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In a likely retaliation for the Ministry of Justice taking down the Athens Indymedia website and a group of Greek hackers falling in the hands of the repressive Justice system, following last week's riots in Greece, Anonymous just launched "Operation Greece", hacked the Ministry of Justice's website, and sent a clear signal to you-know-who...
Originally Publish in Guelph: A History of Resistance (Guelph Peak Volume 51, Issue 1 // Sept. 2011)

An Incomplete History of Anti-Development Resistance in Guelph, Ontario

Introduction

Before this place was called Guelph, this was the home of the Huron and Neutral Nations. Dozens of villages were home to tens of thousands of people, with the Hurons to the north and the Neutrals around the Grand River, Hamilton, and Niagara areas.The invasion of European society into what’s known as Southwestern Ontario began with French fur traders and Jesuit missionaries. The ultimate goal of these groups was to enrich the French, and later British empires by exploiting the land and killing and assimilating Indigenous people.  

The first extractive industries here were the fur trade, fishing, and logging, which was followed in the 1800s by agriculture and mining. Since then ninety-nine percent of original forests have been destroyed.  Seventy percent, and in some locations ninety percent, of wetlands have been destroyed – the largest amount of recorded wetland destruction on Earth. Elk, moose, black bears, wolves, eagles, salmon, fisher, marten, and many more species who once lived here have been extirpated (locally extinct).

The Grand River Watershed, which Guelph is a part of, has more than 130 dams and twenty-nine sewage treatment plants. These are primarily responsible for the sharp decline of most turtles, fish, and amphibian species.

9th of February, 6:30 in the morning in area of institute "FIAN" a janitor found body of Nikita Kalin, born in 1991. 8:00 police arrived, and 11:00 AM police contacted mother of the murdered. According to mother, Nikita was stabbed 61 times, besides this his ribs were fractured multiple times, and head was wounded as well. No property was stolen. Currently a suspect of the murder is arrested, blood of Nikita was found in clothes of the arrested.

It is obvious, that Nikita was attacked with a group, and police also told to mother off the record, that detained suspect is a national socialist activist, and refuses to name any suspects. Besides brutality of the murder, investigation has still not questioned mother of Nikita, or his friend who was the last person who saw it. Due to this, we suppose that there will be an attempt to cover the case, as it often happens in Russia. However, suspect has already hired a lawyer.

From CrimethInc. and the Institute for Experimental Freedom

To counteract the recent backlash led by professional journalists against diversity of tactics in the Occupy movement, we sought out our comrades from the heart of the black bloc and asked them to tell their side of the story: where they come from, why they participate, how they see the world. Here follows an in-depth personal reflection on why the black bloc is so contemporary and what this means for social movements of all stripes.

From Black Wave Communist Collective By Red Zarathustra

Common Struggle – Libertarian Communist Federation (LCF), formerly known as the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC), has been in existence for nearly eleven years now. From its inception it has billed itself as Platformist: that is to say, generally following the guidelines of the Organisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists (or, General Union of Anarchists). Needless to say, any organisation grows and evolves over time and this is often healthy – but I’d like to take a moment to examine our relationship to Platformism and to determine if we have strayed from that model, and if this desirable. I wish to rehash elements of an old debate: the Bring the Ruckus (BTR) – NEFAC debate, specifically in regard to revolutionary cadre organisation and dual power. I wish to go back to the Platform, as well as the memoirs of Nestor Makhno himself, where he lays out numerous lessons we must heed.

From Black Wave Communist Collective By Sabotage

In recent years there have been many debates within the anarchist movement about the insurrectionary method of organizing for revolution.[1] But often these debates do not go into detail regarding the organizational proposals put forth by insurrectionary anarchists. This piece hopes to highlight these organizational methods and serve as an introduction to this project and tendency within revolutionary anarchist thought.

Formal vs Informal Organization?

One of the biggest debates around the insurrectionary method has been that between the need for formal or informal anarchist organization. One does not need to dig far to see that such debates are a false dichotomy. In the Postscript to Issue 2 of the Swedish journal Dissident named Insurrection and Anarchy, the Batko Group explains “it is important not to trap oneself in the dichotomy between formal and informal organization. The form is always dependent on the capacity of initiative. Formal structures can sometimes be used, as long as the initiative is kept.”[2]

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From Tides of Flame

For those of you who haven’t heard, the people of Greece rose up for one night in a display of rage and anger against the global capitalist system and the misery it brings to their lives. They provided us here in Seattle with a glimpse of what our future is probably going to look like.

It had recently been announced that on the weekend of February 10-12th the parliament would vote on a new series of austerity measures that would reduce the minimum wage by 20% and cut 15,000 public jobs in the most debt-ridden country in the European Union. The International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank (known together in Greece as the “Troika”) are currently forcing the government to make harsh structural adjustments in order for the state to receive further bail-out money.

From Hyphology

We will never know how many discourses we inhabit at once. Words like “socio-political” must be uttered in an ironic sense because any notion of strict division between discursive spaces is a fiction. One must remember that a “hyphen is never enough to conceal protests, cries of anger or suffering, the noise of weapons, airplanes, and bombs.” Any and all distinctions are contingent, acting like hinges, where one component is not clearly distinguished from the other, but also necessary for the operation of the apparatus. It is not each discourse that produces meaning, as is commonly believed, but is actually that which produces a general meaninglessness. Above all else, the Disavowalist wants meaning. The only path to meaning is away from every black-hole of signification. It is the disinterested wandering away from discourse that will be the coalescence of meaning: a complete refusal to avow; a disavowal.

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For background info and context on the Occupy Pisa past successes read this old article here

February 15th: only two days after the launch of the new campaign to promote the occupations in Via la Pergola, local police forces responded with a sudden eviction of the building that started at 7am. Three students who were inside the building preparing to move into their new rooms (part of the building was destined to be a student residence), were given on-the-spot cautions.

A protest spontaneously arose in the area and soon became a demonstration through the city centre. Despite a series of police charges, the protesters managed to storm inside the Council building and hang a banner in support of the occupation: “Via la Pergola won’t pay no debt to the financial Mafia“. Later on, they went on to occupy the Unicredit bank (one of the banks involved in the speculations around Via la Pergola’s occupied building), and then kept marching through the city and flash mobbing several other banks.

From LBC Blog

These are active times at LBC Headquarters. We have transformed our project from a part-time, do-as-we-may, casual distribution project into a full time, agile distribution AND publishing project. We did this with the announcement of LBC Books and our first three published titles.

These titles include the already released Occupy Everything: Anarchists in the Occupy Movement (edited by Aragorn!), the brand new Queer Ultraviolence: A Bash Back! Anthology (edited by Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli), and the collected Super Happy Anarcho Fun Pages (upcoming any day now).

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