L.A. Anarchist Bookfair 2011

Class Struggle Across the Pacific Rim June 26, 2011 at 3:00pm Los Angeles sits at a vital node in one of the most important globalized production chains of capital. The combined port complex of Los Angeles/Long Beach is the busiest in the Western Hemisphere and the 6th busiest in the world; they [...]

Originally published by AL Burian on June 15, 2011 in Berlin.Re-posted on June 20, 2011. DR. PAZMINSKI from the Skeleton (2006) When I moved to Chicago I could still, technically,  count myself in the category of &ldqu...

The second installment of a two week long Inkwell interview with Sasha Lilley about Capital and Its Discontents, headed up by broadcaster Angie Coiro.

Judging Books by Their Covers: 62Posted June 13, 2011 by jmacphee in Justseeds & Member Projects Reposted:June 17, 2011 In January 1994 I made my first visit to the UK and to London. At the time there were two functional anarchist s...

Branching out from the DIY tradition of skill-sharing, this is an autonomous self-organized free school providing access to education free for all. On June 26, 2011 the Centro Cultural Papalut along with the 3rd Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Book Fair will host a space of free knowledge exchange and skill-sharing with hands-on workshops and classes throughout [...]

From Global TV BC

VANCOUVER - After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in Game 7, some people that were downtown started rioting, starting fires, flipping cars, and breaking store windows and causing general chaos.

An overturned car went up in flames in front of the Canada Post building, Canucks fans were burning their jerseys in the streets, and several cars were set on fire and destroyed.

Vancouver Police Department have put out a call for people with photos and videos of the incidents to hang on to them so they can be used to try and identify people later, and at least two Facebook pages and a Tumblr page has been set up to do just that.

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From MMA Fighting

Jeff Monson has cost himself plenty of money over the years. Nobody has to tell him that. It's not the tattoos. In another line of work being inked from head to toe with everything from anarchy symbols to a Soviet hammer and sickle might be detrimental to your career health.

But Monson is lucky. He's in the line of work where tattoos are almost part of the uniform. When he fights Daniel Cormier in Strikeforce this Saturday night, it will probably barely merit a mention from the commentary team.

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From Washington Post - By T.W. Farnam

A meeting of anarchists, progressives, a self-described “surly feminist” and others on the far left of the political spectrum is underway. They’re young and radical. They’re organizing intently. The matter at hand could be oppression, or the police state, or revolution.

But it’s not. It’s walking dogs.

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From Vancouver Courier

Why did the riot happen?

It was a question Police Chief Jim Chu attempted to answer at a packed news conference this morning at the Vancouver Police Department’s Cambie Street station.

“When a large number of criminals and anarchists have a common purpose and intent to break the law, it’s very difficult to stop that,” Chu said in taking questions from reporters. “There was a plan in place that was derived from some very expert people who have trained and studied these incidents elsewhere in the world. Despite the best efforts of many, many police agencies, including ones that have tremendously higher number of resources than we have, riots still occur.”

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From Fight Civ (blog)

Deep Green Resistance is the only movement designed to stop the destruction of the planet by dismantling the industrial complex, depriving the rich and globally powerful of their ability to profit off of the deprivation of all others, and the only real chance for human and nonhuman life to continue on Earth.

I’m over half way through the book Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (there’s a reason I hadn’t been posting lately) written by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen, and I can’t say enough good things about it. The book provides many historical examples of successful resistance movements of the past, examines each, and lays out clear patterns between the successes and the failures. It explains the many different forms resistance can take, and explains very well and concisely why some would work beautifully for our movement, and why some simply wouldn’t be feasible, or even attainable from the get-go.

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Join hosts Colectivo Acratas Los Angeles for a lively presentation and discussion featuring co-editor of Anarchy Magazine, Lawrence Jarach, Friday, June 24, 2011, 8pm. “What is Post-Left Anarchy?” An outline of this interesting development in modern anarchist theory followed by Q&A Lawrence Jarach is a co-editor of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, a project approaching [...]

Reposted from the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Surf City Revolt.

SANTA CRUZ - A 53-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to setting fire to the Santa Cruz city attorney's office.

Miguel William Balderos started a fire at the city attorney's office on the 300 block of Church Street on July 2, 2010, and he told police that he was an anarchist protesting the city's camping ban.

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From Crimethinc

On May 20-21, anarchists and fellow travelers gathered in Milwaukee for a small conference about the ongoing crisis of capitalism. In the final discussion, people from around the US compared notes on recent anti-austerity protests, focusing chiefly on the student movement in California and the recent protests in Wisconsin. We’ve summarized some of the conclusions here in hopes they can be useful in the next phase of anarchist organizing.

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From Vancouver Mediacoop - by Zig Zag

For weeks leading up to the final Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, Vancouver police and city officials asserted we had 'matured' as a city since the 1994 hockey riot. There would be no repeat of the mayhem that followed the Canucks loss in game 7 to the New York Rangers that year, the last time the team made the finals. And what a wonderful crowning achievement to top off the exhilarating success of the 2010 Winter Olympics, some speculated...

But they were wrong. Very terribly wrong. Seemingly taking a page out of the G20 protests which occurred a year ago, burning cars were a highlight of the June 15, 2011, hockey riot, including at least two police cars. And, perhaps inspired by the 2010 Heart Attack, the Hudson's Bay department store had its windows smashed (almost all of them this time), and much of its first floor contents looted (primarily womens makeup and perfumes, it was like 'Riot Grrrls Gone Wild'!). In a repeat of the Heart Attack, there was even a Province newspaper box thrown through one set of windows.

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From Vancouver Mediacoop - By d.

Before the history is written, let me say just this; before the pepper spray finally weeps out of my eyes, while the tear gas covers me; let me just say a few words while this smile is still smeared across my face.

Tonight the social peace was smashed. How many will say it was just a hockey riot, as if one could say just one thing about the tearing apart of the relations that bind us to command. Just a hockey riot, where tens of thousands moved threw the belly of commerce and took what they desired, smashing what was in their way. Hockey fans, fuckin-eh we are! And we fucked shit up.

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From Denver ABC (blog)

On Monday June 13, Amelia joined friends and comrades on the outside after being jailed for 38 days.

She is currently out on bond, and will have another court hearing on June 27th, to face arraignment for the remaining felony and three misdemeanor charges that she is facing.

We at Denver ABC are overjoyed that Amelia is out of jail and amongst folks that care about her and her continued struggle. We want to send a resounding thank you to everyone who has supported Amelia, by contributing monetary donations, sending mail to her in jail, writing letters to the DA, attending the press conference and court dates, or fighting against predatory political, economic, and social systems across the world.

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DEMOCRACY NOW!FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists: An interview w/ scott crow and Mike German

As I wait for my first three boxes of books to arrive on Friday, June 17, I am wondering what it will feel like to actually hold one of those books in my hands—the product of eight years of writing that has been an emotional roller-coaster r...

Two weeks ago I was asked by the nice litblog Largehearted Boy to compile a "playlist" of songs for my novel SENSATION. This list is more for the sort of thing you should listen to while reading the novel, not what I was listening to ...

Fellow Anarchists! Los Angeles has a rich anarchist history, but sadly most of that history has been forgotten or lost in the pages of time. Due to a disconnect of today’s anarchists with their past, combined with never ending redevelopment of the city’s landscape, anarchists in the city constantly walk past important landmarks for our community, [...]