Activist Settlement to IAS
Three activists who were the target of an FBI and police raid on the eve of the 2008 Republican National Convention just settled out of court, getting a $50,000 negotiated settlement from the FBI and the City of Saint Paul. Sarah Coffey, Erin Stalnaker and Kris Hermes plan on giving most of the award to the Committee [...]
Anarchist Squat Art
Below left, ominous warnings, like this one on an East Village bus stop in the late ’80s, proliferated. “The anarchist graffiti kind of freaked people out,” the documentarian noted. Read the rest here.
Bill Weinberg Loses Show
For nearly 20 years, an East Village journalist named Bill Weinberg has been a familiar late-night voice on the left-leaning radio station WBAI-FM (99.5), ruminating about radical politics, global turmoil and life in New York City… On a recent evening, he showed up at a lecture series in Chelsea called the Anarchist Forum. Mr. Weinberg weighed [...]
Anarchisty Artist Dies
Surrealist, British painter Leonora Carrington died in Mexico City. With Ernst, Carrington met other Surrealists like Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel and Andre Breton, while studying figurative painting and gaining a reputation as a wild child. “I suppose what I believe in is peaceful anarchy,” the lifelong smoker told Reuters in 2007. Read the rest here.
Agree to Disagree
Zambian officials want media to follow the rules. He said the media should be a tool for development and not to be used to perpetrate anarchy in the country. Read the rest here.
Director of Anarchy?
It’s like I could spend my whole life writing to reporters about how what they say makes no sense. In fact so methodical is the confusion, chaos and anarchy that there is always a director at the helm, directing and barking out orders to the lead actors as well as the supporting actors and actresses. [...]
Sarkozy on Internet Anarchy
“Nobody should forget that these governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people in our democracies. To forget this is to risk democratic chaos and hence anarchy.” Read the rest here.
German Arson Blamed on Anarchists
In terms of police dealings, left-wing extremists tend to be a bigger problem for German security officials than neo-Nazis. The anarchists are notorious for setting luxury cars ablaze in Berlin and Hamburg and attacking police. Interior Ministry criminal statistics for 2010 released this month showed that while politically motivated crime dropped overall by some 13.4 [...]
Transport Anarchy
Anarchy now rules the city’s passenger service, especially of buses and minibuses in the capital. Operators of the public transports are still found to be charging fares in excess of those fixed by the authorities. Read the rest here.
Anarchardemics in Florida
“People should be aware that anarchism is as much about building community and new institutions as it is about tearing down systems of inequality, injustice, exploitation and oppression,” Cervone said. “Those who are in power have historically promoted a caricature of anarchism as chaotic and violent.” Read the rest here.
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