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During my afternoon of running from ear drum piercing sonic weapons and tear gas canisters while being chased in circles by dog and baton wielding cops in working class neighborhoods miles from the convention center I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of locals.  Here's what they said ... with a small dose of riot porn on the side.

Multiple simultaneous marches bring attention to the affairs of the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. It was all fun and games until somebody put an eye out. Includes critical visual analysis of why it turned so ugly so fast.

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more info @ http://www.globaljusticeaction.org

The first SantaCon ever, 1998(?) NYC.
Merry Christmas from Team Spider. on U2B

...it was 3 days long

NYAF ~ Today

NO Anarchist Action: Direct Solidarity in Post Katrina Hurricane Zones

Download here | Bandwidth challenged hereThis is a compilation of 10 action related videos from the Hurricane Relief Series assembled specifically for screening at the New York Anarchist Film Festival. Other videos you might recognize will also be screening: Get That Camera!, Mandate?, Watch This! and 50 Shots an a Mule.

These films will be screened Friday between approximately 5-7 pm
@ #9 Bleecker Street (The Yippie Museum).

Saturday I will be speaking on a Josh Wolf/Free the Media panel in conjuction with the Anarchist Bookfair. The freshly squeezed Josh Wolf will be joining us via video chat from San Francisco.

BLUESTOCKINGS BOOKSTORE –
Saturday, April 14th @ 7PM -
$5 Suggested towards Josh's legal defense fund (no one will be turned
away for lack of funds)
172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington

Saturday Night GBC & the International DJ Guild will be hosting a large group of aliens planning to invade New York, please join us.

Partially due to the NEW dangers inherit in reporting 1st hand accounts of dissent and corruption, independently, in a fascist society and partially due to my perception of the rapidly changing world of online video... This site's going to be a lot different from here out. I am currently working on a new video show concept and hope to have a new site and show for your enjoyment in a month or 2. I wish it could be sooner but there are many details to work out. This is gonna be cool and you can play along at home. ;!)

Vlog~Flux will continue on with more frequent posting and fewer original videos. There are a ton of quality, truthful programs available to us on the internet these days but It seems that a Mentos & Coke mentality has taken over the minds of the general online video consumer. Vlog~Flux will be a place for cultural, documentary and news video that intend to inform you of your place in history and help you decide what you are comfortable doing to help shape the future by exposing you to evidence and stories that show the under belly of corporatism, nationalism, fundimentalism, rascism & capitalism. (other isms may also be addressed). Basically, expect a post every day or 2, very few will be my Original deProgramming and feel free to get excited about the new "Show" you'll be among the 1st to watch in a month or so.
~ Thanks for subscribing, Flux

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Call For Submissions

The First Ever New York Anarchist Film Festival will honor the life and work of Brad Will, a friend and comrade killed by a government sniper in Oaxaca Mexico on October 27, 2006. We will screen a cut of Brad’s remarkable footage that documents a determined revolutionary people’s uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The New York Anarchist Film Festival is now accepting submissions. We are seeking videos & multi-media pertaining to people’s movements & uprisings. The shorter the better. Rebellious, strong insurrectionary & diverse subversive political & cultural content encouraged.

Deadline March 25th, 2007
Contact: WarcryCinema

Visual Berlin Friday, April 21
19:00 Infos, Discussion about Visual Art
21:00 Shortfilms "Mandate?" and "Our Country"
by New York based group Glass Bead Collective
22:30 Breaks, Big-Beat and Elektrofunk by DJ Dial X of upreyes from Berlin. The Live-Duo Torpedotrickser fires Rare Grooves, mixed with Breakbeats and other electronic pep-ups from their laptops.

The Chicago Anarchist Film Festival is the culmination of a week of May Day celebrations in Chicago on the 120th anniversary of the Haymaket Incident. The festival presents radical cinema in the city that is the birthplace of May Day. The festival organizers welcome anarchists, the anarcho-curious, anarcho-friendly, and others to enjoy the line-up of films and other planned May Day activities.
"New Orleans, Public Housing and Black Panthers ..Oh My!"
Screens Sunday May 7, 6pm

Related Links ::: Visual Berlin, 6th Annual Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, Watch Mandate? & Our Country OnLine, Watch New Orleans, Public Housing and Black Panthers ..Oh My! OnLine, The History of 420

My Odeo Channel (odeo/3f794da1e096f9f7)

Capitalism & Racism in Religion
Several people have occupied St. Augustine Catholic Church in the Treme area of New Orleans, for over a week to date, to draw attention to the unjust treatment this Parrish is receiving from the archdiocese.

This will be history some day.

Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton stopped by this evening. You'll see it soon.

Related Links ::: VIDEO: Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton at St. Augustine Church, VIDEO: Occupied St Augustine Church Press Conference, Catholics On Line ~SPIN, 1/2 a story from KATC, NOLA views, Save St. Augustine Parish Website, Official St. Augustine Parish Website

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+1 > Why did the people of NO & Houston not do more thinking for themselves? Why wait days for food and Aid from the Government when there are closed restraunts nearby? Why sit in hours of gridlock while your trying to save your life instead TAKING a lane from the other side of the highway? Why did people Insist on dutifully following orders from AUTHORITIES that defy all common sense?

Why have all the free & brave people of the world turned into lemmings as our approach to the cliff quickens? Do lemmings need to be saved? Since Lemmingism crosses all color & religous bounderies maybe that would be a good criteria for the population reduction efforts our AUTHORITIES seem to think is necessary.... far better than the current plan of killing the black,brown,yellow,gay,mulism,poor people ... If the population is to be reduced; I would like to think we were keeping people who were capable of independent thought and action...

Windfalls of Disaster: Information on Reconstruction Contracts

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The Mysteries of New Orleans
Twenty-five Questions about the Murder of the Big Easy
By Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot

We recently spent a week in New Orleans and Southern Louisiana interviewing relief workers, community activists, urban planners, artists, and neighborhood folks. Even as the latest flood waters from Hurricane Rita recede, the city remains submerged in anger and frustration.

Indeed, the most toxic debris in New Orleans isn't the sinister gray sludge that coats the streets of the historic Creole neighborhood of Treme or the Lower Ninth Ward, but all the unanswered questions that have accumulated in the wake of so much official betrayal and hypocrisy. Where outsiders see simple "incompetence" or "failure of leadership," locals are more inclined to discern deliberate design and planned neglect -- the murder, not the accidental death, of a great city.

In almost random order, here are twenty-five of the urgent questions that deeply trouble the local people we spoke with. Until a grand jury or congressional committee begins to uncover the answers, the moral (as opposed to simply physical) reconstruction of the New Orleans region will remain impossible.

1. Why did the floodwalls along the 17th Street Canal only break on the New Orleans side and not on the Metairie side? Was this the result of neglect and poor maintenance by New Orleans authorities?

2. Who owned the huge barge that was catapulted through the wall of the Industrial Canal, killing hundreds in the Lower Ninth Ward -- the most deadly hit-and-run accident in U.S. history?

3. All of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish east of the Industrial Canal were drowned, except for the Almonaster-Michoud Industrial District along Chef Menteur Highway. Why was industrial land apparently protected by stronger levees than nearby residential neighborhoods?

4. Why did Mayor Ray Nagin, in defiance of his own official disaster plan, delay twelve to twenty-four hours in ordering a mandatory evacuation of the city?

5. Why did Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff not declare Katrina an "Incident of National Significance" until August 31 -- thus preventing the full deployment of urgently needed federal resources?

6. Why wasn't the nearby U.S.S. Bataan immediately sent to the aid of New Orleans? The huge amphibious-landing ship had a state-of-the-art, 600-bed hospital, water and power plants, helicopters, food supplies, and 1,200 sailors eager to join the rescue effort.

7. Similarly, why wasn't the Baltimore-based hospital ship USS Comfort ordered to sea until August 31, or the 82nd Airborne Division deployed in New Orleans until September 5?

8. Why does Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld balk at making public his "severe weather execution order" that established the ground rules for the military response to Katrina? Did the Pentagon, as a recent report by the Congressional Research Service suggests, fail to take initiatives within already authorized powers, then attempt to transfer the blame to state and local governments?

9. Why were the more than 350 buses of the New Orleans Regional Transportation Authority -- eventually flooded where they were parked -- not mobilized to evacuate infirm, poor, and car-less residents?

10. What significance attaches to the fact that the chair of the Transportation Authority, appointed by Mayor Nagin, is Jimmy Reiss, the wealthy leader of the New Orleans Business Council which has long advocated a thorough redevelopment of (and cleanup of crime in) the city?

11. Under what authority did Mayor Nagin meet confidentially in Dallas with the "forty thieves" -- white business leaders led by Reiss -- reportedly to discuss the triaging of poorer Black areas and a corporate-led master plan for rebuilding the city?

12. Everyone knows about a famous train called "the City of New Orleans." Why was there no evacuation by rail? Was Amtrak part of the disaster planning? If not, why not?

13. Why were patients at private hospitals like Tulane evacuated by helicopter while their counterparts at the Charity Hospital were left to suffer and die?

14. Was the failure to adequately stock food, water, portable toilets, cots, and medicine at the Louisiana Superdome a deliberate decision -- as many believe -- to force poorer residents to leave the city?

15. The French Quarter has one of the highest densities of restaurants in the nation. Once the acute shortages of food and water at the Superdome and the Convention Center were known, why didn't officials requisition supplies from hotels and restaurants located just a few blocks away? (As it happened, vast quantities of food were simply left to spoil.)

16. City Hall's emergency command center had to be abandoned early in the crisis because its generator supposedly ran out of diesel fuel. Likewise many critical-care patients died from heat or equipment failure after hospital backup generators failed. Why were supplies of diesel fuel so inadequate? Why were so many hospital generators located in basements that would obviously flood?

17. Why didn't the Navy or Coast Guard immediately airdrop life preservers and rubber rafts in flooded districts? Why wasn't such life-saving equipment stocked in schools and hospitals?

18. Why weren't evacuee centers established in Audubon Park and other unflooded parts of Uptown, where locals could be employed as cleanup crews?

19. Is the Justice Department investigating the Jim Crow-like response of the suburban Gretna police who turned back hundreds of desperate New Orleans citizens trying to walk across the Mississippi River bridge -- an image reminiscent of Selma in 1965? New Orleans, meanwhile, abounds in eyewitness accounts of police looting and illegal shootings: Will any of this ever be investigated?

20. Who is responsible for the suspicious fires that have swept the city? Why have so many fires occurred in blue-collar areas that have long been targets of proposed gentrification, such as the Section 8 homes on Constance Street in the Lower Garden District or the wharfs along the river in Bywater?

21. Where were FEMA's several dozen vaunted urban search-and-rescue teams? Aside from some courageous work by Coast Guard helicopter crews, the early rescue effort was largely mounted by volunteers who towed their own boats into the city after hearing an appeal on television.

22. We found a massive Red Cross presence in Baton Rouge but none in some of the smaller Louisiana towns that have mounted the most impressive relief efforts. The poor Cajun community of Ville Platte, for instance, has at one time or another fed and housed more than 5,000 evacuees; but the Red Cross, along with FEMA, has refused almost daily appeals by local volunteers to send professional personnel and aid. Why then give money to the Red Cross?

23. Why isn't FEMA scrambling to create a central registry of everyone evacuated from the greater New Orleans region? Will evacuees receive absentee ballots and be allowed to vote in the crucial February municipal elections that will partly decide the fate of the city?

24. As politicians talk about "disaster czars" and elite-appointed reconstruction commissions, and as architects and developers advance utopian designs for an ethnically cleansed "new urbanism" in New Orleans, where is any plan for the substantive participation of the city's ordinary citizens in their own future?

25. Indeed, on the fortieth anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, what has happened to democracy?