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MURRAY BOOKCHIN BIOGRAPHY PROJECT:

Janet Biehl, the long term companion of the late anarchist/communalist Murray Bookchin, is gathering materials for a biography of Bookchin. It is to be titled 'Murray Bookchin:A Life in History'. She is looking for anyone with reminiscences of Murray that might be of help in writing the book. To contribute to her research contact her on her BLOG.

THE BEST OF THE BLOGS:

MOLLY'S WEEKLY FEATURE:

Every week Molly tries to sweep through recent posts on the blogs that are listed in her Links list to find those that have interested her the most. So here is this week's listing in no particular order:

The Molly prize once more goes to Uber-Blogger Eugene Plawiuk for his recent efforts on Le Revue Gauche concerning both the recent inquiry into the Air India Disaster and his demand that the whole actions of the RCMP and CSIS be subject to a public inquiry. The stench around what happened in the Air India bombing grows by the day, and there is a huge elephant sitting in the middle of the room on this matter. Were the warnings deliberately ignored? It wouldn't be the first time that a terrorist action has been allowed to proceed "for reasons of state". At times such actions have actually been organized by the secret police of various states for political purposes. Comrade Plawiuk says no such thing, but others in the Indo-Canadian community have raised this possibility, and Molly will here. Maybe the Canadian secret police are indeed woefully stupid, or maybe there are other things that will come out in 100 years about their machinations. Plawiuk also has several posts on the plan to use nuclear power in the Alberta Tar Sands project, an ill-advised plan.

Amor y Resistencia has an article on the anarchist Mayday actions across the world as does Bombs and Shields. The Anarchist Philosophy site has an article titled 'Should Anarchists Use Violence to Fight Oppression'. The answer is 'no'. Auckland's Burning has an attempt to placate the prrimitivists entitled 'The Fallacy of Wilderness', arguing for permaculture rather than the ideological construct of "wilderness". An Australian Anarchist Weblog has a collection of quotes on patriotism entitled 'The last Refuge of a Scoundrel'. The Freedom of Speech blog from Canada has an interesting essay on proper internet etiquette. Kevin Carson's Mutualist Blog features a draft of a new work of his entitled 'Decentralized Production', an exploration of the economics of local production. Finally, Janet Biehl's blog continues her project of a comic strip presentation of the work and life of Murray Bookchin. Really great in Molly's opinion.

MOLLY KEEPS ON LINKING:

Molly has added a whole slew of new links to this blog recently. Under the blogs section are a number from New Zealand including Aotearoa Anarchist, Auckland's Burning, Capitalism Bad But Tree Pretty, SNAP and an anarcho-capitalist blog William Gillis. From Australia comes Contradiction, and from the USA comes the blog of social anarchism Janet Biehl and Mother Anarchy, for the anarchist parent. Also from the USA is an interesting blog called Buddhist Anarchism.

In the general links section I've added Ideas for Action and the website of the New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists. Also the site of the Wombles in the UK. These are anti-globalization activists and more.

Finally, under the 'Other Interesting Links' section I've included the AFL/CIO's Corporate Watch resource, a great starting point for tracking down info on various aspects of public corporations. Then I've also included The Prairie Messenger, the website of a Catholic left paper of the same name published out of Munster, Saskatchewan.

More later

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