Critique and Panic
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
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2017
Mass Incarceration and the Contested Legacy of Civil Rights
We cannot be a free country when we have five percent of the world’s citizens and 25% of its prisoners. The fight against mass incarceration is a fight for liberty and dignity.
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Grenfell Was Murder!
Recognize Grenfell for what it is: a horrifying expression of the banal murder of the capitalist system for which the only solution is a socialist, ecological, feminist, secular society like the one we are fighting for here in Rojava.
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Helping Refugees Means Fighting the State. And Vice-Versa.
We want people to participate, to share their experiences, to share their hearts, to take care of one another, and to build communities that can fight capitalism and fight the state. This is the first step.
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“Fear of death is nothing; not being able to live is worse.”
Other fears are more essential than the fear of death. The fear of standing alone, or the fear that what you’re doing is futile. Those kinds of fears are more real, and are much more present in Europe than here.
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Community Self-Defense and a Politics of Life
It was normal people who took to the streets, attacked the police, and defended themselves against eviction. This resistance stopped a plan for two hundred forced evictions. It was a spontaneous coming-together in the neighborhood, among people who up to that point weren’t really organized.
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When the Liberal Gay Agenda Really Is the Problem
Issues of homelessness and low economic opportunity should be front and center for the LGBTQ movement, because they’re hurting the section of our movement that is traditionally the most dynamic, which is young people.
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Radical Women* Reclaim Space in Switzerland
“Our friendliness has nothing to do with our being women*. We were also kicking around other ideas. The occupation could have gone down quite differently.”
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Refugees Seeking Freedom Get the Opposite
The plan of the Serbian government to evict the squats and move people to remote areas is happening in line with overall EU practices pushing people out of sight and detaining them in isolation with no possibility to organize.
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Arrogance 101
Somewhere along the way HBS lost its qualification as an actual educational institution, and just became a facilitator for big business, without even deigning to question the nature of capitalism anymore.