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The Olympic Resistance Network has called for a convergence to protest the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This video explains some the reasons why these activists have organized the first ever anti-Olymopic [...]

This week:

1. Colombian attack on the indigenous
2. Blocking the flows of carbon
3. Mending the Niger Delta
4. RCMP can’t find Bin Laden
5. The Olympigs are here!
6. The resistance responds
7. KRS1
8. Occupy [...]

This week:

1. 2009 heat
2. Beds are Burning
3. Meltdown 2010
4. Skiing in the desert
5. iPon
6. Obama’s fighting deception
7. Supreme Handout
8. Howard Zinn R.I.P.
9. Anti-Flag
10. Radical sports writer Dave [...]

Does your boss work less than you but take home a bigger paycheck? Is somebody zipping around in a private jet at your expense? If the corporation is making money at the end of the day, that means they’re not paying you the full value of your labor – that’s where corporate profit comes from! So if you need something in your workplace, take it. You earned [...]

This week:

1. Coked up drones
2. Hacking Skynet
3. Iranian Rage
4. The economy must collapse
5. Criminals in Action
6. The Stimulator’s Magic Crystal [...]

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in Vancouver and Whistler, on unceded Indigenous land, from February 12th to the 28th, 2010. We call on all anticapitalist, Indigenous, housing rights, labour, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community loving, anti poverty, civil libertarian, and anti colonial activists to come together to confront this two week circus and the oppression it represents. We are organizing towards a global anti capitalist and anti colonial convergence against the 2010 Olympic [...]

This week:
1. Climate Crooks
2. Naked Truth
3. African Holocaust
4. Aussie Uranium Resistance
5. Dakota uprising
6. Border Blackout
7. Hitler’s torch blocked
8. The Coup
9. Plan [...]

This Week:
1. Denier’s Dilemma
2. Crashing Prosperity
3. 100,000 march
4. Cop15 Hundred
5. Hit the [...]

This week:

1. It’s all Greek to me
2. Tegucigolpe
3. War is Peace
4. Disrupt the flows
5. Submerged Bangladesh
6. Fred Hampton
7. Calle 13
8. Twelve [...]

As I type this, leaders from the biggest industrialized nations are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss a possible treaty to diminish worldwide carbon emissions. As reported last month, it is already known that no deal will be reached during these talks. Many scientists say time is running out and others say it’s too late. Meanwhile in Canada, the forces of capitalism and industry are moving full force to extract the last bits of oil from the Alberta tar sands. The insanity of this project perfectly exemplifies Premise 10 from Derrick Jensen’s [...]