LABOR: “Labor Day, the Less Radical Alternative to May Day”
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Category Archives: Revolutionary
LABOR: “Capitalists and Light Bulbs”
h/t: Teabonics
LABOR: “Minimum Wage”
h/t: Labor 411
LABOR: “Happy May Day!” / “Interns, Occupiers, and Strikers: A May Day 2014 Reading List”
CRIMINALIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC DISSENT: “The Revolutionaries in Our Midst” / Chris Hedges
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On Friday the 28-year-old activist will appear for sentencing in the Southern District Court of New York in Manhattan. After having made a plea agreement, he faces the possibility of a 10-year sentence for hacking into the Texas-based private security firm Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor, which does work for the Homeland Security Department, the Marine Corps, the Defense Intelligence Agency and numerous corporations including Dow Chemical and Raytheon.
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Hammond turned the pilfered information over to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications. The 3 million email exchanges, once made public, exposed the private security firm’s infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of protesters and dissidents, especially in the Occupy movement, on behalf of corporations and the national security state. And, perhaps most important, the information provided chilling evidence that anti-terrorism laws are being routinely used by the federal government to criminalize nonviolent, democratic dissent and falsely link dissidents to international terrorist organizations. Hammond sought no financial gain. He got none.
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Freedom of the press and legal protection for those who expose government abuses and lies have been obliterated by the corporate state.
Related articles
- Prominent figures voice support for hacktivist Jeremy Hammond (wikileaks-forum.com)
- Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond is championed for his actions (news.cnet.com)
- The War on Truth: Jeremy Hammond Political Prisoner (globalclarity.wordpress.com)
- The Revolution of the Mind is Underway (rinf.com)
JUSTICE: “Thankfully” / Mr Fish
h/t: Truthdig.com
LITERATURE: “FBI Treated Carlos Fuentes as Communist Subversive”
Acclaimed Mexican author and thinker had visas denied and was tracked when he did visit US, newly public files reveal.
Carlos Fuentes, who died in 2012, was denied visas in the 1960s because US authorities regarded him as a communistsubversive.
The FBI and US state department closely monitored the Mexican author Carlos Fuentes for more than two decades because he was considered a communist and a sympathiser of Cuba’s Fidel Castro, recently released documents show.
The documents posted on the FBI’s website show the US denied Fuentes an entry visa at least twice in the 1960s. In one of the memoranda Fuentes is described as “a leading Mexican communist writer” and a “well-known Mexican novelist with long history of subversive connections”.
Fuentes died in 2012 at age 83 after suffering an internal haemorrhage.
RATIONALIZATION: “Cenk Uygur Asks Alex Jones, ‘Have You Ever Sought Mental Health Treatment?’” / Cenk Uygur
h/t: alternet.org
ACTIVISM: Tom Morello / “Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against”
Photo credit: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call
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Ryan claims that he likes Rage’s sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don’t care for Paul Ryan’s sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.
I wonder what Ryan’s favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of “Fuck the Police”? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!
Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta “rage” in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he’s not raging against is the privileged elite he’s groveling in front of for campaign contributions.
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Always Question Authority 