As Bolivia Burns, State Policy Fuels the Fire
The key condition required to jumpstart the extractivist agenda was to do what previous neoliberals couldn't: to calm the social forces organized and mobilized in struggle.
New Report Details US Border-Industrial Complex
"More than a Wall" delves into the nitty-gritty of the US border control regime, making accessible statistics and information that will serve campaigners as well as activists and journalists, and interest anybody with an interest in social justice.
‘Justice is Indivisible’: Screams of Israa Ghrayeb Should Be Our Wake-up Call
The rights and well being of Afghani, Arab and Muslim women have sharply deteriorated as a result of US-western military interventions.
‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants
To herald the “rise” of a religious left erases the historic resistance of religious communities of color.
Eight Theses on the Feminist Revolution
The tool of the feminist strike maps new forms of the exploitation of bodies and territories from a perspective that is simultaneously that of visibilization and insubordination.
Book Review: Naomi Wolf’s Outrages against the world of fact
Naomi Wolf loves suppressed books; she loves them so much that she’s managed to suppress her own. One way of extinguishing a brilliant idea is to smother it under an enormous quantity of misinformation. Another is to discredit the author. In her new book Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, Wolf seems to have accomplished both.
The signal error, grabbing headlines immediately upon the book’s release, was her claim that “several dozen” men inVictorian England were executed for sodomy. They were not: the last were hanged in 1835. Wolf’s error was the result of an understandable but embarrassing misreading of the legal arcana: taking “death recorded” to indicate a completed execution rather than the mere documentation of a formal sentence that the judge expected to see commuted. The goof was made known to Wolf in a most public way, in the midst of a BBC interview. This led to the recall of the first British printing and the delayed release of the US edition. Some observers took the opportunity to soak in the schadenfreude, but I suspect a larger number started quietly humming “There but for Fortune.” I know I did.