An anarchist review of Stuart Townsend's Battle in Seattle, a fictionalized drama about the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington by Seattle anarchists who were at the WTO protests.

I spent my nineteenth birthday in the cold and rain, breathing in tear gas and fleeing the police. It was 1999 and I was in Seattle, joining in the tens of thousands who descended on the city to protest the World Trade Organization’s first Ministerial Conference in the United States. I was sympathetic to the myriad of issues represented by the various sections of protestors, from the environment to workers struggles to access to medicine. I proudly marched with my banner reading, “Think the WTO is bad? Wait til you hear about capitalism!” The reasons to oppose the WTO were a thousand-fold, but central to me was the larger system at play: global capitalism.

Comienzan aparecer las tumbas clandestinas de los asesinados por el régimen de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) en el 2006 – 2007, durante el levantamiento del pueblo de Oaxaca que reclama la destitución de este criminal.

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On June 7th, 2008 in Olympia Washington a new Northwest (Washington & Oregon) US based regional anarchist organization, Class Action Alliance, held our founding General Assembly.

Preparation for this founding General Assembly had taken place over several months including meetings in locations throughout the Northwest and the sponsoring of a speaking tour.

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For correspondence or more information on how to become involved email: ../classactionalliance@gmail.com

Reflexiones en torno a las falsas esperanzas de que Obama representará una "nueva política" de los EEUU hacia el resto del mundo...

Con la nominación oficial de Obama como el candidato demócrata en las próximas elecciones presidenciales de los EEUU, hay muchos que ya están saltando en una pata, esperanzados en el fin de la política exterior agresiva e imperialista norteamericana. Un sabio refrán popular dice que no importa el color del gato, siempre y cuando cace los ratones. Dando la espalda a la sabiduría popular, no pocos en la izquierda latinoamericana son los que están ilusionados con Obama, quien es casi seguro que sucederá a Bush en su poltrona en la Casa Blanca.
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No nos hagamos falsas ilusiones. El imperialismo ni puede ser reformado, ni puede ser derrotado en las urnas. Será derrotado en las calles, en los lugares de trabajo, en los lugares de estudio, en las luchas que libramos por controlar nuestros recursos y nuestros destinos, que libramos en los campos y las ciudades, que libramos en todos los espacios. Es una lucha difícil, pero es la única opción realista.

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Between February and May 2007 I interviewed 31 anarchists in the USA located in 17 different cities. The interviews are linked to below and provide a snapshot of the anarchist movement across the United States and anarchist attitudes towards local struggles and the US elections.