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Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor

A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor. The ingredients are basically meth and filler things like battery acid, engine oil, shampoo, and cooking salt. It acts faster and the effects last longer than coke, and it can be produced in home-based laboratories. Full story

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America's Most Heavily Armed Church

Pastor Larry Allen is the pistol-packing preacher who runs the New Life Baptist Church and Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The church is protected by an ex-police security team and all of the students are warriors when it comes to gun safety drills and procedures. In this cli… Full story

Montreal Police Are Still Kettling Protestors

A First-Hand Account from the May Day Protest

447 people were arrested at Montreal's May Day protests. Many of which were kettled in by police, thanks to the controversial P6 bylaw. We were there to take it all in, and luckily this time we weren't arrested. Full story

My Mom Tricked Me into Going to a Ugandan Boarding School

Rachael Nakaye boarded a plane to Uganda with her mother under the impression that she was going on a holiday. Instead, she was sent to a boarding school where she had her head shaved, was sexually propositioned by her teachers, cowered in classrooms while the school rioted, and Full story

Anarchopanda Speaks!

On Friday, for the fourth time in under a month, hundreds of Montrealers attempting to participate in a peaceful protest found themselves kettled by the Montreal Police. Among those surrounded by riot police, detained for hours, and issued a ticket was the mysterious character kn… Full story

Thatcher's War on Acid House

There was a time when plugging in a record player in an abandoned building brought a police response more appropriate to the assembly of a nuclear device. Whatever rattled the establishment about rave culture, in their own warped way they had a point. It was dangerous. Full story

Why Did a Student in Montreal Get Arrested for an Instagram Post?

A 20-year-old in Montreal was arrested Wednesday for posting a photo taken of a graffiti wheat-paste illustration that showed Montreal's police commander with a bloody bullet hole in his forehead. Full story

How Cops Became Soldiers: A Chat With Radley Balko

Balko, an investigative reporter and expert on police militarization, opens up on cops going ham. Full story

Let’s Apocalypse! A Discussion with the Anti-Banality Union

The ABU edits countless Hollywood popcorn films together, forming orgies of death and destruction at the hands of our society’s hopeless antagonisms. Drawing clips from such box office hits as 'Independence Day' and 'The Dark Knight,' they reveal the violence and chaos lurking ju… Full story

Greece's New Anarchist Generation Is Being Tortured by Police

A group of eight people armed with AK-47s attempted to rob a bank and a post office in the Greek town of Velventos. Although bank-robbing anarchists armed with AK-47s might not seem like individuals deserving of pity, the police tortured them so badly that NGOs like Amnesty Inter… Full story