World's Deadliest Herbivore.

The Oakland Police Department is caught up in multiple scandals right now. They have fired 3 police chiefs in 8 days. 

Zinaida Get Your Gun,

Update on Eco-Warrior Marco Camenisch: At Swiss Open Prison

update from Earth First! Journal Eco-Prisoner List Marco has recently been moved to an open prison in Saxerriet. He is serving 8 years (until 05-2018) for the alleged murder of a Customs policeman.  This is his latest sentence from a lifelong commitment to ecological resistance movements.  In 1980, Marco was sentenced to ten years for damaging electricity pylons and transformers from nuclear…

“Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches. This it was which created the earliest capitalist. For, before the surplus value, about which people are so fond of talking, could begin to be accumulated it was necessary that there should be poverty-stricken wretches who would consent to sell their labor force rather than die of hunger. It is poverty that has made the rich. And if poverty had advanced by such rapid strides by the end of the Middle Ages, it was chiefly because the invasions and wars, the creation of States and the development of their authority, the wealth gained by exploitation in the East and many other causes of a like nature, broke the bonds which once united agrarian and urban communities, and led them, in place of the solidarity which they once practiced, to adopt the principle of the wage-system. Is this principle to be the outcome of the Revolution? Dare we dignify by the name of a Social Revolution that name so dear to the hungry, the suffering and the oppressed - the triumph of such a principle as this?

It cannot be so. For, on the day when ancient institutions splinter into fragments before the axe of the proletariat, voices will be heard shouting: Bread for all! Lodging for all! Right for all to the comforts of life!”

Why Black Lives Matter Protests Are Growing In Minneapolis

The Fall Earth First! Newsletter is Out! Download Free or Read Online

Happy Samhain, folks. In celebration of the beginning of the darker half of the year, we’ve released 12 pages of environmental resistance that you can read online or download. Inside is a chronology of actions carried out around the world in defense of the wild—everything from chasing off politicians to burning shit down. You’ll also find an article on this summer’s string of ALF actions in…

My new TED talk is up! 

Video surfaces of Georgia deputies tasing restrained black man, Matthew Ajibade

Matthew Ajibade, 22, died in police custody Jan. 2 in Georgia. Graphic video from the night before sheriff’s deputies found his body reveals his brutal treatment at the hands of law enforcement. 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902 (Social activist, abolitionist, author)

“What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?” 

Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 (Physician, Methodist minister, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association)

“You have put the ballot in the hands of your black men, thus making them political superiors of white women. Never before in the history of the world have men made former slaves the political masters of their former mistresses!”

Frances Willard, 1839-1898 (Feminist lecturer, founder of the National Council of Women, anti-child abuse activist)

“Alien illiterates rule our cities today; the saloon is their palace, and the toddy stick their scepter. The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt.” 

Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947 (Founder of the League of Women Voters)

“White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women’s suffrage.” 

Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, 1835-1930 (First woman to serve in the Senate)

“I do not want to see a negro man walk to the polls and vote on who should handle my tax money, while I myself cannot vote at all…When there is not enough religion in the pulpit to organize a crusade against sin; nor justice in the court house to promptly punish crime; nor manhood enough in the nation to put a sheltering arm about innocence and virtue—-if it needs lynching to protect woman’s dearest possession from the ravening human beasts—-then I say lynch, a thousand times a week if necessary.” 

Excerpted from an article by Mallory Ortberg, The Toast