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"ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

- napoleon

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oh wow.

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"love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful mould of human destiny... "some day men and women will rise, they will reach the mountain peak, they will meet big and strong and free, ready to receive, to partake, and to bask in the golden rays of love. what fancy, what imagination, what poetic genius can forsee even approximately the potentialities of such a force in the life of men and women. if the world is ever to give birth to true companionship and oneness... love will be the parent."

- emma goldman

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"give evil nothing to oppose, and it will disappear by itself."

- laozi

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some interesting discussion going on on the issue of hawaiian sovereignty at the livejournal anarchists community.

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jacob holcomb of hawaii kai writes in honolulu weekly:

almost immediately after the natural disaster took place in new orleans we were getting news reports of people looting, and all of a sudden americans were furious about how someone could possibly make things worse after a tragedy. people were shocked that someone would break into an electronics store and steal a dvd player. during the same period of time people were dying by the droves because of downings, heat exhaustion, inadequate medical care, massive federal incompetence and murder, but all you heard about in the media were the dvd players and designer clothes which insurance companies would have covered anyway. many people in hawaii never got to drive through the 9th ward of the st. thomas projects (before they were bulldozed to make condos) but turst me there's nothing in this state that compares to the conditions those people were living in on such a massive scale. it was a powder keg ready to go off, and the reason it was like that is because nobody cares about the poor people in this country. we identify with the insurance companies more than we do with our fellow man. ever wish that guy picking his lunch out of the trash was invisible? you're the problem, not him.

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louisiana native and author, anne rice, writes in the new york times:

and to my country i want to say this: during this crisis you failed us. you looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. you want our jazz fest, you want our mardi gras, you want our cooking and our music. then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us "sin city," and turned your backs. well, we are a lot more than all that. and though we may seem the most exotic, the most atmospheric and, at times, the most downtrodden part of this land, we are still part of it. we are americans. we are you.

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comrades, a call to action! just like on september 11th, the radical community again finds itself sitting afar, nodding their heads and debating the implications and saying, "uh-huh, I told you so." instead of using the force of the police state and the failure of capitalism to further prove our ideologies, we should put our ideologies in action and let them prove themselves! everyone is saying, "why isn't anyone doing anything?" and now the national guard is shooting people for trying to stay alive. the media is spitting "anarchy"! let's play our cards. the government is upset because they've lost control of the situation for once, and decisions are in the hands of the people who have been let down by their politicians, police, and bureaucrats. how would they react if communes and unions started popping up? how would they react if militias were formed to defend people from the trigger-happy national guard? how would they react if the people told them they were sick of them reacting? in watts and in '92, people fought for what they believed in, against whatever the media had to say, sitting afar. the conditions are ripe for people to battle again, and demonstrate to the world what it really means to be human in the face of disaster and desperation. let's rally a call to anyone who would dare to call themselves an anarchist or a socialist or a communist, and organize! but, more importantly, show the suffering people of new orleans how to organize for themselves! let's give them the ideas, tools, and help they need to feed themselves when the stores are gone, defend themselves when their protectors attack, and decide for themselves when their leaders are all dead or hiding elsewhere—and learn for themselves when the media has betrayed them! please make it known to our fighters and lovers abroad that this cannot be something we sit back and watch idly while the powers that be restore order through violence and suppression! let's not use this as another paragraph for our history of the revolution that never comes! let's do what we need to to allow the people living this to use it themselves! comrades, rally! the people of new orleans need food, water, medicine, love, and hope! not criticism, but support! not soldiers, but fighters! spread the word on your blogs, on your phones, to your friends! travel there if you can! send aid if you can! offer your home, offer food, offer support! organize! resist! revolution now! ¡revolución ahora! révolution maintenant! long live the revolution! long live the anarchists! VIVA!

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from the news blog:

a note to our conservative friends: WE TOLD YOU SO ever wonder why new yorkers detest george bush? because we experienced his incompetence up close and person. we knew this guy was full of shit, absolutely full of fucking shit, after they started to play games with the funding and gave wyoming terrorism money. we knew he was an assclown then. we thought d.c. 9/11 was a comedy, because the bush we saw hid in a.f. one like the scared bitch that he is. but did you listen? fuck no. until last week, ann coulter was calling new yorkers cowards for not endorsing bush's folly in iraq. we have been screaming for two years that bush and his team sucked. that they had no clue. they sent soldiers to be wounded in iraq without armored anything. and you idiots cheered him on from the safety of your keyboards. we told you he was fucking up iraq. but no, we supported saddam, we were racist, we blamed america. you say this isn't about politics? fuck you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. tax cuts kill. ask the relatives of the dead of the gulf coast. well, motherfuckers, the alligators are feasting on dead n****r and there isn't an iraqi in sight. and bush is trying to gladhand his way through a mess which has stunned FOX reporters. i mean, shepard smith is calling fox's talking heads liars ON THE AIR. c.n.n. rips bush in print and online after nearly five years of sleep. instead of hearing what we had to say about bush, you called john kerry a coward, mocked max cleland, blamed everything but herpes on bill clinton. you enabled bush into this mess and now you're shocked? now, fox can be outraged, now, wash times and union leader call bush weak? well, his coward ass disappeared in 2001. but you rather blame michael moore for that. he can't even explain the iraq war to a grieving mother. so what did you do? write the most vile things about her and her dead son. attacked her patriotism and her honesty. well, motherfuckers, and that means you, fat ass goldberg and your master, rich lowry, p.n.a.c. b***h beinart, the racist wannabe white malkin and the little fucktards at l.g.f., bareback andy and "diversity" instacracker, all you backstabbing, f*g-hating uncle tom ministers, you can see dear leader in action. america's largest port is gone, maybe forever, gas is $5+ a gallon and f.e.m.a. is coming. w***es come faster with old men than f.e.m.a. is getting to n.o.l.a. how did your wartime president react? like chiang kai-shek when the yellow river flooded in 1944, with corrupt indifference. bush, the man your fever dreams built into the next winston churchill when he is really the live action chauncey gardiner, has failed to everyone, in plain sight, without question. rick perry is trying to save his ass, but it ain't working. n.o.l.a. looks like ANGOLA and that ain't flying. say 9/11 changed everything now, motherfuckers. ooops, 9/11, 9/11. 9/11. doesn't work anymore? gee, maybe the sea of alligator m.r.e.'s once known as the citizens of new orleans has something to do with that. now you can shut the fuck up about 9/11. bush just proved what would happen with another 9/11. dead americans as far as the nose can smell. drunken chris hitchens muttered some nonsense about blacks having it so good here. the poor man needs to stay in his bottle or go to betty ford before someone beats his treasonous ass stupid. islamofascism means what now, motherfucker? shove islamofascism up your well travelled ass. the most dangerous thing to average americans is not some mullah in iraq, not even osama bin laden, but george bush. if he doesn't get you killed in iraq, he'll fuck up saving your city so it turns into escape from new orleans. armed junkies roaming the streets, looking for a fix, robbing and looting like serb paramilitaries and about as sober. george bush's ineptitude has killed far more americans than osama could have dreamed of. some of you still try to see the clothes on the dauphin, but he's as naked as peter north around jenna jameson. bush fucked up so bad, FOX turned on him like a rabid dog. you can't hide behind racism forever. bush fucked up, bush is a weak, callous leader and the world knows this like it knows few other things. and all the stolen t.v.'s in the world cannot hide that.