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Editorial – How you gonna come?

By admin | Published: February 6, 2011

It might not seem like it (especially when contemplating the absurdity of certain threads or the disrespect in others), but @news is a project of infrastructure. This building of infrastructure for anarchists is a challenging endeavor–not because many anarchists are young and sure of themselves (so much so that they can’t imagine any perspective other [...]

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What is anarchist news?

By admin | Published: January 1, 2011

At best, anarchists are heterodox. They share a few simple ideas with each other and run with them in a thousand different directions. Those anarchists who strive for a pedagogical unity–in the name of a revolutionary program or idealized revolutionary subject–are missing a serious point. It is the vibrancy of anarchism that continues to draw [...]

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Editorial: Are we losing?

By admin | Published: December 1, 2010

Some anarchists have made the audacious claim that the fall of the Soviet Union and the resulting rise of neo-Liberalism (aka the new Corporatism) have put anarchism into the position of being the radical opposition for our time. This claim seems to make sense as anarchism is international (not NIMBY localism), uncompromised (by victory), and [...]

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Anarchist News: December 2010 Digest and unrelated notes

By admin | Published: December 1, 2010

December is the time of lists. Here is mine.

This months

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Is The Internet Real? – November 2010 editorial

By admin | Published: November 1, 2010

This month hasn’t been a particularly eventful month. There were no major international events that mobilized anarchist forces from around the globe. There hasn’t been a big conference or book fair where some scandal or revelation has occurred. There has been police repression across the globe but it has been mostly ignored. Instead there has [...]

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The line between privacy and transparency – October 2010 Editorial

By admin | Published: October 1, 2010

This month has been another set of airings of dirty laundry on the anarchist Internet. With all the different ways that people have to air their issues with one another in a more-or-less public way, this is probably a good time to review some thoughts around privacy and transparency, as they pertain to anarchists, in [...]

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Non-Sectarian means incoherent – editorial September 2010

By admin | Published: September 2, 2010

Anonymous commenting means both that there are plenty of problematic ideas and ways of expressing ideas (problematic or not) to comment on AND that ill-thought-out criticism can easily get lost in better criticism. It also means that people share their ideas with relatively little fear of censure or abjuration. A recent poll*, the following comments, [...]

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Anarchist News Digest 2010 & other updates

By admin | Published: August 2, 2010

There are several updates here so please read if you are interested in the site. 1) The August 2010 issue of the Anarchist News Digest is online. It has stories on attacks against the existing order, the states (over)reaction, prisoners, analysis and some errata. Check it out. 2) There will be more on moderation in [...]

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August Events

By admin | Published: August 1, 2010

Noise Demo at the Northwest Detention Center (1623 East J Street Tacoma, WA 98421) Saturday, August 28th 3:30PM Info-Night: On the Northwest Detention Center, Immigration, GEO Group, and the Prison World presently Thursday, August 26th 7PM The Battle of Khimki Wednesday, August 25th 7PM at M11 The Battle of Khimki: Russian anarchists take on fascists, [...]

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Editorial: Six years of Anarchist News

By admin | Published: July 18, 2010

You may be surprised to know that Anarchist News is six years old this week. The first year was rough as we formalized our look and software but not long after we started we had decided that our goal was two fold. One we wanted to be non-sectarian in regards to the kind of anarchist [...]

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July Events

By admin | Published: July 3, 2010

Free Movie: Lucio Thursday, July 29th 6PM Against Patriarchy, Beyond Feminism: 9 Days of Events for Our Bodies, Ourselves Friday, July 9th-Saturday July 17th Schedule: Friday, July 9th: It begins! Potluck style party coupled with a discussion about prisons, and women in prison. 7:00pm at the M-11 1212 S. 11th Street Suite 24. Tacoma, WA. [...]

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July Anarchist News Digest and the moderation group

By admin | Published: July 2, 2010

Enjoy this months Anarchist News Digest. We are considering making this a monthly print publication and sending copies throughout the land. If you would be interested in receiving a bundle for your community drop us a line. This month we would like to welcome our brand new moderation group. This group includes users exile, task, [...]

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Why Anarchist, Why News?

By admin | Published: June 1, 2010

Anarchism is the simplest of ideas. Humans desire freedom and have the capacity to live in freedom from systems of control including (but not exclusive) the State, Capitalism, and Hierarchy, et al. In addition there is a history of individuals and groups that have tried to wrest autonomy from our modern conditions. This is anarchism: [...]

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Name change & an update regarding moderation – June 2010

By admin | Published: June 1, 2010

As of this month we are changing the name of the Anarchist News newsletter (formerly known as ATubes) to the Anarchist News Digest (AND). While we thought referencing the Internet as a series of tubes was cute, perhaps it wasn’t cute enough for the newsletter. Download the newest issue, print it out and share it [...]

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Privacy settings & changes in services

By admin | Published: May 9, 2010

This week the issue of moderation became a hot topic again. There is a pleasant fiction that anarchist news is a place where anarchists, and our friends, can sit around the campfire of relevant news and have a discussion with each other. But even if this were true our motivations are too varied. We do [...]

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May ATubes & Anarchy Planet

By admin | Published: May 2, 2010

The May ATubes is available. Check it out. We believe this is a good way to print out the months news related to anarchists. We envision this being printed, copied, and distributed in public spaces. Please tell us about successes and failures with this strategy in the comments. Light moderation has been a success so [...]

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May Events

By admin | Published: April 27, 2010

Anti-Prison Demo Saturday, May 15th at 2:00pm At the Pierce County Jail,Tacoma, Washington Meet at South 9th St. and South Yakima Ave “So prison is the ideal kind of death, because it eliminates en masse those whom society could only physically kill in very small numbers.” – Against Prisons Catherine Baker This noise demo is [...]

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On Moderation – part 3 of an endless series

By admin | Published: April 11, 2010

Attentive viewers will have noticed that I have started light moderation. This means ‘unpublishing’ comments at this point and I’d like to share the mechanism by which I will moderate a comment. 1) It is entirely hostile to the anarchist project 2) It is offensive to my not-so-delicate sensibilities (most permutations of the N word, [...]

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!Work

By admin | Published: April 4, 2010

It seems like the ethical thing to do is to use the service myself. This will be a place where I discuss things that I am enjoying about the projects around Anarchy Planet. I will also announce new things about the Planet, @news, and assorted sites. I will keep it to the point and avoid [...]

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April Events

By admin | Published: April 3, 2010

The North West Anarchist Conference Saturday, April 24th and Sunday, April 25th. 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm At Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW,Olympia, Washington 98505 Inside Building Seminar II, room E 1107 A Short Introduction: The idea and focus behind this conference is to bring different types of anarchist practice to the for-front [...]

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