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Our bedfellows in SOPA blackout: Complexities of a single issue campaign
How should we view the allies of each moment? How should we understand or discuss their motives? The following piece was written by Ghan, in preparation for the Wikipedia blackout tomorrow. It first appeared as a comment on our Wikipedia blackout thread.
2012-01-17 14:12:56
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Occupy Nigeria takes on Nigeria’s occupiers
We received the following from A World to Win News Service, based in Britain. 16 January 2012. A World to Win News Service. Nigerians, whose country is one of the world’s major oil exporters, woke up on 1 January to a brutal new year: Overnight,...
2012-01-17 12:26:54
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Wikipedia Blackout: Stop the U.S. SOPA attack on Internet!
This appeared on Wikimedia. Wikipedia’s community calls for anti-SOPA blackout January 18 Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday,...
2012-01-17 12:13:34
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Baltimore: Schools-not-Jails Occupation defies police threats
Thanks to Cullen Stalin for sharing this update. their project’ Flickr and Youtube. Contact thru the Schools Not Jails Media Team: (410) 849-9626 | schoolsnotjails@gmail.com The following is their press release. JANUARY 17: SCHOOLS NOT JAILS...
2012-01-17 09:37:09
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Seattle: Bring Diaz Down (The Report)
The following is a report on the Seattle torch march to bring down Diaz. by P.N. First there was the cold. The sun had set and the temperature began its drop toward the freezing point. We gathered on 23rd and Union, stomping our feet and huddling...
2012-01-16 23:15:51
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Seattle: Bring Diaz Down (The Leaflet)
We received the following handout from Seattle. Here is the text: Conditions are ripe BRING DIAZ DOWN! Join the campaign to force the resignation of Seattle Police Chief John Diaz. Read this pamphlet and show it to your friends, then get together and...
2012-01-16 22:49:18
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Their world ends, ours begins: New #OWS track from Lupe Fiasco
Filed under: >> analysis of news
2012-01-15 15:16:15Posted an entry on Kasama
Gibson’s spectacles: Seeing both past and future
Gibson may have said: ‘The future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed yet.’ by Mike Ely One of the by-products of watching the Republican primaries is sobriety. It is a harsh reminder of certain realities. This is particularly...
2012-01-15 12:08:49
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I gave the order and I killed her family
The exposure of U.S. Marines abusing Afghani bodies has stirred both outrage and the familiar talk of “a few bad apples.” It is worth revisiting the rich and courageous testimony of radicalized veterans. Here is one. the mentality…....
2012-01-13 16:40:53
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The one limit to imperial Presidency: Who they must serve
“Progressive sentiments to ‘get the money out of politics’… is effectively a call to ‘get the trees out of the forest.’” by Tobias Reed The question is posed to us, especially this year: How should...
2012-01-13 15:16:23
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To the point….
Thanks Chegitz. Filed under: >> analysis of news
2012-01-13 12:55:39Posted an entry on Kasama
Exercising judgment: Radical change as a politics of the real
“We need the political judgement that comes from a capacity for integrating a vast amalgam of constantly changing, multicolored, evanescent perpetually overlapping data.” “We have to actually know this shimmering, dancing world in the...
2012-01-13 11:36:09
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Video: U.S. Marines piss on dead Afganis
This video needs little comment. It displays the mentality of these imperialist occupation troops. And it has understandably provoked outrage around the world. They will be punished — mostly for allowing themselves to be filmed. And U.S....
2012-01-12 14:59:41
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J. Ramsey on Occupations: The Leap from Danger to Opportunity
“In the wake of a revolutionary Arab Spring, and a European Summer filled with revolt– from Madrid, to London, to Athens – we have lived through an American Autumn, or perhaps more appropriately, considering the teetering hegemonic position of...
2012-01-11 15:32:36
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A sketch of four controversies: Communist strategy in the Third World
by Mike Ely A great many of us attracted to revolutionary politics in the U.S. (and similar “developed” countries) often see radical change through the prism of our surrounding society — where feudalism has been largely absorbed into...
2012-01-11 12:47:30
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Interview with Zizek: Occupy, renascent left and Marxism today
“Events, like Occupy Wall Street, are crucial because, on the one hand, they demonstrate that the problem is capitalism as such. This was the big issue in the 20th century, but somehow disappeared in the last decades from the traditional left,...
2012-01-10 15:27:56
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Book Review: Tropic of Chaos
This comes from climateandcapitalism.com. Review: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence September 14, 2011 A sweeping discourse on the collision between the natural and the social world — the confluence of poverty,...
2012-01-10 09:13:37
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Kasama pamphlet: Out of the red closet
Downloadable PDF pamphlet [coming here soon: Kindle and Nook ebook versions.] From the pamphlet introduction: One of the most remarkable events on the Kasama site during the summer of 2011 has been the outpouring of discussion over the treatment of gay...
2012-01-08 21:02:51
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A system’s crisis of governability, a revolution’s opening
“It is not just the West’s material primacy that is at stake today but also the allure of its version of modernity. “Unless liberal democracies can restore their political and economic solvency, the politics, as well as the geopolitics, of...
2012-01-06 13:19:18
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Living networks of resistance
Social Media in Protests: Study Finds ‘Recruiters’ and ‘Spreaders ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011) — A study has explored the dynamics behind social network sites in recruiting and spreading calls for action that contribute to mass...
2012-01-06 08:00:54
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