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A Little More (Than) Ground Noise & Static

In November, one or the other of the corporate candidates will win, and then, as always, it will be what the people do, not the... more

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Lockbox: An Anarchist Tale

As the Republicans gathered last month in St. Paul to nominate John McCain for president, so did a group of protesters determined... more

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Anarchist ice cream truck offers 'protest tips' and 'grape'

The Anarchist Ice Cream Truck provides cool snacks for a summer day. They offer all the traditional flavors. They also offer... more

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Rebutting lies and misconceptions about Anarchists and the convention protests

Over the past two weeks in Denver and St. Paul, thousands of anarchists and other folks have come together to protest the... more

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Police Trained to Hate Protesters

Did you know that anarchists killed several police officers during the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle? No, you don't... more

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WE TOLD YOU SO

At both the DNC and RNC, anarchists showed themselves to have seized the initiative to determine the character of street... more

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Police search homes, seize contraband in advance of RNC

Authorities have searched several homes in Minneapolis and one in St. Paul Saturday ahead of the opening of the Republican... more

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St. Paul Police Raid Anarchist Meeting Hall

In a video report from Submedia.tv, individuals caught in Friday night’s raid on the RNC Welcoming Committee’s... more

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RNC Welcoming Committee - We're Getting Ready!

A great video. Everyone should see it! The RNC Welcoming Committee are Anarchists who will be shutting down the Republican... more

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Rage Against the Machine unleashes explosive set with Iraqi Veterans Against the War

DENVER COLISEUM -- The Iraqi Veterans Against the War took the stage and read an open letter to Barack Obama demanding he solidify... more

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Police Sieze Journalists Notes About RNC Protest Plans

A trio of journalists who have a track record of documenting police abuse at political conventions were stopped and searched... more

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Anarchists plan to disrupt delegates at Pepsi Center

The same anarchist protesters who Monday night blocked off a downtown street and clashed with officers in riot gear say on their... more

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Denver Police pepper-sprayed 'peaceful' gathering

The protesters, 100 or more who range in age from their teens to their 50s, have been cordoned into an area of 15th Street between Cleveland and Court places by dozens of police in riot gear. The standoff started in the park and then quickly moved, said Brandon Brown, a volunteer medic from Seattle, Wash. Brown was carrying a bottle of water and offering it to the journalists and protesters who had been sprayed by officers. Many coughed from peppery haze near the steps of the Wellington Webb Municipal Building. When the crowd reached 15th, the officers formed a wall with their bodies.

The protest, which began about 7 p.m. in Civic Center Park, was an unpermitted event designed to "Disrupt the DNC," as a series of anarchist protests organized by Unconventional Denver have been labeled. According to literature reviewed by the Rocky Mountain News, attendees were told to "come ready for quick, decentralized actions spanning the downtown area at a variety of risk levels."

Almost immediately, said protester Magi Belknap, 21, police fired pepper spray at the protesters, causing them to flee across the park and onto 15th Street, where numerous officers blocked them into a pair of parking garages. "The police started hitting people," Belknap said. "We only walked for like a block" before the confrontation, she said. Protester Honey Traiman, 55, said the police action was unprovoked. "It was a very peaceful little march," she said. "They came from every side."

"They came from all around," said a young woman wearing a bandanna over her mouth after she made it past a wall of officers who had blocked her inside with their batons. "I tried to get out, but it was only when I started crying that they met me out." The woman declined to give her name. Some observers said it appeared demonstrators may have hidden dozens of protesters inside the parking garages on 15th Street. "I think they were hiding in the garages," said John Chodkowski, who lives on Capitol Hill and said he was there to watch the events unfold after being caught in them while on a bike ride. "This is pretty crazy."

Information officer Jim Shires of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said he hadn't heard of anyone being injured in the scuffle. Shires said officers were separating those behind the barrier and interviewing them. He said he didn't know if anyone had been detained. Pete Nelson, 23, of Denver called the scuffle a "police riot," as he held a video camera, filming the wall of riot police.

"The cops were being brutally violent," he said. "They weren't doing anything but chanting." The crowd continued chanting "let them go" and singing songs nearly a half-hour after the crowd rushed to 15th. But by 8:15 p.m., the protest seemed to die down.
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Anarchy in Philly

Philadelphia is the birth place of our nation so it's no surprise that it is also home to one of the strongest and most well... more

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Anarchists planning to 'crash' RNC convention

The anarchist group RNC Welcoming Committee is planning to stir up the Republican National Conference. "Fox News was... more

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An Interview with Howard Zinn on Anarchism: Rebels Against Tyranny

Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor immigrant family. He realized early in his youth that the promise of the "American Dream“, that will come true to all hard-working and diligent people, is just that – a promise and a dream. During World War II he joined US Air Force and served as a bombardier in the "European Theatre“. This proved to be a formative experience that only strengthened his convictions that there is no such thing as a just war. It also revealed, once again, the real face of the socio-economic order, where the suffering and sacrifice of the ordinary people is always used only to higher the profits of the privileged few.

Although Zinn spent his youthful years helping his parents support the family by working in the shipyards, he started with studies at Columbia University after WWII, where he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in 1958. Later he was appointed as a chairman of the department of history and social sciences at Spelman College, an all-black women’s college in Atlanta, GA, where he actively participated in the Civil Rights Movement.

From the onset of the Vietnam War he was active within the emerging anti-war movement, and in the following years only stepped up his involvement in movements aspiring towards another, better world. Zinn is the author of more than 20 books, including A People’s History of the United States that is “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories...” (Library Journal)

Zinn's most recent book is entitled A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, and is a fascinating collection of essays that Zinn wrote in the last couple of years. Beloved radical historian is still lecturing across the US and around the world, and is, with active participation and support of various progressive social movements continuing his struggle for free and just society.

Ziga Vodovnik: From the 1980s onwards we are witnessing the process of economic globalization getting stronger day after day. Many on the Left are now caught between a “dilemma” – either to work to reinforce the sovereignty of nation-states as a defensive barrier against the control of foreign and global capital; or to strive towards a non-national alternative to the present form of globalization and that is equally global. What's your opinion about this?

Howard Zinn: I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. In a certain sense the movement towards globalization where capitalists are trying to leap over nation state barriers, creates a kind of opportunity for movement to ignore national barriers, and to bring people together globally, across national lines in opposition to globalization of capital, to create globalization of people, opposed to traditional notion of globalization. In other words to use globalization – it is nothing wrong with idea of globalization – in a way that bypasses national boundaries and of course that there is not involved corporate control of the economic decisions that are made about people all over the world.
Howard Zinn, 85, is a Professor Emeritus of political science at Boston University. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1922 to a poor... more