More than a memoir, Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead takes the reader on a tour of Americaâs underbelly. From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get byâand barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in …
WHEN: Saturday, October 24at 7:00pm WHERE: Plan B Halifax, 2180 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 3B2 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/624566001016376/ Comrades in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have organized the first joint book launch for Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead and Escaping the Prism … Fade to Black by Jalil Muntaqim. Ed Mead will be …
âFascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.â â Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini in the 1932 Enciclopedia Italiana with the assistance of Giovanni Gentile, the editor. Read the rest of this post on …
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything weâve seen here in this country. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Fergu$on Hijacking â Hands …
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on the original site at IDENTITY POLITICS IS DOING THE IMPERIALIST DIVIDE AND RULE FOR THE ENEMY
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy nobody talks about. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Overlooked tragedy of Quebecâs aboriginal young …
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their responsibility to do so, according to the most extensive research of its kind. Read the rest of this post on …
âWhen we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee womenâs rights,â write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on fear-mongering against women who wear niqab only has traction if we all collude with its false conclusions. Read the rest …
A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – the French impressionist â was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from museums. Read the rest of this post on the original site at ‘Renoir sucks at painting’ movement demands removal of …
In the early evening of Sept. 17, before dark, a 17-year-old girl strolled from the Al-Noor Mosque in St. Catharines, Ont., to the plaza across the street. She was planning to buy a drink and snack. Then three other girls, teenagers the girl from the mosque didnât recognize, walked up …