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Here are some interesting analysis of the riots th...

2011-08-15T13:11:16.081-04:00

Here are some interesting analysis of the riots themselves (rather than the aftermath)

http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=1253

http://www.counterpunch.org/maher08122011.html

You're welcome. On an unrelated note, I wante...

2011-08-15T12:59:27.939-04:00

You're welcome.

On an unrelated note, I wanted to clarify that my point was not to agree with the idea of "riots are a catastrophe," far from it. That something, a riot, a protest, a blog, anything. could be used by the right hardly seems to be an argument against it. My point, the point that I wanted to pick up on, is that we are living through a reinforcing downward spiral of austerity and security, in which each reinforces the other. The failures of each of these strategies only reinforces the other. Overcoming this will depend on developing new tactics, tactics developed from the quotidian acts of refusal and resistance, not from condemnation.

Thank you soooo much for posting this movie! I...

2011-08-14T17:23:18.268-04:00

Thank you soooo much for posting this movie! I've been reading about the various prongs of the larger problem but I've never seen them linked so thoroughly and beautifully.