Building Cultural Sustainability in the Digital Age
‘Innovation,’ ‘disruption’ and ‘openness’ are all terms that can be twisted to serve business imperatives.
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Conversations
Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
Democracy Promotion at Face Value
Improving livelihoods and education among people never helps authoritarian regimes, which is why they don’t do it. They know that their biggest threat is an empowered, educated populace that can read and feed itself.
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Intersecting Neoliberal Goals at the World Cup
The World Cup fits into the general strategy of the Brazilian government.
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Challenging the Prostitute Imaginary
Most people are doing work they don’t feel really great about, and if they had other options would prefer to do something else—but we wouldn’t describe their boss as a pimp. We wouldn’t describe capitalism as their pimp.
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Under Occupation in America
When you’re a target of the police, you don’t want to show up routinely anywhere. You don’t want to go to the hospital when you’ve been injured or when your baby is born. You don’t want to go to your mother’s house on Christmas. Who knows who will be there to take you into custody?
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The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Chicago
Two interview excerpts on the war of maneuver between protesters and police at mass demonstrations.
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Gespräch mit dem syrischen Anarchisten Nadir Atassi
Die Stadt Yabroud ist die Kommune des syrischen Aufstands. Neben dem Vorbild für religiöse Koexistenz, viele ChristInnen leben in der Stadt, wurde Yabroud auch Vorbild für Autonomie und Selbstverwaltung in Syrien.
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Not Ukraine’s Revolutionary Moment
For Ukrainians, as for any other people in the world, the main threat is capitalism.
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Lack of Diversity in Policy and Media has Consequences
The mistake people make is to say that there’s violence in Chechnya because Chechens are violent. Politics is what motivates ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts don’t happen because a particular ethnicity is inclined to violence.
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Bosnian Basics
It’s misleading for the international community to say the citizens of Bosnia need to take ownership of their own issues, but then when they take that phrase literally, to say, “oh, that’s not what we had in mind.”