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A Conversation on our "Nihilistic Age"
As religious authority wanes, fundamental values—including the very value of truth—don’t die, but rather lose their absolute status and go a little haywire as a result. Scientific knowledge and its truth come apart from value, from meaning, and thus from the question of “the good.” When the value of values declines, values don’t vanish but become trivial, fungible, instrumentalizable....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 11:03am PDT
Escalation and Orientation
Let's strive to deepen the political horizons of this moment as much as the tactics....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 4:29pm PDT
Trust in Institutions and the War Dividend
Even if almost no one wants to admit it, our “system” is obsolete, and for this reason it is now morphing into a “closed system” – totalitarian in nature. It is equally clear that the few who continue to benefit materially from the capitalist system (the 0.1%) are willing to do whatever it takes to prolong its obsolete existence. Debt is issued from one door and purchased from another....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 2:24am PDT
ACLU Responds to California Supreme Court Ruling on Minimum Wage for Incarcerated Workers
OAKLAND, Calif., April 22, 2024 — The California Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s minimum wage law does not apply to people working for private companies while they are held in pretrial detention in California’s jails. The lawsuit, Ruelas v. County of Alameda, was brought by people incarcerated at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County who worked without compensation for Aramark, a for-profit corporation that provides food in jails and prisons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 12:48pm PDT
Lola López Resina still imprisoned at 73 years old, the machine grinds on
Lola López Resina, 73, has been locked up for 31 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for lifetimes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2024 12:21pm PDT
Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah (وليد دقة) dies, the machine grinds on
Walid Daqqah had been locked up for 38 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for even longer terms...
Posted: Sun, Apr 7, 2024 3:24pm PDT
Why anti-fascism?
Capitalism is not in a position to solve the social and ecological crisis that it is causing. An open-ended transformation of the system is inevitable, and a struggle for transformation will be waged – especially against the fascist threat. Conscious reflection on the systemic crisis is the best antidote to the conspiratorial crisis...
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 10:02am PDT
UNICOR is linked to “Rape Club” at Dublin’s FCI federal women’s prison
Horny Prison Guards May Make The "Marquis de Sade" Envious:...
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 4:14am PDT
The “Rape Club,” at Dublin’s federal women’s prison
The “Rape Club,” at Dublin’s federal women’s prison...
Posted: Thu, Mar 21, 2024 1:48am PDT
'FBI Tracking, Questioning Muslims In US After Israeli Attack On Gaza'
Muslims in the US have been followed by the FBI for many years, but complaints have increased after Israeli attacks on Gaza on Oct. 7, Dina Chehata, civil rights managing attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office, told Anadolu....
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 7:38am PDT
Talking to the left
Developing a common transformational project and building counter-power remains the central task of the left. Especially in areas of social infrastructure, such as housing and healthcare, profit maximization has a particularly devastating effect. The strategy of socialization, i.e. the transfer of private property into democratic structures, can provide orientation here....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 2:23pm PST
Dear Mr. High Commissioner: Help Free Assange!
Mr. Assange is a defender of human rights; an innovative journalist and creative publisher; he is one of us. He should not be locked up but standing with us in our office. Is he not persecuted for doing what every serious investigative journalist, every serious human rights investigator should be doing every day: investigating allegations and promoting truth, accountability and justice?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 2:06pm PST
Waymo Vehicles Attacked in Solidarity With Palestine and Atlanta
In the past several weeks, we used hammers and knives to sabotage multiple Waymo self-driving vehicles in San Francisco. We attacked Waymo in solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company. Google, together with Amazon, has a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to "Israel" and its military as part of Project Nimbus....
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2024 12:28am PST
Instrumental Reason and Left Politics
In the neoliberal variant of capitalism, postmodern pluralism dominates and with it a reason that is no longer trusted to understand the whole.. For instrumental reason, the actual world is always the best of all possible worlds since the question of a better world cannot arise in it. No problem arises that makes another, not yet existing world necessary or desirable....
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2024 8:17am PST
SF Police Credit Union Attacked for Tortuguita
In the early hours of January 18, one year after the police murder of Tortuguita, we smashed 18 windows at the San Francisco Police Credit Union as an act of vengeance for it....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2024 1:41am PST
Open Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council
This is an open letter to the Chancellor of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley City Council. Feel free to copy and email or fax this to them. Or print it out and give it to them in person....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2024 1:26pm PST
Over 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park
Various law enforcement agencies have employees currently staged at UC Berkeley. The number of expected personnel are to exceed a thousand. The People's Park raid is happening....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 11:49pm PST
Fascism 101: Why We Need To Spell It Out
We need to have a transformative vision that can compete with that of the far right, one based on genuine equality and genuine democratic empowerment that goes beyond the now discredited liberal democracy. Some call this vision socialism. Others would prefer another term, but the important thing is its message of radical, real equality beyond class, gender, and race....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 1:17am PST
5am Tues: Stop Bulldozing of People's Park!
UC Berkeley wants to build student housing where protests and community events have been held by the local community for over 50 years. Come out and stop the bulldozers!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2024 10:20pm PST
Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness
Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST