Reportedly over 130 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have entered the 100th day of the hunger strike protesting their INFINITE detention. The US Government has denied and underplayed the hunger strike which began on February 6th, 2013, after cells were stripped and Qu’rans were searched following a fight with the guards. “The 166 prisoners have been [...] Continue reading → 
by JoNina Ervin, Acting Chair, Memphis Black Autonomy Federation A Defeat For Mayor A C Wharton The most significant outcome of Saturday’s demonstration was that at least 1,200 people (according to estimates by local mainstream news media), the majority of them Memphis residents, defied Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and came downtown in pouring rain [...] Continue reading → 
by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin To grasp what happened at the March 30, 2013 Klan demonstration, you need to understand what led up to everything. The Klan said it came to Memphis to protest the renaming of the racist Memphis Confederate Parks system. Of course, all police preparations and media reporting claimed that the cops “had” to [...] Continue reading → 
[Last year, just before the Marikana Miner strike in South Africa, I had the opportunity to interview Joe Hani, founder of Taking Back South Africa campaign, who has written on Occupy South Africa for Reflections on a Revolution among others. A month later, we had a chance to do a short second interview to reflect a bit [...] Continue reading → 
On October 6, Wal-Mart warehouse strikers won their demand to be rehired with strike pay for lost hours. Workers had been on strike since Sept 15, after being fired for presenting a letter to management. We sat down for a brief interview with strikers John and Holly. Listen: And Visit : Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) Continue reading → 
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.” – Frederick Douglass Decent housing should be an absolute right for all people. But, we continue to live in a [...] Continue reading → 
A guide to building a successful solidarity network along the lines of the Seattle Solidarity Network, written by two SeaSol organisers, in text and PDF pamphlet format. by Cold B and T Barnacle Contents: Introduction ~ Defining the scope ~ Prerequisites ~ Starting Fights ~ Demands ~ Strategy ~ A Taxonomy of Tactics ~ Meetings [...] Continue reading → 
What is the relationship of the autonomy of the oppressed to the collective of the commune? In Occupy, which groups should be autonomous, and which should not? What is the relationship of race, class, gender, age, etc., before and after the revolution? After the overthrow of the state and seizing the means of production, how do we [...] Continue reading → 
by Derrick Jensen on Feb 1, 2012 • 5:43 pm We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A weakened planet is less capable of supporting life, human or otherwise. Thus the health of the real world is primary, [...] Continue reading → 
by Liberté Locke on Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 4:00am I was raped by a boyfriend on August 18th, 2006. The very next day I held back tears while I lied to a stranger over the phone about why I was unavailable to go in that day for a second interview for a job that [...] Continue reading →