Eric Garner’s murder is not only about the justice system. It’s about how capitalism creates racialized categories of “surplus” people.

"In order to end police violence, we have to start considering abolition [of the police]," she said. "At the very least, we are going to need to work on getting the cops 'out of our heads and our hearts.' As individuals and communities, we have to actively unlearn our fear of the police and also diminish our dependence on them."

Strike! Magazine's Totally Pointless Policing posters. Nice propaganda in the UK.

Some animations narrated with Libcom.org's "An Introduction to Capitalism"

(I can't see how the title matches the article at all. But the article is worth reading; it's about Whole Foods workers in CA organizing with the IWW.)

"Organizing with the radical-syndicalist union, the Industrial Workers of the World, Whole Foods employees are shunning traditional unions that represent the majority of workers at Safeway, Alberson’s and other national grocers. In doing so, they have given up access to the deep pockets of United Grocery Workers and the like, but have the added agility to stealthily maneuver. The IWW is also the only union to have successfully created union shops at Starbucks."

"The Kate Sharpley Library exists to preserve and promote anarchist history. We preserve the output of the anarchist movement, mainly in the form of books, pamphlets, newspaper, leaflets and manuscripts but also badges, recordings, photographs etc."

"For more than two weeks in the spring of 1992, L.A. Weekly photographer Ted Soqui put his life at risk as he drove from one ravaged neighborhood to another to document the fallout of the Los Angeles riots, also known as the Los Angeles Uprising. He spotted torched buildings by following plumes of smoke in the sky. "And there was no shortage of smoke," Soqui says, "dark smoke."

"He rephotographed those sites 20 years later, standing in the very same locations where he'd stood in 1992. Soqui's before-and-after imagery gives silent testament to how much has changed - and how little."

Authorities link 100 acts of vandalism and arson to activists but anarchists claim city’s alternative lifestyles are real target

"There is another myth that needs to be exploded -- the myth that social revolutions are made by tightly disciplined cadres, guided by a highly centralized leadership. All the great social revolutions are the work of deep-seated historic forces and contradictions to which the revolutionary and his organization contributes very little and, in most cases, completely misjudges, The revolutions themselves break out spontaneously. [...] If a revolutionary organization is not structured to dissolve into the popular forms created by the revolution once its function as a catalyst is completed; if its own forms are not similar to the libertarian society it seeks to create, so that it can disappear into the revolutionary forms of the future -- then the organization becomes a vehicle for carrying the forms of the past into the revolution. It becomes a self perpetuating organism, a state machine that, far from "withering away", perpetuates all the archaic conditions for its own existence."

"I will remember Eric Garner, I will remember the slain. I will not forget the killers with badges, that which protects them, that which deploys them, or that which they enforce. I will not merely endure in the face of these intolerable harms, even if my skin tone affords me merely a fraction the risk of a black man. In fact, may that galvanize me to not retreat quietly into comfort and complicity."

This is by far the best defense of looting I have read today.

Here's a blogger who does not like anarchism, does like making fun of anarchists, is a good writer, and has posted a nice list of books critical of anarchism which I should read some day.

'CEO Mackey has in the past boasted that of “all the food retailers in the Fortune 500… we have the highest profits as a percentage of sales, as well as the highest return on invested capital.” The IWW workers at Whole Foods know full well that their labor is the source of that profit.'

"Uniformed police shut down an effort to provide lunch to scores of homeless in Stranahan Park on Sunday, enforcing a law passed recently that puts new limits on outdoor feeding sites.

"At least three people were cited for violating the new ordinance, including two members of the clergy and a 90-year-old advocate who has handed out food to the homeless for more than 20 years."

The City of Chicago spent $43,000 as part of its effort to take away the safest and most comfortable places propertyless people have to sleep.

This is a reasonable middle-ground position.

On the FBI's efforts to engineer terrorist plots.

Some sober musings on the libertarian Kurdish struggle.