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The Smashing Hunger Squashing Poverty Tour with Food Not Bombs Co-founder Keith McHenry 18 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
I hope you had a great summer. We sure did. The Food Not Bombs Free Skool really made progress and next summer promises to be even better. This is the 25th anniversary of the first arrest of our volun...
Edgeleft: Notes on The March on Washington 12 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
On August 28th there will be the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Many of you are planning to go down to take part. Folks can get the details on this by a quick search...
Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression 5 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
The San Francisco Police Department made history on August 15, 1988 when they made the first arrests ever for sharing food with the hungry. Nine volunteers arrived at the entrance to Golden Gate Park ...
Thoughts for Sunday 4 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1940 Campaign Address at Brooklyn, New York) Politics has become...
Thoughts for Sunday 28 Jul 2013 | 06:27 pm
The Wingnut is an anarchist collective house in Southern Barton Heights in Richmond, Virginia. The following is a short film documenting the Wingnut collective between February and August of 2011 by ...
Government spying 26 Jul 2013 | 08:01 pm
A few days ago, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) offered an amendment to the Department of Defense appropriations bill which would have prevented the government from continuing to grab phone call metadata....
Work: a review 25 Jul 2013 | 08:59 pm
CrimethInc. is an decentralized anarchist network. Billed as an ex-Workers' Collective,(1) CrimethInc. authored a book entitled Work in 2011 which tackles work, capital, and economics. This book is ab...
Broken two-party system 22 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
One of the many problems with a two-party system is that often one party ends up dictating to the other how things will work...and it doesn't always have to be the majority party. A recent article sho...
Hey Radicals: Veganism is Much More Than an 'Option' | Mickey Z. 22 Jul 2013 | 05:56 pm
Racism Sexism Homophobia Trans-phobia Able-ism Ageism Anti-Semitism Patriarchy Speciesism The list goes on and on… All of the above are heinous and insidiously intertwined manifestations of ...
When Will Americans Resist? | Mickey Z. 22 Jul 2013 | 06:11 am
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Tyler Durden When I posted a photo of just some of the 33 million (!) Egyptian protestors who took the streets in late June,...
