Author Archives: Jack Stephens

Revolution and White Privilege

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Neela blogs:
I’ve recently watched a couple of documentaries about radical movements in the 1960s and 70s:Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, The Weather Underground and a narrative film about the Naxalite movement in West Bengal called Calcutta My Love. 
Both of the first two films were fascinating but left me feeling irritated at the ludicrousness of it all – […] Continue reading →

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Crisis in Lebanon

Posted on May 10, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Here are some views from the blogosphere on what is going on in Lebanon:
Razan blogs:
I just came back from the funeral wake of my neighbor’s son. He was 16 and he and his friend were shot this morning in my street. His family owns a bakery and a cafe in my neighborhood.
And has some links […] Continue reading →

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Bloggers Unite for Human Rights

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Sokari posts:
The 15th May – a day for bloggers to unite and focus on human rights everywhere. For more information Bloggers Unite.
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Rejecting the Model Minority Tag

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Jack Stephens

A. R. Sakaeda blogs at the Chicago Tribune News Blogs
When people talk about the model minority, “model” is code for never making other people feel uncomfortable about racism. “Model” means not being like all those other troublesome people of color. It means keeping your mouth shut and your eyes lowered. It means […] Continue reading →

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Democracy and Fascism

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Jack Stephens

A blogger at the Revolutionary Democratic Front (India) blogs about the rise, and current trend, of Hindu fascism in India, relating to the BJP and RSS parties:
The Hindu fascist ideology has been in existence for as long as seven and a half decades with the inauguration of the RSS in 1925 at Nagpur. But it […] Continue reading →

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Racism: It Ain’t Just for the Hooded Type

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Resistance writes:
The reduction of racism to hate, however, both conceptually and politically limits our understanding of racism and the ways we can challenge it. Racism has been silently transformed in the popular consciousness into acts that are abnormal, unusual, and irrational – “crimes of passion.” Missing from all this are the ideologies and practices in […] Continue reading →

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Marx at 190

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Map Singer writes:
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier…in a two story house with an interior courtyard that still exists today (and is now situated at “Karl Marx street” of said city), which was typical of a petty bourgeoisie Prussian family.
Karl Heinrich Marx nace el 5 de mayo de 1818 […] Continue reading →

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“Globalize” resistance and protest

Posted on May 4, 2008 by Jack Stephens

Carol P. Araullo, the chairperson of BAYAN, a large umbrella front of progressive and left-wing organizations in the Philippines, blogs on the food crisis and the culpability of President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines:
But this time around, we can readily agree that the rice/food crisis is happening worldwide and its immediate causes and historical roots […] Continue reading →

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“What could go wrong did go wrong.”

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Jack Stephens

The blogger at Lenin’s Tomb posts his thoughts on the latest assembly elections in London:
Anyone who thinks that Labour is about to turn left is kidding themselves. Far more likely is that the government will take a more aggressive stance toward the unions (as it did in 1969, with ‘In Place of Strife’) and make […] Continue reading →

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58th Carnival of Feminists

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Jack Stephens

The 58th Carnival of Feminists is up at Be a Good Human:

Welcome to the 58th edition of the Carnival of Feminists! I’m seriously, seriously thrilled to have you here. If you missed the 57th edition, go check it out at Pandemian.

(And while I have your attention, please take a quick sec and vote for my […] Continue reading →

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