Tag Archives: USA
Occupy Oakland police repression
What really happened at Occupy Oakland on Saturday January 28 A firsthand account For the internet, here’s a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I’ll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience [...]
Notes from the US
Occupy The Occupy movement continues to gain momentum; though its focus and – perhaps – its lack of the kinds of analysis which anarchists favour are similar in the United States to those shortcomings in the UK. Evictions and violence by the state against the Occupiers also continue. Indeed, by the end of November more [...]
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and Judicial Farce
After 19 long months of detention, including solitary confinement, Private Bradley Manning has been brought before the court – sort of. His pre-trial proceedings which began on Friday 16th December will be heard by a military ‘investigating official’, the equivalent of a civilian court judge.
Notes from the US
Economics What some even inside the United States are seeing as a global movement was first manifested in New York from mid September as ‘Occupy Wall Street’. Within a few days, similar protests (at the greed and corruption of the 1% at the expense of the 99%) took place in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Knoxville, Los [...]
Notes from the US
The silly season is over – inasmuch as it ever is in the United States (it emerged in late August, for instance, that Senator John McCain, former 2008 presidential candidate, promised to provide arms and military aid to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi during a meeting in August 2009. And there are a few small victories for [...]
Occupation of Wall Street
The dawn of a new American uprising, or a formulaic reaction bound to fizzle out? The belly of the beast, the finance capital of the world’s richest country, is experiencing some uncomfortable rumble. Wall Street (the equivalent of London’s City) has been directly targeted by protesters as the focus of their anger. On 17th of [...]
Bash Back! – No more hell raising
The US state’s final clamp down on the queer anarchist action group The Lansing chapter of the queer anarchists Bash Back! Network have been served a court injunction that permanently prevents them from disrupting religious services anywhere in the United States. The fourteen named individuals are also permanently prohibited from conducting protests on the private [...]
Notes from the US
In the midst of the ‘opening up’ of Murdoch’s media and propaganda empire, at least some of his outlets stayed true to type: Just as the front age of The Sun screamed, “Al Qaeda’s Massacre, Norway’s 9/11″, Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal at first blamed ‘jihadists’ and reported that, “Norway is targeted for being true to [...]
Notes from the US
American public life seems at times to be built on a series of facts – none of which is true! Take Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s recently announced candidacy for the Republican 2012 presidential nomination. Not only did she commit several gaffes on television in the days before her much-heralded announcement, misstating historical facts (for example, [...]
Notes from the US
Many Americans – and most of the mainstream propaganda outlets – continue to shriek and whoop at the extrajudicial murder by US navy terrorists of Osama bin Laden last month. Many suggest it’s a stunt. Others point out the implied complicity of the Pakistan state; the Guardian even has evidence, apparently, that the US and [...]
