Four Kickstarter Projects That Need Your Support
Apparently, everyone I know is doing a Kickstarter project. OK, Maybe that’s not true, but here are four projects from people I know personally that I am donating to, and I wish you would, too. For the...
View ArticleSlow Food’s $5 Meal Challenge
On September 17, Slow Food USA held a national day of action where they challenged people in the US to make meals for less than $5 per person, saying, “The $5 Challenge is a response to the First...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, Occupy Wall Street, and Haters
Steve Jobs died today. I have several quick thoughts about this. 1. Steve Jobs should not be held accountable for the faults of capitalism. Many of my friends are posting on Twitter and Facebook that...
View ArticleTalking about Occupy Wall Street
I’ve been absolutely thrilled with the amount of talking that has been going on about the Occupy Wall Street actions. When is the last time that so many people were talking so much about class and...
View ArticleOccupy & Police Violence
The video above is of the University of California police spraying pepper spray on students at UC Davis this week. I can’t even watch the video all the way through. This follows last week’s clubbing of...
View ArticlePutting My Money Where My Mouth Is – Who I Am Supporting This Year
This year, as people are becoming more and more aware of how much collective choices about money can impact people and things (think Occupy Wall Street and the Move Your Money project), it’s important...
View ArticleDefending Occupy Oakland
The stated goal of Occupy Oakland’s day of action on Saturday January 28 was to take over an abandoned building and repurpose it for the good of the people. I participated in the action for part of the...
View Article12 Songs
A few weeks ago, my sister Becky asked me to do her a favor. She wanted me to make her a mix CD of 12 songs that I love and tell her why I love them. It’s been a totally fun project but also really...
View ArticleWhy I Said No To Groupon
A few weeks ago, a representative from Groupon called me about offering a coupon through their site for Angel Cakes. We talked for a while and she explained it all to me. I recognize that she is...
View ArticleOn Entrapment, and Protecting Ourselves
Early on May Day, the FBI announced it had foiled a terrorist plot to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio – my hometown. Then days later, another “terrorist plot” was disrupted at the NATO protests...
View ArticleSupporting Ourselves – Year End Donations 2012
I haven’t posted for a while, but I wanted to make my annual “here’s where I’m donating money this year.” Though I am an anti-capitalist, I have long believed that our lack of understanding of and...
View ArticleResisting Grand Juries
It has only been in the last few years that I have really begun to understand the grand jury system in the United States. I kind of always knew they were out there, and that they impacted my...
View ArticleAccounting for Ourselves – A Review and Interview
Accounting for Ourselves – A Review and Interview How do restorative and transformative justice processes work in practice? In April, the anarchist collective CrimethInc published a new pamphlet...
View Articleproperty or liberation: political reflections of the Trayvon Martin struggle...
Reblogged from Kissing in the Dark...: On February 26th 2013 neighborhood watch fascist George Zimmerman shot and murdered 16 year old black youth trayvon martin. Over four months later on July 13th...
View Article"Sometimes We Had a Brick" An Interview with former SHAC 7 prisoners Jake...
Reblogged from The Portland Radicle: by Mike Klepfer Jake Conroy and Josh Harper are two former prisoners. Part of the animal rights campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), the two were engaged...
View ArticleScraper Bike Heroes and Other Gloriously Chaotic Casualties of the "Outside...
Reblogged from Hyphenated-Republic: Volumes have already been written about the protests in Oakland that exploded after the Zimmerman verdict on Saturday, July 13. I won't delve deeply into some of the...
View ArticleA Response to the Article "A Basic Explanation of Recent Events July 13-15,...
Reblogged from bayareaintifada: Posted on Anarchist News The article written by Anon is a misunderstanding of how things went down in Oakland over those three days and how locally anarchists and other...
View ArticleWhy I Said No To Groupon
A few weeks ago, a representative from Groupon called me about offering a coupon through their site for Angel Cakes. We talked for a while and she explained it all to me. I recognize that she is...
View ArticleOn Entrapment, and Protecting Ourselves
Early on May Day, the FBI announced it had foiled a terrorist plot to blow up a bridge in Cleveland, Ohio – my hometown. Then days later, another “terrorist plot” was disrupted at the NATO protests...
View ArticleSupporting Ourselves – Year End Donations 2012
I haven’t posted for a while, but I wanted to make my annual “here’s where I’m donating money this year.” Though I am an anti-capitalist, I have long believed that our lack of understanding of and...
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