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2011 in review

annarky1 — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:32:17 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

UK’s UN-MENTIONED WAR.

annarky1 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:30:37 +0000

There is a war going on in the UK and there is virtually no cover of it in any of the media outlets. The figures from this war are staggering but receive virtually no publicity. For the year 2010 the number killed was 1,857, the total number slightly injured, seriously injured and killed for the same year totalled 208,517. There is no hatred directed at the enemy in this war, as a matter of fact most people revere them, turn a blind eye, ignore the horror of all these deaths and injuries. I am of course talking about the road traffic. The figures above are from the UK Ministry of Transport for the year 2010. Almost 2,000 deaths from road accidents and a total of nearly a quarter of a million injured and killed. That adds up to a lot of misery and anguish for an awfully lot of individuals and families. The UK’s road infrastructure has totally inadequate cycling facilities, a culture where the person gives way to the vehicle, instead of the reverse, a culture where the car is king. Why do we need speed-bumps on roads in residential areas, because the driver feels he/she should not be impeded and should be allowed to race at speed anywhere there is a road. The road is for him/her to get from A – B in the shortest possible time come what may, it is not considered a facility for the community. It is not the car that kills, it is attitudes. A change in attitude would see a dramatic drop in the number killed and injured on the UK’s roads.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS???

annarky1 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:52:14 +0000

Hi,

this blog has been neglected my myself for some time. The reason being I have lots of other things going on as well as this blog, see HERE. also HERE, Then their is my monthly free paper The Anarchist Critic. So I sometimes run out of ideas for this spot. So I’m asking all you anarchist, eco people, and those of that ilk, to come up with some suggestions of what I could do with this spot to give it a distinct flavour of its own and be of some use to the general movement towards a libertarian society. Ideas can be put in the comment spot or by email; annarky@radicalglasgow.me.uk

IMAGINE!!!

annarky1 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:58:46 +0000

A wee poem lifted from Molly’s Blog. where you can read the fulll story.

“Imagine there’s no freedom
It’s easy if you try.
All proles below us
We can do it on the sly
Imagine all the wages
Much lower than today

CHORUS
You may say I’m a tyrant
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
As consultant 901

Imagine there’s no unions
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing but planes and prisons
And no high pensions too
Imagine all lower people
Living life in debt

CHORUS

Imagine there’s no welfare
I wonder if you can
No need for medicare
Woman once more under man
Imagine all the people
Working for $10 a day

CHORUS

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BORDERS CAN’T BE A DEATH SENTENCE.

annarky1 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:23:37 +0000

As the world suffers more from natural disasters and the devastating results of wars, along with the ravages of poverty created by corporate capitalist greed, we need to allow people freedom of movement as they try to survive these horrors. No one can be illegal, borders can’t be a death sentence, we are one.

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WORLD MELTDOWN!!!

annarky1 — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:31:39 +0000

The following is a short extract from a very interesting article, the whole of which can be read HERE. It is something that all the big financial institutions don’t comment on, well at least not in public.

Though it is obvious that if there is the likelhood of such a collapse the ordinary people should be organising at grass roots level to co-operate and survive through sustainable mutual aid projects. Are we? You can rest assured that the pampered parasites responsible for the debt bubble and its eventual bursting, will have taken good care of their survival, even at the expense of the ordinary people.

“—Despite all of our advanced technology, the truth is that human civilization simply cannot function without oil and food. But now the price of oil and the price of food are both increasing dramatically. So how is the current global economy supposed to keep functioning properly if it soon costs much more to ship products between continents? How are the billions of people that are just barely surviving today supposed to feed themselves if the price of food goes up another 30 or 40 percent? For decades, most of the major economies around the globe have been able to take for granted that massive amounts of cheap oil and massive amounts of cheap food will always be there. So what happens when that paradigm changes?—”

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ANTI-BENEFIT CUTS ACTION.

annarky1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:46:06 +0000

Don’t jis stawn therr, dae sumthin’!!

ANTI-BENEFIT CUTS LEAFLETING
GLASGOW
THURSDAY 10TH MARCH
1.30-2.30PM

ATOS HEALTH CARE
CORUNNA HOUSE
29 CADOGAN STREET
GLASGOW
G2 7AB

Followed at 3pm by:
Group organising meeting including a go round of problems with benefits,
services etc, other ways of promoting the public meeting and discouraging
medical professionals from working for ATOS.

The Free Hetherington
The Glasgow University Occupation
13 University Gardens
Just off University Avenue,
Glasgow University Campus
http://freehetherington.wordpress.com/find-us/

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MARCH 8th. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY.

annarky1 — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:06:21 +0000

“Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
Emma Goldman.

“So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government—. ” Lucy Parsons

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. “ Emma Goldman.

“It is not by changing ministers – such guilty men! – or issuing declarations that fascism will be conquered. The problem is more complex than that. We do not intend to add our voice to those who delude the workers that their ‘leaders’ will get them out of the mess. The problems need a complete transformation in the present attitude of the working class.” Marie Louise Berneri From; War Commentary, December 1940.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. Emma Goldman.

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GLASGOW’S FREE ANARCHIST CRITIC.

annarky1 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:45:30 +0000

Every month in Glasgow I put out a free paper called, The Anarchist Critic. You can down load the latest, issue 96 as a PDF HERE.

The Anarchist Critic Archives as PDFs:

Issue 95. Issue 94. Issue 93. Issue 92. Issue 91. Issue 90. Issue 89. Issue 88. Issue 87. Issue 86. Issue 85. Issue 84. Issue 83. Issue 82. Issue 81. Issue 80. Issue 79. Issue 78. Issue 77. Issue 76. Issue 75. Issue 74. Issue 73. Issue 72. Issue 71. Issue 70. Issue 69. Issue 68. Issue 67. Issue 66.

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GLASGOW ANARCHISTS 1915???

annarky1 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:19:05 +0000

The photo below is of the Glasgow Anarchist Group from 1915. The photo is known to lots of anarchists but we are all stumped as to who they all are. We have some info but haven’t had it properly verified and would dearly love to know who these people were. Though it is dated the 1st January there is not a glasses on the table, all cups, saucers and cakes, love and cakes, the essential of any anarchist society. Does that tell us something about the group?

The info we have at the moment is;

1. Molly Loyd, she married the guy to her left No 2.

2. Charles McPherson, lived in Harmony Row, Govan, worked in Fairfield Shipyard.

7. Willie MacDougal, we know a good bit about him, see; HERE.

As for the rest we would love to receive any info on any of them, no matter how small the detail it could help to lead us to further info. Any further info on Molly and/or Charles would also be very gratefully received.

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