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“This is Not Europe!” Crisis and Revolt in Greece

27.10.2012

Athens is empty in August. The sidewalks, fractured and misshapen by overgrown oleander and bitter orange trees, take on a calm one rarely experiences in this city. Bakeries and other small businesses temporarily close while Athenians escape to the islands or, just as likely, to mountain villages for family reunions and local religious festivals. Barring [...]

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The Narcissism of Small Differences

15.09.2012

It’s been about seven months since Chris Hedges dropped his bombshell attack on Black Bloc tactics as the “cancer in Occupy” and his words still echo in activist circles across the country. Charging protestors who “dress in black” or “obscure their faces” with hypermasculine—even criminal—behavior, Hedges drove a wedge between radicals within Occupy apparently committed [...]

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On Resistance

25.03.2012

Anyone who takes political resistance seriously must eventually confront the timeless question of tactics: which forms of resistance are appropriate to the struggle at hand; and which—if any—are not? A second set of questions necessarily accompanies the first, namely, by what set of criteria are tactics deemed appropriate or inappropriate to begin with and (most [...]

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Popular Uprisings: Mid-East to Mid-West

13.03.2011

Friday, March 25, 2011, 6-8 PM Light Refreshments 5:30-6 PSC-CUNY Union Hall 61 Broadway, 16th floor (photo ID required) Speakers: Ervand Abrahamian : Professor of Iranian and Middle East History, Baruch College, CUNY Yoav Peled : Professor of Political Science, Israeli politics, Tel Aviv University, currently visiting New School Kristofer Petersen-Overton : Adjunct Lecturer of [...]

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