Kia ora and Welcome to Anarchy Aotearoa Newsletter #6

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New Stories
Communiqués
Some Popular Forum Topics
Calendar Events
Random Download of the Fortnight
Random Link of the Fortnight
New Downloads, Links & Reviews
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New Stories
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1) Environment: Life After the Oil Crash: Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You
Are you ready for $7 per gallon gas, $182 per barrel oil, 50 percent yearly inflation, total economic collapse, unending resource wars, and a large-scale reinstitution of the military draft?
http://www.anarchism.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=189&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

2) Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-First Century
"Above all, anarchism, as an ethics of practice the idea of building a new society "within the shell of the old_ has become the basic inspiration of the "movement of movements" (of which the authors are a part), which has from the start been less about seizing state power than about exposing, de-legitimizing and dismantling mechanisms of rule while winning ever-larger spaces of autonomy and participatory management within it."
It is becoming increasingly clear that the age of revolutions is not over. It

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>