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This is a long quote, but with the Democrats and Liberal-Centrists totally failing to understand right-wing populism and mottos like 'support our troops,' the quote is worth reading through.
June 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Rebecca Solnit: “Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky… Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.”
March 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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"Just as a Sufi might say that Sufism is the core of truth behind all religions, an anarchist might argue that anarchism is the urge for freedom behind all political ideologies."

David Graeber (2004).
March 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Wonderful showing last night for our Burrito Brigade fundraiser. Mi vida made some anarchy cupcakes as part of the fundraiser.
March 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Come support our local community and help Burrito Brigade get a fridge and freezer. #mutualaid #santafe @burritobrigade.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Few chapters in and find it rather relevant. #booksky #haymarket #parsons #robertaitken
March 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."

www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities | Brooklyn Public Library
Librarians and Teen Volunteers Spearhead Books Unbanned Initiative to Combat Censorship
www.bklynlibrary.org
February 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Murray Bookchin: "There can be no separation of the revolutionary process from the revolutionary goal. A society whose fundamental aim is self-administration in all facets of life can be achieved only by self-activity."
February 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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In 2011, David Graeber wrote: Revolutions in Reverse

This is an extract!
February 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
February 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Just finished this set of classic essays. Now to find a revolution I can dance to… #booksky #akpress #revolutionbythebook
February 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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"The war against the imagination is the only one the capitalists have actually managed to win."

From; Revolutions In Reverse by David Graeber
February 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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NEW: As New Mexico lawmakers mull big criminal justice and behavioral health reforms, the Cicero Institute, a billionaire-backed think tank, has jumped into the fray.

But we don't know what bills its lobbyists are trying to influence, thanks to a legal blind spot.
Billionaire-backed think tank that pushed homeless crackdowns elsewhere hires veteran NM lobbyists  • Source New Mexico
The public doesn’t know what bills the Cicero Institute is seeking to influence, thanks to legal blind spot lawmakers hope to fix
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February 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Finally getting around to reading Parable of the Sower… #booksky
February 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Neo-liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Privatization, Deregulation and Tax cuts for the rich were always about solidifying class power.
February 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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In 2015, Utopia Of Rules was published and written by David Graeber.

This is an extract from that book!
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, MO.
February 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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“Kids Who Die”
Langston Hughes, 1938
February 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
As we walked these grounds tears fell and hearts felt the weight of millions gone because of hate, fear, ignorance… As profoundly depressing each step was there was something full of life that grew within each breath.
January 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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January 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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“After all, dictators are always afraid of poets.”

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Conversations on Writing, which collects three conversations Ursula had with David Naimon, is published by Tin House.

tinhouse.com/book/ursula-...
November 14, 2024 at 9:45 PM