not a single one to date due to nuclear accidents.” – Roberto Adinolfi
“The environmental impact of nuclear energy is limited, considering that it does not produce CO2.” – Roberto Adinolfi
THE MARK OF LIFE
Toward an imaginative way to destroy the existent
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On the Passing of Joel Olson
After the disbanding of Bring the Ruckus, we promised a document that would say more about our organizational decision to disband. That decision was a difficult one, fraught with emotion. It was nothing, however, compared to the news of the death of our comrade and Ruckus founding member Joel Olson near the end of March. In the wake of this, an organizational reflection hardly seems to matter at all. What follows is a short tribute to our beloved comrade. It does not seek to be an obituary, or an accounting of his interests or accomplishments. We offer it here because this space still exists, at least for the time being. We offer it as a way to deal with the loss of a beloved comrade, which, despite the difficulty some of us had in the wake of our collective decision to disband, is 10,000 times harder -- or more -- to come to grips with.
Joel played an important role in the disbanding of an earlier organization, Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, as he and others argued strongly for the centrality of white supremacy as a primary obstacle to building a revolutionary anti-capitalist movement in the United States. After the split of Love and Rage, he helped found Phoenix Ruckus, a study group, but also one that put theory into practice, with the founding of Phoenix Copwatch. Phoenix Ruckus is ultimately what led to the founding of Bring the Ruckus in 2002 as a national revolutionary cadre organization, with a founding meeting in January 2004.
Metropolis Film
an anti-commercial, a negative production, a showcase of the shadow that exists underneath the green grid of the metropolis
SUMMARY:
Our feature-length film will be an anti-commercial, a negative production, a showcase of the shadow that exists underneath the green grid of the metropolis.
We expect the film will either rewire your conception of urban reality,
Ron Sokolsky's Misrepresentation of Victoria Anarchism
I see Ron Sokolsky has posted a lengthy rant on his Oystercatcher blog in which he characterizes me as a "Commissar" and Victoria Camas Books Collective as . . . a bunch of horrid stuff implying a 20 plus collective follows the Commissar's orders.
I have not written or published any such derisive characterizations of Ron Sokolsky. Nor have I circulated any insulting and harsh reviews of any of his books over the internet.
I did ask the Camas Books Collective to consider not purchasing Swift Winds if the offer arose at Ron Sokolsky's May 12th book launch because it contains a personalized attack on a collective member in the form of a book review. This was discussed by the collective, debated, and approved.
The Anarchists Have a Great Day
They must have been in it for the sheer thrill. Dressing up in black costumes and breaking expensive windows with sticks must be a rush. Nothing announces your hatred of capitalism so clearly as the sound of breaking glass. Nothing shows off your revolutionary chic better than a bandana, a black hood and a raised fist with a closet rod from Lowe's. There's nothing better than putting a hole in a Seattle bank on television and having the cops show up late to pepper-spray the camera crew. The joys of organized anarchy go all over YouTube.
Occupy Oakland is Dead. LONG LIVE THE OAKLAND COMMUNE.
May 1, decomposition and the coming antagonisms
THE COMMUNE
For those of us in Oakland, "Occupy Wall Street" was always a strange fit. While much of the country sat eerily quiet in the years before the Hot Fall of 2011, a unique rebelliousness that regularly erupted in militant antagonisms with the police was already taking root in the streets of the Bay. From numerous anti-police riots triggered by the execution of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009, to the wave of anti-austerity student occupations in late 2009 and early 2010, to the native protest encampment at Glen Cove in 2011, to the the sequence of Anonymous BART disruptions in the month before Occupy Wall Street kicked off, our greater metropolitan area re-emerged in recent years as a primary hub of struggle in this country. The intersection at 14th and Broadway in downtown Oakland was, more often than not, "ground zero" for these conflicts.
After eviction, Occupy camp of Moscow is reborn in Kudrinskaya square
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In morning of 16th of August Occupy camp of Moscow ("Occupy Abai") was evicted from Chistie Prudy after a court order, but it was re-established the same day at Kudrinskaya square (also known as Revolution square). Lectures, infocenter and field kitchen (both omnivorous and vegan) were relaunched. 20 PM several hundreds of people gathered in the square. During the evening, a police officer approached several times Food Not Bombs activists, distributing vegan food, and demanded them to quit distribution, as they allegedly did not had necessary permissions to distribute food. Activists answered, that they just distribute food and offer it to their friends. Around 21:30 OMON riot police showed up at the vegan kitchen. Five activists were arrested, and police also confiscated food, part of the food, some journals which were around, and most importantly a box with donations.
Protesters were enraged, and with shouts "thieves" they blocked police vans, demanding release of the comrades. People formed chains, which were attacked by OMON, people were pulled over and arrested, some comrades were dearrested.
The New Repression: May Day 2012, Berlin
On May Day 2012, anarchists around the US succeeded in precipitating clashes on a larger scale than in previous years. But it’s important to strategize ahead of our immediate problems, in order to be prepared for the subsequent challenges we will face when we succeed. This report from the May Day 2012 mobilization in Berlin offers a cautionary tale, showing how the commodification of rebellion, the influence of accommodating movement leaders, and the rhetoric of creating safe spaces have been used to neutralize a popular tradition of resistance. If revolt continues to gain momentum in the United States, we can expect to see some of these strategies employed here as well.
Outside a Women's Prison in New York for Mother's Day
The West Side Highway in New York, which traces Manhattan's westerly edge, is dotted with luxury condo buildings and office blocks with views onto the Hudson River. Around 20th Street, an eleven-story modernist mural of geometric shapes, "Venus," decorates the south face of a vast concrete block, but the famous painting by Knox Martin is now almost entirely obscured by a recently completed condo complex.
Just as "Venus" now goes largely unnoticed by the cars whizzing up and down the highway, so, too, does the building it decorates: Bayview Correctional Facility, a medium-security women's prison and rare example of a state penitentiary in the middle of a major metropolis. I had never noticed Bayview myself, having passed that stretch of Manhattan hundreds of times. On Saturday evening, however, to mark the eve of Mother's Day, I stood outside the prison with around 50 people making as much noise as possible.
Banned in Victoria!
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. On May 12, 2012, the book launch event that was scheduled at Camas Books in Victoria, BC to celebrate the publication of the latest collection of my anarcho-surrealist writings, Scratching The Tiger’s Belly (Eberhardt, 2012), opened on a decidedly sour note. Upon my arrival at the bookstore, I was met by a member of the Camas collective. Without blinking an eyelash, he informed me that while they were still willing to make good on their promise to hold the Scratching The Tiger’s Belly booklaunch at the store that night and stock it thereafter; my previous book, Swift Winds (Eberhardt 2009) was no longer welcome on the store’s shelves. And so unfolds the saga of how Swift Winds was banned in Victoria by the Camas bookstore collective upon the request of none other than Allan Antliff.
Over the last decade, Antliff has consciously positioned himself as a primary gatekeeper of the academic empire of art and anarchy not only in Canada, but throughout North America, and internationally as well. He is Canada Research Chair in Modern Art at the University of Victoria and Director of its Anarchist Archive, as well as Art Editor of Anarchist Studies (UK) and most recently editor of a special “Art and Anarchy” (2011) issue of the Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies journal, where he is a member of their Advisory Board. In the Victoria anarchist community, which he seems to treat as his personal fiefdom, he is a member of the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Collective, and a long-time benefactor of that event as well as many other anarchist initiatives in the city, including Camas Books, where he is presently a member of their decision-making collective.
--Uruguay--Urgent! Solidarity with an imprisoned comrade!
David is being processed by the courts, and faces a sentence that ranges from 3 months to 3 years, though this has not yet been determined. They are accusing him of having broken some taxi metres on May 1st, during a working class action that opposed the official union, who are basically on the side of the government. David is a friend and anarchist who has been in struggle with us for over 15 years, from his participation as an adolescent in the old Anarko Punk Resistence, to the picket lines in the Sindicato Unico de Automovil con Taximetros y Telefonistas (Automobile, Taximetres and Telephone Operators Trade Union), and currently, within various anarchist collectives.
The SUATT, formerly the SUA, was the union stronghold for direct action, which maintained the old Federacion Obrera Regional Uruguaya (Regional Uruguayen Labour Federation)throughout the 20th century. Today, it is one of the most combative unions in the country, who must also fight against the arrogance of mafia bosses and constant police harassment. We are asking comrades to pass this information on as far and wide as possible. Any and all expression of solidarity are appropriate.
For more information:
http://periodicoanarquia.wordpress.com
http://a-infosuruguay.blogspot.com.es
Thinking About Anarchism and Organisation
An accusing finger is pointed at anarchists any time the word organisation is mentioned. Many people believe that anarchism is against organisation and just another word for chaos, but is it? The simple answer, of course, is no, but that does not explain the confusion surrounding the question, nor the accusations thrown at anarchists.
Organisation, for anarchists, is one of the most important questions to be settled. Firstly, anarchists recognise that only through organisation can the bosses’ system be smashed. For example, the fact that during the Miners Strike in Britain, massive and co-ordinated police mobilisation was used to break the picketing and isolate the miners makes this point evident. The employers have at their disposal an efficient state apparatus, which will move to crush any opposition to it.
May Day Matters
Every since this occupy “movement” began, it has surprised me. Like a package I didn’t order appearing on my doorstep, gifting me some sweet little zines written by a near stranger I met long ago. And just when this occupy thing seems to stall or become tired—or as Take Back the Land’s Max Rameau put it so well recently, begins to feel like the film Groundhog Day—it surprises me yet again. Another package unexpectedly arrives, this time with hand-screened political posters from some anonymous friend.
May Day was one of those surprises.
Truth be told, though, the day itself was underwhelming.
INCONSIDERATE EPISODE TWO, OUT NOW!
Listen to the 2nd episode of Inconsiderate, the audio show that skips the General Strike to strike everyone in general!
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Cleveland Anarchists, Pax and Support for Long Term Anarchist Prisoners
This week's show features two conversations around the FBI, prisons and anarchists.
The first is with Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red and blogger at greenisthenewred.com. Will is an award winning, independent journalist based out of Washington, D.C. Our conversation revolves mostly around the recent case of anarchists in Cleveland entrapped into plotting destruction of infrastructure by the FBI and an informant.
The second conversation is with Ian Coldwater. This show is also in preparation for the upcoming June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. Ian updates us on Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, two of the main focuses of his recent tour of the U.S. called Never Alone, in run-up for June 11th. Ian also speaks about security culture, revolutionary solidarity and growing cultures of resistance, as well as updates us on the cases of Pax in Portland (accused of property destruction) and the Grand Jury in the S.F. Bay Area.
Occupy Abai - day 8
For photos, check original at Avtonom
Before evening Anarchist singer-songwriter "comrade Arkadi" made a concert. Later, a freemarket was opened, where everyone could leave their goods and gather what was left by other people. Tomorrow 15th of May, there will be a lecture on free non-capitalist economy in the camp.
Closer to the evening, participators of the "Food Not Bombs", who have already developed a routine for feeding the camp, brought food. Evening assembly become a full general meeting, deciding all important questions. This evening, several hundred people took part, but unfortunately not all participators of the camp are interested. It was decided that a general assembly will be organise every evening 21:00 at the statue of Abai Kunanbayev.
Montreal: the Show Must Go Down
The mainstream media swat team, with at its frontline newspaper La Presse and its journalists Gabrielle Duchaine, Vincent Larouche and Daphné Cameron, have finally succeeded into isolating the scapegoat that for long they’ve been looking for. Within the storm of securitarian mayhem that swept over Montreal since the morning-time paralysis of the Metro service, our groupe became the target of these mediocre journalists as the usual scarecrows, a den for radicals in all-out revolt, a headless chicken that’s agitating itself in all directions with the objective of maximal disruption of everything that society has in terms of bridges, tunnels, railroads, and what else?
Anarchist Free Derry
On the 10th anniversary of the death of former Civil Rights activist and Anarchist John McGuffin, local activists including former friends and comrades gathered in Derry’s Bogside and gave the iconic monument a fitting rebellious make-over with the red and black colours of anarchism. Over the next fortnight the black flag of anarchy will fly over Free Derry corner in a fine tribute. No Gods No Masters!
On a gable wall at the end of a row of dilapidated terrace houses in Derry’s Bogside back in January 5th 1969, a local youth scrawled the words ‘YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE DERRY’ in the dead of night. To this day there is still a dispute as to who the shadowy youth had been with several names being banded about. However the slogan itself was said to have been taken from a free-speech campaign which was active in Berkeley University in California during the mid-sixties with 'You Are Now Entering Free Berkeley' on some of its propaganda.
