The same costume will be …amusing 30 years after its time. James Laver At the risk of seeming trite, we shall now delve into the superficial world of hippy fashions. Please bear with me as you will see it leads us to some very interesting places. Today, the fashion world has once again discovered the […] Continue reading →

Cyberactivists brought down the the web site of the World Economic Forum in a virtual sit-in. The attack was coordinated by the Electronic Disturbance Theater, Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Federation of Random Action. The activists have been urging people to help with the attacks on www.weforum.org. At Indymedia.org. messages from those groups took credit […] Continue reading →

True mass movements develop quickly; they contain contradictory impulses; they change rapidly in the face of events their leaders cannot control. The great mass movement called the Moratorium already shows three explicit political strands, each with its own assumptions and its own trajectory for the movement. 1) For the great majority of participants, the Moratorium […] Continue reading →

In a future revolution, the most pressing task assigned to technology will be to produce a surfeit of goods with a minimum of toil. The immediate purpose of this task will be to permanently open the social arena to the revolutionary people, to keep the revolution in permanence. Thus far, every social revolution has foundered […] Continue reading →

What is now happening in Detroit, I think, is typical in at least one way of black communities throughout America: it represents the determination of the black people to control their own community. This marks a new day for black people. Wherever the black revolution is in progress, specific steps have to be taken to […] Continue reading →

The Democratic National Convention ended for me in December, with a 20-day stretch in the Chicago House of Correction. I was the only political prisoner in a dormitory of about fifty men-some of them criminals, some outlaws, some there entirely by mistake. In the evenings we would drag out our mattresses and blankets and lay […] Continue reading →

Stop Look, what’s that sound. Everybody look what’s goin’ down. by Bonny Cohen (with a little help from Keith Maillard) The sound is rock music. What’s going down is money. Columbia records nets billions from sales. On album jackets recording artists are called revolutionaries, but CBS, which owns Columbia, has defense contracts to help murder […] Continue reading →