Civil Disobedience

Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws

by Chris Arsenault

VANCOUVER - The provincial
government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its
counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to
protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of greenhouse gas
emissions.  read more »

Port Militarization Resistance: Take 18!

PMR is up and active again because the Strikers are expected to return around the October 18-22 through Tacoma. I missed the recent meeting but if you've been to one before you know the drill. It's exciting, intense and never particularly well organized. Which might be why it survives as being one of the most unique parts of the culture of Olympia.

Indy media get ready for some raw footage of young people getting halled away by police dressed like storm troopers while large military vehicles loom in the background? Mainstream media get ready to criticize people standing up for what is obviously right if you cover anything at all?  read more »

How can we be in Solidarity with Honduran Resistance?

How do we build solidarity with Honduras? They are facing a long struggle. The coup government wants the election to be recognized and the conflict to seem over internationally. However the people are demanding more! They want a new constitution or at least some reform for now. What can we do in the US to be in solidarity with that struggle?

Marjorie Cohn: The Rules of Disengagement

The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Coffee Strong
15109 Union Ave SW, Lakewood, WA
Phone:
253-581-1565
Email:
kayak@olywa.net
Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild, is a leading voice demanding that members of the Bush Administration be prosecuted for war crimes. She also condemns the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as illegal under international law, which she says the united States launched illegally, not in "defense" off this country.  read more »

Are We addicted to Rioting?

An analysis of militant-street protest,
movement strategy, and the state of anarchism. Based around the G20
Pittsburgh demonstrations.

By: Ryan Harvey - September 24, 2009

The
G20 is upon us, and though BBC world news featured some of "the
troubles" in Pittsburgh, on the ground reports hardly match up with the
media-inflation, police-inflation, and activist-inflation of the actual
thing.

As is often the case, the media makes things look a
whole lot crazier than they actually are, if it's in the interests of
higher ratings. And though most Americans if surveyed would be against  read more »

Treesitters descend, threatened with chainsaw, $50,000 bail

Posted August 31, 2009, 11:23 pm


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
31 August 2009

Contact: Charles Suggs, charles@climategroundzero.org 304-854-7372

PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va.—The two Edwight tree sitters, Nick Stocks and Laura Steepleton, came down from their 80-foot tulip poplar perches this afternoon and were taken into State Police custody. They have been preventing more blasting from rocking the homes of Pettry Bottom because harmful government inaction has failed to do so. They have both been charged with trespass, obstruction and littering, and their bail has been set at $25,000 each. For the past five days, they endured psychological torture, verbal assault and threats.  read more »

Public Records Request finds Olympia Activists Caught in a National Surveillance Program

From Olympia Works in Progress (print)
By Brendan Maslauskas Dunn

An SDSer (Students for a Democratic Society) in Portland is walking
down the street on May Day. She walks by a police officer sitting
outside a café flipping through photographs of different people the
police plan on identifying at a May Day rally. A picture of her appears
and the cop stares at it for a while.  read more »

Pirate's Blog Has moved

Due to corruption and abuse in the Media Island hierarchy, Pirate's blog has moved to http://news.zinelibrary.info .  read more »

Violence "Inevitable" in W. Virginia Moutaintop Removal Resistance, Please Help!


reposted from mountaintopremovalroadshow@lists.riseup.net
 
Friends of the Appalachian Mountains:
 
Our friends in the West Virginia coalfields are in danger, and they need your help.  Please call Gov.  read more »

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