The Dayglos show last night at The Upstairs Lounge ( the old Harpo's ) was fucking wonderful !
The young upstarts The Chain started out the evening, and they just get better and better . Simply marvelous. Jason must be a proud Papa.
Human Issue Music Collective were intense hardcore, but the sound was weird for them. Something to do with compression or some such shit. Bland name , exciting stage presence.
The Gnar Gnars were energetic, entertaining, and awesome ! They alone were worth the price of admission.
The Dayglos had some of the craziest crowd action I've seen in a while. It was all good sportsmanship though, and as far as I know no one got hurt.
They were fucking loud . Murray can still play and sing like a crazed maniacal motherfucker, and Blind Marc on drums is a fucking machine gun. Matt's enthusiasm is unmatched. He loves playing bass in the Dayglos and it shows , above and fucking beyond.
Great crowd , great music, and I'm glad I took the day off today.
Tonight's show was wonderful , and was brought to us by Dan from the band Bug. It was a great turnout, despite being sandwiched between The Real Mackenzies the night before , and The Dayglos tomorrow night ( see you there!).
Skin Crawl were fucking intense with an electric energy , and a drummer who kept a frenetic pace for their entire set. I am super excited to see more of them.
Bug are a steamroller , and will crush anything in their path , with some cool guitar playing .
I was saddened to learn of Isoclast's drummer's health issues causing him to not be able to play tonight, and I hope he gets better soon . They will be playing on the 17th at The Phoenix , so go ! Please. What I heard tonight was catchy rock and roll punk , so I can't wait to hear them with their drummer back.
It was a lovely community atmosphere , and everyone ( hopefully ) went home happy.
Thanks again to Dan and the fine staff of The Phoenix for their hospitality.
That's just half of the reported mass shooting violence over the weekend.
There were 10 mass shootings from Feb. 17 through Feb. 19 – the most of any weekend so far this year, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive. That’s considering all shootings from Friday to Sunday in which four or more people were shot, not including the shooter or shooters.
Mark Bryant, executive director of the Gun Violence Archive, said 10 mass shootings in a single weekend is "certainly high for this time of year." Research suggests gun violence in the U.S. typically increases during the warmer months.
Mass shootings in 2022 reached their peak in mid-July, when the U.S. witnessed 15 mass shootings over a regular weekend, according to Gun Violence Archive data. Over the long July Fourth weekend (Friday through Monday), there were 20.
This past weekend, there were two mass shootings in Georgia and Missouri and one each in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mississippi. All together, 13 people were killed and 46 injured.
At least 15 of the victims were children and teens, according to a USA TODAY review of related police and local news reports. Information on all victim ages was not immediately available.
It was not immediately clear if the firearms used in the shootings were obtained legally.
Mass shootings in 2023 outpace 2022
There have been 82 mass shootings this year, compared to 59 at the same time last year, according to data from the publicly sourced nonprofit database.
Police officers work at the scene of a shooting that occurred during the Krewe of Bacchus parade in New Orleans, February 19, 2023. - New Orleans Deputy Police Chief Hans Ganthier said five people were shot, including a young girl, all of whom were taken to the hospital.
'More guns everywhere'
Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, said the mass shootings underscore ongoing inaction from state and federal lawmakers.
"Instead, state lawmakers have pushed Right to Carry laws that either eliminate the need to get a license to carry concealed guns or make getting such a license very easy," Webster said. "But the 'more guns everywhere' approach has been found to increase violent crime and does nothing to reduce mass shootings."
Webster noted almost all of the states that witnessed mass shootings over the weekend – expect for Illinois and South Carolina – do not required a license to carry concealed loaded guns.
So much stupidity, bluster and bravado coming from both putin and biden today, with their competing speeches on the war on Ukraine.
All of the bullshit about fucking nato and the "free world" are nonsense. Who is free if they oppose amerikkka ? Fuck off. Biden accusing putin of trying to "starve the world" ?! What the fuck ? How many countires have malnourished populations due to the "normal" workings of amerikkkan imperialist captialism ? Give me a fucking break.
And putin and his garbage about Ukraine being a "nazi" country and how he was going to fucking "liberate" it , all the while using nazi tactics and basically trying to commit genocide against a sovereign nation. He can fuck off also.
This was a tale of two fucking bully assholes. Fuck them both . "Free world" my fucking ass.
For years the fucking cowardly capitalist press in peru and around the world have been braying about the so-called "death" of the revolutionary organization "Sendero Luminoso" , or The Shining Path in english.
They also falsely claim that the "remnants" of the group are now "narco-terrorists".
So which is it , are they dead or narcos ? And why does it happen that whenever there is political unrest in peru due to corruption in government and the people rise up, the Shining Path are blamed, despite their claims of them being "dead"? Which is it ? I've read reports of hammer and sickle flags being found where the group operates, so why the fuck would a narco gang give a fuck about that ? There are too many lies and unanswered questions , and all of the statements come from the assholes in power .
Maybe the 7 dead cops Shining Path took out recently and the military who come under attack have some answers ? Fuck imperialism.
NEWARK, NJ, January 30—Workers across the U.S. are taking to the streets to rally against the murder of Tyre Nichols after the release of bodycam footage showed Nichols's brutal, deadly beating by Black Memphis cops. Progressive Labor Party members (PLP) joined a rally in Newark in solidarity with Tyre Nichols and the countless names of workers slain by this murderous system. This latest murder confirms a trend of Black-led liberal fascism where we see cities with a Black democratic ruling class government are becoming the new faces of terror against our class.
Now, the workers’ anger confirms a) the shallowness of identity politics as a tool to divide us, and b) reforms don’t work.
Instead, workers need to join PLP. Smashing the racist, fascist police terror that robbed Tyre’s life is a pillar of our Party’s work.
A Black cop is still a kkkop The protest was led by the liberal reformers in the city of Newark and had more local government officials than workers present. This can only be explained by the historical contradiction of this period–where identities are primary to the capitalist ruling class to divide and exploit workers and squash rebellion more intensely. Tyre Nichols, Carl Dorsey, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán or Tortuguita, and Keenan Anderson are victims of the liberal fascist state ruled by Black and Latin politicians and cops.
“See, us Black people are suffering everywhere,” one woman said. Monique Rodwell, mother of the Rodwell-Spivey brothers, assaulted by police in 2020 and friends of PLP replied, “it’s not just Black people; it’s poor people.” Another educator with us noted, “the protests stopped once Biden got in office. He’s the same one that introduced the 1994 Crime Bill.” This is someone that has been in our base for years and a former student of a comrade in Newark.
We were not strong enough in numbers to provide leadership at this rally but we do plan to organize a worker-led response to the murder of Tyre and the rise of liberal fascism in the near future. When liberal fascists are forced to face the rage of the working class and manage to get away, we as communists cannot stop organizing. For every Tyre there are masses of workers killed by racist police terror around the world that don’t make the headlines. Fighting for Alex Flores, for Shantel Davis, Raymond Chaluisant we didn’t stop. And we won’t stop until masses of workers around the world see that police brutality is as vital to capitalism, as communist revolution is to workers!
Liberal fascism unleashes killer kkkop gangs In the aftermath of the George Floyd worldwide movement led by Black workers, liberal fascist mayors and politicians misled workers with the most revolutionary potential, funneling our class’ rage into the ballot box, while also unleashing a viscious wave of racist police terror.
Black mayors from Atlanta, Washington, DC, and Newark painted Black Lives Matter slogans on the same streets where they send their killer kkkop special units to spill workers’ blood. These units–from the Jump Out Boys in Newark that killed Carl Dorsey and threatened the Rodwell Spivey family to the Executioners in Los Angeles to the Memphis Scorpion Unit that killed Tyre Nichols – are essentially a kkkop murder inc., a persistent nationwide element using corruption and intimidation tactics to cement their control over the Black and Latin working class communities they cannot profit without.
Like Newark, Memphis is a model for Big fascists to pour in their finance capital. For Bank of America, Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase, extracting superprofits from the guaranteed racist super-exploitation and super-neglect of a majority Black and Latin workforce is a winning formula! These parasites are the largest beneficiaries of extra payments, commonly known as a “Black Tax,” placed on such municipalities forced to take loans to close gaps in budgets unmet by taxing such low wages (Bloomberg, 09/29/22). Tennessee, the state where Memphis is located, is on par with the lowest minimum wage across the U.S. $7.25.
The answer of fascist U.S. President Jim Crow Joe Biden has been to betray workers by riding the wave of workers’ anger into office. Once elected, Biden assured finance capitalists that there would be no effort to defund the police (itself a liberal reform) under his administration.
Today, U.S. police forces represent the third largest military expenditure globally; as former New York City mayor Bloomberg called it, the NYPD is one of the world’s largest armies. Expect the Biden administration to opportunistically milk the Nichols tragedy to stoke their political momentum for the 2024 election. As we go to press, Kamala Harris–a former prosecutor who sent hundreds of workers to prison– hopes we will forget that when announcing that she will attend Tyre’s funeral.
Fight fascism with communism Under capitalism, there can be no justice for workers against racist killer kkkops. Their job is to serve and protect the ruling class, especially the Big Fascists–the liberal politicians and finance capitalists. For decades, these Big Fascists have wielded the lethal power of the police with near impunity to clear cities of Black and Latin workers for gentrification. At the same time, these liberal fascists push reforms to keep workers invested in the system–from voting to hiring more Black and Latin cops. Tyre Nichols brutal slaying shows that neither works. Only with organized worker fightback with international communist leadership like PLP will we finally realize communism and smash racist police terror once and for all.
On the same day that the first Black woman police chief, Cerelyn Davis, fired the five Memphis cops, the Newark police force under Black Mayor Ras Baraka’s leadership walked away scott-free for murdering another Black worker, Carl Dorsey, in 2020. Politicians at the rally praised Davis, the murderer-in-chief, for swiftly penalizing the cops that killed Tyre. When agents of the capitalist state are disciplined, our class must beware that this is not a victory but a sign of developing fascism.
However, locking a few cops up will never smash racist police terror. Only when workers recognize capitalism as the sham it is and commit to building an internationalist, communist, worker-led state will racism, sexism, and exploitation be eradicated from the face of the earth
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023 AT 2:39PM