New World Water
We’re pulling water up so fast that it’ll be gone in our lifetime. The Ogallala Aquifer will be gone. There aren’t any ifs ands or buts; it’s just a case of when and how fast it goes.
Examinations
Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
Unschooling, the Sixties, and Today’s Left
Being unschooled breaks down a lot of barriers around age. In school, you’re always in your age group. In unschooling, anyone of any age can be your friend or someone you’re learning with or someone who’s teaching you. It opens up a lot of social possibilities.
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What is Domination? What is Liberation?
I want to emphasize the face-to-face element. There’s no example of large-scale social change that does not involve thousands of one-on-one meetings, small group meetings.
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What Form Should Our Movement Take?
The best chance we have to challenge the dominant social structure is precisely from within it. Global systems of production, circulation, administration, etc., hold the means to provide material necessities for everyone on earth. Our ultimate goal is to make them serve humanity.
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Reading ‘World Systems Analysis’ in Tehran
Immanuel Wallerstein resonates in Iran because he not only combines all the great intellectual traditions of European and American social science, but he uses them to challenge the status quo.
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An Assault on the Mind
When you handcuff ten-year-olds because they’ve had a temper tantrum in the classroom, that suggests something about the way any respect for the social, any respect for relationships, has begun to collapse.
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1989: Not the ‘End of History’ in Venezuela Either
It’s different to establish a council through state intervention than it is to see one established on a grass-roots level, spontaneously, from below.
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Αθήνα Burns
Es ist faszinierend zuzuschauen wie sich die Menschen organisieren. Welche Rechte sie sich wieder aneignen, der Spielplatz und Park sind Ausdruck davon. Tatsächlich drängen sich Fragen auf, wie würden wir mit einer derartigen (überlebens-)Krise umgehen?
“The World We Live in Is Created by Slavery”
The Atlantic economy was qualitatively different in terms of the work that was demanded, the absolute treatment of people as chattel, the brutality, the equation of forced labor with skin color, the distances traveled, and the massive number of people who were ripped out of their homes.
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Dragnets and Pre-Crime
It might be worth pointing out that it is unrealistic to think that we can catch every crime before it happens. Right? There was a movie about that.
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