I mean, that’s what No Child Left Behind is about. It’s training for the Marine Corps.
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13 February 2012
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12:00
If that premise sounds familiar, it is because the movie fits the tried-and-true formula of patriarchal fantasy wherein viewers are asked to accept that violent death at the hands of others is the primary existential threat and, consequently, that women need male protection to survive.
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10:20
Today’s New York Times contains a fine example of how ideology works at the high end: report information that might trouble the established order, but conclude on a tranquilizing note that allows the comfortable reader to turn the page (or click “close tab”) without changing his or her worldview.
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3 February 2012
Councilmember Larry Reid claimed that ‘It’s almost like we’re being held hostage,’ a strange thing to say while protesters were still in jail.
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10:20
From the Outside, Trying to Look In: Occupy Oakland’s #J28
It was clear, at this point, that this is what they’d been trying to do all day, what they’d been planning to do earlier: arrest everybody and sort it out later. And it was only at this point that the “assault on City Hall” happened, maybe five blocks away. Once the 400 people who would be arrested that night had been informed that they were under arrest (which you could hear on the livestream as “Attention marchers: you have failed to disperse! You are now under arrest! Submit to the arrest” several minutes after the protesters had been chanting “Let us Disperse”), protesters who had escaped back to Oscar Grant Plaza “occupied” City Hall.
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1 February 2012
The fact that all of these ‘journalists’ repeat the same ridiculous crowd number, march times, etc isn’t just an indication of their tendency to downplay activist mobilization; its an index of their basic and fundamental worthlessness as news sources.
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10 November 2011
The same night, journalist Susie Cagle was arrested along with 92 others, for the misdemeanor “failure to leave scene of riot, etc.” You should read her account of her arrest, where she makes quite clear how impossible the OPD made it to know where exactly the sidelines were and how to stand on them
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4 November 2011
Cyclists were front and center… uh oh. (via Occupy Oakland’s Port Action, and After)
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29 October 2011
This is something the Framers understood quite well: power corrupts but democratic accountability keeps that corruption in check. Good people only stay good if The People are able to make sure they do. So Jean Quan needs to go to make the next mayor aware that there’s a political cost to putting nonviolent protesters in the hospital, to putting police in a position where they can be as violent as they inevitably will be when challenged.
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20 October 2011
But now that there are people there — people creating a political headache for city hall — now, suddenly, the rats are an important problem. Suddenly, coincidentally, the city is very concerned about ‘rats.’
