The latest issue of Iconoclast, "Consume & Destroy" takes aim at the environmental effects of capitalism and consumer culture. It's available both as a regular online PDF and as a ready-to-print file.

http://iconoclastmedia.net/issue-25-now-available/

Community Update by the Community Solidarity Network: Post G20 – Arrests, Intimidation and Ongoing Resistance

This report has been a long time coming. Many people that spent the last year as the Toronto Community Mobilization Network, putting together the infrastructure for the Convergence have been arrested, beaten, and intimidated. Many of our most beloved and central organizers are under house arrest conditions while many others in the city have leaped forward to join the resistance.

A new organizing space, the Community Solidarity Network, has just been formed. We see ourselves as the central networking, trust-building and organizing hub for the post-G20 defence happening in different spheres across Toronto. Though our primary mandate is to ensure that all charges against everyone who opposed the G20 be dropped, we will be hosting open meetings shortly for everyone who is organizing various initiatives in the city.

Announcing the new Anarchist Platform Archive

See: http://anarchistplatform.wordpress.com/

The Anarchist Platform Archive is an archive of texts relating to the publishing of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) by the Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad (“Delo Truda” Group) in 1926.

note: this announcement was posted on Infoshop at http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100821112711421

Friends and comrades,

We would like to take this opportunity to announce the new Anarchist Platform Archive. The Anarchist Platform Archive is an archive of texts relating to the publishing of the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft) by the Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad (“Delo Truda” Group) in 1926.

Support John Moore's campaign for justice

Dear supporter of social justice:

Re: John Moore’s Campaign for a Pardon

John Moore is an Ojibway man from Serpent River First Nation who spent
10 years (from 1978 to 1988) in Millhaven Penitentiary for a murder he
did not commit. Social justice activists in Sudbury know John Moore
very well as a committed and long-time community activist.

John Moore was convicted of 2nd degree murder in 1978 under a law
which
was later repealed in 1987. The same evidence for which he spent time
in
jail would no longer stand up in a court of law. Institutionalized
racism was a key factor leading to his false conviction. Moore was
convicted by an all-white jury. There is now widespread and
well-documented knowledge that institutionalized racism against First
Nations people has led to widespread discrimination against them
within
the criminal justice system.
For more information see the attachment below or go to

FYI

"...dockworkers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union have decided to stop work for eight hours in all U.S. West Coast ports on May 1, International Workers' Day, to call for an end to the war."

Anyone know of any similar resolutions or debates within the Canadian labour movement on Afghanistan?

I'm continuing my 'Building a Popular Anarchism in Ireland' tour south of the border, in Atlanta right now for stop 26. I recorded three more audio as I'm moving around, you can listen to them below or subscribe to the indymedia.ie podcast on itunes

Miami - http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2008/miami.mp3
Patrick of the Black Mangrove Collective about struggles in that city and the political background. The interview covers everything from the difficulties of operating in a city where right wing Cuban exiles dominate the political landscape to community struggle for housing and organising in trailor parks.

Ashanti Alston at Sarasota - http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2008/ashanti.mp3

I came across this site by accident. Its got a wealth (1472) of articles on anarchism, many of which look well-researched plus thousands more in several languages. Well worth the look.