Monday, November 20, 2006

All the world but bosses were communists in 1920s

After the 1917 Russian Revolution the cold war rewrote North American history and the colour of the word communist was changed by the bosses and later by those in charge of the media. The colour of communism was blackened and the knowledge of young people today is held hostage: History is only what you remember.

Below find a Robinhood email thread about some Ontario anarchists who must not have listened to people that were around in the 1920s, 1930s.
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:50 AM
Subject: Fw: #1-- Are commies bad ... or just dead. __&__ #2-- AnarchistU meeting Wed. Nov. 8

Sean and Richard,
Maybe if you are not subscribe to robinhood ( robinhood@lists.riseup.net ), you missed some good debate from Common Front guys and shows where they are coming from - transparency leads to trust.
It started with the trashing of a vanguard (trot?) group's sectarian message about their next meeting, then Julian of KY got pissed with the remarks by ROAD ottawa (ahertani@riseup.net) and Sudbury's Alex. I couldn't resist pushing my view in my message (and theirs) which I've pasted in below.
Thanks Sean for your update post a few months ago about people, groups and happenings in Kingston in the past year. I look forward to your next one, and hope that you post it at both - http://roadnetwork.org/forums/phpBB-2.0.21/phpBB2/ (relaced former ROAD forum on 28/09/2006); and to robinhood@lists.riseup.net.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: [robinhood] RCP(OC) Public Meeting in Toronto

Apparently someone needs to brush up on their history. Your e-mail was
sent to a list used by anti-authoritarians and anti-statists.
-ROAD Ottawa
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [robinhood] RCP(OC) Public Meeting in Toronto

What the fuck is it with all your sectarianism? Fuck the Comiies? how fucken childish!!!
Julian Ichim
From: "Alex Paterson" <revolution_reversal@riseup.net>
Reply-To: mailto:robinhood@lists.riseup.net, Paterson" <revolution_reversal@riseup.net>
To: robinhood@lists.riseup.net, ahertani@riseup.net
Subject: Re: [robinhood] RCP(OC) Public Meeting in Toronto
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:47:57 -0400 (EDT)
>I will let the commies continue posting for the fact it will let them know
>that we don't really like them.
>
>
> > 2!,4!,6!,8!
> > Fuck the Commies!
> > Fuck the State!
> >
> > Hah!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [robinhood] RCP(OC) Public Meeting in Toronto

I will let the commies continue posting for the fact it will let them know
that we don't really like them.

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [robinhood] RCP(OC) Public Meeting in Toronto

2!,4!,6!,8!
Fuck the Commies!
Fuck the State!

 Hah!

 > Public meeting in Toronto
> -------------------------
> THE CHALLENGES TO COME - THE PARTY WE NEED
>
> Take part in a lively discussion about the struggle for socialism in
> Canada and the urgent need for a revolutionary communist party to carry up
> this fight.
>
> The meeting will be introduced by a spokesperson from the Revolutionary
> Communist Party (Organizing Committees) -- a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
> organization which is leading the fight to create the vanguard party of
> the Canadian working class.
>
> The RCP(OC) recently called for holding the "Canadian Revolutionary
> Congress" in November. This unprecedented event will unite proletarian
> revolutionaries and activists from different parts of the country to
> support the founding of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Canada. More
> information is available on the Congress website at
> http://www.pcr-rcpcanada.org/crc.
>
> ********************************************
> * Saturday, October 28, at 7:30 pm
> * York University, Student Center, room 321
> * Welcome to all!
> ********************************************
>
> For more information:
> http://www.pcr-rcpcanada.org/
> mailto:toronto@pcr-rcpcanada.org
>

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 12:24 AM
Subject: [robinhood] against sectarianism

I'd agree with Julian - this sectarianism is ridiculous.

 I read somewhere once, "I'm a communist today so that I can be an
anarchist tomorrow". So for those of us who are communists and
anarchists, if we'd disagree on what tactics are necessary today, we
all ultimately seek the abolition statism.

 I don't see how the resistance of the ANARCHO-COMMUNIST CIPO community
network at OAXACA is at odds with the MAOIST guerrilla movements in
Nepal or Phillipines; or how the Socialist government of Cuba, the
popular democratic government of Aristide, or the (as of yet) social
democratic government of Chavez negatively affect the anti-imperialist
struggles of Iraq, Palestine, or Afghanistan, as admittedly theocratic
those may, more or less, be. The point is that these struggles do not
work against one another, but rather work together to strain the back
of the imperialist beast we all fight. ... So while people from
Baghdad to Oaxaca stare down the barrels of Washington's guns, we are
here sitting pretty with our privilege in the belly of the beast
making jibes at one another's choice of tactics.

 Rather, we should be learning from one another's tactics. Not to say
that our respective positions are reconcilable; though, I think we
should all learn to see how the tactics we support are, at least to a
certain extent, context specific. Perhaps anarchism is more
appropriate for the indigenous nations of the Americas as they defend
themselves against their racist statist oppressors. On the other hand,
I've always found it difficult to conceive of large-scale nuclear
disarmament without the force of progressive/radical powers at the
helm of the state.

 just my thoughts,
-SD
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:18 PM
Subject: #1-- Are commies bad ... or just dead. __&__ #2-- AnarchistU meeting Wed. Nov. 8

JK Galbraith said it is the bureaucrats the people hate, not the isms. Citizens don't act, they react to capitalism and communism because they hate the regulators and regulations, so want to throw the (system) baby out with the bathwater (collective punishment for isms). The world wants social democracy not corporate democracy so the world wants updated Marxism not materialist Oligarchy power. The corporatist EMPIRE plays on the reactionaries
Andropov and Gorbachov didn't see that the unleashed hatred by Ivan 6-pak for bureaucratic regulators would enable corporatist EMPIRE to eventually conquer socialism in Eastern Europe. Mao, Stalin, Paul Pot and Sadam took extreme horrific measures of self defence before their own reactionary citizens got the chance to sell out to corporatism and materialism. But killing and war is unfortunately a numbers game so lets remember the comparison - the monster EMPIRE has killed many million more than the monsters of State Socialism. Also remember that Hugo Chavez has been trying parliamentry democracy but Bush wants to force Chavez into state authoratarianism.
The EMPIRES's *non-violent* template to sandpaper a billion people to death by converting all countries to corporatism by rigging elections is concisely described here: http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/ExtremistUS.

Personally, I ignore corporatism, communism and politicians. I admire communal-ism, the "variety of tactics" and accomplishments from the neo-primitive Green Zerzan students of Eugene, Oregon - their 'Seattle Battle' blossomed resulting in all the world's small countries adoption of anti-globalization.
Greenanarchy sidesteps ideology with it's turnoff word communism. Mass demos cannot happen without including the poorly informed public, so why use unpopular turnoff words ? I want to organize around issues not ideologies, then my comrades in mass demos can be any idealists, humanitarian trots and good communists.
Public perception is paramount. The valid Corporatism VS Socialism struggle of today is perceived by old cold-war memories of the public from yesterday as the Capitalism VS Communism, so anarchists are expected to fit the dumb George Bush bi-polar expression "You are either for us or agin us". Are some Ontario Anarchists surprised to find themselves being accused of trashing Cuba or Veneszuela when they gleefully trash Cuba's STATISM ?
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Post-left anarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-left_anarchy.
Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that seeks to distance itself from the traditional left and to escape the confines of ideology in general. It has rapidly developed since the fall of the Soviet Union, which many view as the death of authoritarian leftism.
    • 1 Arguments
    • 2 Conflicts with Authoritarian Leftism
    • 3 Proponents and Detractors
    • 4 See also: Left anarchism, Nihilism, Post-structuralism, Situationists
    • 5 External links: Anarchy After Leftism (Infoshop.org), Primitivist and post-left 'anarchism' (Anarchism.ws)

AnarchistU meeting Wed. Nov.8, 2006 - 6-8pm. Toronto, 519 Church St. Community Centre, First Floor, new section
John - (godhas4legs)

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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Analysis: Bill targets animal activists

Analysis: Bill targets animal activists

By STEVE MITCHELL
UPI Senior Medical Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Congress passed an update to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and President Bush is expected to sign it into law, but animal rights activists say the new legislation will do little to inhibit their actions against pharmaceutical companies and other animal research firms and may even spur increased extremist activities.

The biomedical research industry was pushing for the bill because they wanted laws in place to thwart new tactics employed by activists, including harassing and intimidating individual researchers and companies that do businesses with animal research firms.

"Hopefully, this will give law enforcement the tools they need to address more quickly and swiftly that kind of campaign," Frankie Trull, president of Foundation for Biomedical Research, a group supported by industry, told United Press International.

In recent years, animal activists have begun targeting homes of individual researchers and executives of pharmaceutical companies, including threats to take further action if they do not cease their business with animal research firms, such as Huntingdon Life Sciences. Activists have also sent threatening letters to shareholders of pharmaceutical companies and waged a successful campaign to prevent Huntingdon from being listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

"Right now, a researcher who's under attack really has no where to go and this will help them get law enforcement attention," Trull added. "We're hoping this new law will help make the climate more friendly and those that seek to end all animal research will do so through legitimate means as opposed to this kind of intimidation and harassment."

Animal rights advocates, however, think the legislation may provoke the very kind of activities it intends to prevent.

"They could've taken a step that will create their worst nightmare," Camille Hankins, who represents Win Animal Rights, told UPI. "The thing they were afraid of was destruction, damage to labs and vandalism, but this could be the catalyst for a lot of that."

Hankins said the threat of penalties of up to 20 years or life in prison that the legislation carries may drive more people underground because there will be little incentive to remain "above ground" with one's identity revealed.

"Why be above ground, why not go below ground?" she said.

The legislation carries various penalties, ranging from a fine or 1 year imprisonment for violations that do not instill a sense of fear of bodily injury or death or economic damages less than $10,000 to more severe fines or prison terms for actions resulting in injury or larger economic loss. The stiffest penalty is life imprisonment for violations that result in the death of a person.

Hankins thought the pharmaceutical industry used its influence to get the legislation passed and noted that several large drug manufacturers were cited as members of the Animal Enterprise Protection Coalition, which was a list of groups established by National Association for Biomedical Research that supported the bill.

"I think this legislation was bought and paid for, by the pharmaceutical industry primarily," she said.

Pharmaceutical companies listed as members of the Coalition included Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche and Wyeth. The Biotechnology Industry Organization was also on the list.

Hankins asserted that the legislation infringed upon rights of free speech and assembly granted by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

"It's overly broad, overly vague and restricts freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, so no doubt someone will have to be a test case that will go all the way up to the Supreme Court," she said.

However, Trull said the law specifically states that it does not restrict any rights protected by the First Amendment.

"Lawful boycotting, protesting and demonstrating is all protected," she said. The law is aimed more at preventing threats and intimidation of researchers and firms that conduct business with animal research enterprises, she added.

To make a charge stick, businesses will have to prove that the actions caused them financial damage.

"This is a very responsible piece of legislation, meaning everybody can't just prosecute for no reason," Trull said.

Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a trauma surgeon and spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, told UPI he thought the bill would have little impact on animal rights activists.

"As far as the underground liberation movement, it won't have any impact at all because they don't really care about those laws," Vlasak said. "Their activities -- sabotaging, liberating animals -- are already illegal so just adding one more law won't make much difference."

The legislation's effect on the above ground movement would also be muted, Vlasak said. "I don't think it's going to make a huge difference in the above ground movement because they've (law enforcement) already gone after people who were conducting effective protest campaigns," he said.

The net effect on the above ground movement is that it could "make people more seriously consider going underground," he said.

Vlasak may be one example of an activist targeted by law enforcement authorities. His house along with the homes of five other animal rights activists in California were raided by the FBI and the Santa Monica Police Department October 31.

Thousands of dollars worth of items, including his computer, were seized, but Vlasak said he was never charged with a crime or informed of the reasons for the raid. His attorney has been trying to obtain a copy of the affidavit but so far the authorities have not complied.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Ontario's tenants' movement history.

Template -->> Address & comments template was pasted in = J. Gilbert, 411 Duplex Ave., Toronto. Summers: RR3, Picton, Ont, Can, K0K 2T0. I am 2.0 K east of LITTLE BLUFF Conservation Area, OR 7.9 K west of 'Ducksdive' - Map: www.ducksdive.com/directions.htm

_ I am the inaugural Chief Organizer [1969] "Metro Tenants Association" (Toronto, 1969). I chose Mel Watkins as my guest speaker at the inaugural meeting. The MTA definitely is not the current FMTA. (Federation of Metro Tenants Association)
As chief organizer of the MTA, I went against everyone's advice and in hindsight, mistakenly placed Norm Brudy on the executive committee. My departure had the effect of leaving an anti-union Libertarian, Alex Eaglesham, in charge of the MTA. I had no choice but to counter Eaglesham's influence. Brudy, President of The Toronto Communist Party, was head of the only group who had shown any interest in leafleting. The closest Norm Broody ever came to pushing his views on me was his comment: "Did you notice that the law says that you pay your landlord before you live in his place, but your boss gives you your paycheck after you work". Mr. Brudy was a noble humanitarian, merely on a different path.
I ignore corporatism, communism and politicians. I admire communal-ism, the "variety of tactics" and accomplishments from the neo-primitive Green Zerzan students of Eugene, Oregon - their 'Seattle Battle' blossomed resulting in all the world's small countries to adopt anti-globalization.

In 1970 I was elected as the chief organizer for the MTA. 2000 tenants demonstrated at Queen's Park and scared the politicians. I worked hard with others to get the 1971 "Landlord Tenants Act", as a result of managing the door to door outside work, building the 'MTA' membership from scratch. I know that one person with a popular issue can put a statute on the books easier than the politicians who won't.) Mel Watkins of 'The Waffle' and 'Praxis Institute for Social Change' gave free rent at ?274 Brunswick Ave, Toronto (until torched by the right wing) to the 3 most promising prominent Ontario activist groups -- "Metro Tenants Association", 'Stop Spadina Expressway' and 'The Just Society'. I invited Mel Watkins as my guest speaker at the first MTA public general meeting. The MTA jump started from a rent strike on the west side of Broadview Avenue. They had MTA flyers just printed but no MTA organization, and no one to distribute the leaflets, so I went to work most evenings for about a year. Any pizza delivery person with wheels, some sales experience and a passion for social action could have done the same thing. The effect was to lower everyboby's rent in Ontario from 1971 to 1988 via the 1971 "Landlord Tenants Act". I want my lower class and muddle class brothers and sisters to take back all that 17 years lost rent owed them by the upper class. ((if you want me to help you lower your rent again, call me. I'm an old guy now, but much smarter.))
(The only other position I ever held in any group - Chair, Social Action Committee, First Unitarian Church, Toronto, where a torching of the church was attempted a week after a Palestinian came to speak.). Unitarian members and attendees included many Jews and many non-thiests like myself because the church has no creed. I haven't been there for over 25 years, but under the marxist leaning minister John Morgan it was the Sunday morning gathering of all the middle aged progressives of Toronto in the late sixties - Doris Anderson (whose quaint squeaky voice saved my skin with her 3 words), June Callwood to name a few.

In conclusion the current FMTA funded by the city, sometimes stifles attempts to reform or radicalize the Toronto tenants' movement. This information is posted for those who may wish to contact me to investigate further: godha4legs@gmail.com . <-- br="" template.="">
I discovered following advice while surfing. Although ideological, it seems reasonable:

[ http://oat.tao.ca/node/view/259 - includes my pasted I.D. re MTA: [exerpt]: ( http://www.rebelion.org/petras/english/ngo170102.htm ) ]
... To be part of the solution and not part of the problem, progressive NGO's must draw a clear line of distinction between themselves and the millionaire NGO's, like Foster Parent Plan which collects $300 million a year, MISEREOR $214 million a year, World Vision $500 million, CARE with $50 million budgets. These millionaire agencies collaborate with Euro-American imperialism and are funded to undermine social movements via class collaborationist "community" and "family development". Today the foundations of multi-national corporations, the World Bank and the Euro-American empires invest over $7 billion for NGO's to undermine comprehensive public development and anti-systemic movements. Progressive NGO's can only engage in popular struggles to oppose war and resist globalization by rejecting funding from these sources which limit their commitments. All funding from the power structure carries "strings" -- limits in struggles, program, tactics and strategy. To think otherwise is self-delusive. To truly become an independent force, progressive NGO's must go to their roots, and win the allegiance of their people in order to become self-financing and live and work on voluntary donations from the people they purport to service.

...[ the following excerpt is revised to shorten it: NGOs funded by rich power structure interests via "family values" carrying "strings" -- limits in struggles, program, tactics and strategy. To think otherwise is self-delusive. To truly become an independent force, progressive NGO's must go to their roots, and win the allegiance of their people in order to become self-financing and live and work on voluntary donations from the people they purport to service.]

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Animals in Translation- T. Grandin (autism & icons)

As username godhas4legs, I have pasted the excerpt from chapter six of Temple Grandin's book Animals In Translation into the discussion forum at http://www.animalsentience.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=191#191 which adds to the other posts to the conclusion that the higher animals brains are smarter (more intelligent) than the human brain.
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The group behind animalsentience.com's dead link above promised to have animalsentience.com become active again soon after Feb 1, 2007. The group failed to keep their promises. Don't count on them.
Without the two missing pages about nine tenths is lost, but here is about one tenth:
Animal language controversy
Excerpt from Chapter 6 of "Animals in Translation" by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson

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Do ANIMALs TALK To EACH OTHER THE WAY PEOPLE Do?
Those are fighting words in the fields of animal and linguistic research. A lot of people are emotionally invested in the idea that language is the one thing that makes human beings unique. Language is sacrosanct. It's the last boundary standing between man and beast.
Now even this final boundary is being challenged. Con Slobodchikoff at Northern Arizona University has done some of the most amazing studies in animal communication and cognition. Using sonograms to analyze the distress calls of Gunnison's prairie dog, one of five species of prairie dogs found in the U.S. and Mexico, he has found that prairie dog colonies have a communication system that includes nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They can tell one another what kind of predator is approaching -- man, hawk, coyote, dog (noun) -- and they can tell each other how fast it's moving (verb). They can say whether a human is carrying a gun or not.

They can also identify individual coyotes and tell one another which one is coming. They can tell the other prairie dogs that the approaching coyote is the one who likes to walk straight through the colony and then suddenly lunge at a prairie dog who's gotten too far away from the entrance to his burrow, or the one who likes to lie patiently by the side of a hole for an hour and wait for his dinner to appear. If the prairie dogs are signaling the approach of a person, they can tell one another something -- about what color clothing the person is wearing, as well as something about his size and shape (adjectives). They also have a lot of other calls that have not been deciphered.

Dr. Slobodchikoff was able to interpret the calls by videotaping everything, analyzing the sound spectrum, and then watching the video to see what the prairie dog making a distress call was reacting to when he made it. He also watched to see how the other prairie dogs responded. That was an important clue, because he found that the prairie dogs reacted differently to different warnings. If the warning was about a hawk making a dive, all the prairie dogs raced to their burrows and vanished down into holes. But if the hawk was circling overhead, the prairie dogs stopped foraging, stood up in an alert posture, and waited to see what happened next. If the call warned about a human, the prairie dogs all ran for their burrows no matter how fast the human was coming.

Dr. Slobodchikoff also found evidence that prairie dogs aren't born knowing the calls, the way a baby is born knowing how to cry. They have to learn them. He bases this on the fact that the different prairie dog colonies around Flagstaff all have different dialects. Since genetically these animals are almost identical, Dr. Slobodchikoff argues that genetic differences can't explain the differences in the calls. That means the calls have been created by the individual colonies and passed on from one generation to the next.

Is this "real" language? A philosopher of language might say no, but the case against animal language is getting weaker. Different linguists have somewhat different definitions of language, but everyone agrees that language has to have meaning, productivity (you can use the same words to make an infinite number of now communications), and displacement (you can use language to talk about things that aren't present).

Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

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Friday, September 30, 2005

Recommended Links at Toronto's Anarchist Free University

The URL for this site is http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/RecommendedLinks

Anarchist Free University, Toronto: http://anarchistu.org/http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/

Anarchist, Radical Organizations & People


* Collective Book. An on-going project about decision-making in collectives, anarchist ways of organizing and much else. http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook
* Discussion of Consensus Decision-Making http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/DiscussionOfConsensusDecisionMaking
* Negative dynamics when people work collectively - Resources on Non-authoritarian Communication Models - from http://santacruz.freeskool.org/content.php?article.23. ( A master like Sun Tzu might win an unresolvable dispute about violence at a tactics meeting if he was to read The Parable of the Sheep to the ladies ).
A good template for a freeskool to manage facilitatores: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/freeskool-sc-teachers, and is also reprinted at AFU: http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/JohnPromo
Free Skool Santa Cruz -> Forums -> Class News - http://santacruz.freeskool.org/forum_viewtopic.php has a GOOD LIST OF FREE SCHOOLS.
* Communication Rights in the Information Society. Activists respond to the World Summit on the Information Society, December 2003 http://www.crisinfo.org
* Crimethinc. A new generation of creative and imaginative anarchists. Live your dreams! http://www.crimethinc.net/ :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrimethInc
* Media Democracy Day. 17 October 2003 http://www.mediademocracyday.org
* Reclaim the Streets. http://www.reclaimthestreets.net For a report on the Toronto festival 26 September 2003 http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2003-10-02/news_feature_p.html
* Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty (SHAC). An on-going campaign against animal testing by Huntington Life Sciences. http://shacamerica.net
* Animal Liberation Front (ALF): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front :: http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/
* Earth Liberation Front (ELF) - http://www.earthliberationfront.com/ - In the past,individuals have committed arson and other illegal acts under the ELF name. Individuals who choose to do actions under the banner of E.L.F. do so only driven by their personal conscience.
* Save the Newchurch Guinea Pigs (SNGP): www.liberation-now.org/ - CLOSE DOWN NEWCHURCH GUINEA PIG FARM -- covered by Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail Aug 30 2004, titled: "Animal protesters turn village into a living hell for one family". Saunders's article is a tried and true must read tactics tutorial and a recycleable template for all protestors: http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/AMustReadNewTacticsTemplate - The article may also still be posted at MEDIA DEMOCRACY, so click on 'Solutions' in the MENU on the left of the page at http://www.mediademocracyday.org/tiki-index.php. SNGP update Nov 2005: http://war.arforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=220 THE TRIUMPH http://www.liberation-now.org/index.html
* W.A.R. Win Animal Rights: Animal Rights tactics: - Best Links. "WANTED WARRIORS": - War is currently seeking recruits who are willing to undertake a fast paced intensive learning and training program for hunt sabotage techniques. Our primary theater of action will be the New Jersey Black Bear Hunt, which was announced today, will take place from December 5 - 10, 2005.
* Portland indymedia - Animal Rights tactics - http://portland.indymedia.org/en/topic/animalrights/ - Write your own news. Don't hate the media -- become the media.
* Seven ways to stop the war in Iraq: Everyone in AFU may not necessarily support the seven ways because it sucks if a heroic eco-saviour Green-thinking B. Bloc balaclava gets caught and put in a zoo.
One of the SEVEN WAYS is large scale urban rioting :: More on large scale urban rioting
* GREEN ANARCHY an anti-civilization journal of theory & action. http://greenanarchy.org/ [revamped and expanding] - "Enjoy the site, but don't hang around too long -- the 'real thing' is never on-line."
* Insurgent Desire - The Online Green Anarchy Archive - http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/ - Loads of new essays uploaded to the site. Including enlarged Feral Faun and John Zerzan sections, a Fredy Perlman archive, new stuff in the Misc section and additions to the Species Traitor archive.
New 2005 section: Post-left Anarchy section. If you are involved with a green anarchist/primitivist or insurrectionist zine or journal and you would like some of the articles featured here then email me: insurgentdesire@mail.com
* John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works critique (agricultural) civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocates drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some of his criticism has extended as far as challenging domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time. His four major books are Elements of Refusal (1988), Future Primitive (1994), Against Civilization: A Reader (1998) and Running on Emptiness (2002).
* Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research and Development (BASTARD) - http://sfbay-anarchists.org/
* Ward Churchill speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in San Francisco on March 26, 2005 - http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_anarchist_bookfair_march_26_2005/ :: Lynching Ward Chuchill - http://www.counterpunch.org/feldman02242005.html. Another speech: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/WC022203.html The $327,000.00 chill at Colorado U chills Ward Churchill. October 01, 2005 - http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_3073410
* The BarringtonCollective, Berkeley - Parents, teachers and students could organize on the neighborhood level, demand charter status and form their own schools. Public schools are generally viewed as inefficient, test crazed and/or prison-like. Many believe that the public schools are administered by those in power with interests in providing just enough educational resources to prevent rebellion. The Barrington Collective sees such centralized institutions as alienating and destructive of community and culture. Wherever possible, we support the creation of decentralized, autonomous organizations networked horizontally rather than hierarchically. - http://barringtoncollective.org/FreeSkoolBackground.
* PR Watch's Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups. Managing Activism: PR Advice for "Neutralizing" Democracy by collaborating to devide.
* INDYMEDIA's Ontario News with it's International counterparts - http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario :: http://ontario.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Ontario/WebOrgInfo
* OPIRG Provincial Home - http://www.opirg.org/ - The membership of OPIRG Provincial is comprised of eleven autonomous, non-profit, university student-funded and directed organizations that conduct research, education, and action on social and environmental justice issues. For more information, contact any local chapter.
* Quebec Indymedia: Centre for media alternatives (CMAQ) - http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/index.php
* Globalresearch.ca Centre for Research on Globalization: http://www.globalresearch.ca/ ...by University of Ottawa prof. Michel Chossudovsky.
* GNN guerilla news network - http://www.gnn.tv/
* Toronto's Robin Hood Collective - http://robinhood.revolt.org/
* Toronto Anarchist Bookfair - (annual, coming soon) - http://montreal.indymedia.ca/twiki/bin/view/Toronto/BookfairHome - Contact: anarchistbookfair@ziplip.com - Please prepare early as this year additional workshops may also be held on the day after the Bookfair. Hopefully this year's workshops will be serial instead of overlapping so one can attend every one. Last year's (2004) DAY TWO Bookfair workshops were held at a different address and included American anarchist guests. Book early aimimg to get space in DAY ONE, taking advantage of having a larger class from the built-in casual visitors who originally came only to buy books and look around.

Allies of (anti-civilization) Neo-primitive Anarchist Organizations

* Post-left anarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-left_anarchy.
Post-left anarchy is a recent current in anarchist thought that seeks to distance itself from the traditional left and to escape the confines of ideology in general. It has rapidly developed since the fall of the Soviet Union, which many view as the death of authoritarian leftism.
o 1 Arguments
o 2 Conflicts with Authoritarian Leftism
o 3 Proponents and Detractors
o 4 See also: Left anarchism, Nihilism, Post-structuralism, Situationists
o 5 External links: Anarchy After Leftism (Infoshop.org), Primitivist and post-left 'anarchism' (Anarchism.ws)

* More anti-civilization books:
o http://cybrmarc.tripod.com/read/ - 46 anti-civilization book reviews plus many essays and articles

* Our comrades at .................................... - http://www.ainfos.ca/ appear to be anti-primitive. A quote from their front page says: "A-Infos’ work is not inspired by egoistic and egocentric individualism, primitivism, ..." Why would A-Infos hate anti-civilization groups? You can't drink the water; you can't eat the junk food and you can't breathe the air. Is Mother Nature to be replaced by "speciesism", "human Supremacists"? Animals' brains ARE more intelligent than human deviants. Over populating humans who are hogging and polluting all animal habitat are rendering the planet useless so Mother Nature has begun using Her bio weapons of mass destruction against mankind. These WMD - micro-organisms and prions using bird and animal vectors can slow down some of the continuing extinctions of Mother Earth's lifeforms by culling human sprawl if it's not too late.
Thousands of years ago Hindu scriptures wisely revealed that the smarter animals were demonstrating superior intelligence. Hinduism (http://www.hope.edu/academic/religion/reader/hinduism.html) and it's offshoot Buddhism have been embraced by intellectuals in the West for fifty years, and both (in theory) obey Mother Nature. For details on superior animal intelligence, read postings by godhas4legs at: http://www.animalsentience.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Adversaries of (anti-civilization) Neo-primitive Anarchist Organizations
( C H A O S: screaming blowback, perpetual cycles of disinformation and spin to rewrite history )

* The Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA): http://www.web.ca/~story/noble/israellobbylosesyork.pdf by Toronto's York University Social science professor David Noble. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Noble. With $millions, this new enormously powerful Israel lobby in Canada finances right wing advisors to work on the students' minds, by its organized rendering of truth at all major Canadian university campuses. How it all started: http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2002-04-11/news_story.php. They are currently lobbying our Ottawa senators for restrictions on our freedom to dissent: B'nai Brith at the Sept 26, 2005 Senate hearings on the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act legislation. Senator Raynell Andreychuk said that she was surprised by the National President of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) Ed Morgan's call for National profiling. Senator Serge Joyal was also concerned about this slippery slope, and it looked like fear-mongering.
:: York U: Professor David Noble is accused of "targeting Jewish members of the York community." http://www.thevarsity.ca/media/paper285/news/870837.html?&mkey=1374486 by Stephen Hui, thevarsity.
:: U of Ottawa: Professor Michel Chossudovsky accused of hosting anti-Semitic website - Pro-Israeli Corporate Media Attacks Global Research - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050824&articleId=854
:: Ottawa U: http://www.uwatch.ca/ - September 22, 2005 - Appeal for information: Ottawa U's attempt to shut down Activism Course We’re appealing for more information on initial reports that last night Dr. Detillier the Ottawa U Dean of Science personally appeared in a classroom to shut down a course in activism given by Physics professor Dr. Denis Rancourt. -- Apparently the popular course has been the talk of the campus in the few short weeks it has been offered; if you were one of students present last night during the attempted high-level intervention Uwatch would love to hear from you. Please use the comment function below this story, and we also ask that you follow-up with an email to editor(at)uwatch.ca so the comment doesn’t get caught in our spam-sweeper.
:: CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS for Empire and RICH ZIONIST Bush advisors for Empire: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17889 Media Monitors Network: "Gazans finally win, but their tormentors get all the attention" by Greg Felton
:: Academic Freedom Ain't What It Used to Be - PROSECUTING CAMPUS THOUGHTCRIMES: from SourceWatch, PR Watch's collaborative online encyclopedia of the people, issues and groups shaping public opinion and public policy.
* Anti-Defamation League .................................... http://www.adl.org/Learn/Ext_US/Ecoterrorism.asp.
* Anti-Defamation League .................................... http://adl.cc/. Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs training programs for US Military
* Department of Homeland Security and FBI .......... http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/24/schuster.column/
o Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists. A coordinated campaign by conservative lawmakers and the FBI aims to label environmental protests the newest form of terrorism.
* Tech Central Station (TCS) ................................ http://www.techcentralstation.com/080205C.html
* Animal Rights hero Jerry Vlasak is trashed.......... http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2596
* ACCURACY in MEDIA [the truth?, trust me]........ http://www.aim.org/links_main
* CTV's GlobalWest is the spawn of Israel Asper ... SociopathicHunters kill bears Watch the tourist industry's imported hunters slaughter wildlife weekly on Global National: "Canada in the Rough"
* Right wing funders and think tanks ..................... http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Right+wing+funders+and+think+tanks&meta=
* Bush/Wolfowitz 1991 Template to Rig Elections .. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Soros+Otpor+Khmara+Zubr+Pora+Traynor&meta=
New World Order "Democratization" Template: http://www.onlinejournal.org/Special_Reports/031905Mowat-1/03-19-05_Mowat.pdf
* TV Ontario. Why did Eric Margolis leave D.I. ? .... http://www.bigeye.com/020204.htm. Diplomatiic Immunity's Eric Margolis Feb. 02,'04 - LIARS OR FOOLS? ...excerpt: "I even left twice weekly shows at TV Ontario — after nine years — after the station producers tried to censor my views on Iraq and kept prompting a pro-war, neo-con party line on TVO's programs."

CollaboratorWatch

* CollaboratorWatches the NGOs collaborating with the oppressive and funded by private interests or governed from the top down, carry "strings" -- limits in struggles, program, tactics and strategy. To think otherwise is self-delusive. To truly become an independent force, progressive NGO's must go to their roots, and win the allegiance of their people in order to become self-financing and live and work on voluntary donations from the people they purport to service. -- (exerpt from rebelion.org).

WEBMASTERbators? - Influence pedlars? - Poverty-pimps? - Grantsmanship-gurus? -- To see the names of the collaborating groups, click here: CollaboratorWatches. This list of both self-serving hoarders and centres of control can only grow if you add your oppressor's name and address. Add his picture, if you want to take him all the way to the edge.

* SourceWatch, PR Watch's collaborative online encyclopedia of the people, issues and groups shaping public opinion and public policy.
o Academic Freedom Ain't What It Used to Be - PROSECUTING CAMPUS THOUGHTCRIMES.
o Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups. Managing Activism: PR Advice for "Neutralizing" Democracy by collaborating to devide.

Members' Sites by Anarchist U -- Anti-civilization :: Collective General

* Anti-civilization - Unmoderated bare knuckle poop - http://groups-beta.google.com/group/AnarchistU/ - All anti-civilization committed members are welcome. Only members can read the archive. Members must be approved before joining - Email: AnarchistU@googlegroups.com and join up so that we can learn more about your valuable ideas, especially if it is hard for you to come to AnarchistU's monthly general meetings, and hopefully several of the Collective will respond to you out-of-town communicators. Also, is anyone in the UK listening? Also, are you Oregon and North Carolina anarchists going to write in with some burning topics, and why don't more of you Americans come to The Toronto Anarchist Bookfair this year and talk about "Every Night Is Earth Night".?
* Collective General? - There are no other of Anarchist U googlegroups listed here yet. There may not even be any proclaimed pro-civilization members at Anarchist U. Does "Variety of tactics" remind one of varieties of anarchists? The creation of a broad topics, tree-type conversation forum to enable anarchists in other countries to talk to us transparently, persistantly pops into the agenda of Anarchist U monthly meetings. Until the question of the forum is resolved by consensus it would seem to be innappropriate to start a googlegroup or Yahoogroup which simulates a broad topic conversation forum. Work-arounds like that, which would be used to defeat the consensus process are unfamliar to the mindset of an anarchist hive. ... A less effective but still valuable way for Anarchist U promoters to help promote the growth of Anarchist U would be to engage the world in debate independently at outside conversation forums such as http://www.plastic.com/ read their FAQ http://www.plastic.com/faq.html An offsite intelligent discussion that a right winger subverts into a shit-throwing session could at least keep the flaming away from the Anarchist U website. .... (she/he said:)If I wasn't so busy watching Seinfeld reruns or strapping my blade, I would go there now to start a new topic and talk about a new way of the zillions of ways that anarchists can create the sort of anarchy and chaos that would cause sociopathic society to crumble.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Interesting URLs

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Best world news - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

Best world view - Centre for Research on Globalisation: http://www.globalresearch.ca/
. . . via Ottawa professor - Michel Chossudovsky, bio - http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ONE311A.html

Real reporter - Eric Margolis_carreer bio - http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7#781

Real reporter - Gwynne Dyer - http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Gwynne+Dyer&meta=

Best random wind on a Canadian flutterby's wings.
The 2003 PC Party leadership convention revisited - http://www.davidorchard.com/online/2do-index.html. Duped David Orchard's failed state is about the deal that created Canada's Conservative Party ... the betrayal of Orchards written agreement with Peter MacKay and Mr. MacKay's subsequent surrender to the Canadian Alliance Party remains a scandalous episode in recent Canadian political history.

Anarchist Free University - http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/

Adversaries of (anti-civilization) Neo-primitive Anarchist Organizations - http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/WorldControl

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