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Radix Media is looking for support on Kickstarter!

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the working class solidarity movement

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Join Jordan Flaherty and the Community & Resistance Tour at the Red & Black Cafe on Sunday October 17th for a discussion of current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing and cultural resistance.

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This November two concerned citizens are bringing Montreal's Cinema Politica network to the communities of Cascadia. Cinema Politica is a Montreal based network of community and campus locals showcasing cutting-edge independent film that addresses socio-political, environmental, cultural & economic issues. If you or your community are interested in hosting one screening or starting a regular night, please get in touch!

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Here's to ten years and counting.

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Free multi-cultural music event in Chinatown to celebrate the Autumn Moon festival tomorrow

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On September 2 to September 5, the white supremacist organization Volksfront International held their "Althing" gathering on private land in Missouri, at the "Samuel Weaver Memorial Hall" approximately an hour outside of St. Louis. Rose City Antifascists noted with interest that one of the musical acts billed for Volksfront's gathering was the Oregon "National Socialist Black Metal" (NSBM) band Immortal Pride. Immortal Pride is part of a network of racist musical acts allied to Blood & Honour American Division, which is in turn largely guided by Volksfront. This is the first time that Immortal Pride has played a major neo-Nazi gathering. In recognition of this development, Rose City Antifascists wish to draw attention to the main forces in the neo-Nazi black metal underground in Oregon today, with the hope that they can be countered from both within and without the metal scene.

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Review of just released movie Agamemnon's Children in which the film maker confronts the deep vein of misogyny that has wrought havoc in his life. It is about the failure of 3500 years of male dominated western culture.

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A summary of events from the last year and how they inspire a yearly drawing for the Secret Gathering of Gnostics.

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Save KPFA--the humorous side of the KPFA board election

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A review of Inception.

We're interested in approaching popular culture to critique and engage. We simply didn't find much value in this movie. Here's why:

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Help us make a smashingly successful action to bring awareness of corporate greed and economic justice in our community!

Seeking activist marching band to play at upcoming flash mob in Portland, OR. Looking for either established group or individuals with musical skills to participate (especially percussion and horns).

Also seeking dancers, singers, activists and general merry-makers for the "mob." This will be a super fun action taking its inspiration from "Bad Hotel" and "Target Ain't People." Let's make it happen!

Action will be sometime during the week of September 20th with some practice ahead of time.

Contact:  portlandflashmobnow@gmail.com for more info.

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"We wanted to create an optimistic vision of the Internet without veiling the dangers and weaknesses of the system. Everything possible that happens today appeared utopian a few years ago. Our virtual country survived a dark period of its history and changed.."

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Autumn is here!

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B Media rolled around Portlands Last Thursday art walk on Alberta street this month during the Lemonade Revolt with a mobile bike cart lemonade stand interviewing folks on what they thought about the event, regulating vendors, and last months ordeal when the city shut down a little girls lemonade stand for not having the proper permits. Check out our latest video!

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A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective heads to Portland to release their long-anticipated "True Cost of Coal" graphics campaign!

Two years in the making, the "True Cost of Coal" is an elaborate narrative illustration that explores the complex story of mountaintop removal coal mining and the broader impacts of coal in Appalachia and beyond. To create the poster, the Beehive interviewed hundreds of community members throughout the Appalachia region. In their interactive picture-lectures, the Bees lead audiences through an engaging, larger-than-life banner version of the graphic, interweaving anecdotes, statistics, and history.

Several events in Portland
* Friday, August 27th, 3-5pm at the Ecotrust Building, Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, 2nd floor (721 Northwest 9th Avenue)
* Sunday, August 29th, 7pm at Autonomy (316 Northwest 4th Ave.)
* Tuesday, August 31st, 2pm - 6pm, Special Art Workshop & Presentation at Tryon Life Community Farm (details below)

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A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective heads to Portland to release their long-anticipated "True Cost of Coal" graphics campaign!

Two years in the making, the "True Cost of Coal" is an elaborate narrative illustration that explores the complex story of mountaintop removal coal mining and the broader impacts of coal in Appalachia and beyond. To create the poster, the Beehive interviewed hundreds of community members throughout the Appalachia region. In their interactive picture-lectures, the Bees lead audiences through an engaging, larger-than-life banner version of the graphic, interweaving anecdotes, statistics, and history.

Several events in Portland
* Friday, August 27th, 3-5pm at the Ecotrust Building, Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, 2nd floor (721 Northwest 9th Avenue)
* Sunday, August 29th, 7pm at Autonomy (316 Northwest 4th Ave.)
* Tuesday, August 31st, 2pm - 6pm, Special Art Workshop & Presentation at Tryon Life Community Farm (details below)

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California Peace Prize winner, U.S. veteran, actor and musician, Chill E.B.will be performing live at a Huge Block Party to announce the top 3 winners of a Nation-wide music video contest.

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Tomorrow (Saturday, August 21), between noon and 6:00 p.m., there will be the Fifth Annual Haitian-Caribbean Fest at Colonel Summers Park (S.E. 17th Avenue and S.E. Taylor). Donations will gratefully be accepted towards Haitian relief. This event is being presented by the local Society for Haitian Arts and Culture (SHAC).

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First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting are held at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen at gmail.com or  http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Wednesday-Readings for more information.

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Lennon's widow said Chapman might be a danger to her, other family
members and perhaps even himself. She did not
elaborate..

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The Ultimate Radical Block Party!! Rad Bands, Vegan Food + Treats, Info Tables, Games + More!

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several anti-copyright visionary art(e) peices to share with a semi-short comment on the challenge of alienation, building fears around so-called Armageddon, and what we can do.

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rtists from all over the country have submitted music/performance videos in a contest sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida to help raise awareness of the harms of psychiatric drugs.

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So, if you haven't yet heard the news, Radix Media will be re-publishing the zine, Towards a Less Fucked Up World: Sobriety and Anarchist Struggle by writer and activist Nick Riotfag!

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August Communique

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First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting are held at Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen [at] gmail.com or  http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Wednesday-Readings for more information.

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el imperio mexica

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humankind's relationship to combustion demands some introspection ;

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I made this mix some time ago and would like to share it with you. It's all songs about nuclear war from the 1940's through the 1980's. It is equal parts history lesson, dance party, and wake for the millions who will die when that hellbomb falls.

Download it here:  http://keeplaughinghahahaha.blogspot.com/2010/05/songs-about-nuclear-annihilation-from.html

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With midsummer upon the world, N.E.S.T. is gearing up to head out to the woods - within the week!

NEST is an all-volunteer group who utilizes survey and manage protection laws to prevent ancient forests from being cut. Basically... by finding rare and protected species in threatened timber sales, we stop logging!

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Happy Summer!

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Mississippi Street Fair is the largest street fair in Portland and benefits local schools. Attractions include over 30 acts on four stages; the "Local Brew Garden" with 7 craft breweries; over 100 Street Fair Vendors presented by Dreamer's Marketplace; "Whole Foods Local Bites" Pavillion; and Grandfather's Rib-Off Competition. Special attractions for kids include: "High Noon Parade", The Boise-Eliot Kids Corner, and kid music programming presented by Legacy Emanuel Hospital & The Children's Hospital at Emanuel.

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Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at  maemadsen@gmail.com or  http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Wednesday-Readings for more information.

The readers for July 7 are Pat Cason, Jan Priddy, Nicholas Karavatos, and Susan DeFreitas

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The face of Evil

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Clearwater, FL: On Saturday, June the 5th, 200 guests attended the 2nd Annual Songs of Stage and Screen, benefiting the Sunscreen Film Festival and Resurrection House.

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John Waters is a Baltimore Icon! He's a film director, producer, author and a recovering Catholic. The then-Maryland Censor Board panned many of his early flicks, "as pure garbage." Waters is openly gay. His latest book is "Role Models." In it, Waters reveals the people who have influenced and have helped to shape his own complex persona. Waters confesses in his tome that he voted for Barack Obama because "he 'was' a friend of Bill Ayers!"

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Rafael Alvarez' "Storyteller" is a delight to read. It's mostly about larger than life characters from Baltimore, MD. But, that doesn't mean you have to be from there to enjoy it as much as I did. Alvarez was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun for 23 years (1978-2001). He literally covered the waterfront, and if necessary, he did the obits. "Storyteller" is made up of 67 newspaper articles, two essays and three well-honed short stories.

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We've just finished the June issue of our monthly newsletter, the Red and Black Communique!

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"Skin Trade" takes you on a journey from the birth of the fur industry as fashion through the current trends, misconceptions, and lies perpetrated upon unknowing consumers. Voices from the underground, celebrities, historians, native americans, activists, designers, fashion icons and experts weigh in on the current use of of fur as fashion, which inevitably begs the question, "Why are animals still being killed for fashion?"

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In 1959, Bethlehem' Sparrows Point plant, outside Baltimore, was "the largest steelworks in the world." In its heyday, it employed 36,000 workers. Bethlehem went into bankruptcy in 2001, and many of its retirees at the "Point" got screwed out of their benefits. Deborah Rudacille's book, "Roots of Steel," recreates, via compelling "oral histories," the history of the Point; the collapse of Bethlehem, an industrial titan; and the baleful impact that it had on the lives of its union workers and communities that they lived in.

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Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at  maemadsen@gmail.com or  http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Wednesday-Readings for more information.

The readers for June 2 are Matt Love, Cheryl Strayed, and Bryan Free of Bryan Free and the Doxyhaunt.

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Featuring Officers Cody Berne, Charlie Brown, Bret Burton, Chris Humphreys, Mark Kruger, Ryan Lewton, Kyle Nice, Mike Stradley, and Jason Walters.

pdf format, easy to print, for everyone to enjoy!

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From the Black Bloc Papers: "It is a strange pill to swallow, the notion that some of your peers, people you don't know, represent your interests. It is an old tradition, it has given most of us the title of civilians, and it has made others our rulers. Although each life, upon a short and close look, obviously contains its own unfathomable trajectory it has been the way of the modern world to pigeon-hole and harness the energy of each life towards historically questionable ends. This practice, abusing the young in order to eternalize the old, has led us to a point in history in which lives are spent for the sake of the machine's continuing momentum. Inane, insane, or otherwise, we all go through the hopper from our birth to our determined, predictable, and sometimes socially necessary, death."

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From 6pm to 11pm, 5/29/10,
At Good Neighbor Pizza,
NE Dekum St & NE 8th Ave,

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A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.resist.ca" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.

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WORK Magazine is looking for great interviews for the first annual INTERVIEW CONTEST. workmagazine.wordpress.com Have you got the power of persuasion?

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WORK Magazine is looking for great interviews for the first annual INTERVIEW CONTEST. workmagazine.wordpress.com Have you got the power of persuasion?

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A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.resist.ca" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.

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Bloom 2010: Tryon Life Community Farm's 6th Annual Spring Benefit

- - - - - - - - Saturday, May 8th, 3:00pm-MIDNIGHT - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Local reuse organization SCRAP presents Rebel Craft Rumble, a craft competition with celebrity judges, May 20 at Imago Theatre.

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A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.resist.ca" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.

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Two authors, Robert Zaretsky and Elizabeth Hawes, have resurrected Albert Camus, the late French Algerian novelist and philosopher, in their just released books. I'm recommending both of their tomes. I think their efforts contribute, in different ways, to enhancing Camus' literary legacy. Camus' courageous moralizing against the excesses of the ideologues of his days is timely. Let's face it, we too live in an era where crazed warmongers are running amuck.

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A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.resist.ca" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.

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May is here!

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Looking for a way to meet fabulous folk and get a free ticket to the VBC in the meantime? Host a visitor in your home and get one ticket for every night you host an out of town visitor! This ticket is good for a pass to the evening's events or towards one of the daily workshops. We will do the work to match you with an appropriate guest after you fill out a simple questionnaire. If interested please fill out the housing offer form at  http://vbc.cityrepair.org/housing.

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A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.resist.ca" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.

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Postmodernism is dead.

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while a free citizen being not jailed, finding employment asks of me for its application more effort and bureaucracy than I seem to be able to complete, finding the state is more satiated with me as its beneficiary than doing work I'd like to do and that I have the motivation to complete works to the end of destroying this system that I am benefitting from, I'm starting to get irritated.

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Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting at the Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at  maemadsen@gmail.com for more information.

The readers for May 5 are Rebecca Harrison, Jean Johnson, Amy Temple Harper, Jillian Starr.

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