L.A. Anarchist Bookfair 2011

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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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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New Orleans anarchist addresses closure of Iron Rail infoshop and police violence towards Eris parade, is uncharacteristically, unprecedentedly described by media as having "real grasp on the dynamics of the neighborhood," goes on to provide single juicy anti-police quote in otherwise bland class-based analysis.

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Last night in honor of June 11, a luxury SUV parked in a rich area of Seattle had the majority of its windows ruined and the words "Yuppie Scum" spraypainted on the exterior. This was done in the tradition of struggle in the Northwest against all those who wish to destory the earth. In solidarity with Sadie, Exile, Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, Grant Barnes, and all other eco prisoners including those who live semi-free in clandestiny. Dedicated to the memory of Avalon!

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From Puget Sound Anarchists

After discovering that our favorite paper The Stranger was giving power-hungry ding-dongs another free opportunity to interface with the public they want to manage, we decided to pay the event a little visit.

At The Havanna Club in Capitol Hill we found ourselves assaulted by democracy-fanatics, imploring us to register to vote (so that we can vote in the city council). The earnestness and sincerity with which these democratic-insurgents tried to push their religion was utterly astounding and it took some time, once getting past them and entering the bar, to fully make out what was happening.

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From PDX Anarchist Bookfair (blog)

Plan your flight, hop your train, rideshare your seat, or ride your bike to the Pacific Northwest this July!

Radicals in the Northwest are currently in the process of planning two amazing events that happen to be back to back. The Portland Anarchist Bookfair takes place on July 23rd and July 24th, with vendors and speakers from all around, encompassing a wide array of anarchist thought. The Trans and Womyns Action Camp begins July 27th and ends on August 1st. The action camp takes place deep in the forests of the Cascadian bioregion centered around eco-activism and bringing down patriarchy.

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Both of these communications are available on the website, june11.org/resources, as are a new radio interview about the day and the cases as well as an interview with Eric McDavid done by Jeff Luers. Thanks!

Dear Friends and Comrads,

As June 11th quickly approaches we wanted to share some thoughts with you about what this day means to us, and why we have felt it necessary to give it to all of you- to build and strengthen the work you do in your own communities, but also to weave us all together a little tighter and bring our bonds that much closer to unbreakable.

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From Asheville FM - by Bursts O'Goodness

In recognition of June 11th as a Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners, this week's The Final Straw (now 1-2pm EST on Fridays) will present the second of two shows on the Green Scare. I've interviewed supporters of Marie Mason and Eric McDavid, both victims of the Green Scare serving 20 year sentences and, also, Anarchists.

The first was an interview with Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red and is archived HERE

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From Denver ABC

There have been some major developments within Amelia’s case. Amelia had a pretrial hearing today, on June 9. A pretrial hearing allows for a judge to hear the evidence, and decide whether there is sufficient evidence for a defendant to stand trial for the charges that have been filed. In this case, as detailed below, the judge made some pretty strong rulings in favor of Amelia.

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From Nihilio Zero (blog)

In George Orwell's world of 1984... were a billion people suffering from the effects of malnutrition?  Was a full seventh of that fictional population hungry?  Obviously things were rough in that fictitious world, but was it really that bad?  Was it hard for billions of people to find potable water to drink?  Were the oceans surrounding Oceania full of plastic?  Was the primary fuel source of Eurasia leading to a negative feedback loop in the climate (which consequently might raise the planet's temperature by several degrees within the next century)? 

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From Llibre Anarquista

[ENG]

Barcelona's Anarchist Bookfair has reached it's seventh year. What will the future bring us, or shoot at us? It has been said that we live in time of crisis and uncertainty. Some announce the end of the world in the coming year, collapse, the birth of a new era. The promise of freedom and the pleasure of the revolt, or a renewed global dictatorship?

We hold the belief that any change that we do not actively participate in, will, of course, be to our detriment. Power is the enemy of freedom and it is armed with new tools of domination, it evolves and is creating new conditions that will chain us even more.

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On the night of June 8th we found out about our comrades in Montreal. The pigs shot two more people. This fueled our rage for the police and the world they maintain.

So an RBC in the northwest of Calgary had thick goopy paint poured all over the ATMs and the words "Fuck the police" and "Solidarity" written on the walls.

Fuck the police!
Solidarity with Montreal!

-some anarchists

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