February 2011
“a story line of delightfully misspoken words, adorably worn hats, dancing, blown...”
– Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University research and Sherry Turkle’s new book Alone Together suggest that social networking may foster loneliness. - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine
January 2011
The Chilean military is turning Rapa Nui into a war zone. The military has surrounded a native family and starving them to death. They have cut off the food and water since January 13th, when the only two judges were rescued from hearing the case. Right now there is no legal authority on Rapa Nui who can legally order military actions. There is overwhelming military force on the...
This type of strike that interrupts the total mobilization to which we are all submitted and that allows us to transform ourselves, might be called a human strike, for it is the most general of general strikes and its goal is the transformation of the informal social relations on which domination is founded. The radical character of this type of revolt lies in its ignorance of any kind of...
“Just like our sisters and brothers in other parts of the world, we will need new...”
– Scott Kurashige: Egypt: The Epic Fail of the New York Times’ Op-Ed Page
WatchThao + Mirah – How Dare You | Yours Truly
Dear Sugar,
You give a lot of great advice about what to do. Do you have any advice of what not to do?
Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surrender...
Patti Smith - Because the Night oversets
What do we want? What is the thing we are after? As it was phrased last night it had a certain truth: We want to be Americans, full-fledged Americans, with all the rights of other American citizens. But is that all? Do we want simply to be Americans? Once in a while through all of us there flashes some clairvoyance, some clear idea, of what American really is. We who are dark can see America...
So racism against Arabs is shutting down the American mind once again. And all my friends must turn to Al Jazeera English to get the soul of the story: that these events are electrifying to Arabs everywhere, a heroic mobilization. And not only to Arabs. When ElBaradei says, I salute the youth for overturning a pharaonic power, lovers of human freedom everywhere must be thrilled. We are seeing a...
Outside of academe, we tend to be less inclined to deal with history especially since stories are restricted to word count. The mainstream depictions of Haiti that we continually see are actually reproductions of narratives and stereotypes dating back to the 19th century when in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution, the new free black republic that ended slavery and disrupted the order of...
“FEAST is a recurring public dinner designed to use community-driven financial...”
– About « FEAST Brooklyn
Last month, I saw an incredible photo of an older woman being led away by two cops in front of a Chase Bank in downtown Los Angeles. I waited a few days thinking I’d hear more about her in the media, but it never happened. So I called her.
Her name is Julia Botello. She’s an 85-year-old immigrant from Mexico. She and 22 others were arrested for blocking the doors of the Chase bank. Over 200...
“disability, really, when you get down to it, is the ultimate unraveling of that...”
– amandaw (found through Heck). (via theredtree)
“Dear fellow Americans, Your government is providing the largest support to our...”
– #Jan25 #Egypt: A Letter to the World
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WatchRegina José Galindo is a performance artist and writer whose work addresses the atrocities committed by Guatemalan dictatorships, social injustice, and discrimination on the basis of race and gender. Galindo isolates and embodies the vast suffering in Latin America by inflicting direct physical violence on her own body in highly symbolic gestures of resistance. In her performance Perra...
Neighborhood Fruit helps people find and share fruit locally, both backyard bounty and abundance on public lands - 10,000 trees nationwide and counting!
Neighborhood Fruit was created to make use of the abundant fruit growing in our urban environments. Currently, the bulk of fruit grown in backyards and in our cities goes to waste, while the fruit we consume is grown in water-intensive...
“I said, “Well, you know, I hope you bring the challenge more forcefully to...”
– Harry Belafonte on Obama: “He Plays the Game that He Plays Because He Sees No Threat from Evidencing Concerns for the Poor”
“So the settler state is presumed within queer theory, while (as mentioned...”
– Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism - Andrea Smith (via enumerate)
At the AHA: Huh? | How The University Works →
One major risk of supply-side analysis is the naturalization of demand — what the market wants is what the market wants.
But is that how professions, and professional associations like the AHA ought to be thinking about professional work? A traditional characteristic of professions is regulating who is qualified to do the work of the profession. And in this case, the word “market” is a heavily...
Reprieve—Prisoners protest at Guantánamo →
BBC News - Yemen protests: Thousands call on... →
A Call to the People and Governments of the Free World
We call upon all of you to support the Egyptian people’s demands for a life of dignity, liberty and an end of despotism. We call upon you to urge this dictatorial regime to stop its bloodshed of the Egyptian people, exercised throughout the Egyptian cities, on top of which comes the city of Suez.
We believe that the material and moral...
“The painful indifference toward our feelings that characterizes any commodity...”
– Claire Fontaine (via lazz)
Workshop: Best Practices for Artists, February... →
Human Strike
Art should perform an interruption of the usual perception. The problem is determining how an aesthetic interruption can transform our lives, how this gap can or cannot provide us with weapons to fight our problems. Human strike is a refusal to perpetuate a behavior that seems to be natural but actually creates a toxic dynamic. Of course it has to do with attacking authority but sometimes...
Targeting: The OH State Senate, The OH State House, Rob Nichols (Communications, Gov. Kasich), see more…The OH State Senate, The OH State House, Rob Nichols (Communications, Gov. Kasich), and Gov. John Kasich (OH) Started by: C. Lord
“An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which...
