The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published November 10th, 1964.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published November 17th, 1964.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published November 2nd, 1964.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published October 20th, 1964.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year at the University of California, Berkeley. Students protested the ban of on-campus political activities and asserted their right to free speech and academic freedom. This is a newsletter from the FSM published October 9th, 1964.
This is an excerpt from Marcuse’s 1964 book, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Marcuse critiques both capitalism and Soviet communism for social repression. This chapter is dedicated to theorizing the uprooting of this social repression.
THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement (Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver), the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews.
Link to the Black Power Mixtape: https://archive.org/embed/TheBlackPowerMixtape196719756bryh0IFMhg
Black Skin, White Masks is an autoethnography, written by Frantz Fanon in 1952. Fanon shares his own experience while relating these experiences to a historical critique of racism and colonization.
This excerpt is from Black Skin, White Masks, an autoethnography written by Frantz Fanon in 1952. Fanon shares his own experience while relating these experiences to a historical critique of racism and colonization.
The Wretched of the Earth is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
This PDF is an excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth, a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, a revolutionary theorist of colonialism and race. This book discusses the dehumanizaing effect of colonialism and the implications of a social movement for decolonization, especially focusing on the role of violence.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environment. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. This PDF contains the initial press statement and the guidelines for ELF cells.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. This PDF contains Pickering’s own thoughts and opinions pertaining to this compilation.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. This excerpt is a series of answers released by the ELF pertaining to the aim of their organization.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. The publication Resistance featured the ELF three times. This third feature continues to tell the story of how the ELF was targeted by the FBI and the US government.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. The publication Resistance featured the ELF three times. This second feature tells the arrest of Josh Harper, among other stories and statements by the ELF.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. The publication Resistance featured the ELF three times. This first feature tells the story of Craig Rosebraugh at his Grand Jury hearing in Spring of 2000.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. This PDF is an interview by the Guerilla News Network, a privately owned network that tried to expose important global issues.
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for a group of individual cells that use ecotage to try to stop the destruction of the environemnt. Former ELF spokesperson Leslie James Pickering compiled various documents from the ELF’s functioning from 1997-2002. This PDF contains Pickering’s own thoughts and opinions pertaining to his resignation as the spokesperson for the ELF.
Carl Oglesby was the president of SDS from 1965 to 1966. He gave this speech in response to an editorial that criticized the SDS for “welcoming” communisits.
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on Sept 15, 1970 and explains how they helped political prisoner Dr. Timothy Leary escape.
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on July 26, 1970 and celebrates the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on June 9, 1970 and takes responsibility for the bombing of a police headquarters.
This communication from the Weather Underground was published on May 21,1970 and declares war on the United States of America.
This book details the founding of the Weather Underground, as well as strategies for accomplishing their goals.
This essay by Shin’ya Ono was printed in Leviathan in December 1969. She writes, “What I
would like to go into here is how the Chicago action, and the Weatherman logic behind it,
made, and still makes, compelling sense…”
This is an organizing pamphlet written by the Weather Underground for a November 15, 1969 anti-war demonstration.
The Weather Underground was a radical left militant faction of the Student Group Students for a Democratic Society. This position paper was distributed at an SDS convention in Chicago on June 18, 1969.
The contradiction between the revolutionary peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America and the imperialists headed by the United States is the principal contradiction in the contemporary world. The development of this contradiction is promoting the struggle of the people of the whole world against US imperialism and its lackeys.
This excerpt explains Hartman’s thesis on the omnipresence of terror experience by enslaved people.
What else could jigs danced in command performance be but the gentle indices of domination?
On November 27, 1965, the new president of Students for a Democratic Society, Carl Oglesby, gave a response to Paul Potter’s speech of the previous April, Naming the System.
On April 17,1965, the president of the Students for a Democratic Society, Paul Potter, gave a speech at the March on Washington, the first major anti-Vietnam War march held in Washington D.C.
Professor Jordan uses anecdotes from a multitude of sources to answer the question of: what were the attitude of white men toward black people during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?
Abstract: When detainees go on hunger strike or riot or occupt the roofs of detention centers, their actions are usually narrated by governments keen to discredit them and their actions as criminal and manipulative and evidence of their barbarity and difference. A secondary, counter-narration is provided by detainee supporters who explain the actions as evidence of detainees’ distress and deteriorating mental health. The voices of the actors themselves, people held in detention and taking protest action, are rarely heard in depth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with refugees formerly held in Austrailian immigration detention centres, and the words of Hannah Arendt, this article argues that the experience of immigration detention is fundamentally dehumanizing and that while detainee protest was aimed at attaining certain material outcomes, it also served important existential functions. The fact of protest was a rejection of a powerless state, a way for detained refugees to experience their own agency and, with it, restoration of some of the “essential characteristics of human life” and a means to use their reduction to “bare humanity” as a basis for insisting upon a place in the polis.
In this introduction to her book Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives, Guenther defines soiltary confinement as a kind of social death, looking at the experience of prisoners in the early nineteenth centural to today;’s supermax prisons.
This essay analyzes how graphic violence was used in service of subversive movements as a call to action.
From the author: “In this essay, I focus on seemingly benign and innocuous civil sites, spaces and technologies — such as hotel rooms, demountables and shipping containers — and proceed to argue that, once these civil sites and techologies are situated within the geopolitical relations of biopower, they become instrumental in the production of refugee trauma and death.”
In these excerpts, Scott tries to undermine the “standard civilization narrative” by suggesting that the early states were the result of domestication at different levels, which was also a way to control reproduction of society.
This document was written by the group RESIST, which was a collective group formed in response to the growing unrest in the US surrounding the Vietnam War. It was disseminated by Marcus Raskin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, William Sloane Coffin, Mitchell Goodman, and Michael Ferber who were later charged with conspiring to “counsel, aid and abet” resistance to the draft. It was signed by more than 20,000 individuals.
An ever growig number of young American men are finding that the American war in Vietnam so outrages their deepest moral and religious sense that they cannot contribute to it in any way. We share their moral outrage.
These manuscripts were complied posthumously after Marx’s death in 1932. They analyze a variety of topics, including (in this excerpt) estranged labor, private property, communism, and the power of money in a bourgeoise society.
This book by Michel Foucault is an analysis of changes in the Western penal systems during the modern age. He wrote about how this new disciplinary power led to the predominance of the prison and how it influences society as a whole.
Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested…Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen.
One of the most influential documents of all time, the Communist Manifesto is an 1848 pamphlet that was written to explain class struggle and capitalism, and to summarize Marx and Engels’ theories on society and politics.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
This book by Nietzsche consists of a preface and three treatises that trace the evolution of morality, specifically with a view towards Christianity and Judiasm.
To require of strength that it not express itself as strength…is just as absurd to require of weakness that it should express itself as strength.
Nietzsche
Rapper Lupe Fiasco wrote this piece as an homage to Gil Scott-Heron’s song: “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”
Idiot boxes of the world unite! To fight off the effects of intelligence, replace smart quotes with fart jokes, substitute sense with scenes from “Martin,” let the baby’s bathe in that glow and learn all manner of things they don’t really need to know!
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
Channel the content of some rambling nonsense deep into the annals of yo’ subconscious, deprogram and depress chasing some televised success, be them, that, they and those be everything but in control,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
Small claims Court drama, teenage baby mamas, Osama watching Osama, Celebrity Endorsed indoor saunas, the perfectly cooked piraña and other cannonfodder for you to ponder, all at the speed of imitations of life while the smoke of war gets inhaled thru the peace pipes, be still my beating heart and scare my brain from thinking thoughts as i sit intoxicated by the delights, sarcasm and 3 strikes thrown by my favorite pitcher in a sound surrounded, 3 dimensional, high death, full color mixture, wholly unsocializing and completely uncensored,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
By this one-eyed monster most of the world was raised, and by this hero most of the world was saved, and to this master most of the world is slaves, it factors your fears with actors and cheers from a live studio audience pushing you to engage in a heroic act of thoughtlessness for the grand prize of a little bread, fleeting fame in the circus and every thought in yo head,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
“Ain’t no changing me” said my flat screen TV, No More Che’s to the rescue, or Black Panthers to correct you, just coaxial cables and satellite signals to connect you to a world that doesn’t really look like it does on TV, where everything is much shorter, fatter, uglier and in disorder, where u have to do it now because there are no digital recorders where if the present gets boring you can just fast forward,
The Television Will Not Be Revolutionized!
So there will be no revolution, or paradoxically ironic televised public execution of the entire worldwide televising institution, there wont even be a celebritized, televised trial of old baby blue, cuz you see my dear friends the television will not be revolutionized but what about the revolution that should taking place inside………………….of you?