Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Global Call for New Year’s Eve noise demos outside of prisons, jails, and detention centers
Global Noise Demo: New Years Eve 2011/2012
Outside & inside prisons, jails, and detention centers everywhere.
This event is inspired by the North American call out for a day of action against prisons in the New Year of 2011, which remains relevant unchanged:
Noise demos outside of prisons in some countries are a continuing tradition. A way of expressing solidarity for people imprisoned during the New Year, remembering those held captive by the state. A noise demo breaks the isolation and alienation of the cells our enemies create, but it does not have to stop at that.Prison has a long history within capital, being one of the most archaic forms of prolonged torture and punishment. It has been used to kill some slowly and torture those unwanted – delinquents to the reigning order – who have no need of fitting within the predetermined mold of society.
Prison is used not only as an institution, but a whole apparatus, constructed externally from outside of the prison walls. Which our enemies by way of defining our everyday life as a prison, manifest themselves in many places, with banks that finance prison development (like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Bank of the West, and Barclays), companies that are contracted for the development of prisons (like Bergelectric Corporation, SASCO Electric, Engineered Control Systems, MacDonald Miller Facility SLTNS and Kane MFG Corp.), investors in prison development (like Barclays Intl. and Merrlin Lynch) to the police and guards who hide behind their badges and the power of the state.
Solidarity is not only an expression by way of our own revolutionary poetry which is defined by a developing anarchist analysis, but as an expression of actions put into practice within the social war daily. That is why we propose to others who have a certain reciprocal understanding of the prison world and the conditions it creates to remember this day, to mark it on their calendars. To locate points of attack. To not limit ourselves to just a noise demo, but proliferating actions autonomously from one another. That break the mundane positions we lock ourselves into by our own internalization.
To all our comrades known and we have yet to know. Just because we have not met, does not mean we do not act in affinity with one another. Our struggle continues not only on the outside, but on the inside as well. Prison is not an end, but a continuation. Through individual and collective moments of revolt, by the methods one finds possible. Like fire our rage must spread.
Against prison, and the world that maintains them.
For the social war.
In memory of those currently imprisoned.
Outside & inside prisons, jails, and detention centers everywhere.
This event is inspired by the North American call out for a day of action against prisons in the New Year of 2011, which remains relevant unchanged:
Noise demos outside of prisons in some countries are a continuing tradition. A way of expressing solidarity for people imprisoned during the New Year, remembering those held captive by the state. A noise demo breaks the isolation and alienation of the cells our enemies create, but it does not have to stop at that.Prison has a long history within capital, being one of the most archaic forms of prolonged torture and punishment. It has been used to kill some slowly and torture those unwanted – delinquents to the reigning order – who have no need of fitting within the predetermined mold of society.
Prison is used not only as an institution, but a whole apparatus, constructed externally from outside of the prison walls. Which our enemies by way of defining our everyday life as a prison, manifest themselves in many places, with banks that finance prison development (like Wells Fargo, Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Bank of the West, and Barclays), companies that are contracted for the development of prisons (like Bergelectric Corporation, SASCO Electric, Engineered Control Systems, MacDonald Miller Facility SLTNS and Kane MFG Corp.), investors in prison development (like Barclays Intl. and Merrlin Lynch) to the police and guards who hide behind their badges and the power of the state.
Solidarity is not only an expression by way of our own revolutionary poetry which is defined by a developing anarchist analysis, but as an expression of actions put into practice within the social war daily. That is why we propose to others who have a certain reciprocal understanding of the prison world and the conditions it creates to remember this day, to mark it on their calendars. To locate points of attack. To not limit ourselves to just a noise demo, but proliferating actions autonomously from one another. That break the mundane positions we lock ourselves into by our own internalization.
To all our comrades known and we have yet to know. Just because we have not met, does not mean we do not act in affinity with one another. Our struggle continues not only on the outside, but on the inside as well. Prison is not an end, but a continuation. Through individual and collective moments of revolt, by the methods one finds possible. Like fire our rage must spread.
Against prison, and the world that maintains them.
For the social war.
In memory of those currently imprisoned.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942:
Woody Guthrie’s New Year’s Resolutions 1942
27.-Help win war-Beat fascism
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Budapest: Attila József Picnic
Attila József Picnic: 
In autumn 2011 the Hungarian government decided to continue its struggle against the remaining of communism or things that may remind about it. After numerous renaming of the streets in Budapest and an attempt to remove the statue of liberty build during the communist times, the government decided to continue the fight with statues. This time its choice was made for the statue of a revolutionary proletariat poet of the 20th century, Attila József , who was a member of a communist party for a short time somewhere far away from the lawn near the Parliament building where it is now.
There were a couple of symbolic mainstream events against removal of the statue where people were holding speeches and listening for concert. We decided to make our own action - a picnic to commemorate Attila Jozséf. We like him because his life and worldview is unique and revolutionary. His poetry writing manner is full of provocation and grotesqueness, and his worldview is rebellious and anarchist.On November 20 we took the food (mostly dumpster dived at the market on Saturday) we were cooking over the weekend and the FreeShop to the lawn with Attila Jozséf statue. There were some people there already, and during our stay there more people came. We were just hanging out, eating and sharing food, and also talking to the interested people who were passing by.
"I am paying attention that your lifestyle is just sitting here in the street on the stone..!"
chapatis: before frying
friends helping to cook
slow frying
chapati connection!!!
pesto from dumpstered leaves
the FreeShop in blue bags
pesto and hummus in jars
the soup
the soup for everyone
a Spanish dog
tourist came to visit the statue
yes, there was more soup left
some people got really interested in the picnic
Brokenness is beautiful
Broken Things by Livia Marin:
The Chilean artist explores brokenness and recovery in her work, displayed in London at the House of Propellors Gallery.
The Chilean artist explores brokenness and recovery in her work, displayed in London at the House of Propellors Gallery.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Why yes, Virginia, there IS a reason to be concerned when the defense contractors who pimp our so-called 'government' start developing suffocating sound-guns for dispersing protestors.
A creepy article (creepiness for content) from my lovely friend, Severina Why yes, Virginia, there IS a reason to be concerned when the defense contractors who pimp our so-called 'government' start developing suffocating sound-guns for dispersing protestors.:
via google.com
Raytheon's recent patent application for a new choking sound-cannon has gotten a bit of attention since Gizmodo picked up the story from New Scientist.
http://gizmodo.com/5867984/future-riot-shields-will-suffocate-protestors-with...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228425.300-riot-shields-could-scatter...
My soon-to-be-patent-attorney friend has chided me not to worry, because this is "just a patent application." And here's an example of how a little bit of legal education, which strictly de-emphasizes context and the analysis of power dynamics, can be a dangerous thing. There is a substantive difference between a patent application by a random would-be inventor working out of her garage and a patent application by Raytheon.
Raytheon is one of the largest arms dealers in the world. Raytheon has billions of dollars of US government contracts. Raytheon has current contracts to develop crowd control weapons, and is testing them on American prisoners. Raytheon has already developed crowd-control weapons from battlefield technology and sold them to domestic prisons for use here in the States.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129630188
Raytheon is girding itself for shifts in US government defense spending, partly by selling more war-weapons to other countries...
http://www.defenseprocurementnews.com/2011/12/01/saudi-patriot-deal-receives-...
...but also by increasingly marketing to 'non-military customers.' Such as the Department of Homeland Security and prisons, public and private. These 'non-military' customers buy a lot of crowd-control weapons.
http://technorati.com/business/finance/article/raytheon-illustrates-diversifi...
Another sonic weapon, developed by LRAD, has already been deployed against first amendment-exercisers here in the States.
http://gizmodo.com/5860592/what-is-the-lrad-sound-cannon
It's really not a giant leap of logic to imagine that this particular patent application might be something nasty, deployed for nasty purposes.
Oh, BTW? Raytheon has been repeatedly sanctioned for illegal and unethical practice - it's the 5th-worst government contractor, according to the Project on Open Government's misconduct database. Competing, of course, with the OTHER four major defense contractors.
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=46&r...
Your dad knew about irony before you did
The fatherly source of irony
Your dad knew about irony before you did and he had “Le...:
Your dad knew about irony before you did and he had “Le...:
Your dad knew about irony before you did and he had “Le Car” to prove it. For $300 and a half roll of mint Lifesavers, he purchased rolling satire. His “chariot” cemented his place as “The Most Ironic Man in the World” because he bought a car that wasn’t a car, but called itself a car by writing car on the car. He was a visionary of irony that liked everything everyone else hated so once he made it popular he could hate on it and say he liked it before it was cool. He liked disco in the 60’s, hair metal in the 70’s, and wore Clarkston High School track shirts even though he’d never ran and didn’t go to that school. Everything he has ever done has been ironic, including loving you.
So hipsters, in 2012 when you’re claiming that you voted for Rick Perry after the elections and saying that it was cool because nobody else did it or growing a mustache and refusing to admit that it doesn’t look terrible, remember this…
Your dad is so ironic that after spending his entire youth rebelling against his father the most ironic thing he could do was become him by having you and being a dad himself (which is also the same track you’re currently on, and yet another example of something else he did before you).
Thanks to Jessica for today’s awesome submission via the Facebook fan page.
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