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Yesterday, when I wrote about the social media campaign that Israel was waging alongside its attack on Hamas, I thought it was interesting. I thought it was a straightforward and effective way of presenting the cause behind the attack. Whether you thought the offensive was right or wrong, you had to admit the propaganda's effectiveness. Well, day two ...

The Incomprehensible Black Anarchist Position

From Unflinching Antagonisms
Black brothers, Black sisters, i want you to know that i love you and i hope that somewhere in your hearts you have love for me. My name is Assata Shakur (slave name joanne chesimard), and i am a revolutionary. A Black re…

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Dear JennVicious: are anarchist lazy?

From Ask Jenn Vicious
Dear JennVicious, are anarchist lazy, or just the ones I know? I know that anarchism has a long history of people doing hella (Emma Goldman, Sasha Berkman, Howard Zinn, and a half dozen others come to mind). If anarchists were…

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Superstorm Sandy and New York City’s Dark Recovery, or, Things to be Seized during the Coming Insurrection

From Year 0
Superstorm Sandy and New York City’s Dark Recovery,
or,
Things to be Seized during the Coming Insurrection
1. NYU’s Power Plant
New York University, the city’s third largest landowner, is currently running on its own separate power grid. …

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CAPR suspends support for Leah-Lynn Plante

From Committee Against Political Repression:
The Committee Against Political Repression will be suspending support for Leah-Lynn Plante.
Leah was released from prison on October 17 after appearing before the grand jury investigating anarchists. We do…

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Predictable and Otherwise Part I

From Molly Mew
For many years I have held a rather heretical (in the usual lefty point of view) opinion. I personally believe that we are living in a post capitalist society that is better described as “managerial” rather than “capitalist”. This is, …

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Stay Calm: some tips for keeping safe in times of state repression

From Bay of Rage
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The spectre of state repression has been growing over Bay Area radical milieus. Grand juries in the Pacific Northwest and in Santa Cruz, threats by police of using gang enhancements against activis…

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OFFICIAL: LEAH HAS BEEN RELEASED

From Free Leah
Statement Concerning Leah-Lynn Plante’s Release
First and foremost, do not panic.
Leah wanted for us to express these points to you with this news:
She is extremely traumatized and experienced a lot of very, very bad things, but s…

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Oakland is for burning? Beyond a critique of gentrification

From Bay of Rage
I’m not a nihilist, but I wish they would burn every fucking thing down except for the houses. So that people would begin to understand that we don’t need this system.
- Bella Eiko, speaking to the Oakland City Council, during a …

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The Kids Don’t Go Back

From ouroboros ponderosa
I wrote this essay a few months back for an anarchist anthology which isn’t going to be published. I am fairly through with this blog, but I plan to spend this winter writing a book. Please keep your prayers with me and w…

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Knocking the Boots?

From We Want Some Food
A Response to Mr. Riley Regarding the Bay and the Black Bloc
What follows is not an attack on Boots Riley’s recent facebook update, I’ll leave that to the hundreds of others. I’m not from, nor do I live in Oak…

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Don’t Die Wondering: Atlanta Against the Police Winter 2011-2012

From The Litost
Introduction
The winter of 2011-12 saw a number of clashes with the police in Atlanta. Almost a year later, I’m comfortable enough to sit down to write about them. There were many other things going on around the country and even r…

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CCC Eviction Party: Wake Us Up When October Ends

As you may have heard, the Cream City Collectives has received an eviction notice from our landlord effective at midnight on November 1st. While this is undoubtably sad news, we are determined to make the best of it. On October 31st (you may know it …

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Update on Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain and Coordinated Rebellion at Mansfield Correctional

From Sean Swain
We have just received confirmation that between the night of Wednesday, September 19th and Monday, September 24th, Sean was held in a suicide cell in the medical wing of the prison, despite the fact that he is not in any way a suicide…

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Re-squat Casablanca!

Broader autonomous movements include the social center movement which focuses on the state neoliberal capitalist politics and policies that exclude ordinary people from their rights and access to various resources. Autonomy as defined by the squatter…

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The Black Bloc Doth Protest Too Much

From The Indypendent – By Ari Paul
It finally happened. After months of anarchists howling over journalist Chris Hedges’s controversial article “The Cancer Within Occupy,” the author debated the subject of non-violence and the diversity of tact…

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Othering Occupy: Against the Rhetoric of Fear

From Revolt, She Said – by C. de Gabriak
On the anniversary of the Occupy movement, two speakers squared off to debate what tactics are legitimate and effective for bringing about social change, and who gets to define the movement’s goals. The deba…

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FOR A SYMPHONY WITHOUT COMPOSERS

From: Royal Society Insurgent
*Some scattered toughts (sic) on revolt and the attack*
**Thesis I:** We are not at the service of revolution, revolution serves us.
**Thesis II:** The attack acts as a signal conductive to a climate of revolt, its a…

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