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October 14, 2009 - 3:41pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Democratic Terrorization A Not Bored interview with Claude Guillon

Q: You will soon publish Democratic Terrorization (Libertalia), which analyzes in detail the French and European legislative arsenals concerning anti-terrorism. Can you develop the thesis of your book and compare the situations in 1986 and today?

October 14, 2009 - 2:45pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

The Heckler Reverend Billy Talen

Three weeks to go to the election. Last night I interrupted Mike Bloomberg’s opening statement in the debate. We’re trying to poke through the $65 million TV screen that weighs down on us in Gotham City. My prayer for bravery was posted with you earlier yesterday, “…there is something powerful in a quiet voice when the words are whole.”

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Here's the incident he's detailing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5RZZL6DIQ

You can follow his campaign blogs on Facebook.

October 13, 2009 - 1:04pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Statement in support of Abahlali baseMjondolo

9 October 2009

October 8, 2009 - 7:01am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Independent Media

From Farce to Tragedy: The New Crisis at Pacifica Iain Boal

On September 17 the Governance Committee of the Pacifica National Board passed a resolution expressly designed to find out whether Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! program is getting CIA funding through covert channels like the Ford Foundation for suppressing the “truth” about the 9/11 “cover-up.” The author of the resolution, Chris Condon, made it clear that he wrote a motion on funding disclosure specifically to find out "where the hell Amy Goodman's money is coming from."

October 6, 2009 - 9:19am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

When They Kick Out Your Front Door, How You Gonna Come? Tortuga Defense

On October 1st, 2009, at 6:00am, the Joint Terrorism Task Force (a union of local police departments and the FBI), kicked out the front door to our home—an anarchist collective house in Queens, NY, affectionately known as Tortuga. The first crashes of the battering ram were quickly followed by more upstairs, as the police broke in on 3 sleeping people, destroying bedroom doors that were unlocked.

October 3, 2009 - 10:48am -- amoore
Analysis & Polemic
Culture

"Art in Russia Under Attack: Artists, Curators on Trial" Konstantin Akinsha

With trials, harassment, and other forms of intimidation, Russian authorities are striking out against curators and artists—who are, in turn, organizing projects that are increasingly provocative and political.

September 26, 2009 - 9:23pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Rants

From Barthes to Foucault and Beyond – Cycling in the Age of Empire Martin Hardie

May 2009

'Whilst the onomania lasted, bickerings and divisions endured.'

Barthes is right in that he tells us that there is an onomastics of the Tour.

September 26, 2009 - 12:15pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
News

Cape Town Militant Mzonke Poni Goes to Trial on Tuesday 29 September 2009 on a Charge of 'Public Violence'

Mzonke Poni, Chairperson of Abahlali baseMjondolo of the Western Cape, is scheduled to stand trial on the charge of public violence on Tuesday 29 September 2009. The charge relates to a protest organised in opposition to state criminality against the Macassar Village Land Occupation. He has written this essay on 'public violence' in response to the charges levelled against him.

Public Violence

September 25, 2009 - 7:20am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
War

Class Wargames Communique 7

September 25, 2009 - 4:40am -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
History

Peter Linebaugh's New Introduction to the Works of Thomas Paine