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And Star Wars (the force); William Gibson (Idoru); China Mieville (dream shit); Nalo Hopkinson (sensual breathtaking magic); the Zapatistas (many worlds exist); the Black Panthers (meet the biological needs of a community as a mode of organizing); Black feminist artists Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The progressive-neoliberal bloc combined an expropriative, plutocratic economic program with a liberal-meritocratic politics of recognition.
Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
“One-pagers” were issued for left-wing pundits so they could fan out on TV network Sunday talk shows with coordinated messages—which explains, in part, the syndrome of news programs devolving into little more than look-alikes, with pundits and experts on both sides forwarding the narratives of paid interests. A Message Matters one-pager issued in M
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election
Carole Cadwalladrtheguardian.comIt’s political and it’s cultural: At some point in the last few years, a feeling has set in that the future is being foreclosed
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
“I want [my daughter] to grow up in a society where she will have a comfortable and important place.”