Anarchist Writers

I went along with a few friends last night to hear Giovanni Arrighi the author of The Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing give at talk at the national gallery titled 'Hegemony Unravelling: American Imperial Decline and the Ascent of China'. This was organised by something called Irish Seminars 2008 under the title 'Republics and Empires'.

Ramoy Rya author of Clandestines - The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile (AK Press 2006) is the latest writer to join the site. He lives in Chiapas, Mexico and his first piece reports on a recent visit to Oxaca, you can read it at http://anarchism.pageabode.com/ramor-ryan/anti-ulises-a-day-in-the-life-...

So this site is my first sole admin experiment with Drupal. As anyone who visited today will know it was rollercoaster. First the site was off line with a nice polite off line message - but for a long time.

So the last meeting of the tour was in LA on Friday night with over 20 people attending a meeting at the South California Library. This was the second meeting hosted by Amanecer.

Inside the AK press warehouse

The bay area date took place at the AK Press warehouse in Oakland. Around 26 people attended including for the first time a couple of people who appeared to have come along specifically tom disagree with me - someone told me they were from some post anarchist reading group.

De Bug

The San Jose meeting took place at the De Bug centre in San Jose and attracted 32 people. The meeting organised by Amancer was the first public event they organised in the city.

A face peers out of a redwood stump at the re growth beyond

Last nights meeting at Humboldt State University at Arcata went well with 35 people attending. The Humboldt side trip has been a very interesting one for political as well as scenic reasons.

Apoclypse on Broadway

The Eugene meeting, which was small, 12-14 people, took part at the Apocalypse on Broadway warehouse in an industrial estate.

Looks like home

Just did a meeting at the university in Portland Oregan, 24 people were there.

An unbroken pepperball recovered from the scene

Officer paintball demonstrates the traditional silly walk of power

The storming of the capitol

Hammering on the governors door

On Mayday I was in Olympia, Washington one of the few East coast ports rumored not to be shout down by the one day strike against the war. The meeting that evening in Evergreen College attracted around 18 people, we'd probably have got more was it not for the drama of the day.