Category Archives: Patriarchy

Love In A Time of Crowdsourcing

Posted on November 13, 2017 by olaasm

“We’re fucked.” I don’t know exactly when I came to this sad realization. It might have been while I was methodically deconstructing my own cigarette butts a few weeks ago, searching for the few flakes of unsmoked tobacco that … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Liberalism, Patriarchy, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged capitalism, central america, extraction, nicaragua, OLAASM, ometepe, selinas, solidarity, sustainable, tourism | 1 Comment

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 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

The Struggle for the Health of Laboring Bodies

Posted on March 2, 2014 by olaasm

[ed. this post candidly discusses topics that may be triggering – particularly the institutionalized violence of the health care industry as it is wielded against laboring bodies and other traumatic, first-hand experiences of the author.] I am asked to suffer … Continue reading →

Posted in culture industry, Liberalism, Patriarchy, Queer, Sex Work, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged capitalism, colposcopy, doctors, harm reduction, health, healthcare, HPV, industrialization, laboring bodies, medicine, pap-smear, peer-support, planned parenthood, sex work, solidarity, trauma, vulvar biopsy | Leave a comment

No H.O.M.E. For Nazis in Beverly Hills

Posted on February 27, 2014 by olaasm

There has been a long-running, “low-grade street war” against the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. In the Ukraine’s ongoing Euromaidan demos, it is said that neo-fascists “make up about 30% of protesters.” President Nicholas Madura recently invoked the specter of fascism to describe the … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, Sex Work, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged antifa, antifascist, Beverly Hills, collaboration, complicity, fascist, HOME Beverly Hills, James Stern, los angeles, Najee Ali, National Socialist Movement, NAZI, nazis, no platform, NSM, OLAASM, opportunism, white supremacy | 8 Comments

A Eulogy for The Ghost of Tom (Geode) Pt.1

Posted on January 13, 2014 by olaasm

“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 | 4 Comments

Via Chicago

Posted on January 8, 2014 by olaasm

(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 | Leave a comment

On the Sith Order Of Things and Lee Baca’s Doge

Posted on January 7, 2014 by olaasm

“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 | 2 Comments

Kill the Tom Morello In Your Head

Posted on January 7, 2014 by olaasm

(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 | 6 Comments