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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Why We Go: On Taking the “I” Out of Nietzsche and Becoming Wetzscheans Together
If you were in the streets of Fullerton on Saturday, January 18th, 2014 – you assuredly encountered a strange tension. No, it didn’t come from the Fullerton Police, who made a tactical decision to avoid any overt presence at the … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, occupy, Skid Row, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged acab, Brown Berets, community, fpd, ftp, fullerton, kelly thomas, liberal, liberalism, march, martin luther king, Nietzsche, oscar grant, peace policing, police brutality, resistance, ressentiment, sidewalks, states of injury, streets, the families, violence, wendy brown
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Occupy’s “Bloody Mary” – No Joking Matter
Folklore has it that if you stand in front of a mirror and say “Bloody Mary” three times, a malevolent spirit will appear in the reflection there to do you harm. It’s one of those rituals kids often do to … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, Chris Hedges, Liberalism, Media, occupy, Prisons, War on the Poor
Tagged activism, Chris Hedges, cointelpro, collaboration, fbi, federal agents, feds, gossip, government agents, kevin zeese, liberal, liberalism, Lies, organizing, rumors, slander, snitch, snitch-jacketing, snitching, Sue Basko
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We Go
With sadness tinged with hope… There’s a quote at the top of our blog that merits some consideration today, on this all-too-quiet morning after a jury in Orange County acquitted two Fullerton pigs, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, in the … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, culture industry, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged acab, anarchism, anarchist, ftp, fullerton, insurrection, Jay Cicinelli, kelly thomas, leo ferre, los angeles, manuel ramos, march, rally, santa ana, strategy, tactics, the streets, vigil
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A Eulogy for The Ghost of Tom (Geode) Pt.1
“The Tom Morello” Can’t Save Us All & Maybe Music Itself Is The Savage Beast I wasn’t born with perfect politics and I certainly don’t presume to embody 0r espouse them even today. I’m fucked up – I’ll be the … Continue reading
Posted in Action, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged Adorno, bullshit, calle 13, counterrevolution, Culture Industry, gramsci, individualism, neoliberalism, posing, posturing, preening, tom morello
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Via Chicago
(ed. The following post presents an anarchist comrade’s perspective on the current challenges facing the movement in Chicago. OLAASM has added a few hyperlinks to the text to [hopefully] help contextualize some of the subjects the comrade addresses. Otherwise, all of … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, culture industry, Liberalism, Patriarchy, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged aaron swartz, acab, anarchist, burge, carmen ortiz, chicago, confessions, cops, corruption, CPD, CTU, ftp, fuck the system, history, john burge, liberal, liberalism, movement, pigs, prosecutorial misconduct, rahm emanuel, reactionary left, reflections, strike, teachers, torture
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On the Sith Order Of Things and Lee Baca’s Doge
“This is the way of our Order. An individual may die, but the Sith are eternal.” ― Darth Zannah Like a true Sith Lord, 16-year Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca didn’t assume leadership of his dark order until his mentor, … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Skid Row, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged acab, apprentice, cadejo, corrupt, dogs, ftp, jail, k9, Lee Baca, los angeles, paul tanaka, police, prison, racist, rebel, resignation, retire, sheriff, sith, sith lord, sith order, white supremacist
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Kill the Tom Morello In Your Head
(ed. Originally published December 20, 2013 – here!) The very first frame reveals a rainbow, arcing triumphantly across an otherwise bleak, almost-monochromatic sky. We quickly zoom into a dusty, hillside village. Then – with another frenetic cut – we see a … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Uncategorized
Tagged Adorno, art, artists, calle 13, criticism, critique, Culture Industry, ego, exceptionalism, fame, idolatry, idols, individualism, music, music video, neoliberalism, palestine, petit bourgeois, privilege, review, rock gods, self, solidarity, stardom, tom morello
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“From Saying ‘Officer’ to Screaming ‘Pig’; How I Learned to Stop Equivocating and Hate the State” [PART 2]
(ed. Originally published December 10, 2013 – here!) [An Origins Story] I grew up in bucolic, Great Falls, Virginia – a sleepy, suburban village that transformed before my young eyes from a community of rolling horse farms and their … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged 1990s, anti racism, fairfax county, ginger, great falls, little eichmanns, lobbyists, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupy wall street, ows, private sector, ruling class, tech boom, technocracy, the beltway, virginia, washington dc, wealth, wealth disparity, white, white supremacy, whiteness
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From Saying ‘Officer’ to Screaming ‘Pig’; How I Learned to Stop Equivocating and Hate the State (Part 1)
(ed. Originally published December 10, 2013 – here!) [Introduction] Four days after I got out of the LA County Jail, released on my own recognizance after a brief three day stint there, an unarmed 19-year-old was shot and killed by … Continue reading
Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy
Tagged "buckshot", acab, anaheim, anarchism, anarchy, Anna Drive, cops lie, ftp, kendrec mcdade, lapd, license to kill, manuel diaz, murder, nick bennalack, pasadena, pigs, police brutality, racism, reached for his waistband, the state, throw downs, twinkie defense, waistband shootings, white supremacy
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