Submitted anonymously â This zine contains reflections, suggestions, and encouragement for the Palestine solidarity encampments. Read online (pdf) Print (pdf)
Mahmoud begins his day eating breakfast in tents with his comrades below Palestinian flags hanging over the grandiose Kingâs College in Cambridge. âThen, we have our morning briefing to reiterate our purpose. Weâre not here for fun, weâre not here for a picnic. This is a protest against the Universityâs…
Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn and Margaret review the new film Civil War. Spoiler alert, itâs all kinds of weird. Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Publisher…
On May 1, 2024, a group of rabble rousers and freaks took part in an anarchist May Day parade that stormed through the Fulton Market neighborhood of Chicago. Before leaving Union Park, people danced around a May Pole in costumes, shared food, laughter and music and then hit the streets. The group of…
DetĂ«sto is a d-beat crust band hailing from Campinas, a city in Southeast Brazil, northwest of SĂŁo Paulo. Their sound is deeply influenced by Swedish bands such as Dischange (Meanwhile), Disfear, Warcollapse, No Security, and Uncurbed. However, they add their unique twist to the genre, establishing…
Since 2022, the Adams administration has imposed multiple budget cuts on all city departments except the NYPD and the Department of Corrections. In June the Mayor and the City Council will complete negotiations on next yearâs city budget. Weâve heard from city workers who described the devastating…
Iâve been thinking about Moses and his rage when he came down from the mount to find the Israelites worshipping a golden calf. The ecofeminist in me was always uneasy about this story: What kind of God is jealous of animals? What kind of God wants to hoard all the sacredness of the Earth for himself…
In Episode 226Â of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg discusses the alarmingly under-reported humanitarian disaster in Darfur. A generation later, the genocide is back onâbut this time there is no global campaign to stop it. Even last time around, elements of the campist pseudo-left portrayed…
On a portion of his Nightly Offensive show which was broadcast on YouTube, Elijah Schaffer called for the execution of any leader responsible for the âreplacement of white people.â Schaffer made the comments while ranting about multiculturalism, âZionistsâ who âhate white people,â and Sikh…
On Dec. 6, an Israeli airstrike on a family home in northern Gaza killed Refaat Alareer, his brother, sister and her four children. In an Oct. 9 video, Alareer said to the camera in tears as bombs made loud explosions in the background, âYou donât know if this is it. We donât deserve this. I…
On the eve of May Day, we acted in solidarity with those struggling to survive against the genocidal state of Israel, and with the student occupations who seek to end this genocide from within the belly of the beast. A small unorganized group of your neighbors targeted and redecorated a number of AirBnb's…
In Nipaluna/Hobart the colonial statue of William Crowther, who stole the skull of the Aboriginal man William Lane in 1869, has been sawn off at the ankles and toppled. The following video was shared anonymously with the following statement: On the lands where one of the truest and most brutal attempted…
May 1, 2024 Surveillance video shows 10 suspects smashing windows on the first floor with hammers. Police say the damage is estimated at $100,000. In all, 27 windows were smashed, the owner said, with glass shattered onto residents' beds. The vandalism happened in the late evening hours of May 1 at the…
Philly May Day demo-actions are back baby!!!! This May Day, Philly anarchists went back to doing what we do bestâŠ.anti-gentrification and anti-prison actions. The evening started out with a demo at the juvenile detention center in West Philly. Around 20 of us walked from the meet-up spot to the parking…
Perhaps it is related to the emergence of a new multipolar geopolitics and the returning possibility of warâwhether hot or coldâbetween major powers. Or perhaps it can be traced to the slow but inexorable dissolution of neoliberal economics and its patina of empty promises and misplaced trust. Or…
As the US geopolitical project stumbles, and the idea of âbenevolent statecraftâ is revealed as a sham, so too its ideological apparatus starts to wane. Hollywood, for years a supporter of the imperial project though the production of myths seems to have little left by way of ideas, merely repeating…
What the policing of a slogan tells us about the transformation of politics and the world The comparison between Israelâs destruction of Gaza and the Vietnam war are obvious, with a dominant power subjecting a surrounded people with high-tech weaponry. But itâs worth noting what has changed in the…
Over the last two years, the persecution of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has increased to terrifying levels. Whether due to violent rhetoric from the state or political parties, or direct assaults by petty militiamen, the safety of all Syrians in Lebanon is imperiled. With mainstream media contributing…
On May Day we torched some PPB cars at their training facility. We cut through a fence, set ten fires and are happy it grew to burn fifteen cars! We did it for the Haymarket Martyrs. We did it for all the Black and Indigenous rebels murdered by slavers and settlers. We did it for all the brutalized student…
Jacques-Louis David, Calliope mourning Homer (1812) For Daniel Blanchard, the second part of an essay that began with the âCrisis of wordsâ. To men who discover the world by looking for a rhyme. Italo Svevo Thus, throughout this âcrisis of wordsâ â which I evoked in the previous essay â searching…
Nervous Twitch -Iâd Like to Think You Know Me Better Than That Hello Mabel and the Smashing Blouses -Sheepâs Pet Brick -Grind You Dull (Feat. Jacob Bannon) Jez Sings Things -A Song about Cycling and Recycling (Recorded Live in Session on Under the Pavement) Jon Langford & the Bright Shiners -Awake…
The executive producer peered at me with concern. It was November 16, 2023 and I had been called into a virtual meeting at CBC. I was approaching my sixth year with the public broadcaster, where I worked as a producer in television and radio. He said he could tell I was âpassionateâ about what was…
A protest took place in Limassol on Saturday, 13 April, 2024 concerning the death of a migrant worker from Bangladesh on Wednesday 17 April. In a statement calling for a protest circulating on social media, it is mentioned that âthe fact that migrants chose to risk their lives rather than be in the…
Sensors used for geothermal energy were stolen, then set on fire Le Quotidien jurassien/Le Temps (Switzerland), April 19, 2024 Residents of a neighborhood south of Bassecourt had a restless start to the night on Wednesday April 17. Shortly after 11 p.m., they were disturbed by the sound of an explosion…
On the 22nd Andreas F. was kidnapped by the lackeys of counter-terrorism and the conventional police of Patras. He was taken to Athens for questioning and imprisoned. The cops raided his house, trying to find anything that could contribute to their fabricated incriminatory account. On the 26th the attack…
