The election tomorrow and California Ballot Initiatives

Posted on November 3, 2008

first thing is the presidential race, which is (finally!) about to be over. after a year and a half of watching this stupid puppetshow drown out all the real news I’m well past ready for it to be over.

fuck john “bomb iran” mccain and barack “invade pakistan” oboma. how is that even supposed to represent a choice? we’ve got 2 war mongering capitalist douchebags with slightly different strategies for fucking us all over, and yet people get all excited about it as though our votes actually counted or something! I’ll never understand it.

So here’s my official election endorsement, for everyone who hasn’t already seen it:

As for the rest of the ballot, in California at least we have a little bit of direct democracy, and that to me is worth voting on. As an anarchist I’d like to see direct democracy used for just about everything, so while the ballot initiative system isn’t perfect, it’s at least a step in the right direction. Here’s my list: Read more

Baghdad Burning

Posted on October 14, 2008

I don’t care what your doing, you need to stop it right now and go read this woman’s blog.  Yes, I’m serious.

It’s an anonymous blog from a young Iraqi woman talking about her life, her hopes, her fears, and the sheer brutality and anti-human horror of life in occupied Bahdad.  I know all the conservative assholes who keep goign on about how “we” are “winning” in Iraq will never take the time to read it – or any of the other accounts from people who’ve lived through the hell our Fuher has engineered – but for the rest of us who continue to go on with our daily lives doing the best we can to get by even though we know there is a horrible crime being committed in our name, for the rest of us it’s incredibly important to stop, shut the fuck up about everything we THINK we know, and just listen.

Baghdad Burning.

Go. There. Now.

None of the Above!

Posted on October 9, 2008

The brand new animated music video from Beltaine’s Fire about the elections.

Help us get the word out & re-post the video on your blogs, pages, myspace/bebo/facebook/etc profiles. We’re counting on ya’ll to get the word out!

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