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Rethinking CrimethInc. 
CrimethInc begins with the brand name, and ends with the relentless merchandizing of “radical” products on their website. In between there is…an individualist, selfish, and inchoate rebel ideology that eschews work, political organizing, and class struggle. In a world at war and facing terminal crisis, CrimethInc’s transcendental philosophy and ahistorical lightness is a form of intellectual masturbation. Like rootless ex-pats unconnected to the daily life around them, CrimethInc’s lifestylis...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 12:30pm PST
Riseup.net February 2010 Newsletter: Google special edition 
Google CEO Eric Schmidt wasted no time in crossing the creepy line when in December, he told an interviewer that "If you have something that you
don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 8:35am PST
T4CW Teachers 4 Class War: Teaching Olympic Resistance (audio/mpeg 21.4MB) Marla from ORN, the Olympic Resistance Network, lays it out: shady development, gentrification, misplaced priorities, corporatism, profiteering, hyper-nationalism, and police state control on stolen Indigenous land....
Posted: Mon, Feb 22, 2010 5:30pm PST
U.S., French, & UK Imperialist Hands off Niger! 
In Niger human rights organizations, trade unions, and opposition parties including the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism are all supporting the coup. 10,000 people rallied in support on February 20th.
Meanwhile the US, France, UK, UN, and African Union all have been quick to condemn the coup. Tandja did the bidding of U.S. imperialism, meanwhile, according to the UN Development Program’s 2006 Human Development Index, Niger is the poorest country in the world. Sixty percent of the p...
Posted: Sun, Feb 21, 2010 6:14pm PST
Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno is free! 
February 18, 2010 – From Casa Chapulin – Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno, husband and father of three children, was released from prison for wrongfully being accused for the killing of Indymedia journalist Bradley Ronald Will. Will was shot on October 27, 2006 by paramilitary troops under the orders of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz while he was recording a mobilization in Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca during the 2006 APPO movement....
Posted: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 9:49am PST
Congressman Sam Farr on WHINSEC / SOA Sam Farr is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 17th district.
The WHINSEC is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia. Originally established in 1946 in Panama, as School of the Americas, WHINSEC has graduated 60,000 soldiers who leave devastation in their wake. The Latin American soldiers too often use the specialized skills taught at WHINSEC to wage war against their own people. In addition, the WHINSEC has dragged its fee...
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 11:16am PST
Why Do Corporations Have Personhood? Corporations have been given the rights of "we the people" by the Supreme Court and so are allowed to play a major role in our elections - usurping the rights of we the people. It's time to fight back - join Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's Campaign to Rescue Democracy....
Posted: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 11:42am PST
PoP dEFECT RADIO: Christian Supreme (audio/mpeg 41.0MB) Special audio Collage mix of music, spoken word and news taking aim at christian supremacy featuring the banned Bible Launcher also Al Jazeera reports on christians in the military, Bill Hicks on christians for the death penalaty music from Dio, Corporate Avenger, Hammel On Trial, XTC, Negativland, Tom Waits and slayer....
Posted: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 4:12pm PST
An Illustrated Tribute to Howard Zinn An Illustrated Tribute to Howard Zinn by a local artist and illustrator...
Posted: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 4:17pm PST
DIRECT ACTION TAKEN WEST VIRGINIA: Tree Sitters on Coal River Mountain Evade Cherry Picker 
“Coal River Mountain that was the last mountain around here that hasn’t been touched and they could’ve been used it for windmills…But Massey wants to get that coal. It seems like they just don’t care about the populace. Just the land and their checkbook.”
- Richard Bradford
Protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice halted blasting on Coal River Mountain today with a three-person tree-sit....
Posted: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 12:21pm PST
Monopoly Control of Health Insurance Health insurance companies have strangle hold on American consumers; the top four companies control 75 percent of market....
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2010 4:00pm PST
Mumia: US Supreme Court decision expected next Tuesday Last Friday, January 15, 2010 the US Supreme Court spoke again in conference on the request by the DA from Pennsylvania to kill Mumia without further hearings. A decision is expected coming Tuesday. Activists all over the world prepare emergency protests. Meanwhile the defense of Mumia published a petition to Obama....
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 3:58am PST
PoP dEFECT RADIO: Haiti Mix 2010 (audio/mpeg 20.5MB) Audio collage mix of the Haiti earthquake various media audio and music documenting the disaster also the U.S. Military control taking priority over aid to victims as reported by Al Jazeera....
Posted: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 11:49pm PST
T4CW 12.14.09: Linda Nathan and Boston's Art Academy (audio/mpeg 62.5MB) The teachers interviewed Linda Nathan this week. She's the author of "The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test: Lessons from an Innovative Urban School," about her experience as founding headmaster of Boston's only public high school for the visual and performing arts, the Boston Arts Academy. We also hear from ARE, the Association of Raza Educators, some of whom traveled to Chicago for a Teachers 4 Social Justice conference there, plus news of school closures in LA and Oakland. 1 hr. 8 min....
Posted: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 2:36pm PST
Asesinan a Maestro en region Loxicha Los presos políticos y de conciencia de la Región Loxicha, recluidos en este penal, nos permitimos dirigirnos a las diversas organizaciones para hacer de su conocimiento recientemente asesinaros a un profesor de Educación Indígena, que venia laborando en la Región Loxicha, y asesinatos de otros ciudadanos....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 7:37pm PST
Teacher Assassinated in the Loxicha Region We, the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of the Loxicha Region who are still locked up in this prison, are writing to your organizations to let you know about the recent murder of an Indigenous Education professor who was working in the Loxicha Region and about the killings of other citizens....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 7:34pm PST
Eco-prisoner Jeff “Free” Luers released from prison 
PORTLAND – Dec 16th, 2009 – Jeff “Free” Luers, political prisoner and environmental activist, was released from the Columbia River Correctional Institution this morning after serving nine and half years....
Posted: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 11:01am PST
Monopolizing America: Big Beer Takes Over While Americans slept, huge conglomerates took over the beer industry. Two companies now control 80 percent of all beer sold in the U.S. Declines in taste, quality and distribution may follow, and taxes to ameliorate ill effects of alcohol will not keep up with inflation....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 12:04pm PST
Teachers 4 Class War 11.16.09: Rick Posner's School of Hope (audio/mpeg 27.3MB) Last Monday we talked with Rick Posner, the author of "Lives of Passion, School of Hope" about Jefferson County Open School, a public school in Colorado that seems to do things a bit differently, and his book explores how its alumni look back on their experiences attending the remarkable high school and what they are doing with their education. 59:42 mono MP3....
Posted: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 9:41pm PST
Communique from the UCLA Occupation On 19 November at approximately 12:30 students occupied Campbell Hall at UCLA. The time has come for us to make a statement and issue our demands. In response to this injunction we say: we will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, we will occupy. We have to learn not to tip toe through a space which ought by right to belong to everyone....
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 11:06am PST
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