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“The police, like the army, are abolished. […] All the people armed, no army outside the people […] The army, as an organized force in support of Authority and the war against Freedom, from the interior to the exterior, must disappear.” Joseph Déjacque, La Législation directe et universelle, 1859 Anarchist Anti-Militarism

“‘The War to end War,’ ‘the War for Democracy.’ What a lying face was hidden under the hideous mask of democracy.” The Black Spectre of War – Emma Goldman (1938)

“…Mother Earth is not a business concern: it is a voice, — it calls for something which no government can silence. It articulates the thoughts and the emotions of people who have remained firm in their opposition to the hypocritical boast that this war, unlike other wars, is imbued with a high purpose and aContinue reading “Between Jails – Emma Goldman (1917)”

“… the United States Government perpetrates outrages in Santo Domingo and Haiti of the same nature.” Teaching Liberty to Santo Domingo – Emma Goldman (1917)

“That the spirit of perverse cruelty to persecute and humiliate human beings for no other offence except that they lead their own lives, is making itself felt even today, no one familiar with the activity of our moral censors can possibly deny.” Our Moral Censors – Emma Goldman (1913)

This article tracks the transformation of beagle dogs from a common breed in mid-twentieth century American laboratories to the de jure standard in global — Read on link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10739-021-09649-2

When you are with an extraordinary person, you soon realize that extraordinary things are going to happen. And keep happening. That is when the fear begins. That is when it really begins. I remember the first time we went dancing. I gave her an ultimatum: you either meet me at the Five Spot (no notContinue reading “At The Five Spot with Jane”

Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the nation’s very first no-knock SWAT raid on the Black Panther Party headquarters at 41st & Central and the CIA-facilitated, “crack cocaine explosion”that was first unleashed on South Central to moreContinue reading “The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department”

us sensitive to each other touching as we shouldget together get to itbefore it all’s over sometimes desperation. is just a fact. sometimes railway station. don’t know how to act. suck me suture me fuck me future me touch me torment me tenement loverlyso what she saysit’s all gravy sometimes desperation. is just an act.Continue reading “sometimes railway station”

baby if we have it apart we’ll have it together, don’t you think so? can’t see us as two powers nullifying baby if we have it together we’ll have it apart, isn’t that the promise of love?with(out) laches lingerings of ruinbaby if we do together we’ll have forever, that’s what u told me when youContinue reading “together”