Yves here. This post about New York City hospitals and clinics may seem a bit parochial, but I anticipate that for American readers, it may evoke discussion of hospital closures and service cutbacks in their area. Plus nurses have been particularly effective at organizing, so it seems useful to support…
Yves here. It is a sign of how deeply partisan news reporting has become, above all in matters Trump, that I feel compelled to point a few things out, as unpopular as that might be in some circles. First, even Trump has due process rights. Fights over procedure, which can include getting seemingly strained…
Yves here. This post on data centers and their energy costs is another “micro illuminating the macro” piece, along with our post today on Mount Sinai. We and other sites have been pointing out the well-anticipated development, that AI and crypto are producing even more computer use, to the degree…
The ruse of international law has no means of ending the killing—Western states are supporting Israel to reassert their colonial agency From Interregnum Whatever the contentions on the term we use to express the scale and method of killing we are witnessing in Gaza, the description at the International…
It has come to this: Americans on 25 November are likely to send to Capitol Hill as their forty-seventh president either an 82-year-old who often stumbles, mentally, verbally and physically, or a 78-year-old whose vocabulary and truthfulness are limited and who faces multiple charges of corruption. The…
Killers of the Flower Moon, dir. Martin Scorsese (2023), written by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, adapted from the book by David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon is set during the interwar years in Oklahoma, when a string of murders of First Nations Osage people were committed. Adapted from David Grann’s…
Submission Do you know what an affinity group is? Are you wondering what there is to do now that the encampments are gone? Are you thinking about how we strengthen our movements to prepare for more social upheaval through this coming year? If any of these questions interest you, we’ll be reflecting…
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June 14, 15 & 16, 2024, TAKLAND 1 YEAR FESTIVAL – TAKLAND 4 EVER [link] ONE YEAR (and a bit) TAKLAND WAS FOUNDED AND EXPANDED. On the 27th of April 2023, the puppet-mayor, puppet-king and a member of puppet-parliament came together in the Taksteeg to come up with a plan to make as much money from the…
We received the following message in an email: “An autonomous group of artists and queers kicked off Pride by redecorating the Fairfield pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Boston commuters are reminded that their tax dollars continue to fund the ceaseless genocide and the maintenance the Israeli…
What follows is a transcription of a recent talk given in Tucson, Arizona by a participant in the George Floyd Uprising in Minneapolis in 2020. The speaker recalls the events of the rebellion before offering analysis on how, through a counter-insurgent leveraging of race politics, it was eventually put…
Cover image: Residents of Unión Hidalgo peacefully protest against the cutting down of trees on communal lands for the renovation of Line K of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In the Zapotec community of Unión Hidalgo in the municipality of Juchitán in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec…
On the June 4, 2024 episode of her show, Loomer Unleashed, Trump ally Laura Loomer bristled at accusations that her defense of Donald Trump is motivated by a desire to work for him. Loomer insisted that she’s not motivated by “opportunistic reasons,” and that she’s “capable of walking into…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s gaffe on French TV, displaying a map of the “Arab Word” that showed the occupied (and illegally annexed) Western Sahara as a separate entity from Morocco, sparked a quick and obsequious apology from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. But the snafu sheds light on the mutual hypocrisy…
Denver, CO — On Wednesday, a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work and an alumni of the Sturm College of Law, Z Williams, is publicly announcing their resignation from the University of Denver “on the basis of the school’s ongoing involvement in the US-funded genocide against the Palestinian…
Via Abolition Media Urgent call for solidarity! On Monday, June 3, 2024, one day after the elections and five days from marking 18 months of being kidnapped in the Reclusorio Oriente as part of the set up against the Okupache squat, our compañero was notified that the judge had sentenced him to seven…
Via Abolition Media In a hearing held on the morning of Monday, June 3, the anarchist comrade Paty Rodríguez, was released from prison with a sentence of probation, after spending 10 months in prison, after being arrested in the framework of the attack on the Gendarmerie in December 2021. Preventive…
The second annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report, which is led by the University of Leeds, reveals that human-induced warming has risen to 1.19 °C over the past decade (2014-2023) — an increase from the 1.14 °C seen in 2013-2022 (set out in last year’s report). Looking at 2023 in isolation…
Es wäre schön, wenn wir in einer Welt leben würden, in der alle Ideen zum Organizing richtig wären, aber es ist eine Tatsache, dass Menschen mit wirklich guten Absichten manchmal ihre Zeit verschwenden. Oder - schlimmer noch - der Organisation, die sie aufzubauen versuchen, schaden. Wir alle haben…
ایزوستیای شماره 7 کمون کرونشتات شماره ی ِ هفتم «ایزوستیای ِکمیته موقت انقلابی ملوانان، سربازان و کارگران شهر کرونشتات» شامل بحث در مورد بازسازی اتحادیه ها و قطعنامه…
Die Definition von Solidaritätsgewerkschaft ist ziemlich verwirrend. Wenn ich mit Leuten spreche, auch mit langjährigen IWW-Mitgliedern, scheint es die Annahme zu geben, dass Solidaritätsgewerkschaftsbewegung und direkte Aktion dasselbe sind. Das sind sie aber nicht. Ich möchte den Unterschied klarstellen…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Killdeer, Tomahawk; Emma’s Lane, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States. “Singing while in flight.” * * * * * * Politics “So many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.”…
By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Listen to the audio version >> This is the first of a series of Strike! Commentaries on the “Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal.” The term “polycrisis” is increasingly being used to describe an era in which multiple crises collide…
Police shot and killed a man in the town of Niverville, Manitoba, about 20 kilometers south of Winnipeg, in the early morning of June 5, 2024. It is reported that the killing happened around 3 AM, in the area of Drovers Run, a business strip that runs along Highway 311 through the town. Both Manitoba…
Come thru for another lovely evening Open Mic in support of the comrades behind bars! #FreeThemAll Tuesday, June 11 – 8pm The Orphanage – 643 W 31st Street Art by Juan Garnica M45737 💌 🎤 🏴 💌 🎤 🏴 💌 🎤 🏴 💌 🎤 🏴 June 11, 2024: No Separate Worlds (full statement at [link]…
