#Occupy Phoenix reading roundup for 10/25

The latest news of interest in our continually updated readings regarding the #occupy movement:

Occupy Tucson protesters launch satellite camps (Associated Press)

Occupy Tucson costing city thousands (KVOA)

Screw the PiggyBackers (Occupy Los Angeles)

Beyond Occupy Wall Street: 11 American Uprisings You've Never Heard of That Changed the World (BeyondChron)

Dear, Occupy Oakland: A letter on strategy (Occupy Oakland)

On #Occupy: Ryan Harvey (AK Press)

Chemical bomb tossed into Occupy Maine encampment (Portland Press Herald)

Occupy Albany: Under pressure to make arrests, police and troopers push back (Times Union)

Occupation Movement: Hactivists expose police and police brutality (Censored News)

Toward a Radical Strategy in Decolonize/Occupy Seattle (Black Orchid Collective)

Seattle: The Anarchist Anxiety (The Stranger)

Is Madagascar the model for Occupy Wall Street? (Globe and Mail)

Occupy Oakland's diversity is strength, challenge (San Francisco Chronicle)

Occupy Denver: 4 busted in police raid on squat (Denver Westword)

UPDATE: DPD Raids Squat, Support Needed (Denver Anarchist Black Cross)

#Occupy Phoenix reading roundup for 10/22

 There might not be much more added today since we're going to be at the #occupyphoenix general assembly all day.

WHY (RE)OCCUPYING WON’T WORK (Stronghold)

Despite eviction warnings, Occupy Oakland protesters revel into the night (Oakland North)

On Immanence and Occupations (Ian Alan Paul)

Occupy Oakland, Day 12, Morning of Looming Forcible Eviction by Police, 10/21/11: photos (Indybay)

#Occupy reading roundup 10/21

Today's continuously updated list of recommended readings for the #occupy movement:

Mike Davis : No More Bubblegum (The Rag Blog)

David Graeber: On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet (Naked Capitalism)

Whiteness and the 99% (Bring the Ruckus)

Occupation in Philly, Day 13 (Outside the Circle)

Why I support Occupy The Hood by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (Joaquin Cienfuegos)

The Occupy Wall Street image that marks the end of the global consensus (Guardian)

A Letter To The Occupy Together Movement (Racialicious)

OWS Pepper Spray Cop Says I Would "Do Things The Same Way" Again (BI)

Police attack Occupy Melbourne:

#Occupy reading roundup 10/18

A collection of articles that we think should be of interest to #occupyphoenix:

Reflections for the US Occupy Movement: From Barcelona's Neighborhood Assemblies (Counterpunch)

The Awakening in America by Ken Knabb (AK Press)

#Occupy Phoenix: Radicals, Police, Nonviolence and Conservative Leaders Oh My! (Infoshop.org)

Woman taps into 'occupy' movement to avoid foreclosure (MSNBC)

One Man's Address To The Crowd Went Beyond Slogans And Directly To The Core Of The Movement (Modern Times)

A History of Georgia's 1%: Why You Must Face Race to Occupy Atlanta (Colorlines)

We Are Anarchists (Anarchist News)

Occupy Phoenix: Police Showing Silent Solidarity? (OP-NAT EYE)

Joshua Fattal at Occupy Oakland on Oct. 17, 2010

Police raid #occupySF on the morning of October 17

Recommended Reading

Anarchy: Introductions to Freedom and Self Organization 
"Anarchy: Cooperation Without Restraint": BBC Interview with Noam Chomsky

"Anarchy in Action" by Colin Ward

"Anarchism: What it Really Stands For" by Emma Goldman

"Anarchy Alive" by Peter Gelderloos
 
"Anarchy" by Errico Malatesta
 
"Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction" by Colin Ward


Insurrectionary Thought: Solidarity Means Attack

"Against the Corpse Machine: A Post-Leftist Critique of Violence" by Ashen Ruins

"The Anarchist Tension" by Alfredo M. Bonanno

"Autonomous Self-Organization and Anarchist Intervention: A Tension in Practice" by Wolfi Landstreicher

"Armed Joy" by Alfredo M. Bonanno

"Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism" from Venomous Butterfly and Willful Disobedience
 
Enemies of Freedom: The City, Work, and Progress

"Nowtopia: Strategic Exodus?" by Chris Carlsson and Francesca Manning

"The Abolition of Work" by Bob Black

"Progress and Nuclear Power: The Destruction of the Continent and Its Peoples" by Fredy Perlman

"In the Distance: Suburbia Against the Barricades" from Killing King Abacus #1

A Crime Called Freedom: The Writings of Os Cangaceiros (Volume One)

Rebel Against the Future: An Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale

"Organized Labor versus 'The Revolt Against Work'" by John Zerzan

"Five Facets of a Myth" by Kirkpatrick Sale

"Black Cats,White Cats,Wildcats: Auto Workers in Detroit" (and other texts) at Class Against Class

"The Reproduction of Daily Life" by Fredy Perlman

"The Rising of the Barbarians: A Non-Primitivist Revolt Against Civilization" by Anonymous from Willful Disobedience

"Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts" by Michael Seidman
 
"Technology and Class Struggle" by Wolfi Landstreicher
 
Bone Idle: or Work Doesn’t Work! An Interview with Ian Bone and Ray Roughler Jones


The Fire and the Word: 
"'Together, We're Going to Shake This Country Up from Below, Lift It Up, and Stand It on Its Head': Opening Words from the First Plenary Session of the Other Campaign" by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos


Fanaticism

"The Freshness of Fanaticism: The Abolitionists and the Democratic Uses of Zealotry" by Joel Olson

"Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Carl Schmitt, Wendell Phillips, and the Radical Critique of Political Moderation" by Joel Olson

"Radically Democratic Extremism: An Interview with Joel Olson"


The History We Make

"Harass the Brass: Some notes toward the subversion of the US armed forces" by Kevin Keating

"LA '92: The Context of a Proletarian Uprising" from Aufheben #1

"Resistance and Collaboration: O'odham Responses to U.S. Invasion" by JD Hendricks

"The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the Atlantic Working Class in the Eighteenth Century" by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker

"The Edelweiss Pirates" by the Anarchist Federation




 
Alternative Visions
 
"bolo'bolo" (from the 'Introduction' to bolo'bolo) by ibu



The Un-Natural Disasters of Capitalism and State

"The uses of an earthquake" by Harry Cleaver

"Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters" (Antagonism Press)

 
Against White Supremacy: For Humanity

"Abolish the White Race - By Any Means Necessary" from Race Traitor #1

"The Point Is Not To Interpret Whiteness But To Abolish It" by Noel Ignatiev 
"Back From Hell: Black Power And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls" by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

"Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History" by Noel Ignatiev

"Black Worker/White Worker: Understanding and Fighting White Supremacy" by Noel Ignatiev
 
"White Supremacy" by Joel Olson
 
"'Speak Out Now When Others Grow Silent': The Messenger, the IWW and Debates Over New Negro Radicalism" by George Robertson


Rebel Women

"Jailbreak Out of History: the re-biography of Harriet Tubman" by Butch Lee
 
"Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers" by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English 
"Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona During the 1930s" by Michael Seidman

"Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation" by Silvia Federici


Beer and Revolution

"Beer and Revolution: Some Aspects of German Anarchist Culture in New York, 1880-1900" by Tom Goyen

"The Rise of the Saloon" by Roy Rosenzweig


Movement Lessons
 "PROFILES OF PROVOCATEURS: Recent case studies of the use of agents provocateurs; warning signs; practical advice" by Kristian Williams