Revolution

A sparkling anthology of revolt and resistance to orthodoxy and repression. Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets [...]

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‘Robin Banks’ Outlaw, Enric Duran, on Integral Revolution – Infoshop News

Enric Duran, the ‘robin hood’ who took out nearly half a million euros in bank loans and donated it to revolutionary social movements, is now declared an outlaw, and on the run. Still he is very actively promoting the integral coop and a new initiative to support outlawed activists like himself. He argues in an [...]

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Occupy Everyone: Making Revolutionaries, Not a Revolution

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By Zachary Bell Truthout Occupy Sandy has been lauded as more American than FEMA. Strike Debt, an Occupy offshoot, is pioneering the “Rolling Jubilee” of debt forgiveness to the adoration of publications like Business Insider. While popular in some circles, these initiatives have also led to bitter divisions that ultimately surround the narrative of the [...]

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Sundance: Alex Gibney, The Square, Fruitvale, Who Is Dayani Cristal?

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Alex Gibney on His WikiLeaks Documentary: Julian Assange Got Corrupted The latest film from Oscar winner Alex Gibney is “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,’” about the rise and fall of the controversial publisher. The filmmaker dishes on WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and Lance Armstrong—his next documentary subject. “The Square”: Jehane Noujaim’s New Film Captures [...]

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Hamid Dabashi: The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012)

This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a ‘Delayed Defiance’ – a point [...]

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Richard King (ed.): Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76 (2010)

The Cultural Revolution was a massive social and political upheaval resulting from a battle for supremacy within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, set in motion by the party’s chairman Mao Zedong. It was also a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, the effects of which still resonate today. Forty years [...]

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After the End of the World: Film and Text

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The date is December 21, 2012. There has been a lot of talk about the world ending today. Most of it is idle chatter, but this obsession with the apocalypse captures the spirit of the times, implying some latent fear—or hope—far beyond pseudo-Mayan numerology. Given the seeming defeat of the revolutionary movements of 2011 and [...]

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Why I Don’t Much Like Liberals

by Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Dec 21, 2012 Although people like Bill O’Reilly habitually refer to establishment liberals as the “far Left,” they are two very different things. What we identify as mid-20th century, New Deal liberalism is rooted in the Progressivism of the turn of the 20th century. The Progressives came [...]

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8 Signs That Pop Culture Is Finally Done With the Apocalypse

The world has ended, civilization has collapsed, the undead hordes have overrun everything. We’ve seen the apocalypse so many times, even Roland Emmerich is bored with it. So what comes next? We’ve still got some apocalyptic movies to look forward to next year, and post-apocalyptic TV shows like Revolution and Walking Dead are coming back [...]

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What if every electron in the universe was all the same exact particle?

There’s an idea that suggests all the universe’s electrons are actually one particle forever traveling backwards and forwards in time. It’s a simple, elegant idea that solves some of physics’s biggest mysteries. There’s only one tiny problem. It’s complete nonsense. This is the story of that bizarre thought experiment and John Archibald Wheeler, the brilliant, [...]

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Knee Deep in the Egyptian Counter-Revolution

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Project Censored Book Release Celebration Party December 1, 2012

7:00 P.M. Social Hour 8:00 P.M. Program $15 Suggested Donation No one turned away Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics 99 6th Street, Santa Rosa, California Please join Mickey Huff, Andy Roth, Peter Phillips, and many other writers and researchers who contributed to the new Censored 2013 yearbook. From signs of an emerging [...]

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A-infos: (en) France, Organization Alternating Current OC #223 – LIBYA Completing the Revolution (fr) [machine translation]

Recent events in the Arab world and North Africa, appointed by the journalists “Arab
Spring”, clearly showed, for nearly two years of movement, a “change” is possible in a
society where corruption by sclerotic people want and pay the price, but als…

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You Say You Want A Revolution… Right?

It’s become one of life’s most unexpected ironies to suddenly find myself labeled “too positive.” It seems my enthusias…

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Vice Magazine: The Syria Issue (November 2012)

Special issue on Syrian civil war, featuring work of Robert King. “VICE commissioned renowned war photographer and videographer Robert King to embed with the ragtag troops of the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, smack dab in the heart of a conflict that is ripping Syria apart. He returned with footage that has made us very [...]

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Iceland’s Amazing Peaceful Revolution – Still Not in the News (backstory)

Iceland’s peaceful revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Read details about Iceland’s wonderful social evolution at DailyKos, here. Another great article is  on Bloomberg.com. An article at WakeUpWorld says that “The Icelandic economy will outgrow the eurozone in 2012 and is set to [...]

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