Archive for the ‘ Resistance ’ Category
Finally the Times reports on the turn of events since an evidently unprovoked fatal shooting in Oakland on New Years Eve. While this story had shown up on Metafilter and SF papers, it took riots to bring the horrible accident police brutality to the broader public attention. Do communities of color have to violently protest [ READ MORE ]
JN says that this movie, Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, should be interesting. The New Republic review of the film claims that the film is notable for it honest portrayal of the brutality of the Red Army Faction and calls for similarly “honest” films about the Weathermen and the Black Panthers. It’s not clear to me if [ READ MORE ]
A group of activists called Take Back the Land is moving homeless people into peopleless homes in Miami. This group seems to be inspired by the MST. Their mission: First, feed and house people. Taking control of land to feed and house those impacted by the crisis of gentrification and low-income housing is the ultimate in [ READ MORE ]
With protests active on the streets and in the universities of Greece, we now learn that the most central space of the New School has been occupied by students demanding changes that will bring the school back to its original mission. From their website: ~ Demands of the Occupation ~ The removal of Bob Kerrey as president [ READ MORE ]