- by Beth Buczynski October 20, 2014
Hold on to your hats, parents: A court-appointed psychologist recently called a Manhattan father an ‘unfit parent’ because he denied his son’s request to eat at McDonald’s. Yes, you’re reading that right.
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Which Way to Utopia?: Anarchist Spatial Theory
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This is a fascinating Slide Essay which applies anarchist ideas to urban planning of all sorts.
How would the world appear if the rule of thge capitalist market were to end?
How would your barrio change if people’s power were to replace top down exploitation?
This Slide Show gives us a glimpse into a less insane world.
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Biggest ‘A for Anarchy’ made with 1.200.000 people
Catalan V Day transformed into an A for Anarchy
More than 1,700 people participated in the Via Libertaria action, which crossed the giant V-independence created by over a million pro-independence parties and movements to form instead, or as well, an A for Anarchy.
The action, which was made in the crossing between Bruc and Arago streets, amid cries of ‘You can’t fool me, the Catalan parties are Spain’ and advocating a change deeper than that posed by multitude of sovereignty forces.
Biggest A in History: (okay we cheated) #Via Llibertària
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Resistance as nazi MSR opens ‘white Spanish only’ occupied center.
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Series of big anti-nazi demos against fascist squatters… Anti- fascists seize ‘white Spanish only’ food stall and distribute to all.. Fascist squatters may have owners permission… Squatters movement disowns fascist squat… Police turn blind eye to nazi ”okupas” in Tetuan barrio…. Fascist thugs from MSR squat injure local youths.. Media equates nazi’ Social Home’ with long existing popular and anti racist Squat center ‘La Enrededera’ to demand its eviction.
They are not squatters: they are Nazis
alternative Housing Office Madrid
On 18 August, the neo-Nazi group Social Republican Movement (MSR) announced on social media their entry into an abandoned building in Madrid’s Tetuan barrio and fheir intention to turn it into a social center for ‘those in need’ provided they were white and of Spanish nationality. .
Opening a such center in the district with the largest migrant population of Madrid and the opposition it generated among neighbors attracted media attention, especially after the massive demonstration against held the same day as opening of the center, on August 30.
Since then, it has been common to see the press referred to the center as a “squatted building” and members of the neo-Nazi group as “squatters” in an error which is then repeated in social networks. The center is equated with the squatting movement, which has always had among its main objectives the recovery of abandoned homes to become social centers and buildings.
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Whip in hand: Emma Goldman’s feminist critique of feminism
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Dear old Emma Goldman, throughout her long and prolific career within the anarchist movement of the twentieth century, produced many political texts to which activists return much more frequently than to other anarchist thinkers. Usually these texts are criticized by leftist feminism for being just what they are: anarchist harangues from on the barricade itself. Here we take the thought of Emma Goldman not uncritically as libertarian gospel, but to make it live in your discussion today, and to rescue Emma’s special ability to put her finger right on the spot, in the wound of mainstream feminism of her day, while at the same time opposing the practices of her own fellow militants of the anarchist movement, whip in hand.
Goldman’s texts are always a concern with passion, joy and the sharing of erotic bodies, key concepts of personal fulfillment without which struggle and social revolution can not be successful. Even today these ideas, which in her time were a totally unprecedented and radical innovation, go far beyond the usual conceptualizations of anarchist free love that generally reach only to forming couples but without legal contract. Continue reading “Whip in hand: Emma Goldman’s feminist critique of feminism”
McDonalds besieged in 150 cities- 450 arrests
Hundreds arrested during US low wage protests
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| US fast-food restaurants this year are expected to make profits of $7.2bn |
| More than 450 people have been arrested at protests across the US over low pay for workers at fast-food restaurants, according to organisers.The arrests on Thursday came as staff at a number of major chains went on strike demanding their wages be increased to $15 an hour. Continue reading “McDonalds besieged in 150 cities- 450 arrests” |
‘ANARCHISTS BEHIND FERGUSON RIOTS’
When will all America join in?!?!
note: not sure where this photo was taken but it illustrates the point!
Police chief thinks locals incapable of organising……….otherwise they’d be in the police force……….
Apparently these ‘anarchists’ have been joined by ‘organised nihilists’ as the police chief becomes increasingly bonkers in attempts to portray outsiders with guns flooding down the state highways to loot and riot. But there are anarchists there and so there should be……THERE ARE NO OUTSIDERS IN THE WORKING CLASS
‘Some, like a young white Californian who gave his name only as Sam, are drifters with no clear-cut agenda. “I’m an anarchist and I was in the region so I decided to come. What’s happening here is inspirational, people are resisting,” said Sam, who has slept out some nights.
Despite the suspicion over provocateurs many residents continued to express gratitude for their guests, invited or otherwise. “Strength in numbers”, said Gino Addison, 36, whose porch overlooks the site where Brown was killed. “We can’t make this much…
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