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“I get so emo, I could die” / Drop the attitude, fucker / In music, nothing happens…

[Update : Jack Sargeant writes about suicide, girls, and the difficulties involved in giving all your love to just one genre in ‘It’s hard to be emo and be respected’, The Australian, May 3, 2007.] ::: I GET SO EMO, … Continue reading

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Upcoming Events

All Ages Benefit Gig for G20 Arrestees : When : 8pm, Friday, March 16 Where : Irene Warehouse, 5 Pitt Street, Brunswick What : Pisschrist, DJs, food, drink Entry : $5 Latin American Solidarity Network / Red de Solidaridad con … Continue reading

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Anarchy, Memory & ‘Forgetting’: Salvador Puig Antich

“Official history is the bourgeoisie’s history, and its mission today is to wreath nationalism, liberal democracy and the market economy in myth, so as to have us believe that these are eternal, immutable and immovable.” The Age has published a … Continue reading

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New(ish) documentary film on Sacco & Vanzetti

On this day: Rosa Luxemburg murdered by the Freikorps, 1919; fascists form coalition in European Parliament, 2007. Red Rosa now has vanished too, Where she lies is hid from view, She told the poor what life is about, And so … Continue reading

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What are you, Deaf or something?

On Leftwrites, Jeff Sparrow has drawn my attention to an article by Lennard J. Davis, ‘Deafness and the Riddle of Identity’ (The Chronicle Review, January 12, 2007). It raises a number of interesting questions (see below) in relation to notions … Continue reading

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Anarchism in America // The Free Voice of Labor

Fucking Americans.* Kool Keith recently lent me his copy of a DVD published by AK Press: Anarchism in America (2006). It contains two films: the first is Anarchism in America (1981, 75 minutes), the second The Free Voice of Labor: … Continue reading

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¿Qué está sucediendo en América Latina?

What’s happening in Latin America? Stories and films in a friendly environment — music by DJ Mono. Featuring: + Rosa del Carmen Curihuentro : journalist and Mapuche indigenous activist from Chile + Heriberto Salas : ‘People for the Defence of … Continue reading

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The Continuing Appeal of Crasstafarianism

Huh. That’s interesting. I-and-I Googled ‘Crasstafarianism’ and found this: from a neat-o site, to boot! Anyways, as is the seemingly inevitable outcome of any significant (and even non-significant) cultural/political phenomenon, someone’s gone and written a book about it. Below is … Continue reading

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Salvador Puig Antich : The Film

On 2 March 1974, the young militant of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (Iberian Liberation Movement), Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte. This is his story and that of the … Continue reading

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Fair dinkum Aussie values

Song Australia Aussie Aussie Aussie I am a fair dinkum Aussie We all are fair dinkum Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi Captain Cook’s Aboriginal trace Changed the whole continent’s face Black, brown, white, human race Buddies, mates, our southern place Harbour … Continue reading

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