Posted by: lettrist on: July 29, 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: April 5, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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