Review

PNW Resisters: Grand Jury Reportback

I arrived just before noon, and wrote down events and times as I saw them. I'm only going to report what I had written here and spare artistic license for when I can collect my thoughts.

@~12:20pm we reached about 100-200 people, the critical mass which held for several hours.

From 11:30 - 2:20 the law enforcement presence was ~15 Federal Protective Service(FPS), 2 of which patrolled the courtyard and 5 more walked around the entrance above the stairs. There were ~10 SPD bike cops, and US Marshals who stayed inside the building.

April's Issue (#7) of The Sovereign Self is out!!

However delayed, issue #7 of The Sovereign Self* is out! In April’s issue can be found a poignant biography of Japanese anarchist and nihilist, Fumiko Kaneko; a short history of the turn-of-the-20th-century individualist anarchist paper, Lucifer the Lightbearer, introducing a newly transcribed piece* derived from Lucifer entitled Natural Rights; a review of Shoot the Women First; a piece, On "Rights”, by Laurance Labadie; along with a brief ‘Letter to the Editors’. Some snippets:

Issue #6 of The Sovereign Self is out!

March’s issue (#6) of The Sovereign Self* is out! Number six includes articles regarding: the drastic differences between active and passive nihilism; a piece demystifying the techniques of control; a bit of comic relief brought to you by Zo D’axa; a review of Desert; a couple letters, as well as, two poems: Free Movements and a Beating Heart & The Individualist Hymn. Here’s a taste:

Hot off the Press: Issue #3 of The Sovereign Self!

Issue #3 of The Sovereign Self* is out! December’s issue includes articles on: value and possession; children and their perceived ‘rights’; the word ‘chaos’ and it’s usage within the anarchist milieu; a biographical note on Laurence Labadie and a piece written by him on Stirner; a review of Anaïs Nin’s essay,The New Woman; a critique of a previous article and a response to it; and the second part of a beautifully written personal piece on the author’s hatred of humanity and civilization.

Occupy Seattle Shuts Down the Stranger & the 1%s Forum

The Stranger has been known to attempt to drain energy out of autonomous movements or moments in order to co-opt them for their own Democratic Party agenda. This last Saturday they were at it again at "Occupy Town Hall", a forum put on by the Stranger and hosted by the city council ding-dong Nick Licata himself, featuring three top rate 1 percenters and three revolutionary 99ers.

The Violence In Oakland Will Never Be Forgiven {report from pdx (A)}

Marches for Oakland solidarity marched through downtown and split into a couple groups from Naito Parkway & Hawthorne Street. (Did the black bloc at the intersection disappear?) Another group had marched to the East Side across the Hawthorne Bridge black flags flying. We evaded police barricades at the other side of the bridge by taking sharp turns and switching back to off- and on-ramps and going opposite directions on Highway 99. Police outnumbered.

Pierce County Deputy Shoots Man Dead During Arrest Attempt

FROM: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/132375543.html

TACOMA, Wash. - A man was shot dead by a Pierce County sheriff's deputy Saturday morning during an arrest attempt near St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma, officials said.

The shooting took place near the intersection of South 19th Street and South Yakima Avenue at about 5:15 a.m., said Mark Fulghum of the Tacoma Police Department.

Burning the Bridges They Are Building: Anarchist Strategies Against the Police in the Puget Sound, Winter 2011

When I moved to Seattle many years after the infamous upheaval of 1999, I found almost no remnants of whatever had existed here. Certainly, I could find other anarchists, but for a long time I found myself in variations of the same conversation: How do we reach each other? What are we doing? Why does nothing happen?

And then, finally, I was with other anarchists in the street—friends and acquaintances, but others, too. Who are all these people? We were all in black masks. This was the first black bloc in Seattle in about a decade. Hundreds of posters all over town had announced a demonstration against police violence in the middle of Capitol Hill as part of the West Coast Days of Action Against State Violence April 8-9, 2010. The size of the demonstration was modest—probably around 80 people—but nearly half the crowd came en bloc.

Gossip Rag's Useless Exposé of SPD's Internal Opinions from Union Newspaper

The latest issue of the police union newspaper the Guardian still defends Birk, and blames the Straggler for "anti-police feeding frenzy". "Frenzy"? Gimme a break, maybe one of their writers is trying to do some investigative reporting, but the rest of the rag has him so outnumbered in its snide, sarcastic, elitist, belittling putdowns and gossip about the rest of greater Seattle and the Puget Sound, he's like trying to keep clean with a handy wipe in a class(ist)-10 mud storm.