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Category Archives: Media
Kshama Sawant and Capitalism’s Shock Absorbers
“While you waitin’ for the mention in the pages of ‘The Stranger’ You can find me in the basement makin’ heaters for later… we’ve been living in conditions we’re tired of Come on and rise up” – Blue Scholars, “North … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Ecology, Gender, Immigration, Labor, Media, Organizational Practice, popular culture, Race, Strategy and Tactics, Theory, What's up in Seattle
Tagged anarchism, Black Block, Budget cuts, Capitalism, Class struggle, Coal, communism, communization, Education, elections, electoral politics, gender, hegemony, Hip Hop Occupies, Indigenous struggle, Kshama Sawant, Labor, Marx, Oakland, Occupy Seattle, Organization, people of color, race, recognize and record, Revolution, Seattle, socialism, the Left, The Stranger, Union
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Vanilla Twilight / White Noise
As Noel Ignatiev argued, there is a civil war going on in the mind of each working class white man. That war is between his working class consciousness and his white consciousness. Both are in a state of crisis right … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Media, popular culture, Race, Theory
Tagged Black Block, Capitalism, Class struggle, Dialectics, Fight Club, gender, Hiphop, Occupy Seattle, race, recognize and record, Revolution, Whiteness
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AgitProp Film Festival
UPDATE: Location change… UW Campus, Johnson Hall Room 111 | DIRECTIONS: http://www.css.washington.edu/JHN_D… | MAP: http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=J… Please come out to this if you can this weekend! Alay ng Kultura (AK) presents a series of films and discussions to celebrate people’s arts and culture. Film Schedule … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Media, popular culture, Race, What's up in Seattle
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Guest contribution from Brooklyn: Power and Justice as Unlimited Resources – An Interview with Support New York
Martyna Starosta, AKA The Film Detective, from New York shares an interview with two members of a transformative justice collective. We in Black Orchid are very interested in developing ways to challenge oppressive dynamics within organizations as a necessary tool … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Organizational Practice
Tagged feminism, gender, independent media, Occupy Seattle, Organization, reproductive labor, women
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Articles on Decolonize/Occupy Seattle in Insurgent Notes and the Hella Occupy ‘zine
Hi folks, just a heads up that Black Orchid Collective published an article in the most recent issue of Insurgent Notes, outlining the development of Occupy Seattle and it’s radicalization over the past few months. A condensed version of this … Continue reading
Posted in Group Statements, Media, Organizational Practice, Strategy and Tactics, What's up in Seattle
Tagged Class struggle, gender, Hip Hop Occupies, independent media, Indigenous struggle, Labor, Occupy Seattle, Organization, people of color, police brutality, race, recognize and record, Revolution, Seattle, tendency-building
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Happy Juneteenth
This weekend B.O.C. members kicked it at a Juneteenth Barbecue that our friend M. hosted. He and I also worked together to make a video about the history of Juneteenth and its significance for today. It is embedded below, along with … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Race
Tagged Black liberation, Emancipation, From The Streets Productions, History, independent media, people of color, race, Revolution
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