Shareable: Sharing by design →
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the gift economy lives.
February 2012
14 posts
People of Color Organize: Unlearning Sexism and Other Oppressions →
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Due to the dangerous intersections of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other positionalities, it is important to stress on being conscious of these interlocking oppressions. The term “intersectionality” is invoked a lot, but there is a huge difference between writing about…
January 2012
65 posts
Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists | Common Struggle / Lucha Común →
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Police can’t be trusted. They may be “ordinary workers,” but their job is to protect the interests of the ruling class. As long as they remain employed as police, we can’t count on them, however friendly they might act. Occupiers who don’t know this already will learn it firsthand as soon as they threaten the imbalances of wealth and power our society is based on. Anyone who insists that the police exist to protect and serve the common people has probably lived a privileged life, and an obedient one.
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High School Students Are Occupying Public Education
As thousands of people of all ages marched around the country as part of the Occupy movement’s “Day of Action” yesterday, teachers and students joined in to protest the devastating budget cuts wreaking havoc oncolleges and K-12 schools. A group of secondary students from the South Bronx who call themselves The Resistance has developed a 10-point list of demands they say would put the “public” back in public education and give the nation’s children a quality learning experience.
