Since the environment today, which obliges the masses to live in misery, is maintained by violence, we advocate and prepare for violence. —Errico Malatesta There is no such thing as non-violence. —Étienne Balibar If one gives a little thought to the theme of violence, the first thing one notices is a proliferation of ambiguities, paradoxes, […]
LIBERATED FROM THE ARCHIVES: 11 issues of Palante, the radical bilingual newspaper published from 1969-72 by the New York City chapter of the Young Lords. This is a record of urban resistance during a critical moment in this city’s history—a record unadulterated, unabridged, and set free from the historian’s retrospective gaze. From rent strikes to free breakfasts, from […]
[read] [print] AGAINST VOWS OF CHASTITY, FOR A PROLETARIAN WORLD (WIDE WEB) 1. In a bureaucratic society, how do we maintain our interest, from where do we derive pleasure? …in a society whose institutions, even the family, serve only to corrupt our capacity for love / when it is only within its empty spaces that […]
We walked off together up to Third Avenue and it was already starting to happen. Everywhere we looked were policemen. I saw a bottle thrown out of a window. It looked like a star and when it hit the street, it made a long path of bright yellow fire, a Molotov cocktail. Then I saw […]
13 August 2012 – 4PM The Turnhalle Franz-Ulrich Strasse, 20, 34117, Kassel, Germany There are those events which one never leaves – a single moment, a miscommunication at a meeting, a misstep on a march. Say the wrong thing to a cop or a judge, and you lose one hundred days, years, imprisoned. As you […]
UPDATE: Thank you for signing our solidarity statement and supporting those facing political repression. We have a long and rough journey ahead of us but we are inspired by the outpouring of support that we have already received with more than 250 organizations signing on. As of Thursday, the grand jury date for people subpoenaed in […]
The New York City Police Department is a racist institution, organized to repress people of color, immigrants, and the poor. Residents of our city are not stopped and frisked for their supposed possession of drugs and guns, they are stopped and frisked because of their skin color and ethnicity, their gender and their age (91% […]
15 July 2012 – 3:30PM The Brecht Forum 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 A full-day screening program organized with the Our Lives Are Not Negotiable reading group. Please join us for discussion, food, and drink (please bring things to share!). OLANN, organized through the Public School New York, has met 25 times since […]
via Strike Everywhere: Management of Consolidated Edison demonstrated complete contempt for its workforce, locking out 8,500 members of the Utility Workers Union of America the morning of Sunday July 1st. The lockout continues, now 6 days later. Managers have opted to do the work themselves, in a full take-over of the utility, already resulting in […]
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