The Terror of Modi: an Interview With Arun Ferreira (repost)
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
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Star Wars
Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: Anarres as Description of the Communist Future (repost)
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 …
Trump’s impact: a fascist upsurge is just one of the dangers (repost)
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 …
When We Leftists are Criticized by the Right
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 …
Un drone aurait livré une arme à la prison Rivière-des-Prairies (repost)
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 …
A Racist in the Streets: Trad Youth Ramps Up Public Actions (repost)
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 …
Detroiters struggle to survive without city water (repost)
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 …
In Flint, Mich., there’s so much lead in children’s blood that a state of emergency is declared (repost)
For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the same question: Are their children being poisoned? Read the rest of this post on the original site at In Flint, …
Connecting the disconnected: when South Asians accuse East Africans of cultural appropriation (repost)
On August 9th, Yasmin Yonis, a Somali-American writer, caused a Twitter storm when she started a conversation about accusations of cultural appropriation made by South Asian Twitter against Black Twitter. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Connecting the disconnected: when South Asians accuse East Africans …