Portland uses prisoners to help clear out a camp protesting the criminalization of homelessness.

Archive of writing (and audio recordings) by the author of the https://hyphenatedrepublic.wordpress.com/ weblog.

"Philosophers' ships is the collective name of several boats that carried Soviet expellees abroad, most notably prominent intellectuals."

Portland to evict a politically-conscious homeless camp.

I know the mutualism->collectivism->communism narrative is a simplification, but I think this is a good overview.

By Iain McKay. "This is an introduction to Proudhon’s economic ideas and their influence on revolutionary anarchism. It is a chapter from the new book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics (AK Press)"

I like how Žižek contrasts "radically leftist notion" with "something that exists [...] and functions basically relatively well."

Because coyotes are the real American cynics.

(Interview with Egyptian anarchist discussing the military coup and Muslim Brotherhood.)

A reading list on the "Right to the City."

"The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups."

I think this is a succinct summary and agreeable conclusion regarding the whole RadFem thing.

As I understand the "RadFem" position, it rejects gender (man/woman) as socially constructed and oppressive to those in the Woman role, but embraces sex (male/female) as real and seeks to create safe spaces for Females. Yet such a sex realism simply moves the gender essentialism, whereby gender is an inescapable consequence of "socialization" as informed by anatomy, to a further remove. Essentialism in sheep's clothing. The motivation behind the whole fruitless endeavor seems to be to exclude trans-women from female liberation movements.

RadFems hold that women who are male (by some ostensibly scientific standard, I guess, or by some less-than-scientific claims of "socialization") are members of an oppressive class. Which, on its face, is ridiculous in my view. Trans*-identifying people are one of the most marginalized and vulnerable segments of society, and any movement which considers them to be oppressive is highly suspect to me.

A nice collection of Chesterton quotations.

"Yesterday a judge ruled that Jeff Olson, a 40 year old man from San Diego, California will face thirteen years for using washable children's chalk outside three Bank of America branches to promote credit unions over large banks."

"On April 25, 2000, convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski sent a letter to the authors of this book detailing his impressions of Timothy McVeigh. Its text---eleven pages in the handwritten original---is reproduced here in full."

Mo and Nadia were on a 90-day temporary duty undercover assignment as part of CPD Field Intelligence Team 7150 (FIT 7150). The team was tasked with "attend[ing] Occupy Chicago and anarchist movement events for the purpose of observing and listening to reports of any planned criminal activity"

A Food Not Bombs group was ticketed in Taos for sharing food