- #feministvigilantegangs
- Black women shaping feminist theory
- This is how to play chola...
- They come with harrowing tales of abuse that neither the police, nor their local communities, have done anything to address. - on the Gulabi Gang
- "You can't do feminism without thinking about imperialism." Anticapitalist Feminist Struggle, and Transnational Solidarity - an interview with Chandra Talpade Mohanty (video)
- Phoolan Devi
- Queer Interrupted
- A brief history of Bash Back!
- "Don’t get us wrong. We’re not asking for better wages or a lower interest rate. We’re not even asking for the full abolition of capital – there’s no one to ask."
- Olympic boxer Claressa Shields, fighter-survivor
- A love poem for single mothers
- "She didn't take shit. At least never with a smile." - Remembering Shulamith Firestone
- "No one ever made a movie about my grandmother's story. No new laws were signed into effect in South Texas in the 1970s when my grandmother was raped, tortured and murdered."
- Sahara Sahara depicts an imagined group of female vigilantes who rebel against the fossil fuel industry by vandalizing local technologies. In an abstract media space which conflates the genres of heist, action and dance, the renegades encounter bounty hunters in a fight that seems to have no end. (video)
- POC Zine Project RACE RIOT! Tour
- MOONROOT: An Exploration of Asian Womyn's Bodies (pdf)
- Lies: a journal of materialist feminism (pdf)
- Mapping Intervals: Towards an Emancipated Cartography
- Is it really necessary to translate Arabic literature?
- How Chinese Typists Invented "Predictive Text" during the Height of Maoism (video)
- Shadow Libraries
- On Egyptian dust
- Reading and Translating the Qur'an with the Dominican Arabists, c.1240-1320
- Web Archives and Chinese Literature
- The Web That Can't Wait
- Crimes Against Civilization in the Hejaz
- Race, Gender and Nation in "Game Of Thrones"
- Switzerland’s blood money
- Territory Jam: Tehran
- Hip-Hop-Academia: Omar Offendum and Arab Diaspora Rap
- Pankaj Mishra discusses "From the Ruins of Empire" with Hamid Dabashi
- A virtual tour of Lahore Museum
- Neil Smith (1954-2012)'s seminal "Toward a Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People" (via @dispositif)
- "Leveling the playing field" isn't enough [pdf]
- Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege
- Canada gives up its independent "middle power" position in foreign affairs
- A brief explanation of the basis of American labor law
- Denial of Tenure At Vanderbilt (circa 1983)
- Defend the Right to Protest
- The Waning of the Modern Age
- The Plot Against Occupy
- Tanzanian Villagers Pay for Sun Biofuels Investment Disaster
- Don't Panik! Islam and Europe's 'Hip Hop Wars'
- Death Race 2012
- Meeting a Troll
- RIP Neil Smith
- The Military Planks of Capital Accumulation
- First-Name-Third-Person
- The Obligatory Gagnam Style Post
- San Francisco in Ruins, 1906
- Within weeks, Rhode Island is a graveyard of billions
- Asia through a lens: early Colonial Office photos released online
- The ineluctable forces of technological change have finally prevailed against LRB's desire to remain personally attentive to their readers
- Reddit Users Attempt to Shame Sikh Woman, Get Righteously Schooled
- Mathematical Malpractice Watch: Guns
- Founding Fathers, Founding Villains
- Does “See Something, Say Something” Do Nothing?
- Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
- Won't Back Down; Obama's America
- Are Student Loans Immoral?
UC/CSU: Time for a fundamental rethinking of the role of the UC administration. Pepper-sprayed students from UC Davis win settlement worth $1 million with the UC administration, which breaks down to $30,000 per student (not quite enough to payone year of out-of-state tuition!). And magically, no individual is at fault: "the regents are not conceding wrongdoing in the incident and that the defendants 'acted reasonably and with good intentions.'" Meanwhile, CSU plans to outsource its data storage to private data centers, leading to possibly the best quote ever from CSULB President F. King Alexander: "This could save a lot of money. We would not lose anything because of the new capacious increased capacity."
Education: How did the Quebec student movement win? Are student loans immoral? "A shocking 41 percent of the class of 2005 is either delinquent or in default [on their student loans]."Enrollment drops again in graduate programs, especially in education and arts and humanities, the neoliberal restructuring of higher ed in New York, Big Oil goes to college, and anupcoming Supreme Court decision on affirmative action (watch for the part where race is conflated with clothing and hair style).
Policing: In addition to labeling all arrested Latinos as "white,"SFPD has been counting all arrested Asians as "Chinese."Meanwhile, across the bay in Oakland, the unresolved murder of Alan Blueford by police reveals the culture of impunity in City Council and OPD. And that brings us to…
Europe! First, some context for the anti-austerity protests in Spain. Great photos of #25S and #29S from El País. Videos from 25-S here and here (jump-kick at 2:55!) and truly incredible footage from the frontlines here. Spain reels at the riot police's violent tactics, but the politicians are totally cool with it, praising the police for acting "magnificently" and "extraordinarily well" and awarding the head of the riot police a special medal and 10 percent pay raise. And it's not just in Spain: Southern storm hails the start of the European fall. In the face of brutal austerity measures, Portugal is at a flashpoint.
Finally, some thoughts on (not) voting: Death Race 2012 and a Letter to the Dismal Center.
- Maintaining party purity in China.
- One more step to drone police.
- Chasing the minnows on Wall St.
- A fictitious past, and a disappearing one.
- Carolina Koch-ish Center sez: let kids drop out at age 14 to enter the labor force.
- Romney McDuck, and his forbears, with a bonus legal analysis.
- FICO follies
- Modern wealth.