Category Social Change
The Belmarsh Tribunal: Exposing the crimes of the so-called War on Terror
“Since armies can reach each other regardless of the thousands of miles which lie between them friends have to show that they are just as independent from spatial distances as enemies so let’s continue shooting our long-distance missiles of friendship to each other in order to show that those who are inventive only in order to destroy that we are just as able to nullify space as they are.” Gunter Anders
The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion
A list of nonviolent tactics (from Gene Sharp,,”The Methods of Nonviolent Action,” Boston 1973)
A Conversation with Mairead McGuire, Irish Nobel Prize Winner
Don’t give in to the fear-mongering; stand up and tell the truth to end militarism.
International Emergency Online Rally: No War in Ukraine – No to NATO
“This is URGENT! We are horrified at the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. We must come together across borders to demand a diplomatic solution to the present crisis.”
Part 1: Where are the school texts? Black Minneapolis includes Dred Scott and George Floyd, by Susu Jeffrey
“Although Dred Scott’s name and date of birth are not certain the fact that the Dred Scott Case is one of the most important Supreme Court cases is indisputable.”
Chris Hedges and Mark Rudd Discuss Self-Destructive Forces on the Left
” Blinded by hubris, intoxicated by the lust for violence and hypermasculinity and infected with the disease of moral purity, the leaders of the Weather Underground destroyed the largest antiwar movement in the country.”
Henry Giroux: Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year
“The new year should offer the opportunity to rethink life, dignity, and a humane equality as they unfold in their fullest and always with others. The new year should be rooted in dreams that reject a vision of the future as simply a continuation of the present.”
The Messy Truth About Carbon Footprints
“So by all means, skip that next beef burger, or take a pass on that cheap flight to Cancún. But then ask yourself how you can magnify the impact of what you do.”
Where’s Humanity with an Exploding National “Defense” Budget? by Marie Braun
“The vast bulk of military expenditures today have nothing to do with keeping us safe. And the advocates for war are a small minority – politicians, militarists, weapons makers, oil companies, and relatively small fanatical groups like al Qaeda.”
James Baldwin Was Right All Along, by Raoul Peck
“Why can’t we understand, as Baldwin did and demonstrated throughout his life, that racism is not a sickness, nor a virus, but rather the ugly child of an economic system that produces inequalities and injustice?”
CHRIS HEDGES | We Must PEACEFULLY Overthrow CORPORATE Fascism
‘”These people are going to kill us. And they are going to kill my children.”
Henry Giroux: Pedagogy, Power, and Moral Witnessing in Dangerous Times
“Economic inequality is the bedrock of neoliberalism.” “In an age when it seems to me all problems are seen as individual problems and there is no understanding of how to basically conceptualize the social, That has to be one of the most powerful ideologies for domination that has come along for 400 years…”
The Problem is the Other CRT (Conservative Race Theory), by Tim Wise
“Rather than arguing detailed academic theory, we must answer the right-wing assault on anti-racism by demonstrating the real motives of those who have launched the attack on it.”
“American Silence,” song by Chris Pierce
“…Pierce’s impassioned vocals and righteous message to keep fighting for justice in this country. It’s the sound of everyone who’s hungry for change, steadying themselves and marching toward a common goal.”
Critical Race Theory Debacle Signals the Collapse of the American Empire, by Danny Haiphong
“The debate over Critical Race Theory will not resolve the contradictions that ensure Black Americans make less than sixty cents for every white American dollar , the U.S. military receives trillions to bomb Black and brown people abroad, and racist New Cold War tropes continue to be recycled to justify policies…
Henry Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible
“The underlying message of CRT is to dismantle forms of structural racism in order to create a more fair and just society.”
“Banning instruction on ‘critical race theory’ has become the new McCarthyism.”
The Future of the Left, with Noam Chomsky
People power, education, persuasion, organization, persistent, action, leads to change.
Celebrating Fifty Years of an Individual’s Courage in an Era of Apathy, by Danny Sjursen
“Still, there stands Daniel Ellsberg – and others like him; living and breathing correctives to any temptation towards apathy.”
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