Made In Palestine
October 1, 2009
Here is video exploring many different aspects of the Keffiyah; its history, colonization, the appropriation of symbols of resistance. and how Palestinian businesses are affected by the global market. Watch…
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Wolverines! (Red Dawn 2010)
September 30, 2009
These are pictures I culled from IO9 of the Red Dawn movie remake (creatively titled “Red Dawn 2010”), where Russia and China invade the old USA. This one, like the…
A Factory Like a City
September 26, 2009
A Factory Like a City By David Bacon from TruthOut.org Last month Toyota announced it would close the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in Fremont, California, after General…
Billionaires for Wealthcare
September 22, 2009
The Billionaires for…. are a street theater group that have been present during the election cycles of the last ten years. Here’s some media pieces about the Billionaires current adaptation….
Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund Donated
September 20, 2009
this just in down the wire: FOUR YEAR LEGAL BATTLE ENDS WITH SUBSTANTIAL DONATIONS TO CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CAE Defense Fund donated to Center for Constitutional Rights &…
Interview with Martin Lux, anti-fascist activist (UK)
September 20, 2009
Food for thought from the always excellent Kill Your Pet Puppy blog: Thought anti-fascism was all about bearded sociology lecturers waving ‘Never Again’ banners? Not in London’s East End in…
Fiji Water and its Discontents
September 18, 2009
Bottled water! Emblem of assholery. None more so than the Fiji Water brand, with its deceptively idiotic campaign to seem ecologically sound and socially responsible. This despite the fact that…
German Politicians Create Their Own Mini-Utopias
September 10, 2009
Friends at the Center for Urban Pedagogy and Lize Mogel tipped me off to this great story about German politicians their own versions of mini-utopias at Hamburg’s Miniature Wonderland, the…
From Istanbul: “What Keeps Us Not-Alive?”
September 10, 2009
This came down the wire this week, a response from Resistanbul to the 11th Annual Istanbul Biennial, which opens this week, and the IMF/World Bank meetings in Istanbul Oct. 1-8:…
Tucson Weekly Review of ‘Confronting the Capitalist Crisis’
September 4, 2009
“To Change the World: This traveling exhibit of works by radical artists has a refreshingly old-fashioned air” by Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly 03 September 2009 Fabian Garcia Rios was the…
Eco-defense in West Virginia
August 31, 2009
Climate Ground Zero is a campaign against mountaintop removal, they currently have a treesit campaign that is being threatened right now by authorities, some participants have been detained. Check out…
Review of Justseeds Print Show in Arizona
August 29, 2009
The Way it Was By Justyn Dillingham You might not know it to look at that small, trim-looking white building next to the School of Art, but inside those walls,…
Using design to simplify and explain
August 27, 2009
Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war”
August 18, 2009
18 August 2009: Israel declares the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson to be an “act of war.” Tristan Anderson, an American national, was critically injured on 13 March 2009…
“On You! Steel City”: Pittsburgh Media and the Looming G20 Summit
August 16, 2009
Many of us in Pittsburgh are watching the creeping media coverage of the pending G20 Summit in September with a mixture of feelings – most notably trepidation and annoyance. Sure,…
Can Labor Get Out of This Mess?
August 15, 2009
I just got this in the inbox from author & photographer David Bacon. A really interesting piece on the future of the labor movement in the US. It was originally…
Katie Orlinsky on Lens
July 31, 2009
Lens, the photojournalism blog of the New York Times, has posted a collection of photos by Katie Orlinsky of Central America immigrants in Mexico City waiting to hop trains to…
Stop The Tar Sands
July 30, 2009
I recently went to see Propagandhi play in Milwaukee. At this show I first heard about the Tar Sands, a dirtier more toxic way of producing oil than usual. Some…
Save Jura Books
July 28, 2009
My friends at Jura Books in Sydney need help! They are holding a cool raffle to raise money, with one of the big prizes being this great historic Australian political…
Picture the Homeless occupies abandoned lot in NYC
July 24, 2009
Here’s an article from the NY Times City Room Blog, by Colin Moynihan, about yesterdays land occupation in NYC, by Picture the Homeless. Its a good article about the action…