A Central District woman who has been feuding with a local anarchist collective believes members of the group vandalized her house.

The woman, who lives in the 700 block of 24th Avenue South, woke up Wednesday morning to find broken light bulbs in her yard and red paint splashed across her house, according to a police report. She told police she believes someone filled the light bulbs with paint and threw them at her house.

The house is located next to the Autonomia Social Center, which until recently was the headquarters for the local anarchist community.

The second annual October 22nd Anti-Police Terror Demonstration in Denver was a priority when Ignite! first began publication. Receiving coverage in October when it was announced, it was a notable action due to the history of five demonstrations preceding it in a coordinated campaign utilizing a plethora of tactics and strategies to engage the notoriously brutal and repressive Denver Police Department. Up to this point, Denver has seen rallies, vigils, unpermitted street marches, vandalism, brawls, court campaigns, press conferences, and many other events in the context of the anti-police struggle. O22 in 2011 was shaping up to be a pivotal and defining action.

Perhaps the people responsible for torching a graffiti-­covered Toyota 4-Runner in west Eugene on Wednesday night really did want to send a political message.

But at this point, police say they don’t know who set the fire or why they did it — despite the fact that the burned sport utility vehicle was covered with miscellaneous graffiti that included an anarchist symbol and messages consistent with those of the nation­wide “Occupy” movement protesting economic inequities.

Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said it would be “unfair to blame any one group” for the arson.

There weren't nearly as many people at Westlake yesterday afternoon as there had been last Saturday, when the tents went up. Some speculated that the weather was keeping people away. Others said they weren't thrilled by the October 22 Coalition's pre-scheduled rally against police brutality and the visibility of "anarchists"—folks wearing black and bandanas.

"We do not want to see this turn into WTO, that's for damn sure," one organizer said. "There have been rumors that the anarchists were trying to promote some kind of violence or a smash-and-grab."

The differences between the "radical" and "liberal" factions of Occupy was a popular subject of conversation yesterday, and on the Occupy Seattle blog, where the opening of one comment neatly sums up the tension: "This movement has two parts. There are the organizers who are careful, timid and non-confrontational. There is the rest of us that more determined to see this through."

Dedication:

And now wearrive at the saddest portion of our Phenomenology Of Miscellaneous Subjects. At the time of this writing, we are witnessing the explosion of the world revolutionary Geist all over the planet. The events that have transpired over the course of these serialized installments bears out the validity of our assertions. If you have recently seen the actions of anarchists synchronizing to a common rhythm, make no mistake that what you are witnessing is the intrusion of the anarchist waveform pattern into the linear time of the capitalist world. Soon, we will all have collectively articulated the rudiments of the Anarchist International's invisible structure, but as of this writing it is premature to say that we have reached this goal.

The Anarchist International has existed throughout time, and as we have stated earlier, it is our intent to insure this explosion of the world revolutionary Geist will be the one that finally brings down the authoritarian world. This is a moment similar to all of the others: 1871, 1936, 1968, 1977, 1999, 2008. Before we launch into our analysis of the Queen, let us wish you all good luck in your efforts to make the best of the months and years that follow. Close your eyes, look for a red light, and you will know how to help rebuild the Anarchist International.

After Varkiza [1], the Polytechnic [2], the Chemistry School (1979) [3], December [2008] [4] and a number of other instances, reality once again came to reveal the role of the Party that systematically betrays popular struggles. And if up to this point they strangled, with their political offices any generalised and determined strike during all these years, if they smeared all revolts as a “provocation”, henceforth history shows this was not “mere political errors” but a co-oordinated and conscious stance defending parliamentary dictatorship and the capitalist financial and social relationships. This is what they did yesterday (20/10), too, even if up to that point they would call the people to demonstrations for the overthrowing of the government. They guarded the smooth operation of parliament and instead of surrounding it they acted even more barbarously than the police, cracking sculls open and handing over demonstrators to the forces of repression. The worst from all that they did was that they legitimised the state, which murdered one of their comrades, blaming the murder to some parastatist violence.

Academics have become frequent visitors to Zuccotti Park, the 33,000-square-foot pedestrian plaza in the heart of New York City's financial district that is now the site of a nearly monthlong protest, Occupy Wall Street.

Famous scholars like Cornel West, Slavoj Zizek, and Frances Fox Piven have spoken to the crowd, with their remarks dispersed, word-for-word, from one cluster of people to the next through a "human megaphone." Many others, such as Lawrence Lessig, have lent their support from farther away, as the demonstrations have spread to cities and college campuses nationwide.

The movement has repeatedly been described as too diffuse and decentralized to accomplish real change, and some observers have seen the appearances by academic luminaries as an attempt to lend the protest intellectual heft and direction. Certainly, its intellectual underpinnings and signature method of operating are easier to identify than its goals.

DOMINIC HOLDEN | At least five people in the last few days have contacted Stranger staff with nearly the identical set of complaints, so I'm running the letter below. In a nutshell, lots of people who have supported and camped with Occupy Seattle are getting fed up with a radical, anti-cop contingent of protesters. These folks who have contacted us—including some who slept on the pavement and risked arrest—say these agitators are swooping into meetings and forming a contingent that uses incendiary rhetoric aimed at police (not at banks, not at corruption, not at Wall Street), thereby driving away fellow demonstrators. On Wednesday, the General Assembly (GA) voted 102 to 10 to make Westlake Park "a cop-free zone to the best of our abilities." That's impossible, of course, but that's where the energy's been going. Now the Occupy Seattle folks are preparing for an anti-cop rally tomorrow, part of the October 22nd day of protest against police brutality.

So here's the latest letter: