direct action

These days it seems like everybody wants to build something--this is an impulse that is entirely revolutionary, exciting, and captivating. From community gardening projects, independent media centers, no-waste food distribution programs like Food Not Bombs, thousands of active independent arts projects, community health collectives, culture centers, alternative economies, cooperative agriculture, and bicycle collectives. Building things is good. It helps us create a livable world.

Some happy news in the activist front! INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a women of color organization working to eliminate violence against women of color through direct action, critical dialog, and grassroots organizing just launched their new website and it looks hot! Now you can go check out organizing tools, videos, donation buttons, forums, and action items from this bad-ass organization! The website was designed by Tumis and looks great!

Resistance against public housing demolitions in New Orleans

As the country gets invested in the electoral politics and is forced by corporate rule to choose between 2 sell-out parties representing the ruling class, some Anarchists are planning to use this as an opportunity to protest capitalist globalism and demonstrate that another world is possible.

This Week:

1. Climate Camp
2. RNC Welcoming Committee
3. Spot the Pig
4. Dubya too little too late
5. The Motherfuckin APC
6. Dissecting Direct Action

A Bike Activist Group in Toronto is creating their own bike lanes to protest how long it is taking the city to create them on its own. Read Story in the Toronoto Star

The Battle of Olympia [05/06]

– by Nathan Coe, Guerrilla News Network

In the deserts of the Southwestern United States—the area known as the Four Corners—energy and resource wars are nothing new. Locals say that there is nothing pettier than water politics in the Southwest. The legacy of coal and other mining and oil and gas drilling is a long one, as is the legacy of colonialism and the battles fought by the indigenous to protect their sacred lands.

As students whose tax dollars & tuition fees pay for our school, we feel that, as students, we should be free to utilize spaces & facilities as we see fit. We believe that un-utilized spaces should be reclaimed & liberated from the exchange economy and factory-model education system which commodifies both knowledge and human beings. In this spirit, we will be occupying classrooms to screen films & hold discussions.

This week we will be screening "Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action," and "Pickaxe: The Cascadia Free State Story." We will also begin with a short film entitled "Making a Stand at Desert Rock," about the fight against the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant in NM.

5-8 PM
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
Noble Hall 125
(Back-up rooms, if 125 is being used: Noble 140, 115)
Fort Lewis College
1000 Rim Drive
Durango, CO 81301