Category Archives: Student movement

random notes on a tuesday…

First bloke loves daughter’s punk look, AAP, The West Australian, September 13, 2010. People Of Color Organize! is a new-ish (March 2010) blog edited by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Ernesto Aguilar. Ernesto is described as being a “former anti-authoritarian”, a … Continue reading

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Reflections on S11 and AWOL

A comrade has written the following and at their request I’m publishing it here to facilitate further disco. Write dr.woooo[at]gmail[dot]com for moar. Reflections on AWOL and the WEF protests, Melbourne, September 2000 The ‘Autonomous Web of Liberation’ (AWOL) was a … Continue reading

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S11 + 10

The term ‘September 11’ is now forever associated with the terrorist attacks upon New York and Washington in 2001; in 2000, however, ‘S11’ was the name given to ‘three days of protest + carnival’ against the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit of … Continue reading

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Paul Howes

I keep getting hits to my blog from users either searching for the term ‘Paul Howes’ or clicking on a link from his Wikipedia entry. Both lead to a post dated February 1, 2008, and titled Would the real anarchists … Continue reading

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slackbastard ~versus~ The University of Adelaide

My blog is apparently being blocked by the Adelaide University web filtering system due to its “Militancy and Extremism”. Meanies.

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It’s like 1977 again, apparently

‘Anarchy is a la mode. It’s like 1977 again’ write Mark Davis and Jacqueline Maley in The Sydney Moaning Herald (July 23, 2010), all ’cause one of them stylish Anarchist crashes PM’s policy party (AAP, July 23, 2010). “His youthful … Continue reading

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“My thought is that while violence is always regrettable…”

In the context of a successful, and now several years old, community boycott of a formerly fascist-friendly Melbourne pub, (The Worst) Scabs Don’t Prosper… is a proposition that has provoked a good deal of ire, not least from ‘a concerned … Continue reading

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To be or not to be … an anarchist

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of fucking trolls, Or to take arms against a sea of deadshits, And by opposing end them? See … Continue reading

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NUS

Update : Forgot to add. Kids in America, Student Grant (from Sussex) and even students in the country that is Australia-minus-two-letters have been occupying themselves recently by undertaking crash courses in the nature of the repressive state apparatus. Several hours … Continue reading

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Croatian fascism in Australia

No place here for nationalist thuggery Selma Milovanovic The Age January 19, 2010 “A festival of primitivism.” This is how a picture caption in today’s Jutarnji List, the best-selling tabloid in Croatia, summed up this year’s instalment of ethnic violence … Continue reading

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