Posts tagged: class war
(via redguard)
Henry A. Giroux - The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
(I feel like neo-liberal skyscapers have fallen before?)
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
-And as Zizek would point out. This method of describing subjective violence in a way which shows preference to one party (the state) is in fact a subtle, but no less potent act of violence in itself.
(via thebarstoolphilosopher)
To talk about broken windows when the G20 come to town is to participate in a policing operation that has our doors broken in and guns pointed in our faces, regardless of whether we justify this collaboration with a discourse of nonviolence or one of security. It is to contradict even that most tepid of progressive clichés: people over profit.
To consider questions of guilt or innocence in the case of these sixteen people facing conspiracy charges is to indulge in all the hypocrisy of a judge, a prosecutor, or a cop. It doesn’t matter that most of these people were already arrested when the property destruction occurred, and it doesn’t matter that they didn’t lead any conspiracies because we anarchists don’t have leaders, and we certainly don’t need them to carry out a little bit of vandalism.
What matters is that when all those workers died, when all those people were evicted, when all that money was taken from us by the banks, when all those bombs fell, when all that air and water were poisoned, no one in power was punished and it didn’t matter whether rules were broken or followed. To speak of rules and laws is to perpetuate one of the greatest lies of our society.
By the way, we don’t like to call our countries “poor.” We’d rather call them “impoverished” because we’re not actually poor. It’s just that we don’t enjoy our wealth. Our wealth just leave our country to reach countries like the United States and Europe.
— Lidy Nacpil
Crisis as Opportunity: Voices from the U.S. Social Forum | National Radio Project
Featuring Lidy Nacpil, Freedom from Debt Coalition Vice President in the Philippines; Liepollo Pheko, The Trade Collective in South Africa policy & advocacy director; Invincible, Detroit-based hip-hop artist; Gloria House, Detroit-based professor and long-time activist.
(via curate)
fuck yeah zapatista women
ziatroyano: thepoliticalpartygirl:
The top-earning 50% of Americans control 97.5% of our country’s wealth. The top 1% own one-third of America’s wealth.
The combined net worth of Forbes’ 400 wealthiest Americans is $1.5 trillion. The combined net worth of the poorest 50% of American households, approximately 150 million people, is $1.6 trillion. Just so we’re clear: the net worth of the 400 richest Americans is almost equal to the net worth of the 150,000,000 poorest Americans.
(chart and data via Institute for Policy Studies)
-Emiliano Zapata
“Muchos de ellos, por complacer a tiranos, por un puñedo de monedas, o por cochecho o soborno están traiciando y derramando la sangre de sus hermanos.”
(Many of you, to please the tyrants, by a handful of coins or other payments, are betraying and spilling the blood of your brothers.)
