Mutual Aid Revisited
Posted on November 26, 2007
I just found this great article on mutual aid, new orleans, hurrican katrina, and random other related topics that I wanted to post up and share with ya’ll. it’s by Anya Kamenetz and you can find it on Reality sandwich. enjoy!
http://realitysandwich.com/node/482
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Human Rights vs. National Security
Posted on November 23, 2007
If you can watch this, see what is being done in your name, and keep on talking about what a free country this is and how “national security” trumps human rights, you’ve officially forfeited your own humanity. Yes Hillary Clinton, I’m talking to you. Torture is a crime, it violates every natural law and a lot of man-made laws to boot, and people who use it or advocate it are the only people I can think of who deserve to experience it.
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Voltairine De’Cleyre on God and Marriage
Posted on November 21, 2007
I just found a truly excellent article on Voltarine De’Cleyre, one of my favorite modern Anarchist writers. I’ll copy the whole thing here, but I just wanted to pull out one of the quotes and highlight it:
“[T]hat is rape, where a man forces himself sexually upon a woman whether he is licensed by the marriage law to do it or not. And that is the vilest tyranny where a man compels a woman he says he loves, to endure the agony of bearing children that she does not want, and for whom, as is the rule rather than the exception, they cannot properly provide. It is worse than any other human oppression; it is fairly God-like! To the sexual tyrant there is not parallel upon earth; one must go to the skies to find a fiend who thrusts life upon his children only to starve and curse and outcast and damn them!”
- Voltairine De’Cleyre
I love this quote on so many levels, for what it says about the institution of marriage as it existed in her time, as a reminder why we should be so utterly and irreconcilably hostile to those who seek to use religious conviction to return us to that time, and as an indictment of the “morality” that those same religious zealots preach.
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