David Graeber responds to Chris Hedges. From Adbusters Blog David Graeber has been involved with Occupy Wall Street since the early days of September, when he partook in the first ad hoc general assemblies in New York City and helped articulate the movements' nonviolent ethos. He is also a self-professed anarchist and Black Bloc supporter. In response t […]
Violence or nonviolence: where do you draw the line? From Adbusters Blog On Feb 6, America author and Occupy activist Chris Hedges wrote a piece for Truthdig.com titled “The Cancer in Occupy.” In it he criticized the violent actions of Black Bloc operatives within the movement, saying they are the greatest threat to the future of Occupy. The arti […]
“We’ve seen it before, we’ve fought it before, we’ve beat it before.”The organization Israeli Apartheid Week has put out the call for citizens of the world to support Palestinian freedom, and to take part in global actions starting February and March 2012. […]
The battle has just begun. by Hakim Bey From Adbusters #98: American Autumn CARLOS VERA/REUTERS The rat-bastard Capitalist scum who are telling you to “reach out and touch someone” with a telephone or “be there!” (where? Alone in front of a goddam television??) — these lovecrafty suckers are trying to turn you into a scrunched-u […]
Autonomous action and the fracturing of consensus. From Blackspot Blog Three days after Adbusters put out a call to #OCCUPYCHICAGO for a month during the May G8/NATO summits, spectacular clashes erupted between #OCCUPYOAKLAND militants and armored police. Attempts to occupy an abandoned building were put down with tear gas, less-lethal munitions and baton ch […]
Compliments of the land of the free. by Tzvetan Todorov From Adbusters #98: American Autumn This article is available in: English French In American prisons scattered across the various countries of the world, but outside the United States, prisoners are regularly raped, hung from hooks, subjected to waterboarding, burned, attached to electrodes, deprived of […]
Gaming and activism combine. by Micah M. White From Adbusters #98: American Autumn You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly. swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.adbusters.org/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/1pixelout/player.swf", "swfobject2-id-132 […]
The moment we cannot escape. by Shane Adair From Adbusters #98: American Autumn Spooky was a wild black cat with yellow eyes. She was taken off a farm and given to my older sister as a gift. I remember thinking about her all day at school. My brother and I would run home after school to play with Spooky. We trained her right from the beginning. We would wres […]
23 year-old Camila Vallejo strikes the match. From Adbusters Blog Waves of unrest are sweeping through Chile. Led by the youth, this burgeoning revolution, which started as a protest for access to education, now threatens to overrun the governing neo-classical economic paradigm. URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/13/chilean-protester-cami... […]