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Make a Plan to Resist – CounterPunch.org

Nearly two and a half centuries since its founding, the United States, self-described homeland and headquarters of democracy, does not select its top elected official, the president, on the basis of a national popular vote. The Electoral College, devised by slave-owning constitutional framers for whom democracy was the ultimate nightmare, restricts the presidential election to the contest for all-or-nothing Elector slates in a relatively small number of states. . . .

Source: Make a Plan to Resist – CounterPunch.org

2020
10/31
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Victim of Geography | IDFA

Doug Aubrey – 1999 – Victim of Geography shows the guerrilla of Europe: eco-warriors, squatters, peace marchers, radio pirates, soul surfers, drifters. The filmmakers make a tour from Glasgow to Sarajevo, Zagreb, Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, Northampton and Belgrade, and talk with young people who offer resistance to the establishment. We meet squatters in Amsterdam, Internetters in Zagreb and golfers in Berlin. The thread through the film is their strong commitment to the local community they are part of and at the same time the even greater need to escape from that environment. For example, the boy from Zagreb retires to the World Wide Web, where nobody needs a visa, and the eco-warrior and soul surfer tells about the waves, that are his compelling friends, but also need protection.

Source: Victim of Geography | IDFA

2020
03/31
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Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock

 

Oceti Sakowin camp in winter. Photograph courtesy of Myron Dewey, 2017.

Part of the Water Protectors movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Drone Warriors use drone photography as a form of protest.

Source: Drone Warriors: The Art of Surveillance and Resistance at Standing Rock

2019
11/07
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Monica White on Food Justice in the Past, Present, Future – Edge Effects

 

In Freedom Farmers, Monica White recovers histories of advancing Black freedom struggles with agriculture, from Du Bois to Fannie Lou Hamer to D-Town Farm.

Source: Monica White on Food Justice in the Past, Present, Future – Edge Effects

2019
07/16
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We Need to Talk About Europe – Los Angeles Review of Books

 

“[I]f the new social revolution,” Horvat responds, “has to draw its poetry from the future, the content of the future revolution can be made only out of the poetry which is at the same time poiesis and praxis.” A dialectical practice, in other words, which is doubly inventive, both productive and transformative of the present.

Source: We Need to Talk About Europe – Los Angeles Review of Books

2019
05/08
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Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent Resistance in New Orleans | Village Voice

Walker’s installation was freighted with layers of site-specific symbolism — none of it subtle if you knew a bit about local history

Source: Carnival of the Grotesque: Kara Walker’s Insistent Resistance in New Orleans | Village Voice

2018
03/11
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Want to Be Happy? Think Like An Old Person – The New York Times

For now, he said, “I’m thinking about resistance. What does it mean, resistance? What kind of resistance do we need today? Technology is now being used, much of it, for negative purposes. So to resist all what is happening negatively in humanity or technology is to develop the — O.K., this banal word, spiritual aspect.”

He remained sanguine, despite some reservations about current world leaders. Totalitarianism, in his experience, did not endure, whereas art, nature and the teachings of the saints all were as powerful as ever — they were what composed his life. He did not use the word optimistic, but he felt that solutions were more durable than problems.

“To go back and introduce into all the schools art, to cut down on sports but bring arts, philosophy back into all educational systems,” he said. “And that’s what’s being cut everywhere. And I think that’s one of the sad and tragic parts of where we are. Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.”  – Jonas Mekas  Think Like An Old Person – The New York Times

2018
01/06
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Book Launch & Readings: Resist Much / Obey Little | Queens Museum

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2017
04/14
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Breaking Through Power by Ralph Nader, 2016 | City Lights Books

“Ralph Nader’s Breaking Through Power is a brilliant analysis of corporate power and the popular mechanisms that can be used to wrest back our democracy. No one has been fighting corporate domination longer, or understands it better, than Nader, who will go down in history not only as a prophet but an example of what it means to live the moral life. We disregard his wisdom and his courage at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer-Prize winner and author of Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt

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2017
03/20
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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years – AAIHS

 

Mural in Philadelphia by Parris Stancell depicting Malcolm X, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, and Frederick Douglass. Photo: Wikimedia.

Source: Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years – AAIHS

2017
03/03
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