Here's an illustrative case from this weeks' news. According to the article there are around 1,200 homeless people living in Fairfax County. When one of them was caught constructing a shelter and educating himself he was charged with destruction of property and held without bond. That says almost everything that needs saying about capitalist property and justice.

"More power to him. He did something that most people don't do. He actually took a step to change his life and made his own little home where he could study."

An incomplete list of authoritarian (by some definition) regimes historically and currently supported (by some definition) by the United States.

Here's an interview with a French fighter with the YPG in Syria. He contradicts himself twice (Amnesty is wrong about villages being razed by YPG... they are only razed for strategic reasons; we don't need imperialist help to defeat IS... NATO air strikes are key to our offensive), but that helps it sound less like a pure propaganda piece.

I've read interviews with a few other fighters, and this guy is definitely the most political (and optimistic). He's fighting in a communist unit, but I wonder how many of the Kurdish fighters overall hold communism to be such an important aspect of the struggle for Rojava.

Denver Homeless Out Loud's attempt at a tiny home village was (temporarily?) ended on Saturday when the Denver Police Department, including a SWAT team, raided the park, arrested ten activists, and dismantled the structures. Here is Google's aggregation of news coverage of the raid.

Just a reminder that the liberal's confused notion of property is actually the dispossession of most people, and the market of capitalism (which prides itself on the price system as an elegant way to match supply to demand) cannot seem to provide the most necessary supplies to the most desperate needs.

"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society." -- M&E, 1848

An entire article about how somebody edited the Wikipedia entry on "Labor Day" to add a link to a Jacobin article.

A Fistful Of Vinyl on KXLU​ recorded Pat The Bunny​ singing some songs and put them on youtube! The whole set is good. I think my favorite is the one after this one. But this one is pretty good too.

An interview with Dave Strano on anarchist gun clubs and reaching the American white working class.

"If rednecks turned their guns on politicians and not migrants, if Crips turned their guns on CEOs and not Bloods, if poor folks turned their guns that they currently point at each other against our common class enemy, we may not have to live in a world of capitalist, statist, and racist exploitation and oppression."

A summer reading list.

A nice documentary by a guy who walked from Oregon to New Hampshire to join the Free State Project.

Humorous image, but also the story of the martyrdom of Fr. Luis Espinal Camps.

Very cool. Link to the actual archive: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lbc2ic?cc=lbc2ic;page=index;c=lbc2ic

From slavery-era and post-Reconstruction miscegenation laws to the religion-fueled popular movements to ban same-sex marriage to the recent Obergefell decision which reflects a successful conservative redirection of the queer liberation movement into simply "marriage equality" and a movement to preserve marriage as a privilege and means to regulate public welfare, the entire pathetic history of marriage in America is one long case study in the failure of democracy.

For anyone interested, I can lend my endorsement to this document as both a decent overview of anarchist perspectives on marriage equality as well as a good list of further resources on the issue.

Walworth residents resist immigration raid. Also covered by Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/immigration-raid-police-fight-822

An article about the Denver Anarchist Black Cross in Denver's Westword (2013)

This cop probably thought he was cleaning up the creek by cracking down on rock stacking... but that was his mistake, because rock stacking is an art form performed and enjoyed by everybody in Boulder, rich and homeless alike. Hence the quick reaction from city council in this case. Now if that cop had harassed a homeless person for using a blanket at night[1] , then there would have been no outrage and city council would have backed up the cop.

1: http://americancynic.net/log/2015/1/1/eight_outdoor_homeless_deaths_during_2014_in_boulder_co_where_it_is_illegal_to_use_a_blanket_for_warmth/

"Since 2000, more than 27,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting the perilous journey to Europe. With an unprecedented number of people breaking through its heavily barricaded borders in 2014, the EU continues to fortify its frontiers."

A synthesis of news reports and other sources which provides a complete high-level view of the Texas FLDS raids and trials.

"In the late 1800’s, the Mormon pioneers, exiled to the Utah territory, implemented one of the largest experiments in cooperative living that the United States has ever known. They wanted to create a society with no rich and no poor."

This documentary includes footage from almost every vantage point (and impressively edited together) during the Oka crisis in 1990 which I had never heard of before (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis).

Two more documentaries on the standoff:

• Acts of Defiance (http://www.nfb.ca/film/acts_of_defiance/)
• Rocks at Whiskey Trench (https://www.nfb.ca/playlists/alanis-obomsawin-retrospective/viewing/rocks_at_whiskey_trench)