This week’s bad idea

You can find it here.

 

Of Montreal: The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

The acoustic version:

 

No 2010!

According to Dave Zirin in Sports Illustrated, the public resistance grows:

Bringing together a myriad of issues, Vancouver residents have put out an open call for a week of anti-game actions. Different demonstrations on issues ranging from homelessness to indigenous rights have been called. Protesters from London and Russia, site of the next two Olympics will be there. Expect a tent city, expect picket signs, expect aggressive direct actions. Tellingly, according to the latest polls, 40 percent of British Columbia residents support the aims of the protesters, compared to just 13 percent across the rest of Canada. Harsha Walia of the Olympic Resistance Network said, “We are seeing increasing resistance across the country as it becomes more visible how these Games are a big fraud.”

 

A letter from the RNC8

In the spirit of Howard Zinn, whose passing today at age 87 will make impossible his rumored appearance to testify as an expert witness at the 8’s upcoming trial, here’s the latest correspondence.

Keep fighting.

 

Howard Zinn, RIP

To think that history-writing must aim simply to recapitulate the failures that dominate the past is to make historians collaborators in an endless cycle of defeat. If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, and occasionally win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

 

Another hiatus

For more travels. Happy everything, everyone!

 

Solidarity with Scott DeMuth & Carrie Feldman

A statement from Coldsnap and CRASS.

 

Better late than never

Most of these posts have been up for a while, but I missed them. They are awesome. Go read some.

 

Links!

Why I broke up with the anarchist community. [thx, jill]

Laura Ingraham is stupid.

Sarah Palin deprives Salt Lake City of delicious CostCo tomatoes. She’d been pelted with tomatoes at an earlier event, and CostCo (“The Only Place For Tomatoes in SLC”) could take no chances. [via wonkette]

Hockey fight! [via kottke]

 

“Crow Creek land is not for sale”

A call to action for Native land defense in Minnesota:

Brandon Sazue’s camper sitting in the middle of the prairie presented a lonely but inspiring image as we drove up Wednesday afternoon.  Despite the bitter cold and wind, the young Crow Creek tribal chairman was taking a stand against the United States theft of any more Dakota lands, telling us “Crow Creek land is not for sale, and it never will be.”Symbolically placing his camper under a wind data tower, Sazue has committed to remain on this parcel of land as long as it takes to achieve justice.  The land is part of the 7,112 acres recently stolen by the United States government in what amounts to a 21st century land grab.  Because the land is not currently held in trust, on December 4, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service used that as an opportunity to claim it and auction it off as a means to settle what they assert is a delinquent $3,123,790 tax bill (…)

Sazue’s stand in defense of the land is a rallying cry to the rest of the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) of the Dakota Oyate (Nation).  Though fierce winter weather has so far kept supporters from camping out next to Sazue, a steady stream of allies offering prayers, songs, food, supplies and encouragement continues throughout each day and even more people show their solidarity through phone calls and emails.  We know more of our people will be coming.  Like Chairman Brandon Sazue, we will not allow these lands to be taken.  We will stand with him.

Unsettling Minnesota has a list of ways to help.