
Friday, April 29, 2005
Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Bush at the throat of liberty
![[village_bush]](http://photos1.flickr.com/1060480_37740fb37b_t.jpg)
This painting by Alex Ross (one of my favourite artists working in comic books) puts it very clearly.
bush, liberty, AlexRoss, vampire, president, usa.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Jim Trudeau shares his thoughts upon visiting Dachau
on the radar has posted an excellent short essay, "Jim Trudeau shares his thoughts upon visiting Dachau".
For me it was yet another reminder that - no matter how much we believe we are the pinnacle of modernity and civilization - we are just a hair's breadth away from falling into barbarism. If anything, our arrogance as a society makes us more vulnerable to such a fall.
The people of Nazi Germany, the people of the Rwandan Genocide, the European invaders of the Americas, the lynch-mobs of the U.S., the soldiers in Abu-Ghraib, the slavers of Sudan - and the countless others who would take days to fully enumerate here - we have no fundamental difference from any of those people.
They were just ordinary people - manipulated into unimaginable horrors.
The only thing that can protect us from the descent into horror like that is a willingness to learn from history, and act on what we've learned.
dachau, concentrationcamp, horror, war, wwii, history, repeat, guantanamo, guantanamobay, us, usa, prisoners, attrocities, government, nazi.
For me it was yet another reminder that - no matter how much we believe we are the pinnacle of modernity and civilization - we are just a hair's breadth away from falling into barbarism. If anything, our arrogance as a society makes us more vulnerable to such a fall.
The people of Nazi Germany, the people of the Rwandan Genocide, the European invaders of the Americas, the lynch-mobs of the U.S., the soldiers in Abu-Ghraib, the slavers of Sudan - and the countless others who would take days to fully enumerate here - we have no fundamental difference from any of those people.
They were just ordinary people - manipulated into unimaginable horrors.
The only thing that can protect us from the descent into horror like that is a willingness to learn from history, and act on what we've learned.
dachau, concentrationcamp, horror, war, wwii, history, repeat, guantanamo, guantanamobay, us, usa, prisoners, attrocities, government, nazi.
Friday, April 22, 2005
Earth Day Critical Mass Bike Ride
![[Earth Day Critical Mass: The Crowd]](http://photos7.flickr.com/10451766_d879189650_t.jpg)
![[Earth Day Critical Mass: The Crowd]](http://photos6.flickr.com/10451748_e8231a9ff4_m.jpg)
At least 82 people participated in today's ride! The cops didn't even come talk to us - let alone interfere at all.
After giving up the rides a couple years ago when it got down to just me - a critical mass of one - I think I'm going to be trying to go again regularly. Hopefully we'll continue to see a lot of people coming out.
CriticalMass , bicycle , bike , EarthDay , Calgary , protest .
(See also: Cycle Calgary and Calgary Critical Mass Meetup.)
Photos: My Critical Mass photos.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
New RSS Feed for this blog and other stuff
This feed also includes updates from my del.icio.us web links and my Flickr photography.
If you subscribe to my old Atom feed, please switch over to the new feed.
RSS, syndication, feed, Feedburner.
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Knitted Superhero Costumes
![pdetail from Batman costume]](http://www.gregkucera.com/images/newpo_knit_superman_cost_det_small.jpg)
knit, knitting, superhero, costume, art.
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knitting
Friday, April 15, 2005
Unitarian Jihad
In his San Francisco Chronicle column, Jon Carroll has posted "the first communique from" Unitarian Jihad.
Heh.
(The article inspired Bill Humphries to create an automatic generator of Unitarian Jihad Names.)
funny, Unitarian, UnitarianJihad, Jihad.
Heh.
(The article inspired Bill Humphries to create an automatic generator of Unitarian Jihad Names.)
funny, Unitarian, UnitarianJihad, Jihad.
Steal This Sweater: Knitting with a Vengeance!
![[Picture: Things Can Only Get Worse]](http://stealthissweater.com/pics/images/worse1.jpg)
Of particular note is The Body Count Sweater. It enumerates the estimates of Iraqi civilian and U.S. soldiers who have died in the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq (up to March 14, 2005).
knit, knitting, sweater, radical, political, Iraq, antiwar, RKC, RevolutionaryKnitting, RevolutionaryKnittingCircle.
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knitting
Open Source Internet TV
The Participatory Culture Foundation has been set up by the folks at Downhill Battle. It's purpose is to support the development and distribution of an open source platform for distributed television. They're basing it on BitTorrent and it looks very promising.
video, tv, opensource, downhillbattle.
video, tv, opensource, downhillbattle.
Friday, April 1, 2005
Fossil Fools Day in Calgary: Jumpstart Ford Protest
![[photo of Fossil Fools Day protest in Calgary]](http://photos4.flickr.com/8151383_3e1fbec0ec_t.jpg)
![[photo of organizer, Jennifer, at Fossil Fools Day protest]]](http://photos8.flickr.com/8151341_086e1e73b4_t.jpg)
![[photo of protestors and hybrid vehicle]](http://photos4.flickr.com/8151355_afc0828f90_t.jpg)
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Grant Neufeld
- Candidate for leader of the Green Party of Alberta. Co-ordinator of the Calgary Democracy project. Host of the Calgary Activist Network. Community activist for social justice and the environment.
