Netwars: Activists Power the Internet

By Jason Wehling

Since the so-called Republican victory in the last U.S. election, the political Left has been reeling. In many places, including the major media, we have been told that this victory spells a new revolution, a revolution for the Right. Regardless of the truth, many have felt their activist work to be largely ineffectual. Interestingly, a Rand corporation researcher, David Ronfeldt, argues that contrary to the impotence felt by many social activists, they have become an important force fueled by the information revolution. Through computer and communication networks, especially the Internet, grassroots campaigns have flourished, and, most importantly, government elites have noticed.

The Truth About Electoral Politics

by Michael Chisari

This is an adapted version of a post and subsequent threads that appeared on the Slashdot.org website.

We hear constantly that the USA is a "democracy", as though everything that occurs in this society is due to the will of the people. This is completely false, and any basic knowledge of history and political science will prove this point.

Our state is an Electoral Republic. We choose, every so many years who will rule for the next term. In the case of the president, our vote can be completely overwritten by the Electoral College. Therefore, a Green Party candidate has no opportunity to win the presidency unless the Electoral College has a large contingency of Green Party members.

N30 Black Bloc Communique

by ACME Collective 10:48am Sat Dec 4 '99

A communique from one section of the black bloc of N30 in Seattle

On November 30, several groups of individuals in black bloc attacked various corporate targets in downtown Seattle. Among them were (to name just a few):

Fidelity Investment (major investor in Occidental Petroleum, the bane of the U'wa tribe in Columbia)

Bank of America, US Bancorp, Key Bank and Washington Mutual Bank (financial institutions key in the expansion of corporate repression)

Old Navy, Banana Republic and the GAP (as Fisher family businesses, rapers of Northwest forest lands and sweatshop laborers)

NikeTown and Levi's (whose overpriced products are made in sweatshops)

McDonald's (slave-wage fast-food peddlers responsible for destruction of tropical rainforests for grazing land and slaughter of animals)

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