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Prof. Shabazz on Spatializing Blackness thru Architectures of Incarceration
Explores how carceral power and the techniques of containment were woven into the quotidian geographies of poor and working class Black people on Chicago’s South Side. Through an examination of housing, policing, and the production of masculinity, Shabazz demonstrates how… Continue reading
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading
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Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script… Continue reading
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…if not for the anarchists and antifascists
Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking about the terror in Charlottesville. The white supremacist violence there began Friday night as hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKKmembers and other white nationalists… Continue reading
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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like
Whatever happens in Washington, we can start building an internet that respects our rights on the local level. What would be the best route for creating community broadband in your community? In cities and towns, it’s probably through a municipal… Continue reading
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Impacts and Insurance: Climate Change Risk Transfer
Is a creeping catastrophe insurable? Eberhard Faust, climate risk researcher at Munich Re, one of the world’s largest reinsurance companies, and disaster historian Scott Knowles talk about the instruments and scale-problems involved in calculating and transferring the costs of climate-change-related… Continue reading
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Whiteness is Dead | The Wild Hunt
Highly recommend a read through of this… Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten bloodier… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic as Queer or recognizing the gravity well of domination
We are forsaken to our existential condition. We can simply make-do with what is already underway, or we can accept responsibility for having the power to explore in a fashion otherwise than tradition teaches. Anarchocynicism only works so long as… Continue reading
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Freedom, Choice, and the Death of Us
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: “they did not stop to think they died instead” “‘next to of course god america i,’” e.e. cummings Over the course of a couple hours after my mother was discovered comatose, the ER… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic Praxis, Faith and Sacred Tradition
What makes our praxis specifically AnarchoCynic concerns how we take on none of the authority to be gained from established hierarchies, seek to take no privileged position for ourselves, and specifically engage folks about the customs that hold most currency in our… Continue reading
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ExxonMobil Still Funding Climate Science Deniers
ExxonMobil executives repeatedly claim their company supports a federal carbon tax and the Paris climate agreement. The company’s checkbook ledger, however, tells a far different story. Recently, the company released its annual list of its “public information and policy research” grantees, which… Continue reading
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Charity or philanthropy
One of the reasons for the possible rehabilitation of charity is especially paradoxical, given philanthropy’s technocratic pretensions. Over the past decade, as groups have become more sophisticated at assessing the impact of their work, and as digital payment systems have… Continue reading
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AnarchoCynic Praxis
While I am very knowledgeable about the workings of our political system–and I even vote, esp. locally–my energy and time goes to helping establish temporary autonomous zones wherein friends and allies can work together. If Paulo Freire is right that… Continue reading
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necrophilia
Originally posted on coromandal: This excerpt by Erich Fromm describes necrophilia in terms of sadism, control, work and technology. Necrophilia is literally love of death, which on its face sounds absurd, until we realize, with a closer look, that it’s… Continue reading
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Veteran Organizer Gives Inside Look at the First $15 Minimum Wage Campaign
…more than just a collection of war stories, Rosenblum’s purpose in Beyond $15 is to persuade other advocates to follow his lead. The book uses Sea-Tac’s success to argue for a “social movement union” approach to organizing that grounds labor… Continue reading
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Can we overcome a white supremacy that has permeated our politics and culture? Part 2
Anis Shivani continues his rumination upon white supremacy by tracing the tendrils of it throughout contemporary American society. He traces its presence not only within the commonly understood movements that are openly racist, but also into the neoliberal policies and globalizing… Continue reading
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