Common Action is proud to announce the publication of our newsletter Intersections. Written with regular people in mind, the newsletter strives to connect community issues to anarchist ideas, serving as a paper that any neighbor might find interesting, informative, and reliable. It can be left in laundromats and bus seats just as easily as a radical bookstore. This issue's contents include: ---- Whose Streets? Gentrification in Seattle by Andrew Hedden and Jacquelyn Hermer ---- Northwest Anarchist People of Color Gathering: A Report-Back by Brooke Stepp ---- Hope, Change, and Direct Action by GregA and Jeremy ---- Crude Profits by Joshua Neuhouser ---- Advice Column by Sally Darity ...

Tuesday marked the seventh year of the United States’ war against Afghanistan, yet the war is rarely discussed in the media, among folks living in the United States, or the antiwar movement. Similarly, it is a war that both major party presidential candidates not only support, but want to escalate. ACTIVATE has prepared the following pamphlet on the war to raise Afghanistan as an issue again and to remind people that moving troops out of Iraq and putting them in Afghanistan is no solution. We will be distributing these around town in the coming month and encourage you all to do the same. ...

SDSers -- in both the Twin Cities and elsewhere -- are actively organizing against the Republican National Convention (RNC) happening this fall in the Twin Cities. ---- The SDS RNC Working Group is holding bi-weekly conference calls to discuss the RNC protests and is working to inform SDS about what is happening at the RNC. Macalester SDS is offering up its campus as a "home base" for SDS groups. ---- ACTIVATE (Grand Rapids SDS) -- recently put out a call to for SDS chapters to endorse and participate in a three-tiered strategy to shut down the RNC on its opening day. The strategy -- developed at a meeting of over 100 anti-authoritarians from around the country in the summer of 2007 ...

"All about the burnt Benjamins" ---- THERE IS AN OBSCENE AMOUNT OF DEBT PILING UP ON OUR BACKS. AS WE get deeper into debt, our government has invaded and occupied at least two countries on a massive scale. I believe this government acts in the interests of global capitalism and of those same financial institutions that we as students, households and developing nations are indebted. ---- We as students are becoming indebted to the major banks, financial institutions and student loan corporations in the US: Bank of American, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, and Sallie Mae, etc. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in 2004 roughly 66% of students ...

This year's London Anarchist Bookfair will be on Saturday 18th October 2008, from 10am to 7pm ---- If you or your group are involved in anything connected with anarchist theory or practice and want to book a stall or meeting click here for a booking form. ---- This year, apart from the wide variety of anarchist groups and individuals having meetings we have the following speaking on specific subjects: ---- Lucio Urtubia (If you speak Spanish check out http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1491695608) ---- John Pilger ---- Paul Mason ---- Morris Beckman talking about his time in the “43 Group” --- Workshops / Discussons http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/whatson.html ...

News reaches us that the re-launch of the East London BNP group got off to a less than successful start today. After what can only be described as a gathering of the Darby and Joan club, the assembled geriatrics met at the Salmon and Ball pub on the corner of Bethnal green road. This it turns out was just the re-direction point as it soon became clear that the grey haired security team we're shepherding the old folk a mere one hundred meters away to a church hall opposite! Well done on the planning there people! ---- A quick call to the church uncovered that the poor old vicar had no idea his hall was being used by the fascist filth as it had been booked by a 'book club', that old chestnut! The ...

The racist holiday, Columbus Day, began in Denver, Colorado, in 1907. For the past 20 years, Colorado's Indigenous community and supporters have organized opposition to this celebration of genocide, with mass protests, educational efforts, and proposals to have the so-called holiday abolished and replaced with a day honoring the civilizations and native peoples of the Americas. This year, planning got off to a late start, because so many of us were involved in the protests surrounding the DNC. But we will not be silent. To the contrary, we are focusing on long-term strategies--education and movement building. We hope you will join us. ...

Working Group Roster for this issue: Alex Grosskurth; Marisa Holmes; Sicily McRaven; Ben Privot; Jake Schneider; Dave Shukla; Patrick St. John; Daniel Tasripin; LABOR DONATED ---- Viewpoints expressed in articles contained herein are solely those of the author(s) or artist(s). These views do not necessarily reflect the views of SDS, the SDS News Bulletin or its editors. A message from the working group that brought you this issue of sds NEWS BULLETIN ---- Welcome to the fourth issue of the SDS News Bulletin, a national publication of Students for a Democratic Society. We intend for this publication to be an accessible and popular vehicle for SDS members and chapters to ...

At THE BANK OF ENGLAND, THREADNEEDLE STREET, LONDON. ---- 1989: The wall falls, capitalism triumphs. ---- 1999: Protesters stop the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, but globalisation continues to deregulate everything and carve up the world for the global economy. ---- October 2008: Folks, its all gone pear shaped! ---- Recession has hit. America first, Ireland now, Britain next. Prices continue to rise, food, homes and energy begins to slip out of reach. Wages have stagnated for years, now we all face the chop. The government is getting ready for millions more unemployed over the next five years, and they’ll face the harshest forced-work programs since Victorian times – just to ...

On November 5, 2008 SDS will be in solidarity with students from France, Liberia, Canada, Ireland, Germany, and more countries participating in an international student day of action against the privatization of our schools and lives. Since in America this happens to be the day after the presidential election, people will be distracted and it’s not a strategic day to act. So, instead of one day of action, on the 5th SDS will launch a national Week of Education and outreach, building up to a national Day of Demands on November 14th. ---- Week of Education ---- The goals for this week are to educate, agitate, and organize. We need to GROW! This is a great chance to recruit new ...

The recent bitter collapse of the Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks has put the WTO back in the news around the world. The latest talks failed in large part because rich countries refuse to reduce subsidies to their own farmers, while insisting that the poor countries should reduce theirs. But what is the WTO, and how is it relevant to our everyday lives here in Ireland? The purpose of the World Trade Organization is to reduce barriers to global free trade around the world. It has done this over the decades through rounds of talks between member states. The very first round of negotiations took place in 1947, under the guise of the WTO’s predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs ...

For decades, the question of migrant labour has been at the center of political and social debates, and of the fantacies on which capitalism feeds. ---- Except for a brief period after the elections of 1981, when there were a few partial improvements, immigration law has made the status of working foreigners ever more precarious. ---- The last Ceseda Reform of 2007 is one of the most discriminatory and repressive texts since the Pasqua Act of 1986 which deprived thousands of their right to live and work in France. Apart from its fundamentally coersive orientation, it is designed to recruit foreigners according to the needs of the national economy and to maleable workers who live ...

On October 1st, founding members met to discuss the principles and aims of a Connecticut social anarchist working group. What follows is the statement of principles we unanimously adopted: ---- The Hog River Anarchist Collective is a social anarchist collective in Connecticut that sprang out of a radical reading group as some of its members began to get more involved in social struggles on the ground together. While we identify strongly with social anarchism as a theoretical tradition, we have equally been influenced by various interpretations of revolutionary feminisms, radical anti-racism, some Marxisms, radical queer politics, and revolutionary environmentalism. We see the purpose ...

"The CNT firmly opposes the agreement on the rules of representativity made by the big unions and translated into legislation in August 2008. The Federation invites its member unions to develop a radical critique and denouncement of this agreement which only serves to promote the co-management scheme that unites bosses-government-big unions. If called for, it will take the lead in this argument. We declare that union rights are not linked to scores in staff elections, nor even in participation. ---- 1. Union Strategy and Representativity ---- The CNT reaffirms that it is the Job Branch and the Union Local that are the motors of action in the enterprise. ...

“We demand the repeal of all laws—federal, state, and local—that degrade and discriminate against undocumented individuals and that deny U.S. citizens their lawful rights. We demand that all human beings—with papers or without—be guaranteed access to work, housing, health care, education, legal protection, and other public benefits, as well as the right to organize” -- from the Repeal Resolution ---- The Coalition to Repeal Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Legislation, better known as The Repeal Coalition, is a small group of community members and students committed to repealing the over 55 laws that have been passed or considered by the Arizona State Legislature in the past few years, and to ...

On 26th and 27th September 2008 took place the third edition of anarcha-feminist festival Lovekills in Timisoara, although it seemed almost impossible to organise this kind of festival in a society where ignorance and materialism can be transformed very easy in a violent oppression against everything different. The first problem and the biggest one that Lovekills Collective encountered was finding a place for this kind of event, but the ones who made this festival possible were the group H.Arta, those who assured a place to host the workshops, the friends from Timisoara who agreed to put their own homes on the line and put so much time and effort in the so called "minor" problems like cooking, shopping ...

The ruling elite are in a crisis right now - brought on by their very own system of capitalism. What began several years ago during the housing boom as a way to make huge amounts of money through faulty sub-prime loans, has brought the whole system to the verge of collapse. As one investor stated in a recently uncovered email, “I hope we get out before this whole deck of cards comes tumbling down.“ And tumbling down is just what is happening - as more and more homes go belly up and the sub-prime loan crisis expands, more and more banks are losing money and some are going under. With more banks losing money and going broke, businesses and firms have less money to take out loans and do business. Rushing into save ...

A woman's work is never done ---- When the Irish constitution was unveiled in 1937 it set out a special place for women within the home. In Ireland as elsewhere ‘women’s life within the home’ has to a large extent been characterized by long hours of thankless drudgery. While the struggles of Irish women for greater liberties during the last century have improved our lives in many ways, the drudgery of housework remains thankless and the workplace has not brought the liberation that certain feminists promised. As anarchists see it, this is because as long as we live in a capitalist society women (or men) can never be meaningfully liberated. ...

DC SDS Funk the War [4] Reportback ---- On June 20th, over 150 youth took back the streets of Washington D.C. and thoroughly funked the war. The crowd of youth mostly came from local high schools and colleges, though some made their way from as far as Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a four hour trek, for the day's action. Folks gathered in Franklin Park and were joined by passerby's starting at 4pm that Friday to begin the fourth musical storming of the streets. Students waved glittery signs, handed out fliers, and put up Funk the War stickers throughout the K street business district. ---- Beats were dropped instead of bombs, and the onlookers couldn't help but smile as the youth expressed their photos taken ...

Contagious Liberation was started as a working group out of the PRA to create a monthly radical zine. The PRA is an assembly of Portland community groups and collectives, which started in Spring 07 and meets quarterly, to create better cohesion, collaboration, and solidarity between anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian groups in the Portland area. ---- We are not a governing council simply a place to have dialogue. ---- contact: pdx-mutualaid@riseup.net ----- Disclaimer:: Early on, we realized the idea of trying to reach consensus about everything printed in here would be tedious, which is why we have this disclaimer: The words and art expressed in this paper do not necessary represent ...