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No Justice, No Peace
Jason Bean / Reno-Gazette Journal Why is anyone surprised there is violence? Our government is genocidal. Meat-packing plants that do not protect their poor and POC workforce from a deadly virus are required to stay open while billionaires are not required to do anything. Why aren't hotels requisitioned for the homeless? Instead, they're put in… -
Real Belleville
Sunday, I saw a completely other side of Belleville at the Parc de Belleville belvedere. I went because there is always something going on there on Sundays. What I saw was the tale end of a festival called "Belleville en Vrai" (Real Belleville). It's the tenth year of this three-day festival which includes, I discovered,… -
To Create is to Resist!!! To Resist is to Create!
I believe that. Resistance may not achieve its current goals but creates movements. Creative activity gets the word out and gives sustenance. Here's a fine example of political street art on rue de Belleville below Pyrénées in Paris 20e. The tweezers holding an eyeball refer to the woman in the painting, Fiorina Jacob Lignier, a… -
“One is not born, but becomes, Yellow Vest”
Zigzag. Out with the old, in with the new. We're not quite sure where we're going. But we know what we want to leave: 'flexible' workplaces where people don't matter; universities more like biological processes than forums for deliberation and debate; institutions that thrive by making others precarious, isolated, displaced and hungry. Without knowing the shape…
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