M. Gessen: Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era
Source: The New York Times In a show that recently opened at the LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club in the East Village, a group of actors led by a young, ambitious, charmingly naïve director are almost finished rehearsing Chekhov’s “The Seagull” at the famed Moscow Art Theater when Russia invades Ukraine. Thanks to social media, they […]
Peter Gelderloos: Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech
Trump’s escalation of censorship and retaliation is terrifying. The groundwork for it was prepared years in advance. Source: Truthout “It’s a chilling feeling,” Tariq explains to me. “Here at Yale, immigration authorities have revoked at least four students’ visas so far.” Tariq Khan is an interdisciplinary historian and lecturer at Yale University. “A lot of […]
Paul Boden: The roots of Neoliberal Fascism in America today, and what we can do about it
Source: Western Regional Advocacy Project We could write a whole article on the shit storm that has hit at the federal level and then reel off reactionary oppressive measures that local and state governments are imposing in response to the massive numbers of people they know damn well are going to be dying, suffering, hurting, […]
Tom Wheeler: Kicking People Down the Road: Victimizing and Terrorizing the Homeless
China Hat Road is just a few miles from Bend, Oregon, where a large area of homeless encampments has existed for years. The vast Deschutes National Forest area has served as a refuge for people living out of their vehicles. As many as 200 people have lived there in dozens of encampments across hundreds of […]
William C. Anderson: Another way out: Fascism, empire, and a global crisis for whiteness
Instead of longing to return to a past version of the world that gave us white supremacy, we should push to kill it at its roots Source: Prism “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between […]
CrimethInc.: Then They Came for the Palestinians: How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian organizer and graduate student at Columbia University who had permanent residency in the United States. Donald Trump’s State Department arbitrarily revoked his residency. They are holding Khalil in Louisiana, over a thousand miles from his home. This is part of Donald Trump’s promised crackdown […]
CrimethInc.: Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace
As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, their opponents remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of […]
M. Gessen: The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump
Source: New York Times In 1978, my parents went to Poland, the first foreign trip in each of their lives. When they returned to our home in Moscow, my mother couldn’t stop talking about what they’d seen — not a place but a movie, Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret.” One scene in particular stayed with her. Three […]
William C. Anderson: Another way out: In fighting fascism, we must choose our fights wisely
If we plan to defy the order of the day, we must decide between what’s worth fighting about and what’s not the best use of our time Source: Prism “They’re not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they’re trying to impose it from a position of weakness, and fear.” – Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin […]
Kim Kelly: We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid
Kim Kelly Offers Advice and Reading Suggestions for How We Might Survive the Depredations to ComeSource: Lit Hub For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities find themselves under threat, people invariably […]