Frameworks are sets of definitions, ideas about how things relate to each other, construed relationships, or even (especially!) of other frameworks, with which people make sense of phenomena and of themselves. Interlocking sets of frameworks which are cohesive enough can create and maintain a distinct identity, a kind of super-framework …
On May 26, 2014, Narendra Modi became the 15th Prime Minster of India. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Terror of Modi: an Interview With Arun Ferreira
In the communities of Rochester and Buffalo, N.Y., there is a growing campaign to support Jalil Muntaqim, Black liberation activist, revolutionary, writer and political prisoner. He has spent 45 years behind bars. Known as Anthony Bottom at the time of his arrest, Jalil Muntaqim is currently incarcerated at Attica Correctional Facility, …
Ursula K. Le Guin’s is not only a criticism of present-day capitalism by way of science fiction but also a description of what an alternative system could look like. In the novel’s universe, there are the two worlds Urras and Anarres. Read the rest of this post on the original …
In some ways it doesn’t matter whether we call Donald Trump a fascist or “just” a right-wing populist. However we categorize him, his presidential campaign represents a serious danger. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Trump’s impact: a fascist upsurge is just one of the …
They see in the population’s hostility towards the left only the hostility towards the left, not the hatred against those who are socially privileged. (Red Army Faction) Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories. (Amilcar Cabral) It happens, often. It …
Des mesures d’urgence ont Ă©tĂ© prises et des recherches sont en cours au Centre de dĂ©tention Rivière-des-Prairies Ă MontrĂ©al pour tenter de retrouver une arme de poing qui aurait Ă©tĂ© dĂ©posĂ©e dans la cour de l’Ă©tablissement par un drone, a appris La Presse. Read the rest of this post on …
If the rhetoric of the racist right is tweaked at the edges, with the sharp language about minority groups shifted towards a broad discourse of “white dispossession,” then it can easily go under the radar as coded racial attacks are common to Tea Party groups and Donald Trump rallies. Read …
How do you survive without running water for more than two years? First, get a trash can. Put it under the roof to collect water to flush the toilet. Then, get a bucket and remember what your grandparents taught you in the early 1950s, before indoor plumbing reached all of …