The Antisocial Socialist

Still no interwebs at home (we're looking at about two weeks before I'm back online), but from what I gather:

Commandante Ramona and Irving Layton are dead.
Ariel Sharon is still alive.

Life isn't fair.

(More later: I have a lot of posts to read through.)

...I just can't keep news like this to myself. Know what I mean?

From syndicalist and terry_terrible:

Timur, a guitar player of Russian hardcore band Sandinista!, was killed in a street fight by a group of neo-nazis in the country's supposedly cultural capital of St. Petersburg. Timur and a musician from another hardcore band were approached by nazis as they were coming back from Food Not Bombs food-giveaway. A young man in his twenties bled to death before ambulance arrived at the crime scene in roughly 20 minutes.

Sandinista's profile can be found at http://www.myspace.com/sandinistaxspbhc


Please post this information in your blog/bulletin board as a sign of our INTOLERANCE TO NAZI SCUM.

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I went to the anti-Sharon protest. Sharon, by the way, was a no-show, which most of us expected but still took some people by surprise. He addressed the United Jewish Communities General Assembly via video-conference at the Metro Convention Centre. We hung about outside and demonstrated. It was a remarkably good turnout for a cold, dark Monday night. I may post photos, but since it was so dark, they all turned out like crap. But every other person there had a camera so maybe someone's turned out better than mine.

On a shallow note, it was one of those demos where almost everyone was dressed sensibly, so it's too bad that I lose at nighttime photography.