Posts Tagged ‘ politics ’

The Zapatistas and Social Revolution

May 27th, 2010 | By editor | Category: Featured articles, Scribblings on arts and culture, Thinking again

TweetShareThis video, gives an insight into how there are other ways in which we can take control of our own space, place, community. That there is always the possibility of redefining, of making possible, of changing what is considered the inevitable. Of creating a new way that speaks out against the consensus, the system, the [...]



againstthegrain.org

Mar 3rd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Our favourite allsorts of the month, Website of the month

Every month we pick a website to profile. This month it’s againstthegrain.org, a radio and web media project whose aim is to provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters — political, economic, social and cultural — important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. We’re based at the studios of Pacifica station KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California.



the politics of an artistic process

Mar 2nd, 2010 | By editor | Category: Life in a petri dish

Ideas aren’t born in the mainstream, they die there.
It is about time that we, as creative beings, say no. Say no to being part of the cultural machine, say no to artspeak, say no to vacuous commentary. Nail your flag, find out, seek out others for support, affirm yourselves because they will come after you, damn you, spit on you, condescend to you.