Events

From Absurd Times Article - by Kent Shockerminster

Yes, you read the headline correctly! At a Vancouver protest against police brutality this past Saturday, a fairly large group of Black Bloc protesters was able to throw giant fishing nets over police enforcements who showed up to protect the event. As dozens of police scrambled to untangle themselves from the nets, Black Bloc rioters rampaged through the city: fire-bombing banks, hijacking helicopters, and bulldozing down prison walls.

Dannit Eschleton, a local journalist embedded in the trap said, "those criminals are going to pay for this, I was maced, tear gassed, and beaten with batons as the police tried to defend themselves and get out of the net".

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From Tiqqunista

here's a new translation of "eh bien, la guerre," first article in tiqqun #1.

I have now singlehandedly translated/retranslated over 90 percent of tiqqun 1 and 2, and hope to be finished with my cleanup of the remaining articles within the month of September.

Also, if anyone wishes to participate in completing this project by finding awkward sentences and pointing them out in the comment box as described on the main page please feel free to drop a line; if people make some useful contributions, once a week i'll gather the new corrections and replace the PDFs.

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From Metaphys

i have now completely re-translated "what is critical metaphysics," from tiqqun #1. If you read it before and didn't understand a thing, why not give it another shot?

aspire to eternity,
- heraclitus khayyam

"As soon as the economy becomes flesh, it must perish like all living things. It falls under the hard law of the mortal realm, and knows it. In the overthrow of all things, in the chasms that we see opening up everywhere, we can already see the hints of its impending shipwreck. Commodity domination has now embarked upon an endless, hopeless war to put up obstacles to the necessity of this process. It’s no longer a question of whether it will die, but of when it will die. Life within such an order, which has as its only ambition anymore just to last a little bit longer, is distinguished by the extreme sadness attached to all its manifestations. Here, the survival of commodity domination, which is but the prolongation of its death agony, is hanging from a thin thread: it must ensure that the visible not be seen, and thus must carry out an ever more brutal takeover of the totality.

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2010 Seattle Anarchist Book Fair

Finalized bookfair schedule

The 2010 Seattle Anarchist Book Fair is set for August 21-22 at our partnered space, the Vera Project (www.theveraproject.org). Public hours will be 10-5 on Saturday the 21st and 11-5 on Sunday the 22nd.

The VERA Project 305 Harrison St, Seattle Wa 98109 is located on the Corner of Warren & Republican Ave N, next to the Key Arena in Seattle Center. (tucked back under the awning.) http://theveraproject.org/contact/

From Bash Back News

We bitches have frayed nerves. Over the past week, everything, or almost everything, has wounded us, and what didn't was at the very least irritating. What follows is a brief analysis of the events of this year's Camp Trans , and a resulting dialogue on the moments of hostility which have been brought into openness due to these events. We're not shy of conflict, and this is our attempt at elaborating the civil war that underlies the fracturing of Camp Trans:

While the story could likely begin many years ago, it perhaps suffices to say that Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, with its "womyn-born-womyn" attendance policy, was born of a feminist desire to police the bodies to ensure that they were adequately Woman enough to build a positive "sisterhood" away from patriarchy, the political power of which apparently cums from the barrel of a penis. Camp Trans began as a 'community' based in its support of trans women's inclusion into the virulently transphobic festival under the banner "Room for all Kinds of Womyn." It is these legacies that bring us to last week. Conflict begins at the annual vigil at MichFest gates: after being approached to turn his engine off while a history of Camp was being recounted, a tow truck driver threatens two trans people's lives, aggressively misgenders a trans woman, and ultimately wields a large tow chain threatening to kill all of the trans people who had surfaced to protect their friends. MichFest workers act as barriers between Camp-goers and the driver all while commending the him for his valor. All of this, in many ways, is a regular occurrence for those who unthinkably defy the gendered violence of society every day. The basis of conflict lies not in this confrontation, but rather the response of the larger "Camp Trans community" in response to the bashing.

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Letters Journal Tour

Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn, Letters Journal presents an evening of communism, theology, and water color painting (plus the brand new issue of the journal!).

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

fortitude as never before

frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies.

Our tour will be nothing like that, but we promise debate and poetry.

After the second round of Oscar Grant Rebellions in the streets of Oakland on July 8 some atrocious events unfolded that made our recently powerful movement against the police feel weaker than ever.

July 9th, 15-year-old Traveon Avila, unarmed, was the THIRD person murdered by ONE police officer in Bakersfield, CA
July 14th, Verna Lisa Hollins, a gun shot victim, was left with no medical attention while the San Jose police “secured the crime scene.” She was dead by the time the paramedics came half an hour later.
July 17th, Fred Collins was shot to death in a hail of 50 bullets fired by Oakland and Bart Police just blocks away from Oscar Grant's murder
July 21st, Youtube video shows San Francisco Police knock out woman with baby. She's unconscious through the duration of the video. Police have not released her name, well-being, or whether there were charges filed against her
July 22nd, 16-year-old James Rivera, also unarmed, was murdered by Stockton, CA police

COME TO THE 5TH EVER PROVIDENCE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR! FUN! BOOKS! MUSIC! DANCING! REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS!

August 14th from 1pm to 1am on Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island we'll be throwing the 5th annual Anarchist Bookfair as part of local community art center AS220's Foo Fest, a one day bloc party downtown, celebrating their 25th anniversary. The festival this year has a $5 cover and is geared towards a family friendly focus! Bring the kids! In the evening local bands will be playing as the festival takes a street party atmosphere!

This is a call out for a prisoner solidarity demonstration in Chicago at the US Prison Bureau on August 10th, 'International Prisoner Justice Day.'

Join as 3pm at the US Prison Bureau at 71 W Van Buren St. Chicago, IL 60605 to express out pure hatred for the prison apparatus. (We will meet at the corner of Clark and Van Buren at 2:30pm and walk over at 3pm). We recognize the strictly symbolic value of such an action. We wish first and foremost to communicate solidarity with those locked inside. Secondly we would like to demonstrate solidarity with those advancing struggle in Ontario and everywhere. We do not wish to make any demands. We seek nothing less than the total destruction of every prison and the worlds that need them.

For the destruction of all prisons and the freedom of all prisoners!

Request For Protests British Embassies, High Commissions, British Trade Offices and any other British interests globally.

12noon Friday 30th July 2010.

Ian Tomlinson died on April 1st 2009 after being attacked by a policeman during the G20 protests in London.

He was walking home from work and had nothing to do with the demonstrations.

A few short moments later he collapsed and died of his injuries.

The police immediately attempted a cover-up which fell apart after footage of the death leaked to the media a week later, as well as thousands of other images of police violence against the British public.