All people are reporters (tags)
What is missing in the mainstream media landscape are background reports, essays, longer interviews, travel reports and what is called "investigative journalism". What is perhaps boring are ideology-critical internal debates about the right line, i.e. hermetic, exclusionary language. Many people know that Marxian political economy is back in fashion. But it needs an update.
The Inner Sanctuary and The Uprooted Generation (tags)
Contemplation does not directly change the world, but it does change people by bringing them closer to themselves again. Our situation in a facade democracy with a compliant majority, with rigid state power, and with laws that are almost always against us, is not unlike that in a prison - a prison with larger cells, perhaps.
Stolen childhood and The language of violence (tags)
To make the hospitals fit for the "pandemic of the century", the government did nothing... The population will suffer in every respect - with one lockdown after another, inadequate health care, increasing impoverishment and lack of prospects, and presumably with endless depression.
The virus as enemy and subject A very conspicuous phenomenon for rhetorically evading any political responsibility is, on the one hand, to shift it to the population by dutifully supporting and participating in all measures and, on the other hand, to speak of the virus as an acting subject bearing responsibility.
The language of violence and The clinic lie (tags)
"Newspeak" is what George Orwell called a language invented specifically by the Party to control the masses. Today, we are further along. The new language, invented specifically to enforce the Corona measures, seems harmless. Almost unobtrusively, the untruth creeps into our brains through frequent repetition.
The recovery process will only be possible as a reinvention of institutions - as a redefinition of all that politics means to us, of what it means to be a democracy, if that is what we want to be.
Financial Markets and National Socialism (tags)
Joseph Goebbels was appointed "Reich Minister for National Enlightenment and Propaganda "7 on March 15, 1933.: "The people should begin to think and react in a unified way. [...]" They should stand behind the actions of the government with full sympathy and support.
Stéréotypie des idéologies dominantes (tags)
Reproduction massive des comportements...
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló Resigns (tags)
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló resigned Wednesday. Protests engulfed the island for nearly two weeks after Rosselló drew criticism for offensive language in leaked communications and the FBI arrested former members of his administration on corruption charges.
Herbert Marcuse: The One-Dimensional Man (tags)
"Manipulation of needs" is one of the control instruments. Rulers change needs through manipulation. False needs are needs imposed from above like production and consumption of useless things. The need for freedom no longer exists in developed capitalist countries.
A Short Response To Mordechai Kedar’s No More Safe Haven (tags)
Global Judeopathy, Mass Jewish Migration To Israel, Make English An Official Language in Israel!
Paraphysique de maïeutique (tags)
Codage nerveux du codage social...
Paraphysique du capharnaüm étatiste (tags)
Le monde de la dictature...
Marshall Tuck’s racist dog whistle (tags)
Marshall Tuck's campaign reproached by the NAACP for its racism and anti-blackness.
Marshall Tuck’s ethnocentrism contradicts Californian values (tags)
Marshall Tuck failed students in many ways, but none greater than his shuttering of programs key to their cultural identities.
In praise of indigenous people (tags)
Forgotten minorities
Xyloglossie attitudinale (tags)
Au tout guerre, au tout dément...
Three reading samples on George Orwell's "1984" (tags)
George Orwell was a great uncompromising political author who sought to warn of the evil of totalitarianism. Neoliberalism is an ideology that mutates into a quasi-natural law and a totalitarianism leading to exploding inequality.
Stéréotypie des idéologies dominantes (tags)
La terreur du capital...
Paraphysique de maïeutique (tags)
L'entraide, moteur de l'évolution...
INDY's KPFK radio program being eliminated ? too ? (tags)
Indymedia on air RADIO program is being eliminated? Is this true ? Can no one share relevant information in different platforms & formats? is KPFK selecting OUT this site's representatives? Has anyone here let their audiences know this ? here?
The Language of Neoliberalism (tags)
Knowledge enables people to interpret reality. Metaphors and pictures give things a new meaning and can change reality. Capital isn't so frightened and isn't the same as a deer. The financial crisis is compared to a thunderstorm that is not man-made.
Paraphysique du capharnaüm étatiste (tags)
Sécurisant, anxieux, évitant, désorganisé, l'attachement du capital...
THE WHITE CITIZEN'S COUNCIL ... AKA KPFK AND FOLKS ON THE WESTSIDE (tags)
The White Citizen's Council was not the Klan, but only kinda not the Klan.
KPFK votes in local board. Join them in meeting. (tags)
After lots of conflict and infighting, the elections reveal the new LSB members and delegates to Pacifica board. At the Jan 24 @ 1pm meeting , the rest of us, public-members of KPFK, can see and maybe meet, the board - those who can maybe influence how the radio station runs or continues to fail it's sponsors. At an easy to find location. see KPFK.org for details under 'events' on home page.
VIDEO: What "Orwellian" Really Means (tags)
The population is inundated with propaganda. Labor camps are called joy camps. With cognitive dissonance, individuals are left completely dependent on the state. Orwell urged us to protect our language in a world where war is slavery and freedom is peace.
Deplorable Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Speeches (tags)
Israel
Inventions By Indians For Which Others Have Been Given Credit (tags)
The invention of radio and numerals, and the creation of the game of chess were by Asian Indians.
Munich's March to War with Russia (tags)
anti-war
Torture in Israeli Prisons (tags)
Israel
EU Parliament Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Israel: Racist Pariah State Writ Large (tags)
Israel
Rogue State Accuses Victims of Incitement (tags)
Israel
World Adult Soulmate © - Hollywood Script (tags)
World Adult Soulmate © - Bestselling Romantic Fiction
San Diego State University Professor Ghassan Zakaria eliminates truth in his classroom (tags)
San Diego State University Professor Ghassan Zakaria eliminates truth in his classroom
Iran Inaugurates President Rohani (tags)
Iran
Newspeak Rules: How Neoliberalism Explains the World (tags)
Originally positive terms were devalued in the last decades (social state became "welfare dictatorship") Social dislocations are charged to the impacted themselves. The scandal of poverty mutates to the scandal of the poor themselves.
Abbas Submits Weak UN Status Bid (tags)
Palestine
Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality
Score One for Hedges v. Obama (tags)
police state
Democrats Throw Palestinians Under the Bus (tags)
Palestinians
Visual Variations art exhibit opening at American Jewish University.
Attacks on critical thinking vs. cheers for scapegoating (tags)
The different responses between Occupy and the “Tea Party” lie in their messages.
San Pedro: Science Center Endangered/Tongva Village Site Revitalization (tags)
Jacob Gutierrez, a Tongva, is trying to preserve two valuable Indigenous and environmental areas in San Pedro.
Draconian Cybersecurity Bills (tags)
police state
NEW NAMES FOR OLD THINGS (tags)
Or how language creates ideological problems.
Capitalism Doesn't Need Democracy (tags)
The minority of a minority have seriously damaged the public interest for personal enrichment. The community itself is culpable for not resisting its plundering.and choosing representatives that defend its interests.
"There is a beautiful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen where the devil builds a mirror that distorts everything beautiful and good into nothing. The most glorious countrysides appear like boiled spinach, the best persons are repulsive or without torsos.."
Legislating Tyranny in America (tags)
tyranny
Fielding a local reporter's questions about Camino Nuevo Charter Corporation's designs on (tags)
Now that Philip Anschutz's LAUSD Board Member from District 5 gave CRES #14 to CNCA Corporation, we see the true intransigence and arrogance of a CMO. For over a month we've asked CNCA to write into their charter the availability of at least a Mainstream English program in addition to their Transitional Bilingual Program. CNCA Corporation, and Yolie Flores - who promised the rest of the board she would insure it was implemented - have ignored the community. As with all corporate charters, CNCA is concerned with their bottom line alone.
Open Letter to LAUSD Board Regarding Grave Issues with CNCA's Charter for CRES #14 (tags)
When LAUSD V.P. Flores awarded CRES #14 to Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) against the wishes and explicit votes of the Echo Parque community, and against the express recommendation of the Superintendent, she promised she would address the grievously problematic issues with CNCA's proposal regarding their exclusive and inflexible language program. Instead, nothing has been done to resolve this major point of contention between the corporate charter school operator and the community they will soon occupy.
The Language Of Corruption (tags)
1/26/2011 12:36 PM EST Tags: Spanish, Speaking, ethnicity
Voters chose public school Echo Park Community plan over CNCA corporate charter school by (tags)
Parent continue to organize in support of the public school plan in hopes that LAUSD will consider the wishes of the community over the deep pocked interests of CNCA.
Lê’s “Gangster” Not Just Another Immigration Memoir (tags)
Lê Thi Diem Thúy was brought to this country from Viet Nam by her father in 1978, when she was six, but her book “The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” honored this year by the San Diego Public Library and PBS as the 2011 “One Book, One San Diego,” isn’t your ordinary immigrant’s memoir. Presented as a novel — which allows Lê to tap her childhood for material without having to be bound by literal truth — “Gangster” is written in an almost poetic prose style, rich in nature imagery, characteristic of many Asian writers who learned English as a second language. Introducing, reading from and commenting on the book at the Public Library downtown on February 2, Lê gave a presentation touching on a lot of the issues raised in her book, including culture clashes, the role of the imagination and language as a force that can tear people apart as much as it can bring them together.
Video: Why Might a Saudi King Want the US to Attack Iran? (tags)
Normalizing war and militarizing foreign policy are perversions, the bitter fruits of an elite democracy marginalizing and criminalizing criticism and independent intelligence.
Kickstart Your Consciousness (tags)
We polluted and poisoned our bodies, minds, spirits, and environment, almost to the point of no return. Then again we all have free will to accept or reject the mind programs
Conditioned Acceptance to Deceit (tags)
Language of Liars
CORRECTION:MEXICA NEW YEAR, SAT. JAN. 30, 2010 (tags)
Speakers Include: Gabby Trujillo * Scott Keltic Knot * Arturo Tolenttino * Gema Suarez * Nelyollotl Toltecatl * Carlos Cordova * Citlalli Citlalmina Anahuac * Olin Tezcatlipoca Special invited speaker: Enrique Morones from Border Angels to speak on the 2010 Caravana For Human Rights Event Program: 11 A.M. to 2 P.M : Spanish Language Lecture (presentacion en español) 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. English Language Lecture The lecture will cover Nican Tlaca identity,Nican Tlaca education and liberation,“Four Corners” history and cultures,“Indian Schools” of 16th thru 20th centuries, feminism, Purepecha Civilization, "spirituality", our theology, and mislabels: Hispanic, Latino, Raza. This event is free but we accept donations. There will be food and posters for sale to help fundraising for the two non-profit organizations sponsoring this event.
MEXICA NEW YEAR! 1.16.10 (tags)
The lecture will cover Nican Tlaca identity,Nican Tlaca education and liberation,“Four Corners” history and cultures,“Indian Schools” of 16th thru 20th centuries, feminism, Purepecha Civilization, "spirituality", our theology, and mislabels: Hispanic, Latino, Raza. This event is free but we accept donations. There will be food and posters for sale to help fundraising for the two non-profit organizations sponsoring this event.
Michelle Jackson: Sign-Language Interpreter, First Female San Diego Leatherboys President (tags)
Michelle Jackson knew she was going to be interested in languages from the age of five,when her father took her across the border from San Diego to Tijuana and she heard Spanish for the first time. In college she studied American Sign Language (ASL) and ultimately made her living as an interpreter for the deaf community. It was a job she took to interpret at a San Diego Leatherfest that led her to the Leather/kink/BDSM community — and she's become an energetic activist in it, serving as Ms. San Diego Leather 2005 and recently being elected the first female president of the San Diego Leatherboys.
I believe that KPFK is in real danger of losing its political soul.
A film that summarizes the culture that originated it.
THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICAS DEATH (tags)
check out the new book: http://www.luxefaire.com/deathrecipes/tableofcontents.html
SALUTE to Denmark .. This could very well happen here... . (tags)
The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time
Rally Planned to Test Crooked, Cult-Sponsored Ordinance (tags)
Riverside County’s hotly contested anti-targeted-picketing Ordinance No. 884 will be put to the test on Sunday, April 19, 2009, when a group of protesters plans to hold a rally at the gates of the sprawling Scientology compound known as Golden Era Productions located at 19625 Gilman Springs Road near Hemet.
Neoliberal Definitional Power (tags)
"What is central is ending the constant expropriation of employees, not the expropriation of entrepreneurs." Market fundamentalists stylize every tax as expropriation as though they had no responsibility for paying for roads, schools, health care, police, fire departments and water-food supervision.
Understanding that which can only be felt (tags)
Make sure you read to the end Hence always rid yourself of desires in order to observe its secrets; But always allow yourself to have desires in order to observe its manifestations
THIS WEDNESDAY - Celtic New Year event at Cal State L.A. (tags)
"Lessons From A Silver Branch:" An examination of the endangered Celtic cultures, including spoken word, live music and free dance lesson. Happy Samhain, or Celtic New Year! ("Halloween" to the English)
SAVE THE DATE: Celtic New Year celebration at CSULA, Wed. Oct. 22, 7 p.m. (tags)
Come celebrate Celtic New Year during the season of Samhain (called Hallowe'en by some), with a live band, spoken word and a free dance lesson!
Minutemen, off-duty cops disrupt community forum on checkpoints (tags)
Community members met to express themselves on the topic of police "DUI" checkpoints, which really target immigrants. Minutemen and police hecklers disrupted the meeting.
Shouting from the Caboose (tags)
Hope lies beyond Social Darwinism and hyper-individualism. As the end of cheap oil could be the beginning of real community, the end of everyday time could be the beginning of kairos time, the time of decision. Black is a new consciousnessness, not a skin color (Steve Biko)
Emmanuel Reynaud - Holy Virility. The social construction of masculinity (tags)
Emmanuel Reynaud argues that it is within men's grasp to reject power relations and begin to behave in a way that is neither hierarchical nor exploitative. What is needed is a radical change in men's relationships both with women and with other men.
new defense bill authorizes military cops (tags)
kucinich
Fresh & Easy: A Wal-Mart Clone? (tags)
An open letter to Fresh & Easy, Tesco's (UK) upcoming US subsidiary...
Ubuntu Tribe, the movie (tags)
Ubuntu Tribe the movie is inspired in the Basque free software developers community, which actually has a lot of handicaps adapting the language to the fast changes of the new technologies.
Homo habilis and language (tags)
Two recent discoveries represent a powerful experimental verification for all hypotheses that Marx and Engels brought forward about human evolution from the monkey stage to the productive, thus social one.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE 'G-Y' WORD (tags)
RUMBLINGS FROM IPOD NATION
The Filipino American Community Problems on the Pilipino Language (tags)
August is usually the National Language Week ( Linggo ng Wika) in the Philippines. Pesante-USA presented this paper this week for Filipinos in the Philippines and America to ponder. Its an irony while the Philippine government ( US-Arroyo regime) is reverting to the colonial mendicancy of propagating English to compete in the international market for labor exports, Filipinos abroad and Filipino Americans in the U.S are advancing the propagation of Pilipino in the United States. This is an important development we should monitor and work on. The more than 3 million Filipinos in the United States might be away from their homeland but their patriotism is afire and will never forget their roots.
LA City Council flushs First Amendment down the toilet (tags)
Ratcheting up restraints on public comment, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved new rules of ''decorum'' designed to squelch offensive and disruptive behavior at council meetings, ranging from foul language and racial slurs to singing, whistling, foot-stamping and other boisterous conduct.
The Tortured Language of War: Whitewashing Atroicites (tags)
If the deliberate slaughter of hundreds of civilians -- including more than a hundrend innocent children -- elicits such a timid, pathetic response from American-Arab human rights organizations--one cannot complain against the American media for being the Israeli government's apologists. If the ADC uses Orwellian language, covering up the Israeli government's heinous crimes -- can we really expect anything else from mainstream media?
Derrick Jensen Green Scare Benefit (tags)
Fanning the Flames of Resistance A benefit for those resisting the Green Scare ...featuring Derrick Jensen
Nous les zonards voyous (riot in the french banlieue 2005) (tags)
We need to understand the reason of the Watts’ riot and what we need to prevent it in the future. Because only if we study and assimilate the Los Angeles’ lesson, drawing the due conclusions, could we hope to keep the unstable social components, which are presently clashing in the United States, under control (Robert Conot, The Watts’ summer, 1967). Prevent the phenomenon? Keep it under control? At present? In the United States? (n+1 editorial staff’s note, 2006).
The Language of Life: Reflections on the South Central Farm (tags)
"...The root cause of the problems that threaten life on earth is the concept of land title acquired and maintained by force. Since modern civilization is based on this concept, it does not hold the key to peace." - Hopi Elder Martin Gashweseoma
The Right to be Anywhere on This Continent (tags)
Comments on immigrants from Native Americans
True Nature of Obscenity (tags)
We are daily surrounded by capitalist obscenities such as poverty, war, injustice and inequality. Insult is added to injury when bourgeois spokespersons such as Billy Graham blame God and human beings. It is enough to make a person swear.
France : over 52,00 sign "We will protect them" (tags)
The pause given (by Prime Minister Sarkozy) to immigrant parents and students will end on June 30. Thousands of children, adolescents and their families risk mass deportation. Their lives and their future will end. We will not allow these infamies to be done in our name. Every one of us is ready to help, guide and protect in whatever way is possible. When they seek refuge, we will not close our doors but will give shelter and food ; we will not denounce them to the police. original in French : Pétition nationale : NOUS LES PRENONS SOUS NOTRE PROTECTION ! http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/article.php3?id_article=24
Other Mexican-Americans tell me the same thing. A lot of them use the same word: defend. They want to defend immigrants.
violent protests rock Iran's Azeri province and Tehran (tags)
racist cartoons bring hundreds of thousands to the streets. reports of 25 dead and 300 wounded civillians in clashes with police and basije.
US Senate declares English the “national language”: a boost to chauvinism and racism (tags)
The Socialist Equality Party unequivocally condemns the vote by the Senate on Thursday to make English the “national language” of the United States. The measure, added to the Senate immigration “reform” bill, is the but latest in a series of reactionary, ignorant and short-sighted moves aimed at shoring up the right-wing base of the Bush administration and the Republican Party, with the most far-reaching and anti-democratic implications. The proposal is a sop to right-wing and fascistic elements who are working to whip up intolerance and hatred against immigrants in general, and Hispanic Americans in particular. It underscores the deeply undemocratic and unconstitutional essence of all of the measures being enacted in the name of “securing the border.”
DC RALLY This Sunday In Support For The Al-Jazeera Network: (tags)
Rally in support of Al-Jazeera's planned English language station. Rally this Sunday at 12:00 Noon at 1627 K St. NW in DC. America needs unbiased reporting to counter the pro-Apartheid popular media that is the soundboard for this current Administration. Please forward information on the rally to anyone you know on the East Coast who may be interested.
CREATE-A-CRISIS: Anti-Immigrant Bill Flap Created by Bush & Co (tags)
I would stake next year's morning coffee supply on that !he sudden big flap over the so called "anti-immigrant" bill ( Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illega Immigration Control Act of 2005) is yet another manufactured crisis, designed to pull Bush's quickly charring fat out of the fire.
Washingtons bigges’t enemy is “the truth” (tags)
Hidden inside american english is another language also called english. Now it is also called plain english but known as hard truth and it is difficult for some to understand.
Americas latest revelation (tags)
Hidden inside american english is another language also called english And although it sounds just like english it is not, it may be called broken English Or street language.Now this english cannot be seen unless you look very close and goes right over our leaders heads, they do not know it.
Language Police: Rumsfeld (tags)
War is peace where all critics of war are terrorists. Language and community fall into crisis in the doublespeak and Panedora's box of war. Language manipulation and defintional control are part of the Creole trick when the culprit pretends to be the victim.
Disinformation as a Strategy of Power (tags)
"What caused this development? How could an economic system be built where ever-larger parts of the population are excluded from sharing in growth? ..In neoliberalism, the person is not regarded as a person but downgraded to mere labor power.."
Manipulation by Language (tags)
"Before tyranny becomes visible for eveyrone, it begins when the word loses its dignity.. Rulers never manage without manipulation and propaganda.. In neuro-linguistic programming, language has the task of diverting people.."
James Gilchrist and the California Minutemen Joining SaveOurState in Baldwin Park (tags)
Jim Gilchrist and James L Chase (Commander of the California Minutemen) commit to attending the BPII Protest.
The Clock of Now - Campaign Wonder - A UNN13 Expose' (tags)
Stevie Wonder...
Universal fascism, freedom betrayed: What is Mr. Bush doing in your name? (tags)
In every age...the ultimate sources of war are the beliefs of those in power: their idea about what is of most fundamental importance and may therefore ultimately be worth a war. -- Evan Luard,
Does macho-flash language work? (tags)
Many Libertarians who engage in name-calling or macho-flashing believe that our "absolute truth" is so clear that people should embrace it after hearing our slogans, and so virtuous that anyone who opposes it must be evil or stupid.
Trade Talk: Speaking In Tongues (tags)
Recent ZNet Commentary on WTO
Prop 54 Voter Info Forced to Revise and Be More Accurate (tags)
CONNERLY SUFFERS DOUBLE DEFEAT IN COURT TODAY
Basque petition for justice and peace (tags)
Petition is to highlight the Basque conflict to the media and the public. It is to show that Basques want peace and justice. Please read, sign, and pass on this petition!
Words to Seduce the Left (tags)
Watch as I make a seemingly "anti-business" argument designed to fit within the Left's world view, but ... TA-DA!!! ... I actually make an argument in favor of laissez-faire... now that's how to "serve it up with a LEFT SPIN"
Who are the Basques and why does Spain call their culture terrorist? What is the truth?
Mass Media Mind Manipulation and the World of Illusion (tags)
The wealthiest men of our nation are in control of our education system. Our schools teach curriculums created by the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. While President of the Ford Foundation in 1954, Rowan Gaither explained the Foundation’s mandate: "… we operate in response to directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States so that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
PROUDHON, MARX AND ZAMENHOF (tags)
PROUDHON, MARX AND ZAMENHOF
We Speak America Screening (tags)
California Tomorrow would like to announce the LA debut of "We Speak America"
Link to English language version of Al-Jazeerah's web site
Al Jazeera now has an english language WWW site (tags)
The Al Jazeera network now has an english language site on the internet offering indepth reporting of the US/UK invasion of Iraq
POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by George Orwell (tags)
Orwell wrote about how language affects politics and human perception, think "smart bombs" "surgical strikes" "iraqi freedom" etc.
Granpappy Bush financed Hitler (tags)
Liberals and pedants often shriek about inaccuracy when leftists describe Bush as a "fascist" or even a "NAZI". Strictly speaking they are correct, but he does have some interesting family ties to one of the most notorious anti-Semites in history. Senator David Norris of Ireland draws some interesing historical links in this excerpt from a recent speech.
Basques Feel the Sting of Spanish Democracy (tags)
This is a story about the repression experienced by the Basques, particularly by the spanish government. The only newspaper published in Basque, in the Basque Country, has been shut down by the Spanish government. They have been accused of terrorism. The Spanish government accuses any Basque entity which encourages the use of Basque language, or who speak out for Basque political rights, as being terrorist. It is not unusual---it happens everyday. This latest closing of the newspaper Egunkaria has just gone too far, though.
Upgrade to the Green Party's 10 Key Values (tags)
You can have the very same idea and describe it where it is appealing, confusing or appalling. The current language is a good document if you are talking to the choir, but those folks are already on board. If we are going to have real political impact we need to seek the middle class, disenfranchised voter.
As War Gears Up, Newspeak Hype Increases Ten-fold As Expected (tags)
"I insist that to give such warning [ against propaganda ] is an act in the defense of man…I want to speak of it as a menace..."—Jacques Ellul in Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes*
On the US arrests of Middle Eastern immigrants. (tags)
On the Mass Arrests of Middle Eastern immigrants in California The language of fascism is always cloaked in subterfuge. And it is just this sort of duplicitous language that the U.S. government is employing to describe the mass arrest -- under the dishonest pretext of 'voluntary registration' -- of hundred, perhaps thousands of Middle Eastern men, many of them Iranians, in the last week in California.
Social conflicts are always conflicts around terms and definitional power..Whoever has definitional power over what is reality and what is realpolitik dominates ideological semantics. Translated from the German
"There is a beautiful fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen where the devil builds a mirror that distorts everything beautiful and good into nothing.. I asked myself whether or not Andersen meant scientific reason.." This sermon is translated from the German.
Nonviolent Communication workshop: 9-11 anniversary (tags)
A basic introduction to Nonviolent Communication and respond to terrorism. PLACE: The Peace Center, 8124 W. Third Street, Los Angeles - free parking in the back DATE & TIME: Saturday, September 7, 2002 from 9 AM to 2 PM, COST: donation requested
LA TRANSGENDER SUES SCHOOL FOR DISCRIMINATION (tags)
A Los Angeles transgender woman has sued a local "beauty" school for violating anti-discrimination laws after it refused her admission because of her change of gender.
Thesis of the concrete democracy in Utopia. (tags)
Lapsus of the concrete democracy in Utopia.
Corporados Attempt Massive Privatization of U.S. Water Supply (tags)
The water infrastructure bill introduced in the Senate in February 2002 makes federal assistance for water systems conditional on the recipient's consideration of privatization. This language jeopardizes public access to safe and affordable drinking water
World Economic Forum or Simply, Brutal Conquerors? (tags)
It is important not to be pulled into the language that the corporate conquerors are using to hoodwink the masses
Marc Cooper's Attacks Amy Goodman With Graphic Language on KPFK Message Board (tags)
Marc Cooper Has Become a Frequent Contributor to an Electronic Message Board for KPFK Discussion. He uses grapic language and personal insults to lowere the level of discourse, then complains that the board is irrelevant.
LEARN SPANISH WHILE SUPPORTING ACTIVISM (tags)
Activists to Host Language Learning Expedition to Guatemala