Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Palomar Pipeline, Solo Timber Sale
I’ve been continuing to document the Palomar Pipeline and its course through the public lands of Oregon. This time, I went out to the Solo Timber Sale (timber sales have funny names like “Straw Devil”, “Biscuit”, and, in this case, “Solo”). It was a controversial timber sale that’s been fought for by environmentalists and won. [...]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
All Power To The People
I just returned from the PIELC conference in Eugene, Oregon. PIELC stands for Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, and it’s pronounced “e-law” owing to people’s fine habit of ignoring when things change their name.
Tomorrow I’ll talk about PIELC and the amazing workshops I went to, and you can learn all kinds of good stuff about [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Ursula K Le Guin and Anarchism (and me) In The Oregonian
The Oregonian wrote a rather nice piece about Ursula K LeGuin, including a bit about her anarchist politics and the event we did together at Powell’s. I’m pretty wary of corporate media, of course, but the only problem I’ve got with this article is that they claim I was wearing a kilt. It was clearly [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Palomar Pipeline, Clackamas River Crossing
On Sunday I went out with some friends to where the Palomar Pipeline is set to cross the Clackamas river. It’s one of the many, many places that this pipeline will be remarkably disruptive: in this case, running across a beautiful section of river and then clearcutting a whole bunch of old-growth. For fun, go [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The Hummer Will Die!
Hurrah! The Hummer brand is going away.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Anarchists are Domestic Terrorists Now!
(image is of anarchists and communists awaiting deportation hearings)
Well, maybe he really meant the ALF part, but here’s a quote from a prosecutor, about Scott DeMuth.
“Defendant’s writings, literature, and conduct suggest that he is an anarchist and associated with the ALF movement,” Clifford Cronk, U.S. Attorney wrote. “Therefore, he is a domestic terrorist.”
I’m reminded, of [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Baltimore’s Indypendent Reader
Baltimore’s Indypendent Reader is a print paper that is circulated freely. Last December, when I was in town, I helped out with the layout of issue #13, themed around the media. It’s filled with amazing articles, the most curious of which are about various radical papers of the 1960s. The counterculture was fascinating. You can [...]
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Palomar Pipeline, Fish Creek Crossing
Last week I went hiking with two friends out along Fish Creek in the Mt. Hood National Forest. I went to go take pictures of the areas that are going to be clearcut for the Palomar Pipeline LNG project. The super-short version of this is: they want to build more fossil fuel infrastructure in Oregon, [...]
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
More on Stack
Over on the Infoshop News post about Joseph Stack, there’s a raging debate about whether or not “we” as anarchists should support this action. I guess I’m not really seeing it in those terms. I’m seeing it as an event that happened, perhaps like an earthquake or something. I don’t support earthquakes, and I’m not [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Andrew Joseph Stack
I don’t know everything about this yet. But this morning, a 53 year old white software developer crashed his own plane into the IRS building in a suicidal direct action against the government. What is fascinating is that he wasn’t a libertarian, pro-business type, he was concerned with the greed and destruction of the capitalist [...]
