Misogynists are compiling massive databases of sex workers in and effort to threaten, harm, and harass them for making a living. People participating in the viral harassment campaign known as #ThotAudit seek to make it more difficult for those in the sex trade to work. Read the rest of this
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Kersplebedeb: Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York (repost)
An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading any books. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Un-mappable Fascism: What maps can (and can’t) explain about the Brazilian election (repost)
Brazil has been lobotomised twice in the last two months. In the first lobotomy on 2 September, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was burnt down, in a catastrophe directly attributable to the austerity policies of current president Michel Temer. Read the rest of this post on the original
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture (repost)
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps: Call them the woke and the resentful. Team Resentment is manned—pun very much intended—by people who are predominantly old and almost exclusively white. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Americans Strongly Dislike PC
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics (repost)
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Et Tu, BrutesDonna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Testing again
making progress…
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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Anti-Prison Dinner and Presentation on the Pelican Bay Hunger Strike (Mtl, March 28)
Thursday March 28 @7pmLa Belle Epoque1984 Wellington An informal dinner and letter-writing evening with an anti-prison focus – a space to meet and discuss, as well as to share updates on the situations of different prisoners. This month features a short presentation on the 2011 Pelican Bay hunger strike and
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Mtl: Captive Genders Discussion and Letter-Writing
Friday, March 293:30pm1800 Létourneux Join the Prisoner Correspondence Project for a reading from Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and conversation with two California-based queer anti-prison activists. What are some of the uses and limits of a queer framework in anti-prison organizing? What does it mean for queers
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Revolution at Point Zero: Montreal Book Launch and Discussion with Silvia Federici (April 4th)
[please post and forward widely] [svp diffusez largement] [français ci-dessous][facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/123882664466638/] Revolution at Point Zero: A Book Launch and Discussion with Silvia Federici Thursday April 4 at 6:30pm1610 Ste-Catherine West (Faubourg Building), Room B-060(métro Guy-Concordia) – This event is free.– For free on-site childcare, please call 24 hours in advance:
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
The following is an essay Kevin “Rashid” Johnson just sent me and asked me to post. -k I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd Collective (AA3) and New Afrikan Peoples Liberation Army (NAPLA), which claims to respond to an article I wrote elaborating the New
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Kevin Rashid Johnson: February 2013: They Waited, Wanted and Watched For Me To Die…
What follows is a message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is currently being held at a behavior modification unit in Oregon, where he suffered a severe health crisis earlier this year. It answers many of the questions we have had since we learned of his predicament. -kFebruary 2013: They Waited,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Message of Thanks from Kevin Rashid Johnson
A message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, just received by an outside supporter: My deepest gratitude and love goes out to all who extended themselves in word, deed and even thought, to support me and make inquiries on my behalf in this recent ordeal with prison officials. Many of you are
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Progress and Poverty: a response to Krul, Post and Hamerquist from Noel Ignatiev
i often disagree with Noel Ignatiev – and the following essay is certainly no exception in that regard – however his reasoning is often provocative, which though a bit maddening is also not a bad thing. As such, it should not be assumed that the views in the following guest
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: PCR-RCP Responds to RCMP Raids and Repression
The following is a translation of a statement issued by the Parti Communiste Revolutionnaire / Revolutionary Communist Party in response to a series of police raids and searches carried out last week. The French original can be found here. Denounce the RCMP Merry-Go-Round!The RCP condemns the maneuvers and harassment of
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: IWD Message from Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart
Radical human rights attorney Lynne Stewart has been falsely accused of helping terrorists. On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, she was arrested and agents searched her Manhattan office for documents. She was arraigned before Manhattan federal Judge John Koeltl. This is an obvious attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent,
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Kersplebedeb and Leftwing Books are down…
A quick heads up and apologies – we are trying to upgrade the Kersplebedeb main site and in the process have crashed both Kersplebedeb and Leftwingbooks.net. They are both currently down, and probably will remain down for the next couple of days. Apologies for any inconvenience; hopefully it will all
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Patriarchy and the Movement, the Video
The above is the video of the February 28 panel on patriarchy in the movement that took place in Seattle at the Red and Black Cafe. Good presentations, laying out the basic ABCs of why anti-patriarchal and anti-racist politics constitute litmus tests for any revolutionary movement, while describing some of
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Kevin Rashid Johnson and Oregon’s Isolation Torture Unit
This is an update about Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a prisoner activist and intellectual who is currently in a dire situation in Snake River Correctional Institution in Oregon. As was reported last week, Rashid has been in the midst of a health crisis for almost a month now, which has included
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Mtl Film Screening: Freeing Silvia Baraldini
This Friday at La Belle Epoque in Montreal, join us for a conversation about political prisoners, and a screening of the film Freeing Silvia Baraldini. Friday, March 1st at 7pmLa Belle Époque1984 rue Wellington, Montreal, QuebecThis film documents the life of former U.S. political prisoner Silvia Baraldini. Silvia moved to
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