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Tactical art for social shaking

mktheberge wrote 2 weeks ago: Last night at the Tactical Art For Social Shaking talk Leonidas Martin, artivist and professor of ne … more →

Tags: activism, Art, Globalisation

(Re)Thinking Walking: Six Years Ago We Were Outside Moving Together Against this War

jesshoffmann wrote 2 months ago: I did take a fresh walk this past week, but given that we’ve just passed the sixth anniversary … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Anti-War, iraq

Health Care: Stop Sucking Your Thumbs

James Ridgeway wrote 3 months ago: Let’s cut the crap. The real question about the health care reform “debate,” as Da … more →

Tags: Medicare, Health Care, Obama Administration, Drug industry, health insurance industry, media, generations / intergenerational issues, Right Wing, health-care reform

How We Got Here #20

jebsharp wrote 5 months ago: Extraordinary scenes have unfolded in Iran over the past week as demonstrators have taken to the str … more →

Tags: How Wars End, History, Iran, Jeb Sharp, How we got here, History Podcast, Iran Elections, Khamanei, Ahmedinejad

Against It! - a visual interpretation of Hendrix's "Machine Gun"1 comment

jhs wrote 7 months ago: This is a video project I made in 1999 for a AV class I was taking. As a history major and a huge fa … more →

Tags: concepts, Music, Chicago 1968, Jimi Hendrix, Vietnam

Stop Human Trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago! [Petition]

triniwarao wrote 9 months ago: Stop Human Trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago! Published by Anonymous on Feb 12, 2009 Category: Huma … more →

Tags: Human Trafficking, Pétitions, Trinidad and Tobago

Tolerant Liberal = Oxymoron

Aaron wrote 10 months ago: Author: Aaron Ah, the sweet connotation when one uses the word tolerance. It always baffles me when … more →

Tags: United States Issues & Politics, Politics, George Bush, Liberalism, Conservatives, Conservative Movement, protesters, Left Wing, Protest

Change, Power, Passion...6 comments

pjblue2 wrote 1 year ago: It’s finally here!  Election Day, 2008.  It’s been like waiting to go into labor.  Just … more →

Tags: Here's What I Think About...Life, Presidential Elections, Election Day, The Sixties, political passion, change, revolution, Apathy, Election Day 2008

No. 17: Dmitry Vilensky on Gazprom's Provocation

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: Gazprom’s PR office has pulled off another coup: information has circulated that the Okhta Center [G … more →

Tags: capitalism, Russian Politics, Saint Petersburg, The Gathering Darkness, Chto delat, Dmitry Vilensky, Gazprom, Okhta Center, Urban Development

No. 13: Anna Rudnitskaya on Petersburg's Antifa

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: It is hard to believe that the war against fascism is once again being fought on the streets of Russ … more →

Tags: The Gathering Darkness, Saint Petersburg, Russian Politics, Fascist Regime, Antifa

No. 11: The Destruction of Submariners Garden

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: The current regime presents itself, at home and abroad, as having brought “stability” and prosperity … more →

Tags: The Gathering Darkness, capitalism, Saint Petersburg, Russian Politics, Fascist Regime, slum clearance

No. 10: Alexander Sokurov on "Victory Day"

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: Natalia Kostitsina: And what worries you nowadays? Alexander Sokurov: There are so many things that … more →

Tags: The Gathering Darkness, Saint Petersburg, Russian Politics, Russian intelligentsia, Alexander Sokurov, Russian Cinema, movement to save Saint Petersburg

Paul Auster on protest and writing

Ryan Michael Williams wrote 1 year ago: Silliman pointed a recent NY Times column by Paul Auster, “The Accidental Rebel,” in whi … more →

Tags: Books, writing, Paul Auster, 1960s

No. 9: Kirill Medvedev on the Crisis of the Russian Intelligentsia

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: In distant Soviet times, I found Bertolt Brecht’s statement that “for art, not being a party member … more →

Tags: Late Socialism, The Gathering Darkness, russian poetry, capitalism, russian literature, Russian Politics, Fascist Regime, Kirill Medvedev, neoliberalism

No. 8: Pavel Arseniev on Solidarity and Alienation among Russian Students

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: We remember, we preserve our faithfulness to the event. Forty years like forty days. Return to your … more →

Tags: The Gathering Darkness, Poetry, russian poetry, Saint Petersburg, Russian Politics, European University, New Street University

No. 5: Sergey Chernov on A Rebel with a Cause (Eduard Limonov)

hecksinductionhour wrote 1 year ago: “[The Marches of the Dissenters] give people courage. Everything will be okay here when people start … more →

Tags: The Gathering Darkness, russian poetry, Saint Petersburg, russian literature, Russian Politics, Fascist Regime, Limonov, Elections, Marches of the Dissenters


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