Sunday Reading

Jacob Remes:

• The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Marikana. “And on the deadly Thursday afternoon, N’s murderer could only have been a policeman. I say murderer because there is not a single report on an injured policeman from the day. I say murderer because there seems to have been no attempt to uphold our citizens’ right to life and fair recourse to justice.”
• Halifax tries a novel rape education message: “don’t rape”
• Pat Buchanan’s “cultural war” speech was derided as fringe at the 1992 Republican Convention; at this year’s convention, it’s utterly mainstream.
• Where HIV+ is the new normal.
• “I affirm a Judaism that is not associated with state violence.”
• From a striking Quebec student:  Why We’re Still Blocking Classes
• Obama Channels Reagan on Welfare
• Quebec’s left-wing party (projected to win two, maybe three seats in Tuesday’s election) “We are a movement party. We see ourselves as a party of change, of social change, not as a party of government. We want to use government as a tool for social change.”

Frank Pasquale:

• From voodoo economics to Honey Boo Boo economics.
• Predatory privatization.
• S. Africa: prison sentences 4 whistle-blowers; Apartheid-era rules & violence for labor.
• Why medicine is so costly in LDCs.
• The purchase-driven web.
• She gets $600 a second and she thinks you need to work harder.
• “Money is rules and governments set those rules”
• The Big Shill.
• Future deregulation, previewed here.
• Globalization isn’t working.
• Washington Post: Yes we can people.
• Luxury secessionism.

Aaron Bady:

• Twitterland and Twitter and the Left
• Sarah Lawrence with Guns
• The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Marikana.
• Muslim Self-Portraits (and Accusations) at Heart Mountain
• The Living Death of Solitary Confinement
• Rachel Corrie verdict exposes Israeli military mindset
• How the Left Has Won
• Neighbors organize an outdoor library in the Fruitvale and Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez Update: Occupy Tactics Meet Community Organizing in the Murder Dubs
• Occupy Year Two
• The Chomsky Problem
• We’re Going To Tax Their Ass Off!
• What Went Wrong in Mail?
• The Grown Ass Woman
• The Balkanisation of Syria: Myth or Reality?
• The Left Facing Page
• The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion
• It’s high time Tagore was rediscovered as a thinker
• The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program
• Can Struggle Be Shared?
• Ron Paul’s Great Rock-N-Roll Swindle at the RN
• Remembering Trouillot

ReclaimUC:

• Chile: While copwatching the student protests now requires helmets and gas masks, Chilean students are no longer afraid of the police.
• Quebec: Henry Giroux on the Quebec student movement and the power of the radical imagination. Some thoughts on capitalist realism, the Quebec elections, and the student movement. Meanwhile, public employees are being suspended or fired for wearing red squares in solidarity with the student movement. Interviews: Anna Feigenbaum on radical pedagogy and student organizing in Montreal; Marianne Garneau on organizing a student strike in the US; and a useful conversation with some Bay Area organizers on Occupy, student movements, and Quebec.
• UC Davis: A summer legal update from the David Dozen, where the judge refuses to see any possible connection between the pepper-spraying incident and the bank blockade. Meanwhile, facing 5 felony and 15 misdemeanor charges for vandalism–the definition of “charge stacking”–one of the twelve has taken a plea deal.
• California: Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax proposal, on whose approval by voters in November the massive “trigger cuts” to public higher ed turn,has some sketchy, corporate backers. Like oil companies, which have gotten behind this campaign to prevent more popular ideas like, say, taxing oil companies, from being taken seriously. Already, California community colleges have lost $809 million in state funding since 2008 and will turn 470,000 students away this fall.
• US: Who is Professor Staff, and how can this person teach so many classes? Precarious labor in higher ed is just one part of the low-wage, temp work future that awaits us all.
• A little bit of everything: an exposé of civilian police oversight and structural impunity; an analysis of labor unrest in China; some reflections on teaching literature at West Point; and the roots of Chicago’s gun violence (hint: it’s not really about the guns).

Bint Battuta:

• Birthright Journeys: Connecting Dots from the Diaspora

• When the Bosphorus Dries Up by Orhan Pamuk
• The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz
• Filipino jazz bands in India in the 1920s
• The tragedy of books in Egypt
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction
• Éric Rouleau’s memories of Egypt’s Jewish community
• California’s Punjabi-Mexican community
• Adorno on punctuation marks [pdf]
• Turkey’s Volga Tatar community
• Why do you hate Khalijis?
• Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now
• Sven Birkerts on reading Sebald
• On Cairo’s dying trams

l.e. long:

• If anything, read this one: No Justice When Women Fight Back
• Happy Hookers
• Slow Comedy
• An Open Dialogue with Jasper Bernes and Joshua Clover
• We Are Nothing and So Can You Chapbook from Jasper Bernes
• Nothing is Ever to Happen Again Tiqqun on Public Space
• Touching Feeling
• The Search for Decolonial Love, Part 1 (Interview with Junot Diaz) (Part 2)
• China and Ethical Mapping of Global Commerce
• China in Revolt
• An Open Letter to the UC from Some Friends

Previously by
Jane Hu

• The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
• Bartleby in the University of California: The Social Life of Disobedience
• Clear Satire

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