Posts tagged “politics”
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Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Together, and October 2011 protests
September 26, 2011
Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain, and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.
Tags: occupy, occupy together, occupy wall st, october 2011, politics, protest, us day of rage, wall street, we are the 99%
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
September 15, 2011
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has made the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison.
Tags: angela y davis, are prisons obsolete, nonfiction, politics, prison reform
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Reader review of Tea of Ulaanbaatar
August 9, 2011
“It is as if the narrator of Tea of Ulaanbaatar has landed in a maze of trench warfare. And where the narrator lands, so too does the reader. It’s an astonishing effect…” - SheWoreRedShoes reader review at LibraryThing
Tags: book review, christopher howard, fiction, librarything, politics, tea of ulaanbaatar
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Ted Rall illustrates Republican “South California” proposed by Jeff Stone
July 15, 2011
Split California into two states? That’s what Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone has proposed in hopes of creating “South California,” a new state that would be founded on Republican principles. But, as Ted Rall suggests in his weekly cartoon, such a plan could backfire.
Tags: anti-american manifesto, image, los angeles times, opinion, politics, south california, ted rall
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Brian Kahn on NBC New York
July 8, 2011
Brian Kahn, author of Real Common Sense shares his thoughts regarding our founding fathers.
Tags: brian kahn, chuck scarborough, interview, nbc, new york, politics, real common sense, video
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Slavoj Žižek and Julian Assange speak with Amy Goodman
July 1, 2011
“Focusing on the ethics and philosophy behind WikiLeaks’ work, the conversation will provide a rare opportunity to hear two of the world’s most prominent thinkers discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time. It will also mark the publication of the paperback edition of Slavoj Žižek’s book, Living in the End Times, in which he argues that new ways of using and sharing information, in particular WikiLeaks, are one of a number of harbingers of the end of global capitalism as we know it.” — Democracy Now! website
Tags: amy goodman, audio, cablegate, democracy now, god in pain, guantanamo bay, julian assange, politics, Slavoj Žižek, wikileaks
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David Swanson and other SSP authors to occupy D.C. in October
June 30, 2011
Human rights defender David Swanson has announced today that this October, thousands of Americans, the left and right, will occupy Washington D.C. in peaceful resistance and not leave until demands of the government are met. The protest is slated to be similar to those in Tunisia and Egypt. A coalition of organizations and noted leaders have committed to a peaceful occupation of Washington D.C., announcing the plan for a people’s occupation starting October 6th and not leaving until the United States government is seen to halt functioning on behalf of Wall Street and a war machine.
Tags: david swanson, daybreak, examiner, politics, protest, washington dc
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Interview with Ezequiel Adamovsky, author of Anti-Capitalism
June 24, 2011
“Initially, the idea came to my mind in 2002. At that time, after the rebellion of December 2001 in Argentina, I was very much involved in the neighbors’ Assemblies movement . . . Most people had the feeling that the old Left had little to offer. And yet, they were craving for radical ideas and actions. There was the sense that we were building a new kind of movement, but there were no ideas, concepts or doctrines to name it . . . Even if activists in Europe and the US immediately felt that the Argentinean rebellion was part of a global phenomenon, people in Argentina, initially, had almost no idea that similar movements were taking place elsewhere, and that other people were already discussing the same problems and having to face similar political challenges. I felt that I had the responsibility to communicate all those ideas to the people who were struggling with me in the streets.” –Ezequiel Adamovsky
Tags: anti-capitalism, argentina, economy, ezequiel adamovsky, interview, michael albert, politics, south america, zcommunciations
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Zinn Reader
June 14, 2011
Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of Zinn’s works serves as a reminder that to embrace one’s subjectivity can mean embracing one’s humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice.
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Tags: compilation, howard zinn, nonfiction, omnibus, politics, zinn reader
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Noam Chomsky wins the Sydney Peace Prize
June 8, 2011
The Peace Foundation has awarded the $50,000 prize to US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky for what it describes as his unfailing moral courage and critical analysis of democracy and power.
Previous winners of the prize include South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu, journalist John Pilger, former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi, and Indigenous human rights activist Patrick Dodson.
Tags: 9/11, australia, award, middle east, noam chomsky, politics, sydney, terrorism
“politics” Posts
- Sep 26, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Together, and October 2011 protests
- Sep 15, Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Aug 9, Reader review of Tea of Ulaanbaatar
- Jul 15, Ted Rall illustrates Republican “South California” proposed by Jeff Stone
- Jul 8, Brian Kahn on NBC New York
- Jul 1, Slavoj Žižek and Julian Assange speak with Amy Goodman
- Jun 30, David Swanson and other SSP authors to occupy D.C. in October
- Jun 24, Interview with Ezequiel Adamovsky, author of Anti-Capitalism
- Jun 14, Zinn Reader
- Jun 8, Noam Chomsky wins the Sydney Peace Prize
