Archive for August, 2009
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Farewell to Tucson - Cascadia in Arizona
I’ve been cooped up in the EF! Journal house for two months, but I finally got to head out to the mountains, right before I leave town. Always is that way… I don’t really like a place till I’m leaving, it seems. We drove up the top of Mt. Lemmon and went for a hike. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Photo Essay by Magpie
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Book Release at the Baltimore Book Festival, Sept. 27
I will be speaking at the baltimore book festival in the Radical Book Pavilion set up by those fine folk at Red Emma’s. I’m not sure who will be joining me in my presentation, although I think at least one or two of the interviewed authors will be there. But come help me celebrate the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Books, Events, MMLB by Magpie
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The Earth First! Journal is here!
After two months of work, we’ve finally got the new issue of the Earth First! Journal. For anyone who isn’t aware, EF!J is a quarterly magazine/newspaper/thingy that has been coming out for 29 years now, and it’s an amazing insight into the culture of radical treesitters and above-ground direct actionists. This issue has tons of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Publishing by Magpie
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Ariel is out.
Good to hear: Ariel is out of jail. Bail was $5000.
No Comments » - Posted in Anarchism by Magpie
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
More Evidence That Mainstream Right-Wingers Are Morons
Alright, the really shitty news first. A transgendered anarchist woman was arrested last night, being accused of breaking out Democratic office windows. Why someone could possibly be angry at the democrats is, of course, completely beyond me. After all, they stopped the war in Iraq, ended corporate globilization, have moved swiftly to end fossil fuel [...]
11 Comments » - Posted in Activism, Anarchism by Magpie
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Treesitters in West Virginia Stop MTR!
This is really exciting to me. I left West Virginia a few months back, and have been continually amazed by the bravery and commitment of the campaign there. They are facing fairly ridiculous repression (including strange and sweeping restraining orders that, if I explained the details to you, would apply to you as well somehow) [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Activism, MTR by Magpie
Monday, August 24th, 2009
I’m Saved!
XKCD has saved me.
One of my friends has a pickup truck, and he doesn’t actually tell many people he has a truck, because otherwise he would be buried under a deluge of requests to borrow it. I feel similarly about being computer literate. The funny thing, in my mind, is that I’m not computer literate. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Comics by Magpie
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
40oz. Office Chair Race 2009
The Earth First! Journal is almost off to print, and we were ahead of schedule. I came outside just in time to witness (and photograph) the great 40oz. Office Chair Race of 2009. More after the break.
No Comments » - Posted in Photo Essay by Magpie
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Things I Love, Things I Hate, Volume 2
This one is fun.
We’re going to start with things I hate: the current trend for insurrectionists to basically say everyone who isn’t an insurrectionist sucks. The lovely little rants pop up on anarchistnews.org and infoshop.org all the time. There’s a lovely (read: annoying) one up right now, With a Kiss of Sin. The premise? Insurrectionists [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Anarchism, TIL/TIH by Magpie
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Science FTW
How to envision and understand in 10 dimensions.
