Notes From the USA: July Roundup
Environment
-The protests against Shell’s plan to drill in the Arctic continue; the company’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig is moored to the south in Seattle in Washington state. In the second week of June activists used their bodies, chains, and… Continue reading
Demonstration Against Workfare At Finsbury Park Station
Activists from Haringey Solidarity Group and Boycott Workfare today held a demonstration against the use of workfare by the Finsbury Park Business Forum. Under the Tories workfare initiative recipients of benefits are being forced to work at least 30 hours… Continue reading
CNT create an anarchist version of WhatsApp
The IT branch of CNT has created an app called “SinGuasa“, the name is a pun using the slang term guasa “joking”, which combined with the negative preposition “sin” (without) sounds similar to the Spanish pronunciation of the… Continue reading
From The Land Of Proudhon 5
Situationist International. Raoul Vaneigem In Dialogue With Gérard Berréby. Nothing Has an End, All is a Beginning.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934) is a Belgian author and radical social critic. After grammar school, at the age of seventeen he went to… Continue reading
Visualising the West Bank Wall
The separation barrier (or the Wall) which surrounds much of the West Bank is one of the most unbelievable things I have ever seen, not for good reason. In a sense I knew what to prepare myself for as I… Continue reading
Penny Mordaunt vs The FBU
On Sunday the boss’ tabloids were all over the same story. The Mail On Sunday even ran it on the front page. Apparently Tory minister Penny Mordaunt wasted parliamentary time and everyone’s taxes by giving a bogus speech for the… Continue reading
From The Land Of Proudhon – The Battles of the ZADists
Thom Holterman writes on the emerging zadist movement and the battles it is waging with the state and capitalism.
Zadist
The French language has a new word: zadist. It comes from the abbreviation ZAD, Zone à Défendre, “Zone to defend”. Officially ZAD… Continue reading
Ferguson Legal Defence Fund Smashes Target
The slogan ‘Hands Up Don’t Shoot’ has become emblematic of the protests.
A CROWD funding campaign to get legal reps for people detained during disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, USA has more than doubled it’s target, reaching as high as $57,000… Continue readingNotes From America: November
Louis Further rounds up news from the USA for the months of October and November.
Racism
Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old high school student from the Bronx when he was accused of stealing a Rucksack by a mistaken witness… Continue reading
The Militarisation of Israeli Society
In the second blog from Nikki Ray in our series about life under Israeli occupation, Nikki dicusses the many ways in which Israeli society has become militarised, and how this affects both the occupied and the occupiers.
Only 2 countries in… Continue reading
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