BEST OF THE BLOGS ADDENDUM:

Sometime between when I posted the 'Best of the Blogs' post and checking the links the Social Design Notes blog posted another great post ie a link to a Wikipedia article listing anti war films in English. Check this out as well.

THE BEST OF THE BLOGS:

LETTERS "S" TO "Z":

Yet another installment in Molly's ongoing feature of the best of the blogs listed in her Links section. Today Social Design Notes has a couple of interesting items. One is 'Is Iran Next:Think Again', a report on postcard construction/modification to grab the attention of those you petition. The covering graphic shows a car filling up from two pumps that are coffins. SDN also has another item, a link to the Propaganda Critic site that carries on the work of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in showing the methods used in propaganda, the better to be able to see through them.

The This Canadian blog has an item on "compassion clubs" that help disease sufferers gain access to medical marijuana and the efforts of the government to give as little help as in can and as much hindrance as it can get away with to such efforts. Over at the Under The Concrete blog there's an article titled 'How Homophobia Hurts Us All' on how anti-gay attitudes do more to more than the people they are directed towards.

The individualist Wendy McElroy blog has the article 'Capitalism Versus the Free Market'. Even though McElroy is an "anarcho-capitalist" she recognizes that capitalism and a free market are not synonyms. Molly disagrees with McElroy's preferences, but her arguments are well worth taking note of. Finally, the YaYa Canada blog has a raft of articles under the heading of 'If Nobody Came to the War'. The case of Quebec peace activists who sent letters to soldiers in ValCartier questioning the morality of Canada's role in the war in Afghanistan has generated a lot of highly indignant rhetoric in the mass media. Here you can find the text of the letter to see what the fuss is all about. Lots of more goodies at this site. Pop on over to see them.

THE BEST OF THE BLOGS: A MOLLYMEW WEEKLY SURVEY:

Molly has looked over a number of her links this week for significant articles, and she has chosen the following for highlighting. This doesn't imply that Molly agrees with the opinions expressed, just that the entries are interesting.

1) From Le Revue Gauche comes 'Passover Song', a pagan analysis and diatribe about both the Song of Songs in the Bible and various other historical connections. Eugene's contribution to Easter. Also at that site is a more "orthodox" leftist offering on '"Criminal Capitalist Gets Honourary Degree', well worth reading for the concept of "honour" current in our society.

2) From the Porcupine Blog comes a translation of 'Proudhon's Ghost Stalks Venezuela' from an anarcho-communist group in Venezuela that is more (but not entirely- Molly) sympathetic to the government in that country than the majority of anarchist there are. An interesting comment showing the diversity olf anarchist opinion within a "revolutionary" process, though Molly disagrees with it.

3)From Shagyas Blog comes 'What Happened to Dunkirk', a lament on how the British have surrendered their freedom to a new "surveillance society".

4) From Kevin Carson's Mutualist Blog comes 'Economic Calculation in the Corporate Commonwealth', a "market anarchist" analysis of how communist societies continued to exist despite the lack of proper economic information.

5)From the local scene Ecology and Participatory Democracy has an article on "collapsing bee colonies", something that has become an item of interest for various people interested in agriculture in the last few months. Also the Vindicated Anarchist has an article entitled ' Blocked Up Like a Festering Boil' on internet censorship (MOLLY NOTE: GO TO INFOSHOP FOR THE ULTIMATE OUTSIDE OF CHINA) . Hopefully the author will eventually see how similar (and undesirable) Maoism is to the "fashion anarchism" that aims to build a little religious cult.

6)Finally, from Social Design Notes comes the 'Food Bill' that lays out the connection between food prices and sustainability. If the authors imagine that they have escaped "economics" they are deluded, but their critique is well worth reading.

Molly

SHOPDROPPING: A NEW AND INTERESTING CONCEPT:
Shoplifting is the illegal removal of goods from a retail outlet. "Shopdropping" is the precise opposite, the addition of merchandise and information to retail displays. The people over at Social Design Notes (see also our Links section) have a description of what this means. This may vary from altering an album cover to even altering the voice hardware in a toy store doll. Social Design Notes contains links to new packaging that can be placed on certain products in the stores, packaging that tells stories about the workers who make the products. Go on over to Social Design Notes to see more about this and other "unbranding" creative activities.
Molly

STILL MORE NEW LINKS: MOLLY KEEPS ON CHUGGING:

Molly has recently added a number of new links to her list. Some are in the general links section, but most are in the 'Blogs' section. The links connect to a number of different political positions, left anarchist like Molly herself, libertarian and Christian anarchist. I see no reason to not have a general balance and representation from a number of different views as long as they are not either insane, stupid nor vicious. Anyways, on to the links:

Under the general Links section I have added the following: Catholic Anarchy, a website (or is it a blog?) devoted to a Roman Catholic view of anarchism, Central Coast Anarchist Community, an American website from anarchists on the west coast, and Against Monopoly, a libertarian website that takes particular aim at "intellectual property" rights.

Under the Blogs section I have included the following, The Christian Anarchist, Ulla's Amazing Wee Blog from Britain, Social Design Notes , a pro labour anti-corporate site also apparently from Britain, After All , a market anarchist blog, Freedom of Speech Blog , an effort from out in BC whose focus is self explanatory and last but not least the Human Iterations blog. Molly particularly recommends the latter for its continuing series of "15 Anti-Primitivist Theses", speaking of someone who crusades against things that really sum up the part of the anarchist "movement" that Molly feels no connection to whatsoever.