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Tag Archives: Youth
“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
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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Teacher organizing, unions, and lessons from the Decolonize/ Occupy Port Shutdown
A few weeks ago, I wrote a document called “In the wake of the testing boycott: a 10-point proposal for teacher self-organization” for the Creativity Not Control blog. Creativity Not Control is an embryonic organizing project that I’m helping build … Continue reading
Native and Environmental Movements Are Opposing Coal Export Terminals – A Call for Solidarity From Port Workers
The indigenous liberation movement Idle No More has called for three days of action this week: 1. Day of Ceremony and Resurgence, March 20th 2. Idle No More Day of Action, March 21st (it is also the International Day for the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Immigration, Labor, What's up in Seattle
Tagged Capitalism, Class struggle, Coal, Indigenous struggle, people of color, women, Youth
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Idle No More goes to the Port of Seattle
https://www.facebook.com/events/590401870987350/ This Thursday, March 21, 2013 @3PM (Westlake) there will be an Idle No More march on the Seattle port to protest SSA Marine’s attempt to build a coal export terminal on Lummi Nation Sacred Land. These terminals are further colonizing indigenous land and threatening the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Repression, Colonialism, Ecology, Immigration, Labor, Race, What's up in Seattle, Youth
Tagged Capitalism, Coal, ecology, Indigenous struggle, people of color, Seattle, Youth
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Healing Not Control: Confronting Rape Culture in the Classroom
I just wrote this post for the Creativity Not Control blog, attempting to link emerging struggles against standardized testing with emerging struggles against sexual assault. This builds off of previous conversations that Kloncke and I had here on the Black Orchid … Continue reading
Posted in Education struggles, Gender, Labor, Youth
Tagged Class struggle, Education, feminism, gender, Labor, rape culture, reproductive labor, women, Youth
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