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“Capital has stolen our time from us (it needed it for production) and it has stolen our space (it needed it first as places of production, then as a…
The Struggle for Self-Managed Social Space – Alfredo M. Bonanno (1987)
Columbia Professor Shai Davidai’s Family Tied to Weapons Manufacturing – CounterPunch.org
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/22/columbia-universitys-shai-davidais-family-tied-to-weapons-manufacturing/
Collecting the major statements from the 2009/10 waves of university occupations, After the Fall is a love letter to the insurgent students and workers on California campuses and was used to build for the March 4 strike attempt.
— Read on libcom.org/article/after-fall-communiques-occupied-california
Palantir, the controversial software company with ties to intelligence agencies, is turning to the agency world as part of its continued efforts to grow its commercial business.
— Read on www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/04/18/palantir-is-pitching-ad-agencies-on-its-ai-technology
“…the Iraqi people are putting the world’s most powerful and technologically advanced army in serious difficulty.”
The April Uprising in Iraq (2004)
An organization, a movement, that can protect its persecuted people, has a necessary political element for the growth of a revolutionary position.
— Read on abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/04/17/free-daniela-klette-message-anarchist-political-prisoner-dimitris-chatzivasileiadis/
Empirically, this book offers an analysis of the Zionist attack on Palestinian consciousness through closely studying the torture strategies that the Israeli forces have activated within prisons. The premise of this project is the observation that Zionist prisons constitute “the lab” where political-psychological operations are tested and then generalized to target the wider Palestinian population.
— Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/naming-israels-psychological-war-on-the-palestinians-walid-daqqas-searing-consciousness-or-on-redefining-torture/
A wave of intensified repression has engulfed university campuses since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October. To frame discussion of Israeli colonialism and Palestinian freedom as “anti-Jewish hate,” these efforts unite a diffuse set of tactics
— Read on https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45918
“And the propertyless class — the wage-earners are compelled by competition to sell their labor themselves to the lowest bidder, or starve.”
A Piece of History – Lucy E. Parsons (1895)
The fact that the diluted version sells while the genuine sound populates dollar bins comes as no surprise; pilfered soul is the name of the game, but the notion that dance music’s emergence from marginalized communities gives it radical political power is cheesy utopianism at best. It merely strikes a pose.
— Read on thebaffler.com/salvos/dance-dance-revolution-adjei-kontoh
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