tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253952252011-08-31T07:04:28.375-04:00OK Notes is an online dumping ground for the ruminations, pontifications, and full-fledged articles written by a group of anarchist and anti-authoritarian thinkers and friends.oknoteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07776812112951677594noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25395225.post-5210324698938352272007-05-07T15:10:00.000-04:002007-05-07T15:13:32.127-04:00

these are some notes that i emailed to a friend who was part of a panel discussion. she was the only person on the panel talking about Anarchy/ism and Religion, and wanted a little input from different voices that she might have to represent. we still want to put together a talk dedicated to just this one topic--but i liked these notes so much that i figured i'd go ahead and post 'em!What I Would

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here's part of an interview with Ashanti Alston, former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, now a prominent black anarchist thinker and speaker. Ashanti, who acts as a kind of wise advisor figure toward APOC, spoke on multiracial solidarity during a recent interview published on Next Left Notes, an online publication of the reconstituted Students for a Democratic

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Here's a section from Love in the Days of Rage, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's whimsical novel set amid the near-revolution in Paris in 1968. The book chronicles a love affair between Annie, an art professor, and Julian, a mysterious anarchist banker; I think it often captures just the right balance between whimsy and verve, love and rebellion. This section is from chapter 14.Inside the ampitheater,

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Here's a short article written on short notice for a student paper at a small college in scenic upstate New York. Put together by Sam and Elliott, it provides a brief (brief brief) overview of the situation in Oaxaca, and the recent murder of our friend Brad Will.Oaxaca Presente! To begin with, we are not neutral. Two weeks ago, PRIsta paramilitary forces outside Oaxaca City murdered our friend

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For anyone who read our very first post on this blog, an essay entitled Deep Organization: A Call to Possibility, here's a small retraction addendum editor's note.Our article juxtaposed two different case studies: on the one hand, an anti-authoritarian response to Katrina a la the Common Ground Collective; and on the other hand, an anti-nazi rally turned community rebellion in 2005 in Toledo,

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Here's part of an essay by Michelle Esther O'Brien, a transsexual genderqueer activist from NYC whose website deadletters is a treasure trove of analysis and reflection on the vibrant milieu of gender politics today. Some readers may find Michelle's stuff a bit academic, but I'm way impressed by the depth the breadth of content available on the site.Accompanying this history of trans liberation

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Here's a selection from Raol Vaneigem's classic treatise The Revolution of Everyday Life, which was a key text of the Situationist International in 1960s France. A nifty radical arts movement that drew from anarchism and council communism, Situationism garnered a lot of political and cultural sway in the French student movements, and reached a crescendo in the abortive revolution of May 1968.The

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Boy, it's hard to find the time to write reflective anarchist theory when there's so much fighting going on. From now on, we'll start posting interesting snippets of anti-authoritarian content on the blog, while folks 'round here keep working on their various opuses. Let's start out with a section of an article entitled Zapatismo Urbano by John Holloway. In 2002, Holloway wrote a book called

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Elliott wrote this short article on his favorite poet, Gary Snyder, for (possible) publication in the upcoming "Anarchist Literature" issue of Fifth Estate Magazine. Fifth Estate is the longest-running anti-authoritarian journal in the United States, so he's really excited. If you're a fan of poetry, Buddhism, ecology or anarchism, pick up the next issue and see if this little ditty made the

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After seeing The New World in theaters with some friends, I just couldn't sleep. I had never seen a movie that I found so artistically brilliant but, at the same time, so politically repugnant. At 3:00am I started writing, both to get clear to myself what was wrong with the movie, and to craft a document describing my conflict to friends who loved the film. By the end of the night, I'd come up

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Sam and I wrote the following article (our first ever) trying to describe the disconnects and possibilities between typically "activist" networks and historically oppressed communities. Though it rapidly became clear that you could write a book on the subject, we tried to make what we had stand on its own two, spindly legs.ABSTRACT:While many activists complain of a decline in intensity

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