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While we’ve all been distracted by debates over healthcare, Russia, and everything else, Congress has moved forward with a bill that will let your internet service provider sell all your private browsing information to anyone they want. This goes well beyond your partisan politics. What we’re talking about here are the companies that have ALL the personal information you probably don’t want revealed to shady marketers: name, Social Security number, the healthcare sites you visit, the books you buy, your porn preferences, and so forth. We’re not talking about Google or a website cookie gathering a partial, usually anonymous picture of your web habits. These are the ISPs that provide your connection to the internet and therefore have the ability to vacuum up every detail about your online life.

Joey season is here.  New album 4-7-17

“The grassroots resistance that has rocked the US since Trump’s election isn’t the work of paid or professional protesters—nor, by extension, of George Soros, the supposed “puppet master” of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories Trump is referencing. It hasn’t come from the Democratic Party,the non-profit sector, or the various socialist splinter groups.

Resistance to Trump has come from ordinary people taking action on their own terms without waiting for leadership or instructions. It has come from the same people who breathed tear gas in Ferguson while facing down a militarized police force to defend their neighborhood. It has come from the tens of thousands who survived freezing water cannons and rubber bullets at Standing Rock to block a pipeline that Trump is now trying to railroad through. It has come from those who risked their lives to confront the KKK in Stone Mountain and Neo-Nazis in Sacramento. It has come from the people who disrupted Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, who shut down airports on January 28th and 29th to defy Trump’s Muslim ban, who shut down Milo Yiannopoulos on February 1st.

All of these efforts were organized horizontally according to broadly anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian frameworks. It’s not just a few people in masks: the spirit of the times is anarchistic. […] Anarchists are among the only ones offering a clear vision of another way of living. In organizing networks and community spaces around the world, we come together to assist each other in meeting basic needs and building the collective capacity for self-defense. In neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools, anarchists are fighting gentrification, police brutality, and exploitation while creating inclusive alternative infrastructures for survival. Across bioregions, we are organizing to protect our drinking water and the earth.”