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State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner
The larger reasons behind Eric Garner’s execution seem to be missed by most commentators. The issue is not simply police misconduct, or racist acts of police brutality, however deadly, but the growing use of systemic terror of the sort we… Continue reading
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Cotton and Capitalism: The Tapestry of Domination
The truth is that no one knows what “the history of capitalism” is because its history is just now being written. But if there is any indication of what it might look like, it appears in Sven Beckert’s remarkable and… Continue reading
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Declaration Against Modern Slavery – 2014
Dec 02, 2014 – Vatican City – The Global Freedom Network organized an historic moment with Pope Francis I acting as host to a cadre of religious leaders from around the world in order to draw attention to modern slavery.… Continue reading
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“Robert Anton Wilson” from The Occult World Routledge, 2014 | Erik Davis – Academia.edu
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) born Robert Edward Wilson, was an American novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, and lecturer whose playful and prolific writings helped make him one of the most stimulating and influential popular thinkers in the ‘head’ or ‘freak’ currents of… Continue reading
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the burden of “white ignorance”
“…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift… Continue reading
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Smoke and Mirrors: Essential Questions About “Prison Reform”
It is vitally important for those of us who have been fighting the prison-industrial complex PIC – and the brutalities foundational to it – to inquire more deeply into the reform measures being offered and the data that seem to… Continue reading
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Why There’s a Real Chance My Texas Town Might Ban Fracking
The gas industry has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into this election to convince us that this referendum is “irresponsible,” but the history of our struggle with the industry lays bare a tale that has proved much the opposite… Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt’s challenge to Adolf Eichmann | Judith Butler | Comment is free | theguardian.com
At this historical juncture, for Arendt, it became necessary to conceptualise and prepare for crimes against humanity, and this implied an obligation to devise new structures of international law. So if a crime against humanity had become in some sense… Continue reading
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ISIS, the Spectacle of Terrorism: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
Fear drives the loss of both our personal and our social power. Fear separates us from our own thinking which stagnates. Fear clouds our evolving presence in the globalizing superstructure. Henry Giroux reveals here how fearfulness is a major component of the Society… Continue reading
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Policing for Wealth
For Bratton to cite changes in gentrified Williamsburg and Fort Greene as justification for a focus on minor crimes means the strategy is about something other than the reduction of crime: Its about the reduction of the perception of crime.… Continue reading
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A Gentlemans Guide To Sex In Prison
But the hunger for touch does not always involve sex. Men in prison slap each other on the back and rub each others necks and hug and give elaborate handshakes and do strange exercises in which the men use each… Continue reading
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The Fear Soaked Victim at the Heart of the Police State
We live in a culture where the victim is always the criminal and the criminal is always the victim. When it is a murderer–one without a police shield, of course–this is the sort of thing shouted by all kinds of… Continue reading
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America Is Not For Black People
Michael Brown is not special. In all its specificity, the 18-year olds death remains just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.Part of the reason were seeing so many black men killed is that police officers… Continue reading
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Still, a Colonial Palestine
From The New Republic, an overview of Israel as colonial power and Palestinians as the colonized. Colonial regimes breed anti-colonial resistance. It has been happening since Biblical times. Sometimes, the resistance takes an ugly form. Think of the Algerian or Irish… Continue reading
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How to Repurpose the First Amendment as Corporate Weapon
Originally—and up until fairly recently—the First Amendment was understood to be a shield protecting individual liberty. But the Roberts Court seems increasingly intent on turning the First Amendment into a weapon against the American people, not to mention basic fairness… Continue reading
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Teachers must Care; Students must Attend
That is, mentors must be engaged with mentoring people, seeing the student as an Existenz, with all of the possibility that this entails. And learners must attend, being fully now/here wherever they are, focused on this happening with the mentor. It… Continue reading
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