This piece was written around the recent community counter-protest against the KKK in my current hometown of Charlottesville, VA. For a little more context, see the links below. (Photos by Ézé Amos) *************** Several folks are noting the questionable allegations several City officials are making to justify the police’s violence towards a massive nonviolent community […]
READ MORETHE TYRANNY OF CIVILITY: Part 4 in a Four-Part Series
THE “TYRANNY OF CIVILITY”: Part Four in A Four-Part Series NOTE: This series of essays are focused primarily on the use of “civility” as a social/cultural norm in the context of nonviolent revolutionary struggles in the U.S. I’m not interested in discussing the “merits” of revolutionary nonviolence vs. other forms of struggle for liberation and […]
READ MORETHE TYRANNY OF CIVILITY: Part 3 in a Four-Part Series
NOTE: This series of essays are focused primarily on the use of “civility” as a social/cultural norm in the context of nonviolent revolutionary struggles in the U.S. I’m not interested in discussing the “merits” of revolutionary nonviolence vs. other forms of struggle for liberation and survival that might not easily wear that label in this […]
READ MORETHE TYRANNY OF CIVILITY: Part 2 in a Four-Part Series
THE TYRANNY OF CIVILITY: Part 2 in a Four-Part Series NOTE: This series of essays are focused primarily on the use of “civility” as a social/cultural norm in the context of nonviolent revolutionary struggles in the U.S. I’m not interested in discussing the “merits” of revolutionary nonviolence vs. other forms of struggle for liberation and […]
READ MORETHE TYRANNY of CIVILITY – Part One in a Four-Part Series
Image courtesy of Wikicommons THE TYRANNY OF CIVILITY: PART 1 in A Four-Part Series NOTE: This series of essays are focused primarily on the use of “civility” as a social/cultural norm in the context of nonviolent revolutionary struggles in the U.S. I’m not interested in discussing the “merits” of revolutionary nonviolence vs. other forms of […]
READ MOREWHAT I HEAR WHEN I HEAR “THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT DIDN’T REALLY DO ANYTHING”
When I hear someone say that the Occupy Movement didn’t accomplish anything, or amount to anything, I find it incredibly annoying and dismissive. But even worse, I find it ill-informed and/or willfully ignorant. Occupy played a useful role in creating the political environment we are in now, where minimum wage and other anti-poverty struggles are […]
READ MOREFollow-Up to “Space for Us All” – Some Race and Sci-Fi-related Commentary
Hey folks, Following up on my piece from last week, I’m posting links a few articles on race and sci-fi I’ve seen online in this past week by Noah Berlatsky from The Atlantic from last year. The first piece makes some really interesting points about how often and how colonial narratives (and anti-colonial narratives) are […]
READ MORESpace For Us All
The eagerly awaited seventh installment of the popular space opera series Star Wars, subtitled “The Force Awakens”, is set to hit theaters later this month. But earlier this fall, a small group of racist Twitter trolls set off yet another skirmish in the culture wars by launching a new hashtag in response to the film’s […]
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