January 22, 2008
· Filed under BLood, Bastards of the Party, Black Panthers, Bloods, COINTELPRO, Crip, Crips, L.A., Los Angeles, MLK, Martin Luther King Day, cop watch, gang fighting, gangs
Today being Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Western Massachusetts Cop Watch screened Bastards of the Party, an amazing documentary about the Bloods and Crips in LA. It does a lot to explain the origins of their animosity and how it got that way from the civil rights and Black Panther movements. It talks about COINTELPRO and how tha black panthers were murdered and manipulated by the FBI, in ways that destroyed the movement. Basically this documentary is amazing and I wish every gang member could see it. It felt like a very appropriate way to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
The description of the movie from HBO:
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January 19, 2008
· Filed under Democratic National Convention, Milwaukee, Republican National Convention, against voting, anarchists, anarchy, banner drop, expect resistance, no vote, voting is reformist, why not vote
This is an article I originally got off of infoshop.org, which is about some banner drops, and the letter by those who dropped the banners expresses quite clearly an anarchist stance against voting and elections. The banner drops in Milwaukee by some anarchists reveal how anarchists are already thinking about the elections as well as the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
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