Reclaiming Armistice Day: A Day to Perpetuate Peace
As a veteran, I will not be misled and victimized once more by the militarists and war profiteers.
Dear Christine Blasey Ford: You Are a Welcome Earthquake – Rebecca Solnit
Source: The Guardian
It was made at great personal cost, but your brave testimony has had incalculable benefits for the country at large
Dear Dr Christine Blasey Ford
I am writing to thank you. No matter how harrowing your experience, no matter what the US Senate does in the weeks to come, you have achieved something profound in its power and impact, something that benefits all of us. For there are two arenas in which your words will reverberate – the Senate, and the immeasurably vast realm of public discourse and societal values. Even if your words, like Anita Hill’s, are discounted in the former, they will echo in the latter for a long time to come.
How Grassroots Activists Made Peace with North Korea Possible
“We need to shift who talks about foreign policy away from a Cold War, white man framework.” - Christine Ahn, Korean-American peace activist
The Republican party is about to face the wrath of women
Source: The Guardian
Women aren’t just mad – they’re organized and mobilized politically in a way we’ve never quite seen before
If there’s cause for hope in these horror-show days, it’s this: the Republican party has no idea what’s about to hit it this November.
Even the dimmest and most misogynist of Republican operatives must realize, by this point, that the supreme court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and the handling of the sexual assault allegations against him will hurt their chances, especially with women voters, in the upcoming midterm elections.
Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism
In critical areas where major economic reform is needed, few to no measures have been taken to prevent a recurrence of 2007. The next big implosion may be just around the corner. The way forward will be largely determined by the outcome of a political struggle between two post-globalization camps. One would not be too far off in characterizing this confrontation as between fascism and democratic socialism.
The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcomandante Marcos
“Sometimes, in the predawn hours when they find me wandering around without possibility for rest, I am able to climb up on a wisp of smoke and, from very high up, I look at us. Believe me that what can be seen is so beautiful that it’s painful to look at. I’m not saying that it’s perfect, nor that it’s finished, nor that it has no gaps, irregularities, wounds to close, injustices to remedy, spaces to liberate. Eppur si muove. And yet it moves. As if everything bad that we are and carry were mixed with the good that we can be, and the entire world redrew its geography and its time were remade with another calendar. Well, as if another world were possible.” - Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos