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Spied on by the Maryland police
Mike Stark, a national board member of the Campaign to End the Death
Penalty (CEDP), was one of many targets of a Maryland State Police
investigation into anti-death penalty and antiwar activism.
July 21, 2008

WHEN I received a voice mail last Wednesday from the Maryland ACLU, I
assumed it was about the fight against Maryland's death penalty.
Executions in Maryland have been shut down since 2006, and the state's
General Assembly has authorized a commission to make recommendations on
the future of capital punishment. The commission's plans are the topic
of constant conversation among abolitionists.

It turns out the ACLU call was about the death penalty, but not exactly
in the form I was expecting.

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When COINTELPRO comes calling
"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong group of activists, because we
will not be silenced.
by Dave Zirin
July 21, 2008

FINALLY, AT long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali. No,
I'm not the heavyweight champion of the world, and I haven't been named
spokesperson for Raid bug spray. Like "the Greatest"--not to mention far
too many others--I have been a target of state police surveillance for
activities--in my case, being against the death penalty--that were
legal, nonviolent and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected.

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Catholic Workers celebrate 75 years
Created 07/21/2008 - 16:27
By EILEEN MARKEY, Worcester, Mass.
Published:
July 21, 2008

More than 500 current and former Catholic Workers, adherents of a
radical fealty to the beatitudes who have taken their Catholicism all
the way to the margins of society, gathered in Worcester, Mass., July
9-12, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the movement.

They came from throughout the United States and from Europe to share
stories, pray, discuss the nitty-gritty of life in Catholic Worker
houses of hospitality, hash out philosophy and dance. They produced a
statement urging the church to reject war and speak loudly for justice.

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Mon, Jul. 21, 2008
Anarchists' gathering surprisingly organized
By ERICA PEREZ
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada
descended on a strip of private land last week in this Sheboygan County,
Wis., village for four days of workshops, including some focused on
strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and
Republican national conventions.

The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout
organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international
underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read
anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook."

Theophilia and Race Crime
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Theophiles as lovers of gods do an awful lot of hating- largely
through mass ignorance of evolutionary reality and bucket loads of
monotheistic prejudice against any worldview other than their own.

Plutocrats as lovers of wealth are the chief peddlers and consumers of
theophilia but of late have found a much more useful ally in feminism

If the masses cannot think other than in the theophile terms given to
them by pretentious masters, they are effective isolated from secular
reality- the real world that exists.

Political power doesn't materialize in a vacuum. It must be gained by
a force of will that overcomes any opposition based on past myth.
Reactionaries naturally seek to maintain and renew these myths and
build new ones when the opportunities arise.