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Posts Tagged ‘Police State

Democracy Now! does a follow-up story today on yesterday’s hour-long expose on John Towery, the military and police informant who spied on PMR, IWW, and SDS groups in Olympia and Tacoma.
John Towery contributed to a document released in March 2009 about integrating and coordinating intelligence for the purpose of state repression. Other contributors who may [...]

Tacoma/Olympia Anarchist Infiltrator, on Democracy Now!

Posted by: lettrist on: July 28, 2009

Interview on Democracy Now!
There is a large story on Democracy Now! today (a national exposé no less) about a Ft. Lewis intelligence officer — known as John Jacobs to actvists, as Agent Orange to the Army and riseup community, and as John J. Towery to his family — who infiltrated numerous anti-war groups, student activist [...]

This Blog is Tapped

Posted by: lettrist on: July 1, 2009

I posted an article under a fairly well-known pseudonym a year and a half ago onto Seattle.indymedia.org which included a picture I took of some M2 Bradley Fighting vehicles that were soon to be shipped out from the Port of Tacoma. That made a big spectacle of myself. The article (and my real name too) [...]

“Any criminal can get a lawyer and make up a story”

Posted by: lettrist on: May 11, 2009

Nigerian police aggression, which includes pointing loaded automatic weapons at drivers who have done nothing to arouse suspicion, is necessary, say the Nigerian Police. One task force called SARS is known for stopping cars at random telling the drivers to “get out now!”
Last year alone, says Nigerian Marxist Iyabo Aje, was “a catalogue of woe.” [...]

Beneath the Pavement, the Beach

Posted by: lettrist on: December 30, 2008

Three years after the 2005 riots in the suburbs of France post-Marxist sociologist, Slavoj Zizek, wrote that the rebellion was meaningless and without “any positive utopian vision.”
Enter: a post-ideological era.
It’s not that we no longer have ideologies, of course, but the dominating capitalist ideology has disguised itself so well that the ruling class can get [...]

Athens: We are the Image of the Future

Posted by: lettrist on: December 14, 2008

The anarchist movement in Greece is world-renowned, especially now. Anarchist neighborhoods throughout Europe – such as Copenhagen’s Christiania neighborhood or Athen’s Exarcheia district – have battled with governments to maintain autonomy. Each time agents of government suppression target the neighborhoods, the anarchists strike back. But this time, all over the world.
The bullets that killed Athenian [...]

Ground Noise and Static

Posted by: lettrist on: October 8, 2008

Our goal at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions was to cover what was happening in the streets. This included a 10 to 15 minute daily video dispatch as well as blogs from each convention. (Click here to see all of that). The daily video dispatches are viewable online and were also aired on television [...]

Interview with G8 Activist Wu Ming

Posted by: lettrist on: July 29, 2008

Wu Ming (无名) is an activist from the Seattle-Tacoma area who was at the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan, a rural resort area on the island of Hokkaido.
Read this year’s summit statements for the states’ perspective on what had been accomplished this year. Hundreds of NGOs and a greater number of individuals signed the [...]

A friend and I are working on several video installments which look at the affects of gentrification in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood.
The first video is one in which we interviewed Tacoma hip hop artists who live in the Hilltop neighborhood, have been or still are long time gang members, some of whom spent time in prison [...]

The Futurist Military Front

Posted by: lettrist on: December 7, 2007

The military has always developed the most cutting-edge technological devices in society. This has given rise to a production scheme, a mode of production, in society that is driven and led by the militaristic enterprise, or the military industrial complex.
What we are witnessing is the beginning of the military technological singularity. Militaries in many countries [...]