Julien Coupat. Julien Coupat (born June 4, 1974, Bordeaux) is a French political activist at the centre of a controversial investigation. As one of the Tarnac Nine, he was accused of plotting the sabotage of train lines in November 2008, which the French government decided to define as terrorism, and spent over six months in jail before being released on bail. Biography[edit] Julien Coupat is the son of a medical doctor and an executive at Sanofi-Aventis.[1] After studying business at the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC), he switched to social sciences at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) but did not complete his doctorate.[2][3] In 1999, he co-founded a radical philosophy magazine called Tiqqun before setting up a commune in 2005 in the village of Tarnac in the Corrèze department where he and his friends ran a farm and an all-purpose store.
The TGV sabotage affair[edit] Controversy[edit] [edit] Tarnac Nine. The Tarnac Nine are nine alleged anarchist saboteurs arrested in the village of Tarnac, France in November 2008 in relation to a series of instances of direct action.[1][2] The gendarmerie, French police, entered Tarnac with helicopters and dogs and dragged the suspects from their beds.[3] Around twenty people were arrested on November 11, 2008, and nine of those were charged with "criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity".[4] Of those nine, Yildune Lévy was released, under review, on January 16, 2009 and Julien Coupat was released on May 28 of the same year. The nine are predominantly graduate students from middle-class backgrounds, from 22 to 34 years old.[3] Five of the nine had been living in a farmhouse on a hill overlooking the village.[3] References[edit] External links[edit]
The Coming Insurrection. Summary[edit] The book is divided into two parts. The first attempts a complete diagnosis of the totality of modern capitalist civilization, moving through what the Invisible Committee identify as the "seven circles" of alienation: "self, social relations, work, the economy, urbanity, the environment, and to close civilization".[2] The latter part of the book begins to offer a prescription for revolutionary struggle based on the formation of communes, or affinity group-style units, in an underground network that will build its forces outside of mainstream politics, and attack in moments of crisis – political, social, environmental – to push towards anti-capitalist revolution.
The insurrection envisioned by the Invisible Committee will revolve around "the local appropriation of power by the people, of the physical blocking of the economy and of the annihilation of police forces".[2] Influences[edit] [edit] Criticism from Glenn Beck[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Motive Unclear In Attack By Group Of Teens On 16th Street Mall. Get CBS4 News Updates In Your Inbox Sign up for News, Sports, Broncos and Health Emails. Sign Up DENVER (CBS4) – Police are asking for the public’s help tracking down a large group of violent teenagers. They say 10 to 15 young people — described as black or Hispanic and both male and female — attacked four white men on the 16th Street Mall at about 10:45 p.m. on Sunday. Denver police say the men were standing on the mall near Arapahoe when they were approached by the group. After a conversation, the group turned violent and they attacked the men.
CRIME BULLETIN: View The Document From Denver Police Two of the four victims left the scene before they could be questioned. “It’s really unclear as to what their motivation was — why such a large group of young people came together and assaulted these individuals,” said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson. Authorities say the attacks could have been gang related or racially motivated. 2 Men Accused Of Taking Dead Friend Out For Night On The Town. Jobs crisis may spark riots - New York City Mayor Bloomberg - Sep. 16. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, shown here during his September 11 tenth anniversary address, fears that joblessness could lead to riots.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is worried that high U.S. unemployment could lead to the same kind of riots here that have swept through Europe and North Africa. "You have a lot of kids graduating college, [who] can't find jobs," said Bloomberg, during his weekly radio show on Friday. "That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here. " That was the mayor's response when asked about the poverty rate, which rose to 15.1% in 2010, its highest level since 1993, according to census data released Tuesday.
"The public is not happy," he said. Riots have gripped various countries in European cities, including Athens and London, fueled by young people infuriated by high unemployment and austerity measures, which in some cases has led to looting. London's Hooligans. While grateful for our daughter's safety, we, like millions of others around the world, were saddened by the mindless violence, appalled by the orgy of theft, disgusted by the pointless destruction of property, and sickened by the sheer wantonness with which the perpetrators contemptuously violated the fundamental rights of others. In the perennial contest between savagery and civilization, depravity and decency, the wrong side held the upper hand for a while. What happened?
According to some American news outlets, the violence was a cry of protest against "unjust" cuts in government spending. A leading French newspaper described it as a rebellion against a corrupt society. Apparently, journalists on both sides of the Atlantic were trying to channel the '60s and clothe acts of criminal violence in the respectable garb of fighting for a worthy cause. My daughter and her fellow Londoners say, "Rubbish! " London has protests "all the time," says my daughter. Dr.
The world was shocked. Wreaking Havoc in London, Dancing in Tripoli. Mass media are not really covering these events journalistically; they are staging a partisan show framed by fallacious analysis: the liberation of Libya is a high point of the Arab springtime, while Breivik was inspired by Islamophobic extreme-right Christian and Zionist white supremacists. The havoc in Great Britain is inexplicable. Rockets falling on Israel are nothing to get excited about. When we piece together the artificially disconnected events, a coherent picture emerges: our societies are attacked from within and without. Public opinion is seduced into believing the Middle East is dancing toward democracy while those who warn against the dangers of Islamic conquest are accused of arming Breivik the mass murderer.
Who should be blamed for inciting the cross-border attack from Egypt aimed at a civilian bus and a private car on the road to Eilat, killing eight Israelis, six of them civilians? Unfortunately, the joke is on us. This illusory power play is carving up our sovereignty! The Racial Violence that Dare Not Speak Its Name. Black gangs roaming downtown Denver often vented their hatred for white victims before assaulting and robbing them during a four-month crime wave, according to interviews and court records obtained by 7NEWS. That is not the language of a conservative commentator; it's simply a mainstream local news report from an American city that has witnessed widespread racial violence. The first-hand accounts and surveillance videos of the 2009 attacks are shocking. These weren't sucker punches or fair fights -- the attackers swing madly and rapidly with a viciousness that can only come from blind cruelty.
The victims, who can be seen in interviews, were kind-looking, ordinary people. The victims were mostly either gay or straight couples. They didn't provoke the attacks in any conceivable way. The attackers sometimes fractured skulls, or broke eye sockets, and left one victim in a coma. An incredible 38 people were arrested in connection with this campaign of racist violence. 1. » In Response to Our American Revolution: ‘No Crying Is Allowed.’ - Big Government.