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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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6:24 pm - A note of appreciation from the rich
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(shamelessly stolen from scroogle.org, via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) 23press)
 Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it — you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.
Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us — and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.
Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."
Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against.... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage-managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening — instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews," Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.
We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do!
Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organized to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system — robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself.
So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" — without even knowing it!
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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3:14 pm - Red and Black is the New Black and Gold
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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7:17 pm - The Day the Nazi Died
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joshmanicus
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This one's going out to Nick Griffen and Andrew Brons.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: Chumbawamba - The Day the Nazis Died
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| Saturday, March 28th, 2009
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11:28 am - National Day of Solidarity!
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penguingod
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(the following was liberated, with permission, from hilliebilly; changes are minimal).  Friends and comrades, [today is] the National Day of Solidarity with the R.N.C. 8. The R.N.C. 8 are our comrades, arrested in Minnesota, U.S.A. for providing logistical support for the protesters who came to Saint Paul in September '08 to express our feelings of dislike, indeed loathing, for the damned fascists who attended the Republican National Convention.
The R.N.C. 8 may be tried in September of '09 and their trial will be the most important U.S.A. political trial in forty years. They are to be tried under Minnesota's equivalent of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, and our very right to dissent in a supposedly "free" country is at risk.
I will now give you a link to the Friends of the R.N.C. 8, and you can learn much more from Twin Cities Indymedia as well. Here's the link!
http://rnc8.org/
Love and anarchy! Billy
P.S. I want to add that the Ramsey County Attorney, tasked with persecuting (sorry, "prosecuting") the R.N.C. 8 is Susan Gaertner, a Democrat who would like to be Governor of Minnesota. Democrats, mind you, are the Enemy too.
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| Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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1:31 pm - Shut Down T. Don Hutto! Urgent Action Needed!
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This was originally posted as a MySpace bulletin from CrimethInc.; all CrimethInc. writings are subject to an anti-copyright. As in, anybody can post them anywhere for any reason at all. I did not write this.In May 2006, the Department of Homeland Security opened its first prison for immigrant families 30 miles north of Austin. It is the first family detention center in the country to be based on the penal model, though plans were quickly made to build more. The T Don Hutto facility holds men, women (some pregnant), children, and infants, none of whom have a criminal past. Administered by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's largest for-profit corrections company, Hutto lacks proper licensing and medical facilities, and has been proven to traumatize families. WCCC Judge Gattis on TD Hutto vote: "Unless something jumps up and bites me, I will vote to renew" Bite him. Before this Tuesday's vote! Contact WCCC members and tell them to vote NO Hutto Renewal (See contact info below) Their offices will be closed by now, but flood their voicemail and email boxes tonight! Imprisoning people charged with no crime, while they await decision re. applications for citizenship and asylum, is NOT effective immigration policy, does NOT secure our borders, and has NOTHING to do with patriotism. It is a corrupt means to enrich an already wealthy corporation by exploiting the weakest among us! As partners in the contract for the most expensive method to effectively assure that non-criminal immigrants appear at their hearings, the Williamson County Commissioners Court (WCCC) exhibits a disregard for fiscal responsibility with taxpayer dollars during a national economic crisis. This prison is exempt from any governmental regulation and has no government oversight—and a continuing record of abuses. With the lapse of the only outside (court-ordered) oversight of this facility in August of 2009 those risks are greatly elevated in renewal. ( Article in March 2008 New Yorker provides a good chronicle) Partnering with Corrections Corporation of American, with its less-than-admirable record of management, is a bad business practice and exposes Williamson County taxpayers to financial risks from poor management, bad employees, and external lawsuits—all of which are beyond their capacity to control. (See attached "Letter to WCCC re CCA Business Practices.) Williamson County's reputation has been damaged as a result of a number of specific offenses relating to the operation of the facility, as well as its very existence. Contract renewal would affirm WCCC's approval of the disgraces of T Don Hutto and further damage our image locally, nationally, and internationally. Evidence presented at the September public forum (which WCCC boycotted) stated that T Don Hutto's operation is probably a deterrent to future, clean, economic development in the area; renewal would send a very bad signal for the future of such growth; it is actually anti-economic development! This proposal fails the simple "risk vs. benefits" of any business undertaking. The less than $16,000 monthly maximum that Williamson County collects under this contract cannot be reasonably argued to compensate for the negatives that exist. WCCC has had a very rough record re. contracts to date; re-entering this partnership does nothing to convince citizens that WCCC has been learned anything from those previous costly contract mistakes. Please Contact : Judge Dan Gattis: ctyjudge@wilco,org (512) 943-1550 Commissioner Lisa Birkman: lbirkman@wilco.org ( 512) 733-5380 Commissioner Cynthia Long: clong@wilco.org (512) 260-4280) Commissioner Valerie Covey: vcovey@wilco.org (512) 943-3370 Commissioner Ron Morrison: rmorrison@wilco.org (512) 846-1190 Phone, email, by end of business Monday and tell them NO to Hutto!
current music: Les Savy Fav - Fading Vibes
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| Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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12:09 pm
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| Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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5:37 pm
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| Friday, May 23rd, 2008
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8:51 pm - The SacRed War
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1:06 pm - Greeting to My Comrades!
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redstar08
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Hello to all my comrades! I have just joined the community and I would just like to alert you to A community I just created.
red_revolt. I need a couple of maintainers and members please consider thank you.
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| Sunday, February 24th, 2008
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6:50 pm - radical pedagogy workshop
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Radical Pedagogy Workshop Series
• A series of monthly four-hour workshops on various topics in radical pedagogical theory and practice. Organized by the Anarchist Free University in Toronto.
Workshop 1: Marxism and Education
• When: Sunday 24 February
◦ Time: 1 - 5pm
• Where: Centre for Social Innovation. 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120. (Spadina between Dundas and Queen) CONFIRMED
• Organizers/Presenters: Maggie Flynn and Christian Whittall
• Contact: christian@anarchistu.org
[ok, I just realized that this one, on Marxism and Education, already happened, earlier today. But there will be more. click the link above where it says "radical pedagogy workshop series" for more info on upcoming workshops.]
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| Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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5:38 am - WE WANT REBEL MUSIC - POLITICAL PUNK BLOG/ZINE
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From the COMMON CAUSE BENEFIT myspace page:
WE WANT REBEL MUSIC is a new blog/zine dedicated to political punk. A work in progress that will have interviews, reviews, show info and who the heck know what else...
Please check it out. So far there are interviews with Broadcast Zero, The Rebel Spell, The Fallout and Knucklehead...
Cheers!
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| Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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10:19 pm - a new community ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) theoryquotes
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| Saturday, January 5th, 2008
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8:24 pm
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| Sunday, December 9th, 2007
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10:18 am - Have you checked out this anarchist podcast yet?
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| Thursday, November 1st, 2007
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1:13 am - H.R. 1955
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theunseenkid
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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. The Bill passed 404-6.
This Bill criminalizes any act of, or promotion of, anything the Government interprets to be "radical" or "extremist." This may include Animal Rights, Environmentalism, Socialism, Labor Organizing, anything that may upset the status quo, hell anything that may upset a politician. And that's the scary thing here; it's entirely up to State interpretation.
Don't let this Bill pass the senate! Call your Congressperson, tell them you are NOT HAPPY with their vote. Call your Senators, tell them that if they wish to keep their jobs, they had better NOT SUPPORT this bill. Use every means available to you. Phone Calls, Letter Writings, Public Demonstration, Firebombings. Don't Let this Bill Pass. Talk to your friends, CoWorkers, talk to your Parents, your Professors, your Teachers. Talk to EVERYONE.
Educate. Organize. Mobilize. Make It Happen.
Read Up Y'all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_House_Resolution_1955
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/25/18456040.php
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20071023-31&bill=h110-1955
( Here's a Copy/Paste Letter to Give to Media! Or Anyone! )
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| Friday, April 27th, 2007
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2:43 pm - Comunicado sobre a manifestação antiautoritária contra o fascismo e o capitalismo.
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Com o intuito de protestar contra a crescente visibilidade da extrema-direita e a sua componente racista e xenófoba, contra a cada vez maior exploração capitalista, contra a precariedade social imposta pelo capitalismo, contra o crescente totalitarismo democrático, pela liberdade, solidariedade e dignidade humana, por um mundo sem fronteiras uma plataforma de grupos e indivíduos de várias tendências anti autoritárias, anarquistas, anti capitalistas e antifascistas convocou para o dia 25 de Abril pelas 18:00H na praça da figueira uma manifestação anti autoritária.
A manifestação reuniu cerca de 400 pessoas que percorreram o Rossio, a Rua do Carmo e a Rua Garrett até ao Largo de Camões num ambiente contestatário mas festivo e sem incidentes. Muitos transeuntes aplaudiram e aderiram à manifestação. Após um breve período em que a manifestação permaneceu no largo Camões esta continuou espontaneamente pela Rua Garrett em direcção ao Rossio.
A meio da Rua do Carmo, duas hordas de elementos do corpo de intervenção da PSP encurralaram os manifestantes na rua fechando as saídas e sem qualquer ordem ou aviso de dispersão começaram a agredir brutal e indiscriminadamente manifestantes, transeuntes e até mesmo turistas.Com isto a polícia não tentou dispersar ninguém, mas por outro lado quis bater, espancar e atacar os manifestantes. Pessoas que caíram no chão indefesas foram ainda agredidas por vários polícias à bastonada e ao pontapé. Aqueles que tentaram fugir foram perseguídas por toda abaixa e muitos transeuntes e lojistas somaram-se aos manifestantes no fundo da Rua do Carmo em protesto contra a brutalidade policial. As únicas agressões à polícia foram em legítima defesa, que é um direito ao qual não renunciamos.
Foram detidas doze pessoas de forma bastante violenta e é impossível contabilizar todos os feridos entre manifestantes e pessoas alheias ao protesto. Foi mobilizado um aparato policial desmedido (dezenas de carrinhas do corpo de intervenção da PSP com certamente mais de uma centena de elementos) que impôs o terror na baixa de Lisboa por várias horas
Um grupo de indivíduos que se queria juntar à manifestação e que tinha ficado para trás foi cercado e escoltado até ao cais do sodré (possivelmente pela sua cor de pele).
Os detidos foram levados para a esquadra da 1ª divisão da PSP na Rua Gomes Freire onde foi negada qualquer informação aos seus amigos e durante muito tempo foi impedida a entrada aos advogados. Houve uma tentativa de levar os detidos a constituírem-se arguídos sem a presença dos advogados o que é ilegal. Em solidariedade com os detidos cerca de 50 pessoas concentraram-se em frente à esquadra aguardando a sua transferência para os calabouços do comando da PSP de Lisboa. Mesmo em frente à esquadra a polícia continuou com o abuso de poder e expulsou as pessoas aos empurrões impedindo que estas pudessem continuar a demonstrar a sua solidariedade.
O que tem vindo a ser noticiado nos variados órgãos de comunicação social está repleto de incoerências e desvios daquilo que realmente aconteceu na baixa de Lisboa. Nomeadamente, a confusão com outras manifestações, a aceitação da versão policial dos acontecimentos e a necessidade de caracterizar como ilegal uma característica natural das pessoas que é o ajuntamento e a manifestação, que a democracia diz defender. Num período em que foram muitos os ajuntamentos,manifestações, acções e encontros este era também um protesto de repúdio aos tempos que se vivem e aos ataques constantes do poder às pessoas.
Caricatamente é no dia 25 de Abril que a polícia defende cartazes de partidos fascistas e ataca manifestações antifascistas.
Num momento em que já se sabia que os cravos estão murchos todos estes acontecimentos servem para o reconfirmar.
Plataforma antiautoritária contra o fascismo e o capitalismo.
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disclaimer: sorry the text is in portuguese, but you an still see the pictures, and theres a link in english '25 de abrill' for those who not know what it means can, at least have a very general idea.
about the protest: on april 25 there was a anti-authoritarin, anti-fascist, anti-racist manif in lisbon (portugal) that went very well joing people with various political tendencies and ages. then a hour later or something like that the people who remained longer on the place the manif ended spontainiously decided to do the same traject they did before, but backwards. needless to say we where 1/4 of the people we where on the first manif. when we reached rua do carmo we where blocked by the police and couldn't run. 12 people we're arrested, and many many people beaten, including pepolpe who were only on the street watching the manif go by. (sorry for my english)
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| Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
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1:02 pm - An Anarchist Study of the Rotinonshón:ni Polity
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flintultrasparc
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"Where License Reigns With All Impunity"
The traditional society of the Rotinonshón:ni (Iroquois), "The People of the Longhouse," was a densely settled, matrilineal, communal, and extensively horticultural society. The Rotinonshón:ni formed a confederacy of five nations. Generations before historical contact with Europeans, these nations united through the Kaianere'kó:wa into the same polity and ended blood feuding without economic exploitation, stratification, or the formation of a centralized state.
( Read the Introduction )
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| Saturday, January 27th, 2007
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6:32 am - New Reading Group
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papakat23
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Ever just get the urge to talk about a book you just read?
Do you think you have something to contribute to others?
Are you disappointed with the anti-intellectual streak that's so prevalent?
Do you think that radical thought is more than just mental masturbation - that without revolutionary theories and ideas there can be no revolution?
Then come join us at dialecticus! We're a new reading group and we're still in the process of deciding on a reading list so come join us and help us get this group off the ground.
cross-posted a bunch of places...
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| Saturday, December 9th, 2006
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10:54 am - Happy birthday Pete!
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| Friday, August 25th, 2006
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10:31 am
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Does anyone know of any info shops in Ireland? (I'm not really sure what sites to check -- infoshop.org didn't have any listings.) Currently I'm more than likely going to stay around Cork City for a few days, possibly travel West if I have the money and/or if I find a travel partner. Has anyone been to Cork County? Anything I should check out?
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