Violence is nonsense. While people often deploy violence for rational purposes, violence itself is the opposite of sense.
Every abused child and battered woman knows this. You’re arguing with your parent or partner, pressing your point, trying to make yourself understood, working to reach agreement. Then — slam! — comes the slap or the kick [...]
On this day ninety years ago, celebration broke out in lieu of gunfire on the Western front of the four-year conflagration known retrospectively as World War I. The armistice or truce between Germany and the allied forces of France, Britain, Italy, Russia, and the USA took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day [...]
I just received this from an activist who is putting together a zine on illness and support (or the lack thereof) in left/radical/DiY communities:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON PHYSICAL ILLNESS
I am currently seeking submissions for a zine/pamphlet on physical illness. This project aims to give voice to the experiences of people living with illness, serve [...]
Every day on the Delmarva peninsula, more than a million birds scream, scratch and flap as they are shackled to the machinery of death. The center of it all is Salisbury, Maryland — home of the late Frank Perdue, who was the first to apply the industrial model now known as “factory farming” to chickens [...]
I wrote about the DiY grief zine for anarchists and other anarchists, “The Worst,” before but now that I’ve had the chance to read it in it’s entirety (thanks, Kathleen!), let me share a quote with you:
The norms enforced by the ruling elite of our society ensure that time and effort are structured by [...]
Wow, going unplugged for a few days was really relaxing. You ought to try it sometime.
Before returning to our regularly scheduled programming, let me tell you some things I experienced in Minneapolis. I did two events for activists while there, a workshop on stress and grief and a reading of Aftershock focused on planning for [...]
If previous election years are any guide, there’s gonna be a whole lot of high-risk activism going on in coming months. So, in preparation for my upcoming reading at Arise! bookstore in the twin cities, I’ve prepared a little four-page guide with tips for individuals and organizations drawn from my book, Aftershock. You can download [...]
