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In this issue:

Like Sam Clemens, I grew up along the Mississippi. Every few weeks we drove along windy, blue-brown expanses of river, barges, and rusty bridges to visit my grandma who lived across the river in Illinois. I took days off of high school to help fill sandbags during floods, so I remember how we stood on a hamlet Main St. watching the Illinois River flow at neck level just five feet away across a line of sandbags while a dark green Huey overhead scouted for levee leaks. Old white wooden houses loosened from foundations just 150 feet away, their rooftops visible in the muddy water.

On Novemeber 20th the Minneapolis Police beat Demario Booker so severely that he lapsed into a coma. There's little detail on the incident because it has yet to be reported in the mainstream press. The most detail  available comes from Donny Allen's reports on the internet:

http://donny-allen.us/2012/11/26/reasonable-force-unreasonable-prejudice...

We are a group of anarchist fiction writers assembling an anthology of stories to be published in early 2013. The format will be either a short book or a hand-bound zine, dependent on how many submissions we receive and our collective energy to raise money for printing costs. We are striving to distribute the anthology for free or for postage. Because of limited space, we can't publish everything sent to us - we will review all material respectfully.

On November 16, 2012, David Irving, renowned Holocaust denier and Hitlerite disciple (though he prefers the phrase ‘controversial historian’) attempted to hold an event on his speaking tour, “Hitler and I,” at the Graves 601 Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The Twin Cities, which has decades of succesful antifascist and anti-racist organizing behind it, was ready for him. In a display of mass, disciplined, and coordinated action, we stood in defense of our fellow human beings.

After Wade Michael Page gunned down a temple full of Sikh worshippers in Milwaukee, we have had an ugly reminder about how depraved some people can be.  What became clear in the days after the gunman struck was this man's affiliation with an established white power group, the Hammerskins.

Nazis lie

Minneapolis - Alan Woods  - Venezuela, Cuba, and the Future of the Latin American Revolution

When: 11/14/12 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: University of Minnesota, Coffman Memorial Union - 300 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Romney Vetoed Elevator Access For The Disabled... But Has Elevators For His Cars

As a governor virtually run out of office in Massachusetts Romney vetoed 844 bills, 707 of which were overridden by the 87% Democratic legislature. One such veto was of a bill which would have given elevator access to the disabled.