After the 2010 Riot: Report back from the Olympic resistance in Vancouver

(Our favourite gonzo journalist has scored a hit with this piece of ’speculative fiction.’ One of the corporate media’s mouthpiece columnists got his feathers in a ruffle as soon it hit the internet, and posted his attack less than three hours after Zoe published the piece on her blog.)
Report back from the Olympic resistance [...]

Internal Industry Documents Show Plans for Labeling Activists as “Eco-Terrorists” (Part 1 of 3)

-greenisthenewred.com
It has been two years since the passage of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a sweeping new law that wraps up non-violent civil disobedience and hurting corporate profits as “terrorism.”
The law marked a radical expansion of the “War on Terrorism,” and the most ambitious campaign yet by industry groups, corporations, and the politicians that represent [...]

Framing the ‘RNC 8’

By Sam Stoker, In These Times
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The city that became a battlefield between police and protesters, who took to the streets during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in early September, is now embroiled in a new fight — a legal battle over freedom of speech and assembly.
In an unprecedented application of Minnesota’s [...]

Leftover Crack and the Cops

By Maria Luisa Tucker,Graham Rayman
The Village Voice
For months now, the members of Leftover Crack, a punk band known for songs like “One Dead Cop” and “Nazi White Trash,” have been complaining that the police have been pressuring night club managers to block their performances.
Police officers in Brooklyn visited several club managers and threatened to shut [...]

Green Anarchist Writer Subpoened in FBI/Grand Jury ‘Green Scare’

Feds still probing attacks by Earth Liberation Front
BY LISA THOMPSON and ED PALATTELLA, Erie Times-News
Radical environmentalist Kevin Tucker took the stage at Mercyhurst College two years ago to sound his call for a world freed from civilization.
Today, he is scheduled to take a seat before a different kind of Erie audience — a federal grand [...]

Is Planning a Protest a Terrorist Act?

by John Basel, OpEd News
The City of St. Paul in Minnesota has for the first time exercised a new law which, much like the U.S. Patriot Act, is aimed at preemptively stopping terrorist actions. Charges of “conspiracy to commit riot” have been levied against an anarchist group called the “RNC Welcoming Committee”. The group’s goal [...]

Minnesota Food Not Bombs homes and offices raided. Volunteers arrested.

Crackdown Begins: Food Not Bombs House Among Saturday Raids Ahead of
RNC. Food Not Bombs volunteer arrested in Denver and Berkeley office
raided on Wednesday.
As the all volunteer movement Food Not Bombs prepares to respond to
Hurricane Gustav the police and FBI raid several Food Not Bombs houses
in Minneapolis and a office in Berkeley where police seized 13
computers.

2010 Security Plans ‘On-Track’ Say Organizers

Critical report off base, say organizers
Clare Ogilvie, The Province
Olympic security officials are refuting a report that charges they are not doing enough to protect the Games.
“Our security planning is on track, and Vancouver 2010 [Integrated Security Unit] is continuing to grow proportionately to our planning needs,” RCMP spokeswoman Cpl. Gursharn Bernier said yesterday.
“We are on [...]

CSIS watching extremist Olympic protesters

Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service
Canada’s spy agency has been monitoring anti-Olympic activities for more than a year and found the strongest opposition to the athletic event to be among “the more extreme elements” of First Nations groups, particularly in alliance with anti-poverty groups, according to an internal government document obtained by Canwest News Service.

Anti-Poverty Committee Response to anti-2010 activist scare

-from APC
For once police ‘intelligence’ has gotten it right when they predicted
that protests against the 2010 games will become more ‘intense’.
Still confused though, the RCMP has warned that such actions will increase
in violence; of course it’s not violent when they taser someone to death.
The APC scoffs at the allegations of violence and repeats, ‘the disruption
targeting [...]