Do I really want to stay in Vancouver?

30. May 2009 Comments 1 comment

After a week of staying in SF, I can see why people move down here:

People do cool shit here
It doesn’t rain all the time
People aren’t so stuck up that they don’t want to talk to you, or think that when you talk to them that you want to sleep with them

In short, I find that [...]

Fingerprinting before being charged with a crime

25. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

I’ve been to protests and actions at various places. I know that the cops love to use everything from phone cameras to full on surveillance equipment to try to identify people so that they can follow the will of their masters. However, this new bill scares me.
Now, the thing is that in the [...]

Anti-RCMP sentiment from an unlikely source

23. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

The idea of protection is reflective of the RCMP executive’s view of the public they police. We have become the “enemy” and they go to “war” with us each day, rather than collaborating with us to form a cohesive and consistent approach to policing our communities.
Was this from an Anarchist Journal? No, this was [...]

A critique of the “New Socialism” Wired Article

23. May 2009 Comments 1 comment

Wired featured an article about the “New Socialism”, and talked about Open Source and Online Collaboration as a form of Socialism. At first glance, I was tempted to call it Anarchism until I saw this nugget of bullshit:
Who would have believed that poor farmers could secure $100 loans from perfect strangers on the other [...]

Quote of the Week

22. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

“I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
but because there is no such thing as a final goal.” – Rudolf Rocker

What if there was an election and nobody voted?

14. May 2009 Comments 4 comments

It turns out that there was an election? Did you forget? I know that I barely remembered. Basically, this election the choice was between two parties who managed to sound almost exactly the same.

Both are for the Port Mann Bridge Expansion
Both are pro-Olympics

There may be things that make Gordon Campbell and Carole [...]

Hackerspaces FAIL cont…

13. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

The last couple of days has been a complete shit show on the Hackerspaces mailing list.  So much so that the reactionary forces who don’t want to believe in politics have won, and there’s now a new Theory list to ghettoize all those who think that there is fundamentally something political about there being a [...]

Hacking the Spaces: A call for a change in Hackerspaces?

11. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

A few days ago, monochrom released a document called “Hacking the Spaces“.  The document has a LOT of Marxist language, and a lot of American Hackerspaces, and some European Hackerspaces seem to disagree with this document because of the language involved.  I personally think that this document is very well written, and I don’t think [...]

Sunday Reading

03. May 2009 Comments 0 comments

I try to devote a couple of hours each day to reading.  Here’s a list of the books that I’ve read recently:

Defending the Earth – Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
How Nonviolence Protects The State – Peter Gelderloos

I’m currently working through this book now:

Exquisite Rebel – A Voltarine De Cleyrn Reader

I hope to get through that [...]