Feature Archives
Tue Aug 12 2003
Anarchist Vs. Communist Soccer Tournament
On 8/17, the local anarchist soccer team Kronstadt FC faced off with the local communist soccer team, Left Wing, in the first of a three game tournament. The score was tied 2/2, when the police shut down the game in the last quarter called by disgruntled members of the Piedmont School board. Ever since Marx expelled Bakunin and the anarchists from the First International in 1872, the tension between the camps of anarchism and communism has built up considerably, notably during the Bolshevik seize of power in Russia in the early 1900's and the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's. These historical conflicts and philosophical incompatibilities have persisted over the years and it remains to be seen whether it will be resolved on the pitch during this tournament. Time and date of next game is TBA.
Reports & Photos: 1 | 2 | 3
Reports & Photos: 1 | 2 | 3
Fri Oct 25 2002
Taco Bell Boycott, Anti-war Activists Crash World Series
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and anti-war activists showed up in kayaks at McCovey Cove at PacBell Park during game 5 of the World Series, where Taco Bell had a floating target with a promise of a free taco for the entire country if a home run ball hit it. CIW has called for a Taco Bell boycott to combat the exploitative working conditions they face as Taco Bell suppliers. Confounded by the flagrant free speech exercise in a public waterway, SFPD crimefighters attempted to enforce a questionable unlit watercraft code. 3 min. quicktime video | Boycott the Bell
Wed Oct 29 2003
Kronstadt Takes Revolutionary Soccer Tournament Cup
10/26/02: Kronstadt FC defeated the Left Wing FC 3-1 in the final game to win the Bay Area's first Revolutionary Soccer Tournament Cup. Report Kronstadt FC may split up the current roster to form multiple teams and create a local league. Left Wing plans to continue playing together and will hold a benefit party to help them rent their practice field. There are plans underway for an anarchist soccer tournament to take place during the week of the SF Anarchist Bookfair in March 2004. More info
Tue Dec 16 2003
John Ross: Poetry about Palestine
John Ross is an author, journalist, poet, activist and human shield. He read new poetry on December 1, 2003 at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Berkeley.
He has reported recently from Chiapas, Iraq, and Palestine. He travelled to Iraq to stand in solidarity with the people there, before the United States began its bombing campaign there, he was in Cancun for the WTO ministerial, and he recently travelled to Palestine to harvest olives.
Ross began his reading by talking about the olive harvest, and then discussed the connections between the Palestinian struggles, and struggles throughout the world.
Audio: 1 | 2 | 3
He has reported recently from Chiapas, Iraq, and Palestine. He travelled to Iraq to stand in solidarity with the people there, before the United States began its bombing campaign there, he was in Cancun for the WTO ministerial, and he recently travelled to Palestine to harvest olives.
Ross began his reading by talking about the olive harvest, and then discussed the connections between the Palestinian struggles, and struggles throughout the world.
Audio: 1 | 2 | 3
Sat Apr 28 2001
Authors and Artists Discuss Web's Darker Side April 28
4/28/2001:Jim Redden, author of Snitch Culture, and Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, joined local artists Los Cybrids at the LAB on April 28 for the second of a series of performalogues dealing with the Internet and its discontents, "The Webopticon: Arquitectura of Control." Details
Mon Jun 16 2003
Beat Generation Bookstore's 50th Anniversary Draws Huge Crowd
Columbus avenue in front of City Lights and Vesuvio Cafe was closed on 6/8 for a street fair to celebrate the bookstore's anniversary. In 1957 City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the defendant in a landmark obscenity case over the publication of Alan Ginsberg's poem "Howl." Ferlinghetti's victory in this case allowed for greater freedom of speech in publishing.
Photos | City Lights | Allen Ginsberg
Photos | City Lights | Allen Ginsberg
Wed Sep 3 2003
Censorship Meets Manu Chau
Manu Chao and basque musician Fermin Muguruza's tour has been suspended after a campaign against the basque artist was taking place. Some reactionary politicians from the governing party in Spain, the conservative and post francoist Popular Party together with the association in support of the victims of terrorism, claimed Fermin Muguruza was a Basque Separatism supporter and militant in now illegal party Batasuna.
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