February 2010
1 post
Trying to stop the hate.
In the midst of all the talk about education and the war, we’ve found ourselves in yet another discussion of queer rights. This past Sunday, the Gay Liberation Network here in Chicago organized a protest outside of Holy Name Cathedral in response to Cardinal Francis George’s continuing hateful work in this world. A couple of years ago, we protested his lack of defense of the Catholic church’s...
January 2010
3 posts
Obama's Imperial War - An Anarchist Response →
adailyriot:
bradicalmang:
adamquinn:
In discussing President Obama’s expansion of the US attack on Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is important not to focus on Obama as a personality but on the social system to which he is commited, specifically to the war-waging capitalist national state. “War is the health of the state,” as Randolph Bourne declared during World War I. It is what the national...
December 2009
20 posts
“If you want to defeat the right, we must defeat corporatism. This is a truth I...”
– The 1990s Are Over. Has Anyone Noticed? (via azspot)
The odds of being on a plane that is targeted by...
adailyriot:
ohyeahfacts:
(source, via Mike Hudack)
The War in Mexico
adailyriot:
bradicalmang:
kimclit:
The anti-war movement in the United States has totally ignored the war in Mexico. The mainstream media also has ignored this war. Most Americans don’t know there is a major war happening right now in Mexico. Cuidad Juarez, the city with the most deaths from the war, is only 1,250 miles from Chicago. War broke out in Mexico in December 2006 when the newly...
Mark Rudd: What It Takes to Build a Movement →
adailyriot:
by Mark Rudd
Since the summer of 2003, I’ve crisscrossed the country speaking at colleges and theaters and bookstores, first with The Weather Undergrounddocumentary and, starting in March of this year, with my book,Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (William Morrow, 2009). In discussions with young people, they often tell me, “Nothing anyone does can ever make a...
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bradicalmang:
sarasponda:
Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege
Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.
Well done! The beginning really won me over, because he immediantly addressed his own privilege concerning giving the presentation in the first place and how...
“It’s important for the youth of a generation to feel like they can change...”
– Berry Melton
“If a society can not help the many that are poor, they cannot save the few that...”
– John F Kennedy
“Our movement is not very strong today. It’s not united , it is not well...”
– David Dellinger
“Education can never be neutral. Education always either serves the status quo or...”
– Billy Ayers
adailyriot:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...
Exposed: Urban Outfitters – Do you REALLY know?... →
adailyriot:
Let me tell you something: It takes balls to vote with your dollar. Trust me, I’m a budget fashion blogger. Don’t laugh! I take deals where I can get them, and guess what – Urban Outfitters has killer sales. Not to mention some really, really great clothes. Hello! Silence & Noise? Kimchi Blue? Miss Sixty? I’d live in this stuff, if I could. But I don’t. Why?
Because I don’t want...
C.I.A. to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan →
azspot:
The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas, officials said this week, to parallel the president’s decision, announced Tuesday, to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. American officials are talking with Pakistan about the possibility of striking in Baluchistan for the first time — a controversial move since it is...
“For eight years, conservatives endured the agony of watching President George W....”
– O = W (via azspot)
Feminist News: College Campuses Not Meeting... →
A new report released this week on sexual assault on college campuses found that many US colleges and universities routinely fail to uphold established legal obligations to survivors of sexual assault. The report examined archival evidence from the past 10 years and found that the omissions of higher educational institutions ultimately are barriers that insulate perpetrators of sexual assault from...
Lovely little song.
Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds, 1962
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same. There’s a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one, And they’re all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses All went to the university, Where they were put in...
November 2009
22 posts
Protesting the Surge in Afghanistan!
Please join SDS this Wednesday at the Federal Plaza downtown! Contact us for more details. Also, we encourage other chapters and progressive student groups to sign on to the national call from the SDS Antiwar Working Group to hold demonstrations against Obama’s troop surge announcement.
This message was circulated to groups affiliated with the Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism:
Various...
Emory Douglas lecture at Columbia.
Tomorrow, December 1st, Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will be giving a lecture in the Ferguson Auditorium at Columbia College Chicago. Join SDS members at this awesome event! Details: Who: Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party Where: Ferguson Auditorium, Columbia College. 600 S. Michigan Ave, 1st Floor. When: 6:30-7:30
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“They are that great white unwashed that educated liberals just cannot get their...”
– Joe Bageant (via azspot)
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criticalculture:
“Perhaps more surprising, even those high-school students who are fully qualified to attend college are increasingly unlikely to derive enough benefit to justify the often six-figure cost and four to six years (or more) it takes to graduate. Research suggests that more than 40 percent of freshmen at four-year institutions do not graduate in six years. Colleges trumpet...
“Unfortunately, we have an economic system and national philosophy based on the...”
– Joe Bageant (via azspot) (via britreed)
Cal schools headed down →
britreed:
think4yourself:
alcaniglia:
Dear California,
Education matters. You should fix this.
Sincerely,
Al
“While we do not believe in making demands to the University, like a dog waiting...”
– Vision of a new university and a brief list of impossible demands (zine)
(downloadable to read here)
(via britreed)
“College students graduate with 10’s of thousands of dollars of debt, home...”
– Drew Tatusko (via azspot) (via britreed)
U-Md. students protest firing of diversity officer... →
Several hundred students marched Thursday to the administration building at the University of Maryland to protest the firing of a popular diversity officer in one of the largest demonstrations at the College Park campus since the Vietnam War era.
Protesters rallied in support of Cordell Black, associate provost for equity and diversity at Maryland’s flagship state university. Black willlose...
Ugly Truth: Most U.S. Kids Sentenced to Die In... →
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases that could have major implications for the way juvenile offenders are treated in our criminal justice system. Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida both involve men who are serving life without the possibility of parole for crimes they were convicted of as teenagers — crimes in which no one was killed.
Joe Sullivan was only 13 years old...
Talkin' 'bout my generation
newleft:
Indie Music as Labor
For information on the panelists themselves, see my earlier post.
“For musicians, the real question you have to ask yourself is, do you want to be an innovator or a placeholder?” -Iqua Colson
I attended this highly informative panel discussion last night at the Brecht Forum. The consensus that seemed to emerge was that musicians will benefit most if they...
Ten Reasons Why the United States Should Get Out... →
britreed:
Ten Reasons Why the United States Should Get Out of Afghanistan
Article by Julian I. Taber, Ph.D. Retired clinical psychologist The United States lost about 45,000 soldiers in Korea in the early 1950s. Had we stayed out of that conflict, the two Koreas might very well have united and evolved into a modern state as China has done over the years. Of course, they might not have...
Anti-War Actions on 26 Campuses, Rochester Action... →
On Wednesday October 7, students on 26 campuses across the United States protested eight long years of war against and occupation of the people of Afghanistan. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a nation-wide student organization committed to activism for peace, justice and equality, organized the protest.
Read the full reportback on our Anti-War Blog - http://sdsantiwar.wordpress.com/
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