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Interface Journal Seeks Contributions

15, Feb 2010

Sent via friends: Interface – A Journal For and About Social Movements is a new journal produced twice yearly by activists and academics around the world in response to the development and increased visibility of social movements in the last few years – and the immense amount of knowledge generated in this process. This knowledge [...]

Score a Free Copy of Upping the Anti

31, Jan 2010

Issue nine of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action is out, and you can score yourself a copy at no cost for just a little effort.
I am associated with the great Canadian journal and I want to encourage you to pick it up. I just opened my box and will tell you [...]

What’s That Rhymefest is Reading?

19, Jan 2010

Keeping up the music vibe today, Fake Shore Drive posted the cover art for Rhymefest’s El Che, due out later this year.
Chicago-based MC Rhymefest has performed political hip-hop for many years and is widely credited for writing Kanye West’s hit “Jesus Walks.” While the reference to Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the title and red star-and-fist [...]

Anti-Capitalist Journal New Issue Here

30, Dec 2009

The new issue of the political magazine Turbulence: Ideas for Movement is out.
Editors say, for many years, social movements could unite around rejecting neoliberalism. Those conversations and practices that defined movements. But the economic crisis has meant a crumbling of the common. This issue discusses what should happen now. Where once nationalized banks and change [...]

Review: Red Army Faction Collection

27, Dec 2009

Though it has been out a few months, I find myself regularly going back to a fantastic book I want to recommend to students of progressive/radical history, and to those who might have seen the Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated Baader-Meinhof Complex earlier this year and wanted to know more about the story behind it.
When [...]

Links: Avatar Racist? Anti-Imperialist?

24, Dec 2009

James Cameron’s film Avatar has had the blogosphere talking about race and imagery in film. Is Avatar a racist tale or an anti-imperialist parable? Going into a holiday weekend, those considering catching the film may want to get a sense of what people are saying of the Avatar’s politics and ideas.
Reappropriate compares Avatar to other [...]

Domestic Violence Documentary Airs

16, Dec 2009

Wendy Maldonado’s story of domestic abuse is terrifying and real. Over a 19-year marriage, she endured numerous violent acts detailed in a new documentary, which captures her last days of freedom before beginning a 10-year prison sentence.
In 2005, Maldonado and her 16-year-old son murdered her husband, Aaron, with a hammer and a hatchet. The lives [...]


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