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PM Recommends: Occupy movement: from local action to a global howl of protest

"A month to the day after 1,000 people first processed to Wall St to express their outrage at corporate greed and social inequality, campaigners are reflecting on a weekend which has seen a relatively modest demonstration in New York swell into a truly global howl of protest.

The so-called Occupy campaign may have hoped, at its launch, to inspire similar action elsewhere, but few can have foreseen that within four weeks, more than 900 cities around the world would host co-ordinated protests directly or loosely affiliated to the Occupy cause."

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Ursula Le Guin's The Wild Girls: Review in Harper's Magazine

“Trying to describe their majesty, I feel like one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s intergalactic interlopers taking her first step on alien soil—I haven’t been so taken with an ulterior reality since I closed the wardrobe door on Narnia. It’s not often that we finish a novel with the thought “What is gender, anyway?” or “What does it really mean to own something?”...Show, don’t tell,” goes the worn-out workshop mantra: (Ursula) Le Guin shows us how (in The Wild Girls). She never recites long lists of terminology or boring (to me) Tolkienesque genealogies. Her worlds are simultaneously factitious and naturalistic—we wander in and find them fully formed, populated by characters deeply embedded in imaginary habitats... — Zadie Smith, Harper's Magazine

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Soccer vs. The State: Review in When Saturday Comes

"Kuhn, mercifully, is on the latter side, without being blind to the game's limitations and dangers. Kuhn is impressive in his global and historical scope, and in acknowledging gender and sexuality questions as well as those of class and race, as he looks at issues ranging from the exploitation of African players to the way the World Cup has been abused politically (varying from the Argentinian junta's outrages in 1978 to FIFA's commerical juggernaut parking on South Africa in 2010). " — Tom Davies, When Saturday Comes

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Suspended Somewhere Between: Review

"There are many other striking poems (by Akbar Ahmed) that I found myself returning to again and again. The Path deals with the compassion for all "tribes and nations" which is required of every Muslim by the Quran. The Passing of an Empire draws parallels between the two Empires witnessed by Ahmed, the dying British Empire he experienced as a child and the American Empire he observes as an old man, and is brutal in its honesty towards both. you my father acts as an ode to the poet's father and touchingly conveys a son's attempts at measuring himself against his father's accomplishments and coming up short. nauroz, meaning new year in Persian, has a surprising twist at the end which will make the reader want to read it again." — SJ Ahmed, Writers Hub

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A First World View of Theft Barry Graham
Perhaps the stupidest and most classist artice I've ever seen in The New York Times...

Why Pundits Cannot Discuss the Occupy Movement Barry Graham
How commentators don't even know what they're looking at

Strike Zone: Hungering for Justice in the Crime-and-Punishment System Vikki Law
"This is what democracy looks like!" These days, when you hear those words at a protest, whether officially permitted or not, you know that the police are seconds away from pulling out their plastic handcuffs and pepperspray and getting ...

Two Blog Posts: Death Wish and Columbus Day, Barry Graham
What a bad 70s film has to say about Occupy Wall Street, and the U.S.A. celebrates its favorite genocidal maniac.

Jubilee! Noel Ignatiev
A flyer that has been passed out at Occupy sites in various cities

when the book starts to come together, it's a beautiful thing Vikki Law
As some of you may know, I'm co-editing Don't Leave Your Friends Behind, a handbook on how social justice movements and communities can support the families in their midst (to be a Fall 2012 release right here on PM Press!). Don't Leave Your Fr...

The "Message" of Occupy Wall Street Could Not Be Clearer Barry Graham
The most common criticism I hear of Occupy Wall Street is that the protestors have no clear, specific message. I find this bizarre. What could be clearer or more specific than occupying Wall Street?

For Pennies a Day You Can Save Dominique Strauss-Kahn Susie Day
Little Dominique Strauss-Kahn is only 62 years old, yet he suffers from a disabling moral affliction known as Assgrabbers Syndrome (AGS). You can save little Dominique – or you can turn this page.

Follow the Money: Behind the European Debt Crisis Lie More Bank Bailouts David McNally
While I was cursing the inane mainstream commentary on the global economy recently, I was reminded of a pivotal scene in the 1976 movie, All the President’s Men. As two young reporters investigate the burglary of Democratic Party offices in ...

Poor Rural White People: The Group It's Acceptable to Demean Barry Graham
In U.S. media, racism and classism are fine as long as they're directed at poor rural whites...

My nine-eleven Noel Ignatiev
I do not consider myself an unfeeling person....

Their Disorder is Our Hope Noel Ignatiev
Since the beginning of the “uprising” and NATO bombardment in Libya, opinion in “progressive” circles has been of two schools. . .

Israel's Liberal Left & Bibi's Buffet Table David Sheen
Israel’s cost-of-living protesters are clamoring for major changes to be made to the country's economy, but so far their demands have failed to question the fundamental assumptions of the industrial capitalism.

Are Minor Threat one of the most influentual bands of the last 30 years John Robb
by John Robbhttp://www.louderthanwar.comIn the past few months a bizarre cross section of bands that I have interviewed or read about have been quoting Minor Threat as an influence. Far more than, let’s say, the Strokes or other me...

Black Flags & Windmills: Climate Justice in Action scott crow
"Black Flags and Windmills: Climate Justice in Action"By Scott Parkin Its a preview story on my upcoming book from PM Press. Originally appeared on Rainforest Action Network blog: The Understory

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