Tony Cactus

"If not today, when?"

Activists in London explained why they were willing to risk arrest while protesting against the UK government’s ban on the direct action group Palestine Action.

It's much easier to do a genocide if nobody sees it happen

the latest from homeland security

Large protests continue in LA, in opposition to Trump admin and ICE immigration raids:
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New risograph zine from Josh MacPhee! justseeds.org/product/mass...

Zapatista "Gathering of Resistances and Rebellions" opens in Chiapas - Freedom News Indigenous leaders and international delegates meet “to resolve and organise against capitalism and all pyramids” ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ The gathering is being hosted in Chiapas by the Zapatista Army of N...

“We are all Palestinian children,” said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the opening event. “Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside”.
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Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens. @margaret.bsky.social ‪‪ ‪@yourewrongabout.bsky.social‬ @whysophiewhy.bsky.social https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-cool-people-who-did-cool-96003360/episode/part-one-indymedia-how-lefty-techies-288597825/

Margaret talks to Sarah Marshall about the Independent Media Centers that helped protesters build movements and changed how online communication happens.

@margaret.bsky.social ‪‪ ‪@yourewrongabout.bsky.social‬ @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

When you strip away humanity

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman holding a large camera to her face while sitting on the roof of a 1930s style car

US Photographer Dorothea Lange c. 1938, whose work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography #womensart

How Surveillance Tech is Being Used to ID and Charge Portland Protesters Surveillance technology is helping criminalize resistance. On July 24, a criminal complaint was filed in federal court. Less than 24 hours later, FBI agents raided the defendant’s home in Portland, O...

Surveillance technology is helping criminalize resistance

The judge is setting out the basis of both sides' cases at the previous hearing. The judge has said he does NOT see the route advocated by the government - the Proscribed Organisations Appeals Commission - as workable.

Feral Class. Book out now!

Marc Garrett

Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission - www.minorcompositions.info?p=1561

Open letter: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Anarcha-feminists went on the offensive in the fight for reproductive freedom in the 1990s. Women in the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (1989-1998), the leading US anarchist organization of the period, advanced sharp critiques of the liberal abortion strategy 1/

Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel - UNICORN RIOT A militant mobilization by dockworkers at Greece’s port of Piraeus prevented the trans-shipment of military grade steel destined for Israel.

NEW: Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel

A militant mobilization by dockworkers at Greece’s Port of Piraeus prevented the trans-shipment of military grade steel destined for Israel on July 16. [Video in link]

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Today in London festive history, 1995: Reclaim the Streets party takes over Angel, Islington Photo Credit (main phot0): Alan Lodge After its first big shindig in Camden High Street had hit the news with a bang in May 1995, the second London Reclaim the Streets party was held on Sunday, Jul…

#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1995: Reclaim the Streets takes over Angel, Islington… a party & protest against capitalist car culture
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The images and messages coming out of Gaza are so distressing. People are being deliberately starved to death by Israel and then shot at when they try to get food to survive.
It's an abomination that the world's governments are allowing this to happen.
Open the borders!

now i've written thousands of words to fill a book, and I just finished the conclusion, and i still need to write the introduction, but i'm thinking that i'll save these for the book, not post them publicly

#Genoa2001 Never forget, never forgive.
#CarloVive

Stalls going up at the Mini Small Press Fair
At 56a Infoshop, 56 Crampton St,
London SE17 3AE
12-5 today
Come down for the stalls, readings, a forage walk & a fortune telling elephant!

A different way to see Barcelona! "The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War" Tues and Fri+occasssional others, 10am, 35euros/person, 4hrs+. Also private tours on the SCW and Orwell's Barcelona Moltes gràcies info@spanishcivilwartours.com to book. thespanishcivilwar.com

Shadowy sunflower photograph

Aiming for that 1940s, noir look (with my office lamp as the only light source).
"The Black Sunflower Murders"
"The Day the Sun Turned Black"
"The Case of the Gothic Garland"
#photography

RIP Keith Dobson

RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...

Today in London festive history, 1996: Reclaim the Streets Re-Wild the M41 motorway, Shepherds Bush 1996 was proclaimed (by the car industry) “Year of the Car”. Reclaim The Streets turned that into ‘the Year We Squatted a Motorway’. July that year saw RTS mount what was pr…

#OnThisDay in London festive history, 1996: Reclaim the Streets Re-Wild the M41 motorway, Shepherds Bush, occupying the road for a huge rave and planting trees in the tarmac
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more about Katrina en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina...
including Ted Kerr’s 2020 piece on early HIV/AIDS media histories, which is how I learned about her www.thebody.com/article/new-...

Today in London’s squatting history: Institute For Autonomy social centre evicted, Bloomsbury, 2005. In 2004-5, no 78 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, London, was squatted and became the Institute for Autonomy, an anti-capitalist social centre. Created in a disused university building that had lain empty…

#OnThisDay in London's squatting history: Institute For Autonomy social centre evicted, Bloomsbury, 2005.
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Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no, says researcher and writer Tim White

There's no place for institutional finance in rental markets. It's a predatory extraction machine that robs the poor and middle.

But one thing I'd add: we should stop calling these people "investors". They don't "invest". They buy up and milk existing assets. 🧵
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#StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

A bunch of people, many in their 80s, being arrested yesterday in Parliament Square under anti-terrorism legislation. This would be absurd and farcical if it wasn't so terrifying. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...