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CIRCA–BF writes:

The Politics of Being Clandestine
Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army–Border Faction


The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army–Border Faction (CIRCA-BF) consists of 33 rotating members who come from different affinity groups, collectives, and disOrganizations. We are all locals; we are all multinationals. We are a network of bodies without organs. We are in your group, your class, your family, your television, your neighborhood. You don't see us, but that is exactly our strength: our invisibility.

The Aestheticization of Politics

To not exist is our goal. Until then, we will joyously work hard to construct the conditions that allow for moments of autonomy and spontaneity to occur. Unpredictability, Spontaneity, Risk — these elements are being systematically eliminated from the practice of everyday life. We (dis)organized a Reclaim the Streets on January 20th in symbolic solidarity with the counter-inauguration protests in DC in order to retrieve the self-empowering aforementioned characteristics and import them back into the practice of everyday life. We believe that creative, nonviolent direct action is the appropriate methodology for achieving these ends.

Libertarian Days of Protest

Porto Alegre, Brazil, Jan. 26–31, 2005


The need of legitimation of the State through the destruction of protective organizations and of the workers' mutual aid is today a concrete reality, and built historically. Military force destroys all of the initiatives and attempts on the part of the workers of solving their lacks.

Rachel Shabi and John Hooper write:

"Genoa: Now, The Reckoning"
Rachel Shabi and John Hooper, The Guardian

[In the summer of 2001, Italian police launched a brutal raid on protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa after they had returned to their sleeping quarters. Among 62 injured were various Britons, some of whom have still not recovered. Finally, more than 60 officers are being called to account in court. Rachel Shabi and John Hooper report.]

On Saturday night, July 21 2001, Richard Moth and his girlfriend Nicola Doherty left their friends in a Genoa bar because she was feeling tired and wanted an early night. The two London care workers were among vast numbers of people demonstrating at that year's G8 summit. Protesters against corporate globalisation had been following the leaders of the world's major industrial nations to their annual meetings in different parts of the globe since 1998. But this was a gathering on a scale unlike anything that had preceded it. The organisers put the numbers at 200,000; the police said there were 100,000. And it had turned ugly. Even though — or perhaps because — there were 20,000 police in Genoa, including reinforcements drawn from all over Italy, the summit protests became a bloody battleground.

midwest unrest writes:


"Fight or Walk: The Chicago Transit Fare Strike"

Midwest Unrest


The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics.

Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists 2004 Report

Like always, some collectives have disbanded over the past year (Cipriano Mera in Ottawa, Bad Apple and Roundhouse in Baltimore, Sophia Perovskaia who merged with Class Against Class in Boston, and Firefly in Malden who disbanded), while long term work has enabled smaller collectives to consolidate by recruiting new militants (Punching Out in Toronto, Green Mountain Anarchist Collective in Vermont, La
Nuit in Quebec City)

Anonymous Comrade writes:


International Anti-G8 Meeting

Tuebingen, Germany, Feb. 26–27, 2005


Here's the final invite and the draft agenda for the International Networking and Co-ordination Meeting for all those interested or involved with building radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit. Tha agenda has been drafted by the Dissent! International Networking Group and is open to comments, alteration and additions. Send all comments to: info-g82005@riseup.net

midwest unrest writes:

"First Day of Transit Fare Strike Descends on Chicago"

Midwest Unrest


December 15, 2004 — Thousands of people rode the "L" and the bus for free today. This was part of a city-wide protest against the proposed CTA service cuts, job eliminations, and fare hikes.

The fare evasion campaign which has received support from community groups such as the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and Citizens Taking Action for transit dependent riders, was called by local anarchist group Midwest Unrest.

midwest unrest writes:

"Chicago Anarchists Want Transit Free-For-All"
Crane's Business Journal 

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) on Tuesday said that an “anarchist group” opposed to pending CTA service cuts issued a phony news release saying fares would be free Wednesday for all riders.

The email message, sent to several Chicago media, promised a “day of free transit” and offered a false, yet sincere, apology from CTA president Frank Kruesi about possible future service cuts.

"No Saints in Sight as These Santas Get Their Jollies"

Alan Feuer, New York Times

Santa broke out the sour mash at 10 a.m. Christmas was coming. Why not
have a drink?


He raised his glass to another Santa, who was sucking back some Colt 45.


"Pace yourself," the second Santa said. "I started with beer this year,
not Jim Beam like last year."


John Chuckman

We are getting stories about increasing anti-Americanism in Canada, mainly coming from sources that are the Canadian equivalent of the Voice of America. They are pretty much the same people who told us we must support a friend who goes to war, neglecting to distinguish the case of a friend who has gone stark raving mad and decided to burn down someone else's house.


I think you can only have anti-Americanism if you first have Americanism, which is certainly not the same thing as simple love of country. Americanism is a cult centered on a belief in national exceptionalism. In modern times, there has been no better representative of the cult than George Bush, its current Imperial Wizard. Everywhere he goes, he projects the self-satisfied image of an America happy to dump its untreated effluent into the world's supply of drinking water so long as Americans themselves feel they are doing the right thing.

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