It’s been a hectic time here in the Raincouver. As you may have heard Amy Goodman was detained at the Canadian border when she was on her way to Vancouver to give a talk. The border cops wanted to know if Amy was going to speak about the Olympics and she had no fuckin idea what they were talking about. The group of media ninja’s I’ve been helping organize, the Vancouver Media Co-op broke the story and published Amy’s entire speech.
So the Olympics are fucked, and we would love it for those who have the means and the time to join us in disrupting this spectacle of capitalism. The Olympic Resistance Network has called for a convergence and days of action from February 10-15 in Vancouver. If you can’t make it, and you live in Canada, you can always help disrupt the torch relay.
Recently a good soul sent me this little rant about “Buy Nothing Day” called “Steal something day” published 10 years ago. In honor of this mad genius, I am reposting along with my Crimethinc video “Why I love Shoplifting from Big Corporations”
Happy Black Friday!
STEAL SOMETHING DAY
a shameless 24-hour stealing spree!
For the past eight years, a few self-described “culture jammers” from Adbusters Magazine have dubbed the last Friday in November “Buy Nothing Day.”
From their stylish home base in Vancouver’s upscale suburb of Kitsilano, the Adbusters’ brain trust has encouraged conscientious citizens worldwide to “relish [their] power as a consumer to change the economic environment.” In their words, Buy Nothing Day “proves how empowering it is to step out of the consumption stream for even a day.”
The geniuses at Adbusters have managed to create the perfect feel-good, liberal, middle-class activist non-happening. A day when the more money you make, the more influence you have (like every other day). A day which, by definition, is insulting to the millions of people worldwide who are too poor or marginalized to be considered “consumers.”
First of all, I’m shocked to find out from Stim that “Izzy” was Asper’s nickname. Because that was my nickname as a child from the paternal side of the family. Coincidence? Yes, totally.
Incidentally, Comcast is planning to soon bulk up by taking over NBC-Universal. And you thought it was going to end with the latter.
But, this is an excellent segway into all things Israeli.
What has the country been up to? Other than bombing a few more settlements - the whole set-fire-to-the-apples-to-kill-the-worms strategy - it has also gone ahead with planning more settlements in Al Quds. Even the French were a bit miffed. As always, there’s more than meets the eye. Israel has what’s known as a heinous plan afoot. Continue reading ‘Location bloody location’
Enter Gordon Murray and Carel Moiseiwitsch AKA the Palestine Media Collective. In June 2007 these two media trouble makers unleashed a parody of Izzy’s Vancouver Sun with the headline “Celebrating 40 years of civilising the West Bank”
Can-West did not get the joke and are suing these clever satirists. Yep humor is a powerful weapon and greedy media moguls would like to stop satirists from being so fuckin funny.
Recently I got to meet Gordon Murray of the Palestine Media Collective, and he told me he is taking his fight to the video realm. So it is my pleasure to present to you “Canwest’s Global War on Satire“
A curious property evident in the discussion of insurrection in the United States is that it gets more respect the further it occurs from home. Anarchists who would never dream of complaining that the Thessaloniki Food not Bombs is being neglected while its members amuse themselves burning banks, who could never conceive of suggesting that the Somali pirates stop seizing ships for ransom in order to start a bike repair collective, have no problem criticizing their own friends and comrades for shortchanging local projects to attend semi-annual mass mobilizations. This is a shame, because a look at the broader picture reveals that summit demos are taking an ongoing toll on the ruling class, even when they are tactically unsuccessful.
subMedia recently held a fundraiser for END:CIV in Vancouver where we premiered the latest clips from the movie. We also beamed in Derrick Jensen via weblink where attendees could ask him questions and have an interactive discussion. The Q & A went so well that we decided to release the video online.
It’s been a hectic time here in the Raincouver. As you may have heard Amy Goodman was detained at the Canadian border when she was on her way to Vancouver to give a talk. The border cops wanted to know if Amy was going to speak about the Olympics and she had no fuckin idea what they were talking about. The group of media ninja’s I’ve been helping organize, the Vancouver Media Co-op broke the story and published Amy’s entire speech.
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