“Why do you think we call it struggle?” by Faith Attaguile contributing editor, Dark Night field notes darknight@igc.apc.org with special thanks and gratitude to Lance Kramer and Michele Cheung whose voices ring throughout this document February 1998 The Problem Its coming from the sorrow on the street; the holy places …
Foreword This essay was originally written for the Three-Way Fight anti-fascist blog (threewayfight.blogspot.com) in the late fall of 2005. I’m not sure if it ever appeared there or not, though it was serialed in three parts in the first three 2006 issues of Turning the Tide (available from antiracistaction_la@yahoo.com). The essay was a response to …
“The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise” (James Connolly) Contents Introduction PART ONE 1. A brief bit of history 2. The birth of republicanism 3. Into the 20th century 4. The Carnival begins: Loyal to the last! 5. 1969: the dam breaks 6. Where …
Why has “water” evaporated? The controversy over Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta by Bridget Kulla Off Our Backs, Mar/Apr 2002 Deepa Mehta’s intended film trilogy is stalled. With production halted and only two of the three films completed, the future of Mehta’s project remains in question. As Mehta releases a new …
Masochism in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste & Catherine Breillat’s Romance Jon Davies, 2003 “It is the common business of sacrifice to bring life and death into harmony, to give death the upsurge of life, life the momentousness and the vertigo of death opening on to the unknown. Here life …
Experimental Exilic Documentaries: Jonas Mekas’s Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania & Trinh T-Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam Jon Davies, 2003 Jonas Mekas’s Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam are experimental documentary films about exile and displacement. While Mekas …
Surfaces, History, & ‘Noise’ in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee Jon Davies, 2003 Jubilee is a 1977 “fantasy documentary” by the British director Derek Jarman (Quinn-Meyler 130). His second feature, it stands out for me as his richest articulation of a particular time and place. The film was heavily influenced in …
In this section, we take a look at how discourses of development and technological change participate in broader processes of social reproduction.
Britney and the back-lash by Rebecca Boone Off Our Backs, Jan/Feb 2002 My first feminist role model was Madonna. I was ten years old when Like a Prayer was released, an album that dealt with issues of female autonomy, domestic abuse, damaged parent-child relationships, and religious devotion. Madonna was smart, …
New Orleans and the Third World Mukoma Wa Ngugi ZNet, September 8th 2005 The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is being compared to disasters in the “Third World” but with no specific countries or disasters named. And if not compared to this black hole or repository of …