Word: rioting
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...They publish half a dozen 'zines, from Black-Clad Messenger to F___ the System, the new jailhouse rag from Free and Critter, and Rob the Rich!, published by prisoner Robert Thaxton, who was sentenced to seven years for injuring a Eugene policeman with a rock in a June 1999 riot. And the town is home to one of the movement's celebrities, anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan, who visited Unabomber Ted Kaczynski in prison to discuss "enslavement by technology...
...hard to dissect a riot. a sudden eruption of anger and violence doesn't lend itself to tidy packaging. But last week, the people of Bradford were struggling to make sense of frightening scenes when hundreds of youths of Pakistani descent injured over 200 police officers and torched white-owned businesses in a predominantly Pakistani neighborhood. Those who run the city seemed shell-shocked. Was this a "simple" race riot expressing (however illegally) frustration at segregation and police harassment and unemployment? Or a bunch of thugs pumped up on testosterone and booze? Or drug dealers getting back at police...
...unrest is a regular summertime feature of life in Ulster, but the strife reached a disturbing new level last week when Protestant protesters blocked a group of Catholic children from going to their school in a divided area of north Belfast. The trouble quickly escalated into successive nights of rioting. Families on both sides were attacked in their homes, and more than 60 police officers were hurt trying to keep the factions apart. Police said the violence was largely orchestrated by Protestant paramilitaries who have turned against the Good Friday agreement, the 1998 peace accord that introduced power sharing between...
...opted for the general sexual riot of weeds and wildflowers-for the loquacious Elizabethan catalogue, whose random beauty lives at an opposite end of the universe from the laboratories of the genetically altered, from the sinister utilitarianism toward which, alas, we are flying at the speed of light...
...used to be that holding a summit of some prestigious international body was an opportunity to showcase a city's charms on the international stage; now it's mostly an opportunity to show of the riot-control skills of the local constabulary. Still, there's always the Internet. Or warships. Or China...