Archive for the 'Resistance' Category
Britain: Council to Force Family Living On Their Own Land and Growing Their Own Food to Live in State Housing and Become Dole Recipients
June 30th, 2011Madness. Via: This is Devon: A COUPLE living an “off-grid” lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand and return to an existence in the benefits trap. Stig and Dinah Mason bought Muxbeare Orchard after a sudden windfall allowed them to quit their impoverished lives on a Hertfordshire council […]
Supreme Court: Individuals May Challenge Federal Law for Violating States’ Rights
June 20th, 2011Hmm. I didn’t think that such an apparently desirable decision would come about this late in the game. Am I missing something? This seems too good to be true. Via: Jurist: The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled in Bond v. United States that a private individual can challenge whether a federal criminal law passed to […]
Lawsuit Alleges Whole Foods Sold Frozen Vegetables from China Grown in a Polluted Region by Prisoners and Certified as Organic
June 17th, 2011Ahh, imagine my shock. Rant mode: On. We buy some organic foods in bulk from wholesale distributors here in New Zealand. Increasingly, if we want to buy these ‘certified organic’ bulk foods, the country of origin is China. We refuse to buy any food from China, regardless of which organic certification it has. We’ve indicated […]
CopBlock: Manchester PD
June 13th, 2011Via: Cop Block:
Farmageddon
June 9th, 2011Via: Farmageddon: Farmageddon Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Research Credit: R
Florida: Deputies and Movers Show Up at Bank to Seize Property for Homeowner
June 4th, 2011Via: WINK News: The couple took their case to court and after a year and a half nightmare the foreclosure was dropped. A Collier County judge said Bank of America has to pay the couple’s $2,534 legal fees for the error. After more than five months the bank still hadn’t paid up. So, the homeowners’ […]
Canada: Brigette DePape Protests Harper Government on Senate Floor
June 4th, 2011I’m no fan of sign waving, but this was pretty good. Brigette DePape’s protest was different from the run-of-the-mill pink tutu and bozo wig nonsense that has no chance of ever causing the corporate state to change course. Seeing her in her official uniform, standing there in defiance in front of the Queen’s goon squad, […]
Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
June 1st, 2011Via: The Freeman: The litany of abuses by centralized power against the individual is long and predictable. But centralization in agriculture, that hazy realm from which our food spontaneously appears, poses its own set of dangers to individual aspirations. Now that fewer than 2 percent of the population is directly engaged in food production (down […]
Texas Legislature, Federal Government Clash Over Airport Pat-Down Bill; Texas Backs Down After Feds Threaten to Ground Flights
May 26th, 2011Via: NPR: Texas lawmakers and federal agents came to a dramatic showdown last night, over a bill that would have prohibited Transportation Security Administration agents from conducting intrusive pat-downs. The Department of Justice circulated a letter that told the politicians if they went through with HB 1937, the TSA would cancel flights out of Texas. […]
Angry Over Unemployment, Tens of Thousands of Protesters Defy Ban in Spain Before Elections
May 21st, 2011Via: Washington Post: Tens of thousands of people are defying a pre-election ban on demonstrations and protesting unemployment in squares around Spain in defiance of an order to quit at midnight. The government avoided saying if it would order police to break up the crowds on Saturday, but at the stroke of midnight officers kept […]
