Tag Archives: liberalism

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

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

Why We Go: On Taking the “I” Out of Nietzsche and Becoming Wetzscheans Together

Posted on January 29, 2014 by olaasm

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 | 12 Comments

Occupy’s “Bloody Mary” – No Joking Matter

Posted on January 26, 2014 by olaasm

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 | 2 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

Bro, Do You Even Alexander Berkman? On Ghosts and Hedges’ Other ‘Invisible’ Things

Posted on January 6, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published November 8, 2013 – here!) “I believe in strategy. And so did many anarchists, including [Alexander] Berkman…” – Chris Hedges, Our Invisible Revolution (Oct. 28, 2013) While we weren’t startled to see Chris Hedges admit he’d “prefer the … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, Chris Hedges, culture industry, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Media, occupy, Patriarchy, Prisons, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged alexander berkman, anarchism, anarchists, Chris Hedges, colonizer, hegemony, history, invisible revolution, liberal, liberalism, OLAASM, recuperation, savior, snitchjacket, topiary, truthdig, white supremacy | 1 Comment

Lies, Damned Lies and Stigmatizing Sex Workers

Posted on January 6, 2014 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published September 18, 2013 – here!) It would be a lie to say I didn’t have any exposure to sex work or even have access to the candid lives of sex workers themselves before I met my current … Continue reading →

Posted in ACAB/FTP, Archival, California, Liberalism, Los Angeles, Patriarchy, Prisons, Queer, War on the Poor, white supremacy | Tagged acab, ally, allyship, cis-het patriarchal capitalist white supremacy, destabilization, doubt, ftp, heteronormativity, intersectionality, labor, laboring bodies, liberal, liberalism, marcia pally, masculinity, matrix of domination, patriarchy, patricia hill collins, perspective, rescue industry, sex work, struggle, swop, swop-la, work, workers | Leave a comment

Mario Brito, the Leader of OccupyLA & the LWV

Posted on December 31, 2013 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published April 5, 2012 – here! Brito would later famously be chased from Pershing Square during May Day’s “General Strike” by his “followers.”) This week, the League of Women Voters announced an event featuring Mario Brito speaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, Liberalism, occupy, Patriarchy | Tagged big labor, charlatans, co-optation, democrats, front organization, Good JobsLA, leader, liberalism, liberals, mario brito, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupyla, ola, opportunists, ows, SEIU | 1 Comment

Create, Take, Take Over and Be Free!

Posted on December 31, 2013 by olaasm

(ed. Originally published on March 14, 2012 – here! Background: On March 5, 2012, several thousand “occupy” protesters and their allies descended on the Capitol in Sacramento to “demand” nothing more than their human right to education. Or so many of them thought. … Continue reading →

Posted in Action, Archival, Liberalism, occupy | Tagged anarchism, co-opt, co-optation, demands, education, facilitators, liberal, liberalism, march 5, occupy, occupy education, occupy the capitol, OLAASM, reform, reformism, rotunda, sacramento | Leave a comment

OLA FUCKS UP LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Posted on December 30, 2013 by olaasm

OccupyLA FUCKS UP LOCAL COMMUNITIES (ed. Originally published Feb. 28, 2012 – here!) Background: Reformist members of OLA have been holding a picnic, without GA approval, and with the overt opposition of Radical OLA, in Macarthur Park. After Revolutionary Autonomous … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, Liberalism, occupy | Tagged acab, ftp, liberal, liberalism, macarthur park, occupy, occupy los angeles, occupyla, ola, parachute activism, RAC, snitch, white privilege | 2 Comments