Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC Support plunges for Proposition 30, which would prevent a devastating round of "trigger cuts" to public higher ed in California. You would think UC president Mark Yudof would...
Sunday Reading
...is nearly entirely landfill. ReclaimUC It's not just UC Berkeley's Chancellor Birgeneau who's gone at the end of the year -- UCPD Chief Mitch Celaya's out too. "Under his leadership,...
A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Sunday Reading
...a check when they get caught, they’re never going to stop.'" ReclaimUC: Los Angeles police fired their weapons in 63 incidents last year, a total which marked a roughly 50%...
Sunday Reading
...percent Altitudes Of Imperialism Exodus from Burma, 1941-42; a Memoir Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theater How Colonel Sanders Became Father Christmas in Japan Torture, American-style NLRB ruling shifts legal...
A Very Long Winter
...accept the power of Russian culture in the “historically” Russian cities. “Black racism” or “Caucasian fascism” became widespread terms within the Antifa milieu. A significant part of the milieu even...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...but it has changed. In this sense, it’s isn’t simply that “MOOCs are the future,” or online education is changing how we teach,” in the present tense. Those kinds of...
Workingman's Bread
...course in home economics could help students to teach their cash-strapped families to stretch their dollar. Frugality and thrift, watchwords of austere times past, would once again see recession-wracked Americans...
Some of This Actually Happened
...tough vernacular music of industrial black Chicago, less for irony than as a macho mixtape to complement the film's interminable depictions of bros behaving badly. Jordan Belfort is Mick Jagger...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: "Thanks to Berkeley…": Managing multiculturalism in an age of austerity "Hidden behind a false wall and a fast-food restaurant, large black and brown images depict the faces of...
Fight for the Future
On Mauna Kea hundreds are holding a refuge and defending land from the proponents of false progress
Post-Exotic Novels, Nȯvelles, and Novelists: Part One
...chiefly in the prison. Their emergence can be explained by penal techniques of collective collaboration, which gave rise to murmurs, fragments, whispers, chants, mumbles, verbiage, drones, and songs. What comes...
Blood platinum is not a solid but a gas
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-jdMbe6e3g 34 dead and 78 wounded. From clouds of toxic gas Tear gas, likely not the British-designed CR gas (dibenzoxazepine) with nerve agent used during apartheid...
Sunday Reading
...American politics ReclaimUC: Since the 1980s, university administrators have blamed tuition hikes on everything from utility bills and libraries to lazy professors and diversity Cutting jobs to fund university buildings...
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Iranophobia 2.0
...Iranian had an identical experience. Zack Jafarzadeh tried to buy an iPhone at a mall in Atlanta: I would say if you're trying to buy an iPhone, don't tell them...