November 2011
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How Liberals and Radicals can work together
I had a conversation late in September at Liberty Plaza that both pointedly stung me and represented a big part of the problem we have with building coalitions. I, a Marxist, and Eve, a progressive (RE: liberal), were having a conversation. Initially, it was my intention to have us place our distinct ideologies on the table, and our distinct analyses and visions, and then find those junctures at...
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How I Escaped JP Morgan Chase: a Bank Transfer Day...
Once upon a time, I was a young man who felt societal pressures to open an account at a financial institution in order to save my money. We were all taught to do so, whether by the Berenstain Bears or fiscal responsibility exercises in third grade. I had the opportunity to join a Credit Union. Bingo!
But I had to move away, far from my credit union. And in this new land, I found not a single...
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Permits? We don't need no stinkin permits!
You used to be able to demonstrate in Manhattan without cattle chutes. They are a morale killer, a form of state control that becomes hegemonic, and a public safety hazard. Police on horses are too. And police-assigned march routes. The more dissident groups cowered to state authorities, the narrower was the space for cattle chutes, the more police lined up, creating a second literal wall between...
