The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Chicago
Two interview excerpts on the war of maneuver between protesters and police at mass demonstrations.
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Not Ukraine’s Revolutionary Moment
For Ukrainians, as for any other people in the world, the main threat is capitalism.
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Journey Through a Counterculture
The Bohemian immigrants to Chicago and Cleveland, two big centers where they settled, were linked with Chicago anarchists…who were themselves a very bohemian bunch in the 1880s.
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Lack of Diversity in Policy and Media has Consequences
The mistake people make is to say that there’s violence in Chechnya because Chechens are violent. Politics is what motivates ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts don’t happen because a particular ethnicity is inclined to violence.
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Bosnian Basics
It’s misleading for the international community to say the citizens of Bosnia need to take ownership of their own issues, but then when they take that phrase literally, to say, “oh, that’s not what we had in mind.”
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.
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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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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