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Cancer or Cure? A disruptive hooligan’s solution to incarceration
This winter, a broad coalition of people disrupted the King County Council meeting where they voted to authorize funds to build the new Juvenile detention center. In response, a judge and several media pundits accused the growing prison abolitionist movement of … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, Race, Strategy and Tactics, What's up in Seattle
Tagged anarchism, anti-incarceration, Class struggle, Prisons, race
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Dark Ecology, Hyperobjects, and the New Materialism
I recently wrote a piece on ecology, spirituality, and philosophy entitled “White Baby Jesus Vs. Dark Ecology” for my Aroma of the World blog. Our comrade Matt, aka Bypolar the Toxic Cherub, turned it into a piece of youtube video … Continue reading
“How to Overthrow the Illuminati” Pamphlet
This summer, I collaborated with comrades in New York City to produce a pamphlet criticizing conspiracy theories. We also set up a website to discuss and distribute the pamphlet. For some reason, I forgot to link it here on the … Continue reading
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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Event: More 4 Mann – Seattle Public Schools’ Board Meeting
We are reposting a call out for solidarity. Members of the Black community in Seattle have been holding space in the abandoned Horace Mann School building (owned by the Seattle Public Schools). Free classes for youth and childcare have been … Continue reading
Summer update: Youth Rally, Prison Strike Solidarity, Creativity Not Control
Folks in BOC have been busy recently, and we haven’t gotten a chance to update this blog for a while. I’m gonna post links to a few activities that some of us have been involved with or have been supporting here … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Education struggles, Immigration, Labor, Organizational Practice, Race, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Creativity Not Control, Education, hunger strike, ICE holds, people of color, prison strike, race, Seattle, strike, teachers, Trayvon Martin, Youth, Zimmerman
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Reading for Revolution (Parts 1 and 2)
This is a three- part series of short articles on collective learning and the struggle for a new society. The first two parts are included in this post, and the third will be published later. The first article is called … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Education struggles, Gender, Labor, Organizational Practice, Race, Study Group, Theory, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Black liberation, Capitalism, Class struggle, Emancipation, gender, History, Labor, Occupy Seattle, Organization, race, recognize and record, reproductive labor, Revolution, Seattle, slavery, tendency-building, Youth
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