Category Archives: War on the Poor

Los tatuajes de un pasado bucanero

Posted on November 22, 2017 by olaasm

“Por mis sueños va ligero de equipaje, sobre un cascarón de nuez mi corazón de viaje, luciendo los tatuajes de un pasado bucanero, de un velero al abordaje” – Joaquin Sabina Otro viaje de visa se acerca y mi … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged borders, el salvador, hostel, indiegogo, migration, nicaragua, the black cat, tourism, travel | Leave a comment

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

Berkeley College Republicans “Turning Into A Fascist Front Group”

Posted on February 7, 2017 by olaasm

It seems there are two kinds of journalists in the world today: those who pal around with fascists to hear their story – to find out what makes them tick and share supposed fascist “fragility” in their own, self-centering and glamorous profile … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, California, Liberalism, Media, Queer, Uncategorized, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged alt-right, bannon, bcr, berkeley, breitbart, cal, college republicans, fascists, make america great again, milo, nazis, resistance, trump, ucb, white nationalism, white supremacy, yiannopoulos | 2 Comments

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

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

What Is To Be Undone?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by olaasm

Submitted by a comrade from Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) Timed to occur just before the UN opened a Global Climate Summit, the Peoples’ Climate March in New York drew about 400,000 people into the streets, and … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Action, BRLP, California, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged Flood Wall Street, liberalism, NYC, OLAASM, PCM, People's Climate March, radical, radicalism, revolution, struggle | Leave a comment

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