Post and photos by Aaron Cynic I’ve been on the road touring with Dinner and Bikes, a traveling road show about bike culture, bike economics featuring a delicious vegan dinner nightly. I’ll have much more to say about this as time goes on, but in the mean time, here’s a few photos from our last [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic On Friday, I’m heading out of Chicago for a little while with some fantastic friends on a tour called Dinner and Bikes. A while back, these fine folks tapped me on the shoulder to tag along with them, help share the workload of driving and running a traveling bookstore and document [...]
(Post by Aaron Cynic) “…they secretly want it to end. Their life is shit and boring and dull and controlled from so many fucking angles and nothing changes. No matter what happens it’d be great to see the whole thing crumble and see what happened after that. It’d be a massive playground adventure where everybody’s [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic As White House officials spent the week defending targeted assassinations via drone strikes, the FAA released a new drone authorization list which highlights law enforcement agencies and other entities nationwide who have applied to use drones in domestic airspace for surveillance. Thanks to a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit from [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic When I look back on the events of 2012 and all the years I’ve been in and around activist culture, I’m often reminded of a quote from a clip of a movie I once saw. It goes like this: “You are becoming gods. There’s a new master of creation, and [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity The Fourth of July celebrates of the birth of the United States, its act of finally breaking free from tyrannical England, represented by a reenactment of bombs exploding in the sky. As a nation, we fetishize the loss of life on both sides while we devour factory-farmed meats, consume liquids bottled [...]
Post by Natalie Solidarity My gentle friend was returned to state custody even as I willed otherwise. Three days later, my Occupy Chicago brothers and I sat on cold stone benches, watching families visit their fathers for the hallmark holiday. We drove together to visit our comrade together because that’s what families do. It was [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic The day kicked off in a tame but at least celebratory manner at a rally held in Daley Plaza by National Nurses United. After two hours of speeches and wandering around a square grabbing random flyers and other literature, there was no way that at least part of the 3,000 plus [...]
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We’re happy to announce that once again, Diatribe will be a part of Chicago Zine Fest this year. We’ll be on hand in the exhibitors area on Saturday, March 10th at Columbia College (1104 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL) all day peddling some of our wares, including a brand new zine about Occupy Chicago. Whether [...]
Post by Aaron Cynic A Freedom of Information Act has revealed the Department of Homeland Security awarded a contract in 2010 to General Dynamics’ Advanced Information Systems in order to provide constant surveillance of social media, according to The Washington Post. The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the request, and according to a training manual [...]
Newt Gingrich shows conservatives only care about free speech when it’s their own.