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Grand Jury Resister Jailed Animal Advocate Jailed for Standing Up to Abuse by the Federal Grand Jury Process...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 10:41am PDT
For those about to rock... forke sez: Exactly what is now happening in NYC. It’s amazing. While they try to provoke people into going negative against people who have no intention or interest in being violent, the media and the Rove gang continue to feed the pessimists planted throughout the Kerry grassroots and probably even campaign staff. The idea is to make everyone feel that Kerry has lost his luster and whining and sniping him is what every angry Democrat really wants to do anyway. And if they do, then the Repub...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 1:46am PDT
Trial By Fire: The SHAC 7 and the Future of Democracy 
It remains to be seen if activists involved in other causes will truly understand the indictment of the SHAC 7 in its broadest social and historical context, thereby showing solidarity with the myriad of SHACtivists and other direct action militants on the front lines of protest, making sure that their voices are anything but a whisper. Meanwhile, the animal liberation cause continues to grow throughout the world, establishing itself as both an heir of the great human liberation movements and...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:45pm PDT
NY Police to bark orders at 150decibels from Humvees It's called the Long Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of blasting warnings, orders or anything else at an ear-splitting 150 decibels.
Still, Bill Dobbs of United for Peace and Justice, which has planned a massive anti-war demonstration on the eve of the convention, called the sound system "a potential Big Brother nightmare."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 2:28pm PDT
Craig Rosebraugh, ALF spokesman, tried to bust union Craig Rosebraugh is the former spokesman for ALF and ELF. He owns a vegan restaurant chain, with one main restaurant on SE Hawthorne Portland which has high-middle prices and is typically filled. He fired several striking workers and this has brought his ethics under question....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 8:56am PDT
What to Do if the FBI "Drops By" Your Home or Office US Government's COINTELPRO - Still Undead
The stinking corpse of the FBI's infamous "Counter-Intelligence Program", or COINTELPRO, which was used from the 1940s through the 1970s against Communists, Anarchists, Civil Rights Activists and sundry other decent working-class militants, and which was "allegedly" discontinued in 1971, is fully risen from the grave once again....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:45pm PDT
Beware of agents provocateur in NYC! if you see someone acting violently or encouraging violence, even property destruction, especially if they don't seem to be with a good-sized group of friends/cohorts and your affinity group does not recognize any of them, get the f*%k out of that area as quickly as you can, as you and the people around you are likely being set up for mass arrest or a good ol' fashioned police whoopin'......
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 10:12am PDT
8/28 Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence in NYC On August 28, two days before the Convention kicks off, young people from
all over the country and the city will gather in New York for a one-day
Convergence for Books Not Bombs. This will be a space for us to share
un-conventional wisdom and to build our own movement - one that we hope
will connect the dots, expand the possibilities of what we can do in our
schools and communities, and prepare us for a big week in the streets and
a decisive year in the struggle....
Posted: Sat, Aug 7, 2004 10:15pm PDT
RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST ABUSE OF JAILED ACTIVIST TRE ARROW Environmental, human and animal rights activist Tre Arrow, currently being held in Canada's North Fraser Pretrial Center on immigration charges, has been moved into solitary confinement and is being denied a diet in keeping with his beliefs (raw/vegan) in a blatant attempt to break his spirit. In the 4 months he has been incarcerated he has suffered catastrophic weight loss, and is now down to 91 pounds....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 4:51pm PDT
Persecution of young anarchist in Bulgaria The political elite in Bulgaria, under uncrowned King Simeon II as Prime Minister, is closely allied to Washington and NATO. Specially beholden to the Bush administration and engineering its own new forms of Homeland Security, the political class in Sofia is now engaged in new efforts to suppress and silence dissent, branding anarchists as a threat to “national security.”
The most flagrant example of this new wave of repression against alternative expression in the country is ...
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 6:41am PDT
ACLU & NLG Groups Sue Over DNC "Free Speech Zone" aka Boston's Camp X-Ray Authorities in Boston have designated as the official protest an area enclosed by a maze of overhead netting, razor wire and chain link fence. To some it resembles an internment camp, to others Guantanamo Bay. Today lawyers file suit to overturn the "free speech zone."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 9:17am PDT
What to do if the FBI Contacts You People are sending this around in light of all the questioning of midwest anarchists that went on this weekend....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 9:16am PDT
Farouk asked for all our help in fighting for justice and equality! 
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Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 12:48am PDT
Boston DNC - "free speech zone"? Pics of Boston's protest cage...
Posted: Sat, Jul 24, 2004 6:10pm PDT
FBI Launch Anarchist Dragnet The FBI has targeted anarchists in New York, Boston, Denver, Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka, and Kirksville (Missouri), asking questions about the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. FBI agents raided homes in Denver and arrested two anarchists for "failure to pay bike tickets" and "failure to appear in court"....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:34pm PDT
FBI target activists and raid homes in the Midwest It was communicated to us, that two houses in Denver had been raided by the FBI and that at least two people had been arrested. Their charges and situations are not at this time known to us. We do know that they were asked questions about the upcoming election events including the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, as well as questions about "ABC"....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 9:03am PDT
NAACP backs Mumia: Case Strong, Movement a Mess The NAACP, after years of ducking taking a public stand on the case of Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, voted on an "emergency resolution" near the end of its annual convention in Philadelphia Thursday to call for a new trial for the black journalist/activist, and to urge local NAACP chapters to work toward that goal....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 10:24am PDT
Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Palestinian Freedom Fighter Called For Unity Moments Before He Died Palestinian freedom fighter Farouk Abdel-Muhti, died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, after giving a speech in Philadelphia. He was 57 years old. His death comes just three months after he was released from jail where he was detained for two years without charge. We hear a recording of his last words as well as an address he gave on the night he was released from prison and we speak with his son Tariq and his fiancee and longtime friend Sharin Chiorazzo who was with him when he died....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:29am PDT
Blue Bloc Strikes Subway. Crazy Cop Plants Pipe Bomb If an anarchist got caught with firecrackers it would probably make the front page. Don’t let them bury this story....
Posted: Tue, Jul 20, 2004 9:12pm PDT
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