June 2009
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“This idea that we should all be friends just struck be as the most ridiculous...”
– Do all vegans need to be friends?
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Fires never extinguished: A blog of the Phoenix... →
This just makes me irritated that the only kids I met while I was in Arizona were boring hippies. I would imagine that the climactic brutality of Phoenix makes it easier to keep it serious and real all the time, though.
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“Well, what did she expect, getting drunk like that?” isn’t salt in the wound, it...”
– On rape and men (Oh yes, I’m going there) [via]
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G.M., Detroit and the Fall of the Black Middle... →
The story of the rise of America’s black working and middle classes is inextricably bound up with that of Detroit and the Big Three. It is not a story with a simple upward trajectory. For a long time, blacks were relegated to the least desirable jobs in the plants and initially confined to a small ghetto on the East Side of the city. But slowly, haltingly, over the course of the 1950s and early...
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“And, have no doubt about it, the next budget will be another round of cuts and...”
– Ireland, Sligo Public Meeting: Capitalism is Failing Us; Anarchism is Fighting Back - Organise The Fightback
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“Y’all Don’t Wanna Step to...
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“To expect that you can pursue a low-paying passion while someone else comes...”
– Marrying for Money [via]
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“For Want Of” by Rites Of Spring [via]
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Viral hepatitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
As a result of touching stranger’s organs every day and working with people who seem to have no understanding of appropriate glove and clean/dirty behavior I have become pretty consumed with terror about getting Hepatitis.
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“The Pier” by Paul Baribeau More Grand...
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Minutemen Do More Than “Secure” Borders, Also Kill... →
Earlier this month, nine-year-old Brisenia Flores and her young father Raul were shot and killed during the night in their home in the border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Three suspects allegedly forced themselves into the family’s home dressed as law enforcement officials, shot the two victims and wounded a third. [via]
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“Tourism depends on the circulation of a desired image of the Caribbean as...”
– Gavan Titley qouted by Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean. [via)
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“Peoples change, of course, but even their not changing can amount to quite a...”
– Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be [via]
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FILTH CITY FEST II →
This year’s substitute for Popfest? I mean, they are basically the same fest, right?
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Shannon Road Ice Cream →
Locally made vegan ice cream that is, if we can be real, the best i have ever had. I mean, Tofutti, Chicago Soydairy, I love y’all (Although I might love you more if you distributed Temptation Ice Cream in Cleveland), but this is awesome. One of the (many) perks of veganism in an area with a prominent kosher community. Inspired by my recently devoured cone of vanilla.
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“I don’t know of anyone with a doctorate degree in abortion, nor of any...”
– How to (Un)pack for a Real Conversation About Abortion [via]
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“Anthropologists have been doing fieldwork in the U.S. from the foundations of...”
– Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be [via]
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Towards a Collective Security Culture →
Perhaps, gentle reader, you’ve never been part of a community targeted by the US government. Picture undercover agents attending your events with the intention of setting people up to be framed for illegal activity. Most of your friends and family would have the sense to keep themselves out of trouble, of course—but can you be absolutely sure everyone would?
“[F]rom now on there will be modern societies of quite different kinds,...”
– China and the end of westernisation [via]
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"Veganism is a consumer activity" by Peter... →
The crux of the matter is, veganism is a consumer activity. It is ultimately an attempt to change capitalism and human civilization through the exercise of one’s privileges as a consumer. This is an impossible approach. Are there really all these vegans who presume their choice is going to change the food economy? For me, its a choice (one which obviously takes a significant amount of...
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“Dirty Dustin Hoffman Needs A Bath” by...
“There is no hierarchy of oppression- there is no “better” battle to fight than...”
– Logos commenting on BB! Statement of Support to Those Who Evicted the RCP
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“Freedom of speech is a liberal construct. Oppressors already have their stage....”
– BB! Statement of Support to Those Who Evicted the RCP [via] The amount of time I have spent/wasted bickering about this concept is embarrassing. Like, really? Its important ‘freedom of speech’ to let people perpetuate misogyny/homophobia/racism at our events or in our spaces?
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“The Motor City, like a college campus, has a large population that cannot afford...”
– Streets With No Name
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“Through this I realized that never again will I be little, small, unheard,...”
– We are burning what is ours - we will never go back. we can never go back.
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“It is the duty of revolutionists to defend every conquest of the working class...”
– Leon Trotsky, “Balance Sheet of the Finnish Events”, April 25, 1940 [via] One of the major disagreements I had with Troskyists (and oh did we have a lot) was whether old positions are worth defending. Sometimes they aren’t, and I think it seriously weakens your position as a radical to bend...
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“Why are men, taken on average and as a whole, funnier than women?” inquired...”
– The Women Of McSweeneys.net [via]
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African women with HIV 'coerced into... →
Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim. Forty HIV-positive women in Namibia have been made infertile against their will, according to the International Community of Women Living with HIV/Aids (ICW). The group is preparing to sue the Namibian government over at least 15 cases. [via]
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“See, public space and private acts are an important part of the equation. The...”
– Public Space and Civic Dilemmas: Lessons From The Wire [via]
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“Refusing to be a Man (Different Studio...
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Against The Corpse Machine: Defining a... →
Sometimes anarchists are slow learners. Disregarding the famous, definitive and prognostic Marx-Bakunin split in the First International near the end of the 19th century, anarchists overall have continued to cling to the obsolete notion that anarchy is best situated within the otherwise statist Leftist milieu, despite the bourgeois democratic origins of the Left-Right spectrum. Since then...