Above The Law-Uncle Sam's Curse

Impossible to find on CD for less than a hunid. Some good ole west coast ganxsta shiat.

1.Return Of The Real Shit feat. Kokane
2.Set Free
3.Kalifornia feat. Kokane
4.Concreat Jungle
5.Rain Be For Rain Bo feat. Kokane
6.Everything Will Be Alright feat. Kokane
7.Black Superman
8.The 'G' In Me
9.Uncle Sam's Curse
10.One Time Two Many
11.Who Ryde feat. Kokane, Tone Loc
12.Gangsta Madness feat. Kokane
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The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0 by Naomi Klein

So far, the Olympics have been an open invitation to China-bash, a bottomless excuse for Western journalists to go after the Commies on everything from internet censorship to Darfur. Through all the nasty news stories, however, the Chinese government has seemed amazingly unperturbed. That's because it is betting on this: when the opening ceremonies begin friday, you will instantly forget all that unpleasantness as your brain is zapped by the cultural/athletic/political extravaganza that is the Beijing Olympics.

Like it or not, you are about to be awed by China's sheer awesomeness.

The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism -- central planning, merciless repression, constant surveillance -- harnessed to advance the goals of global capitalism. Some call it "authoritarian capitalism," others "market Stalinism," personally I prefer "McCommunism."

The Beijing Olympics are themselves the perfect expression of this hybrid system. Through extraordinary feats of authoritarian governing, the Chinese state has built stunning new stadiums, highways and railways -- all in record time. It has razed whole neighborhoods, lined the streets with trees and flowers and, thanks to an "anti-spitting" campaign, cleaned the sidewalks of saliva. The Communist Party of China even tried to turn the muddy skies blue by ordering heavy industry to cease production for a month -- a sort of government-mandated general strike.

As for those Chinese citizens who might go off-message during the games -- Tibetan activists, human right campaigners, malcontent bloggers -- hundreds have been thrown in jail in recent months. Anyone still harboring protest plans will no doubt be caught on one of Beijing's 300,000 surveillance cameras and promptly nabbed by a security officer; there are reportedly 100,000 of them on Olympics duty.

The goal of all this central planning and spying is not to celebrate the glories of Communism, regardless of what China's governing party calls itself. It is to create the ultimate consumer cocoon for Visa cards, Adidas sneakers, China Mobile cell phones, McDonald's happy meals, Tsingtao beer, and UPS delivery -- to name just a few of the official Olympic sponsors. But the hottest new market of all is the surveillance itself. Unlike the police states of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, China has built a Police State 2.0, an entirely for-profit affair that is the latest frontier for the global Disaster Capitalism Complex.

Chinese corporations financed by U.S. hedge funds, as well as some of American's most powerful corporations -- Cisco, General Electric, Honeywell, Google -- have been working hand in glove with the Chinese government to make this moment possible: networking the closed circuit cameras that peer from every other lamp pole, building the "Great Firewall" that allows for remote internet monitoring, and designing those self-censoring search engines.

By next year, the Chinese internal security market is set to be worth $33-billion. Several of the larger Chinese players in the field have recently taken their stocks public on U.S. exchanges, hoping to cash in the fact that, in volatile times, security and defense stocks are seen as the safe bets. China Information Security Technology, for instance, is now listed on the NASDAQ and China Security and Surveillance is on the NYSE. A small clique of U.S. hedge funds has been floating these ventures, investing more than $150-million in the past two years. The returns have been striking. Between October 2006 and October 2007, China Security and Surveillance's stock went up 306 percent.

Much of the Chinese government's lavish spending on cameras and other surveillance gear has taken place under the banner of "Olympic Security." But how much is really needed to secure a sporting event? The price tag has been put at a staggering $12-billion -- to put that in perspective, Salt Lake City, which hosted the Winter Olympics just five months after September 11, spent $315 million to secure the games. Athens spent around $1.5-billion in 2004. Many human rights groups have pointed out that China's security upgrade is reaching far beyond Beijing: there are now 660 designated "safe cities" across the country, municipalities that have been singled out to receive new surveillance cameras and other spy gear. And of course all the equipment purchased in the name of Olympics safety -- iris scanners, "anti-riot robots" and facial recognition software -- will stay in China after the games are long gone, free to be directed at striking workers and rural protestors.

What the Olympics have provided for Western firms is a palatable cover story for this chilling venture. Ever since the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, U.S. companies have been barred from selling police equipment and technology to China, since lawmakers feared it would be directed, once again, at peaceful demonstrators. That law has been completely disregarded in the lead up to the Olympics, when, in the name of safety for athletes and VIPs (including George W. Bush), no new toy has been denied the Chinese state.

There is a bitter irony here. When Beijing was awarded the games seven years ago, the theory was that international scrutiny would force China's government to grant more rights and freedom to its people. Instead, the Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression. And remember when Western companies used to claim that by doing business in China, they were actually spreading freedom and democracy? We are now seeing the reverse: investment in surveillance and censorship gear is helping Beijing to actively repress a new generation of activists before it has the chance to network into a mass movement.

The numbers on this trend are frightening. In April 2007, officials from 13 provinces held a meeting to report back on how their new security measures were performing. In the province of Jiangsu, which, according to the South China Morning Post, was using "artificial intelligence to extend and improve the existing monitoring system" the number of protests and riots "dropped by 44 per cent last year." In the province of Zhejiang, where new electronic surveillance systems had been installed, they were down 30 per cent. In Shaanxi, "mass incidents" -- code for protests -- were down by 27 per cent in a year. Dong Lei, the province's deputy party chief, gave part of the credit to a huge investment in security cameras across the province. "We aim to achieve all day and all-weather monitoring capability," he told the gathering.

Activists in China now find themselves under intense pressure, unable to function even at the limited levels they were able to a year ago. Internet cafes are filled with surveillance cameras, and surfing is carefully watched. At the offices of a labor rights group in Hong Kong, I met the well-known Chinese dissident Jun Tao. He had just fled the mainland in the face of persistent police harassment. After decades of fighting for democracy and human rights, he said the new surveillance technologies had made it "impossible to continue to function in China."

It's easy to see the dangers of a high tech surveillance state in far off China, since the consequences for people like Jun are so severe. It's harder to see the dangers when these same technologies creep into every day life closer to home-networked cameras on U.S. city streets, "fast lane" biometric cards at airports, dragnet surveillance of email and phone calls. But for the global homeland security sector, China is more than a market; it is also a showroom. In Beijing, where state power is absolute and civil liberties non-existent, American-made surveillance technologies can be taken to absolute limits.

The first test begins today: Can China, despite the enormous unrest boiling under the surface, put on a "harmonious" Olympics? If the answer is yes, like so much else that is made in China, Police State 2.0 will be ready for export.

Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World

Andrew Jackson Jihad is an American folk/punk/rock group from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2004. They have been classified as everything from indie rock to anti-folk to Americana.


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My Bloody Valentine-Loveless

1. Only Shallow
2. Loomer
3. Touched
4. To Here Knows When
5. When You Sleep
6. I Only Said
7. Come In Alone
8. Sometimes
9. Blown A Wish
10. What You Want
11. Soon

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Inquiry Finds Under-Age Workers at Meat Plant

State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal charges against the company for child labor violations, Dave Neil, the Iowa Labor Commissioner, said on Tuesday.

“The investigation brings to light egregious violations of virtually every aspect of Iowa’s child labor laws,” Mr. Neil said in a statement announcing the results of a seven-month investigation at Agriprocessors, the nation’s largest kosher meat plant.

In a raid in May, 389 illegal immigrant workers were detained there in the largest immigration enforcement operation ever at a single workplace.

Mr. Neil said that investigators had found multiple child labor law violations for each under-age worker at the plant. They included employing minors in prohibited occupations, exposing them to hazardous chemicals, and making them work with prohibited tools like knives and saws, he said.

In a statement, Agriprocessors said it was “at a loss to understand” the investigation results. The company said it had cooperated with the inquiry, providing documents and opening the plant to inspectors. Last year, Agriprocessors fired four workers who were under age but had provided false documents as evidence they were old enough to work, the statement said.

Kerry Koonce, a spokeswoman for Iowa Workforce Development, the state labor department, said the number of under-age workers was by far the largest in an Iowa child labor case.

If convicted on criminal charges, the company could face fines of $500,000 to $1 million, Ms. Koonce said.

On Friday, labor officials turned over a confidential report on the investigation to the Iowa attorney general, Tom Miller, who will now decide whether to bring charges. Mr. Neil said he had urged Mr. Miller to prosecute “to the full extent of the law,” making it very likely that charges would be brought.

A spokesman for Mr. Miller, Eric J. Tabor, said that prosecutors were examining the evidence but that no decision had been made.

Agriprocessors said that it had been informed by Iowa labor officials in April that under-age workers were employed at the plant, but that the officials had declined to identify the minors.

“As a result of the government’s decision, apparently those children may have continued to work at the plant and presumably at least some were arrested” in the May 12 raid, said the company’s statement, issued by Menachem Lubinksy, an Agriprocessors spokesman.

Because of the dangers of meatpacking, it is generally illegal under Iowa law for a company to employ a worker under 18 in the slaughter and packing areas of a meat or poultry plant.

Child labor violations are criminal misdemeanors in Iowa, carrying fines of no more than about $600. But Ms. Koonce said each violation was a separate offense each day that it occurred. Many of the minors worked at Agriprocessors for at least a year, she said.

At least 24 under-age workers, as young as 13, were arrested in the raid in May. Others who were not caught in the morning raid because they worked at night stopped going to jobs at the plant.

Hundreds of workers, mostly illegal immigrants from Guatemala, were prosecuted on criminal document fraud charges after the raid. Immigration authorities dismissed criminal charges against the minors, although many were put in civil deportation proceedings.

After the raid, many of the young workers said they felt they had nothing to lose in speaking out about their work at the plant. In interviews, they said they were forced to work long hours on night shifts, sometimes up to 17 hours a day, and were not paid all of their overtime. They said they were put to work on racing production lines using knives to cut meat and poultry with little or no safety training.

Elmer L., a Guatemalan who said he was 16 when he started work at the plant, said he was kicked by an Agriprocessors supervisor, causing one of his knives to cut his elbow. He asked that his last name not be used because he is a minor.

Most of the under-age workers said they were illegal immigrants who presented fraudulent Social Security cards or immigration visas stating they were at least 18 when they hired on at Agriprocessors.

But Iowa law requires employers to make an extra effort to determine the date of birth of workers who could be minors, including asking for a birth certificate or other official proof of age, labor officials said.

In recent months, Iowa labor officials have been criticized by unions and immigrant groups who said that enforcement was lax at Agriprocessors and that labor inspectors had responded to violations with light fines.

Some under-age workers could benefit if the attorney general presses charges against Agriprocessors. Sonia Parras Konrad, an Iowa immigration lawyer, has been working with investigators to get more than two dozen of the workers special four-year visas, known as U-visas, which are given to victims who cooperate with criminal investigations.

A federal labor investigation is also under way.

The number of minors makes the Iowa investigation “a huge case” by national standards as well, said Reid Maki, coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition, a group of teachers and consumer organizations that seek to stop employment of under-age workers. “It is especially troubling since this industry is as dangerous as it gets,” Mr. Maki said.

Pete Rock-Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions

str8 beats from a master. dig in.

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RJD2 - Dead Ringer

RJD2 is Ramble John Krohn, a hip-hop producer. RJD2 was born in Eugene, Oregon, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Until recently, he was part of the Definitive Jux label and produced tracks for many of its artists, as well as having a solo career. In 2006, RJ ”ditched hip-hop” for the indie-rock label XL, releasing The Third Hand in March 2007.

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Burial-Untrue

Burial (born William Bevan) is an English dubstep producer. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the year and it came fifth in the Mixmag 2006 Album of the Year list.

On 28 September 2007, a message on the Hyperdub website announced a new Burial album. Untrue was released on November 5, 2007. Metacritic gave it album of the year 2007. Label owner Kode9 also posted tracklistings to dubstepforum.com. The vinyl and CD releases of the album feature different running orders and also have exclusive tracks.



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Citizens Arrest - Demo '89

Citizens Arrest was a hardcore punk band from New York, USA that existed from 1988-1990. Their music catalog consists of some comp tracks, an EP (A Light in the Darkness) followed by an LP (Colossus) released shortly after the group had disbanded. According to the former members, a discography CD is said be be coming out soon. The band consisted of Daryl Kahan on vocals, Janis Cakars on guitar, Joseph Martin on bass, and Patrick Winter on drums. Influences by bands like Siege, Negative FX, and SoA, Citizens Arrest played numerous times despite being around for only a couple years. Their music was a mix of hardcore bordering on thrash complimented by gruff vocals that made them sound like they were a Japanese band like S.O.B. or Gauze.
Considered one of the seminal bands of the late 80’s N.Y. hardcore scene, many wonder what might have been if internal band conflicts wouldn’t have torn the band apart so early.Members went on to play in Taste of Fear, HellNo, Moses, One Sided War. and Forced Expression

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Skepta - Greatest Hits

Skepta (born Joseph Junior Adenuga) is a grime MC from North East London. He is a prominent member of Roll Deep and Boy Better Know and has become renowned throughout London as a result of his breakthrough single, “Private Caller”, which featured many of his “Meridian Crew” (from Meridian Walk in “Totty”). He is the brother of Boy Better Know CEO JME (real name: Jamie Adenuga). Skepta is currently working on a project with Juelz Santana, entitled “We Don’t Give A Fuck”, a collaboration between UK and USA artists

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The Zero Boys-Vicious Circle

The Zero Boys were a hardcore punk quartet from Indianapolis, Indiana fronted by Paul Mahern . Other members included bassist David “Tufty” Clough, drummer Mark Cutsinger and guitarist Terry Hollywood.



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Deep Wound-self titled

Deep Wound was a hardcore punk band, which formed in 1982 in Westfield, MA. They released one self titled 7” and contributed 2 songs to the compilation LP, Bands That Could Be God, both of which are sought after by fans and record collectors alike. They are often noted as being, along with Siege, one of the early inspirations for grindcore.

J Mascis of Dino jr was in this band...

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Rubella Ballet-1982 Demo

Rubella Ballet is a day-glo anarcho-punk Peace band formed in 1979 by Sid Ation who lived at Poison Girls HQ Burley House in Epping just down the road from Crass’s HQ Dial House. Sid first started the band with former Fatal Microbes guitarist Pete Fender (14) Gem Stone (12 drummer from Fatal Microbes), Bassist “It” (Fatal Microbes) also briefly appearing in the band in it’s experimental early days was singer Annie Anxiety from New York who lived with Crass at dial house, Annie went on to do her own thing leaving the position open for Zillah Minx to take over as full time lead singer and introduce for the first time in punk history the now ubiquitous Ultra Violet Day-glo style and fashion the band have kept ever since. Many other bands have stolen the Rubella Ballet look (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) to name just one major band to the whole rave scene.

The band released one album on cassette tape, entitled Ballet Bag and a 4 track 7” EP, “Ballet Dance”. Following these early releases they went on to produce 4 further albums. The first two on Ubiquitous Records were ‘At Last Its Play Time’ (1985) and ‘If’ (1986). The next album ‘Cocktail Mix’ (1987) was produced on the Red Rhino label and the last album release ‘At The End of The Rainbow’ (1990) on Brave Records.

The band also did two John Peel Sessions

Rubella Ballet are quite possibly one of the most obscure punk bands ever, combining fast punk and death rock together for the first time in one band.

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The Plugz-Electrify Me

The Plugz were a punk rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1978. They were the first Latino punk band. (There were, however, several Latino garage rock bands that predated the Plugz, notably Thee Midniters). The Plugz melded the spirit of punk and Mexican music.


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Hello, New Home

Let's see how long it'll take for these middle class suburban jerks to set me off.

Adios, City Of Six Smells

I ain't gonna miss you either.

Shystie - Diamond In The Dirt

At last, we get to grime and UK hip-hop....

1 Intro Skit
2 One Wish
3 Gutter
4 Step Bac
5 Woman's World (Gurlz Stand Up)
6 Questions (Game show)
7 Make It Easy
8 Unfinished Bizzness
9 Bank Robbery feat Ron,e Redeyez
10 get loose
11 Can't Play
12 Somedayz Skit
13 Somedayz
14 Armshouse
15 Juiced

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The Beatnuts - Musical Massacre

Psycho Les! Ju Ju!

1. Intro
2. Beatnuts Forever - Featuring Triple Seis/Marlon "Perro" Manson
3. Muchachacha - Featuring Willie Stubz/Swinger
4. I Love It
5. Slam Pit - Featuring Cuban Link/Common
6. Wild, Wild, What! - Interlude
7. Look Around - Featuring Dead Prez/Cheryl Pepsi Riley
8. Cocotaso
9. Monster For Music
10. Spelling Beatnuts With Lil' Donny
11. Puffin' On A Cloud
12. Turn It Out - Featuring Greg Nice
13. Rated R - Featuring Nogodus
14. Who You're Fuckin' Wit - Interlude
15. Story 2000 - Featuring Patrick Blazy
16. Watch Out Now
17. You're A Clown - Featuring Biz Markie/Tyler Fernandez
18. Buddah In The Air - Featuring Carl Thomas/Gob Goblin
19. Se Acabo (It's Over) - Featuring Magic Juan/Swinger

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Postville Rally/March

So I guess there was around 2,000 people at the rally. People came from Madison, Chicago, and Minnesota, among other places. People from the Jewish Council On Urban Affairs, Socialist Worker's Party, SEIU, Socialist Party and numerous other groups were there. More than anything though, there were people wearing FMLN shirts ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMLN) . We started in a church, where there was a service in english, spanish and hebrew, then moved into the streets and marched around the town. What seemed like hundreds of little children were banging drums, waving Mexican and Guatemalan flags and singing and yelling in spanish. There were statements read in front of Agriprocessors and we went past the fuckwad counterprotesters, who were waving signs like "What Would Jesus Do? Obey The Law!" C'mon now. The piggies seemed pretty sympathetic to the Minutemen-types and very worried about us, even though we weren't the ones looking all hostile and angry like the jingoistic morons across the streets. There was a short argument between some of us and the police over dispersal orders, which was diffused quickly. Overall, the best march I've been to. People were in good spirits and seeing groups of Latino kids taunting the Minutemen types was worth the trip alone.

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Before You Enlist

Unconventional Denver Offers to Call Off All DNC Protests

Before the steps of City Hall, anarchists with Unconventional Denver made an uncanny move, offering to call off all protests if the City of Denver granted one simple request- take the $50 million security budget intended to brutalize and repress free speech and instead invest it in the local communities of Denver.

7.28.08: Complete Text of Unconventional Denver Statement

Unconventional Denver, an anarchist and anti-authoritarian group organizing direct action to confront the Democratic National Convention this August, is here today on the steps of the City and County Building to make an offer. We are here to make clear our vision of a world where the needs of people and the earth guide our decisions and where democracy is direct and face to face. The heavily policed, corporate funded political spectacle coming to Denver at the end of August is yet another jarring example of how the government and its wealthy backers’ priorities are exactly the opposite.

We are here however, to give the City of Denver, Federal Government, and the DNC a chance to prove us wrong.

In a few minutes, the City Council of Denver will be meeting in the building behind us to discuss an emergency ordinance aimed at restricting what demonstrators can carry during the DNC and beyond. The peddlers of these enhanced police powers continue to insist that people looking to exercise free speech and stand up against a corrupt system will allegedly be carrying disgusting weapons such as “super soakers filled with urine.”

Anyone who takes a close look at the recent history of mass street protests in this country knows that there is no record of this ever happening. In fact, if you were to look back on protests, including those in Denver itself, you would not see images of fecal covered protesters terrorizing the public. What you would see instead are police forces again and again acting above their own laws. Police minimize and marginalize free speech through protest pens, unnecessary force and unjustified arrests, and through ridiculous, unnecessary ordinances such as the one before council today. Major court cases have come from New York, Seattle, Miami, Washington D.C. and other cities where the courts have found that the police intentionally brutalize protesters to silence their dissent and have been forced to pay out millions in damages and compensation to protesters they have systematically targeted. This exemplifes that the violence and lawlessness was not coming from protesters, but in fact the government itself.

And so in a way, local government officials and the corporate media are right about the coming violence that will descend on Denver. It is true that there is a group mobilizing forces from across the country and amassing exotic weapons they refuse to disclose to the public. They have a track record of inflicting violence on unarmed civilians and illegally spying on citizens working towards positive change. They even dress in black- they are the Denver Police and the various local, state and federal forces that will be transforming Denver into a miniature version of the occupation of Iraq when the DNC comes to town.

This invasion has been given one of the largest single allotments of any department in Denver history. The DNC comes to Denver with a $50 million dollars security budget — money that was tacked on to funding for the War in Iraq and approved by the Democrats. And like the war abroad, the militarization of Denver comes at an equally high cost. Imagine the Denver Public Schools receiving $50 million dollars for a week-long event. That money alone would be enough to re-open six of the schools closed last year. Or what if that money were invested in the healthcare program? It would provide 18,986 uninsured children with a year’s worth of healthcare they deserve. This would be a small but important step towards taking care of the more than 160,000 children in the Denver area without healthcare coverage. And yet, as anarchists, we know that this will never happen. Addressing the real needs of the people is not in the interest of the government or its wealthy backers.

There will be no democracy within the DNC. There will be no one sincerely addressing the grave problems the average person in the United States faces on a daily basis. There will only be a scripted political performance guarded by walls of heavily armed riot police as party insiders and corporate lobbyists live it up behind closed doors.

We, Unconventional Denver, have a different vision of what democracy is. We see democracy as direct; where decisions are made by those most affected, not those with the most money; where democracy penetrates every aspect of our lives; where the workers rather than CEOs decide how their workplace should look; where instead of incarcerating more people than any other country, we meet the needs of our children and raise them in loving communities. We seek a world where the land is seen for what it is, the source of life, not a piece of property to be exploited for profit. The government will never bring these visions to fruition; in fact it stands in the way of it. It will take us as people, organizing on a grassroots level to make the change we wish to see.

This is why we are taking to the streets. Enough is enough. This government does not care about meeting people’s needs. AT&T, Lockheed Martin, Coca Cola- Obama will serve the same big money that all politicians end up serving. As anarchists working towards dismantling this corrupt political system of violence and corporate greed, we are not going to allow this spectacle to go uninterrupted-

unless the City of Denver, the Federal Government and the Democratic Party can prove us wrong.

We have watched Obama ride a wave of political momentum based on a vague rhetoric of hope and change all the way here to Denver. We however, are demanding that real change be implemented immediately. If the Democrats want to show they are sincere and are going to depart from the sad state of politics in this country then they should start immediately…. and use the convention as an example.

So we come here today with this offer:
If the Democrats and their allies in the city government of Denver can show their good faith … can show they are immediately working for real positive change by using their 50 million dollar federal grant for something better than crushing democracy then we will change our plans. If they are willing to do this, then Unconventional Denver and hundreds of anarchists coming to town will sit this one out. We Anarchists are willing to call off all of our protests, if the democrats are willing to call off their occupation of Denver and re-invest their police budget toward real community security.

New elementary schools; healthcare for the uninsured; providing clean, renewable energy to the city- 50 million dollars could do all of this. If this money is used to concretely demonstrate that meeting people’s needs will be the top priority of the Democratic Party and the City of Denver instead of protecting the robber barons of today, we will spend the last week of August with our friends and family continuing our work of furthering our communities instead of direct action confronting the Democratic National Convention.

Otherwise…. we’ll see you in the streets.

Crash The Convention-2008 Call To Action

On September 1-4 of 2008, the Republican Party is coming to Minnesota to celebrate their latest conquests in global domination and exploitation. We of the RNC Welcoming Committee want to make sure that this time the fear-mongers will be met with their own biggest fear: people mobilized, organized, and taking the future back into their own hands.

For those of you who abhor the rapid growth of racist militarized borders across stolen lands, the raids and deportations, destruction and commodification of our shared and living earth, police brutality and prison industry, fear propaganda and subjugation, exploitation and robbery of peoples worldwide, and all forms of injustice and oppression - we ask you to be prepared for 2008. This will require new alliances, strong networks, the awakening of those who’ve given up, as well as the mobilization of those who’ve never before taken action. Let’s use this opportunity to make the changes we thirst for manifest and take root before us, making the Republicans/Democrats (whatever you want to call them) obsolete.

Labor Day weekend of 2007, anarchists and anti-authoritarians from across the country gathered in the Twin Cities to develop goals and plans for the RNC 2008. This is what we’ve come up with:

What we want (the goals):
1. Build Our Capacity – A new reality will not emerge by simply stopping the 4 day spectacle of the RNC. We need folks with an alternative vision to come to the Twin Cities and turn their dreams into reality. Start something new, be creative, and come ready to build sustainable alternatives worth fighting for and defending. The new skills that we teach, learn, and put into practice here will allow us to return to our communities stronger, smarter, and more empowered.

2. Crash the Convention – We didn’t get an invitation, but we’re showing up anyway. This party will be what we make of it. We don’t want to confine our potential by imposing a single vision of what success will look like. We recognize that there will be a lot of people coming with their own agendas and carefully laid plans and want to be open to the diverse tactics that will be necessary to accomplish our many goals. Together, we can derail the purely ceremonial show of this repressive system and remake it with our own hands and according to our own visions.

How we get there (the strategy):
1. Start Strong – Throw all of our energy into the first day. We’ll kick this off right and stretch the militarized police state out so far that it can no longer contain and suppress our voices and desires.

2. Transportation Troubles – This includes blockades downtown (at key intersections), on bridges (10 bridges over the Mississippi River in the metro area), and other sporadic and strategic targets (busses, hotel and airport shuttles etc).

3. Respect, defend, and be prepared for autonomous self-sustaining alternatives – Lasting projects and spaces will be born out of our actions and will need to be protected. We also won’t knowingly bring the hammer down on existing long-term community projects. It doesn’t matter if we win the RNC battle, if the war for our lives is lost.

4. Be inclusive of local communities and respect alliances – We are all on the same side of the barricades and are trying to build lasting bonds for future mutual aid. We may not agree with each other on all of our tactics, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t venues for us to work together and build on the trust and community that already exists.

What the Welcoming Committee is doing:
1. Logistical support – We will organize legal support, housing, food, transportation, and a convergence space as well as anything else you may need to make our collective actions successful.

2. Framework coordinating – We will map out key points and layouts and gather intelligence to help you plug into the bigger picture. Let us know your needs, desires, and capacities.

3. Local outreach – We are building alliances with local groups and communities to help build our collective support. We encourage you to do the same.

4. Networking – We’re hooking y’all up with each-other so that you can work with people you might not already know, strategize, and share a glass of some good old mutual aid.

What we are calling for:
1. Get it together – Have regional consultas, organize in your communities, and form your affinity groups. We are expecting people to come with concrete plans for action that they have devised and the capacity to carry them through.

2. Lead up actions – Practice makes perfect. Use this entire year leading up to the RNC to develop and practice your own tactics and strategies that step things up a notch and build true alternatives. Resistance doesn’t start and end at ‘the next big protest’; it is a way of life.

3. Fundraising – We’re not saying to let your community projects flounder, but we’re going to need some serious cash to help arrange legal support (we’re still looking for a lawyer dumpster), a convergence space, and a thousand other logistical puzzles. Pass the hat at every regional consulta and meeting you attend, hold fundraisers, and send a chunk of it in our direction!

4. Communicate – Maintain strong security-culture values, but let us know your capacities and what you will need. If you want a single point person to communicate with, we can arrange it. What you say you can do and will need shapes the course that we take.

5. Come to the Twin Cities – Come early and come often! Take advantage of that “Minnesota Nice” and come long before the convention to help make things happen. Also, put May Day weekend (May 1st - 4th 2008) on your calendars to send a representative or two from your group to the Twin Cities for our next networking and strategizing event (more info TBA).

September 1st, 2008, we, the RNC Welcoming Committee, invite all anarchists and anti-authoritarians, all radicals and rabble-rousers, all those who are fed up with government lies and spectacles to show up ready for action and ensure that we leave no place for these expired politicians. What we create here will send the convention crashing off course into insignificance.

From the occupied territories of Minnesota,
The RNC Welcoming Committee
nornc.org

Strategy endorsed by:

ACTIVATE (Grand Rapids, MI Students for a Democratic Society - SDS)
Anarchist Black Cross Para-Legal Services (twitchon@hotmail.com)
Animas SDS (Colorado)
Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous (Milwaukee)
Asheville Rising Tide
Athens, OH SDS
Attentat Collective
Bash Back!
Brainerd Anarchists (georgewchrist@hushmail.com)
Campus Anti-war Network
Chicago Anarchist Black Cross (PO Box 1544, Chicago, IL 60690)
CrimethInc. Far East
Delaware SDS
End to Apathy
Frederick Progressive Action Coalition
HammerHard MediaWorks
Industrial Workers of the World - NYC GMB Branch
International Solidarity Movement - Chicago Chapter
Iowa Organizing Against the RNC
MKE to RNC
Milwaukee Anarchist Black Cross
Milwaukee Anti-Racist Action
NC State SDS
Northeast Anarchist Network
Northwest Indiana Anarchist Black Cross (PO Box 1511, Portage, IN 46368)
People’s Networking Convention Organizing Committee
Potomac Earth First!
Queer Action Network
Rising Tide North America
RNC Welcoming Committee
Rolling Thunder magazine
Sabot Infosquat
Shepherdstown Progressive Action Committee
Tacoma SDS - UPS Chapter
Talking Tree Infoshop
Tuscarora High SDS
UA Central NC
UA in the Bay
UCLA SDS
Unconventional Denver

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Disc One

1. "Music For My Mother" (Clinton, Nelson, Hazel)
* alternate version of track from the album Funkadelic
2. "Music For My Mother [Instrumental]" (Clinton, Nelson, Hazel)
3. "Can't Shake It Loose" (Clinton, Barnes, McCoy, Jackson)
4. "As Good As I Can Feel" (songwriters unknown)
5. "I'll Bet You" (Clinton, Barnes, Lindsey)
* alternate version of track from the album Funkadelic
6. "Qualify And Satisfy" (Clinton, Hazel, Nelson)
* single edit of track from the album Funkadelic
7. "Open Our Eyes" (Lumkins)
8. "I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody Got A Thing" (Haskins)
* single edit of track from the album Funkadelic
9. "Fish, Chips And Sweat" (Clinton, Nelson, Hazel)
10. "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You" (Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, Haskins)
* first part of track from the album Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
11. "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You [Instrumental]" (Clinton, Nelson, Hazel, Haskins)
* second part of track from the album Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
12. "You And Your Folks, Me And My Folks" (Clinton, Worrell, Jones)
* extended version of track from the album Maggot Brain
13. "Funky Dollar Bill" (Clinton, Hazel, Davis)
* alternate mix of track from the album Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
14. "Can You Get To That" (Clinton, Harris)
* from the album Maggot Brain
15. "Back In Our Minds" (Haskins)
* from the album Maggot Brain
16. "I Miss My Baby" (Haskins)


Disc Two

1. "Baby I Owe You Something Good" (Clinton)
* later re-recorded for the album Let's Take It to the Stage
2. "Hit It And Quit It" (Clinton, Nelson)
* single edit of track from the album Maggot Brain
3. "A Whole Lot Of BS" (Clinton, Worrell)
4. "Loose Booty" (Clinton, Beane)
* single edit of track from the album America Eats Its Young
5. "A Joyful Process" (Clinton, Worrell)
* single edit of track from the album America Eats Its Young
6. "Cosmic Slop" (Clinton, Worrell)
* single edit of track from the album Cosmic Slop
7. "If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause" (Clinton, Shider)
* single edit of track from the album America Eats Its Young
8. "Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On" (Clinton, Cook)
* single edit of track from the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
9. "Jimmy's Got A Little Bit Of Bitch In Him" (Clinton, Cook)
* from the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
10. "Red Hot Mamma" (Clinton, Hazel, Worrell)
* single edit of track from the album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
11. "Vital Juices" (Clinton)
12. "Better By The Pound" (Clinton, Cook)
* from the album Let's Take It to the Stage
13. "Stuffs And Things" (Clinton, Cook)
* from the album Let's Take It to the Stage
14. "Let's Take It To The Stage" (Clinton, Collins, Shider)
* single edit of track from the album Let's Take It to the Stage
15. "Biological Speculation" (Clinton, Harris)
* from the album America Eats Its Young
16. "Undisco Kidd" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell)
* single edit of track from the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
17. "How Do Yeaw View You" (Clinton, Collins, Worrell)
* from the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic

Part 1
Part 2