Category: Represent Our Resistance

Mahatma Gandhi, a lawyer, dons the garbs of a poor man in India and speaks to the world of non-violence. Popular accounts of India’s “Independence” Movement credit the philosophy of non-violence. But, as thinker and writer Ward Churchill explains, non-violence, the praxis of pacifism, did not destroy the Empire’s ability to forcibly control its colonial…

It is your home, so you believe. A visitor stops at your door and knocks. You go to the door and, before you can say, Hello, he or she enters, looks around. This is wonderful, beautiful. We can use it! The visitor is talking, but not to you – you who wait, standing in wonder,…

Who is the author of your mantra and affirmations? Who is the author of your narrative? Who speaks when you open your mouth? The “free market” gives rise to entrepreneurs of enslavement and claims to offer “change you can believe in” in a narrative so full of cash registers, stocks and bonuses, exclusive gated communities,…

U.S. citizens renamed Wall Street Plaza, Liberty Plaza. They came; it was spontaneous at first. Then a chorus of Yes! We’ve have seen enough. Whose government is this, anyway! The heavy-hand presence of the NYC law enforcement is a challenge: maze, isolation of a citizen protester from others, arrests. But the numbers of citizens continues…

Orwellian revolutions, he knows. Co-opted revolutions, staged and broadcast, as in 1984 when Big Brother announced Oceania’s victories over Euroasia (or was it Eastasia?). The U.S. Empire’s State media proclaims victory over the Taliban, over Al Qaeda, over terrorism, while families bury victims of air raids and drone attacks. Broken, bloody bits of lives invisible…

Congress is a shop of wealthy men and women, with few exceptions. Corporate CEOs do not invite the homeless to parties at their mansions. They invite politicians, who they identify with and who support the interests of the corporation on the invitation notice. Wall Street bankers identify with other Wall Street executives because they share…

In “Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” the Uncle James warns the younger James, “you can only be destroyed” if you believe “that you really are” what others tell you are. “Trust your experience. Know whence you came.” I remember being terrified of bullies. My arm, squeezed too tightly…

Stuffed bags of trash dumped in the big metal cans my grandfather lifted and hauled down the back stairs to be placed in the bins were understood to be unusable. Garbage. Stacked hardback and paperback books and magazines held together by rubber bands, carpets rolled or folded, toasters and crock pots with cords carefully wrapped…

“As the thing started to unfold and there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth. Who does a camp for kids that’s all about politics? Disturbing.” These are the words of the former FOX News host Glenn Beck, following the bombing and shooting in Oslo, Norway that…

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is finally exposing how corporate greed scouts for storms troops of gossipers and fear mongers instead of truth troops for the 4th Estate, but Murdoch is not to blame. He exempts himself and his executive staff from the crime of disseminating lies, deceptions, distortions, the illusions of grandeur… There is Rupert…