Politics of the State

From: Green Is the New Red
“Activism Now Terrorism?” — TV Interview with Abby Martin
Huge thanks to Abby Martin for having me on her show this week to talk about grand juries targeting anarchists and animal rights activists. We also looked at h…

A Plea for Rejectionist Electioneering

From Unrest Magazine #7
Every four years in American society, critical theorists are offered a veritable human circus of entertainment, as we bear witness to the farce of electioneering.
Every four years, for a month or so, the hum drum apolitical ci…

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CAPR suspends support for Leah-Lynn Plante

From Committee Against Political Repression:
The Committee Against Political Repression will be suspending support for Leah-Lynn Plante.
Leah was released from prison on October 17 after appearing before the grand jury investigating anarchists. We do…

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“Why we’re voting no and you should too”: A statement by the MARS Collective

From: The Minnehaha Free Space
a project of the MARS (Minneapolis Autonomous Radical Space) collective
The way we, the MARS Collective, have chosen to help create the world we want to see is outside electoral politics; we value self-determination, mu…

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Adventures of Tarmo – The Far-Right punk rocker in the City Council

Estonia is a small country in the northern/eastern part of Europe, trying hard to leave behind its Soviet past and reaching neo-liberal paradise of Scandinavia. Although we do have our fair share of neo-nazis here, they haven’t had much luck with par…

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Anarchist probe: Jailed activists say they won’t talk to feds

From LA Times – By Kim Murphy
The federal detention center near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is usually home to suspected bank robbers and drug dealers awaiting trial, or perhaps illegal immigrants fighting deportation. These days, though, it…

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WHY VOTE? When Your Vote Counts for Nothing

From Harpers – By Kevin Baker
The heroic narrative of modern society has always been that democracy would prevail in the end. We believe that democracy somehow has an infinite resilience, that it is a bottomless reserve capable of being tapped whenev…

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BBC News: Alarm at Greek police ‘collusion’ with far-right Golden Dawn

From BBC
Greece’s far-right party, Golden Dawn, won 18 parliamentary seats in the June election with a campaign openly hostile to illegal immigrants and there are now allegations that some Greek police are supporting the party.
“There is already civi…

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The criminalisation of protest is part of the elite’s class war

From Guardian UK – by Nina Power
Trenton Oldfield’s sentence for disrupting the Oxford-Cambridge boat race makes it clear which class is being protected
What price the preservation of the spectacle? Trenton Oldfield, who disrupted the annual Oxford-C…

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No Right to Remain Silent

From The Stranger – by BRENDAN KILEY
A Third Northwest Activist Who Hasn’t Been Accused of a Crime Is Sent to Federal Prison
Last week, Portland resident Leah-Lynn Plante spent the first of what could be more than 500 nights in prison for refusing …

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Update on San Francisco Repression

Here is a brief outline of actions and associated repression from the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). This is being written as a way to share the way the escalation of repression has manifested itself here and to then follow it to its logical…

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We Are Made of St(a)r Stuff – Statement by Leah-Lynn Plante

From Leah’s Tumblr
On the morning of July 25th, 2012, my life was turned upside down in a matter of hours. FBI agents from around Washington and Oregon and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents from Washington busted down the front door of my house with …

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Don’t Die Wondering: Atlanta Against the Police Winter 2011-2012

From The Litost
Introduction
The winter of 2011-12 saw a number of clashes with the police in Atlanta. Almost a year later, I’m comfortable enough to sit down to write about them. There were many other things going on around the country and even r…

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Local Anarchist, After Facing 72 Felonies, Pleads to Three Felonies

From Free Pax
We would like to say ‘thank you’ to all who have extended solidarity to Pax (Bryan Wiedeman) throughout this situation. We hope that similar solidarity will be displayed in other instances of repression–political repression as wel…

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Seventeen Days and Counting…

From The Stranger (blog) – by BRENDAN KILEY
That’s how long Olympia resident Matt Duran has been held at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury, ostensibly about political or social acquaintances who …

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Re-squat Casablanca!

Broader autonomous movements include the social center movement which focuses on the state neoliberal capitalist politics and policies that exclude ordinary people from their rights and access to various resources. Autonomy as defined by the squatter…

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Belarusian Anarchists Predict More Mass Protests

From Vice – By Brian Whelan
Poor old Belarus – things just don’t seem to get any better in Europe’s last dictatorship. Right now it’s being dwarfed by the media by controversies in Russia, but it remains stifled in a regi…

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The Plot Against Occupy

From Rolling Stone – By SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY
How the government turned five stoner misfits into the world’s most hapless terrorist cell
Thunder rumbled and rain pattered on the leaves as Connor Stevens tramped through the darkness down a wooded path …

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