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Dark Arts - Magic Rock Brewing
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United Kingdom (England)
4.5/5 rDev +16.3%
06-30-2014 18:06:51 | More by KevinRailton
United Kingdom (Wales)
4.4/5 rDev +13.7%
Poured from a 330ml bottle into a pint glass.
Pours a very very dark brown/black colour with an off-white/brown head and tremendous lacing.
Smells dark, rich and malty.
Tastes very smooth, coffee and dark chocolate-esque malt flavours with some hops mingled in too. A lasting but slight hop bitterness on the finish.
Overall a very good beer, shame it's so strong or it would make an excellent session ale.
03-30-2012 20:42:27 | More by CwrwAmByth
British Columbia (Canada)
4.15/5 rDev +7.2%
Black body with a thin, tan coloured head. Big notes of coffee and dark chocolate in the nose.
Black coffee, dark chocolate, floaty bits of liquorice and fruits on the taste. Nice, bitter finish.
Good body on this, and good carbonation. Carbonated but thick, but not overly carbonated. Not quite sessionable but a good way to end the night.
11-23-2011 00:11:04 | More by BDTyre
New York
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
On tap at Mason & Taylor, Bethnal Green, London.
Black-brown with tan parchment rim. Fish sauce and peat smoke nose – intense and unique, if not entirely pleasant.
Cookie dough, café au lait, fresh German rye bread and a sprinkling of cedar chip hops.
Spicy finish and slightly tart roasty linger. Smooth, medium, some cling.
Silky, complex and unconventional stout. Drinkable, too. I get the fuss over Magic Rock.
05-28-2012 15:26:07 | More by StJamesGate
United Kingdom (England)
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
A 330ml bottle with a BB of Oct 2012 (batch 2868). Picked up recently from Trembling Madness in York. Love these guys and their beers...
Poured into a Delirium chalice. A very dark brown; appears totally black in the glass. Yields a large head of creamy tan foam that hangs around for a while before settling as a thin surface layer. Aroma of dark roasted malt with notes of bitter coffee, burnt grain, indistinct aroma hops, cocoa, faint dried fruit, stewed hops and a hint of vanilla and spice. Complex and delicious.
Tastes of intense roasted malt with a bitter finish. Notes of burnt grain, coffee, cocoa, nondescript aromatic hops, a subtle hint of molasses and stewed hops. Mildly spicy. A lingering dry bitterness upon swallowing. Mouthfeel is silky smooth and tingly, with restrained carbonation and a lovely creamy body. Mildly astringent, with an aftertaste of bitter roasted malt and hop notes.
Deeply dark and tasty. Goes overboard with the roasted malt, but I rather like it. Dry, with plenty of bitter notes from the malt and hops. Aromatic hops add an interesting dimension to the flavour, though individual characteristics can't be picked out. Good body with light carbonation. The only thing that might benefit this beer would be conditioning with live yeast. Quality - well worth trying if you come across it.
10-08-2012 23:37:34 | More by jazzyjeff13
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
Had this on tap at the Rat race Alehouse in Hartlepool.
A: Black, no light getting through there. Slight dark tan head, didn't last long.
S: A lovely choclate aroma, slight nuttiness. Aroma was quite weak, could be a little stronger.
T: Smooth, full bodied and rich. Absolutely astounding flavours of dark belgian chocolate, roasted grains and hints of coffee. Tastes heavenly, few stouts come close to this! Slightly sweet but not too much. Slight grassy earthy bitterness with hints of choclate.
O: Excellent, one of the finest examples of this style. Tastes very similar to Elland - 1872 Porter but maybe less sweet. Not a session beer but a beer to be savoured till the last drop.
09-25-2012 20:26:14 | More by BrewSage1985
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
4.05/5 rDev +4.7%
330ml bottle bought from MyBreweryTap.com
Poured a deep dark brown / almost black colour. Burnt brown head poured pretty thick, foamy and meringue like then faded to light covering with thick edging... some light lines of lacing cling to the glass...
Aroma - Toasted bread and lightly roasted malts, black coffee, some dark brown sugar sweetness, roasted nuttiness, liquorice and blackcurrant, some raisin fruitiness, very light oatiness, some faint smokiness coming through, leathery hints...
Taste - Nice lightly roasted dark chocolate maltiness mixed with light sweetness, charred malt loaf, anise, definite coffee notes, again some dark fruits (prunes, plums), light nutmeg traces, some pepperiness...
Feel - Smooth initially then a little sharpness comes through... pretty full bodied... dangerously drinkable as the alcohol is pretty well hidden...
Overall - A very enjoyable stout if maybe a little rough round the edges... Another fine brew from Magic Rock though and definitely recommended...
01-19-2012 08:33:12 | More by mdagnew
United Kingdom (England)
4/5 rDev +3.4%
08-22-2013 10:57:49 | More by Hopbomber
4/5 rDev +3.4%
05-18-2014 20:16:47 | More by rolltide8425
3.95/5 rDev +2.1%
On-tap. 1/2 pt glass. Enjoyed on mar´13. Pitch black appearance headed by a so close & creamy crown. Foam lasts until the end. Floral aromas rounded by subtle roasted notes & citric underneath. Crisp bitter upfront. Roasted malt flavors & gentle licorice touch. Full body. Moderate carbonation. Dried nut astringency reamins into a long dried & bitter finish. Citric on the aftertaste & coffee-like infusion. A big one!!
06-22-2013 22:11:39 | More by GONZALOYANNA
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
08-30-2012 18:44:15 | More by aztraz
United Kingdom (England)
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
10-05-2012 20:10:03 | More by Pelicanrocks
United Kingdom (England)
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
06-22-2013 08:01:51 | More by Kirk
District of Columbia
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
02-27-2014 11:26:42 | More by Sludgeman
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
02-19-2014 01:07:12 | More by dunlap926
3.73/5 rDev -3.6%
Served from a cask into a true pint glass in a pub in London, England. Reviewed from notes.
A: Pours a one finger head of nice tan colour, good cream, and pretty good thickness. Colour is a solid nontransparent black.
Sm: Coffee, cream, caramel, chocolate, and slight toffee. A mild strength aroma.
T: All the notes form the nose are present, with the chocolate emphasized alongside light roast. The cream is restrained but nice. The coffee is very well handled. It's complex enough, decently balanced, and built with quality in mind.
Mf: Coarse enough, but a touch too wet for a stout. Fairly complementary of the flavours, but certainly not tailored to them.
Dr: Very drinkable and of good quality at a standard price for London. Give her a spin, lads.
08-20-2011 22:59:57 | More by kojevergas
3.55/5 rDev -8.3%
Gravity halfpint at the Euston Tap.
A: Black with cloudy red-brown highlights and a full finger of ultra creamy dark tan head. I'm a little disappointed about getting a short pour, but the appearance is striking indeed.
S: Extremely roasty, with burnt malt absolutely dominating. Nothing but coffee, char, and more roast. Pretty nice, but a bit single-minded.
T: Opens with dark fruit and burnt coffee, then develops into charred graham cracker and dark chocolate - almost like a s'more that got dropped into the fire and half-consumed, but you were drunk enough to eat regardless. Very robust, with a bitter coffee finish. Good stuff, but not terribly interesting.
M: Highly frothy medium body. Ok.
O: This beer was all right, but definitely went overboard with the roasted notes. From what I can gather this brewery seems to be trying to do the "extreme" thing, and in this case they went a bit too far.
03-30-2012 19:16:25 | More by woosterbill
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
A: Black as a sunless day (My notes actually said this, I think I meant to say black as a moonless night). Big beige head.
S: Nutty and earthy with roasted grains and light chocolate notes. There's a burnt presence throughout with a little molasses. Coffee wafts from the glass.
T: Dark chocolate blends with earth and a firm roasted malt presence. There's a faint nuttiness. The roastiness approaches char and there are evident coffee notes. The finish borders on burnt with coffee and an earthy bitterness.
M: Medium body with upper medium carbonation.
Overall: An okay beer. A little over the top on the roast.
04-08-2012 18:10:22 | More by HopHead84
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
03-14-2013 12:40:46 | More by Chrily
3.04/5 rDev -21.4%
08-30-2014 00:37:24 | More by Evango
Dark Arts from Magic Rock Brewing
86 out of 100 based on 20 ratings.


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SS9. 8pp. On other pages: part 1, part 2, part 4 (Supplement), part 5.
simpl speling July 1999 part 3.
Net chat.Excerpts from a few of the posts in the SSS internet discussion groups.
Returning to traditional structure.Cut Spelling often simply reproduces Middle English forms. Even when respellings are novel, the schemes that produce them are generally just reasserting principles that were part of English orthography from its inception, but became obscured in early modern times.
I put it to the group, then, that we are engaged neither in simplifying English spelling, nor in reforming it, but returning it to its traditional structure. While this does not mean simply reproducing spellings today that existed in former times, it does mean that we are in a very real sense restoring the written language to its true form.
John J Reilly, USA. [See Journals, Web link.]
Neither fish nor fowl.Chinese writing (and reading) has to be painstakingly learned, since every word is unique. Learning it occupies a significant amount of time. English is somewhat like this, since the parts of a word, ofttimes spelt inconsistently, bear some similarity to the strokes that make up a Chinese character.
U would think illiteracy would be high in China, but apparently it is not (I have no figures). Why? Perhaps because it is not at all a fonetic system. Thus, for centuries the learning process has been well-established, and vital for cultural growth. English is caught in the middle, not using brush strokes, but using what appear to be fonetic characters of a limited alphabet, but combined in a hopeless jumble of permutations that defy the fonetic value of each character. It is neither fish nor fowl, and thus it can't swim or fly well. It flounders.
Raymond Weisling, Jakarta. [See letter SS8].
Learning by heart.'Whole word' reading is learning each word by rote, by heart, without considering its constituent parts, and without relation to other similar words. 'This word is said. Remember, it.' It was thought that because competent readers look at a word and say it without apparently working out the sounds, children should learn that way. Automaticity is the aim, but able readers taught that way elicit the sounds of letters and apply them to other words. They do not learn thousands of words one by one. Less able readers need to be taught the sounds of letters for wordbuilding for reading and analysis for spelling.
Jean Hutchins, UK. [See Journals, Newsletters.]
Deciding by taste.We have differences: we are not clones. But we shouldn't forget we play in the same team, and our adversary is called Traditional Orthography. Except for the left wing, which has usually only one criterion for simplification (consistency), most of us have three: consistency, economy, and TO-similarity. If we put an order on it, say the consistency always having priority, we have something like Truespel. If we choose economy, there won't be much left after all. Even CS began fast but had to brake. If we choose TO-similarity, we just keep TO, the system that looks most like TO. There is no mathematic way to decide a priori. We put the three criteria on the scales but as they have different measuring systems, we finish up making the decision by taste.
Zé do Rock, Germany. [See Journals, Newsletters, Personal View.]
[Jean Wilkinson: see Newsletters .]
Jean Wilkinson, USA writes:
...and as for PH...'U know, it took me two, maybe even three years to learn how to spell phone. It was really hard for me.' My teen frend added, 'Because I'm stupid.'
Oh, is he now? Or is it the ph that's stupid?
Phone. From the Greek φ ο γ η, a sound. Notice: In Greek, ph is one letter, not two. Then why, why, why are we spelling it with two?
A library reference person read to me over the fone that classical Latin and Greek (c AD 200 - 600) differentiated between 'unaspirated p' and aspirated p'. Apple versus Pow! The aspirated became ph. In later Latin and Greek, ph became pronounced as f, but the ph spelling stuck.
'The spelling stuck.' Three words - I see them written in blood - the blood of the children who must wrestle with stuck spellings, for as long as three years at school. Fenbutol, but phenobarbital. Fenmur and fascia, but phlegm and phthiriasis. Do I hear someone with horns and a red suit laughing?
I'm jubilant that there is no law against misspelling words. They may not even be misspelled - they may be Future Spelling! I can't wait forever for the dictionary. lt's fone and telefone for me. The dictionary will catch up, provided the people lead.
Remember your young frends.
1. Questions of English, ed. Jeremy Marshall, Oxford University Press, 1994, p 140.
2. Only a little over 49% of the words in the English language can be spelled by sound. Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences as Cues to Spelling Improvement, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1966, p 122.
[Madhukar Gogate: see Journals, Newsletters, Web link.]
Another view from India.David Crystal, in his Encyclopedia of the English Language, estimates almost 34 million people in India use English, and ranks the nation fourth in its number of English-speakers, after the US, Great Britain, and Nigeria. In LOJIKON (LOJIkal use of KONsonants) the late Govind N Deodhekar, an SSS member, said: 'it appears unlikely the English will reform their spelling in the near future. But the rest of the world cannot wait, and it is time to rebel: Madhukar N Gogate gives an alternative view.
A link language on a parallel route.My viewpoint on spelling reform is different from those whose mother tongue is English. I can understand their concern to make spelling reforms in English. I sympathize with them if the odd spellings hurt literacy programs.
For me, English is a second language. We in India, for obvious reasons, have no patriotic songs or prayers in English. Sentimentally, we are nearer to our mother tongues, which connect us to our societies. We have illiteracy problems, not because of odd English spellings. Our scripts are somewhat fonetic, but the population explosion beats every development.
Since English is not my mother tongue, I (and other Indians) use it usually in written form. When spelling reformers tell me that of is pronounced with f as v in victory, it beats me. Why is f not pronounced like f in fee? But we can't criticize each other.
Pronunciations change with distance and time. India is multilingual, and accepts English as a tool for development (technology, world contacts). I and many people in India (whom I contacted) do want current English spellings to continue. We have to acquire welth and helth. We have to communicate. My engineering business will be hurt if I use the terms siment, brik, bilding, brij instead of cement, brick, building, bridge.
I advocated an optional Roman script for 15 Indian languages written in 12 different scripts. I did not suggest canceling current scripts. Why destroy existing lines of communication? Why hurt sentiments? While English has spelling absurdities, Indian languages have gender absurdities. No language is perfect. The Roman option was proposed to harness all English-printing machines for Indian languages, and to case reading unfamiliar languages. Computers now have solved many problems. With the flick of a button, one can change scripts! I failed to convince people. The Roman option (with proper syrnbol-sound relationships) did not click. A lesson is to be learnt. People don't discard their current writing systems.
Billions are spent on making books, signboards to conform with the current systems. So, let British and American spelling differences continue. A proper approach is to respect people and their spellings, and start a new language, a new script at an informal level. I call that Globish.
What is Globish? It is English, with reformed spellings, easy enuf for common people, using small symbols a, b, c, d, e, f, etc, no capitals, three dots at the end of a sentence, no diacritics, with grammar and vocabulary as in English. Capitals are used to start names, brand names, etc, which cannot be respelled. One can easily navigate from English to Globish. hi iz e jauli gud felo... = He is a jolly good fellow. It is easy to teach Globish. Danger, denjar - - No entry, no entri...
Treat Globish as different from English just as we consider Russian and German different. Russian P equals R in English. German J equals English Y. Similarly, decide on certain symbol-sound relationships for Globish and follow them. English u has different sounds: unit, push, up, busy. Take one of the relation-ships in Globish. Others are bound to look funny, like Russian P = English R.
Why do this exercise? Globish would be easier to popularize in the world. Those who want to do serious work must learn English too. Laymen will be told that siment, brik in Globish are written in English as cement, brick A poet may say that he would write a few poems in Globish. Some editor may encourage crossword puzzles in Globish. Globish would grow, as a route parallel to English.
We must take steps to promote an easy link language to foster world brotherhood. Globish is suggested.
I would like to keep away from reforms within English. That discussion becomes endless and fruitless. Millions of people will not accept changes. No airport will change arrival to arival simply because the redundant r is not acceptable to reformers.
English is a world language, which is its strength and paradoxically its weakness. The world is not interested in obliging England and America to reform spellings. However, a parallel Globish route may interest the whole of mankind. It would even show the English-speakers are willing to shed some ego, and accept a new world language.
[Steve Bett: see Journals, Newsletters, Personal View, Web links.]
[Web addresses have been omitted as they are unlikely to be valid now. Search engines may find the people or topics.]
Spelling on the net with Steve Bett, USA.
Hotlinks.URLs for spelling-related websites. A page with 50 spelling related links maintained by Steve Bett.
The Sounds of English - A foneme inventory with graphemes from IPA and several fonemic alphabets including Shavian. This web page includes key words and click-and-listen audio files for every vowel sound.
A full text version on George Bernard Shaw's 1941 26-page article on spelling reform.
Mark Twain's short article on simplified spelling and fonetic spelling.
Latin 1 symbols, special characters, and diacritics. Cut and paste from this page into your HTML documents and HTML frendly email.
An introduction to the history of the English language.
Free Shavian font and A M Callaway's Phonetic Translator (beta version) is available.
A web board (mailing list) for those interested in the Shaw alphabet.
The lettermatrix project - side by side foneme-grapherne correspondences for 10 reform orthographies. Includes key-word and click-and-listen to the foneme features for those unfamiliar with IPA.
A spelling corrector that guesses correct spelling 97% of the time.
Accessing special characters in MS Word.Altho most modern orthographies attempt to make do with the limited ASCII character set, creative orthographers might make use of an augmented symbol set if they could access it.
Fortunately, if U are using Word, WordPerfect or some other high-end word processor, U have access to a hidden extended keyboard. In the past, this was available only to Mac users, but is now also available to PC users.
[The guidelines given in this item are not relevant to all versions of Word, so are not reproduced here.]
Automated spelling converters.How can we convert electronic text to augmented alphabets?
Alan Mole's BTRSPEL is a converter that can be downloaded to run on your computer, taking about 20min the first time. The Perlscript converter runs on a remote server and requires no set-up. U simply cut and paste what U want converted into a window on the screen and click on the convert button. Check it out.
To convert to non-Roman notations, U need to convert to the ASCII version of the notation and then change to a special font. [See Links page for current URL.]
Talepeace.A man is suing a tattoo artist for $US25,000. He wanted Villain inscribed on his biceps, but neither he nor the proprietor knew how to spell it. They decided it was probably Villian.
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Although Libertarians, old school conservatives and progressives have been most active promoting 9/11 truth, their eventual victory will serve almost every conceivable constituency except perhaps the neocons, Dominionists and corporatist right. All 9/11 truth seekers have their own distinct approaches however, and the following is a recent example of the progressive style.
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By creating a ballot initiative, we can return the process of governance to We the People. Let's face it, voting every few years just isnt' enough. We need 30,000 petition signatures as soon as possible to get this on the Nov. 6th general election. This will enable us to create the conditions for a citizen-based, rather than government insider-based investigation to address the multitude of questions from 9/11 families which were ignored by the Kean/Hamilton Commission, as well as the issues of the toxic health hazards and the mistreatment of so many first responders.
Read all about it at www.nyc911initiative.org . You can either download a petition there, come to Union Sq. at noon on Saturdays, or call our Hotline at 646-537-1755 and leave your name and address.
As of now, international attorney Dr. William Pepper , Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell , actor/activist Ed Asner , former Senator Lincoln Chafee , Jersey widow Lorie Van Auken , Mohawk tribal member Splitting-the-Sky… Continue reading
West Hartford Symposium Saturday Nov. 3rd: Activist and actor Ed Asner to open the day's events
It is now confirmed that seven-time Emmy award winner and political activist Ed Asner will giving the opening remarks for the Nov. 3rd 9/11 Symposium in West Hartford CT. (www.911hartford.org). Please see Mr Asner's biography and comments about 9/11 truth at PatriotsQuestion911.com.
Mr. Asner also mentioned his questions about 9/11 in this recent interview in the Hartford Courant.
Related: Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who will speak at the Hartford Symposium tomorrow, has given another incredible radio interview on the CT Based LA Steel Show!!!!! Interview starts at 19.00 and goes for about 40 minutes.
Fellow 9/11 truth workers, at long last there is a campaign afoot that has the potential of harnessing the energy, knowledge and zeal for justice of the entire 9/11 Truth Movement, and that is the New York City 911 Ballot Initiative Campaign. What is the 9/11 Ballot Initiative Campaign? Simply stated, it is a citizen-based effort to allow the people of New York City the opportunity to vote for "a New York City Independent Commission with Subpoena Power to Conduct a Comprehensive and Fact-Driven Investigation of All Relevant Aspects of the Tragic Events of September 11, 2001 and Issue a Report."
Some of the folks spearheading this historic endeavor include commissioners William Pepper and Lorie Van Auken, spokespeople Christine Ebersole, Bill Doyle, Bob McIlvaine and Donna Marsh O'Connor, and the hard working activists of NY911truth.org. Other commissioners include Mike Gravel and Lincoln Chafee, Ed Asner, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and Ralph Schoenman. The campaign has been endorsed by Dr. David Ray Griffin, William Rodriquez and Karen Kwiatkowski, among others, and has received enthusiastic support from Kyle Hence, Sander Hicks, Peter Lance and various stalwarts of the 9/11 Truth Movement throughout the country. Now, we need you to get involved!
As you know, a genuine, evidence driven investigation of the crimes of 9/11 has never taken place. Now, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make it happen. In order to place the… Continue reading
Another excellent VIDEO EXCLUSIVE from Hot Potato Mash:
Dr. William Pepper on James Earl Ray's Innocence, Sirhan Sirhan's Innocence, 9/11 Truth and Prosecuting War Crimes
Dr. William F. Pepper is an internationally acclaimed lawyer who defended James Earl Ray in a 1999 civil trial (supported by Martin Luther King's family) where the jury found Ray not responsible for the MLK assassination. Now Pepper is defending Sirhan Sirhan for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a case he says is 'an easier one than the assassination of Martin King and the innocence of James Earl Ray'.
Last Wednesday Pepper spoke about all of his projects, including 9/11 truth and prosecuting the Bush administration for war crimes, to a packed celebrity filled house in Los Angeles. Among those in attendance were Ed Asner, Gina Belafonte, Judd Nelson and 9/11 author Professor David Ray Griffin. Videos of his talk follow …
Part 1 (6:21) – Introduction
In Part 1 Pepper talks about his background, childhood and motivation. He also speaks about the time he spent in Cuba playing baseball where he got to know Fidel Castro. According to Pepper, Castro foresaw much of what is happening in the United States today:
'When, in that massive country to the north, the masses of the people ever understand what it is that their ruling class has done to them and is doing to them, there will be such a torrent of opposition. They will rise like never before and then there will be the… Continue reading
August 7, 2008
are writing you to let you know that as of today, we, of the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative
Campaign has collected nearly 25,000 signatures towards our goal of 30,000!! Check
out the photo below! It's a powerful statement is it not? And yet, we are in the
proverbial ninth inning as we need to have the full amount soon so as to access
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It is important to recognize that this effort is supported by many of the families
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Colleen Rowley, retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, retired NSA analyst Wayne Madsen,
former senators Mike Gravel and Lincoln Chafee, and more.
Now we need every one of you to call your friends and associates… Continue reading
(Sept. 5, 2008, New York, NY) A solid base has now been established to create
a public referendum known as the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative. This campaign is
to enable the voters of NY City to create a new, independent, impartial 9/11 Commission
that would conduct an authentic, comprehensive investigation of the most momentous
event of our time. This effort is unique because if passed by the voters of NY
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and support showing there is a serious mandate from the voters, it is actually
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on their own. This is the current strategy which organizers and petitioners
here in NYC have every intention of pursuing.
Another vital piece of information has come to light. Back in the… Continue reading
By P. Joseph Potocki
The Bohemian
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
–Alice, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
We're hurtling down the rabbit hole. Gravity's refuted. Black is white, and white turns bitter, transfigured by a mawkish Mad Hatter blithely chewing up our Constitution, juggling missile-shaped teacups, splashing sweet, light crude and cold blood everywhere. To anyone who's passed through the last eight years believing whatever George W. Bush and his minions have blown their way, well, best of luck to you, because most of it hasn't been true.
Does that mean, then, that W. and his cronies were behind the 9-11 attacks? Of course not. Some say, however, if it looks, waddles and quacks like a duck and lays duck eggs, then perhaps it's time we re-examine it under oath, because it just might be a friggin' duck. (Fact: Nixon White House audiotapes reveal Tricky Dick literally quacking like a duck. Nixon was a lot of things, but ducky wasn't one of them.)
We're all mad here.
–the Cheshire Cat
Ken Jenkins, a Marin-based videographer, electrical engineer and activist with the 9-11 Truth group, tells of one who responded to certain provocative conjecture with "I wouldn't believe it–even if it were true." It , of course, is the widely held and yet wildly contentious belief that elements within our own government bear responsibility for the… Continue reading
Nov 18, 2008
Actor and activist Ed Asner has signed the AE911Truth online petition and sent
a letter of support.
The text of the letter reads: (link to PDF)
October 6, 2008
To Whom It May Concern:
I would like to thank Richard Gage, AIA and Architects and Engineers for 9/11
Truth for presenting the scientific facts behind the unprecedented destruction
of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. AE911Truth presents solid
research that contradicts the official story of the building's destruction with
the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition.
An accurate understanding of history is required to make good decisions in
the future. Over and over again, history has shown that the first public perceptions
of historical events are not always correct. I, along with millions of others,
have serious questions about our country's recent history about 9/11.
I have signed the AE911Truth.org petition calling for an unbiased investigation
of the "collapses" of these three high-rise buildings. I encourage
everyone to do the same, and also become a Sustaining Member of Architects and
Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Edward Asner
Source URL: http://www.ae911truth.org/info/41
Richard Gage is currently touring Europe. More info on the tour is available at AE911truth.org
Intellectual Dishonesty In The Age Of Universal Deceit:
a message to the corporate media and our elected officials.
By Daniel Sunjata – May 4, 2009
"The inert masses are mentally and spiritually ill equipped to deal with reality, so they block it out of their minds – aided of course, by the corporate media and the propaganda apparatus of the government itself. This is why fantasy is frequently substituted for reality, plutocracy is mistaken for democracy, and the majority of the people do not know the difference. Millions of good people thus refuse to allow into their psyche the suffering and misery that U.S. policies have produced and exported to the world, even as that reality is closing in upon them." – Charles Sullivan
"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality…and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." – George Orwell, 1984
"Article XXXIV OBSTRUCTION OF INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001" – From the 35 articles of impeachment introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on 06/09/08 in H.Res. 1258 by Congressman Dennis Kucinich
The list is not a short one. It includes professors, architects, aerospace and aviation professionals, structural/mechanical/& aeronautical engineers, demolition experts, firefighters and other first responders, scientists, theologians, senior members of both the military and intelligence communities, Republican administration appointees, state department veterans, and other government officials from the United States and abroad; credible experts of impeccable pedigree with impressive track records from… Continue reading
Frank Morales
June, 2009
It's late spring 2009 in New York City and an unannounced unidentified U.S. government plane streaks across town. Recollecting the horrors of 9/11, the incident scares the he-be-gee-bees out of the citizenry. Some miles to the north, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D/NY), while attending an April 18th "Tour of the Battenkill" annual bicycle race in Cambridge, New York, responds to a question regarding efforts here in New York City to establish a new investigation of 9/11. Lending his qualified support to such an inquiry, he said that he was positively disposed toward a new investigation into the events of 9/11, though his support for such a probe would depend on the form it would take. "I think it's not a bad idea," he said. "You know, you've got to do it in a good way, but yes, I'd be for it."
An associate of Schumer, New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, also recommended a fresh look at the events of September 11, 2001. Commenting this past May 27th to a young reporter who himself had suffered the loss of a loved one during 9/11, the senator responded to the question of a new investigation by suggesting that "another review, or a fuller hearing" is warranted given the number of unanswered questions put forward by victims families since 9/11. "I think those questions should be answered," she stated, going on to affirm that, "it's important that every family member have every question answered."
Senators Schumer and… Continue reading
On August 20, 2009, Allan Rees of No Lies Radio interviewed Emmy award wining actor and social activist Ed Asner. Ed has been an ardent supporter of numerous social justice causes for decades and he is a current supporter of 911 Truth. Listen to what he has to say about how this country has a history of suspected false flag operations including 911 in 2001 and the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964. Ed has spoken at a variety of 911 Truth forums and has recently introduced Richard Gage AIA of ae911truth.org in Los Angeles and has made Public Service Announcements for the 911 Truth community. Listen to several here.
Ed is probably best known for his character Lou Grant on the Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 and his role as a journalist on the Lou Grant show from 1977-1982. He won an Emmy for his role on Roots and also 6 other Emmys. His movie and TV career has spanned almost a half a century and he has acted in over 20 movies… most recently he co-starred in the feature film Gigantic with John Goodman; and had an Emmy nominated guest appearance on CSI/NY and currently he is the lead voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's 2009 box-office-hit UP and has narrated the documentary film "The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror". He has been a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has served two terms as president of the… Continue reading
We ask signatories of the statement that helped drive Van Jones from office if they stand by it. Updated
By Vincent Rossmeier
Thanks in large part to his association with the 9/11 Truth movement , Van Jones is no longer a member of the Obama White House. Jones resigned last week amid a swirl of controversy — prodded on largely by Fox News' Glenn Beck — that included the former "green jobs" advisor's signing of a petition put out by the 9/11 Truth movement urging a further investigation into the World Trade Center attacks. Most controversially, the petition wondered darkly that "unanswered questions … suggest that people within the current administration may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war," before drifting into a list of wild and dubious speculation. (You can read the petition right here .)
Initially, Jones said that he hadn't fully reviewed the statement before he signed. But that didn't stop the onslaught of bad publicity that ultimately led to his exit.
The statement was released in October 2004 and has been signed by nearly 200 people, including many relatives of those who lost someone in the attacks. It called for an investigation into 9/11 but also directly questioned the government's conclusions about the plane crashes.
In the wake of Jones' departure, Politico's Ben Smith contacted two other signatories of the statement, Rabbi Michael Lerner and historian Howard Zinn. Smith found that both men felt they had signed a petition of more limited scope than the one that appears at the 9/11 Truth Web site, one that asked only for an investigation into the attacks and not one questioning President Bush's prior knowledge of 9/11.…Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2010
On the eve of the 9th anniversary of 9/11, support for the war in Afghanistan took a serious blow yesterday. Simultaneous press conferences were held in New York and Los Angeles to present startling new information refuting the official 9/11 narrative, used to justify the war. Also announced were three major professional groups which have joined the worldwide, and ever-growing, "9/11 Truth Movement".
In a striking show of unity, representatives of "Scientists for 9/11 Truth", "U.S. Military Officers for 9/11 Truth" and "Actors & Artists for 9/11 Truth" presented their findings and unveiled their eye-opening websites. Each non-profit group has launched a petition calling for a new, transparent investigation.
In NY, representing "Scientists", Professor Niels Harrit said, "The official account put forth by NIST violates the fundamental laws of physics and chemistry." Harrit is Prof. Emeritus at the University of Copenhagen and was lead author for a 2009 peer-reviewed study that revealed evidence of high tech explosives throughout the WTC dust.
In LA, physics teacher David Chandler discussed the swift destruction of the WTC towers, including Building 7, the little-known third tower. Having demonstrated its free fall, he confronted the US government agency NIST with his analyses and forced NIST to revise its November 2008 Final Report on WTC 7. NIST's Draft Report had claimed free fall was impossible but NIST ultimately acknowledged WTC 7 was in absolute free fall for over two seconds. Concluded Chandler, "Free fall is physically impossible without explosives".
In… Continue reading
Remember Building 7: 10th anniversary ad campaign launches today with our new mini-documentary, "Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7″
August 18, 2011
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth is pleased to announce the launch of the Remember Building 7 10th Anniversary Campaign — the most aggressive ad campaign yet. This season we are accelerating our strategic partnership with RememberBuilding7.org in order to make this 10th Anniversary a vital turning point in the pursuit of a new 9/11 investigation.
In conjunction with the Remember Building 7 Campaign, we are very proud today to also release our powerful new 15-minute mini-documentary " Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 " as the essential educational component of the new campaign and an exceptional tool for all people who want to effectively expose the fraudulent official story of WTC 7′s destruction and the explosive evidence omitted from the NIST Report. It is compellingly narrated by actor Ed Asner and features a stellar lineup of AE911Truth experts including structural engineers, chemical engineers, physicists and others.
See it in context at RememberBuilding7.org and get inspired to do your part in the campaign by forwarding this Action Alert to everyone you know! And be sure to make your pledge to the 10th Anniversary Ad Campaign today. See below for the exciting campaign details.
As always, thank you for your tremendous support!
Richard Gage, AIA and the AE911Truth Volunteer Team
AE911Truth Documentary Excerpt Makes Waves on 100+ PBS Stations
Written by Nory King
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
AE911Truth produced a five minute version of the 15-minute mini-documentary, " Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of Building 7 ," for the Spotlight On series broadcast by PBS on dozens of public television stations nationwide. According to the Nielsen Television Index, the short film was a resounding success, airing 678 times during the first three-month cycle, and was seen by an estimated 2.7 million viewers. The $10,000 that supporters like you donated to this project last year has paid off tremendously.
The Genesis of the Campaign
Two years ago, Wendy Rapkin of Trivue Entertainment contacted AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, to suggest producing a segment for the Spotlight On series. Spotlight On is an ongoing series of three-to-five minute filler programs for public television that has been airing for over 20 years. Rapkin, a long time supporter of AE911Truth, felt that this would be a good vehicle to increase exposure to the public about the explosive destruction of WTC 7 on the afternoon of September 11, 2001.
"I really wanted to get the word out about Building 7," Rapkin said, "and the video AE911Truth produced is all about the science of its destruction."
Gage then met with the senior producer of Trivue Entertainment, Larry Cohen, in New Jersey. An interview was conducted and Cohen was deeply impressed with the AE911Truth message and mission. He decided immediately that he would work… Continue reading
Listening to Ed Asner I'm reminded of Michael Polanyi's observation (to paraphrase) that we believe more than we can prove and know more than we can say.
Polanyi also talked about "growing points" in science, which I hope has an analogue in a free society where personal connections become more important, particularly when rethinking the past. Why not, after all, have an idealistic Socialist vision of what we want or a gimlet-eyed Socialist appraisal of what's gone wrong?
This is the stuff of which optimists are made. Thanks, Ed!!
Total runtime thirty four minutes. Credo ut intelligam.
Listen at source, linked here.
May 20, 2012
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
The New Landmark Documentary by AE911Truth
Late May through Early July 2012 –
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AE911Truth is proud to announce the completion of the Final Edition of our milestone documentary, 9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out, and we are taking the film on the road with a whirlwind World Premiere Tour across the U.S., starting on May 21. The director of Experts Speak Out, AE911Truth founder Richard Gage, AIA, will personally introduce this groundbreaking film at top venues in 30 cities nationwide and take questions from the audience after each screening. Tickets are on sale now, so make sure to buy yours before the events sell out.
Join us in one of 30 cities near you on this tour, which begins in San Diego, CA, and covers 24 states from coast to coast.
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The official "Opening Night" of the tour will be in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hills Music Hall Theater on May 22. Famed actor Ed Asner, the star of our previous short-film hit, Architects & Engineers — Solving the Mystery of WTC 7, will join Gage at the kickoff Press Conference at 7pm, and will introduce the movie, which starts shortly thereafter.
We will also be joined at the "Opening Night" premiere by veteran Hollywood actors John Heard and Judd… Continue reading


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OIL CITY, PA- The Clarion University-Venango Campus Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa was recognized for achieving Five Star Status, the international organization's highest level of excellence, at the Phi Theta Kappa Middle States Regional Convention held February 12 and 13 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Chapter president Jody Ion said that the honor was the result of the support of the campus and the local community, in addition to the hard work of the membership, and its advisor, Beth Jackson.
Ms. Jackson, assistant professor of mathematics at the campus, was recognized as an Outstanding Chapter Advisor for her ten years of service with the Venango Campus chapter. "Being recognized for my involvement is wonderful," she said, "but the positive impact that the chapter makes is what keeps me involved year after year."
Ms. Jackson, Mr. Ion, and alumni member Patti Shontz delivered a presentation, at the invitation of the conference, on the chapter's "Totes for Tots" project. The project, now in its second year, provides totes full of items that help improve manual dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and early literacy, encouraging reading and education for life, to children in area Head Start programs. Behind the scenes, the project brings members of the community together, as residents of area nursing homes paint pictures on the totes and scouts assist in filling them. The project began in the Oil City community and expanded this year to include the Franklin Head Start Program, nearly doubling the number of students benefited. The Chapter plans to continue the expansion to other area communities.
Phi Theta Kappa is an international honor society and the largest in American higher education. The Phi Theta Kappa chapter at Clarion University-Venango Campus, Alpha Kappa Delta, provides opportunities for the development of leadership and service, for an intellectual climate for exchange of ideas and information, for lively fellowship for scholars, and for stimulation of interest in continuing academic excellence.
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In the CSR1 league, comprised of CSR staff members and CSR VIPs/FFL champs, Jaxon's CSR1 Hog Mollies (2-1) put the hurtin' on CSR legend James Dator and his team Man vs. Fua'd. I'll let the Yahoo Sports game recap lay out the details:
Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
Summary: Hog Mollies benefited from 26.40 points from Tony Romo and 15.50 from Adrian Peterson to get the win over Man vs. Fua'd 92.10 - 74.70. While each team fell short of expectations, Hog Mollies scored 89.1% of a projected 103.41 points to get the win. Calvin Johnson led Man vs. Fua'd with 17.50 points while Justin Tucker brought in 14.00. Man vs. Fua'd (1-2, 272.26 points) drops to 11th place and Hog Mollies (2-1, 320.84 points) remains in fifth place.
Will Man vs. Fua'd be able to recover from such a beating? Many owners might crawl into a Eli Manning-esque fetal position after a loss like that. Dator, the eternal optimist he is, will surely rise from the ashes. But wait, first...I have a little salt I must rub in...
Smooth Moves by Hog Mollies:
The 26.40 points scored by Tony Romo ranked sixth in the league in scoring this week and fifth for any player on Hog Mollies this season. Adrian Peterson had 15.50 points, the ninth-highest score among RBs in the league this week. By scoring 12.00 points, the New England Patriots Defense beat their 9.02 projected points by 33.0%. With only 3 of their 9 starters beating their projected points, Hog Mollies was still able to win.
Hog Mollies won even though all three of their RBs scored below their projected points.
I barely needed to get the big dogs off the porch. Here's what I'm thinking at this point. Remember the movie 'The Green Mile' and the scene where Big John (or whatever his name was) sucks the cancer out of the dude's wife's body? I think Dator sucked all of the cancer offense out of Mike Shula and then blew it out on his fantasy team. It's just a theory though...unconfirmed.
Missed Opportunities by Man vs. Fua'd:
Did not start Ben Roethlisberger, who led the team in scoring with 20.94 points.
Picked up and started Da'Rel Scott, who then scored below his 4.49-point projection with 2.20 points.
At the QB position, Man vs. Fua'd got outscored 26.40 - 4.00 by Hog Mollies.
At the DEF position, Man vs. Fua'd got outscored 12.00 - 2.00 by Hog Mollies.
In the midst of a season-low in scoring, Colin Kaepernick also did not meet his projected points (4.00 points scored versus 23.01 projected) for the second time this season.
It was just ugly all around. Almost done...
What If: Hog Mollies would be 3-0 if they played Man vs. Fua'd every week.
That is one useless but also satisfying statistic right there.
Moving on the CSR 13 as much as I hate too where things are quite as rosy overall for my CSR13 Hog Mollies. We did hold on to win but it was narrow to say the least. This one gave me a hint of Rivera must have felt like Sunday when one finally went his way.
Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
Summary: Hog Mollies edged Montucky Marauders 89.48 - 87.60 behind Drew Brees, whose 37.78 points were the highest score of the week. This could have gone either way, with the 1.88-point margin of victory being the third-smallest recorded in the league this season. Montucky Marauders was led by Tom Brady with 19.50 points and Wes Welker who scored 14.40. With Josh Brown delivering zero points for Hog Mollies, the margin could have been bigger. Hog Mollies (1-2, 299.94 points) climbs into ninth place and Montucky Marauders (1-2, 274.72 points) drops to 11th place.
The only time you will hear me say 'Thank you Drew Brees!' Oh and notice my jinx on Giants K Josh Brown worked! Zero points and shanked FG! I don't know who the Marauder's owner is or where the hell Montucky is but let's just say they are not feeling like 'Lucky Montucky' this week ;)
Yes fantasy football was fun this week and as long as I keep winning I'll be talking some smack. And probably when I'm not winning too.
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Springfield/New Paltz Box Score
Springfield, Mass. - October 6, 2012 - The Springfield College women's volleyball team lost in the championship match of the Tom Hay Invitational on Saturday afternoon in a five-set contest with New Paltz. The Pride defeted Plymouth State in three sets earlier in the day to finish as the Invitational's runner-up.
Springfield now stands at 17-4 on the year. The Pride had a two-set lead on New Paltz before Hawks stormed back for the 15-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-15, 15-5 win. Earlier in the day, Springfield cruised past Plymouth State 25-14, 25-18, 25-17.
Springfield 3, Plymouth State 0
The Pride put on an offensive show in the the semifinal match, totaling 47 kills at a .364 clip in just three sets. Tessa Smolinski finished with a match-high 14 kills and 14 digs, while Mary Consol added 11 kills. Elise Brogan notched eight kills and three blocks, and classmate Daniella Crismani registered six kills. Molly Giannattasio was credited with 27 assists, four aces, and four digs running the Pride attack.
Plymouth State's Casey Stoodley led her team with 10 kills and 10 digs, as the Panthers were held to a .018 hitting percentage on the afternoon. Cassie Pelton also had 10 digs and Kirsten Perrotta delivered 18 assists.
The Panthers struggled on offense to begin the match, committing seven attack errors on their first 14 swings. In turn, Springfield was able to open up 12-6 lead on a Consol swing in the middle off transition. Springfield continue to push the tempo, and Plymouth State burned their second timeout of the opening set after another attack error gave the Pride an 18-10 advantage. The Pride cruised the rest of the way, taking the opening set 25-14, as Consol posted four kills in the game.
In the second, it was Springfield that was hampered by attack errors, committing five in the early going to trail 14-12. The Pride would respond in impressive fashion, putting together a 5-1 spurt capped off by a Brogan overpass kill, to take a 17-15 lead and force the visitors into a timeout. The Pride stretched its lead to 24-17 on a Consol kill and would use a Kerry Purcell kill to finish the set, 25-18.
After the Panthers got within one at 11-10, Springfield posted a 4-1 run, highlighted by a pair of Smolinski kills to seize control of the set, 15-11. A sideout kill from Stoodley got the Panthers as close as they would get as Springfield, which totaled 20 kills hitting .594 in the set, wrapped up the victory with a 25-17 final set.
New Paltz 3, Springfield 2
The Pride raced out to an early two set lead, only to have the Hawks dominate the final three sets to claim the championship. The loss snapped the Pride's 10-match winning streak to drop to 17-4, while New Paltz improves to 21-3 this year.
For the Pride, Smolinski posted 20 kills and 12 digs, while fellow outside, Crismani, tallied 15 digs and 10 kills. McGayhey added 10 kills and three blocks, and Giannattasio handed out 38 helpers.
New Paltz's Marissa King, who was the Invitational's MVP, recorded 59 assists and 10 digs leading her team to a win. Michelle Jacbson dominated from the outside, hammering 21 kills at a .450 clip to go along with 20 digs. Eleaner Skovgaard was great off the bench, producing 14 kills, while Becca Borquist registered 12 kills and 11 digs. Carrie Hack also added a match-best 24 digs.
Springfield continued its strong offensive play to start the championship match, posting 15 kills at a .308 clip. After a kill from Borquist brought the Hawks within 13-10, Springfield answered with a 5-1 push to take control at 18-11. The Pride wasn't threatened the rest of the way, taking the set 25-15, behind four kills from both Crismani, Smolinski, and McGayhey
Jacobson and Smolinski went back-and-forth, each racking up eight kills in the second set.The seesaw affair saw the Pride gain a 17-14 lead following a block from McGayhey and Melissa McLaughlin. Despite trailing 22-17, the visitors would not go away as a Borquist kill made it 24-23 in favor of Springfield. The Pride went to Smolinski, who ripped a kill off the block for the two-point set win.
The visitors dictated the third set from the onset, snagging a 9-5 advantage following a solo stuff from Dana Vosilla. New Paltz increased its lead to five at 12-7, but Springfield battled back to 12-10 after two straight Runge aces. That would be as close as Springfield would not get any closer as New Paltz breezed their way to the 25-17 win. Jacobson posted five kills lead the way as the visitors hit .382 in the stanza.
New Paltz didn't let up, storming out to a 6-1 lead in the fourth. Consol connected for a kill to get Springfield within two at 9-7, but another big run, this time a 5-0 spurt, put the Hawks in the driver seat once again. Hitting .379 in the game and bolstered by four kills from each Skovgaard and Katy Herbst, the match was headed to a fifth set.
The Hawks wasted little time completing their come back as they opened up the fifth set on a 9-1 run en route to the 15-5 victory.
Tom Hay Invitational
Saturday, October 7
New Paltz 3, Plymouth State 1 (25-21, 12-25, 25-12, 25-15)
Colby-Sawyer 3, Montclair State 2(17-25, 25-22, 13-25, 25-15, 15-13)
Springfield 3, Plymouth State 0 (25-14, 25-18, 25-17)
New Paltz 3, Colby-Sawyer 1 (21-25, 25-10, 25-19, 25-18)
Montclair State 3 , Westfield State 0 (25-20, 25-12, 25-18)
New Paltz 3, Springfield 2 (15-25, 23-25, 25-17, 25-15, 15-5)
All Tournament Team
Casey Stoodley, Plymouth State
Kaitlyn Irwin, Montclair State
Ally Le-Bruno, Colby-Sawyer
Amy Entel, Springfield
Tessa Smolinski, Springfield
Dana Vosilla, New Paltz
Marissa King, New Paltz - MVP


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A North American anarchist magazine, Barricada, presented in its Issue 11 the organizational views of some anarchists of the past, including the anti-union views of Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani. The series of articles on "anarchist organization" in that issue merit some comments on the relation of workers' groups to the anarchist movement.
Luigi Galleani wrote that the "anarchist movement and the labor movement follow two parallel lines, and it has been geometrically proven that parallel lines never meet." (Galleani's comments were, I noticed, prefaced with a note by the editors that they "disagree strongly with" some of Galleani's ideas.) While no mathemetician would argue with Galleani's geometry, a historian might: the real history of the anarchist and labor movements can not be framed in terms so simple or absolute.
The anarchist and labor movements of the United States – and indeed of many countries throughou the world- have not only often behaved like improper parallel lines and intersected, but at many points have been indistinguishable (Haymarket, many IWW campaigns, etc.). Unlike during the period prior to the Great Depression, however, there exists now a labor movement that is clear and distinct from the anarchist movement, symbolized most potently at anti-corporate globalization protests where organized labor forms one column of marchers while self-identifying anarchists often form a completely separate column. While the anarchists at such protests may hold down jobs they hate, and while the union activists may hate the capitalist State (even if only intuitively), it seems uncommon that the twain meet otherwise in any significant way.
Certainly there is "cross-pollinization" at demonstrations and at organizing meetings and there are other areas of overlap. But the areas of overlap today are much more scarce than they were a hundred years ago, when being a labor agitator meant one was likely either a communist or an anarchist.
The late anarchosyndicalist organizer Sam Dolgoff stated accurately that "[t]he revolutionary libertarian concepts of class-struggle, federalism, direct economic action, local autonomy and mutual aid are all deeply rooted in American labor traditions." Unfortunately these are concepts that, while still consciously endorsed by the anarchist movement, are encountered only rarely in modern day labor.
The modern, active anarchist movement is comprised of mostly younger people that have had little or no experience with unions or workplace campaigns. For them, when you hate your job, you don't organize it – you leave it and get another one. Young anarchists often correctly see the organized labor movement as not radical at all, but as a backwards force embodying the worst kinds of provincialism and political maneuvering. In fact, organized labor's parochial outlook does make it one of the most mainstream forces in the protest movement today. In the past, however, this was not the case.
One can hardly argue with the critical view of younger, non-union anarchists when, for example, commercials appear on TV announcing a "joint partnership" between Ford Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) to bring Americans environmentally unfriendly SUVs. Anarchists can likewise point to mainstream labor's horrible history of racism, sexism, and nationalism. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters have a not too undeserved reputation of thuggery, corruption, and macho behavior; they are a "brotherhood" as their name suggests, and many women find this to be alienating when sisterhood is so scarce.
Likewise, the patriotic imagery of flags and eagles that adorn much mainstream union literature make labor organizations extremely suspect in many anarchists' eyes. This sort of imagery reveals the absence of the internationalist perspective that at some points in history was organized labor's hallmark. The internationalist spirit was one of labor's strengths when it was at its most radical in the late 19th century and during World War I. Today, organized labor in the U.S. is dominated by the impassive bureaucracy of the AFL-CIO, which vacillates between cozy "partnership"-type relatonships with corporations on the one hand, and a Buchananite isolationism on the other.
At rallies, organized labor is usually the most conservative of the protest factions in attendance. The leadership of the unions go through all the government channels to get the proper permits and they follow the officially approved marching routes. In short, they usually do almost everything possible to cooperate with the law. After all, police officers are often in unions – as are the prison guards that lock up protesters.
The anarchist movement comes across to many union members as a phenomenon of the post-punk world of youth culture instead of as a cohesive force informed by a history of class struggle. In many cases, the unionists are right: many self-styled anarchists are individualistic rebels who have a hatred of society, plain and simple. There is a vague dislike of "authority" amongst such anarchists and this often manifests itself in bizarre and antisocial forms. Hairstyles, music, dress, and other lifestyle accoutrements of counterculture often alienate blue collar workers, who see the young comrades as unserious thrill-seekers.
The "privileged" background of the modern American anarchist movement has perhaps been exaggerated (especially by authoritarian leftist political parties). Many self-identifying anarchists are street kids who come to the movement from abusive homes and chronic poverty. They live on a day-to-day basis from scavenging and there is little stability in their lives. If they are privileged, they have yet to see how. Others are college students and twentysomething tech workers who are indeed privileged by almost anyone's standards. While many anarchists are Anglo, the racial makeup of the anarchist movement has also been exaggerated by the enemies of anarchism, though indeed the problem of racism is there, as it is in other movements. To many in the labor movement, however, anarchists still represent irresponsible privilege and impractical, pointless troublemaking.
To much of organized labor, anarchists hold nebulous and fantastic ideas. The anti-organizational bias that some anarchists hold runs contrary to organizing principles that unionists see as crucial to effective campaigning. Of course, anarchism has historically posited an organized and even programmatic form of resistance. The problem is that this part is rarely communicated to labor; what labor sees instead are those who vociferously claim to be anarchists but who have little historical knowledge of anarchism (or who act like they don't), and instead take anarchism to mean a free-for-all orgy of chaos and destruction. This is the part of the anarchist movement the media zeroes in on with glee, and so it informs the perception of many, organized labor included.
Unfortunately, many younger anarchists come into the movement with no sense of anarchism's history, and are introduced by way of lifestylism or by way of the misguided rantings of John Zerzan and other primitivists. These primitivists – but Zerzan especially – take advantage of the very real fact that modern business unions are class collaborationist, using this to discourage *any* type of labor organizing. It is often implied by Zerzan and company that labor organizations in workplaces are inherently doomed to become co-opted or simply tools of exploitation in themselves. This is in accord with a certain defeatist strand of postmodernism that asserts that any and all institutions that develop within a hegemonic system are necessarily "corrupted" due to their arising within the confines of that hegemony. ( This could be applied to the primitivist idea itself.)
This sort of conscious misrepresentation by anti-union primitivists and others only widens the rift between modern labor and anarchism, and serves to further divide the radical community at large, weakening it enormously.
One of the most frustrating hurdles for organizers is the poverty of meaningful class analysis that exists in most organizing circles. There is a lack of understanding of what "labor" really is.
What usually happens at large coalition meetings is this: there is a group present that respresents anarchists, a group that represents ecological concerns, a group that is perhaps civil libertarian, and then there is the group that represents organized labor. Labor is a separate group all its own, in this dynamic; it is one issue amongst many other competing issues.
The irony in this is that the anarchists, environmentalists, etc., in attendance may also have jobs, so technically they are "labor" as well. Yet they are not recognized as "labor"; they are defined by their interests outside of their jobs, whereas "labor"activists are defined exactly by their jobs.
"Labor" is almost 80% of the US population. Almost 80% of the populace of the US subsist on wages and salaries. They are employees of some boss or another. Some employees are certainly more privileged than others and there are varying degrees of power and so on (not all of this 80% is the underclass in other words). But if the protest movement represented a cross section of the US population (which it doesn't perfectly), then that would mean that about 80% of all protesters were in fact "labor" in the broader economic sense. In other words, they are viewed by capitalists as a resource in the productive process of capitalism, and as such are expendable tools, useful only inasmuch as they can be exploited.
So why don't protesters organize around the fact that they are indeed workers, that they are tools of capitalist exploitation, the way organized labor has often done?
One reason is of course that protesters have hierarchies of concerns that differ depending upon the sub-/cultural milieu they come from. In working class communities or in union families, job security, health benefits, etc., are emphasized while in some of the youth subcultures that anarchists come from, animal rights, ecological sustainability, and general injustice are emphasized. Unions are exotic organizations that these anarchists are never taught about in school, or hear much of except in movies or history texts. Schools do not teach one anything about starting a union, becoming a labor organizer, etc., the way they teach you business administration or work skills.
Also, many anarchists are completely content with their jobs. They do not "feel exploited," or they "like the boss," and the idea of going through the hassle of trying to organize their workplace seems absurd. These anarchists unfortunately also usually have the conception of anarchism as something that is to be done off the clock, off company time; they view anarchy as more of a hobby that consists of occasional trips to protests, meetings, and so forth. Anarchism exists squarely outside the workplace for these comrades.
Others may be squatters and social drop-outs of varying degrees who have no jobs. However, these squatter types are often very class conscious and realize that just because they do not work, they are not members of the ruling or capitalist class. Such intentional drop outs – and their ability to subsist as dropouts – are largely dependent upon what gains or setbacks labor experiences. Their lot is usually, though not totally, tied in with the lot of labor and so they form a special ancillary unit within the context of labor, whether they like it or not. When labor is weak, their lives are worse off; when labor is strong and militant, their lives are better.
The goal of the revolutionary labor movement has always been the emancipation of labor. This means the emancipation of work; it also means the emancipation from work *as we conceive of it today*. Revolutionary labor has always struggled for a society wherein people choose what sort of work befits them and under what conditions it is undertaken. This has always been tied up in the anarchists' antiauthoritarian project, and is indeed a vital component of it. It is arguably the most important component, as all forms of servitude and slavery in the past have been characterized by how one group of people have been forced to work for another.
The problem with "organized" labor, which is about 15% of the workforce of the US, is precisely *how* it is organized.
With rare exceptions, labor is organized in a very undemocratic and disempowering way. Workers are treated as subscribers to a service, as a source of revenue, for union bureaucrats who must ideologically shepherd their flocks of workers, and who must ensure they remain both willing to pay the salaries of union officials, and willing to cooperate with government and corporate elites.
There is no law, natural or supernatural, that says that workers must always organize in this fashion. The fact that they *are* organized this way is unfortunate, but it indicates nothing about what must always be. The IWW and the early CIO showed how workers can organize in ways that challenge authoritarian capitalist structures and redistribute decision-making power to the working class. Independent unions and concerted workplace actions taken outside the formalizing structure of unions have also shown this. However, this type of organizing is extremely threatning to the interests of capital and thus the State is employed to crush this kind of resistance time and again.
The problem with American organized labor is its leadership. This leadership imposes structures that further complicate the problem. They sell workers out to the Democratic Party (and even sometimes to the Republicans), live off them, and then sell them out to company management. Obviously workers are not always happy with this, as the recent Jeffboat wildcat strikes indicate. There is still a tempestuous spirit of agitation and unrest amongst much of organized labor, but unfortunately the job of AFL-CIO leadership is to quell it and channel it into lawful, productive expression. Workers do not have to accept this.
What is needed, then, is this: the classical ideas and spirit of anarchism infused into the labor movement, and the recognition of the relevance of the plight of labor thrust back into the anarchist movement. I believe that if both the anarchist and labor movements where consistent in their outlook, they would realize that they are not two special interests, existing side by side with different aims, but rather that they are one and the same, and that their goals are each, ultimately, indistinguishable.


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He was born Sept. 28, 1920, in Mansfield, to William Edward and Grace Hardin Shade, who preceded him in death.
He married Nan B. Barnhard on Aug. 19, 1951. She survives in Delphos.
Mr. Shade retired from public education where he at worked in Cincinnati and finished up as a principal at Lincolnview School. He was a graduate of Lima Shawnee High School class of 1939 and went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees from Bowling Green University. He served in the US Army Air Corp during World War II where he earned the rank of Cpl.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church Delphos and the Delphos Masonic Lodge 214. He had earned his 32nd degree and was also a member of the Scottish Rite of Dayton. He was a charter member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity where he joined the Elmer C. Brown Wall of Fame in 1997.
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