May 2013 Print Edition PDF
Thursday News: May 23, 2013
In a speech today, Barack Obama will announce that the drone assassination program will be moved to the Pentagon and that restrictions will be placed on where the killings can take place, meaning that they can only occur in countries that America is explicitly at war with. He will also announce his renewed intention to … Read more
The War at Home: Boston and the Repression of Muslims and Radicals
by Mike On Monday, April 15, two bombs exploded at the finish line at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 264 more, some with gruesome injuries. What followed seemed like September 11 in miniature, as a panicked public was reassured by authorities and the press went into overdrive. A tense week lead up to … Read more
Wednesday News: May 22, 2013
Grand jury resister Jerry Koch was found in civil contempt and taken into federal custody in New York City yesterday. He refused to testify in a grand jury investigating a 2008 bombing of a military recruitment center in Times Square, when a small explosive device damaged the windows of the center. Koch is not a … Read more
Tuesday News: May 21, 2013
Undercover police used to ensnare the NATO 5, Chicago residents accused of terrorism and arrested before the 2012 North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Chicago, are still out in Chicago, pretending to be activists and gathering information. New York City anarchist and grand jury resister Jerry Koch has a contempt hearing today, after which, if … Read more
We’re All in This Together
by Relating Ships A few years after I got married I realized how selfish my decision was. How could I privilege one person over everyone when I hold the capacity to simply, love? Now, I want to be your wife because I think it has potential as a social and political construct. I don’t want … Read more
Monday News: May 20, 2013
Five anarchists in Spain have been charged with “promoting terrorism” after authorities objected to the content of their Facebook pages. Yupik Natives in Alaska may become the first U.S. climate refugees, as the level of the nearby Ninglick River rises, threatening to inundate their town by 2017, authorities warn. Organizers at this weekend’s national March … Read more
Climate, Coal and Confrontation
by Paul Messersmith-Glavin In a previous essay (Capital and Climate Catastrophe, November, 2012), I outlined how capitalism is responsible for the current climate crisis and how it is not capable of solving it. Here I talk about the local effects of climate change, the effort to export coal through the Pacific Northwest, and about bringing … Read more
Friday News: May 17, 2013
The Seattle Police Department has their snitch page up, soliciting tips from the public in order to locate people wanted for fighting police and damaging property on May Day this year. They also link to this awesome video of a de-arrest. The hunger strike at the U.S. indefinite detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has … Read more
Thursday News: May 16, 2013
Earth First! Journal announced that due to the trans-phobic policies of radical environmental group Deep Green Resistance, which is led by authors Derrick Jensen and Lierre Kieth, they will no longer publish content from DGR. Anarchists in Vancouver, B.C. claim responsibility for a fire which destroyed a home under construction in East Vancouver, which they … Read more
Wednesday News: May 15, 2013
Vancouver, B.C. announces a call-out for participation in demonstrations against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive “free trade” deal sponsored by a raft of nations. TPP members are meeting in Vancouver in July for negotiations, although it appears that a specific date for the meetings is unknown. A group of undocumented immigrants protested deportations yesterday , … Read more
