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Media Representations of Anarchy

Daily Show Flashback – Anarchists Hack Your Vote 2004

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Indecision 2004 – E-Voting www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Let’s Go Over This Again

Anarchy is NO GOVERNMENT.  So this sentence, Terming the situation in Kashmir as one “of total anarchy”, with the government “clueless” about dealing with it, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani said on Sunday that the presence of security forces in the Valley should not be diluted. makes no sense at all. Read [...]

Myboy Gets It

Commenter Myboy, in response to a story on the unlicensed grilled cheese van, says: Yea, great..food carts, no regulation. food poisoning. food anarchy. what’s next? a free jello shots out of a van? Hell yes! Read the rest here.

Conservatives Discuss Graeber

Where We Can Learn From Anarchists Uber-wonk Reihan Salam links this week to a pamphlet, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, by radical academic David Graeber. I read it and found it most rewarding. If a “conservative” is someone who rather likes a particular institution and wishes to see it survive, then Graeber is precisely the opposite. [...]

Best Headline Ever

Lemonade stand defended by anarchists in Portland, Oregon It’s lucky that Julie Murphy and her mom, Maria Fife, set up a lemonade stand at Portland, Oregon’s Last Thursday art walk, right next to the anarchists. Because when the Multnomah County Health Department officials came through cracking down on lemonade stands and other fly-by-afternoon “food establishments” [...]

Independent Profiles Scary Polish Anarchist

Polish ‘anarchist’ linked to Corrib gas pipeline protest A Polish “anarchist” who served 10 years’ imprisonment for a knife killing and is linked to various “anti-capitalist” movements in Europe is emerging as one of the key organisers in the protest against the Corrib gas pipeline. Read more here.

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Media depictions of anarchists are appallingly skewed. Journalists, often eager to believe “official” accounts of stories, are quick to blame us for any violence...Cont.

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