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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Berkeley residents at work fixing up People’s Park TO OUR BROTHERS These National Guardsmen are not pigs. They’re not even gung-ho soldiers. Most of them share our view that the Vietnam war is an unworthy act of aggression. By joining the guard they avoided two years of active duty and a tour in Vietnam. As […] Continue reading →

Like who knows how many thousand others, I got involved in the battle of People’s Park when somebody handed me a shovel and said, over there, we’re breaking it up so we can lay sod down. Packed by weight of years of houses and months of cars, the hard earth barely yielded to any tool, […] Continue reading →

The following is the International Law currently being used to prosecute Slobodan Milosovich for crimes against humanity. Everyone should be aware of this law and remember that NO ONE IS IMMUNE from this, including politicians who wage war! The Treaty of London, August 8, 1945 (59 Stat. 7544), provided for the creation of the International […] Continue reading →

I was waiting for the light to change at Bloor and St. George when I saw the first whore waiting across from me. She was slumped, smile drooping, foot-sore from cruising Fraternity Row peddling counterfeit sex to the sons of the bourgeoisie who know no better. I felt a decent Pity. (Declension: I am pitying, […] Continue reading →