Archive for the ‘Tactics’ Category
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The MidwestGreenScare blog is reporting that the FBI approached someone in the Twin Cities, offering to pay him or her to attend vegan potlucks and report on them to the FBI. Presumably the Twin Cities police and FBI believe that vegan potlucks are good opportunities for young folks to meet ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The RNC Welcoming Committee just published an explanation of why they are organizing around a blockading strategy. Their goal is to shut down the RNC by clogging the streets, blocking the bridges, locking down intersections, biking around downtown en mass, etc, etc. Why? Well, they have 7 reasons.
From the RNC ...
Posted in RNC 2008, RNC Welcoming Committee, Tactics, anti-authoritarian | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Today's the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and there have been a ton of actions that have stopped business as usual for the day.
Wired had a great post today about San Fransico's Direct Action to Stop the War group. DASW has been using the micro-blogging service called Twitter ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Has domain squatting now turned political? Protesters try out a new form of digital civil disobedience.
Protest organizers from the Denver-based group, Recreate '68, are using the web to play some Abbie Hoffman-style pranks on the Democratic Party. They're fed up with the Democrats for going along with the Republicans and ...
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