December 2011
4 posts
“If President Obama signs this bill, it will damage both his legacy and...”
– Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office in a statement released yesterday
It’s pretty bad that our government in 2011 is reacting to an attack over 10 years ago to a degree that was deemed excessive even during the McCarthy era.
That bill, of course, was the 1950...
Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
artivista:
In one of the least surprising developments imaginable, President Obama – after spending months threatening to veto the Levin/McCain detention bill – yesterday announced that he would instead sign it into law (this is the same individual, of course, who unequivocally vowed when seeking the Democratic nomination to support a filibuster of “any bill that includes retroactive immunity...
DOD thinks that protests are... →
Under the NDAA legislation, protesters could legally be held indefinitely as terrorists.
Hello all.
I haven’t logged into this account in months. But I’m here to tell you I’m PISSED about NDAA and SOPA, and you should be too.
Occupy was great, but if you think things have changed, I have four words for you.
Wake the fuck up.
September 2011
1 post
Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian... →
August 2011
24 posts
7 tags
RHPolitics: bana05: How media clearly reflects the... →
bana05:
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how…
2 tags
“In 2010, Rethink Afghanistan created a tool on [Facebook] that allowed you to...”
– David Swanson, War Is A Lie (via dceiver)
1 tag
creating online grassroots movements →
On May 14, 2000, massive numbers of people, fed up with a recent string of school shootings, descended on Washington DC to rally for common sense gun laws. This movement started with practically no funding, no central organization, no TV ads, no direct mail budget, no email database, and no social media websites like Facebook yet in existence. Yet, somehow, in just nine months, the Million Mom...
16 tags
2 tags
“Atheism” is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify...”
– Sam Harris (via bringtheruckuss)
Or maybe in Sam Harris’ case, “atheist” should be used to describe his demeanor as an intolerant prejudiced Islamophobic douchebag.
(via mohandasgandhi)
What a ridiculous quote. By that extension, anarchism is a term that shouldn’t exist, people...
4 tags
Why Sept. 17 and OccupyWallSt Won’t Work (As Much... →
I wrote this over at my “main” blog. Feel free to check it out if you’re following this topic.
About a month ago, the folks over at Adbusters (a great alternative media source) released a call to arms of sorts, for American radicals and dissidents:
On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and...
5 tags
Politicalprof: On London's Riots →
politicalprof:
I love London.
I’ve vacationed there several times. I lived there for six months on sabbatical. For whatever reason, I get London, and London gets me.
And not just the nice bits. As it happened, I lived in the remarkably posh neighborhood of St. John’s Wood. Kate Moss lived nearby. I saw Paul…
An excellent insight by someone who knows what they’re talking about.
8 tags
5 tags
CBS Report: 81 congressmen going to Israel on... →
mohandasgandhi:
It’s no secret that Congress has always been very pro-Israel but jeeze, this is a little excessive. I’m so glad we’re paying these guys while they’re romping around in Israel.
Of the 81 heading over, 55 are Republicans and 26 are Democrats, The Post reports. Half of the freshmen Republican reps - 47 of them - make up that group, and many of them will be visiting Israel for...
4 tags
“…peace as we know it is built on a whole range of concealed and structured forms...”
– Roland Boer, Political Myth, P. 124 (via noumenology)
ALL OF THE POSTS ARE DELETED.
amindajoy:
Not because I am afraid of attack, but because I like my blog to be nice and fun and a place where I can only do things/talk to people I like.
I have learned my lesson about voicing my opinion.
That’s too bad - the lesson should have been about critical thinking. Looks like you failed both.
And therein lies the real problem of web 2.0 —... →
shortformblog:
This Paul Carr piece is totally worth the read if you haven’t gotten to it yet.
In my humble opinion, Paul Carr is blaming the medium (the internet) for a fault of the system (capitalism). Neoliberal economics has always reduced humans to numbers when all behavior is conducted for a profit-motive.
2 tags
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How... →
3 tags
The UK Anti-War Movement Online: Uses and...
Is the effectiveness of traditional protesting nil in the developed world? This paper isn’t that broad reaching, but it’s still probably worth a read.
This article uses interviews with committed anti-war and peace activists to offer an overview of both the benefits and challenges that social movements derive from new communication technologies. It shows contemporary political...
Save Pell →
chonklatime:
isitscary:
shebecameakiller:
I will get a college education; even if I have to go marching or start a fucking revolution.Republicans have proposed to decrease maximum funding to $3,000
Republicans have proposed to decrease maximum funding to $3,000 per student and increase eligibility standards from 12 to 15 credits, meaning students would need to register for a minimum of...
4 tags
Report your local anarchist →
liberationfrequency:
The Metropolitan Police have released an injunction to other police forces in the UK, together with businesses and other organisations, encouraging members of the public to ‘contact your local police force’ and report on local anarchists. Predictably, anarchists nation-wide are angry at this advice which we believe to be a step towards criminalizing our beliefs. In a step...
July 2011
19 posts
“In the politics of rebellious mankind, we are ready to sacrifice persons to...”
– John Howard Yoder (via azspot)
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
Critique of identity politics
Post-left anarchy tends to criticize what it sees as the partial victimizing views of identity politics. Feral Faun thus writes in “The ideology of victimization” that there’s a “feminist version of the ideology of victimization- an ideology which promotes fear, individual weakness (and subsequently dependence on ideologically based support groups and paternalistic...
Pat Buchanan: Norwegian Right-Wing Terrorist... →
jonathan-cunningham:
“But, awful as this atrocity was, native-born and homegrown terrorism is not the macro-threat to the continent.
That threat comes from a burgeoning Muslim presence in a Europe that has never known mass immigration, its failure to assimilate, its growing alienation, and its sometime sympathy for Islamic militants and terrorists.
Europe faces today an authentic and historic...
“The serious threat to our democracy is not the existence of foreign totalitarian...”
– John Dewey, Freedom and Culture, 1939
1 tag
“…none of us can control whether we participate, only how…”
– Allan Johnson, Patriarchy, The System
“As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or...”
– Noam Chomsky
revolucion94 answered your question: Christian Anarchism and Jury Duty
Do you best to influence the people around you to the right decision. You could save someone from an even harsher sentence.
While juries only decide guilty or not guilty (or null), and not sentencing, you have a point. I am just as responsible now if I chose not to participate… very good point
revolucion94 answered your question: Christian Anarchism and Jury Duty
Do you best to influence the people around you to the right decision. You could save someone from an even harsher sentence.
While juries only decide guilty or not guilty (or null), and not sentencing, you have a point. I am just as responsible now if I chose not to participate… very good point
2 tags
Christian Anarchism and Jury Duty
noumenology:
I have been summoned for jury duty in a few weeks. I haven’t really thought all that seriously about it until tonight - an argument about jury nullification with my wife yesterday got the wheels turning in my head. I insisted that jurors have the power to rule however they like (and I’m not wrong). This made me realize - since we have that power, to some degree we are ethically...
“The Republican vision is that 20 white male billionaires will own everything and...”
– Jonathan Schwarz
June 2011
8 posts
2 tags
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no...”
– Justice Robert Jackson, within the decision of 1943’s West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette which ruled it was unconstitutional to force schoolchildren to salute or pledge allegiance to the flag.