{"id":557,"date":"2007-01-18T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2007-01-18T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T09:22:26","slug":"go-read-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Go read something"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Southern Poverty Law Centre<\/strong> (SPLC) has released a new issue of their Intelligence Report<\/em> (No.127, Winter 2007). Among other items of interest, it contains an interview<\/a> with Anthony Pierpont<\/em>, the former fuehrer of neo-Nazi record label Panzerfaust Records<\/strong> (1998–2005), which collapsed<\/a> in 2005 following Pierpont’s drug bust<\/a> and the discovery by his bonehead comrade and business partner Bryant Cecchini<\/em> (alias Byron Calvert) of Pierpont’s birth certificate, which revealed that his mum was in fact… Mexican! Cecchini has since gone on to establish Free Your Mind<\/strong> — while Pierpont uses the funds generated by dumbarse boneheads the world over to celebrate his new-found yuppiedom — but before the split the pair was responsible for establishing Project Schoolyard<\/strong> in 2004, which distributed shit racist muzak to schoolchildren… tho’ on the brighter side, also prompted Insurgence Records<\/a><\/strong> to release a free sampler of their own: the excellent Project Boneyard<\/strong>. (See also<\/em> : ‘Hate Rock to Spiritual Revelation — The Transformation of George Burdi: An Interview by Brian W. Blueskye’<\/a>; David Gergen interviews Ingo Hasselbach<\/a>)<\/p>\n

In other news, the Report<\/em> reports<\/a> that Nation of Islam<\/a><\/strong> leader Louis Farrakhan<\/em> — who, since his appointment in the 70s, and in keeping with the teachings of nutty NOI (almost) founder Elijah Muhammad<\/em>, preached “a belief system that includes the idea that a black scientist named Yacub<\/em> created whites, seen as inherently evil ‘blue-eyed devils’, in a test tube 6,600 years ago”! — has effectively retired as a result of a deteriorating prostate condition. (See also<\/em> : Sing-A-Long with Louis Farrakhan<\/a>; The Malcolm X Project at Columbia University<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Oh yeah. The new edition of Counterpunch<\/em> — “America’s Best Political Newsletter” according to some zine I’ve never heard of called Out of Bounds<\/em> — contains a neat article by John Ross<\/em> (author of \u00a1Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible: Chronicles of Resistance 2000-2006<\/a><\/em>, Nation Books, New Yawk, 2006) on ‘Oaxaca’s Rising’<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…Still stippling public walls posted with “Do Not Post” warnings and private businesses (a Neurotics Anonymous billboard was an appealing target) is a ubiquitous image of a supermarket-shopping cart filled with rocks and ready for the next march. Anarchist A’s are everywhere. A little girl in a pink dress hugs a large bomb. The machetes of San Salvador Atenco are a repeated icon. A stencil of a protestor aiming a slingshot at a helicopter. A stencil of a kneeling youth spray-painting a wall…<\/p>\n

Zapata in a gas mask is still up there just under the whitewash, Benito Juarez with a Mohawk. Mug shots of Gandhi, the old [so old he’s dead] anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon, the martyred guerrillero Lucio Cabanas, the Zapatistas’ Comandanta Ramona. Sometimes the walls functioned as the morning newspaper. One day, Oaxaca arose to find life-sized photo-real figures of three presidential candidates dressed as boxers in a ring. The stolen July 2 election was a touchstone for the street artists…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read something. And remember: “[The] Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude.” — Australian President George W. Bush, 60 Minutes<\/em> interview, January 2007 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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