Category Archives: Archival

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department

Posted on December 27, 2014 by olaasm

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department – But Definitely Theirs Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged Al Sharpton, Antonio French, Bill Bratton, broken windows, Chief Beck, Community Policing, Connie Rice, copaganda, Darren Wilson, Every 28 Hours, Ezell Ford, Ferguson, I Can't Breathe, Jasmyne Cannick, Jessie Jackson, Kroll, lapd, los angeles, model, Najee Ali, negotiated management, police brutality, PredPol, propaganda, Ron Johnson, This Stops Today, Tom Jackson, white supremacy, Zero Tolerance | 7 Comments

At the Intersection of Gamergate & Weevgate, Abusers & Their Knowing Apologists

Posted on October 12, 2014 by olaasm

[Editor’s Note: After noxious, not-so-crypto-fascist Andrew Auernheimer (aka “weev”) published a rambling, racist screed on a white supremacist blog – our community took several journalists to task for work they had previously done to obscure his odious, Nazi politics. OLAASM recently published our own … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, culture industry, Liberalism, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, white supremacy | Tagged abuse, art, bullying, cfaa, dr.sketchy, eff, gamergate, harassment, internet, kathy sierra, misogyny, Molly Crabapple, natasha lennard, occupy, online abuse, propaganda, quinn norton, sarah jeong, threats, trolling, trolls, vice, Weev, weevgate | 7 Comments

The Blankest Canvas: On Art, Opportunism, Erasure & Whiteness

Posted on October 7, 2014 by olaasm

“An empty canvas is full.” – Robert Rauschenberg 1951 was a big fucking year for whiteness. The United States, the last scion of both Western Imperialism and the white supremacy at its core, would finally fight to a stalemate … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, culture industry, Liberalism, Media, occupy, Sex Work, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged andrew auernheimer, authority, celebrity left, colonialism, journalism, laurie penny, media, Molly Crabapple, NAZI, nazis, propaganda, quinn norton, Weev, white supremacy, whiteness, whitewashing | 24 Comments

Stranger Danger: The Infiltration of Dissident Communities by Freedom House’s Sarah Kendzior

Posted on September 26, 2014 by olaasm

I can forgive you if you can’t recognize a hustle when you see one, let alone identify when you yourself are being targeted by that very hustle. Con artists, after all, rely on your confidence and trust in order to … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, culture industry, Liberalism, Media, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged Bro Bash, CIA, Doug Williams, ethics, Ferguson, Freedom House, Jacobin, Jacobingazi, journalism, libel, Lies, Mike Brown, neoconservative, rape threat, Sarah Kendzior, smear | 28 Comments

The People v. Charlie Beck: An Indictment of Five Years of LAPD Abuse

Posted on May 20, 2014 by olaasm

Shortly after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck submitted formal notification of his intent to serve another, 5-year term atop the United States’ third largest police force, the sycophantic, Los Angeles media – long-storied and ever-faithful propagandists to the city’s powerful … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, BRLP, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Skid Row, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged activism, Alesia Thomas, BRLP, broken windows, Bruce Beaird, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, corruption, Drone, Joel Rubin, la, LACAN, lapd, los angeles, OLAASM, organizing, police brutality, Reggie Doucet Jr, Safer Cities Initiative, Shaunn Hillmann, SO1, Steven Eugene Washington, Stingray, Stop LAPD Spying, surveillance, war on the poor, white supremacy, William Bratton | 8 Comments

“While Their Eyes Were Watching Don: On the Systemic Supremacisms That Really Run LA”

Posted on May 14, 2014 by olaasm

“It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few.” – 1 Maccabees, 3:18 A racist, real estate tycoon and a beautiful young woman far his junior enjoyed prime, courtside seats … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Patriarchy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged capitalism, Charlie Beck, Chief Beck, Clippers, colonialism, corruption, domestic drones, Donald Sterling, drones, eric garcetti, Fascism, FIDF, Horace Frank, IDF, Israel, LA Clippers, lapd, LAPPL, los angeles, Maccabees, Maccabiah Games, Max Blumenthal, myLAPD, myNYPD, nepotism, police brutality, police drones, police spying, public relations, real estate, Rudyard Kipling, settler colonialism, speculation, Steve Soboroff, surveillance, surveillance state, Tyler Izen, venality, White Man's Burden, white supremacy, Zionism | 3 Comments

With Allies Like These… (A report back from the Red/Black Bloc in Chicago)

Posted on May 3, 2014 by olaasm

[ed. Reports from the streets of Chicago’s May Day march revealed, once again, that the “labor movement” many comrades wax so nostalgic about has betrayed fundamental, historical facts of our movement. While we have long known the SEIU and other liberal power brokers are … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, Liberalism, Media, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, action, anarchism, anarchist, chicago, demo, deportations, ftp, ICE, ICIRR, labor, march, May Day, reformists, SEIU, undoc, undocumented | 7 Comments

The Blister

Posted on February 21, 2014 by olaasm

“The Blister” – a report from 2012’s NATO SUMMIT in Chicago (ed. find out how you can still support the #NATO3 – here!) The city is draped in police. The kings of empires are meeting here. The coalition of … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor | Tagged chicago, demo, globalization, marching, medics, mutual aid, NATO3, police brutality, solidarity, summit, summit hopping | 1 Comment

“Watchdog or Lapdog?” (1991 Revisited)

Posted on February 15, 2014 by olaasm

[ed. After talking to a veteran comrade about our most recent posts (on Sheriff Baca, Fullerton and the LAPD), he dug through his archives and produced the following long-form article about police accountability, originally published in 1991 in “Minority Trendsletter,” a … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged 1991, accountability, AIM, California, Charlie Beck, civilian review board, copwatch, eric garcetti, fpd, fullerton, kelly thomas, lapd, los angeles, movement, murder, NCOPA, pigs, police, police brutality, police commissions, rodney king, Steve Soboroff, violence | 2 Comments

Daring To State The Obvious: I Had A Great Time On Drugs And Getting Laid At Occupy Los Angeles

Posted on February 2, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Republished from a comrade. Viewable in original form here!) The activist and founder of the OccupyWallSt.org website Justine Tunney was covered in the Pando Daily for making some adoring comments about her current employer, Google. “Google is the one company I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Archival, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Skid Row, War on the Poor | Tagged bongos, commodification, drugs, google, jay z, justine tunney, liberalism, malcolm harris, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupyla, ola, opportunism, ows, party, rock and roll, sex | 1 Comment