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I know I’ve had a few discussions with folks about Dubai. Here is proof that Dubai is horrible! www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentat... Also, I’d like to recommend Bookmooch! It’s a book barter website where you can convert literary trash into gold! Have some dog-eared Ayn Rand books in your basement from your objectivist phase in high school? Put that crap on here and get something better! |
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How about some feminist critique on both pop culture and real world issues? |
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One of my favorite people’s blog: Communications from an Eco-Anarcha-Feminist Animal Here’s my library thing thing, I don’t own all the books, I have just read a lot. ask me if you want to borrow! |
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Oh, and: |
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my god Taylor that article was horrifying. |
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this article pokes at a huge concern in the immigration issue. It’s not a question of being illegal or legal. It’s a question of being brown in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
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Today’s (april 14th) democracy now! featured a number of interesting stories which I think could be/are relevant to this community, specifically in terms of military recruiting…. democracynow.org |
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Witness the effects of Capitalism on our beloved New York City. |
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Good piece on today’s Democracy now! about the UN conference on racism: |
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The Racism video — I wish they would have laid out the issue in simpler terms from the start, because I had to slowly piece it together for the whole video. And what I ended up with was this: The UN was holding a conference on racism. It was going to discuss issues of racism and actions to take to get through them. The US government bought into what Israel’s? lobbyists said it was going to be about without even reading about it and decided to boycott the conference all together. Many other Western nations followed suit. And basically it’s a step backwards for fixing issues of racism and discrimination? Is that much basically correct? I like the discussions we have at the free school for clarification if for no other reasons. |
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I’ve been keeping my eyes and ears open recently for information coming from/about the struggle in Central America, especially due to the recent election of FMLN candidate Mauricio Funes in El Salvador. I know that more than a few folks have expressed excitement/interest in that particular election. The following is a pretty good piece about El Salvador which specifically outlays the importance of talking about the past (history)…something that OUR president has been vocally against in too many occassions. |
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Flint, MI in the spotlight: www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/22f... “Flint has about 75 neighborhoods spread out over 34 square miles. It will be a delicate process to decide which to favor, Mr. Kildee acknowledged from the driver’s seat of his Grand Cherokee.” |
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“In actuality, USA America dreads the Juche cause of Kim Il Sung perpetuated into 21st Century Age of Technology by glorious leader Kim Jong Il. “Leader George W. Bush is gone down in defeat and a shambles. His woe is impossible to suffer. Dick Cheney arrives on Wolf Blitzer CNN to warn the new American Leader of Kim Jong Il’s power. He gnashes his teeth and curls his lips, his feet always pointed towards retreat, his back a yellow! “New American Leader Barack Hussein Obama is a shadowman first ever. Elected by arrogance and Hollywood baroque to sustain wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and oppress peoples of South Korea with puppet Lee Myung-Bak, opposing reunification for purposes of dividing families in Korea.” |
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I would like to recommend kateharding.net. It’s a fat-positive blog that’s frequently hilarious. Also: vegansofcolor.com, thedailybeast.com, slate.com (the latter two are news sites, the former is a blog). |
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I should mention that when I say “it’s a fat-positive blog that’s frequently hilarious,” I mean that the writers are funny and clever. I don’t mean to imply it’s hilarious because it’s fat-positive. |
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A really good explanation of our current economic crisis. Yes it’s animated but fuck you Economics are hard dude. |
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web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v10/v10i1a3.htm A paper on the state representation of national identity (through stamps) & its relationship to life in said state. Focusing on the differences & similarities between Sudan & Burkina Faso. |
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Speakers on Figurative Politics in social movements at the Left Forum 2009 in New York. It has multiple parts all of which are on youtube, this link is to the first of those videos. |
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Thanks to Casey for reminding me: for those who participated in the Zapatismo in the park session, here is the link to the dude that we listened to on my computer: |
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www.anarchistu.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/A... |
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Old School
Golden Age
Gangster/Hardcore
All Kinds of Other Stuff
OH MY GOD. I am going to stop posting these for a little while. Expect frequent additions. |
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You may have heard stuff about Eduardo Galeano in recent days. Hugo Chavez recently gave Obama a copy of Galeano’s classic book on Latin American History called “The Open Veins of Latin America.” Many of us have been great fans of Don Eduardo for many years. When I used to work in the Book Mark, my co-worker and I would sometimes read to each other selections from his book “Days and nights of love and war” and we would freak out about how powerful his words are. Also, for those of you who went to our first free school meeting, Galeano was the guy who was talking about the train that arrives without a trian in that movie clip i showed. Anyway, on today’s telesurtv.net page (really good news source for those who speak spanish), they posted up an old essay of his written on new year’s eve of 1999. I did a quick search and found the english version for ya’ll: |
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Swine Flu humor from our masked revolutionary friends: donpalabraz.com/2009/04/29/ezln-we-are-... Warning: Vegans probably should not read this article…. |
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