[At the Quack Media holiday party last night, I became convinced, after a long conversation with Ben from Damn Arbor, that my posts, on average, are too damn long. This is my first attempt to right the ship. I hope it meets with your approval… Also, I don’t really want to see East Lansing burn. […]
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Chris Hedges calls Black Bloc anarchists a cancer to the Occupy movement
In hopes of continuing our conversation on the value that Black Bloc anarchists bring to the Occupy movement, I thought that I’d link to this new article on the subject by Chris Hedges. Here’s a clip. The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer […]
Posted in Politics, Rants Also tagged anarchy, Anarchy is Stupid, anti-globalism, black bloc, Chris Hedges, democracy protests, Derrick Jensen, Green Anarchy, hypermasculinity, John Zerzan, mob mentality, NAFTA, Noam Chomsky, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, progressive adolescentization, protests, security state, surveilance, The Culture of Make Believe, Theodore Kaczynski, Theodore Roszak, Unabomber, vandalism, Zapatistas 18 Comments
Happy Labor Day… you Socialist sons of bitches
As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History Also tagged 1894, 40 hour work week, American Railway Union, ARU, Chicago, child labor, coal mines, Colombian Exposition, company towns, Eugene Debs, federal troops, Governor Altgeld, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Interstate commerce act, Jackson Park, Kansas Heritage Group, Labor Day, labor history, mail, National Guard, national holidays, OSHA, Peter S. Grosscup, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Rail, revolt, Richard Olney, riots, Sherman anti-trust act, strikebreakers, strikes, the threat of Socialism, unions, William A. Woods 12 Comments