In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do.

If only the normal, decent relations between the police and the community could be re-established, this problem could be resolved. Poor people in general are more likely to be the victims of crime than anyone else, this reasoning goes, and in that way, they are in more need than anyone else of police protection. Maybe there are a few bad apples, but if only the police weren’t so racist, or didn’t carry out policies like stop-and-frisk, or weren’t so afraid of black people, or shot fewer unarmed men, they could function as a useful service that we all need.

This liberal way of viewing the problem rests on a misunderstanding of the origins of the police and what they were created to do.

During and after the Spanish Civil War, Fascist forces under Francisco Franco murdered tens of thousands of Republicans and buried them in anonymous graves throughout the country. Almost a century later, those bodies are still being exhumed — and the question of how to deal with Franco’s brutal legacy is more sensitive than ever.

How can creative workers and individuals defend ourselves against the largest monopolies in the US? This week author and activist Cory Doctorow joins Adam on Factually to discuss how chokepoint capitalism causes the enshittification of everything we love and how we can fight back.

Is my distance from the mic proper There's a college town With olive green all around Professors and skate punks rock SG Paul's Wall Of Sound And there's an anarchist bookstore There's more than you'd look for A core of local folks wait for late lifts There's often a great drift To the shop for the Wednesday night five-to-eight shift Cause the clerk at work is The prettiest gal in town She cries during Allentown She's a precocious socialist and she's Willing to pal around Every Wednesday after French club She rides to work With a stuffed Mastodon in the Basket on her bicycle If Noam Chomsky was from the Bronx He'd have been assassinated promptly She said he was from the Bronx, he Said you know what I mean, ignoramuses Oh boy what a pain this is Said the only paid employee, the manager I came for culture, not accounting And a girl put a flyer Up above the water fountain She carried clandestine two Dollar mescaline in her blue collar mess tin Plastered with stickers that said "Food Not Bombs", "Sex Not Proms", critical Mass That bastard, voice talent snickered Nice graphics but that's Just half-assed agitprop To piss off a traffic cop aww shucks Can it be I'm too lazy for pot lucks If not my friends Who am I willing to cook for And they're chilling at The anarchist bookstore Will Barnes and Noble harm the global? Will Amazon Com be round When grandma's gone mom? Voice talent, the rapper Had a rapport with a stripper whore Who he'd vote for long before He'd vote for Tipper Gore He re-equipped the store with the new credit Machines and put zines in their places He said take back the streets Is more like take back Four parking spaces at the most and Left to hose the Sunday showcases He was all dressed in tinsel yo But he couldn't convince his friends to go They were like, voice talent You put on a minstrel show He said someone's psychotic Someone took too much semiotics Furthermore, he thought Someone can tzi-suck my tza-dick But VT was the opposite of TV He'd never accuse someone of being PC Because it's so friggin' dumb to say The term arose on the Columbus Day Quincentennary when the republic was Honest about the conquest And wouldn't party as they Had previously promised If someone uses a non-offensive vocabulary Then that person is considerate, not PC If someone has a heavy handed Agenda, that person is narrow-minded, not PC Unless you mean Providence College PC is as meaningless as the President's apology for slavery Maybe PE should be on the radio And not just in the African-American Norton Anthology Will Barnes and Noble harm the global? Will Amazon Com be round When grandma's gone mom? Will Barnes and Noble harm the global? Will Amazon Com be round When grandma's gone mom? Who cooks for you? who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?-

Oh You Survivalists

Oh you survivalists With your funny little shopping lists Believe me, I get the gist Of your point of view

You think the rest of us Are just zombies with brains full of pus Well this pus-head wants to make a fuss And sing a song to you

Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doo doo

You want to live off the grid Like your ancestor Gilligan did You don’t mind if you find yourself rid Of people like me

We who never learned to change no tires Never rubbed two sticks to make fires Never wanted to do dentistry with pliers How silly are we!

You’ll live off the land, of course This land that was never yours That the government cleared for you by force You independent man

No one to tell you when your poetry smells No one to help you with your dried up wells Who will you call when your prostate swells? I guess you’ll do what you can.

And you might outlive me but you know, it’s strange When the seasons fail to change Within a predictable range Oh, but that’s a lie (sigh)

But at the failure of the fourth harvest You’re gonna starve to death unless— Terribly sorry, there is no unless! You’re just going to die

And you know, that’s not the worst You’re gonna have to watch you kids go first In their eyes, a silent curse And a question: “Why? “Daddy, why? Daddy, why?”

At the time of calamity You cut yourself off from humanity It wasn’t John Wayne vanity! No, that can’t be true

Oh, you survivalists With your funny little shopping lists With the remaining time that exists I’ll sing a song for you

Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doot doo dee doo dee doo dee doo doo Doo doo

"Drivers are usually regularly followed by management when these unrealistic expectations are not met. To say we are over supervised and harassed would be a huge understatement. If it were not for my union and the protections our contract provides I probably wouldn’t be working there.

Also on a side note; I am very proud to serve my area in a historic brown neighborhood and that’s another reason I have chosen to stay a package car driver."

“Pro-abortion terrorism is sweeping our nation,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., wrote in a column last June, lamenting that “only after the outcry from the pro-life community did the FBI announce an investigation” into Jane’s Revenge — a small group of activists that firebombed an anti-abortion pregnancy center on June 7, 2021 — and that the attorney general “has yet to launch a wider DOJ investigation.” While conceding “no one has been killed or seriously injured,” Rubio said, “Things will only get worse before they get better.” (Facebook later quietly designated Jane’s Revenge a terrorist organization, as The Intercept reported.)

Rubio’s column cited roughly 50 attacks on anti-abortion activists and institutions, linking to a list posted by the anti-abortion Family Research Council. Apart from the actions of Jane’s Revenge, most of the cases enumerated describe simple vandalism.

By valuing the interests of the working class over the aesthetic sensibilities of the upper classes, Nono made a strong case for art music as a revolutionary tool. But his concern with the situation of the exploited factory worker is also what inspired him to break new musical ground — showing that the plight of the oppressed can be material not just for propaganda, but for transcendent art of a kind that can be appreciated by people of all classes.

"Meanwhile, the testimony of Rachel Greenberg, a Red Cross nurse who witnessed the gruesome pogrom in Proskurov and vividly described its gory details for the court, only reinforced Schwarzbard’s self-proclaimed motive. After a weeklong trial, the jury needed less than half an hour to find Schwarzbard not guilty."

As we build a new social network, it's important to reflect on the mistakes of those that came before.

Haggerty suggested the allegation his client was motivated by “hate based on race or ethnic origin” may have been filed in error, something later confirmed by the Calgary Police Service.

“It looks like there was a clerical error with the initial charge, with the incorrect (Criminal Code) subsection,” the service said.

Nwofor is president of Black Lives Matter YYC and has also been active in the community as a supporter of abortion rights.

Triplett was known worldwide as “Case 1″ - the first person to be diagnosed with autism.

Triplett worked at the bank for about 65 years, according to CEO Allen Breland, whose own 36-year tenure makes him a relative newcomer there.

“Don was a remarkable individual,” Breland said of the fiercely independent savant. “And he kept things interesting.”

Though he came across to newcomers as strange and obsessive, Triplett had a facility with numbers that made phone directories obsolete in his presence.

Never tolerate wage theft in any form, no matter where you work. Solidarity gets the goods!

The Seattle Book Fair is on! Join us for two days of anarchist books, zines, and workshops; August 26th and 27th at the VERA Project.