Friday, September 30, 2005

Recommended Links at Toronto's Anarchist Free University

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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.

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