Austerity Means A Spanking
April 23, 2013
You might have noticed, joyfully, the news last week about grad student Thomas Herndon and his epic takedown of one of the pillars of the global austerity movement. Herndon was…
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Death Drops Down
April 10, 2013
I ran across this impressive piece of data visualization recently, which really sums up exactly how the US “war on terror” strategy has changed since Obama’s arrival as commander in…
Video Experiments and Weird News
March 13, 2013
Part of the month I spent at the Caldera Arts Center was taken up by attempts to fashion some music videos out of the clips I shot while traveling in…
The Trouble is the Banks
February 14, 2013
The excellent magazine n+1 released a small book last year called “The Trouble Is The Banks: Letters to Wall Street”. The book is composed of letters written to the officers…
Occupied Greek Factory Begins Production Under Workers Control
February 10, 2013
This just in!: Occupied Greek Factory Begins Production Under Workers Control Occupy, Resist, Produce! recuperations “We see this as the only future for worker’s struggles.” —Makis Anagnostou, Vio.Me workers’ union…
Freedom Press
February 6, 2013
Roger posted a couple days back about Freedom Press Bookshop in London being firebombed. Insane. There is more about it HERE and HERE, but I also wanted to share this…
Justseeds Winter Sale
February 4, 2013
Hey everyone- we’re having a sale for the rest of February here at Justseeds. You can get 10% off every order when you use the coupon code “winter” at checkout….
Freedom Bookstore Firebombed
February 2, 2013
I’ve just seen (via Boing Boing) that Freedom Books was recently and mysteriously firebombed. The long-lived London Anarchist bookstore is 125 years old. Read more here.
TAMMS prison in Illinois CLOSED
January 4, 2013
Drawn by the child of a man in Tamms. December 18, 2012. From the TAMMS Year Ten website: “In February, Governor Quinn proposed the closure of Tamms supermax prison and…
gun control NOW
December 14, 2012
Justseeds on StreetArtNYC
December 13, 2012
StreetArtNYC give a nice mention of Justseeds exhibition “Sowing the Seeds of Love” with some images on their blog. Thanks! Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative is “Sowing the Seeds of Love” at…
Liberated Ads Highlight Israeli War Aims in Gaza
November 28, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2012 – San Francisco, California Liberated Ads Highlight Israeli War Aims in Gaza The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign…
A Beautiful Spirit Imprisioned
October 3, 2012
As of October 4, 2012, Lumumba will have served ten years. It’s time to set him free!
Justice for Derek Williams
September 27, 2012
14 months ago in July of 2011 Milwaukee Police left 22-year old Derek Williams to die as he begged for medical help from the back of an MPD squad car,…
A New Species of Monkey in DR Congo
September 12, 2012
I’m currently in DR Congo, in the capital Kinshasa, to be precise, waiting for a dawn flight to Kisangani in the Northeast. I’m volunteering with a team of scientists led…
Two GI Resisters Rodney Watson and Kimberley Rivera Need Your Support NOW
September 11, 2012
Kimberley Rivera and Rodney Watson who have sought refuge in Canada are now facing deportation threats from the Canadian government. Kimberly Rivera, the first women Iraq war resister to come…
Greetings from Berlin
September 9, 2012
This came in recently from my friend Sandy in Berlin:
Paul Ryan confronted by protestors at a Labor Day parade in Wisconsin
August 11, 2012
Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan for VP candidate sets up yet another dangerous election scenario between two corporate-friendly candidates; one bad (Obama) and one extremely bad (Romney.) Ryan makes the…
Berlin Occupation hits 3 month mark!
August 2, 2012
My good friend Sandy has been at the heart of an amazing housing struggle in Berlin, where residents of one of the giant residential buildings at Kottbusser Tor in Kreuzberg…
Licking Your Elbow
July 19, 2012
A couple weeks back I read an interesting story in the New York Times, about a nascent protest movement in Sudan, inspired by Tahrir Square and Occupy, and struggling against…