-- CAE DEFENSE FUND -- When thought becomes crime
How did it come to this?

Only a perverse authoritarian logic can explain how Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) can at one moment be creating the project "Free Range Grain" for the Risk exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, reconfiguring it for The Interventionists exhibition at Mass MoCA in a second moment, and then suddenly have a CAE member in FBI detention. The U.S. Justice Department has accused us of such shocking crimes as bioterrorism, health and safety violations, mail fraud, wire fraud, and even murder. Now, as we retool "Free Range Grain" for the Risk exhibition at the Glasgow Center for Contemporary Art, the surreal farce of our legal nightmare continues unabated.

Campaign Against Prison Slavery
The Campaign Against Prison Slavery exists to challenge and bring about an end to forced prison labour, and to expose the companies that exploit it. A strong campaign has been built in England, with an emphasis on direct action against companies using prison labour, and public awareness raising to encourage boycotts to put pressure on companies. The campaign has found a great deal of public support.

ActionWeekIs this an idea?

FOUR million pounds of taxpayers’ money

is to be spent by a Scottish local authority buying back council homes it sold on the cheap, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.

ZNet Commentary: Kennedy: Fascist America
"It was dead water for 20-mile stretches north of New York City and south of Albany. It caught fire. It changed colors," he said. "Today, it is the richest water body in the North Atlantic. It produces more pounds of fish per acre and more biomass per gallon than any other waterway in the Atlantic north of the equator. It is the last major river system left in the North Atlantic, on both sides, that still has strong spawning stocks of all of its historical species of migratory fish."