I'm continuing my 'Building a Popular Anarchism in Ireland' tour south of the border, in Atlanta right now for stop 26. I recorded three more audio as I'm moving around, you can listen to them below or subscribe to the indymedia.ie podcast on itunes

Miami - http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2008/miami.mp3
Patrick of the Black Mangrove Collective about struggles in that city and the political background. The interview covers everything from the difficulties of operating in a city where right wing Cuban exiles dominate the political landscape to community struggle for housing and organising in trailor parks.

Ashanti Alston at Sarasota - http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/apr2008/ashanti.mp3

Anyone who made it to one of the six 'Building a popular anarchism' talks I did in Ontario over the summer may be interested to know I'm currently repeating them in the USA. I'm blogging from Jersey city today.

This is part of a dozen+ tour for NEFAC (North East Federation of Anarchist Communists) which has members in Quebec and the NE USA. A few Common Cause members including myself and also NEFAC members.

You'll find individual accounts of the meetings at http://anarchism.pageabode.com as well as some observations about the US in general. I'm also doing audio interviews on the road, some of these can be found at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86424 and http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86525

Just noticed that thanks to the good folks over at Anarkismo a number of the articles from Linchpin 1 have been translated into other languages, principally Greek. A quick way to find them is to go to Anarkismo.net and search for Common Cause or by clicking on http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?search_text=common+cause&button=Se...

There is the usual garbage coverage of the Northland bus drivers strike which is now entering its fourth week

Laura MacLean's article in the Huntsville Forrester manages to uncritically regurgitate statements from the company and various businesses but fails to inform readers what the issues are beyond contract negotiations
http://www.huntsvilleforester.com/huntsvilleforester/article/51145

This repeats the pattern set at the start of the dispute when Jack Tynan in the North Star simply reproduced a chunk of company PR as an article including a quote from Beverly Marti to the effect that "We are certainly willing to negotiate. We certainly think we've made a fair and generous offer." It took someone posting a comment to that article to raise the obvious point he should have included "drivers were offered a 3 year deal with 0% pay increase year one, 0% year two, 0% year three, that is what she calls a fair offer?"
http://www.parrysound.com/press/1191422401/