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I saw which was the winning side
And still I joined the other
And I'm in love with every strange unfolding day
As the storm begins to break cover.
— New Model Army
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Commons library is not nearly as large as that of some of the other
areas of Wild Ideas (notably the Calyx and the Temple), but it's slowly
beginning to accumulate some content. Over time I'll be uploading some
articles and things, particularly from Kick It Over, the anarchist
magazine I used to write for. But here's a brief listing of what's here
right now.
The
newest additions are three accounts of the recent protests in Quebec
City against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), one by
a philosophy student, union activist and Druid; one by a volunteer street
medic that shows the true extent of the police violence and the injuries
suffered by protesters; and one by a video activist and documentary
filmmaker who was harrassed by police and had video work confiscated
and computer damagaed almost as soon as he arrived in the city.
Then there are these messages from the IMBAS
mailing list, two by me and one by Kent Jewell. The IMBAS list is focussed
on Celtic paganism, but occasionally discussion veers off in a more
political direction, such as in the messages above.
Elsewhere, one of the essays that can be found in the Forest,
while centred on an environmental protest (the 1996 Owain Lake blockade
in Temagami), has important implications for other kinds of activists
as well:
- Power and Trust:
Should Activists Negotiate with Police? A Case Study (Note: this
document is 40k in size. Eventually I intend to break up all the long
essays on this site into shorter segments, but it will probably be
a while.)
Plus, there's the archive
of messages on Net censorship from the Toronto
Webgrrls mailing list. A while back, there was a heated debate
on the ethics of filtering software, the limits of parental control,
and what methods might be necessary or acceptable in the fight to prevent
government control of the Net. This is a collection of 13 messages on
the topic that represent some very valuable and thought-provoking debate.
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