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Category Archives: Theory
Zine version of Reading For Revolution
Reading for Revolution is a three-part series of short articles that I wrote on collective learning and the struggle for a new society. The first article, “Steal the the Ability to Read this Book,” makes a case for seizing the reading skills … Continue reading
Reading for Revolution Part 3: DIY Strategies for Study Groups
I recently published an article in the journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, sharing some suggestions for how to form revolutionary study groups. It is available for free download here: DIY study strategies. Feel free to distribute it if you find it useful. … Continue reading
Posted in Education struggles, Organizational Practice, Strategy and Tactics, Study Group, Theory, What's up in Seattle
Tagged AK Press, Commons, Creativity Not Control, Discussion, DIY, free download, Institute for Anarchist Studies, Learning, Literacy, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Reading, Reading for Revolution, revolutionary study groups, study group, Study Groups
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Dark Ecology, Hyperobjects, and the New Materialism
I recently wrote a piece on ecology, spirituality, and philosophy entitled “White Baby Jesus Vs. Dark Ecology” for my Aroma of the World blog. Our comrade Matt, aka Bypolar the Toxic Cherub, turned it into a piece of youtube video … Continue reading
“How to Overthrow the Illuminati” Pamphlet
This summer, I collaborated with comrades in New York City to produce a pamphlet criticizing conspiracy theories. We also set up a website to discuss and distribute the pamphlet. For some reason, I forgot to link it here on the … Continue reading
Kshama Sawant and Capitalism’s Shock Absorbers
“While you waitin’ for the mention in the pages of ‘The Stranger’ You can find me in the basement makin’ heaters for later… we’ve been living in conditions we’re tired of Come on and rise up” – Blue Scholars, “North … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Ecology, Gender, Immigration, Labor, Media, Organizational Practice, popular culture, Race, Strategy and Tactics, Theory, What's up in Seattle
Tagged anarchism, Black Block, Budget cuts, Capitalism, Class struggle, Coal, communism, communization, Education, elections, electoral politics, gender, hegemony, Hip Hop Occupies, Indigenous struggle, Kshama Sawant, Labor, Marx, Oakland, Occupy Seattle, Organization, people of color, race, recognize and record, Revolution, Seattle, socialism, the Left, The Stranger, Union
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Some healthcare organizing resources
Some folks in NYC are organizing around with healthcare workers around hospital closures and mergers. See their fliers and updates here A few years ago, some of us in were doing work in nursing homes and organizing around staffing ratios … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Immigration, Labor, Race, Study Group, Theory
Tagged Capitalism, Class struggle, Domestic, feminism, Healthcare, Labor, reproductive labor, Union, women
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Vanilla Twilight / White Noise
As Noel Ignatiev argued, there is a civil war going on in the mind of each working class white man. That war is between his working class consciousness and his white consciousness. Both are in a state of crisis right … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Media, popular culture, Race, Theory
Tagged Black Block, Capitalism, Class struggle, Dialectics, Fight Club, gender, Hiphop, Occupy Seattle, race, recognize and record, Revolution, Whiteness
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