SNOW DAY
I'm taking a snow day. Think I'll just play with my dog in the snow and sit around inside reading. Sounds good to me...See you tomorrow....
View ArticleTHE PEOPLE HAVE HAD IT WITH KILLER COPS IN CALIFORNIA TOWN
What the hell is the deal with the police in Vallejo City, California. They have been shooting everything in sight for the last year or so. In 2012, there were ten cop shootings resulting in the...
View Article"THE WESTERN SAHARA CONFLICT IS ONE OF THE MOST NEGLECTED AND FORGOTTEN...
Return with Scission to the Western Sahara where the people have been struggling against colonialism for about as long as I can remember these days. Most of the time no one notices and most of the...
View ArticleAMILCAR CABRAL: NATIONAL LIBERATION AND CULTURE
Amilcar Cabral was a revolutionary, poet and leader of the national liberation movement that freed Guinea-Bissau from Portuguese colonialism. His influence was spread across Africa and the world....
View ArticleISRAELI BUSES, JIM CROW, AND THE CALL TO "DO SOMETHING"
A mother and child on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955. Photo by Alexander M. Rivera Jr., courtesy of N.C. Central University.If Israel wanted to prove it was running an apartheid Jim Crow operation...
View ArticleTHE EMPIRE, IN THE FORM OF MAD MAX, ROLLS OVER NAMIBIA
COMING TO A PRISTINE DESERT NEAR YOUI am as surprised as you are to find myself writing about the film Mad Max Fury Road. The Mad Max films, which feature an apocolyptic world, have to find an...
View ArticleHUGO CHAVEZ IS DEAD, THE FUTURE OF VENEZUELA IS WIDE OPEN
FROM HERE MAY COME THE FUTUREHugo Chavez is dead. Here's the deal while I couldn't help but enjoy Chavez as he tweaked the nose of the USA and I will not deny that he did a lot of good things for the...
View ArticleTHE TRIAL OF THE CONDOR
ONE OF THESE GUYS IS DEADTHE OTHER SHOULD BE IN JAILOperation Condor is something many of my generation remember all to well. Condor was a campaign of terror organized by the United States and carried...
View ArticleWOMEN IN PRISON RESIST AND SURVIVE SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY, EVERYDAY
International Women's Day and Scission prison friday coincide so you can guess where this is going. I am going to let these women speak for themselves. It wouldn't hurt you to check it out and...
View ArticlePERMANENT REPRODUCTIVE CRISIS: AN INTERVIEW WITH SILVIA FEDERICI
It's Theoretical Weekends at Scission. I am an autonomist Marxist. Yesterday was International Women's Day, so....From Mute, I present...PERMANENT REPRODUCTIVE CRISIS: AN INTERVIEW WITH SILVIA...
View ArticleFORGET ABOUT THE OLD MEN AND THEIR PUFFS OF SMOKE. DAMN, PEOPLE, IT IS UP TO US.
DEAD IN THIRTY THREE DAYSI THINK WE ALL KNOW WHYTHERE IS NO ONE BUT USIf you are Catholic, I mean you no offense with the following post. I would apply a critical torch to all the "great" Western...
View ArticleTHE WAR ON DRUG IS A HUGE SUCCESS AND YOU JUST DON'T KNOW IT
When the men on the chessboardGet up and tell you where to goAnd you've just had some kind of mushroomAnd your mind is movinglowGo ask AliceI think she'll knowWhen logic and proportionHave fallen...
View ArticleIS RAPE THE NEW NORM IN SOUTH AFRICA
I know it is supposed to be prison friday, but I am all out of wack and I have been holding onto the post below for a while AND I have things to do AND it is getting late AND I am lazy, so....I have...
View ArticleWE HAVE POPULISM BECAUSE THERE IS NO PEOPLE" BY MARIO TRONTI
The People, is a term thrown around from the left to the right of the political spectrum, from fascists to communists, from anarchists to populists, from the Tea Party to the Occupiers. They all talk...
View ArticleNEW REPORT REVEALS CRUELTY TO RACING GREYHOUNDS IN TEXAS
As many of you who read Scission know, i have been fortunate enough to have been best friends over the past fifteen years with three different retired racing greyhounds, Sasha, Whitney, and now Hawk....
View ArticleNCAA BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKETS FROM AN AUTONOMOUS MARXIST PERSPECTIVE
SCISSION FEATURING THE NCAA TOURNAMENT FROM AN AUTONOMOUS MARXIST PERSPECTIVE.I can't say I am comfortable with my picks. Though I root for KU and though I have them winning them tournament, I don't...
View ArticleTHEY FLEE TO UGANDA LOOKING FOR SAFETY BUT THEY FIND SOMETHING ELSE
Uganda is home to almost 400,000 refuges according to the UNHCR who have come in search of a safe haven.However, safe haven is not what they are finding.Most of these refugees are people fleeing war in...
View ArticleSCISSION, NO SCISSION, BASKETBALL, YES BASKETBALL
No Scission today. Too much NCAA Tournament to watch. Same for tomorrow...Until later...
View ArticleMARIA MIES: "COLONIZATION AND HOUSEWIFIZATION"
All I can say is this is really, really long even for Scissions Theoretical Weekends. What it is is Chapter Tree of a book by Maria Mies. Save it somewhere and read it when you have time....
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