Prison becomes inevitable for anyone who decides to follow certain practices, but to see us exclusively as “prisoners” would be to annihilate us politically, which is exactly what power wants To mark this international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisonsers, we share this reflection…
Conor here: In addition to prolonging oil production as the following piece lays out, there are also major risks from the pipelines that carry the captured CO2 to where it’s pumped back into the ground.From Bold Nebraska: In the event of a carbon pipeline rupture or leak, an explosive plume of CO2…
The far right surges, says the BBC and CNN, but the center holds. The far right wreaks havoc, but thankfully the center holds, echoes the New York Times. “…it looks like the constructive, pro-European centre has held,” European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said. “Constructive” is one…
Yves here. It is odd how little attention Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s electric grid is getting, given that it is the sort of blow that the West and Ukraine can’t stop or even blunt. The kinetic war is getting vastly more attention, presumably because it is much more familiar and also…
“Buy with your eyes, pay with your glance!” After running pilot tests in Brazil and parts of the Asia Pacific for roughly two years, Mastercard is finally rolling out its biometric retail payments system in Europe. The world’s largest payment card company appears to be determined to wean consumers…
Early morning frost spotted on some of Mars’s huge mountains The Guardian Satellites spot strange sky glow that only comes out after midnight New Atlas Climate/Environment Mortality attributable to PM2.5 from wildland fires in California from 2008 to 2018 Science. From the abstract: “We estimate…
This year I attended the WISERA annual conference for the first time ever, as part of the Ireland branch delegation. As a first-timer, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Upon entering the venue, I recognised a few faces from fellow workers that had previously visited us in Ireland, who quickly welcomed…
News stories focus on dramatic little swings, but a much bigger, slower development is at stake The organised far-right in the EU Parliament now has over 130 seats, with another hundred or so unorganised far-right MEPs. This indicates the most important ongoing change in EU Parliament and Commission…
A small gathering was held at the end of this years scintillating IWW Conference. It was for those interested in the complaints process at IWW. Combining anthropological methods with grievance sharing, we conducted a rapid ‘potato workshop’. The idea being to share problems with organizing as the…
“On June 9th we walked around a beautiful part of our city that is being destroyed by gentrification. So we grabbed some spray cans and made sure the property values of every building went down just a but by putting up tons of messages about the liberation of all life on earth. Anarchist freedom cell…
“So, that is my life – the life of a schoolgirl-revolutionary, a student-dreamer, a friend and lover of the great man and poet Aleksandr Iaroslavskii, an eternal wanderer, an itinerant anti-religious lecturer, a writer for Rul, a street newspaper vendor, a thief with a long criminal record, and a…
2 June 2024 Autonomous anarcho anti-speciesists countered the National Animal Rights Day (NARD) in Naarm (so called Melbourne) last Sunday. The following statement was read out: “We are here today because NARD globally has been founded by Aylam Orian, who is a zionist and proudly served as part…
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This piece is a little bit late to the party, but after reading the other reportbacks published locally and participating in discussions with dear friends and close strangers, we still felt that some ideas were in need of sharing. We don't wish to recap the events of May Day but hope to contribute some…
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Originally published on [link] “The flea has fascinating fighting strategies and techniques…It does not kill its host…what it does is exhaust its host and consume its blood, causing constant disturbance, eventually preventing the host from being able to rest. It makes the host nervous and demoralized…
Sunday 26th May: after nearly 8 months of genocidal horror — 8 months in 76 years — we might think that particular acts of brutality can no longer move us. The atrocities committed in Rafah show us there are truly no limits to the zionist entity’s attempts to wipe out the Palestinian people and…
The following lines are a short debriefing about a case of workers’ persecution that threatens union activity. Originating in 2017, there are currently 6 people condemned to 3,5 years in prison, a sentence that could end in conviction in the following weeks. This document is a retelling of the facts…
In the first days of May 2024, the territory known as the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in what is known as Brazil, was hit by the biggest climate catastrophe in its history. Over a week of intense rainfall caused several rivers to overflow, sweeping away dozens of towns and destroying everything in their…
A drone view shows vehicles in the area affected by the floods, in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 3, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara/ File Photo From the Antimídia collective of Brazil, a short video documentary report-essay on the floods of early May this year, in the state of Rio Grande…
Mexico has made history with the election of its first woman president, former Mexico City mayor and environmental scientist Claudia Sheinbaum. But the ongoing human rights crisis that will obviously pose a grave challenge for Sheinbaum was dramatically exemplified by the record number of political…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Sedge Warbler, ‘thy’ Denmark. “Habitat: Swamp.” Virtuousic! * * * Patient readers, I’ve had an enormous scheduling debacle, and so must sacrifice Water Cooler to complete a post on an important court decision by the California Ninth Circuit…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. The instant case for this post is the Ninth Circuit’s “Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Alberto Carvalho” (PDF), Alberto M. Carvalho being the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), hereafter “Carvalho,” Health Freedom Defense…
It's near impossible to imagine a current day anarchism that leverages our collective isolation into something meaningful. Anarchists have retired from our positions as missionaries who spread the good word to awaken the latent spirit of common folk, and instead vow to resume our rightful battle stations…
Via Abolition Media by Mónica Caballero Almost a month ago I was transferred to the prison where I will have to serve my sentence, the CPF in Santiago. This prison has a rather atypical structure compared to other prisons in this territory since in some areas it maintains the foundations of the old…
