[This is an exciting project of study and reflection on radical practice. Please take some time to read through the articles, if you're interested. I recommend: Team Colors', Introduction to the Project, El Kilombo & Michael Hardt in Conversation, Organizing Encounters and Generating Events, and, finally, smartMeme's, Story-Based Strategies for Direct Action Design.] Will you [...]
DNC 2008 Anti-War Protests
Watch Iraq Veterans Against the War as they try to get their anti-war message to Obama at the Democratic National Convention. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PjHQfoGctU&eurl=http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home]
Work Place Organizing and Community Organizing
By: Rich Feldman Radicals, union organizer and activists often talk about the difference between work place organizing and community organizing. Which is more important to changing our country? Some talk about creating new links between the workplace and the community. In 2008, the answer is not simply resolved through attempting to join community organizing with [...]
Audio of Grace Lee Boggs' Left Forum Speech
Listen to The Next American Revolution Speech, by Grace Lee Boggs, presented at the Left Forum Closing Plenary, Cooper Union, in New York, on March 16, 2008. Find the text of this speech here.
In the presence of genius: Grace Lee Boggs
By: Patrick Barry of LISC/Chicago’s blog [check out other news and commentary about community development at LISC/Chicago's blog, http://communitybeat.blogspot.com, and the New Communities Program website at http://www.newcommunities.org] I hang out with a lot of very smart people but tonight was different. Tonight I was in the presence of genius. After spending the day with other [...]
VIDEO: Port of Olympia War Shipments Halted 11/9/07
Late Friday afternoon, approximately 50 members of Olympia Port Militarization Resistance (OlyPMR) sat down near the main gate of the Port of Olympia in Washington State. Two tractor trailers, one carrying two Stryker combat vehicles, another filled with military cargo, were blocked from exiting the port. Police arrived on the scene and after failing to [...]
ENTERING THE “REAL WORLD”
By Lydia Wylie-Kellerman A College Commencement Talk Today we each take a step into our life’s work. We’ve been told a million times we are entering the “real world.” But what is this real world? It is a world built on white privilege, on the prerogatives of wealth, on marginalization through homophobia, on the violence [...]
A Correspondence About Transformation, Rebellion, Love, Citizenship, Lenin, Jefferson, Cities And Communities
TO MICHAEL HARDT FROM GRACE BOGGS, 4/29/08 Many thanks for your little book on Thomas Jefferson which arrived yesterday. I’ve only had time to read the introduction, but I couldn’t wait to let you know how much I appreciate your analysis and the succinctness and clarity with which you have conveyed these powerful ideas. You [...]
Michael Hardt on Love
Michael Hardt, the author of Multitude and Empire talks about love, how can love function as a political concept, why love, the proper and improper ways love has functioned politically, love as activism, and evil and its relationship to love. Watch all six youtube segments here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioopkoppabI&hl=en]
A Soft Answer
By: Terry Dobson A turning point in my life came one day on a train in the suburbs of Tokyo, in the middle of a drowsy spring afternoon. The old car clanked and rattled over the rails. It was comparatively empty—a few housewives with their kids in tow, some old folks out shopping, a couple [...]
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