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1. Take out a Red Card. Joining the One Big Union is the first step.

a. study the IWW Constitution and consciously digest the IWW Preamble.

2. Once you've taken out your IWW union card, pay your dues.

a. One Big Union cannot function without your active solidarity and that begins with supporting the OBU with your dues. If you don't pay your dues, you've failed to make even a minimal contribution to your own liberation.

b. If everyone who had ever taken out a Red Card had continued to pay their dues, we'd have the Four Hour day by now. War, sexism, racism and wage-slavery would have come to their well deserved end.



3. Once you've paid your dues; agitate, educate and organise your fellow workers to the point where they see the necessity of getting together to support their One Big classwide Union.

a. Paying your dues is the minimum effort you can contribute toward making a social revolution.

Video here of the Japanese vessel hitting the whale saviours' vessel in the Southern Ocean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dXCR9LX-Kc

http://www.icrwhale.org/en g-index.htm

If you have a question about killing whales/sinking protesters boats e-mail it to:

 
webmaster@icrwhale.org

Thank you for your participation.

also

Whaling Section
The Fisheries Agency of Japan
TEL: +81-3-3502-2443 FAX: +81-3-3591-5824
plant hasn't worked for the last 30 days, seriously hampering the

(from the Flinders Journal of Law Reform)

http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/1826/4/Baker%20jaa.pdf

Here's an excerpt:

Having failed to defeat the MUA at the dock gates, the Federal Government reproached some state police forces for 'limp responses' in implementing Supreme
Court orders against the picketers (Age 4 April 1998, p.13). Prime Minister Howard insisted that state police enforce court injunctions against picketers delaying cargo on Sydney and Melbourne wharves and branded open defiance of the law as 'very unsatisfactory' (Millett et al. 1998). Victorian Premier Kennett, in private talks with Police Command, insisted that the blockade be broken (Age: News Extra 9 December
2000). Della Porta (1996, p. 29) conjectures that in Europe, 'police forces will fulfil demands by the government', overriding democratic rights of protest. But this certainly did not occur during the 1998 Australian dispute.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865

top ten reasons why you should never talk to the police from law professor James Duane.

The Limits of Control (2008) a film by Jim Jarmusch





"Life has no value if four people are being killed every minute and in the final analysis, abuse wins the day." That is a rough translation from Spanish of a phrase very relevant to "The Limits of Control" which IMDb won't let me reproduce in the original because of 'spelling errors'. The great Mexican director,Pedro Infante filmed "La Vida No Vale Nada" in 1955. Might be worth checking out that film after watching "Limits of Control".

"Those who think they are important wind up in a cemetery – a handful of dust". Numerous characters repeat this sentence in Jarmusch's "Limits of Control". In fact, many sentences are repeated in "Limits...". "You don't speak Spanish." The answer is, "No." if you are on a secret mission and sitting at a café table with two cups of espresso. This is the intro you get in the assassin's game. Like Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog" our assassin is in to martial arts exercises. Like "Ghost Dog", he doesn't like mechanical, robotic like abusers.

Hi FWs,

I always found this analysis of commodification and reification useful.  Maybe you will too.  And it's FREE!  Kind of goes along with my distribution of "Can Dialectics Break Bricks" and the implications for the development of radical subjectivity. 

Bosses?  Who needs 'em!

Y

message from the translator, Ken Knabb:

Guy Debord's THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, originally published in 1967,
is easily the most important radical book of the twentieth century.

Contrary to popular misconceptions, Debord's book is neither an ivory tower
"philosophical discourse" nor an impulsive "rant" or "protest." It is an
effort to clarify the nature of the situation in which we find ourselves and
the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. It examines
the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the present society --
what is really going on behind the spectacular surface phenomena that we are
conditioned to perceive as the only reality.

This means that it needs to be reread many times, but it also means that it

From the Peterson Institute of International Economics, the first hints that unemployment will be persistent, brutal, and even at unprecedented post-war levels:

“a greater share of the US economy today is undergoing structural change than has been the case in previous decades. Combined with the record current level of long-term unemployment in the US (29 percent of the total in June 2009 were unemployed for 27weeks or longer, the highest ever recorded by the BLS since records began in 1948⁶), this suggests that the structural level of unemployment in the US has rising rapidly in recent months. Not only could we be back in the 1970s, we may also be going through changes in employment that we have never seen before.”

(http://www.iie.com/realtime/?p=852)

A BILL To prevent the shipment in interstate commerce of certain
articles and commodities, in connection with which persons are employed
more than five days per week or six hours per day, and prescribing
certain conditions with respect to purchases and loans by the United
States, and codes, agreements, and licenses under the National
Industrial Recovery Act.

Whereas interstate commerce among the people of the various States has
been and is now burdened, hampered, and clogged by a patent and
continued idleness of workers as well as the mechanical appliances and
implements of production; and

Whereas this continued idleness of men and machines has necessarily
resulted in imposing the burden of feeding and supporting more than
eighteen million people upon that part of our people who do work and
produce, which condition is unjust to those who work and those who
cannot obtain work; and

Whereas interstate commerce and trade can best be revived, and the
comfort and happiness of the people can best be produced by an economic