December 2011
51 posts
clusterpod asked: Re: Occupy: Embrace What You Are! Are you the author of this essay? Very well thought-out and constructed arguments there. Thanks very much.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things...”
– H.L. Mencken (via nirvikalpa
)
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you...”
– Mario Savio at Sproul Hall, UC Berkely, 1964
The Revolution will be Tumbled: revolution &... →
anticapitalist:
f-m-a-c:
There seems to be, in anarchist (and probably all radical) circles, this idea of The Revolution. A mythical day always just a few years away when the people will all rise up and throw off their chains, finally seeing the light and becoming truly free.
This…
Right on!
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Episode #5
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Episode #4
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Episode #3
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Episode #2
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Episode #1
http://www.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ →
This is how I make my raised beds. I include a layer of horse manure on top of the wood, though, before I add soil. The idea is that the buried wood stores moisture and releases it to the plant roots in dryer times (this is Texas, after all). The decomposing wood also releases nutrients to the plants.
mymachinemind asked: I love your blog. I was just wondering what you have in YOUR garden :]
Culture Of Resistance: Leah Henderson: →
cultureofresistance:
On December 20th, 2011 Leah Henderson was sentenced to 10 months in prison for pleading guilty to counselling mischief over $5,000. She is currently being held at the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ontario. Read her statement to the court and her letter to her community at : …
When Emerson visited Thoreau in jail he asked, “Why are you in here?” ...
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them...”
– Cormac McCarthy: The Road
This passage moves me every time I read it. I think it contains more truth than anything I have ever read. McCarthy’s vision is bigger than that of most men, trapped in themselves, trapped in their time. He sees the bigness of the world, and the smallness of men. ...
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus
“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one...”
– Edward Abbey: Confessions of a Barbarian
“In fact, just take a look at the history of “trucking and bartering” itself;...”
– Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
Now a pair of sneakers costs more than a human life.
(via cuntymint)
Thirty Thousand Chinese "Occupy" Highway to... →
cuntymint:
Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick.
Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty...
Thirty Thousand Chinese "Occupy" Highway to... →
Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick.
Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty coal plants....
“The short definition of anarchy is democracy without the government. Most people...”
– David Graeber. (via anarchyagogo
)
Occupy: Embrace What You Are!
By John Duffy
Since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City and around the US and the globe, there has been a constancy of criticism coming from the entrenched establishment and its would-be supporters. It’s easy enough to ignore the banality and mindlessness of the critiques coming from this camp—critiques aimed at the supposèd lack of direction amongst...
A letter from Mumia Abu-Jamal →
My Friends of OWS,
My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength.
You are the central movement of the hour. You’re raising questions that are in the hearts of millions. Your motto, “We are the 99%,” has been heard, heeded, and responded to by millions. You can be certain that the 1% have heard you clearest of all.
Your work, however, is just beginning....
Culture of Resistance
A culture of resistance is a culture in which the arbitrary authority is despised, the boss reviled, and there is absolutely no sympathy for oppressors. In simple terms, revolt must be “cool.” Of course, such language reeks of anti-intellectualism. Indeed, “cool” was co-opted and commodified ages ago. But law worship must end. Nation worship and flag fetishization must...
“You can all go to hell, and I will go to the Port of Houston.”
12-12 Occupy the Ports
If you are in a city with a port Occupation this Monday, GO! This needs to be the biggest day of Occupy action yet, and it has the potential to really hit the elites in their wallet. This is a great “Occupy the Machine” action, and thus applies to those who are DGR minded.
If you are in a landlocked city, blockade your nearest Wal-Mart distribution center. This is EASY! Bring ten...
Episode #5 →
Grow Food, Raise Hell: Podcast Episode #5. I talk about all sorts of shit.
Occupy the Gulf →
Occupy the Gulf
Some big numbers are getting predicted for the Occupation of the Port of Houston on Monday. If you are in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, or any other Texas town or city within a reasonable distance to Houston, get your ass down there!
tnimytnuc: Why classism is no excuse to not be... →
I feel that I have reason and authority to comment on this. I am now what I call “commercially vegan.” For ten years I have been a vegetarian, for four of them vegan, for the last year, “commercially vegan,” as I began to raise animals — chickens— and I also started learning how to hunt. I appreciate the passion of vegans, and the dedication to actually act...
“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus,...”
– -Peter Gelderloos, Why Nonviolence Protects the State- Nonviolence is Racist (via fuckyeahradicalquotes
)
Episode #4 →
The fourth installment of the podcast, Grow Food, Raise Hell. I talk about the land giving people a meaning to living when they are a part of it, a part of nature’s cycles.
“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the...”
– Peter Kropotkin
12/12 WALMART PORT SHUT DOWN ACTION BY... →
cultureofresistance:
In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the world:
Occupy Denver stands in solidary with our brothers and sisters who will be blocking the economic apparatus of the 1% by shutting down the ports of the world on Dec 12. Occupy Denver is calling for all land locked occupations to do the same with a coordinated shutdown of Walmart...