Issue #52 of El Libertario is out www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. In its editorial we reaffirm the commitment of this voice of Venezuelan anarchism to maintain a critical viewpoint on the country's realities, as well as our stand in solidarity with the struggle for liberty and equality. ---- [TN: (B)oligarchy is a play with words meaning Bolivarian oligarchy] ---- The year begins and it's already clear that the electoral circus will be used once again to tame the social struggle in Venezuela, a script routinely applied with success for the last 10 years. Elections for governors, state representatives and mayors are set for November 16, so the official politicos and the opposition started ...

It was like previous 156 Fridays - 36 months - three years, without missing even one week, with other direct actions in other days, people of the village Bil'in, around the local popular comity, together with Israelis of the anarchists against the wall initiative, with internationals and media. We started at noon from the center of the village, marching on the road leading to the western lands of the village - cut by the separation fence, in the process of being robbed for the settlers town Modi'in Illit. More than half of the village 1000 acres are beyond the fence. Part of them already was taken and built on a new neighborhood of the settler town. Because of the joint struggle, the support it ...

In a demonstration against the greatest con-men of our time - estate agents. --- There is however a lot that can be done before then (and afterwards!) - and not just towards Foxtons. Many estate agents routinely break the law by placing advertising signs without permission on council property, and sometimes on private property. The pictures below, from Chester Road in Stretford, Greater Manchester, illustrate the arrogance of these bastards. ---- One very simple way to fight back against the damage estate agents are doing to our communities is simply to take these signs down where ever you find them. ---- Don't let them advertise - illegally - over-priced properties in your community. Don't let them ...

http://forums.infoshop.org/ ---- Are you looking for a useful political forum that has interesting discussions yet also has a sense of community? Are you tired of political forums where a few egos dominate and try to “win” debates? Are you looking for a place where you can meet like-minded people with whom you can do things with offline? Do you want to support independent media that are fighting against corporate giants like Myspace? --- You are invited to participate at the Infoshop Forums, one of the oldest and most popular anarchist forums on the Internet. Started in 2002, the Infoshop Forums have thousands of registered users and several dozen forums. We offer a mixture of moderated and ...

Screening on Prison Abuse Turns Into Reality by Etta Cetera, HRC-Fed Up! --- On November 24, 2007, the Human Rights Coalition- FedUp! Chapter hosted a screening of “Up the Ridge” at the Undaground Lounge in the Northside. About 15 people turned out to see this one-hour documentary that offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city offenders to distant rural outposts. --- The idea for the film began in 1999, when filmmakers Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby were volunteer DJs for the Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program in Whitesburg, KY. It was then they received hundreds of letters from inmates ...

South Wales Anarchist Newsletter # news.southwalesanarchists.org ---- Rich getting richer by exploiting the poor ---- A report from the Institute of Fiscal Studies into the affairs of the UK's super-rich has found that the top 10% (4.7 million adults) now take home 40% of all the income earned in the UK, with an average pay of £67,000 per year. --- The top 1% (470,000 adults) get an average pay of £222,000 per year. --- The top 0.1% (47,000 adults) get an average pay of £780,000 per year. ---- Gerald Holtham, one of founders of the `New Labour' project & former Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research believes entrepreneurs have a right to make a fortune but greed is poisonous. He has ...

Capitalism proposes us alternative consumerism -- image of a successful business woman, bourgeois gay clubs, red ribbon as a sign of solidarity. Authorities propose us alternative of integration to the system by the way of lobbying legal reforms. But our everyday reality is violence, insults and prejudices.---- Clericalists cut programs of sexual education, Ministry of Health and Social Development radically cut list of medical and social factors which allow abortion during late pregnancy, in city of Volzhkiy everyone willing to do an abortion is forced to have a talk with an Orthodox Christian priest. Most of the job announcements include demands in regards to sex and age of the employee. And ...

On March 1st-2nd, anti-authoritarians will gather at both the Belfry and Jack Pine community center to mark the creation of an entirely new network of resistance. Here we will network with newly found comrades, partake in essential party crashing workshops, and march in solidarity with local organizers attempting to gain their permits to march on the Xcel center come Sept. 1st 2008. ---- The highlight of this weekend of resistance will be the "Now that this vast network of UA-MN anarchists exists, where do we go from here?" strategizing session. Here we will discuss all sorts of ideas and proposals in attempts to compliment the already prevalent resistance amongst the local ...

In July 2008, the so-called "G8" heads of the state that monopolize two thirds of the earth’s wealth will gather at Lake Toya in Hokkaido Japan. The Japan based network of anti-authoritarians and anarchists, No! G8 Action, was formed in May 2007. It hopes to bring Japanese and East Asian impetus onto the stage of the global anti-capitalist struggle. The info-tour is part of this effort. INFOTOUR DATES/LOCATION ---- (subject to change, will be updating as locations become confirmed) ---- Europe tour schedule: ---- 17 Feb. Berlin @ KATO ---- 18 Feb. Berlin @ Horte ---- 22 Feb. Brighton ---- 23 Feb. Bristol (early pm) / Cardiff (evening) ---- 25 Feb. Edinburgh @ The Forest Cafe ---- 26 Feb. Leeds ...

Saturday, February 23rd - 7pm Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th Floor, Chinatown (www.encuentro5.org) --- A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media. ---- This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in. --- About the speaker --- Andrew* is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time ...

BySimon Yuill

If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? The return to improvisation in 'livecoding' draws parallels with experimental practices developed by maverick musicians, programmers and educators from Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Scratch Orchestra to Seymour Papert. Simon Yuill argues that these 'distributive practices' are worth extending today*

Fash hijack cops? --- As 22,500 police marched through London demanding higher pay, who should lead their march but Richard Barnbrook, the mayoral candidate for the fascist BNP Ex Brixton. --- police chief Brian Paddick (who's boyfriend tokes the reefer so he can't really be a bad cop etc etc) says he was `uncomfortable' about this. We can suppose the Black Police Association and Gay Police Association were too. Really? --- "I spoke to one of the organisers of the march and I explained who I was and he was quite happy about it," said Barnbrook. "We did some interviews for BNP TV. I spoke to a few Pcs and they were happy to talk." --- Certainly the police couldn't have told him to get lost ...

Philadelphia for Philadelphians!: The Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign - by Candace Saunders --- This past October 25th, amid umbrellas and honking horns, the voices of a small but impassioned group of demonstrators filled the western plaza of City Hall. Philadelphians on their way to lunch might not have paused to acknowledge the rousing chanted refrain, but they could scarcely avoid hearing it: “Don’t tax us out! Don’t tax us out! Don’t tax us out!” The picket line strode in a circle around a small PA system and a collection of placards stating the group’s demands. The picketers, mostly older black women but otherwise varied in age and race, held signs bearing slogans like “IMPLEMENT TAX ...

Why we want you to join ---- We want people to join the Anarchist Federation! Working together makes us stronger. ---- New people bring new ideas and keep us fresh. They bring understanding of areas of struggle that we haven't thought of before. New members make it possible for us to distribute our publications further. We already produce 2,500 copies of Resistance each month (sometimes more) ­ we'd like to double that! We can be more effective when we are involved in struggles and campaigns. --- For new members it means meeting with like minded people, realising we're not alone and being able to work more effectively as part of a group project. --- If you want to join us, there are a few things ...

ByElizabeth Povinelli

On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

ByJohn Cunningham

January's Art and Immaterial Labour conference at the Tate brought together some famous names from post-Autonomia to discuss conjunctions between the dematerialisation of art and immaterialisation of labour. John Cunningham reports

ByPeter Suchin

If its corporate context increasingly undermines art's critical status, the titling of a recent exhibition at Bloomberg – No, Future – suggests that the relationship between art and business may have already 'peaked', says Peter Suchin

Over 100 activists from across the country and diverse backgrounds, (instead of going to Florida) beating the freezing negative 16 degrees weather, came to attend the first Sept 1st RNC protest organizing meeting, host by Coalition to March the RNC and Stop the War http://protestrnc2008.org ---- The Republican National Convention will be held September 1-4 at Minneapolis-St Paul, MN. The coalition is calling for massive September 1st antiwar protest against the opening day of the RNC convention (with other marches/actions organized by different organizations at different days). The demand: U.S. --- out of Iraq Now! Money for human needs, not for war! Say no to the Republican Agenda! ...

Cuba Libertaria - No. 8 is out. This is a Spanish-language publication put together by GALSIC (groups in support of anarchists and independent syndicalists in Cuba). http://publish.indymedia.org/media/2008/02//900850.pdf Feel free to help distribute to folks who know Spanish. more info: Cuban Anarchist Movement (MLC) http://www.mlc.contrapoder.org.ve/ ...

CONTENTS ---- New Jersey Bans Death Penalty ---- Guinness Records: Massacre or Suicide? ---- Al Nakba Remembered in Philly ---- ACTIVISTS WIN $1.5 MILLION WAGE AND BENEFIT INCREASE FROM TEMPLE AND PENN ---- defenestrate my space@@@! ---- Philadelphia for Philadelphians!: The Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign ---- Director of Obscure Police Agency Assassinated in Oaxaca City ---- To Snitch or Not To Snitch ---- Army of One ---- Border Anarchy and more ... read it all in the pdf! http://defenestrator.org/pdfs/DEF40.pdf -------------- New Jersey Bans Death Penalty ------------------- On December 17 Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation repealing New Jersey’s death ...