"For more than two weeks in the spring of 1992, L.A. Weekly photographer Ted Soqui put his life at risk as he drove from one ravaged neighborhood to another to document the fallout of the Los Angeles riots, also known as the Los Angeles Uprising. He spotted torched buildings by following plumes of smoke in the sky. "And there was no shortage of smoke," Soqui says, "dark smoke."

"He rephotographed those sites 20 years later, standing in the very same locations where he'd stood in 1992. Soqui's before-and-after imagery gives silent testament to how much has changed - and how little."

Authorities link 100 acts of vandalism and arson to activists but anarchists claim city’s alternative lifestyles are real target

"There is another myth that needs to be exploded -- the myth that social revolutions are made by tightly disciplined cadres, guided by a highly centralized leadership. All the great social revolutions are the work of deep-seated historic forces and contradictions to which the revolutionary and his organization contributes very little and, in most cases, completely misjudges, The revolutions themselves break out spontaneously. [...] If a revolutionary organization is not structured to dissolve into the popular forms created by the revolution once its function as a catalyst is completed; if its own forms are not similar to the libertarian society it seeks to create, so that it can disappear into the revolutionary forms of the future -- then the organization becomes a vehicle for carrying the forms of the past into the revolution. It becomes a self perpetuating organism, a state machine that, far from "withering away", perpetuates all the archaic conditions for its own existence."

"I will remember Eric Garner, I will remember the slain. I will not forget the killers with badges, that which protects them, that which deploys them, or that which they enforce. I will not merely endure in the face of these intolerable harms, even if my skin tone affords me merely a fraction the risk of a black man. In fact, may that galvanize me to not retreat quietly into comfort and complicity."

This is by far the best defense of looting I have read today.

Here's a blogger who does not like anarchism, does like making fun of anarchists, is a good writer, and has posted a nice list of books critical of anarchism which I should read some day.

'CEO Mackey has in the past boasted that of “all the food retailers in the Fortune 500… we have the highest profits as a percentage of sales, as well as the highest return on invested capital.” The IWW workers at Whole Foods know full well that their labor is the source of that profit.'

"Uniformed police shut down an effort to provide lunch to scores of homeless in Stranahan Park on Sunday, enforcing a law passed recently that puts new limits on outdoor feeding sites.

"At least three people were cited for violating the new ordinance, including two members of the clergy and a 90-year-old advocate who has handed out food to the homeless for more than 20 years."

The City of Chicago spent $43,000 as part of its effort to take away the safest and most comfortable places propertyless people have to sleep.

This is a reasonable middle-ground position.

On the FBI's efforts to engineer terrorist plots.

Some sober musings on the libertarian Kurdish struggle.

Some books to look at.

Janet Reitman does a great job telling the story of Jeremy Hammond in this Rolling Stone article. It's difficult for me to contain my anger and disappointment when I hear about people like Jeremy being imprisoned.

"The Circled A is a weekly Anarchist radio show." Looks like they have several interesting episodes.

"In 1910, she was accused of treason by the Japanese government for her alleged involvement in what became known as the Kotoku incident, aimed at the assassination of Emperor Meiji. She was the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan."

"In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she asked for it. Just try a harmless expression of mutual, consensual desire, though. They’ll hound you to within an inch of your life."

Video of protesters in Denver chanting at Denver Police Department.

I need to find some time to add a few names to this list