It took me a week to think of a name for it. Dread-ja vu. The meeting place of deja vu and dread, it’s the feeling that’s brought on by watching the same terrible thing happen over and over again, and over and over until a sick suspicion rises within you that this is always how the story ends.
It’s Crime to be Gay!?
We have a duty to make sure that everyone regardless of race, religion, disability or sexual orientation be treated with equality. And right now, our nation, along with many other countries, is denying our human right to exist. We all must protect each other, and if any of us are not free, then none of us are free. So, I encourage you to stand up, vote, protest and live as who you truly are.
What Must Be Done
Even divine-right kings of old, ruled only by the consent of the governed. Meaning that we have always had the power, with or without elections and the other machinations of democracy. When we sit on our hands–when we refuse to plant or harvest–refuse to spend or punch the time clock, we can bring empires to their knees.
The Tyrant Judge of Grand Junction
To translate this all into everyday English, Judge Tammy Eret has (allegedly) deprived United States citizens of their constitutional right to legal representation, strong-armed defendants into pleading guilty to crimes that they did not commit, and then locked them up in the county jail on the taxpayers dime for sentences longer than allowed by law; the majority of these defendants, as mentioned earlier, did not receive the legally required representation in court.
Change Making and Story Telling: A Conversation with Margaret Killjoy
Take the history of fiction… Ursula le Guin of course, but also Tolstoy. There’s this entire huge, influential lineage that descends from Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism. Oscar Wilde…. famous as a playwright and a witty gay man, but he wrote one of the better and most widely-read anarchist socialist tracts of the 19th century, one that gets into everything we’re talking about now… it’s called The Soul of Man Under Socialism and in it he argues that the point of art isn’t to make socialism, the point of socialism is to enable us to make art. He also like, bailed anarchists out of jail. The Modern Library wrote a list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Three of the top 5 were written by anarchists
Just the Tip: A Long Look at GarCO’s SPEAR
“We have recently declared Garfield County and the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office as ‘hostile’ governments to Latinos and immigrants,” said Alex Sanchez, President and CEO of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, a Latino advocacy group based in Frisco and Glenwood Springs, in an email. “This was after the BOCC passed a racist anti-sanctuary resolution that blamed Latinos for bringing crime and disease to the county,” said Sanchez
Palestine: In Revolutionary Context
Courtesy of the South East Idaho Democratic Socialists of America One cannot seriously speak about the, “common cultures,” of a nation when employers and workers of one and the same nation cease to understand each other. What, “common destiny,” can there be when the bourgeoisie thirsts for war and the proletariat declares war on war?- … Continue reading Palestine: In Revolutionary Context
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