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Agitprop / Israel / Middle East / New York / Racism

September 28, 2012

Resistance that Sticks

Via The Electronic Intifada, the opening paras of the following piece by Abraham Greenhouse, a longtime Palestine solidarity and BDS activist based in New York City. Posting on Face Book yesterday on the Egyptian journalist...

Agitprop / Intellectuals / Journalism / Politics / Racism / Unnatural Disaster

August 18, 2012

White Terrorists and Others

Top Ten Differences Between White Terrorists and Others By Juan Cole, Informed Comment 10 August 12 White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like,...

Agitprop / Independent Publishers / Israel / Palestine

June 19, 2012

Alice Walker’s position on Israeli Boycott

This just in via the Electronic Intifada: JTA and Haaretz distort Alice Walker’s position on boycott of Israeli publisher Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 06/19/2012 – 11:31 Alice Walker speaks in the occupied West Bank...

Agitprop / Politics

May 21, 2012

The Creeping Fascism of American Politics

I have been a regular reader of Juan Cole’s excellent political analysis & commentary (Check out his Informed Comment site). Here the opening paragraphs of his latest piece: 20 May 12 The Creeping Fascism of...

Agitprop / Essays / Secularism

May 8, 2012

The death of American Secularism

Last night’s analysis via reductio ad absurdum by Jon Stewart of the Greek elections results (how two dead & defeated ideologies, Nazism & Communism, are making major comebacks in 2012), made me think that a similar...

Agitprop / Essays / Homage / Intellectuals / Literature / Poetry

March 29, 2012

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

Adrienne Rich: a major loss. See also her Pennsound page. “But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather”

Agitprop / Uncategorized / Whatever

March 5, 2012

A Change of Underwear

News from Trier, Germany, home of a major Catholic Cathedral & birthplace of Karl Marx: From 13 April to 13 May a highly publicized mise-en-scene by the catholic church will propose a pilgrimage to...

@Occupy / Agitprop / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism

January 30, 2012

300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland

via Retort & Alternet: 300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland Corporate Media Dutifully Report City Officials’ Version of Events Joshua Holland [Read the original version here]. January 29, 2012 – Downtown Oakland turned ugly once...

Agitprop / Censorship / Education / Freedom of Speech

January 16, 2012

Simon Ortiz: Shocked at banning of Native books in Arizona

Photo: Ethnic Studies students march in honor of Martin Luther King today, Monday, in Tucson, protesting the decision by Tucson schools to forbid Mexican American Studies and ban books by Chicano and Native American...

Agitprop / Human rights / Intellectuals / Poet / Politics / Uncategorized

January 12, 2012

Colombian Poet Angye Gaona on Trial

This just in by email from Séamas Cain: The poet Angye Gaona has been charged formally by the Colombian government prosecutors. She is accused of “Rebellion” and “drug trafficking.” The prosecutors have indicated that this frame-up...