From the School of the Americas Watch’s ¡Presente!: Obama’s First Coup D’etat Written by Eva Golinger Sunday, 28 June 2009 President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped [Note: As of 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in [...]
Hate Crimes During PDX Pride
I’ve been a little slow on passing this along, as my life has been full of stressful and emotional trying drama of my own lately, but two crimes targeted at queers occurred at the Blow Pony party on Saturday June 13th during PDX Pride, and a trans woman was assaulted on public transit on Sunday [...]
More on the Bash Back! Convergence
A Response to the Anarcho-Liberal Takeover of Bash Back! and also here, with different comments. Goes into the bustedness of people moving barriers, addresses issues that a spontaneous action wasn’t consensed on, lot of good discussion in the comment threads about what went wrong and what went right. What happened at Bash Back is a [...]
Chicago Police Attack Queers at Bash Back!
REPOST (not originally by me): Chicago Police attempt to reinact Stonewall by rioting against queers. On Saturday night, May 30th, a group of approximately 100 queers disembarked the red line train at the Belmont stop into Chicago’s Boystown area. Intending to march around a bit, the crowd found themselves too large to fit on the [...]
Why the Murder of Dr. Tiller is not being Called Terrorism
Green is the New Red gives three reasons why the murder of Dr. Tiller isn’t being called terrorism. And I think the third reason really encapsulates the why really effectively; it’s not violence going up the hierarchy, and it’s not threatening the “American Way”, because the American Way is, among many nasty, horrible things, the [...]
