.: Love and Rage

A requiem for wasted youth,

uncouth and far too clever.

Never really innocent,

[though well-read] still ignorant.

Misled by elders and grown ups,

now I can't seem to grow up.

So I shrink away

from fake affection.

[doesn't take direction]

No, I don't vote in elections,

I'm fed up with the factions

Reactionary

Ready to mask up,

armed with fact; we come

correct. Tactics packed,

our task ahead.

Direct action.

Its gets heated,

people start to feel empowered

with the cops retreating,

but its a ruse.

Soon they let loose

with senseless beatings.

Overreaction.

Block streets and charge

at us with horses,

to intimidate of course.

[all go through the motions]

Of course it's all just bait,

designed to aggravate

a crowd's emotions

Instigate fear and commotion.

Plain-clothed units infiltrate,

with hidden weapons they inflict

indiscriminate violence midst

the panic of the crush.

Now badges are removed,

Gloved hands brush glocks.

The rushing crowd throws rocks,

so forming poses

for the shots that show the

cops were merely victims.

Oh, we know they'll smell like roses

on the news at six o'clock.

Yes, we are scared

as the night falls. So what

if we are right? Now

we each, alone, must choose.

Try and run away

from here,

or stay and fight?

One voice no longer.

Once more, must

we settle for surrender

to the choice of

hate

or fear?

[if only we were stronger]

Surrounded.

So stand our ground,

around us, all strength that

we could ever need.

We found

respect, reflected

in the eyes of equals.

I was proud to stand

beside you. I would bleed-. No,

I would die for you.

Defiant,

we held our heads erect,

in bliss, amongst the

burned out wrecks and weeds,

We turned

and kissed.

Sister.

True resistor. My beloved

Anarquista. Above the barricades,

we embrace like ancient gods.

Burning cars groan,

spit and crack glass.

True fire flickers in our eyes.

This smoldering love,

we cannot hold.

Like a hot coal it burns you.

and it burns me too.

Lover,

always we'll be

free, and bold.

So, let's swear to never-ever:

-do as we are told,

-act our ages,

-obey the rules,

-allow our secrets to be sold,

Lets disregard authorities,

whomsoever they may be.

They rent us our own cages,

for a fee.

Tomorrow's not what they said

it would be.

Tonight, my love,

rage and passion,

might just be enough,

to ignite this soulless city.

September 2011

.: Video - Plan B - ill Manors

Apologies if this old news but it's new to me.
Not the London Riots, but this clip explains more than those lip-flapping media c*nts could manage in the days following the LDN Uprising.



via thejuicemedia who liked it on youtube

.: Electronic Countermeasures

Tomorrow's Thoughts Today are a a London thinktank and with Electronic Countermeasures are doing what the Pirate Bay have proposed creating an aerial network that uses autonomic swarm formation to create, disperse, and reform high-throughput temporary networks in the sky.

Thanks Cory at boingboing

Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo.

via torrentfreak

.: Doc - Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance is a label for a movement. A movement that wants change by sonic revolution. We urge you to join the resistance and help us combat the mediocre audio and visual programming that is being fed to the inhabitants of Earth, this programming is stagnating the minds of the people; building a wall between races and preventing world peace. It is this wall we are going to smash. By using the untapped energy potential of sound we are going to destroy this wall much the same as certain frequencies shatter glass. Techno is a music based in experimentation; it is music for the future of the human race. Without this music there will be no peace, no love, no vision. By simply communicating through sound, techno has brought people of all different nationalities together under one roof to enjoy themselves. Isn't it obvious that music and dance are the keys to the universe? So called primitive animals and tribal humans have known this for thousands of years! We urge all brothers and sisters of the underground to create and transmit their tones and frequencies no matter how so called primitive their equipment may be. Transmit these tones and wreak havoc on the programmers!

 underground resistance

.: Operation Black March

via Zgeek

.: Aidex '91

Over the last week, I am ashamed to say, I have been working on an international arms trade fair.

Right here in the middle of Sydney - at Darling Harbour.
Called the Pacific Maritime Expo, it didn't even seem to raise an eyebrow.

I wanted to walk out on the first day,

- walk out of an event that offends every one of the principles I so readily espouse.

But I found, in Sydney 2012, those principles are too expensive for people like me.
Living week to week, it seems I can no longer afford them.

Part of my soul has died.

It seemed none of my friends shared my outrage, as I ranted about the injustice, after my first day there.

Don't get passionate about something anymore, -you could be mistaken for a fanatic.

A terrorist.

Too gutless to try and sabotage the event when I had the chance.., as if I could..

Even if I knew how to make a bomb belt without killing myself [hard],

-and got it into the set up [easy],

I wouldn't come near to taking out any of the real scumbags,

I would have only taken out the contractors, working poor like me.

The whole thing was done low key, and at first we thought it was just a boat show,

But it soon became clear, this was a full on Naval Military Expo.

Drones, missiles, and surviellance bugs that look like jellyfish,

- the future is inhuman.

When I told the people around me what this event was really about
..all I got was blank stares.

Source:  engagemedia.org

No-one, it seemed, remembered AIDEX.
Over 20 years ago now.

I wasn't there, but I remember the response in the community.

This video was produced for CAT TV by John Jacobs,

a true hero and a creative inspiration.

Watch his video after the link....

.: Sydney Graffiti on Flickr

photo by godotcab on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

photo by baddogwhiskas on Flickr.

This photo pool delivers.
28,000 photos strong and counting....

.: Kill the Corporation!

Source

.: Occupy - [How to] Defend against tear gas