Syria Retold
Bashar al-Assad wanted to remove the moderates so he could say, “See? It’s only me or the extremists.” But there are still moderate Syrians, many of them. If their numbers are fewer, we need to ask ourselves why. Where did they go?
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For a Truly Radical Anti-Racism
Combating Islamophobia at its roots means attacking the structures of domination and division that produce it, promote it, and use it. If we ignore those and fight only its surface expressions, we will lose.
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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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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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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.
For a Resurgence of Insurgent Dignity
People grabbing history by the scruff of the neck and attempting to exercise their own political agency is incredibly inspiring. How can it not be, when we live in a culture which insists that we do not have the right to control our own lives?
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Chase Out the Old Goats, Reprogram the Doomsday Machine
We’re still teaching economics today without mentioning the living world that we’re destroying, the unpaid care of parents, or the commons, leaving students well short of the worldview they need to take on the 21st century. That’s why they’re rebelling.
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