Not long before Christmas, Sound Mental Health (SMH), the property managers of downtown Seattle’s Kasota apartments, began going door to door in the building trying to get tenants to sign a new lease. SMH houses both mentally ill ‘clients’ and roughly seventeen low-income tenants at the Kasota, but the new lease seemed to indicate that they wanted that to change. The terms of the new lease for SMH’s non-client tenants included rent increases of as much as fifty percent as well as a demand for further deposits. Many of the low-income residents of the Kasota are dependent on Social Security and other fixed incomes for survival and cannot afford to pay rent increases of this magnitude. They were outraged as it became apparent that the terms of the new lease would drive them from their homes and out into the street. For many residents the new lease would mean desperation and homelessness. It was at this point that one tenant saw a Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol) poster and decided to start fighting back. [Read more →]

Radical queer politics and anarchism have much in common. Queer theory argues against traditional identity politics, recognizing the social construction of “sexuality” and identity categories. Anarchism argues against any structured hierarchical arrangement of humanity that allows some members of society to systematically exploit and oppress others. Thus, both projects argue for a need to move beyond hierarchical and naturalized arrangements of socially constructed identities–though, at times, articulating those arguments in different ways. Nevertheless, despite these commonalities, little has been written about the deep connections between anarchism and radical queer politics. This edited volume is an attempt to fill that gap. [Read more →]

from nzhearld.com

Facebook has 20 million users worldwide, is worth billions of dollars and, if internet sources are to be believed, was started by the CIA.

The social networking phenomenon started as a way of American college students to keep in touch. It is rapidly catching up with MySpace, and has left others like Bebo in its wake.

But there is a dark side to the success story that’s been spreading across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defence. [Read more →]

Here’s a cross post from the Anarchist Academics Listserv. See end of post for the questionnaire and an abstract of the study.

Hi all!

We’re doing a research about alternative families, LGBTQ, anarchist,
squatters, single parents ….

We will present the results in October in Jjubljana in Slovina.

So please spread our Questionnaire on Mailing-Lists for people, who
could be interested. We need the answers until 30th of August 2009

Thanks a lot!
Utta, Hannes and Mate
[Read more →]

Our monthly QWB meeting will be held Sunday August 2nd, 5pm-ish at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave in Hartford. Everyone is invited! <3

http://twincities.indymedia.org/2009/jul/military-spy-outted-olympia-wa-antiwarsdsiww-groups

Spy for the US Military Exposed: Spent Last Two Years Spying on Activists

(TC-IMC) “John Jacob” was an activist well liked by many in Tacoma and Olympia, WA. He was active in the anti-war and anarchist communities in both towns. He did extensive work with the group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) which blocks military shipments to and from Iraq and Afghanistan through Northwest ports.

He went to numerous Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) events and actions, was interested in starting a chapter or Movement for a Democratic Society, worked closely with Iraq Veterans Against the War, but spent most of his time with anarchists. Aside from attending meetings, events and actions organized by activists, he spent much personal and leisure time with other anarchists in the area.

[Read more →]

Casting Call

 for Howard Zinn’s “Emma”

–a play about the life of Emma Goldman–

Actors Needed!

What: Audition (script will be provided)

Where: Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT

When: Tuesday, July 21st OR Wednesday, July 29th at 7pm

Why: To build community, have fun together, and to educate the public about the life of a brilliant feminist woman that the world should know about!

Come one, come all!

If you have questions or need special assistance during the auditions please contact Deric at 765-717-4490, Abbey at 860-249-1207 or email abbey.willis@charteroakcenter.org

If you would like to get involved in some other capacity than acting or have questions regarding the production, contact the above. Please include your name, contact information (email and phone), and how you are interested in helping (costumes, props, set design, set building, advertising, other) by July 29th. Participation in the play will require a heavy time commitment in the first two weeks of November.

All positions, acting and non-acting, are volunteer roles. Thank you!

  Charter Oak Cultural Center www.CharterOakCenter.org 860.249.1207

The Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement’s 23rd Monthly Newsletter is now
available for PDF Download. Hard copies will soon be distributed to
community centers and newspaper boxes.

This month’s issue:
-The American Revolution Failed, pg 2
-Dyke March, pg 3
-Dissent and Repression in Iran, pg 4
-The MTA is Dead, Long live the MTA, p 6
-Protesters Voice Concern for Indigenous Massacre
in Peru, p 8
-Technological Emancipation, p 9

Download PDF HERE:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/207899/index.php

See also:
http://BaamBoston.org
http://NeAnarchist.net

http://www.bostondykemarch.com/

This year’s Boston Dyke March is on Friday, June 12, 2009 at 6pm.
Please sign up on our meetup site and/or facebook profile to keep up to date.

Every year, we gather at the Boston Common Gazebo at 6:00 p.m. The march route is posted here.

Everyone is invited and welcome to march.

Written by Dykonoclast

At 9AM on Tuesday April 28th, somewhere between 50-70 people came to the iconic Park Street Church across from Boston Common to attend an Exodus Ministries training.  Attendees watched a video wherein ‘former homosexuals’ and ‘former lesbians’ spoke of the power of god to heal ’sexual brokenness’ and restore heterosexual desires to the most fallen of souls.  During the ‘male homosexuality’ portion of the training, ‘former homosexual’ Jeff Buchanan shared his experience of having turned from his homosexual past, as well as the causes of male homosexuality, which include resentment of male authority and lack of bonding with fathers.  [Read more →]

From The New York Times,  April 15th

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/arts/15sedgwick.html

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Pioneer of Gay Studies and a Literary Theorist, Dies at 58

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose critical writings on the ambiguities of sexual identity in fiction helped create the discipline known as queer studies, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 58.

The cause was breast cancer, her husband, Hal Sedgwick, said.

Ms. Sedgwick broke new ground when, drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of the French poststructuralist Michel Foucault, she began teasing out the hidden socio-sexual subplots in writers like Charles Dickens and Henry James. In a 1983 essay on Dickens’s novel “Our Mutual Friend,” she drew attention to the homoerotic element in the obsessive relationship between Eugene Wrayburn and Bradley Headstone, rivals for the love of Lizzie Hexam but emotionally most fully engaged when facing off against each other. [Read more →]

….Just got this in this morning. From what I understand, the occupation only lasted a few hours before police dropped tear gas into the building, arrested the students, as well as supporters and demonstrators on the outside. A report from a comrade in NYC said that red and black anarchist banners flew outside the building and one participant said “We demand everything! We demand communism!”…Brave souls and let’s hope this trend spreads to other universities and workplaces. We can run our own lives without the need for bosses–whether capitalist bosses or political bosses! Smash capitalism and the state!

THE NEW SCHOOL HAS BEEN REOCCUPIED!
SUPPORT NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!
PLEASE COME TO 65 5TH AVE, BETWEEN 13TH AND 14TH STWE NEED YOU!!!
RALLY AT 9AM!!!!!

New School students have just reoccupied the entire graduate faculty building at 65 5th Ave, in NYC, fully barricading themselves inside until President Kerrey and Vice-President Murtha resign. This is the same building that was occupied from December 17-19th of last year in protest of President Bob Kerrey’s mismanagement of the university. On February 10th, students announced they would “shut down the university” if President Kerrey and Vice-President Murtha did not resign by April 1st. With their demand still unmet as of this date, students have once again reclaimed this neglected, symbolic building which housed the New School for Social Research. This time, however, the entire building has been occupied. On the 75th anniversary of the University in Exile, New School students are reclaiming the tradition of protest and political action that birthed the university and gave it meaning for generations to come.

Hey everybody. Today I spent some time trimming the space that posts on the first page were occupying. Just wanted to point out the break button in the lower right-hand corner of the text-box menu under the “Visual” tab, which places a “More” break in the post being authored (circled below). If you can, please make use of this break in posts exceeding 4-6 paragraphs (or a screen of text), so as to leave as much content visible on the first page as possible. Thanks everybody! -Alvin-

Queers Without Borders invites anyone interested to join our new listserv. we’ll use this to plan out meetings, actions, etc. join up if you want to help with that process, or if you just want to stay informed.

send an email to queerswithoutborders@gmail.com and we’ll add you on.

love & rage

QWB