Politics

from contra-doxa, 5 April 2008: As long as there will be war, as well as systems and organizations that support militarization, murder, and profit-making from conflicts, there will be always movements protesting against them. Nowadays NATO is the most influential military alliance in the world. That’s why wherever a NATO summit will take place there will be people resisting it. Bucharest is not an exception. In spite of the media intoxication as well as governmental repressions, which started already months before the summit, hundreds of anti-militarists both, Romanian and international, gathered in the capital city, Bucharest. more

from email, 1 April 2008: Here in Berlin we have heard last days that for some reasons some clever people sitting at the power position in Romania are trying to antagonise the common Romanian people and the anarchists by spreading rumours about an arrival of the “bus with Berlin anarchists” to Bucharest for the anti-NATO protests. If this is a fact, we, anarchists from Berlin, would like to confirm the information about the arrival from our side, but what is much more important, is to explain our motivations behind visiting Bucharest at the beginning of April to the people in Romania. more

from email, 22 January 2008: In early December 2007 we reposted an article from 'Green Scare' defendant Daniel McGowan challenging one his co-defendants, Darren Thurston, on why he had decided to co-operate with the US government and prosecutors against McGowan and other Operation Backfire defendants. Thurston has now made a response (see link below). This article is a reply to Thurston from the Crimethinc.com web site. more

by IAC, 12 December 2007: "In the US (the IAC knows the situation is similar in other countries but will only directly refer to the situation in the US), the Liberals have exhausted themselves and do not know what to do. The State is doing what it wants to do without them. Their petitions and marches and people's tribunals have done NOTHING of any value to anyone who is being killed (quickly or slowly) by this system. A large number of people know this, but they are still sheepishly looking for a leader or leaders to fix everything for them..." more

from email, 2 December 2007: Meanwhile a series of assessment papers have been published about the G8 protests, some of them carry approaches that are worth discussing. a text that quite some people have been waiting for has not been published, it somehow disappeared in between. So here it is, it should reach many and play its part in the evaluation-process.  more

from turbulence, 29 November 2007: "When we think about winning, our eyes are drawn to things that are highly visible or easy-to-measure, such as institutional or legislative change, the opening of a social centre or an increase in membership. That’s where the light is. But we also need to assess victories in the less tangible though just as real realm of possibilities..." more

from email, 24 November 07: "Time is not linear. It has been forced to be that way. This is never more apparent to me than during a period of sustained actions. Dates and minutes become meaningless and a month can become one endless day. In order to honor the boundlessness of this state, I will relate the following events out of sequence. The following events took place between the 27th of October and the 13th of November. The following events did not end..." more

via infoshop, November 01 2007: New Orleans, October 29 - Activist lawyer Brenna Bell spoke out against the Green Scare today at Loyola Law School, and informed people about how they can resist it. The Green Scare is a term used to describe a repressive campaign currently being carried out by the federal government against environmental activists.  more

The SOCPA laws were introduced into UK law to prevent unauthorised demonstrations and protest in the area of the Houses of Parliament. Wearing a t-shirt with a slogan or reading a list of the names of those killed in the Iraq invasion and occupation were treated as criminal acts. There is now a review where it seems likely the SOCPA demonstration laws will be repealed.
Keyword: SOCPA more

from email, 27 Oct: "London ABC aim to be a ‘fighting’ force inside the larger struggle against authority and capitalism and have formed ourselves to also highlight the issue of prison as a political tool of our class enemies and to fight against it..." more

from email, 6 October 2007: "i object to being pigeonholed (physically and figuratively) by cleaving to some marshal or warrioresque mantra that many have chosen when confronted with similar circumstances - what they chose is for their own personal path, what they've perceived as necessary for their survival..." more

from dionysusunemployed.net, August 21 2007: During a recent trip to Mexico I spoke with an acquaintance who is a gringo expat in Mexico City working for a community radio station with strong ties to La Otra Campaña.

While discussing the immanence of revolution in Mexico and the lack of any coherent revolutionary movement in the US she brought up two very important points: 1) the US has vast independent media resources yet lacks a movement for it to mobilize behind, 2) in the US activism focuses too heavily on the point of consumption rather than on the point of production. more

from email, 14 August 2007: "long overdue translation - if you asked yourself again and again who they are, or better, why they act, the superfluous, here is the answer in form of their first declaration. take it as inspiration, the label is an invitation to active appropriation..." more