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INTERNATIONAL PROTEST AGAINST GREYHOUND RACINGS AWARDS GALA
Okay, my greyhound bud, Hawk, informs me it is time for Scission to talk about the exploitation and abuse of his brothers and sisters again here.The news today concerns an international protest against...
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"THE STRUGGLE TO FREE MUMIA IS BOUND UP IN THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD"
The truth is I can't think of any way to introduce an article which has to do with Mumia Abu-Jamal that has not already been done. The truth also is that I have not done many articles concerning Mumia...
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"RACE BEHIND BARS" FROM THE JOURNAL RACE TRAITOR
It is theoretical weekends at Scission and I am going back ta decade or so to the journal Race Traitor. The article which I am reproducing here refers to an earlier piece in the journal. To save...
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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING: ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS MEN IN AMERICA...ABSOLUTELY
Today is set aside to honor the memory and the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. All across America celebrations will be held. The problem is that very few of those will "celebrate" the real Martin...
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THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S LIBERATION, REPRODUCTIVE AND ABORTION RIGHTS IS NOT...
Reproductive freedom and abortion rights were NOT won in the courts, they were won in the streets. They weren't won by using nice sounding moderate language, they were won by shouting the truth,...
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WONDER AND AWE AND SIMPLE JOY
Sometimes even this old dude sees something that leaves him in awe. The video here, which you may have already seen, is one of those times. I happened upon it this morning as if by chance, perhaps....
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WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THE UKRAINE
The Ukraine is now and has long been, in my book, a big mess and a breeding ground for nazi like fascism. The "protests" we see on TV are not all protests of liberation, as I am sure you know. A few...
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"WE ARE ALL PRESUMED GUILTY": THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISON VISITOR
I remember how important visits were for me when I was in prison (or in jail). I remember sitting in my cell at El Reno's Federal Correctional facility (where I spent my time before moving on to...
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A CONVERSATION WITH ANTONIO NEGRI
It is that time again. Theoretical Weekends at Scission has arrived.Since 1993, Obrist has conducted hundreds of interviews with folks from here, there and everywhere. He is a curator, I know that....
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ORSON SCOTT CARD AND THE GREAT WHITE MALE SAVIOR
ORSON SCOTT CARD WANTS YOU TO KNOWTwo weeks ago, I did a post on Orson Scott Card and genocide. I promised a second post in the next Cultural Monday. Well, it is the next one, and here is the post....
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INDIA, CAPITAL, COAL, DEATH, DESTRUCTION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DOOM
India has a problem. Almost four hundred million of its populations are without access to electricity and the existing supply falls ten percent short during peak hours.India sits on one of the world's...
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AMERICA LOVES IT BLACK ATHLETES...TO SHUT UP AND LOOK PRETTY
God damn, you'd think Richard Sherman was the coming of the anti-Christ. At least, that how many white folks reacted when the extremely talented and bright Seattle defensive back spoke his piece after...
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THE CANCER OF GLOBAL CAPITAL IS KILLING AFRICA
The environmental crisis, global capital, colonization, war, and destruction all meet head on in Africa in general, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular...and those of us, like...
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AN ANARCHO-COMMUNIST AND A LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST PRISONER IN RUSSIA SPEAK OUT
Pickets on Krasnopresnenskaya in support of the Bolotnaya case defendantsPrison friday takes us halfway around the world for an interview with two Russian political prisoners. Alexei Polikhovich...
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FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RESISTANCE
Theoretical weekends returns with an interview from Upping the Anti with Michael Hardt. The interview was conducted in 2007. Hardt, of course, is most popularly known for his partnership with Antonio...
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BLAH BLAH BLAH AND BLAH
It's cultural Monday,something I am thinking about axing, but still hanging on to for the moment. I have spent way too long wandering around the web looking for something to put here that might...
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JEW HATRED IS NOT TO BE TOLERATED ON THE LEFT
THIS IS NOT OKAYI debated posting the piece below with myself. I wondered if it came to close to equating anti-zionism with anti-semitism, was it going overboard? Then, I thought to myself, what the...
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NORTHERN IRELAND: THE (UNFORTUNATELY) NOT SO STRANGE CASE OF MARTIN COREY
I am wee late with the news, but news like this is actually always timely.After nearly four years internment, Martin Corey was released from Maghaberry jail, Co Antrim on January 15th, 2014. Corey was...
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WHITE WOMEN, SLAVERY, PRIVILEGE, WHITE SUPREMACY AND AN UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH
Refusing to conform, she “hid out” until her delegation had passed, then surged into the group of white women – some hostile, some not – and took her rightful place in the Illinois group. She also had...
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MISSOURI SIMPLY CAN'T WAIT TO KILL SOMEONE
Apparently the state in which I live just can't wait to kill someone.Last minute requests for stays on executions are a common thing. The one made by Herbert Smulls was not unusual in that regard....
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