We Are Not Afraid
Persecution by the state keeps people on edge, which is one of the reasons people are so afraid to speak out. The fact that some are doing so now is really remarkable.”
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Reinventing Digital Media
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Neoliberalism’s Fatal Faith in Debt Fiction
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Reinterpreting the Chinese Capital “Scramble” in Africa
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A Hunger Strike Against Rapacious Education “Reform”
Parents and community members show their commitment to a vision for an alternative to the authoritarian capitalist approach to public education.
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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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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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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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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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“There’s A Lot We Can Do Ourselves.”
They don’t actually have any vision for what kind of future we want. Do we really want to work more? I don’t want to work more.
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