Zinaida Get Your Gun,
A young girl barely the age of 14, Zinaida Portnova had the horror of living under German occupation during World War II. When the German Army passed through her home town in Belorussia, they beat her elderly grandparents, hit her over the head with a rifle butt, and stole her cow. Determined to get revenge, Zinaida joined a local resistance group called the “Young Avengers”. Posing as a harmless little girl, she worked as a cook’s aid in a German Army camp where she would secretly poison the food. When suspicion fell upon her, she tasted the food to “prove her innocence” making herself sick but giving her time to escape. Eventually the Gestapo (secret police) caught up with her and had her arrested. During her interrogation, the Gestapo interrogator laid down a pistol in the middle of the table in an attempt to frighten her. She picked up the pistol and shot him, then shot two guards who rushed into the room. Zinaida escaped the prison but was recaptured. She was executed on January 15th, 1944 (age 17), and posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Update on Eco-Warrior Marco Camenisch: At Swiss Open Prison
Update on Eco-Warrior Marco Camenisch: At Swiss Open Prison
update from Earth First! Journal Eco-Prisoner List Marco has recently been moved to an open prison in Saxerriet. He is serving 8 years (until 05-2018) for the alleged murder of a Customs policeman. This is his latest sentence from a lifelong commitment to ecological resistance movements. In 1980, Marco was sentenced to ten years for damaging electricity pylons and transformers from nuclear…
“Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches. This it was which created the earliest capitalist. For, before the surplus value, about which people are so fond of talking, could begin to be accumulated it was necessary that there should be poverty-stricken wretches who would consent to sell their labor force rather than die of hunger. It is poverty that has made the rich. And if poverty had advanced by such rapid strides by the end of the Middle Ages, it was chiefly because the invasions and wars, the creation of States and the development of their authority, the wealth gained by exploitation in the East and many other causes of a like nature, broke the bonds which once united agrarian and urban communities, and led them, in place of the solidarity which they once practiced, to adopt the principle of the wage-system. Is this principle to be the outcome of the Revolution? Dare we dignify by the name of a Social Revolution that name so dear to the hungry, the suffering and the oppressed - the triumph of such a principle as this?
It cannot be so. For, on the day when ancient institutions splinter into fragments before the axe of the proletariat, voices will be heard shouting: Bread for all! Lodging for all! Right for all to the comforts of life!”
— Peter Kropotkin | The Wage System (1888)
(Source: fullpraxisnow)
Why Black Lives Matter Protests Are Growing In Minneapolis
On November 15th, Minneapolis police officers shot 24-year-old Jamar Clark, who witnesses say was handcuffed at the time, in the head. Police initially said Clark was a suspect in an assault who was interfering with paramedics. They also maintained he was not handcuffed, though he was unarmed. The police union president later claimed that Clark was trying to grab an officer’s weapon. The involved officers were identified as Mike Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. The pair joined the force a little over a year ago and are currently on administrative leave.
1962 - It was a busy year for Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, travelling around the country and getting battered by local anti-fascists where ever they tried to show their faces. [video]/[video] and see also [this post]
The Fall Earth First! Newsletter is Out! Download Free or Read Online
The Fall Earth First! Newsletter is Out! Download Free or Read Online
Happy Samhain, folks. In celebration of the beginning of the darker half of the year, we’ve released 12 pages of environmental resistance that you can read online or download. Inside is a chronology of actions carried out around the world in defense of the wild—everything from chasing off politicians to burning shit down. You’ll also find an article on this summer’s string of ALF actions in…
Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?
A great tract of Earth is on fire. It looks as you might imagine hell to be. The air has turned ochre: visibility in some cities has been reduced to 30 metres. Children are being prepared for evacuation in warships; already some have choked to death. Species are going up in smoke at an untold rate. It is almost certainly the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st century – so far.
The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before
My new TED talk is up!
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On November 9, Tyler Lang has his sentencing hearing for his charges under the AETA for releasing thousands of animals from a fur farm. If you can be in Chicago, please attend the hearing to show support for Tyler. It is important that on this difficult day for Tyler that he feel surrounded by love and solidarity, and that the judge see that Tyler is part of a community that is there for him.
What: USA v. Lang, Sentencing Hearing
When: Monday, November 9, 9:15am
Where: Courtroom 1241, Judge Amy St. Eve
U.S. District Court, Northern District of IL
Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse
219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60604
To attend, please wear court-appropriate attire and behave respectfully. Please also be aware that you will likely have to show ID and be subject to search to enter the courthouse. Arrive early as the courthouse may be busy.