KYT: How We Get Free

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Democratic Party Faces Reckoning for Purging Sanders Supporters Democracy Now January 19, 2018 LINKS “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective” “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” As President Trump completes his first year in office, activists in cities across the country will hold mass protests Saturday on the first anniversary… Read More KYT: How We Get Free

Meme: #Ritual

Meme: #Ritual. In their first issue of 2018, Adbusters proposes that, after the crash, ritual will fill the void left by 21st century network Capitalism, filling our emptiness with connection and meaning. I heartily agree, but my question is this: Who gets to do ritual? Why is Buddhist ritual reserved for ordained Lamas and Ngakpas? from Adbusters, Jan-Feb… Read More Meme: #Ritual

White Like Me

by the Editor, Shaun Bartone: “White Like Me: Billionaire Elites and the White Working Class Support of the Trump Regime” The Trump regime and the GOP are clearly waging a war against the American working class*. The GOP’s 2017 tax reform bill shifts 1.5 trillion dollars of Federal budget deficit spending from policies that minimally benefit… Read More White Like Me

Research on the Use of Violence in Non-Violent Popular Revolts

The strategic naiveté of Antifa When they compare the effects of violent flanks that emerge from inside a nonviolent movement to those of violent flanks that develop parallel to a nonviolent movement, they find that the former are associated with failure, suggesting that negative violent flank effects are more pronounced when a nonviolent campaign cannot… Read More Research on the Use of Violence in Non-Violent Popular Revolts