people getting fed up with killer cops and their lame excuses
People are having less and less faith in the police as stories emerge every week in different parts of the country of police using unprovoked and unjustified violence against people in our communities. In Vancouver alone, the tasering murder at the airport and the beating of Yao Wei Wu in East Vancouver are only two … Read more
summertime news doldrum?
there is no shortage of news these days, as the world spins faster and faster into catastrophe, caused by the desperate militancy of the nation/states of the world or the corporate and criminal gangs that have bought, supplanted, or over-run them. yet, you will see constant messages in the media about “slow news days.” it’s … Read more
this is how revolutions are made…
Greece, Political Framework of the Antiauthoritarian Festival for Direct Democracy, 8-10 September, 2010, Thessalonika The deep crisis which is imbedded in the society as a whole is not simply an economic one. The economic crisis is just the tip, or better said the visible part, of the iceberg. On its basis appear issues that concern … Read more
Former BART officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter
Former BART officer Johannes Mehserle, right, appears in a 2009 file photo. (Cathleen Allison / Associated Press) Related Oakland preaches peace as BART shooting verdict nears Murder convictions for cops rare Video Oakland shooting focuses on race By Jack Leonard Los Angeles Times Staff Writer A former transit police officer who fatally shot an unarmed … Read more
cliqueishness, in-fighting can bite a movement in the ass
as peter young reports below, the authorities are going around questioning those they believe to be “weak links” to current activists. if we are ever going to be engaged in the practice of building communities, we need to start taking care of one another, instead of thinking that people traumatized by this ecocidal civilization can … Read more
baboons, stress, and overcoming hierachy in primate societies
Dr Robert Sapolsky is a professor of Neurobiology and Primatology at Stanford University. He travels to Kenya every year to study the behavior of wild baboons. This is a story on his amazing study of a unique incident that happened with one of his baboon troops taken from a National Geographic film called ‘Stress: The … Read more
greece – The dismantling of the social security system is a reality
The workers in the public and private sector stike today, 8 July, the day that the government decided to dismantle at once the whole social security system, that the modern, post-dictatorial country was based on. The hospitals will function only for emergencies, the buses, metro, tram remain halted in Athens and are their timetables are … Read more
empathtic civilization
human beings are “soft-wired” to be empathetic. if we should chose to develop our society to align ourselves with our innermost, compassionate nature, we cold save our asses! Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and … Read more
submedia, from the g20
Debunking the “agent provocateur” and “the cops let it happen” conspiracy theories. Kristian Williams an expert on police tactics during mass demonstrations speaks about the state’s monopoly of power
to the G20: Shut Doors = Broken Windows
banks, cops, governments – you ain’t shit! On June 26, 2010, thousands of anarchists and other protesters gathered outside the G20 summit in Toronto, facing off against more than 19,000 security officials with a budget of nearly one billion dollars. The riots that followed have provoked outrage from public officials and commentators in the corporate … Read more
