By the Side of the Road
Are we involved enough yet? Are we making this our very own problem? We share a bit of the responsibility for their deaths, and those of thousands of others like them.
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Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
How the World Works, For Now
The system works by enforcing a very strict and irrational economic model on people and telling them that it’s for their own benefit. It’s hard to fight because the ideology is so strong, and backed by so many intelligent people,
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The “Lottery of Life and Death” in Revolutionary Syria
“If you hear the rumbling of a plane, go down to the basement. If you smell something foul, climb up to the roof. If you run out of time to do any of the above, just know that I love you but there is nothing I can do.”
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Stop Waiting for It to Affect You, It Already Has
Facing emboldened racists: at the end of the day, it comes down to whether we want to have a confrontation on our or their terms.
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Violence, Humiliation, Spectacle, and Fascism
When we see the specter of fascism rising around what this guy is doing, then the stakes are much higher than simply calling him a loon.
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Why I Left Crimea
The only thing left is to take each person by the hand, serve them tea, put a plaid throw over them and say, “That’s it. This shit is fucked. We’re going to kill you now.”
Democratic Self-Administration Also For Iran
Considering the danger of a true third world war, the opportunity to take a serious, radical step in the struggle for democracy in the Middle East must be recognized and seized.
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Adapt or Die: The Flexible Future of Protest
“The end of protest” doesn’t mean the absence of protest. The end of protest means the proliferation of ineffective protest.
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Stop the Killings in Calais!
The fact that there have been eleven deaths since June 1st, at the same time that there has been a massive increase in security at the ports, is not mere coincidence.
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Burma, a Revolutionary Crucible
“In Egypt in 2011, they were where Burma was in 1988. Burma has a very long history, now, of resistance to military rule, and different ways to go about that. It’s not just about getting millions of people into the streets. What do you do next?”
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