Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
The RNC 8
That was the video that the RNC Welcoming Committee made before the RNC protests in Minneapolis / St. Paul in 2008. I think it’s hilarious and quite obviously satire. Now, a few years later, the RNC 8 are about to go to court (on October 25th), accused of conspiracy. Originally, they were being charged as [...]
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The SAC blockade
I admit it: I don’t spend much time on the picket line. I’m mostly one of those “rooting for 100% unemployment” types, politically. But I recognize that while I may be looking for the abolition of alienated labor, there are people who got families to feed. And they shouldn’t be treated like crap. And what’s [...]
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
The Anvil
I’ve begun writing review essays for the site The Anvil. The first piece I’ve put up is entitled Outsider Anarchism and is about the book METAtropolis and, as you might imagine, outsider anarchism in general.
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Photos from Musta Pispala
I spent this past weekend at the Musta Pispala festival in Pispala, a suburb of Tampere, Finland. I don’t know… this might have been the best anarchist gathering I’ve ever been to. A few hundred people came over the course of the weekend, mostly anarchists from all over Finland. I was immediately struck by how [...]
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Monday, June 28th, 2010
We Support Our Troops
This past weekend has seen remarkable protests against the g20 in Toronto, Canada. The government has reportedly spent an astounding $900 million on keeping the world leaders and their meeting safe from the protesters. Which really, quite simply, points to exactly the problem with the priorities of our system: our system has, since the beginning, [...]
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Speaking at Musta Pispala in Tampere, Finland
I’ll be in Tampere, Finland between the 8th and 11th of July to speak at Musta Pispala, an anarchist festival. I’ll be doing both a presentation on anarchist fiction and one on anarchism in the US. I might also end up playing a show there, I’m not sure… depends on the availability of an accordion, [...]
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Photos – Raumstation Rödelheim (well, its bathroom)
(click on pictures for much larger versions) Last night I spoke in Frankfurt at a social center called Raumstation Rödelheim. It went rather well: the audience was engaged and knowledgeable, often adding information to my lecture. (In particular, I learned still more about the admirable punk-as-fuck post-colonial african anarchist fiction writer Dambudzo Marechera who spit [...]
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Norman Spinrad, anarchist science fiction writer, to undergo surgery for stomach cancer
Science fiction legend Norman Spinrad (author of, among other things, the very first episode of Star Trek, I think one that was never produced) is about to undergo surgery for stomach cancer, today. He talks frankly of the procedure. Norman Spinrad came up during my research for Mythmakers and Lawbreakers because he’s an anarcho-syndicalist, and [...]
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
An Open Letter To Glenn Beck From AK Press
My friends at AK Press have written a really interesting open letter to Glenn Beck, getting at him for accusing the anarchists in greece of not being anarchists at all… basically, pointing out that Glenn Beck is afraid of calling us anarchists because he’s afraid that his libertarian listeners might actually get excited about us. [...]
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Speaking on Anarchism and Fiction in Mainz, Germany – May 18th
I’ll be speaking in Mainz at Haus Mainusch at 20:00 on May 18th, 2010. There’s a myspace event thingy for it if you can imagine that.
