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February 21, 2003 - 1:02pm -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

A Trap Set For Protesters


Michael Hardt

Friday February 21, 2003

The Guardian

There is a new anti-Europeanism in Washington. The United States, of
course,
has a long tradition of ideological conflict with Europe. The old
anti-Europeanism generally protested against the overwhelming power of
European states, their arrogance, and their imperialist endeavours.
Today,
however, the relationship is reversed. The new anti-Europeanism is
based on
the US position of power and it protests instead against European
states
failing to yield to its power and support its projects.

February 20, 2003 - 8:52am -- hydrarchist
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The State

Sabu Kohso write:
A Brief History of Japanese Anarchism

From asahi anarchy history

Meiji -- From Socialism to Anarchism

1882

* Tokichi Tarui and others organized The Oriental Socialist Party in Nagasaki prefecture which had about forty members and proclaimed equality, maximum well-being of the public, common ownership of property, joint management of companies, and cooperative child rearing. However, about two months after its formation, this party was banned and dissolved.

February 18, 2003 - 5:30am -- hydrarchist
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Rants

Anonymous Comrade writes:
Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN and the FZLN

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Translated by irlandesa

http://www.fzln.org.mx

Communique' from the EZLN which was read during the demonstration in
Rome, Italy, on February 15, 2003. It was read by Heidi Giuliani, the
mother of activist Carlo, who was assassinated by the Italian police in
Genoa in July of 2001.

Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

Mexico.

February 15, 2003.

Brothers and Sisters of Rebel Italy:

Greetings from the men, women, children and old ones of the Zapatista
Army of National Liberation. Our word is made cloud in order to cross
the ocean and to reach the worlds which are in your hearts.

February 17, 2003 - 4:49pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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In the Streets

Report From New York Peace March

Liza Featherstone, AlterNet, February 16, 2003


"This is so unconstitutional!" frustrated demonstrators kept exclaiming, as police kept blocking their passage.



Protestors in New York City on Saturday were angry, not only because
President Bush was making plans to wage a brutal war on Iraq, but because,
five days earlier, a federal judge had upheld the city's right to deny
organizers a permit for a march. The city had permitted a rally at the
United Nations, but most people never got there because of the police
blockades.

February 17, 2003 - 10:52am -- hydrarchist
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Mainstream Media

Anonymous Comrade writes

WE, THE PEOPLE

Ida Dominijanni

Il Manifesto, 16 feb 2003

www.ilmanifesto.it

Translated by Snafu


"We, the people, do not want this war: millions of Americans are with you and challenge President Bush" says from the stage of San Giovanni in Rome, Mss Campbell the first woman priest of the council of churches of United States - firstly welcomed with coldness and then applauded with warmth. "We the people", the signature that inaugurate the American Constitution, a formula than returns a plural conception of "the people", which is one, just as long as it is aware to be made of many and different, "we". "We the people" will say few hours later the demonstrators of New York. But even in Rome, it is not only from the mouth of Mss Cambpell that the formula resounds in the air.

February 16, 2003 - 1:59pm -- hydrarchist
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Prisons & Prisoners

Italy indymedia writes:
Call for a collection of Video Materials



Seventeen months after the beatings by the police in Genoa the investigations are now concluding. Those who investigated the death of Carlo have decided that, in the context of the materials available to the prosecutor, Placanica acted to defend himself legitimately, firing a pistol shot in the air that, after having hit a stone, killed Carlo.

February 16, 2003 - 3:54am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

A-Platform writes "Istanbul-Kadikoy: Anarchists in action against war



On the global action day against war, 15th of February, Anarchist Platform participated the demonstration against war in Istanbul, Kadikoy Square, and they rallied along the streets of Kadikoy after the general demo had ended.

February 12, 2003 - 9:41am -- hydrarchist
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The State

Anonymous Comrade writes


Confronting Empire

Arundhati Roy

In many countries, Empire has sprouted other subsidiary heads, some dangerous byproducts — nationalism, religious bigotry, fascism and, of course terrorism. All these march arm in arm with the project of corporate globalization.

Let me illustrate what I mean. India — the world’s biggest democracy — is currently at the forefront of the corporate globalization project. Its "market" of one billion people is being prized open by the WTO. Corporatization and Privatization are being welcomed by the Government and the Indian elite.

February 7, 2003 - 1:48pm -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

Anonymous Comrade writes "The following article appeared in the Feb. 4, 2003, issue of the Mid-Hudson Activist Newsletter, published by the Mid-Hudson National People's Campaign/IAC in New Paltz, N.Y., and was sent via jacdon@earthlink.net

U.S. CITIES AND UNIONS OPPOSE A NEW WAR

Peace movement veterans and historians have never seen anything like it
-- a huge U.S. antiwar movement to stop a war before it starts. The big
demonstrations, of course, constitute the most obvious example of this
unprecedented phenomenon. But there are many other evidences as well.

February 5, 2003 - 8:28am -- jim
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Culture

Basil Valentine writes "The impending auction of surrealist Andre Breton's collection, featured recently in the New York Times, has provoked much controversy. A petition addressed to the French Minister of Culture, asking the State to acquire the collection and to establish an official Andre Breton Surrealist Museum(!) and/or Foundation, has garnered 1500 signatures. The following collective statement is the response by the Surrealist Movement in the U.S. to this malicious, statist hypocrisy. A French translation of this text has just appeared in Maurice Nadeau's Quinzaine litteraire."

"Surrealism Is Not for Sale!"

The Gold of Time in the Time of Gold

If you think wearing this season's shoes will make you more attractive, or that paying a stranger for sexual contact will gratify your passions, then you will probably agree with the clueless New York Times journalist who summed up the impending auction of the contents of Andre Breton's Paris apartment at 42 rue Fontaine as "Surrealism for Sale, Straight from the Source." In this snide, dishonest article from mid-December 2002, the New World Order's "newspaper of record" predictably distorted and slandered Breton and the entire international surrealist movement, reducing them to the 5,500 "lots" of objects, books, photographs, manuscripts, and artworks scheduled to be sold this April to wealthy dealers, investors, and museum acquisition officers.

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