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Welcome! This is the latest version of the ANARCHY AND CHAOS website, which I started working on in 1998. I've designed it using the Firefox web browser, and I've noticed that it looks horrible on Internet Explorer. Who cares? Not I. Fuck Microsoft. |
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The development of this site was interrupted by a seven-year prison sentence due to a riot on June 18th, 1999, in Eugene, Oregon. You can read more about that International Day of Solidarity.
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| While incarcerated, I did a lot of writing. Some of the first drafts are archived at the Rob los Ricos site that a good friend and comrade put up for me. |
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The original Anarchy and Chaos website was (mostly) preserved on the Internet Archive. How cool is that? Many of the links are dead, but a surprising number of them were archived as well.
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I'll mostly use a Myspace blog to inform folks about what I'm up to. I plan on writing zines, traveling and busking for the indefinite future.
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| I hope we'll meet in my travels! Contact me via e-mail at roblosricos@riseup.net |
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This is a letter published in Rolling Thunder #6: Howdy, ex-worker comrades! It's good to see someone take the time to publish information for people interested in doing prisoner support. Also, the "Green Scared?" article is a good source of reference for the goings-on surrounding Operation Backfire and the arrests since then. It's so informative that the Civil Liberties Defense Center[1] made the article into a pamphlet to hand out at their events in support of non-cooperating Green Scare arrestees. There was something mentioned in your article about prisoner support that I feel needs far more emphasis, and that is letting the prisoners themselves have a say - I'd argue that they should have the MOST say - in what prisoner support groups do, and whom they support. I've seen other movements and groups grow this way inside prisons. The thing to remember is that we, as a movement, do not have a wealth of resources. It makes sense to me that we could do a lot for a few prisoners, rather than try to do something for just about anyone. For instance, the prisoner support work that I'm currently undertaking is centered around the folks incarcerated in the Green Scare repression. Read the rest of the article. |
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For the Barbarians You hear the slanders nearly every day: contemptuous denunciations of barbarous atrocities. Words meant to stir primal animosity towards some people. The association of the word "barbarian" and certain activities is reason enough to call into doubt the humanity of the perpetrators of these barbarous actions and suggest that they are demi-demons. The concentration camps of Nazi Germany - the use of biological warfare (small pox) against Native Americans - the deliberate starvation of millions of peasants by Stalin and Mao - the commercial hunting and trading of African Peoples - the dungeons and pyres of the Inquisition - the Crusades - the bombings of Guernica, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq, Yugoslavia - the creation of famine and pestilence by the World Bank and IMF - all acts of cruelest barbarity, right? No! All of these horrific crimes against humanity were carried out by civilized people IN THE NAME OF CIVILIZATION! Read the rest of the article. |
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A lot of ya'll reading this probably don't know much about anarchy and anarchism, so you might have a lot of questions. Too bad this medium doesn't allow for back and forth discussion, because I'd love to answer your questions, but to give you an accurate account of anarchist history and theory would require a book or two. And a lot of that history and theory has been rendered obsolete by the current New World Order. The media tells us that the world changed forever on 9/11/01. The NWO was already functioning before then and had been in the process of being implemented for a century. But that, too, is another long story. What I want to do is let you know is where I stand as a Tejano working class political prisoner in a movement dominated by white middle class students and activists. Read the rest of the article. |
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(Note: I gave a talk at the Longhaul Infoshop in Berkeley on Sept. 20, 2006. The following article was transcribed from that talk. It can be difficult to transcribe spoken words into written ones, since speaking is often spontaneous, whereas writing is usually much more deliberate. Thus, the transcriptionist spent a lot of time making certain that the words she wrote were consistent with what I spoke, while also keeping the reader up with the discussion. Since she did such a thorough job, and since I'm now transcribing this onto e-format for my blog, I'm going to go ahead and make any alterations I feel will further make this read in my voice, if you know what I mean. Wish me luck!)
On Solidarity and Prisons Read the rest of the article. |
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