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Postcard: Saigon Letter

By Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. Sherry and I arrived at Tan Son Nhut Airport--a designation like so many others with a grim resonance for us for more than forty years--just minutes before Tet, the week-long New Year's Festival was to begin. Outside the airport people were clamoring for taxis--so anxious or so excited were they to get into Saigon proper before the Year of the Tiger began. We got in the mood. >>

Postcard from Berlin

125 years after the Berlin Conference inaugurated the Scramble for Africa, Black Berliners and their allies marched through the streets of the Kreuzberg neighborhood. >>
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Sea Shepherd in New Zealand

Last fall, after watching At the Edge of the World I became obsessed with the eco-radical conservation group Sea Shepherd who have been around since the 1970s trying to put an end to commercial whaling. So when I learned that I was going to New Zealand for the month of January, I was keen to find out whether Sea Shepherd was more present in the public than in the US. >>

Santarchy is Coming to Town

No one could stop the red tide that flooded across New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco yesterday.  Santacon took hold of the streets in these and other cities across the globe.  With anarchist roots in the San Francisco Cacophony Society, Santacon has morphed into a global flash mob of partying and politics. While there is something suspiciously patriarchal about a guy in red taking credit for all the work that usually un-sung mothers put into Christmas morning, one can't help but think that this carnival may bode well for other anarchist self-organizing events.... >>

Postcard from Amsterdam: 2006

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