Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
I have the impression that we can no longer trust that newspaper articles will remain up after being posted. So I’m re-posting this, with full credit to the original author and publisher. Mass arrest rounds up largest number of people so far in three month dispute By Max Harrold, The Gazette May 24, 2012 10:02 […]
Read More Repost: 518 arrested in nightly Montreal student protestI’m straight up appalled (read about it in Hareets) You’d think I wouldn’t be surprised at this, but I am. Even though I’ve been there, even though I’ve met with African refugees in Tel Aviv and know the discrimination they face and the sentiment that exists towards them. I’m still flabbergasted that, what is in effect quite normal, a racist […]
Read More Anti-African demonstration turns to violence in Tel AvivI don’t have much to add to the coverage of the recent egregious incident of settler violence beyond what has been reported in Al Jazeera, Hareetz and the New York Times. As for what happened and how it’s being represented, you can read that on your own. But I will say this – that it […]
Read More Egregious Settler Violence shows Instituted Racism in Israel has Come to a HeadYesterday’s march was a day of markers. It marked a hundred days since the beginning of the student strike against tuition hike. It also marked Canada’s largest ever act of civil disobedience, against the new Bill 78 which criminalizes the strike and even the right to protest. I tried to play my part, even in a […]
Read More Civil Disobedience against Bill 78: Canada’s Largest EverI haven’t talked much about the democratic student movement in Quebec, but I do think it’s the most important thing happening in Canada right now, and perhaps the most impressive manifestation of a democratic will in Canada since the 3 days of action in 1983. But it’s actually more impressive than that because the popular […]
Read More The New War Measures ActWhat if the prescription of “equality” and “human rights” was wrong for a situation? What if the prejudices and idiosyncrasies of the place disallowed it? But of course, the question is never simply “human rights or not”, but human rights for who. Who will be included, and who excluded, from the equality of the […]
Read More Human rights, by Combat and other meansThis text promises to make a big splash in activist as well as left political thought circles around the world: Hardt and Negri have published a declaration on the Arab Spring and the Occupy encampments. I’ve just finished a first reading of it, and my initial impressions is that it is very of the time, […]
Read More Hardt and Negri’s Declaration on Occupy and the Arab SpringJerusalem day is a racist colonial celebration of the conquest of territory and the domination of the victors over the indigenous people. Last year I saw the march with my own eyes as 20,000 Israelis carried their victory flag over the green line into East Jerusalem at Damascus gate, and hundreds who descended and marched […]
Read More A year since Jerusalem DayThere is a tendency on the left towards purity. It is not a purity of the soul or a purity of blood, or even a purity of arms. No, the purity towards which the left tends is a purity of doctrine and praxis – a desire for the process of liberation to always already be […]
Read More Nationalism and Reactionary Left SectarianismIf you haven’t already discovered this, I highly recommend a visit to this website. The blogothèque group films performances of different artists in non-standard situations. Perhaps my favorite is Aloe Blacc’s performance of “I need a dollar’, spontaneously sung around a table in a small restaurant in Paris. Also impressive if Sutjan Stevens’ performance of “The Lakes of Canada’ […]
Read More Les Performance Géniale: Blogothèque
Only a Northern Song 