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ouch after several weeks of pain my back still hurts, and it has spread from my lower back to my upper back, particularly on this one area on my spine. Am I gonna fucking die? Fuck.

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RADICALS VOCAL IN RENEWING ACTIVISM
UNC-CH events at the epicenter
By Jesse James DeConto - Staff Writer
Published: Thu, Apr. 30, 2009 02:00AM
Modified Thu, Apr. 30, 2009 05:56AM


RALEIGH -- Activists from the Mayview Collective couldn't protest anti-immigration speaker Tom Tancredo at UNC-Chapel Hill two weeks ago. They were busy protesting Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers at N.C. State.

They were dogging Rogers again April 20 in Charlotte when fellow activists from Chapel Hill and Carrboro invited them to protest another former congressman's coming to UNC-CH to speak against illegal immigration.

These are among the Triangle's radical left, idealists for whom liberal is not enough.

They held a funeral for capitalism on Franklin Street. They've protested coal-fired plants near Asheville, military recruiting in Chapel Hill, environmental racism in southwestern Wake County and "land grabs" on the coast.

"All struggles against oppression are really linked," said Haley Koch, 22, a UNC-CH senior who was arrested after the Tancredo event and has butted horns with developers over gentrification. "If there are things that bind us, it's our sense of need to create social change."

Three Mayview activists and three from Orange County were arrested eight days after Tancredo's visit on charges of disorderly conduct, accused of "loud and boisterous talking and yelling" during a talk by former Virginia congressman Virgil Goode.

Chancellor Holden Thorp, the ACLU and civil-rights activists past and present have condemned the protesters for violating free speech. The protesters say Tancredo, Goode and their sponsor, Youth for Western Civilization, stand for racism and white supremacy.

"The students in opposition are being branded as threats to freedom of speech," said Attila Nemecz, 28, an organizer with Mayview's umbrella organization Action for Community in Raleigh. "This is a liberal smokescreen for tolerating and perpetuating the oppression of immigrants."

Fighting 'The Man'

Today's polite liberals would appear to share common ground with the activists. But they don't go far enough. For the more radical activists, examples of "The Man" include:

Thorp, a guitar-playing university chancellor who frequents a Carrboro food co-op but apologized for the protesters' actions.

Greenbridge Development, a team of environmental builders the activists see as intruding into a historically black neighborhood.

Rogers, an energy executive who promotes clean power but is building new coal-burning plants until his company can afford green technologies.

"When you see that disconnect, your two options are to either fight against it or to accept it," said Ben Pearlstine, 22, who lives at Mayview, a six-member commune attached to the ACRe headquarters near Cameron Village in Raleigh. "Acceptance ... just isn't something that I'm OK with doing."

Pearlstine has no criminal record in North Carolina, but three of his housemates were arrested for shouting at Goode. Pearlstine said the trio refused to talk to the media because they fear reprisals by white nationalist groups.

Andrea Bazán of Durham, who leads the National Council of La Raza, can attest that fear is valid.

Someone broke into her home on the night after the Tancredo protest and left a note implying her organization was to blame. She opposes Tancredo's anti-immigrant rhetoric but said the protesters went too far.

"The way to address it is not by ... shutting down a speaker," Bazán said.

Civil-rights activist Dan Pollitt, Kenan professor emeritus at UNC's law school, said Carolina students have a long history of protest movements, but even Malcolm X and David Duke, two men at opposite poles of the bitter battle for desegregation, were allowed to speak on campus. "There'd be tough questions and boos and hollering, but they always listened," said Pollitt. "It was hostile, but no one suggested [they] leave the stage or anything."

jesse.deconto@newsobserver.com or 919-932-8760

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"Mountaintop Removal-The True Cost of Coal" - presented by the Beehive Design Collective

Sat. Oct. 18th
4-6pm
@ Action for Community in Raleigh
2419 Mayview Rd.
Raleigh NC 27607

On tour with giant, portable murals, the Bees aim to draw the connections between colonial history and present day struggles against corporate globalization, violence, and racism. The Beehive creates anticopyright graphics as tools for popular analysis, education and organizing. Our presentations and workshops are an accessible format for unpacking how resource extraction, militarization and industrial development in the Western Hemisphere are all interconnected and part of the 'big picture'.

Our WORKSHOPS engage participants in collective storytelling and analysis. We also offer PICTURE-LECTURES and are available for longer term RESIDENCIES. This coming Fall we are visiting multiple regions of the United States and Pacific Canada simultaneously.

The Bees use Mountaintop Removal coal mining in Appalachia as a lens through which to understand the historical and contemporary
story of energy and resource extraction accelerating throughout the world- devastating land-based communities and critters, poisoning the rest of us, and fueling climate disaster. Looking to the future, the Bees raise questions about resistance, regeneration, and remediation while sharing stories of struggle from mountain communities. Learn more about this campaign as it unfolds at beehivecollective.blogspot.com.

THE TRUE COST OF COAL preview tour will also include material from two previously-released graphic narratives about FREE TRADE and PLAN COLOMBIA, as well as a work-in-progress that illustrates grassroots struggles for justice and autonomy in Central America, MESOAMERICA RESISTE. Many common themes are woven throughout each Beehive graphic, all of which are collaboratively researched through dialogue with affected communities.


******DONATIONS GREATLY APPRECIATED*******!!
The travel cost to bring the 'Hive here is $200, so that's how much we event organizers have to raise in donations from folks like you and out of our own pockets, in order to provide economically accessible events at ACRe. If you have the means to do so please plan on donating at the event. Thank you!



http://www.beehivecollective.org/
http://www.raleighaction.com

I'm back! :)

god its good to be home.

'tis the epic battle which henceforth rages forever upon my back.

I am still in a lot of pain but very pleased with the result.

COSTUMES ENCOURAGED

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