January 2012
45 posts
Must read: @affinistim explains origin of Italian...
@jaspergregory Perhaps a trivia point - but many don’t know the origin of “Fascism” (at least in the classic sense of the Italian Fascists). Mussolini started his political career as a hard-left revolution-oriented Marxist (Lenin considered him a leader of great potential). He remained in the Socialist Party fold, though at the militant-revolutionary end, until he rejected...
Zizek called Assange a terrorist, but in a good...
“You are a terrorist in the way that Gandhi was. In what sense was Gandhi a terrorist? He tried to stop the normal functioning of the British state in India. You are trying to stop the normal functioning of information circulation.”
#occupyWallStreet is a “left populist movement, a true people’s movement, the kind we haven’t had in over a hundred years—the kind to take on the unfinished business of FDR’s New Deal.” Reece was drawing a lineage to the late-19th-century political eruption of Populism, when the Farmers’ Alliance and People’s Party arose in response to the depredations of the Gilded Age.
“The Populists...
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15 seconds: ‘xenomorph’ being blasted...
Hella hella occupy, evict us, we multiply - ...
1 minute audio - Brass Liberation Orchestra at...
Watch1 minute video of #occupySF wells fargo rally, chanting
Watch85 seconds of today’s SF Mission District wells fargo bank occupation noon 16th & mission #ows #occupySF
#ows The Berkeley free speech movement started on 16 september 1964, when the University banned civil rights organizing on campus. Students used occupation tactics they had learned from the Black Freedom Struggle. They refused to take down their tables and began nonviolent agitation. The majority of students and faculty remained on the students side and they won their ‘War without...
NYC #occupy Intelligentsia putting on 'Cultures of...
Cultures of Resistance, Resistances of Culture
Culture and cultural practitioners have played a central role in the
movements of the squares and occupations of 2011. Moreover, occupy wall
street has become a cultural phenomenon in its own right. Day 7 will be
dedicated to bringing together different individuals to reflect on the
cultural questions of these movements and to also attempt to...
Please read this Call For Action for Oakland ‘Fuck The Police’ event for #J14. This could get out of control real fast. Note, this is not an #occupyOakland event. #OO gave the Tactical Operating Committee (TAC) endorsement to act autonomously, and they have done this. it kind of reminds me of the Authorization For the Use of Force act that congress gave Bush.
Following event found on...
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#occupySF Nonviolent Direct Action Trainings all...
These two-hour trainings will cover all the basics of the Jan. 20 Occupy Wall St. West Occupation, including hands-on skills and information about nonviolent direct action, disobedience and occupation for those considering participating in or supporting direct actions, or who just want to find out more. Trainings will include:
How to engage in direct action and occupation
Tools for de-escalation...
I am building a PostGendered, TransRacial...
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Nonviolent Revolution of Joy - draft covenant
We affirm the philosophical and spiritual ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose, the presupposition of our belief, and the manner of our action.
Nonviolence, as it grows from global spiritual traditions, seeks a social order of justice permeated by love and Joy.
Integration of human endeavor represents the crucial first step towards such a society.
Through nonviolence,...
Anonymous asked: can you please take down my picture, Jasper?
Perhaps all social reform movements in the Contemporary Puritan Diaspora are essentially religious and political. “The personal, is the political, is the religious” This is the truth of Cultural Feminism, The Tea Party, Burning Man, Afrocentrism, The Open Source Singularity and the Religious Right. We have never been secular and we have always been modern. Marxian and Liberal...
Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee Mission...
We affirm the philosophical or religious ideal of nonviolence as the foundation of our purpose, the presupposition of our belief, and the manner of our action. Nonviolence, as it grows from the Judeo-Christian tradition, seeks a social order of justice permeated by love. Integration of human endeavor represents the crucial first step towards such a society. Through nonviolence, courage displaces...