Saturday, October 31, 2015

2016 Slingshot Organizers at Kerspebedeb Leftwingbooks.NET

By far the most popular way for anarchists to stay organized, the Slingshot 2016 organizers are here, complete with mini-calendar, daybook planner, address book section, international radical contact list, and nifty what happened on this day notes scattered throughout. The artwork, as ever, is wonderful in a chaotic punk rock way.

Now in its 22nd year of publication, Slingshot is a 176 page planner/agenda with radical dates for every day of the year, space to write your phone numbers, a contact list of radical groups around the globe, menstrual calendar, info on police repression, extra note pages, plus much more. Slingshot has a tough layflat binding and a laminated cover, and comes in 16 cover colors printed with either black or silver ink (depending on how dark the paper stock is)—you can see most of these on the order pages (below) — if you have a preference indicate it when ordering, we’ll do our best to accommodate.

The Slingshot planner comes in two sizes, pocket size (4.25 inches X 5.5 inches) perfect bound, and a spiral bound larger size.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Mailroom Censorship at Attica

jalil2014On October 7, political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim was denied 4 books which arrived for him at Attica Correctional Facility. Muntaqim is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and one of the longest held political prisoners in the world today; he has been incarcerated since 1971, when he was only 19 years old.

In the case of the Attica book-ban, Muntaqim was initially told he could have the books, but when a guard noticed that one of the titles in question was actually written by Muntaqim himself, he simply said “No way”. Muntaqim requested the books be sent to media review pursuant to Directive 4911(H)(1)(b), however the officer refused, stating that the books would either all have to be destroyed or else sent to some outside address. Muntaqim opted for the latter, however three weeks later, no books have arrived at the address given, and the prison has not issued any slip or official explanation for the book ban.

Mail censorship is of course nothing new in U.S. prisons. Prison regulations vary, in some jurisdictions (like New York) the standard having to do with the safety and smooth operation of the prison system; in others, the rules are more obviously Orwellian, for instance in California where recently adopted regulations refer to “propaganda” of groups that are “oppositional to authority and society” and/or “deviant in nature.” But in practice, mailroom censorship is arbitrary and capricious, with a strong bias against radical left-wing, anti-racist, and anti-prison publications. Given the degree to which prisoners are already cut off and isolated from their communities on the outside, mailroom censorship can constitute an important obstacle to communication, education, and personal growth, for those held in the world’s largest prison system.

At Attica, mailroom censorship already made headlines earlier this year, when a front page New York Times article was heavily redacted before being allowed to prisoners who subscribed to the newspaper. The article in question detailed ongoing guard brutality at Attica, focussing on the case of George Williams, a prisoner who was severely beaten by guards for the “crime” of allegedly cursing at them, on August 9, 2011. Initially, the prison had attempted to simply censor the entire newspaper; it was only following appeals that they relented.

Mailroom censorship and manipulation of the mail are forms of harassment that can also be used to target specific individuals. Indeed, this is something Muntaqim knows from first-hand experience. In 2012, Muntaqim was sent to the SHU (solitary) for six months, after photographs of children wearing t-shirts with the Black Panther logo, were confiscated from his cell. The photographs had been taken at the recent funeral of Michael Cetewayo Tabor, another former Panther, and had been approved by the mailroom. Only to then be confiscated in Muntaqim’s cell, and used as an excuse to send him to the SHU.

The current case is simply a more petty example of harassment, directed against someone who is hated for what he represents, as an unbroken and unrepentant former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member. Regarding the fact that his book has seemingly been banned, Muntaqim has noted the arbitrary nature of the process: “We have apartheid in Attica. No reason has been given for why this book is being banned, why an author cannot even receive his own book.” Given the personal nature of many of the poems in question, Muntaqim has noted the irony of the situation, rhetorically asking, “Why is my book being kept out of apartheid Attica, but I am not?”

As Muntaqim notes in his written formal complaint to Superintendent Dale Arbus, “Needless to assert here, there is a plethora of legal cases and Court rulings that deny violation of First Amendment guarantees as pertaining to free speech and receipt of literature for prisoners. This includes the procedural due process right for the handling of literature for prisoners. In this case, those procedural due process rights are promulgated in DOCCS Directive(s) #4911, #4572 and Employees Manual §14.4.”
Indeed, Muntaqim is correct: DOCCS Directive #4572 reads that “It is Departmental policy to encourage inmates to read publications from varied sources if such material does not encourage them to engage in behavior that might be disruptive to orderly facility operations,” and that “Publications properly received at the facility for an inmate in mail or packages shall be delivered to the inmate in the ordinary course of mail or package delivery, unless referred to the Facility Media Review committee upon a reasonable good faith belief that the publication violates one or more of the Media Review guidelines… Publications referred to the Media Review Committee shall be delivered promptly to the Media Review Committee. Notice to the inmate is made by using Form #4572A, which must be placed in the institutional mail at the same time as the publication is referred.”

Directive #4572, which was violated by Attica mailroom in this case, is in conformity with the Supreme Court’s 1974 ruling, in Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396, which “required that an inmate be notified of the rejection of correspondence, and that the author of the correspondence be allowed to protest the decision and secure review by a prison official other than the original censor.”

The books in question, banned by the Attica mailroom in defiance of the aforementioned legal requirements, were Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, by Darrell M. West; Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chrystie Freeland; Clandestine Occupations—An Imaginary History, by Diana Block; and Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black, this last being written by Muntaqim himself.

Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black was published in September of this year, and is Jalil’s second published book. It includes 51 of his poems and 13 short texts which initially appeared on his website freejalil.com. Also included in the book is art – including many drawings and collages by prisoner-artists Kevin “Rashid” Johnson and Zolo Agona Azania – a preface by Walidah Imarisha, and a detailed essay by Ward Churchill, recounting the NEWKILL frame-up (a COINTELPRO-style operation) which led to Muntaqim’s imprisonment. Also included are a number of reproduced United States government memos detailing the involvement of the FBI in railroading him along with his codefendants Herman Bell and Albert “Nuh” Washington. None of the aforementioned could conceivably constitute “a possible threat to orderly facility operations,” the standard that is supposed to be used when deciding to disallow material in the NY State prison system.

Jalil has asked that people contact NYS Department of Corrections Acting Commissioner Anthony Annucci to request an investigation of arbitrary and capricious book-banning at Attica. When contacting Annucci, please note that Muntaqim is being held under the name Anthony Bottom #77A4283:

Anthony J. Annucci
Acting Commissioner
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision
Harriman State Campus
1220 Washington Avenue, Bldg. 2
Room 315
Albany, New York 12226
To learn more about Jalil Muntaqim, see the website www.freejalil.com

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Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada (repost)

People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill (repost)

When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage.

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Report: Freddie Gray’s mother attempts suicide (repost)

The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting.

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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill



When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage.

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Rheumatic fever rates in some Ontario First Nations 75 times higher than rest of Canada



People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new research from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

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Report: Freddie Gray's mother attempts suicide



The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting.

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

A Typology of Colonialism (repost)

In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated.

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A Typology of Colonialism



In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States—have proliferated.

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Monday, October 19, 2015

Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical (repost)

Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”.

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The Two Totalitarianisms (repost)

A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February.

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Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical



Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form of communism and described the current social order as a “conspiracy of the rich”.

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The Two Totalitarianisms



A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February.

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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Mussolini on the Corporate State (repost)

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor.

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Mussolini on the Corporate State



“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor.

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The Fergu$on Hijacking — Hands Up United (repost)

The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything we’ve seen here in this country.

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IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY (repost)

#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister.

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The Fergu$on Hijacking — Hands Up United



The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything we’ve seen here in this country.

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IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY



#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: 'Eurocentric / colonial identity politics' (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister.

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Overlooked tragedy of Quebec’s aboriginal young people (repost)

Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about.

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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Overlooked tragedy of Quebec’s aboriginal young people



Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about.

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Monday, October 12, 2015

Canadian survey of women who wear the niqab reveals choice ‘may be a bit of a youth movement’ (repost)

The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind.

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Canadian survey of women who wear the niqab reveals choice ‘may be a bit of a youth movement’



The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind.

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The country we want doesn’t use fake feminism to hate (repost)

‘When we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee women’s rights,’ write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on fear-mongering against women who wear niqab only has traction if we all collude with its false conclusions.

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The country we want doesn’t use fake feminism to hate



‘When we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee women’s rights,’ write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on fear-mongering against women who wear niqab only has traction if we all collude with its false conclusions.

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‘Renoir sucks at painting’ movement demands removal of artist’s works (repost)

A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from museums.

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'Renoir sucks at painting' movement demands removal of artist's works



A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir - the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from museums.

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Canadian anti-Muslim sentiment is rising, disturbing new poll reveals (repost)

In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning to buy a drink and snack. Then three other girls, teenagers the girl from the mosque didn’t recognize, walked up behind her.

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Canadian anti-Muslim sentiment is rising, disturbing new poll reveals



In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning to buy a drink and snack. Then three other girls, teenagers the girl from the mosque didn’t recognize, walked up behind her.

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Monday, October 05, 2015

Systems of Oppression and the Far Right

i have been giving some thought to a kind of rhetorical pose that has always annoyed me, of juxtaposing the damage done by systems of oppression (racism, national oppression, patriarchy, homophobia, etc.) and the far right. This has been obvious to some extent recently in the internet commentary surrounding a certain anarchist author who is alleged to be a fascist infiltrator — some people are now citing problems in articles this guy has written, to show how it “was obvious” to them all the while that he didn’t have good anti-racist politics. As if that somehow relates to whether or not he is an infiltrator, or a fascist.

To me, this belies confusion about what the far right is, and its relationship to systems of oppression. As if the racism and sexism and cissexism and homophobia most of us carry around with us even if we try to get rid of it, is really the same kind of phenomenon as belonging to a far right organization.

Without too detailed an argument, i can think of an analogy.

Imagine you are thrown in the middle of a very large body of water. You might drown. Being in the middle of the ocean or one of the great lakes with no possibility of making it to shore just by swimming, you’re in serious trouble. This trouble surrounds you, and on a “structural” level it puts very real limits on your ability to survive. Dealing with this should be a priority.

This situation, with its overarching all-encompassing nature, is like the systems of oppression people have to contend with.

Now let’s imagine there is a hungry person-eating shark in the water, in your vicinity. That’s the far right.

Does it make sense to sit around wondering which is the greater threat? Or to say, “Let’s think of the shark as if it were an extension of the ocean, or the ocean as an extension of the shark”? How is that going to help you? Should one not care about treading water, finding a life preserver, hailing a passing boat, all because of the shark? No. But similarly, the threat of drowning doesn’t mean the shark may not be a big problem. The shark is not some indifferent structural element, but if it bites you, a fat lot of good that will do you.

In other words, they’re both things that will have to be overcome. If we can.



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Le chanteur de Légitime Violence accusé de trafic de drogue (repost)

(Québec) Raphaël Lévesque, alias Raf Stomper, chanteur du groupe d’extrême droite de Québec Légitime Violence, a comparu vendredi au palais de justice de Québec après avoir été arrêté jeudi à Saint-Apollinaire dans une affaire de trafic de méthamphétamine et de cannabis.

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A propos des photos dans les manifestations (repost)

1. Pourquoi cette campagne ? Suite à l’explosion de l’usage des appareils photo (smartphones, tablettes, drônes,…

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The Darkness Before the Right



It’s hard to talk seriously about something with a silly name, and neoreaction is no exception.

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Sunday, October 04, 2015

The Darkness Before the Right (repost)

It’s hard to talk seriously about something with a silly name, and neoreaction is no exception.

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COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE – Quand l’UQAM joue le jeu de la vendetta envers celles qui dénoncent (repost)

-Montréal, 1 octobre 2015 –  Le 24 mars 2015, un professeur du département de sociologie a déposé une plainte officielle au Bureau d’intervention et de prévention en matière de harcèlement de l’UQAM contre une étudiante qu’il suspecte d’avoir participé au Sticker gate.

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COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE – Quand l’UQAM joue le jeu de la vendetta envers celles qui dénoncent



-Montréal, 1 octobre 2015 –  Le 24 mars 2015, un professeur du département de sociologie a déposé une plainte officielle au Bureau d’intervention et de prévention en matière de harcèlement de l’UQAM contre une étudiante qu’il suspecte d’avoir participé au Sticker gate.

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Saturday, October 03, 2015

Book Review: Stanley B. Ryerson – The Founding of Canada



Stanley B. Ryerson’s The Founding of Canada: Beginnings to 1815 is a book that, despite its flaws, I wish I had read 15 years ago when I first became an activist in Canada.

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Book Review: Stanley B. Ryerson – The Founding of Canada (repost)

Stanley B. Ryerson’s The Founding of Canada: Beginnings to 1815 is a book that, despite its flaws, I wish I had read 15 years ago when I first became an activist in Canada.

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Friday, October 02, 2015

Kuwasi Balagoon Writes to Overthrow (1984)

The following appeared in the Prison Letters section of Overthrow Volume 6 #4 , December 1984/January 1985 — it was scanned by as part of the Arm the Spirit archive project (thanks!)

Back in – on or about 1971, after the jail house rock rebellion in N.Y.C. where every house of detention was taken over by prisoners, who had not been disarmed of their sense of outrage, a few of us were transferred from Branch Queens House of Detention to Riker’s lsland and placed in the segregation unit, where Sekou Odinga sits sharpening his sword now. Among us were some brothers who – indicted in the famous, or infamous Panther 21 case along with 31 other brothers – simply refused to surrender and submit to the systematic beatings and torture that pigs with baseball bats, ax handles and night sticks issued as the brothers who surrendered, stepped out offering no resistance. Those of us who didn’t give up were not made to kneel on the ground with our hands cuffed behind our backs while the state-issued robots struck us. Among us was the brother Dr. Curtis Powell.

One night when we went to “sick call,” Doc and I happened into this state prisoner he’d met earlier in his incarceration, who had recounted when he had first met Doc he took for granted that the brother was insane because he had listed his occupation as a physician. He was really amazed to discover that “by golly,” Powell was indeed a doctor after all. After telling us that story, he asked Doc how he was doing – or something to that effect. Doc replied, ”we are being railroaded … I am on the train.” The practitioner’s brows arched and lost for a moment, he turned to find relief in the face of a “correctional officer” who had just entered that section of the hallway. After speaking, the state practitioner asked the jailer, “Do you know Powell here? The doctor?” the jailer answered, looking at Doc, “weren’t you in C-76?” To which the Doc answered, “I’m in 1-a.” To which the state practitioner replied, “He doesn’t know where he is, he thinks he is on a train.”

We all bad a good laugh at that, the practitioner at the irony of a member of his profession being a crazy nigger after all. Doc and I had a good laugh because it shows just how an interpretation sticks; he was crazy when he tried to convince the interpreter that he was in fact a doctor of medicine. And now that that fact was confirmed, he was crazy because he thought he was on a train. A lot of such interpretations have resulted in trips to the mental wards, shock therapy, thorazine, and psychosurgery, performed by real psychos, and under a dominant alien culture there is bound to be misinterpretations. The fact that one group of people are to be a society’s menial class, and be subjected to institutional put-downs, and sanctioned to violence is a misinterpretation of common decency or better put, a mis-interpretation of acceptability for sure.

There is not one social topic that can be discussed free of the stench of racism. Social problems such as housing summon visions of our colonies called ghettos, unemployment, raises the spectre of what the media terms ‘discrimination.’ Health care brings to mind that infant mortality among New Afrikans is double that of Americans, that 50% of Native American women have been sterilized; not by one Ronald Reagan running from one reservation to the next with a knife, but by thousands of dedicated practitioners who were at work under the regime previous to what has been termed a mandate, and have sterilized over 20% of New Afrikan and Puerto Rican women as well. How can we address crime in a land where there has never been a white executed in the murder or rape of a black? How can a victim of Diana Ross concert mugging or a rape or a mob attack see such an experience in the light of historical conditioning and how can the sheepish mob behind the crimes of Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, Nicaragua and South Africa, not take responsibility for these crimes and not take responsibility for stopping them? Who can believe that this condition can go on indefinitely?

The United States was founded on the genocide of Native Americans, that continues. Out of the 50 million who inhabited this land only 1.6 million remain. The economic structure based on the subjection of a caste continues. The colonization of our brothers and sisters and neighbors to the south and bare faced denials, the innumerable invasions and occupations with the same shameless justifications continue.

Pick up an almanac and read the short historical sketches of Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other nations in that region while the synopsis are still in print and it will be clear what the invasion of Grenada, Harlem, El Barrio and Wounded Knee continue to be, with the approval and aid of duped citizens and colonial subjects alike.

The highly polished “news” shows, the ruling class presses, the air waves guarded by the FCC manipulate our cultures into commercials, filter out much of that which challenges them and flood our senses with subliminal attacks to maintain racism. Rock reflects progressive and liberating tendencies as well as backward and fascist tendencies. It has challenged our thinking and that of those around us, sensitizing us to our doings, and it has packaged subtle and rank racism which are untitled. Anybody who believes they have rights over others is part of the problem. Anyone who believes they have the rights to use and abuse and attribute these rights to simply being born a particular species or gender and not on these beliefs or promotes them must be contested, as there is no trait worse save accepting evil nonsense of that type.

This progress which has devoured entire peoples and poisoned the biosphere of those of us remaining must be attacked, spiritually and culturally as well as fought physically and resolutely in all its aspects, if we are to maintain our sovereignty as human beings rather than parts of the machine. Self-determination, the freedom to be ourselves only conflicts with the interests of a tiny percent of the population that controls.

So Rock Against Racism, imperialism, and sexism. It’s a good sign that the new age art form indigenous and ingenious can be acknowledged piercing the net of commercialism and clearly out of the use of the state’s arsenal.

Let the good times roll and let the chips roll where they may.

Love, Power, & Peace by Piece,

Kuwasi

 



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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Une femme voilée et enceinte agressée par deux ados



Photo Archives / Agence QMI Deux adolescents auraient fait chuter une femme enceinte en arrachant son hijab à Anjou mardi, dans ce qui pourrait s’apparenter à un acte islamophobe, selon le mari de la victime. «Ma femme a peur de sortir dans la rue depuis.

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Union asks NDP to keep Saudi armoured vehicles deal ‘under wraps,’ fearing ‘significant’ job losses



A London, Ontario industrial giant has been thrust into a federal election scrap between party leaders, and its workers — fearing their jobs could be jeopardized — aren’t happy about it.

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