… We will try to throw together a list of resources for actions in response to the injustices in Mike Brown’s killing and subsequent Grand Jury (mis)trial of police officer Darren Wilson in Missouri. Currently the most compelling articles we read these last couple days were from Davey D Cook from KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio and the Hip Hop Corner blog, one of the most engaged journalists we’ve come across on the problems of racism in the US. One text describes the whole corporate media Set-Up for escalating the racial tensions, so precisely !

So, ladies, gents and all migrant aliens on-the-upside-attack … Our upcoming shows: … { Image from Murphy Anderson’s cover of Mystery In Space v. 1 #22 – 1954 } … < Postponed until early February > < Dec 10th > CiTiZEN KiNO # 40.6 : Technotopia, All You Can’t Eat – w/ very special guests at The Internet Archive in SF, 19:00h And here’s the new PIRATE PAD for developing the theme ! This is our open source curating device, where you can suggest media and tactical angles, constructive rants and feedback.

{^} The next episode on The Cali-cidal Tendencies Tour… < Friday Nov 14th > CiTiZEN KiNO #41: The Occupied Territories on the housing struggles at Noisebridge, SF – doors at 20:00h w/ intro films. C-kino performance begins at 21:00h Our XLt analysts ask: Can Home & Shelter as traded market commodities and rent traps STILL be hacked !? … What is C-KiNO ? ABOUT CItiZEN KiNO: It’s media self-defense, it’s cinema hacking, it’s curated screenings mixed with performance and community brainstorming.

{ synagogue in Hannover } … (1) On Nov. 9th in 1938, more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and taken to concentration camps, roughly around 2,000–2,500 citizens were murdered ( incl. suicides ), over 1000 synagogues (and possibly as many as 2,000) were burned (95 in Vienna alone), and 7,500 Jewish stores and businesses were damaged or destroyed … and the pogroms that lasted 7 years were fully mobilized across Europe. (2) On Nov. 9th, 1989, the DDR fell ( or in eng, GDR ) and Germany was on its way to reunification ( treaty signed August 31, 1990 ).

… < Nov.8 > Aaron Swartz Day At The Internet Archive, 6pm On what would have been Aaron Swartz’s 28th birthday (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) , a planet-wide event begins today to honor his dreams of making the world a better place! To protest the injustices of his and others’ thuggish persecution. And to mobilize the movements further ! We finally had time to catch “The Internet’s Own Boy” in full, and it’s very emotional stuff, and probably best to watch and share it together with your friends + community … rather than absorbing it alone in the cubicle mode.

… { Part 2 of 3… Part 1 is here } work-in-progress … Analyzing Cory Doctorow’s Info-ex-centrisms We’re still processing the rapid-fire concepts of Cory Doctorow, who spoke at the JCCSF last week. The auditorium was oddly empty due to a scheduling mishap pitting a crucial discussion on the future of culture and technology ( in the land of silicon vulture capitalism ) against the un-worldly televised opiate spectacle of ( billionaire-franchised ) baseball. Everything about this presentation of his new book – Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free ” ( out in a couple weeks on McSweeney’s ) strikes us as being misaligned with addressing or resolving the sociological upheavals in the current climate of a voracious technocentric appetite.