June 2009
11 posts
Boycotting the Israeli academy | interview with... →
Professor David Lloyd gives clear arguments for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions for their implication in a racist state. (from SocialistWorker.org)
»Tupacproject«, 2005 by Paolo Chiasera. (VVORK) →
Sign this petition to stop the violence in Peru!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence
Dear friends, Peru’s government is clashing violently with indigenous groups protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining, oil and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let’s stand with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia to stop the violence and save the Amazon: The Peruvian...
petro-violence and the enclosure of the commons in...
The ongoing massacre of indigenous peoples in Peru is outrageous (NYT article). See the following link for pictures from the indigenous movement: http://catapa.be/es/node/335 “This page contains all the pictures taken by our volunteers in Peru of the conflict between the Peruvian government and the Amazon people. Some pictures are shocking.”
This situation exemplifies what historian...
A powerful juxtaposition by David Byrne: the hip... →
A new photo of Tiananmen Square's "tank man"... →
What in the hell … does The Wire have to say about... →
Check out Nate’s brilliant Marxist reading of The Wire on money, (and see his earlier post on relative autonomy in institutions: ‘what is the Wire about?’).