Confluences
We must acknowledge intriguing connections currently being made between disparate and distant movements. Our task now is to make these confluences much more concrete, combative, and contagious.
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All Antidote Zine posts classified according to form rather than substance, for those who prefer to browse that way. Examinations – Expressions – Productions
The Quiet Counterrevolution of Human Rights Idealism
The human rights movement, in its focus on atrocity, has been way too selective, leading us away from thinking about structural wrongdoing.
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Photo Essay: Sochi, the $50 Billion ‘Ghost Town’
AntiNote: Freelance photographer Alexander Belenkiy posted these photographs* on his livejournal this month, after a trip to Sochi. This is the ghost town he encountered there, only six months after the 2014 Winter Olympics. Alexander points out in his own commentary that the Olympic Village is not completely abandoned; indeed he took care to include
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The Normality of War
The anniversary of World War One should be a time of deep reflection for the left. How was it possible that the vast majority of the socialist parties in Europe could drop their avowed internationalism and fall in behind the imperialist war adventures of their countries’ elites?
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Learning from “Informal” Urban Innovation
It’s not like we need to encourage bottom-up building and community building, because that’s happening without anyone asking or assisting.
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The Failure of Nonviolence
Rebellions give people practice in learning that they can stand up for themselves, and it shows them a further horizon. Within that, there’s going to be conflict about what’s acceptable and what’s not, what’s helpful and what’s harmful. But those decisions can’t be handed down from above.
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Sadness and Hope: On the American Refugee Crisis
What’s going on is not really a genuine search for a compassionate resolution to a humanitarian crisis but a political hot potato that everyone is looking for ways to abuse, to feed their own ideological, political positions.
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On the Road in Late Capitalism
We found the portions of Chuck and Iain’s conversation that centered on place, cities, and our place in cities to be most complementary to topics we cover on Antidote.
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The Battle Intensifies: Stories from Summer 1999
“I wasn’t really planning on getting arrested that day. When I heard there was cutting on the north end, I went up after the cops had already cordoned off the area. I didn’t really think about it much, but somebody handed me a U-lock, and I ran across the line.”
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