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I think you should re-read the paragraph you just quoted from Sheldon’s article. It’s specifically an endorsement and a defense of the deliberate use of trespass as a tactic for anti-racist social activism. Not a rejection of it.

The claim that Sheldon is “talking about how it would not have been appropriate” when the first sentence in the quoted passage directly and specifically refers to “my inclusion of sit-ins in the list of appropriate nonviolent forms of protest,” seems like a pretty bizarre misreading.

So what do you call it when the “social media marketing” for a show actively disengages you and discourages from wanting to keep up with it? Because every time I find a large cluster of Walking Dead fans talking on the Internet, I can’t help but thinking that really I don’t want to be part of a “social network” with the people (*) who seem to take the scenario and the constant sociopathic behavior of the principals more as some kind of fantasy wish-fulfilment than as a horror show.

(* And when I say “people,” it’s really about 99% dudes specifically.)

Occupy Chicago march downtown at Chase Tower. Placards, picket and street theater on financial control and deformation of higher ed. Some affinity groups headed on next to Fifty Five E Jackson to confront DePaul U administration and protest upcoming tuition hikes.

is in Chicago for the next four days. Without much of a fixed schedule except for the occasional evening event. Suggestions? Thoughts?

is printing / folding / stapling a case of Market Anarchy and Anarchist Classics booklets this morning.

Dear Pandora: I love yr service but is there any way I can convince you that, just because my Working channel includes Diana Krall and Ella Fitzgerald, still doesn’t mean I ever want to listen to instrumental Smooth Jazz? Please? For the love of God?

So OK you know it would have been kind of cool if I hadn’t had to get $500 of repairs on the car’s radiator just two days before the transmission decided to go all “I AM NOT A TRANSMISSION I AM DYNAMITE!”

is preparing to ship out the belated copies of the January 2012 Market Anarchy Zine Series and Anarchist Classics Series booklets. Coming soon to subscribers: a slightly revised edition of “State Capitalism & The Many Monopolies,” and a previously promised new booklet edition of de Cleyre’s “Anarchism & American Traditions.”

is back in Alabama. But my car won’t move anymore. Not for love or money.

is in Austin, Tex.