noted. 10/29/2011

• Stieg Larsson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Larsson was politically involved with the Kommunistiska Arbetareförbundet (Communist Workers League) while working as a photographer, and one of Sweden's leading science fiction fans.^[7] In politics he was the editor of the Swedish Trotskyist journal Fjärde internationalen, journal of the Swedish section of the Fourth International. He also wrote regularly for the weekly Internationalen.^[8]

     

    Larsson spent part of 1977 in Eritrea, training a squad of female Eritrean People's Liberation Front guerrillas in the use of grenade launchers. He was forced to abandon that work due to having contracted a kidney disease.^[9] Upon his return to Sweden, he worked as a graphic designer at the largest Swedish news agency, Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT) between 1977 and 1999.^[8]

     

    Larsson's political convictions, as well as his journalistic experiences, led him to found the Swedish Expo Foundation, similar to the British Searchlight Foundation, established to "counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power-culture in schools and among young people."^[10] He also became the editor of the foundation's magazine, Expo, in 1995.

     

• Police Violence Shocks Activists, Others at Port of Oakland Protest « Aletho News

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     A protestor, who refused to give her name, bears the wounds after she says was hit by Oakland police weapon during a anti-war protest in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 7, 2003 outside the port area. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

     

     

• As Occupy Wall Street Expands, Tensions Mount Over Structure - International Business Times

  • Spokes Council

     

    Protesters are circulating a proposal to streamline the process with something called a Spokes Council. Under that model, the various working groups would nominate representatives to participate in the General Assembly on their behalf. The spokesperson would rotate, and during the General Assembly they would periodically conferring with their respective working groups, which would be seated behind them. The idea has already been blocked once in the General Assembly, but is set to come up again.

     

    A protester arrived at a recent meeting of the Outreach working group to explain the proposal. The current format had become "untenable," he argued. He noted that under the Spokes Council, anyone can join a working group and thereby have a say.

     

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