Healing Waters
The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock is based on the conviction that peaceful, collective prayer can protect the water. But the camps and actions are also about healing.
Culture of Resistance
Death to Debt Culture!
Debt is a shared condition; it is probably the defining feature of American economic life today. We’ve been talking a lot about divisions between college educated and not, between middle class or professional workers and working class folks. Debt allows us to stop seeing those divisions.
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Thanksgiving Reflections on Standing Rock
What I observed at Standing Rock is symbolic in the sense that so many people—white, Native, young, poor—are disaffected, disenfranchised, alienated, and seek a sense of purpose. They seek empowerment through finding community in caring for each other and in direct action.
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Wo der Zaun verläuft
Nicht zwischen den Rechtsextremen und den Liberalen oder zwischen den Liberalen und der Sozialdemokratie – der Zaun verläuft zwischen Verhandlung und Streik, Status Quo und Widerstand.
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Respect Our Water, Respect Our Very Bones
All of the threats on our water, our sacred sites, and on the land are connected. It gives us hope to know that people care about the future, the water, and our children.
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Class Consciousness and Cultures of Resistance in Retail
Retail workers have to put their emotional selves on the line. There are unique stresses to the service environment, but those unique stresses do not negate the chances for worker solidarity and opposition to management.
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End Slavery and Torture. Abolish Prisons. Support the Strikers.
Are the powers that be just going to give up and end the War on Drugs and switch all this money to policies that make sense? Not unless we make them. That’s going to take each and every one of us engaging in daily actions of resistance.
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The Fight Is in the Countryside
Since politics has finally defeated the economy in Russia, instead of solving problems with employment and wage arrears the regime feeds people stories about war with the West. During a war, it is unpatriotic to demand payment of back wages. Only internal enemies would behave this way.
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Against Antipolitics
Let’s build the institutions, let’s build the movements. Let’s see this as an enormous opportunity to redefine the meaning of politics. Let’s get radical. Let’s talk about radical democracy. Let’s talk about justice.
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They Can’t Be Pleaded With – They Must Be Fought
The idea of open borders is anathema to Europe’s ruling elites; inhumane detention camps seem, on the other hand, to be perfectly acceptable. Politicians in power display nothing but inhumanity. We have to step into action; we have to go all out.
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