Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Black Study, Black Struggle - Boston Review 2026-07-06T00:30:05+00:00 https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/robin-kelley-black-struggle-campus-protest/ robertogreco 2026 robindgkelley robinkelley dereckapurnell randallkennedy keeanga-yamahttataylor christopherlebron barbararansby shanaredmond charlenecarruthers aaronbady michaelericdyson amandaboston bridgettodd thabisilegriffin highered highereducation academia colleges universities us activism socialtransformation society undercommons fugutives fredmoten stefanoharney politics protest protests race racism henrygiroux ta-nehisicoates naomiwallace georgelipsitz interiority davidtheogoldberg tolerance depoliticization inequality subordination marginalization socialconflict jamesbaldwin karlmarx clrjames frantzfanon walterrodney barbarasmith angeladavis friedrichengels vladimirlenin chancellorwilliams georgejames shulamithfirestone kwamenkrumah rosaluxemburg antoniogramsci chinweizuibekwe amílcarcabral kwameture lenin patriciarobinson patriciahaden donnamiddleton capitalism blm blacklivesmatter criticalresistance marquesvestal sawhitley shamellbell olúfẹ́mitáíwò neoliberalism resistance ericgarner sa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:859c45417088/ Is There Room for Enmity in the A.I. Classroom? - Front Porch Republic 2026-05-22T08:21:03+00:00 https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/is-there-room-for-enmity-in-the-a-i-classroom/ robertogrecochoose courses that will challenge you, even unsettle you. Don’t accept being coddled. When you choose to engage in debates, please have the intellectual curiosity to explore the topic in depth, have the intellectual honesty to recognize the merits of arguments of the opposing side, admit to the weaknesses in your own viewpoint, and have the intellectual humility to admit when you don’t know and wish to learn more. Sound advice, but woefully incomplete in the current context. LLMs are already capable of exploring topics and weighing arguments with students, not to mention structuring personal goals and offering encouragement. (“Let’s dive in!”) Thus, Watkins’s vision of “struggle,” construed as a matter of personal choice and individual self-improvement, is easily reconciled with the quantification and benchmarks of artificial intelligence. Loathing (like love) operates quite differently, creating meaning through human relationships, in which willfulness, idiosyncrasy, and feelings preclude quantification or smooth standardization. By heightening emotion, hatred deepens the personhood of both teachers and students. Of course, feelings of hatred spring from many sources and encompass many shades of meaning. Some students nurse petty grudges to avoid responsibility for their own wrongdoing. Others perceive condescension from their teachers and repay it in kind. Some rankle at teachers with strong personalities and worldviews. Others feel the stirring of metaphysical revolt, objecting to the very existence of injustice, suffering, and constraint in the classroom or the world at large. Uniting all these types of hatred are their mimetic effects on the student. Strong feelings bind the individual to the object of disdain, whose attributes he internalizes and mirrors (if only in negation). Thus, every type of hatred is educational insofar as it holds the student’s attention and shapes his character. The trouble is that not all these lessons are equally educational or necessarily salutary. To set oneself against another can spur achievement (as in athletic rivalries) but, if one is not careful, it can also lead to what the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche calls ressentiment: an unworthy type of envy, insecurity, and conformity that debases the individual as it tears others down. That is why Nietzsche urges students to choose their enemies carefully, noting that “the most spiritual human beings” will test themselves only against life’s “most formidable weapons.” One need not agree with every aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy to grant the point. We all need someone to pitch our deepest aspirations against, someone we can both respect and pointedly reject as we chart our own course. It is in this sense that “the man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends,” Nietzsche writes. “One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil.” To help students strive toward selfhood, the teacher must embody authority—not only communicating information but personifying standards of wisdom, taste, and morals—and must do so knowing that pupils will chafe not only at the lessons but at the teacher herself. Yet, she cannot simply play the foil, pull punches, or abdicate responsibility for the struggle. To become the bearer of student hatred—to stand as an obstacle for the next generation to overcome—is a tragic aspect of teaching, but there is nothing to do but to press on in sincerity and faith. Unfortunately, both the rhetoric and reality of teachers’ authority have been in decline for a long time. By bifurcating knowledge and value, LLMs now threaten to dissolve this authority entirely. The teacher can no longer be the master of content or technique, while the algorithm cannot embody truth, culture, or human excellence. LLMs already provide students with detailed (sometimes problematic) feedback, but as Abeba Birhane points out, “There is nothing at stake for a generative AI model. It cannot feel a sense of loss, embarrassment, accomplishment or care towards a student, as human teachers do.” An algorithm cannot feel the pangs of doubt or resolve, and for the same reason it cannot elicit existential scorn or hatred. Students know that a machine’s praise or censure rings hollow. They cannot define themselves in opposition to an LLM, and why should they want to? In Being and Time (1927), Martin Heidegger argues that the modern individual (Dasein) “stands in subjection to Others.” Worse, they are not even “definite Others” but an anonymous amalgam of social conventions: a “dictatorship of the ‘they.’” It is hard to read Heidegger’s diagnosis without thinking about LLMs. In today’s world, he writes, anonymous authority
prescribes what can and may be ventured, it keeps watch over everything exceptional that thrusts itself to the fore. Every kind of priority gets noiselessly suppressed. Overnight, everything that is primordial gets glossed over as something that has long been well known. Everything gained by a struggle becomes just something to be manipulated. Every secret loses its force. This case of averageness reveals in turn an essential tendency … which we call the ‘levelling down’ of all possibilities of Being…. The ‘they’ is there alongside everywhere, but in such a manner that it has always stolen away whenever Dasein presses for a decision. Yet because the ‘they’ presents every judgment and decision as its own, it deprives the particular Dasein of its answerability.
LLMs stifle self-realization because, while they seem ubiquitous and almost omniscient, they also deprive students of any answerable or embodied authority, trapping them instead in a web of probability, generalization, and disembodied “expertise.” Subjection is in some ways intrinsic to education, part of a broader project of discipline and formation, but it must be experienced concretely, in relationship to “definite Others.” Hannah Arendt warns that as technology expands, it becomes less likely “that man will encounter anything in the world around him that is not man-made and hence is not, in the last analysis, he himself in a different disguise.” Drawing from Heidegger, she underscores the danger of this eerie echo chamber. It is only through encounters with reality (not artificiality) that one becomes truly human. Consciousness begins not in the familiarity and sameness of one’s own mind but in confrontation with an unpredictable, inflexible entity outside the self—whether Nature, God, or (for our purposes) a recalcitrant teacher. LLMs merely masquerade as the Other. Aggregated and amorphous, designed for fluidity and user satisfaction, they are artificial in the fullest sense of the word. When students engage with an LLM, they are literally talking to no one. How much classroom time should be occupied with such activities? What lessons should they replace? However one responds to those questions, the answers have nothing to do with processing speed, safety guardrails, or other technical matters. They are fundamentally questions about how we conceive of humanity and whether we are committed to its formation and perpetuation. If we hope to prevent “cognitive atrophy” in our students, if we hope to awaken them to existential meaning, we have to invest in teachers worthy of their attention, their respect, and, sometimes, their hate."]]> campbellfrankscribner 2026 ai artificialintelligence teaching howweteach education llms affirmation love morality walterong idenitity opposition friction disagreement marcwatkins loathing humility nietzche ressentiment envy insecurity conformity authority selfhood identity wisdom taste morals sincerity faith algorithms loss embarrassment heidegger others self-realization probability generalization disembodiment discipline formation nature god cognitiveatrophy answerability dasein perspective viewpoint struggle learning howwelearn injustice suffering hate constraint negation humanity humanism cognition hannaharendt consciousness abebabirhane aisycophancy self knowledge schooling humandevelopment revolt revulsion https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbf3b60776ef/ The Care Economy is the Everything Economy - with Emma Holten - YouTube 2026-04-04T07:44:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yl6JpVZTdM robertogreco emmaholten unlearningeconomics feminism economics 2025 economy society gdp austerity care caring carework careeconomy health healthcare childcare gender hobbes adamsmith johnlocke illness thomashobbes reality humanism relationships social bodies embodiment politicaleconomy sickness unemployment labor work workers culture culturalhistory history quantification numbers statistics data information neoliberalism markets capital capitalism power lobbying influence socialscience socialsciences ideology sexism truth women understanding exclusion aging prices pricing efficiency simnplification methods method inequality diversity externalities coherence disabilities disability predicitons conservatism stabilization predictability equilibrium equilibriumtheory climate climatechange globalwarming change climatecrisis nurses nursing publicsector healthworkers rachelreeves essentialworkers values pandemic covid-19 coronavirus marketvalues qualitative purpose profit profits carecrisis nature environment sustainability uk e https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:55bf219e4032/ Everything Was Already AI - YouTube 2026-01-09T19:34:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg robertogreco ai artificialintelligence unlearningeconomics llms evolution context language naturalselection economics capitalism economy culture slop aislop marketing film filmmaking music freemarkets friedrichhayek markets behavior circulareconomy adaptation morality generativeai privateequity technology information arvindnarayanan sayashkapoor dandavies graceblakeley timo'reilly elonmusk openai chatgpt stockmarket herbertsimon jamescscott seeinglikeastate data stevekeen markschatzker decisionmaking prediction nathantankus accounting benjaminkuipers institutions culturaltechnologies states edzitron geoffreyhinton alexanderavila commodification timcook markzuckerberg peterthiel satisficing satisfaction loxalmaxima culturaltechnology simplicity massproduction familiarity complexity exploitation finance conventionalwisdom experimentation trevornoah jeromepowell communication interpretation languages conformity bubbles aibubble lossiness idiosyncrasy art humanity enshittification chatbots bots media corporations corporatism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6f026e3046d/ Alexis Madrigal: "To Know A Place" - Social Science Matrix 2025-12-28T20:58:00+00:00 https://live-ssmatrix.pantheon.berkeley.edu/research-article/alexis-madrigal/ robertogreco alexismadrigal place urban urbanism bayarea 2025 technology culture socialscience cities landscape perspective memory narrative storytelling time watershed placemaking bighere longnnow bignow longhere biomes ecology temporality technophily online internet web bioredionalism garysnyder indigeneity indigenous life living flora fauna reallifemag meatspace nathanjorgenson bodies helenharrison newtonharrison saraamariwalker oakland eastbay peterberg planetdrum berkeley claremontcreek politics institutions robinwallkimmerer siliconvalley sanfrancisco waterfront south norcal mountdiablo mounttamalpais ecofeminism liberation robinsloan treasureisland spirituality strawberrycreek midlredhoward running physical adamwebb astrobiology margaretgordon eastpaloalto richmond marincity race racism russellcity bayview hunterspoint westoakland biology bart capitalism lakemerritt rondellums air water pacificcircuit claireleister sanjose solidarity geology history hydrology baybridge humanism human humans land california wilderne https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c6915ef93c3/ Land Acknowledgements and Remembering Atlantic Slavery 2025-12-07T22:24:56+00:00 https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/land-acknowledgements-and-remembering robertogrecoThere’s a they in that case: the they who made wealth and power from misery, dispossession, torture, and violence operating at scales and in forms that were previously unprecedented in human history. Which is the they that is still with us now, and yes, the ranks of that they include people of every nation, every ethnicity, every race, even of every gender. Not evenly so, but that’s the point that land acknowledgement and memorials of Atlantic slavery are calling us to recall. That the inequities we struggle with today, that the incomplete promise of liberty and justice for all, that the continuously thwarted hope to live in a republic governed by the people and of the people, are not sudden, not incidental, and not just a matter of the individual failings of a handful of people. If Bo Goergen or Matt Yglesias want to tune in to what they’re really hearing when they hear a land acknowledgement, that’s what it’s all about. They’re a reminder of what Goergen concedes, that there were injustices, there were lasting wounds. I think people who want to put land acknowledgements in one box and “remigration” in another and hold themselves better than both need to ask first which of those two is more likely to be government policy, which of those two is more likely to cause imminent harm, but also, which of them is trying to recall something truthful about how the past has structured the present. If it helps, imagine that you’re hearing a land acknowledgement as saying, “Remember how all this land came to be in the hands of the people who own it now, and be warned that the people who took what wasn’t offered or given then created a system that can take or seize property, lives and futures now.” The only people who need a “Sistah Souljah moment”, which Yglesias actually calls for, are people who need a distraction from their own irrelevance and moral vacuity, who look for a target to hit but not a truth to be explored."]]> timothyburke landback landacknowledgements remigration 2025 mattyglesias bogoergen johnmcwhorter slavery us politics history indigeneity indigenous pundits punditry whitesupremacy injustice zorg slavetrade agreesion colonialism colonization inequality capitalism northamerica nativeamericans enslavement upenn settlements petersinger pennsylvania newengland goldcoast africa centralafrica labor westafrica land landowenership ownership capitalaccumulation access residence society markets marketization lenape institutions colleges universities academia idealism williampenn wampanoag thanksgiving massasoit metacom dispossession annamaboe latinamerica caribbean randysparks misery power torture violence inequity truth governance government policy ethnicity race racism racialcapitalism freedom liberty democracy caboceers swedishsouthcompany haudenosauneeconfederacy lenahopking senegambia settlercolonialism kinship diogodeazambuja elmina trumpism maga europe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5aea6e78929b/ Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine 2025-11-20T05:19:44+00:00 https://proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/horizons-of-young-liberation/ robertogreco sarahbrouillette 2025 children adultsupremacy madelinelane-mckinley childabuse conservatism canada us parentalrights parenting rightwing gaza palestine supremacy childliberation williamgolding independence unschooling youth julesgill-peterson maxfox carlajoybergman mariadellacosta kathiweeks meo'brien sophielewis tqqun freud utopia utopianism injustice genocide tamirrice society justice socialjustice audrelorde abolitionism mothehood emmagoldman adulthood adolescence authority jordanpeterson gender identity policy politics authoritarianism solidarity lordoftheflies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a754e28fd2a4/ A Conversation with Lina Khan - YouTube 2025-11-01T04:28:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxkifYjBFY robertogrecolinakhan law legal history us monopolies trusts economics regulation joebiden ronaldreagan neoliberalism donaldtrump robertbork deregulation universityofchicago miltonfriedman consolidation markets prices profits profitmargins profit labor workers wages inequality innovation competition fragility covid-19 pandemic supplychains risk coronavirus 2022 2020 2024 heathercoxrichardson politics policy johndeere bigpharma healthcare amazon facebook marketplaces noncompete corporations corporatism abuse noncompetes toobigtofail corporateabuse ftc 2021 2023 income pay salaries wagesuppression antitrust injustice railroads power coercion shermanact claytonact newdeal constitution checksandbalances commerce control fdr franklinedelanoroosevelt wealth reaganism teddyroosevelt congress enforcement mergers acquisitions 1980s telecomindustry georgehwbush billclinton society entrepreneurship ideology kroger albertsons groceries supermarkets corruption paytoplay franklindelanoroosevelt theodoreroosevelt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eeeab9ed3408/ Full article: ‘Tell this fuckin’ bitch to pull her head in’: affective infrastructures of gender injustice and manosphere classroom encounters 2025-10-17T20:47:47+00:00 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2025.2568404 robertogreco monasphere education schools schooling gender 2025 samschulz sarahmcdonald michalinoszembylas classroom manosphere toxicmasculinity australia injustice affect masculinism complaint https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9917496aa66b/ Insights on Building Justice 2025-10-11T15:41:58+00:00 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/devotional-reading/insights-on-building-justice robertogrecoFling wide your doors! Give your wealth free passage everywhere! As a great river flows by a thousand channels through fertile country, so let your wealth run through many conduits to the homes of the poor. Wells that are drawn from flow the better; left unused, they go foul.…Money kept standing idle is worthless, but moving and changing hands it benefits the community and brings increase. “I am wronging no one,” you say, “I am merely holding on to what is mine.” What is yours? Who gave it to you so that you could bring it into life with you? Why, you are like a man who pinches a seat at the theater at the expense of latecomers, claiming ownership of what was for common use. That’s what tindividuhe rich are like; having seized what belongs to all they claim it as their own on the basis of having got there first. Whereas if everyone took for himself enough to meet his immediate needs and released the rest for those in need of it, there would be no rich and no poor. coins from the Roman empire When a man strips another of his clothes, he is called a thief. Should not a man who has the power to clothe the naked but does not do so be called the same? The bread in your larder belongs to the hungry. The cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked. The shoes you allow to rot belong to the barefoot. The money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. You do injustice to every person whom you could help but do not. I ask, “Why do you have all this wealth?” For the care of the poor consumes wealth. When each one receives a little for one’s needs, and when all owners distribute their means simultaneously for the care of the needy, no one will possess more than one’s neighbor. Yet it is plain that you have much land. Where did it come from? Undoubtedly you have subordinated the relief and comfort of many to your convenience. And so, the more you abound in your riches, the more you want in love. Share All Things in Common: Ambrose of Milan
Private property is not a matter of justice, for it is not according to nature, which has brought forth all good things for all in common. God has created everything in such a way that all things are to be possessed in common. Nature therefore is the mother of common right, usurpation the mother of private right. It is not from your own property that you give to the poor. Rather, you make return from what is theirs. For what has been given as common for the use of all, you have appropriated to yourself alone. The earth belongs to all, not to the rich. Therefore you are paying a debt, not bestowing a gift. How far, O you rich, do you push your mad desires? “Shall you alone dwell upon the earth?” (Isa. 5:8) The earth was made in common for all.…Why do you arrogate to yourselves, you rich, an exclusive right to the soil? Nature, which begets all people as poor, cannot recognize the rich. For we are neither born with raiment nor begotten with gold and silver. Naked the earth brings people into the light, in need of food, clothing, and drink; naked the earth receives those whom it has brought forth; it does not know how to include the boundaries of an estate in a tomb. “He scattered abroad and gave to the poor, his justice endures forever” (2 Cor. 9:9).…his mercy, therefore, is called justice because the giver knows that God has given all things to all in common – that the sun rises for all, his rain falls on all, and he has given the earth for all. On that account the giver shares with those who do not have the abundance of the earth.…They are just, therefore, who do not retain anything for themselves alone, knowing that everything has been given to all.
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They’re clear-eyed and fearless."]]]> philchristman 2025 christianity wealth inequality property privateproperty basilthegreat ambroseofmilan exploitation capitalism justice injustice individualism love https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:38635da7062e/ The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession | WIRED 2025-10-08T20:49:36+00:00 https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/ robertogreco peterthiel carlschmitt authoritarianism christianity fascism philosophy religion 2025 laurabullard apocalypse tylercowen ross douthat antichrist tescreal accelerationism renégirard armageddon politics technology transhumanism singularity singularitarianism innovation technofascism technosolutionism nickbostrom ai artificialintelligence government governance wolfgangpalaver theology 2019 2023 2016 hooverinstitution church jordanpeterson paypal palantir facebook jdvance donaldtrump history peace mimesis scapegoating sacpegoats 1983 injustice jesus christ jesuschrist 1980s libertarianism southafrica roberthamerton-kelly conservatism 1990s aynrand wallstreet antoninscalia scotus derivatives 1996 liberalism nazis nerdreich wwii ww2 nazism osamabinladen 9/11 islam leostrauss surveillance cia us un icc regulation deregulation michaelanton yoramhazony rondesantis 2024 pauldumouchel bernardperret elections maga mimetictheory scapegoats extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism extroprianism effectivealtruism cap https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8998f351cac7/ Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital, by James K. Rowe (2024) 2025-10-04T02:52:02+00:00 https://www.routledge.com/Radical-Mindfulness-Why-Transforming-Fear-of-Death-is-Politically-Vital/Rowe/p/book/9781032523361 robertogreco jamerowe 2024 death fear inequality race class gender politics meditation socialmovements supremacy patriarchy dylanthomas injustice whitesupremacy jamesbaldwin whiteness colonialism colonization johnmohawk oppression west humansupremacy eernestbecker ritagross hsiao-lanhu buddhism feminism justice activism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ca18e58eb3e1/ Is Fear of Death the Root Cause of Injustice? | Lion’s Roar 2025-10-04T02:48:54+00:00 https://www.lionsroar.com/is-fear-of-death-the-root-cause-of-injustice/ robertogreco jamesrowe death injustice fear socialinjustice environment 2025 buddhism jamesbaldwin simonedebeauvoir buddha chögyamtrungpa well-being wellbeing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e13a7834cd1c/ On the politics of walking – walk · listen · create 2025-10-01T02:55:12+00:00 https://walklistencreate.org/2025/09/04/on-the-politics-of-walking/ robertogreco2025 walking babakfakhamzadeh marymarinopoulou grief solidarity resistance politics emergence nohadelhajj martamorenomuñoz robertyerachmielsniderman tomjeffreys violence injustice disconnection gaza india kenya greece us unrest literature beirut belgium connection place slow food cats buildings landscape landscapes climate climatechange extinctionrebellion environment climatecrisis ecology genocide ethniccleansing cemeteries rupture listening edinburgh care collaboration method ethic ethics walkingtours history memory storytelling place-based https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e653193abc4f/ Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University, by Alexander X. 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Caleb McDaniel (2025) 2025-09-30T18:44:28+00:00 http://wcaleb.org/books/slavery-segregation-and-second-founding-of-rice robertogreco riceuniversity houston race slavery segregation 2025 alexanderbyrd wcalebmcdaniel history williammarshrice universities colleges highered highereducation academia racism injustice 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 enslavement texas desegregation hbcu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:def85d1781cc/ Against Landlords 2025-09-04T06:15:54+00:00 https://robinrendle.com/notes/against-landlords/ robertogrecorobinrendle housing 2025 landlords socialhousing socialism nickbano left uk policy economics rentcontrol capitalgainstax inequality rent markets injustice socialviolence homes homeless homelessness renting housingcrisis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a7e942b99fdb/ Holocaust Survivor's Absolutely DEMOLISHES Israel - YouTube 2025-08-21T20:06:33+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcCgV0dSoAM robertogrecostephenkapos israel genocide ethniccleansing iof idf gaza palestine starvation dehumanization warcrimes zionism extermination journalism journalists concentrationcamps ww2 wwii nazis dispossession displacement discrimination devastation destruction evil 2025 history accountability benjaminnetanyahu un judaism antisemitism injustice facism impunity policy bezalelsmotrich itamarben-gvir hannaharendt alberteinstein likud haherut ideology protest depravation comparison settlercolonialism colonialism colonization antiarab racism propaganda trauma whitesupremacy supremacy resistance icc icj suppression encampments us uk germany violence colleges universities highereducation highered jeremycorbyn johnmacdonald media guilt complicity indifference courage bravery emilvismayer risk likudparty https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac4b374df0c3/ What They Carry, What We Ignore: Stories From My Students | by Jesse MacKinnon | Medium 2025-08-20T17:58:48+00:00 https://medium.com/@mackinnon.jesse/what-they-carry-what-we-ignore-stories-from-my-students-6dabf0e112b6 robertogreco via:javierarbona jessemackinnon 2025 us oakland eastoakland education hope fear resistance community mutualaid children youth stability safety inequality inequity money survival creativity ambition understanding hustle justice injustice socialjustice society freedom government governance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3dac4ee381a8/ Forget Starbucks. Boycott the New York Times | Mona Chalabi | Real Talk - YouTube 2025-07-14T23:02:41+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mydu6gkO4Y robertogreco monachalabi mohamedhashem journalism nytimes iraq iraqwar zohranmamdani islamophobia islam gaza palestiene genocide ethniccleansing israel zionism arabs antiarab reporting objectivity bias passivity politics ethnicity fivethirtyeight zionsism antizionism natesilver ahmedchalabi muslimamericans policy 2025 visibility accents britishaccents unions unionbusting ethnonationalism nationalism workers workingclass us antisemitism smearcampaigns editorials opinions framing genocidewashing apartheidwashing apartheid power mainstreammedia press media subjectivity bothsidesism powerdynamics jeffreygoldberg claire shipman columbia thenewyorker theatlantic left birthright indoctrinaton data judithmiller iof idf neutrality injustice witness martyrs kurdistan kurds saddamhussein muammargaddafi gaddafi future muntadharal-zaidi datajournalism ramyyoussef codeswitching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3adafb88a328/ Netherlands football hooliganism: Prosecutors drop 'Maccabi Tel Aviv' assault cases - YouTube 2025-07-12T15:56:31+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9D1jUPQKns robertogreco maccabitelaviv netherlands 2025 amsterdam hooligans soccer football sports palestine israel genocide ethniccleansing antiarab racism race zionism antisemitism islamophobia injustice 2024 eu europe gaza futbol https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:de6c72fbd6a0/ The Persecution of Francesca Albanese 2025-07-10T02:39:41+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-persecution-of-francesca-albanese robertogreco chrishedges un francescaalbanese 2025 donaldtrump marcorubio genocide palestine gaza ethniccleansing icc icj internationallaw roguestates us israel polcy frantzfanon erasure warcrimes impunity benjaminnetanyahu yoavgallant davidcameron uk eu palantir ibm lockheedmartin mit microsoft caterpillar alphabet google amazon blackrock antisemitism zionism antizionism hypocrisy democracy freedom cruelty racism displacement dispossession surveillance border borders mexico injustice zionistmccarthyism mccarthyism westbank apartheid joebiden occupation settlercolonialism colonialism colonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:66e80c340e7e/ Maccabi hooligans get compensation instead of charges | MEE Explains - YouTube 2025-07-08T23:47:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRpzJf5ANmc robertogreco maccabitelaviv 2025 netherlands amsterdam hooligans soccer football sports palestine israel genocide ethniccleansing antiarab racism race zionism antisemitism islamophobia injustice 2024 eu europe gaza futbol https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9ca29c92a2e5/ Code Red: How AI Is Set to Supercharge Racism, Rewrite History, and Hijack Learning – Cloaking Inequity 2025-07-05T02:01:14+00:00 https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/06/20/code-red-how-ai-is-set-to-supercharge-racism-rewrite-history-and-hijack-learning/ robertogrecoai artificialintelligence 2025 race racism history learning disinformation misinformation inequality inequity technology 2024 education socialmedia nclb accountability machinelearning crisis compassion community justice injustice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e73308d2774/ ANDOR Exposed the Empire—And Ours - YouTube 2025-06-25T04:49:06+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIgiCBUbCe8 robertogreco 2025 andor starwars rashidatlaib revolution resistance gaza palestine fascism moralconflict authoritarianism extraction extractivism ethniccleansing genocide propaganda banalityofevil scifi sciencefiction reality empire imperialism colonialism colonization freedom tyranny morality power evil democracy oppression manipulation georgelucas rebellion terrorism politics rogueone rebels good fear militarism torture surveillance realism asymmetricwarfare vietcong al-qaeda revengeofthesith protest protests violence ethics injustice sacrifice infighting organizing organization means unity paranoia exploitation state stateviolence slavery prisons prisonlabor abolition greenland prisonabolition mining annexation policebrutality police policing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe434bf9e1e6/ What Makes "Andor" Left-Wing? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat - YouTube 2025-06-25T02:05:49+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kUFBXrw0DU robertogrecoThe five years that I have been given are extremely potent. You have the Empire really closing down, really choking, really ramping up. The emperor is building the Death Star. They are closing out corporate planets and absorbing them into the state. They are imperialistically acquiring planets and taking what they want. The noose is tightening dramatically. There still is a Senate. There are senators that are speaking out impotently. The Senate has been all but completely emasculated by the time this five-year tranche is over. And there are revolutionary groups, rebellious groups, and people who are acting rebelliously, who wouldn’t even know how to describe themselves as part of any movement. There is a completely wide spectrum of unaffiliated cells and activists that are rising independently across the galaxy. At the same time, you have a group of more restrained politicians who are trying to make an organized coalition of a rebellion on a place called Yavin, which will end up being the true end of the true victory of the Rebel Alliance. I wanted to do a show all about the forgotten people who make a revolution like this happen — on both sides — and I want to take equal interest and spend as much time understanding the bureaucrats and the enforcers of the rebellion. I think one of the fascinating things about fascism is that, when it’s done coming after the people whose land it wants and who it wants to oppress and whoever it wants to control, by the time it gets rid of the courts and the justice and consolidates all its power in the center, it ultimately eats its young. It ultimately consumes its own proponents. The rest of the interview is very much worth a read as well, particularly the bits where, for example, Douthat presses Gilroy on Andor being a “left-wing show”, Gilroy says no, Douthat scoffs, and, sensing Douthat is telling on himself, Gilroy fires back, “Do you identify with the Empire? Do you identify with the Empire?” And Gilroy continues later:
You could say: Why has Hollywood for the last 100 years been progressive or been liberal? I think it’s much larger. I’ll go further and say: Why does almost all literature, why does almost all art that involves humans trend progressive? Let’s stick with Hollywood. Making a living as an actor or as a writer or a director — without the higher degree of empathy that you have, the more aware you are of behavior and all kinds of behavior, the better you’re going to be at your job. We feed our families by being in an empathy business. It’s just baked in. You’re trying to pretend to be other people. The whole job is to pretend to be other, and what is it like to look from this? People may be less successful over time at portraying Nazis as humans, and that may be good writing or bad writing, and there may be people that have an ax to grind. But in general, empathy is how I feed my family. And the more finely tuned that is, the better I am at my job. That is what actors do: I’m going on Broadway, I’m playing a villain for six months. I got to live in that. I’m playing the slave, I’m playing the fisherman, I’m playing the nurse, I’m the murderer — you have to get in there. You have to live lives through other people. I think that the simple act of that transformation and that process automatically gives you what I would describe as a more generous and progressive point of view. It just has to.
Like I said, well worth a read/listen."]]]> andor starwars rossdouthat tonygilwory left imperialism empire progressive progressivism ai artificialintelligence michaelclayton politics rebellion resistance hollywood power fascism revolution authoritarianism sacrifice colonialism colonization bureaucracy oppression freedom corporations corporatism extraction extractivism democracy protest protests guerillas revolutionaries justice injustice benitomussolini tyranny autodidacts stefanzweig marieantoinette emilianozapata frenchrevolution hilarymantel russianrevolution olivercromwell gestapo coenbrothers hermanmelville masculinity mccarthyism guillermodeltoro rodsteiger theshapeofwater tildaswinton forestwhitaker jonathankeeperman localism libertarianism mussolini https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d28954b83f2d/ Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism - JSTOR Daily 2025-06-18T16:08:04+00:00 https://daily.jstor.org/tolstoys-christian-anarchism/ robertogrecothe earth is no man’s; it is God’s…. The land is common to all. All have the same right to it, but there is good land and bad land, and every one would like to take the good land. How is one to do in order to get it justly divided? In this way: he that will use the good land must pay those who have got no land the value of the land he uses. Such a project was for Tolstoy intrinsically religious, moreover, and, as Wenzer states, “[t]he Georgist commune was to eventually develop into what Tolstoy envisioned as a mirror image of heaven on an earth with man and all creatures living in concord.” Through the rejection of violence and the building of a peaceful agrarian society in accordance with Georgist principles, Tolstoy believed that the Christian task of creating the kingdom of God could be accomplished, not as a longed-for afterlife, but as a living, historic reality. In the decade leading up to Tolstoy’s death, Russian society spiraled in ever-greater unrest. Peasants rose up against the authorities, socialists and communists proliferated, and the government used horrific violence to control the populace. “Tolstoy’s fears had become a monstrous reality,” writes Wenzer. “People were suffering even more, and blood was pouring in the streets.” Tolstoy, then in his late seventies, continued writing at a furious pace in a desperate effort to save his country. He went so far as to write letters to Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich advocating for Georgist land reform. He scorned socialist and democratic solutions, believing that only the tsar could solve the situation by unilaterally going above government hierarchy to implement the reforms that could save Russia before it was too late. Tolstoy died, at eighty-two, in a railway station on November 20, 1910, his words unheeded. Within the decade, Russia slipped into full-scale revolution, culminating in the Bolshevik seizure of government and the violence of the Soviet regime. The cycles of oppression led only to more bloodshed, with one government replacing another while the people suffered. Yet it’s unlikely that Tolstoy’s reforms would have proved the panacea to Russia’s ills, as complicated and systemic as they were. It’s equally questionable to what extent his positions can be implemented today. As commentators have pointed out, many of Tolstoy’s ideas about economics and politics are shallow, even incoherent. Higgs, for instance, though admiring Tolstoy’s critiques of the state, calls his understanding of economics “abysmal.” Tolstoy’s approach is frequently emotional, moreover, literary rather than intellectual. And yet it’s precisely Tolstoy’s appeal to the heart as well as the head, to the conscience as the spark of divinity in every person, that makes his words reverberate down to the present. While we might question the specifics of his platform, his criticisms of injustice and vision of an equitable society retain much of their relevance and power. Few have cared so deeply for the poor and exploited or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously than he, and harmony can’t be achieved otherwise. History will go on; not even a Tolstoy could shift its bloody wheels. But we can always seek truth. As Tolstoy wrote, “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth.”"]]> anarchism tolstoy christianity christiananarchism 2025 life society economics politics benwoollard inequality rural nikolaimikhailovich henrygeorge georgism power government kennethwenzer irinapaperno milivoystanoyevich freedom autonomy roberthiggs love truth rbfowler liberalism liberty anarchy peterkropotkin rousseau pierre-josephproudhon proudhon charlesfourier poverty homelessness russia norms civilization doctrine church orthodoxy participatory participation work workers labor eattherich wealth wealthaccumulation accumulation exploitation taxation taxes property gandhi idleness class thekingdomofgodiswithinyou nicenecreed injustice justice production institutions deceit ethics pacifism violence state suppression conscription resistance landreform land tsarnicholasii socialism democracy hierarchy reform reforms equity charity suffering 1886 nature humannature governance hamony sermononthemount reason consience loveofall liberation materialism parasites agriculture science art castes hierarchies intellectua https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0062d50c51d/ Opinion | Jesus Has ‘More to Say Than Any Human Language Can Carry’: A Q&A With Rowan Williams - 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YouTube 2025-06-08T18:54:46+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhJFdZGbFo robertogreco aleckarakatsanis premthakker police policing copaganda propaganda crime fear fearmongering media news mainstreammedia safety badapples violence inequality equality marginalization wagetheft homelessness taxevasion shoplifting airpollution homicide health healthcare medicine society us law legal criminaljusticesystem journalism moralpanic walgreens isolation loneliness povery toxicity prisons lawenforcment policy poverty housing socialharm publicsafety injustice justice votingrightsact deception power reporting punishment bail ada medialiteracy prisonindustrialcomplex lawenforcement psychology sociology socisety education earlychildhoodeducation childcare data research cause causation jails mistreatment deprivation profits destruction evidence well-being wellbeing misinformation disinformation context https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:df072123d104/ Even A Grain Of Sand Deserves Justice 2025-05-06T18:52:04+00:00 https://www.noemamag.com/even-a-grain-of-sand-deserves-justice/ robertogreco morethanhuman multispecies justice 2025 environment ecology animals plants elements minerals christinewinter indigeneity indigenous earth time biodiversity nonhuman injustice planet anthropocene nature https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:212768d1c3c4/ Steven Salaita's Reflections on the Downward Spiral of US Empire & the Fate of the Western Academy - YouTube 2025-04-30T00:20:56+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWC9GlznUhk robertogreco 2025 makc stevensalaita jaredware us imperialism palestine gaza israel society power violence oppression dispossession genocide ethniccleansing academia highered highereducation colleges universities education war surveillance zionism antizionism repression donaldtrump civilrights civilliberties freespeech academicfreedom institutions liberation freedom aoc alexandriaocasio-cortez bds boycott diverstment sanctions democrats liberalism liberals resistance avoidance westbank occupation settlercolonialism colonialism colonization zionsim fear ideology haiti hawaii kashmir socialization discourse suppression criticalthinking ferguson protest protesting injustice race racism history edwardsiad fredhampton impunity capitalism inequality socialjustice corporations corporatism management administration celebrities politicians electorpolitics markruffalo kneecap self-preservation consequences careerism conformity complicity precarity solidarity individualism socialism pragmatism compliance rulingclass immiseration ant https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3c2d3b9566bc/ Feeling the Museum: Towards Multi-sensory Mediation 2025-04-16T01:01:09+00:00 https://futuress.org/stories/feeling-the-museum/ robertogreco museums senses tactile access accessibility disabilities disability blind perception liliankorner 2025 design vision visuallyimpaired sight discrimination art juhanipallasmaa knowledge marginalization injustice disabilityjustice accessriders https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9f82260da3c3/ ACSA Cancellation of 79:2 JAE Issue on Palestine: Letter by the Theme Editors - THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 2025-04-01T05:21:34+00:00 https://thefunambulist.net/editorials/acsa-cancellation-of-792-jae-issue-on-palestine-letter-by-the-theme-editors robertogreco palestine acsa nickestes noraakawi omarjabarysalamanca zosamudzi 2025 academicfreedom genocide ethniccleansing academia highered highereducation environment politics repression zionism apartheid colonialism colonization occupation settlercolonialism racialcapitalism decolonization suppression mckainclutter censorship jae liberation injustice anticolonialism antizionism. mahmoudkhalil leqaakordia ranjanisrinivasan via:javierarbona racism anti-colonialism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d2428c7b7b9c/ Reconsidering Reparations - YouTube 2025-04-01T02:41:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFaucLXi_ag robertogreco olúfẹ́mitáíwò ash-leewoodardhenderson reparations 2025 slavery colonialism climatechange globalwarming environment cedricrobinson mlk martinlutherkingjr nkechitaifa jamesbaldwin policy organizing justice environmentaljustice injustice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:717bde8e5607/ Late Fascist Aesthetics [Katie Ebner-Landy]: A Theory of the Online Forum - YouTube 2025-03-24T20:25:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRVtCXqtvA robertogreco aesthetics fascism 2025 katieebner-landy fascistaesthetics forums online internet web socialmedia aiaesthetics nationalsocialism nazis italy benitomussolini racism bureaucracy state mussolini authoritarianism violence enlightenment hierarchy gender families race sexism patriarchy farright india brasil brazil us albertotoscano socialcohesion authority capitalism neoliberalism culture uniforms crowds socialpractices society johannchapoutot nazism ethics ideology culturalrevolution latefascism 4chan discord gab onlineforums virtual reality 2016 2024 memes ukraine whitesupremacy donaldtrump israel palestine conspiracytheories antisemitism feminism rightwing pizzagate qanon 1993 history japan otaku identity status disaffected christopherpoole 2chan 2008 scientology greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis power anonymous wikileaks julianassange 2010 arabspring ows occupywallstreet 2012 manosphere masculinity incels depression betas neets misogyny 2013 liberalism reactionaries zoequinn games gaming videogames doxing ga https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ffdb8e1bcda2/ One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (with Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report 2025-02-20T00:05:36+00:00 https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/one-day-everyone-will-have-always robertogreco“I have zero right to tell anybody anywhere who lives under occupation and injustice how to resist that occupation and that injustice. There is no acceptable form of resistance in the view of the institutions doing the oppressing. You engage in boycotts, that's economic terrorism. You try to march peacefully, you are shot with the intent to kill and or maimed. You boycott cultural institutions, you are being illiberal. You take up arms, you are a terrorist, and you will be wiped out. All you can do is die. That is your only acceptable form of resistance.”" ... "I think one of the more difficult parts of this book, and I talked about it a little bit as a sort of self interrogation, I don't think you can write this kind of book and not contend with the many things you are, including some things that I'm not particularly proud of. And one of those interrogations has to do with this notion of how I describe myself. I describe myself as a pacifist, as a fairly committed proponent of nonviolence. But I have the privilege of saying those words in a relative vacuum, a vacuum created by the fact that I live on the launching end of the bombs. I live within the heart of the empire. And so two things come into clarity that I wish hadn't, but being as though they have, I need to address them. The first is my right to tell anybody under a state of occupation how to resist that occupation, which is no right at all. I have zero right to tell anybody anywhere who lives under occupation and injustice how to resist that occupation and that injustice. Particularly when there is no acceptable form of resistance in the view of the institutions doing the oppressing. You engage in boycotts, that's economic terrorism. You try to march peacefully, you are shot with the intent to kill and or maimed. You boycott cultural institutions, you are being illiberal. You take up arms, you are a terrorist, and you will be wiped out. All you can do is die. That is your only acceptable form of resistance. So first of all, I have absolutely no right to tell anybody how to resist their occupation or a state of injustice. But second, I can sit here and I can tell you how committed I am to nonviolence. And I can believe that fully. But by virtue of the society I live in, by virtue of what my tax dollars are being used to do, I am one of the most violent human beings on earth. And I can't simply brush that away and say, hey, I haven't thrown a punch since I was 15 years old, I'm fully committed to non-violence. I am part of a society that exercises great industrial violence. And at the very least, I should acknowledge that. And that makes it much, much more difficult to then go around parading my views about how violence debases us all. Sure, it does, but I am actively engaged in it right now. That has been a very difficult thing to contend with and I wish I had a sort of easy wraparound answer for it, but I don't." ... "[W]hat I am no longer interested in is love as a form of institutional camouflage. I'm no longer interested in that. I'm no longer interested in stories that talk about how everything was great at the end after all the bad stuff happened. I am interested in that active form of love that is trying to stop the bad thing from happening right now. And I'm seeing so many examples of it and it is the one thing keeping me going. I'm a deeply, I'm not a particularly strong person. I'm a deeply weak person and I need that kind of inspiration. And I am getting it daily from people who are much stronger than me and who are engaged in the kind of love that matters more than any other, I think." 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| Aeon Essays 2025-02-13T18:53:11+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/what-makes-a-person-poor-and-what-should-we-do-about-it robertogreco poverty inequality 2025 anirudhkrishna society policy economics politics justice injustice humanrights https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b0e7cf7b80ff/ The People vs. The Oligarchy: Varoufakis, Corbyn & More on Europe’s Crisis and Palestine - YouTube 2025-02-11T06:13:33+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0FcpyfE_BM robertogreco diem25 yanisvaroufakis jeremycorbyn bridbrennan 2025 europe eu farright rightwing germany holland france politics policy economics gaza palestine israel zionism antisemitism resistance austerity russia ukraine lucillecornelius davidecastro democracy socialjustice justice peace witness protest uk injustice conflict war greece portugal spain socialism capitalism banking finance inequality history southafrica northernireland ireland stockbuybacks greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis nato globalsouth globalnorth us donaldtrump activism work workers labor socialmovements genocide ethniccleansing militaryindustrialcomplex joebiden fascism sharebuybacks españa https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6fa04ed18705/ The Dan MacQuillan episode - by Helen Beetham 2025-01-17T18:23:55+00:00 https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-dan-macquillan-episode robertogreco danmacquillan 2025 helenbeetham ai artificialintelligence computing education howweteach teaching highered highereducation resistance situationists colonialism aicolonialism colonization guydebord societyofthespectacle algorithms globalsouth hannaharendt generativeai fascism technology antifascism donaldtrump jdvance transparency opacity marginalization border borders productivity learning howeelearn criticalthinking summarization distraction bubbles aibubble computers generativity noise tools michelfoucault foucault power literacy medialiteracy continuity reductiveness labor work austerity neoliberalism economics politics policy thoughtlessness thinking howwethink decisionmaking decisions process reading howweread business outsourcing luddism luddites neouddites situationist kenknapp buereauofpublicsecrets polycrisis climatecrisis climatechange legitimacy globalwarming climate diversion crises artificialgeneralintelligence surrealists datacenters environment capitalism jeffbezos geoengineering amazon tesla t https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1958aeb46399/ Our Healthcare System, a Reign of Terror 2024-12-14T23:25:58+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/our-healthcare-system-a-reign-of robertogreco freddiedeboer luigimangione 2024 unitedhealthcare healthcare brianthompson marktwain vigilantism violence redcare condemnation denunciation aoc berniesanders injustice systemicviolence suffering death medicine capitalism feudalism systems systemsthinking derekthompson economics economists heritagefoundation rossdouthat compassion jordanneely danielpenny derekchauvin folkheroes mentalillness society andrewsullivan conservatism maga catholicism christianity medicaid left right michellegoldberg reignofterror statusquo lawenforcement police policing libertarianism libertarians mattyglesias liberals liberalism alexandriaocasio-cortez https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9bc806953697/ Inside UnitedHealth’s Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient’s Care — ProPublica 2024-12-11T04:50:56+00:00 https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis robertogreco 2023 healthcare healthinsurance medicine health money injustice plutocracy davidarmstrong patrickrucker mayamiller unitedhealthcare us capitalism corporatism corporations brianthompson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:107d6405e4e7/ Ursula K. Le Guin — A Left-Handed Commencement Address 2024-11-10T20:20:05+00:00 https://www.ursulakleguin.com/lefthand-mills-college robertogreco ursulaleguin millscollege commencementaddresses horizontality power anarchism gender feminism 1983 failure disappointement injustice betrayal loss society separatism hierarchy women machoman domination humanism wargames exile darkness loneliness fear us poverty successmargaretthatcher ronaldreagan indiragandhi generalsomoza ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1357a75909f8/ Disintegrating the Hyphen: The “Judeo-Christian Tradition” and the Christian Colonization of Judaism on JSTOR 2024-10-28T18:23:13+00:00 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.5.1.0073?mag=jews-vs-the-judeo-christian-tradition robertogreco judaism christianity us 2024 juedo-christian robertsmith 2019 whiteness settlercolonialism injustice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c6418dddedb8/ Biden’s Cuba Policy Leaves the Island in Wreckage 2024-10-21T19:24:39+00:00 https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/where-to-watch-the-debateand-a-dispatch robertogreco cuba sanctions embargo blockade jobiden policy us 2024 edaugustin donaldtrump foreignpolicy migration immigration border borders history ronaldreagan terrorism coldwar ussr sovietunion colombia eln gustavopetro injustice antonyblinken jimmcgovern lestermallory economics joygordon iraq tourism williamleogrande nicaragua benrhodes matthewmiller https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9837bbbe33fc/ “One of my recurring fears is that people will move on” with Laila Al-Arian - YouTube 2024-10-14T22:39:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CEsTqlrXE robertogreco 2024 makdisistreet lailaal-arian palestine gaza israel sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi ethniccleansing nakba genocide socialmedia 2023 journalism narrative history iraqwar warcrimes middleeast us inequality injustice 2015 deportation oppression 9/11 billoreilly samial-arian zionism gordonkromberg persecution stevenemerson media publicsentiment propaganda massmedia mainstreammedia chrishedges blacklisting nytimes aljazeera https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1459509ec723/ Yanis Varoufakis on Israel-Palestine: the truth behind October 7 - YouTube 2024-10-11T17:48:09+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TqyiP6gV6w robertogreco yanisvaroufakis palestine gaza israel zionism genocide apartheid ethniccleansing southafrica internationallaw resistance settlercolonialism colonization colonialism oppression icc icj warcrimes justice injustice 2023 2024 history us australia davidben-gurion 1956 westbank settlements settlers whitesupremacy imperialism iran jordan lebanon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4af8b206d50/ As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel | Israel | The Guardian 2024-08-14T03:58:25+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov robertogreco omerbartov israel palestine idf iof 2024 zionism antizionism gaza genocide ethniccleansing history nazis yitzhakrabin germany hamas operationalaqsaflood carlvonclausewitz military refugees syizhar moshedayan 1956 1951 ro'irothberg nahaloz kibbutzim henrykissinger 1981 settlercolonialism colonialism colonization isaacherzog anadadeldan oppression injustice occupation dehumanization 1941 ww2 wwii propaganda benjaminnetanyahu yoavgallant naftalibennett amalek avidichter nakba 1942 1930 hitler zeevsmilansky apartheid westbank 1973 firstintifada war nazism antisemitism holocaust rage fear adolfhitler kibbutz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2bea3f727db7/ The theft of the commons - High Country News 2024-07-06T21:28:45+00:00 https://www.hcn.org/articles/the-theft-of-the-commons/ robertogreco land landback ownership commons antoniamalchik 2024 morethanhuman indigeneity indigenous rosalynlapier homesteadact ancestry montana stewardship property possession domination stevennewcomb northmerica sirrobertpalmer landlords androlinklater unschooling magnacarta charteroftheforest peterlinebaugh environment sustainability propertyrights rights injustice trespassing rightsofuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b877b29abd70/ Yanis Varoufakis on Julian Assange's release - YouTube 2024-06-26T16:03:09+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rHHvIkTOSs robertogreco yanisvaroufakis juliaanassange diem25 2024 us uk jeremycorbyn berniesanders joebiden australia mera25 journalism nytimes russia india politicalprisoners iceland sweden arundhatiroy justice injustice mudslinging defamation feminism antisemitism alexandriaocasio-cortez progressives politics solidarity anothereuropeispossible alliances left vilification progressivemovement 2018 progressiveinternational katrínjakobsdóttir labourparty anthonyalbanese gaza palestine israel 2020 donaldtrump guam extradition davidmcbride whistelblowers afghanistan narendramodi boriskagarlitsky washingtonpost derspiegel guardian lemonde aoc wapo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:276c8c0709f2/ Tyler Austin Harper on X: "This isn’t just a contradiction coming to a head, it’s an intractable problem that may well light elite academia on fire. You have a customer base that demands social justice and a donor base that is concerned with elite rep 2024-04-19T18:38:03+00:00 https://twitter.com/Tyler_A_Harper/status/1781349038194860496 robertogrecoThis is because the left critique of academia (“an engine of neoliberal elite reproduction”) and the right critique (“a hothouse of woke indoctrination”) both have a strong element of truth. The contradiction between these is coming to a head. https://twitter.com/nils_gilman/status/1781303995769962754
It’s hard to exaggerate the extent of elite academia’s hypocritical performativity https://twitter.com/anguishreid/status/1781160992350834740
"we've ordered the NYPD to kettle and arrest your friends and colleagues, but you can spend 4 hours at the audre lorde community space"
The social justice model is deeply entrenched. Universities have loaded up on pseudo-radical faculty at places like Columbia—faculty notably silent about those student arrests, by the way—and you can’t get rid of them. There’s no magic wand to simply “de-woke” the university. 2/ Many of those “radical” tenured professors are craven mercenaries who believe in nothing but their own self-importance and their next dinner party invite. The thing is: many students DO believe what those faculty teach them about injustice and inequality. Hence the protests. 3/ These universities—in what is a truly hilarious Ponzi scheme—have managed to convince students that elite academia is the vanguard of social justice. Universities thought their front-of-house “radicalism” was compatible with back-of-house courtship of the country club set. 4/ The problem for elite universities is that both students and donors have something university administrators can scarcely imagine: principles. Principles that aren’t for sale to the highest bidder. Both students and donors have a view of what the university should stand for. 5/ Many donors believe the university should be in the business of elite reproduction and the re-entrenchment of established hierarchies. Many students believe the university should be a place that explodes those same hierarchies. Universities require money from both groups. 6/ The gamble—and it’s hard to over-emphasize how a big a gamble this was—was that both groups could be appeased. That you could brand yourself as Social Justice U and cater to student customers, meanwhile courting another set of more conservative customers behind the scenes. 7/ What we are witnessing at Columbia is that gamble exploding in real time. The bill is coming due. Donors are pissed. Students are pissed. Both groups are capable of making things very unpleasant for the university. Both are increasingly unwilling to compromise. It’s FUBAR. 8/ Students are capable of grinding Columbia to a halt. So are tenured faculty, if they could find what is at this point a vestigial organ: their spines. If watching students rounded up by the NYPD isn’t enough to rouse tenured faculty to say enough is enough, then nothing will. 9/ It seems increasingly clear to me that universities like Columbia can’t be fixed because the crisis of legitimacy they are currently navigating pits two equally necessary but incompatible wings of their financial model against one another. We’ll see how it all shakes out."]]> tyleraustinharper 2024 us highered highereducation academia universities colleges columbia socialjustice liberalism elitism education hypocrisy principles integrity capitalism injustice inequality radicalism protests protest hierarchy conservatism nilsgilman performance performativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c1039ff82ff/ In solidarity with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian - YouTube 2024-03-16T02:37:02+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLQfDKYntIw robertogreco naderashalhoub-kevorkian 2024 makdisistreet zionism israel palestine sareemakdisi ussamamakdisi karimmakdisi academia highereducation highered solidarity humanrights academicfreedom antizionism denial dispossession ethniccleansing genocide gaza unchilding defamation occupation settlercolonialism colonialism colonization feminism destruction violence humanism silencing fragility weakness fear injustice witness testimony humanity persecution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6640d6834b27/ The Customs of Obedience in Academe - Steve Salaita 2024-03-13T01:46:37+00:00 https://stevesalaita.com/the-customs-of-obedience-in-academe/ robertogreco stevensalaita 2024 academia israel labor obedience disobedience highered highereducation zionism antizionism palestine faculty academicfreedom virtue compliance conformity collegiality civility unions punishment rewards criticism careerism careers community administration institutions controversy avoidance cowardice inclusion kinship probity citizenship rulingclass dickdurbin socialmedia hierarchy hierarchies antagonism ostracism class consumerism cooperation devotion dispossession power structuresofpower censorship repression freespeech freedomofspeech ideology liberalism adminstrativebloat socialtransformation inequality society solidarity struggle resistance activism capitalism gatekeeping civilliberties liberation insurgency electoralism access infamy ethics hiring coercion inquiry objectivity acculturation productivity loyalty classloyalty groupthink criticalthinking liberals policebrutality paleoconservatives behavior cohesion algorithms unionbusting work funding employment bds divestment imperialism co https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5143f043eeb0/ Vijay Iyer on why jazz has always been political — Switched On Pop 2024-01-24T06:29:49+00:00 https://switchedonpop.com/episodes/vijay-iyer-jazz-politics robertogreco vijayayer music jazz 2021 switchedonpop natesloan charlieharding lindamayhanoh tyshawnsorey ericgarner johncoltrane geriallen charlesmingus racism injustice politics counterculture antiracism resistance civilrightsmovement orvalfaubus georgewallace segregation 1950s lyrics communication columbiarecords littlerock arkansas expression advertising protest activism integration race tamirrice michaelbrown blacklivesmatter blm uneasy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b929fe956fb2/ If We Burn with Vincent Bevins · The Dig 2024-01-14T18:06:42+00:00 https://thedigradio.com/podcast/if-we-burn-w-vincent-bevins/ robertogreco vincentbevins 2023 protests danieldenvir demands korea southkorea yemen capitalism socialism discipline governance government governing tunisia egypt bahrain organization revolution brazil brasil 2010s left leftism ukraine jairbolsonaro organizing movements power change attention media socialmedia streetprotests cooption co-option carrielam china leninism anarchism anarchy oldleft revolutionarypractice chile dilmarousseff luladasilva lula alliances right rightwing popularfronts politicalparties politics demonstrations democracy hierarchy decisionmaking mst mpl rural horizontality ows occupywallstreet individualism us canada communism anticommunism progressivism donaldtrump turkey leaderlessness control state powervacuums libya farright massuprisings uprisings injustice policebrutality repression leaders spontaneity democraticsocialism newleft prefiguration structure authoritarianism federalistsociety rulingclass footballhoolignas johnholloway rodrigonunes blackpanthers blackpantherparty marxism fredhampton jo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ebacfce0c23/ The Missing Revolution with Vincent Bevins · The Dig 2024-01-14T18:06:25+00:00 https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-missing-revolution-w-vincent-bevins/ robertogreco 2023 vincentbevins protests revolution danieldenvir demands korea southkorea yemen capitalism socialism discipline governance government governing tunisia egypt bahrain organization brazil brasil 2010s left leftism ukraine jairbolsonaro organizing movements power change attention media socialmedia streetprotests cooption co-option carrielam china leninism anarchism anarchy oldleft revolutionarypractice chile dilmarousseff luladasilva lula alliances right rightwing popularfronts politicalparties politics demonstrations democracy hierarchy decisionmaking mst mpl rural horizontality ows occupywallstreet individualism us canada communism anticommunism progressivism donaldtrump turkey leaderlessness control state powervacuums libya farright massuprisings uprisings injustice policebrutality repression leaders spontaneity democraticsocialism newleft prefiguration structure authoritarianism federalistsociety rulingclass footballhoolignas johnholloway rodrigonunes blackpanthers blackpantherparty marxism fredhampton jo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc689b9cc08b/ The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti - The Atlantic 2024-01-01T09:55:59+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1927/03/the-case-of-sacco-and-vanzetti/306625/ robertogreco 1921 1927 bartolomeovanzetti felixfrankfurter us law injustice italianamericans nicolasacco saccoandvanzetti https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:423e765737a7/ The Right to Speak for Ourselves | The Nation 2023-11-27T16:57:56+00:00 https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestinians-claim-the-right-to-narrate/ robertogreco mohammedel-kurd palestine 2023 israel dehumanization voice zionism ethniccleansing injustice humanity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ce29aa70917/ “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church Abuse - YouTube 2023-08-01T21:14:18+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag2y7pl3y6k robertogreco sineadoconnor allysonmccabe jamiemason 2023 catholicism activism music protest feminism childabuse popejohnpaulii survivors joepesci gender patriarchy religion islam theology god justice faith sexuality abortion spirituality palestine bds israel misogyny antiracism publicenemy 1980s 1990s recording industry mtv grammys race racism sexism injustice mentalhealth andrewdiceclay franksinatra resitance sinéadp'connor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ccabdd8a1208/ Neoliberal Keywords: Creative, Passionate, Confident - Public Books 2023-06-13T20:29:05+00:00 https://www.publicbooks.org/neoliberal-keywords-creative-passionate-confident/ robertogrecoEverything Is Fine: A Toolkit for Surviving and Thriving in Grad School … Register for our Empowered Educator Online Conference … Leverage technology to increase students’ digital literacy and career readiness … The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you. There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant of these emails. Such exhortations have become ubiquitous on the corporatized university campus, where a diverse cast of players—administrators, student clubs, brand ambassadors, Christian ministries, military recruiters, corporate employers, fitness organizations, test prep companies—coalesce around a shared set of keywords. But when did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising? And how did having those qualities get to be so important? Three new books address those questions, each dismantling a core myth of neoliberal discourse. In The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin uncovers the contemporary premium placed on “creativity” as a product of postwar US anxiety. Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life, by Renyi Hong, critiques the contemporary idea of “passion” for one’s work as an affective tool for managing the disappointments, alienation, and injustices of labor under late capitalism. And in Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill contend that the contemporary discourse of self-empowerment directed at women—both a “culture” and a “cult”—represents a neoliberal strand of feminism that makes the individual responsible for improving her own circumstances rather than addressing systemic and institutional injustices. Together, these books provide historical context for some of neoliberalism’s most persistent idioms: grit, resilience, initiative, innovation, positive mindset, and self-improvement. The books also remind us of the stakes of language in all this. When we continue to rely on such keywords, we obscure the structural reality—and political urgency—of issues like worker precarity and widening economic inequality. Our linguistic repetition reinforces the unquestioned “truth” of the words themselves, and we thus naturalize political problems as personal ones."]]> language highered highereducation education 2023 creativity labor positivity neoliberalism precarity work grit resilience initiative innovation positivemindset mindset self-improvement ianarobitaille samuelfranklin renyihong shaniorgad rosalindgill anxiety capitalism copropratization universities colleges administration management keywords discourse rhetoric passion confidence culture disappointment alienation injustice latecapitalism rossalindgill self-empowerment women gender cults feminism individualism systems systemicinjustice institutions growth growthmindset structures reality politics urgency inequality linguistics truth ubiquity business psychology academia policy collusion industry ideology workplace us coldwar joypaulguilford calvintaylor economics lifestyle labororganizing eugenics aesthetics equity williamshockley davidogilvy belllabs entrepreneurialism progress class classdistinction technology autonomy fulfillment leisure workculture exploitation emotionalfulfillment cynicism uncertainty depri https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4db7ecbee9dd/ Computer user interfaces just got smarter; this is worrying | The Star 2022-12-10T20:44:31+00:00 https://www.thestar.com/business/2022/12/10/voice-user-interfaces-on-computers-just-got-smarter-and-this-should-worry-us.html robertogreco navneetalang 2022 ai artificialintelligence openai chat dystopia californianideology technosolutionism bias biases ghatgpt socalmedia algorythms injustice socialjustice inequality robots society hunger siliconvalley behavior capitalism discourse twitter oversight prejudice misinformation information efficiency humanism synthesis elonmusk samaltman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1069df9c3c5/ Between Chaos and the Man: How not to become an anarchist, by Alan Jacobs 2022-12-09T10:23:37+00:00 https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/between-chaos-and-the-man-the-dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/ robertogreco anarchism 2022 alanjacobs ursulaleguin davidgraeber waltermosley society civilization primitivism cooperativism anarcho-communism marxism capitalism economics praxis practice politics philosophy mutualaid behavior action calvinism cooperation freedom greed vanity vainglory morality chaos murraybookchin pierre-josephproudhon marshallsahlins thedispossessed socialorder human humans decentralization thomashobbes selfishness pride peterkropotkin reciprocity competition dominance power politicalphilosophy nikilsaval sigfriedgiedion nietzsche us marginalization humannature utopia orthodoxy sciencefiction scifi discomfort hunter-gatherers socialdevelopment arthurcclarke loreneiseleyinequality injustice efficiency productivity exploitation solidarity possession dispossession ownership governance order hierarchy rule complexity corruption evil authority obstructionism anthropology originalsin centralization standards canons enough structure expectation tradition traditions expectations conventions language state custo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d75c8407de79/ Abolish the FBI? Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Right? (w/ Alex Vitale & Alex Karakatsanis) - YouTube 2022-08-22T22:16:22+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyG0S0HVy5g robertogreco democrats centrists liberals lawenforcement ruleoflaw accountability alexvitale alexkarakatsanis fbi stateviolence capitalism governance government justice law legal donaldtrump crime injustice politics police policing marjorietaylorgreene rondesantis briahnajoygray republicans prisonabolition policy rightwing dea power inequality imperialism foreignpolicy warondrugs defunding waronterror technocracy irs politicization left institutions partisanship labor organzing gender race davdgraeber anarchism bureaucracy neoliberalism libertarianism fascism globalwaronterror https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d6edbcbaf86/ Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs - YouTube 2022-01-28T20:29:45+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g robertogreco 2022 nfts capitalism crypto cryptocurrency cryptocurrencies blockchain web3 greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis 2008 mortgagebackedsecurities danolson finance speculation housing markets power energy regulation greed electricity silkroad gambling scams ethereum banks banking governance government data computing inequality siliconvalley peterthiel dell michaeldell microsoft square libertarianism camillarusso journalism medicalsectors technosolutionism technology systems systemsthinking disruption waste inefficiency scale scalability decentralization centralization exclusivity standardization shipping tracking fraud daos democracy volativity tether liquidity coinbase stephendiehl biggerfoolscam financialization hype fear uncertainty doubt pumpanddump phishing insidertrading malware privacy security possession ownership access transactions dystopia drm enforcement corporations tokens paywalls rules oppression money skymaven motivation games gaming economics videogames justice injustice society jürgengeuter f https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdc024682b20/ Childhoods in More Just Worlds: An International Handbook, Edited by Timothy Kinard and Gaile S. Cannella – Myers Education Press 2021-11-05T00:35:43+00:00 https://myersedpress.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781975504113/Childhoods-in-More-Just-Worlds robertogreco children unschooling mariakromidas timothykinard gailecannella 2021 deschooling justicee socialjustice conviviality multispecies morethanhuman place education learning howwelearn teaching howweteach childhood experientiallearning relationships sallybarnes suegrieshaber emilymurphy hannahdyer parenting innocence politics play thereselindgren sweden us neoliberalism environment environmentaljustice kyliesmith caseymyers marektesar mindyblaise claireo’callaghan creativity experimentation pedagogy luzmurillo literacy josémartínezhinestroza agency liberation freedom i-fanglee becoming christopherbrown davidbarry daheiku refusal resistance schools schooling schoolreadiness theodoralightfoot jennyritchie decolonization colonialism colonization well-being newzealand maori aoterroa mereskerrett mandypierlejewski gyulavamosi romani uk preschool mladoivanovic migration immigration michaelo’loughlin renatadeassis bodeis globalization curriculum equity inequality multiculturalism anthropology indigenei https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89d3175078c7/ Good Will Come From the Sea – Archipelago Books 2020-09-16T04:28:02+00:00 https://archipelagobooks.org/book/good-will-come-from-the-sea/ robertogreco christosikonomou 2019 books poverty economics greatrecession justice injustice greece stories shortstories globalfinancialcrisis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0216dbb0c2ea/ A Leadership Crisis on Campus - The Atlantic 2020-08-24T04:33:48+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/leadership-crisis-campus/613678/ robertogreco ianbogost colleges universities ethics priorities highered highereducation management administration covid-19 coronavirus pandemic 2020 leadership metrics rankings usnewsandworldreport mattheweffect inequality education socialmobility purpose values health publichealth responsibility justice socialjustice injustice accountability collegerankings https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f19b5543eb3/ Pedagogy as Protest: Reimagining the Center — Jessica Zeller 2020-07-14T04:50:53+00:00 https://www.jessicazeller.net/blog/pedagogy-as-protest robertogreco jessicazeller 2020 pedagogy bellhooks practice howweteach teaching learning dance ballet curriculum resistance imperialism philosophy theory assessment grading grades howwelearn unschooling deschooling injustice humanism academia education patriarchy capitalism race racism homophobia transphobia prejudice oppression https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:45760ae948f7/ Dionne Brand: On narrative, reckoning and the calculus of living and dying | The Star 2020-07-13T22:34:23+00:00 https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/07/04/dionne-brand-on-narrative-reckoning-and-the-calculus-of-living-and-dying.html robertogreco dionnebrand 2020 calculus narrative reckoning everyday life living media humanism racism race covid-19 coronavirus power naivité normal normalization gender homelessness homophobia continuance injustice responsibility government governance politics policy capitalism crisis failure neoliberalism quarantine violence canon trouillot police policing lawenforcement naivite https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9b80ce658530/ Dan Zak on Twitter: "Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old peace protester injured by Buffalo police & slandered by the president of the United States, is reportedly a supporter of the Catholic Worker movement & Plowshares movement. I don't know Gugino, 2020-06-11T00:54:05+00:00 https://twitter.com/MrDanZak/status/1270426367495155722 robertogrecoNun, 83, and two other activists guilty of intrusion at nuclear complex KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An 83-year-old Catholic nun and two of her fellow peace activists were found guilty Wednesday of intending to harm national security when they intruded in July onto the Y-12 The mission of Plowshares activists is encapsulated by this quote from Richard T. McSorley, a Jesuit pacifist & POW during WW2: “The taproot of violence in our society today is our intent to use nuclear weapons. Once we have agreed to that, all other evil is minor in comparison.” The Catholic Worker & Plowshares movements have long seen the intersectionality of bloated weapons budgets, our intent to use nukes, racism, state violence & poverty. When they protest nukes they are protesting what they see as a cause/amplifier of injustice, violence & poverty. These activists, many of whom are 70+ years old, have been in the streets for 50+ years. They would see a link between the knee on George Floyd’s neck, the shove of Martin Gugino, the maintenance of a Minuteman missile, the militarization of police, the racial lines of poverty. P.S. I see Twitter trolls—carrying the mantle of J. Edgar, Nixon & now Trump—trying to slander Gugino as a “professional protester/agitator.” But that’s what devoting yourself to activism means: You agitate. You show up. You walk the walk, peacefully but firmly, as a way of life.”]]> 2020 danzak martingugino catholicism protest plowshares catholicworker nuclearweapons blacklivesmatter acabspring activism pacifism weapons poverty injustice socialjustice intersectionality policy peace peaceactivism us isaiah ronaldreagan armsrace war donaldtrump dorothyday jedgarhoover swordsintoplowshares kingsbayplowshares arrest imprisonment richardmcsoreley jesuits evil racism race violence police cops catholics christianity bookofisaiah fatherphilberrigan audreywatters via:audreywatters philipberrigan nuclearbombs atomicbomb atomicbombs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:878a4824f2c7/ Sarah Fathallah on Twitter: “A few weeks ago @kellyanagram recommended that I read “Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples” by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. So I did. And fantastic it really was. Thread for highlights! https://t.co/a61kW 2020-05-26T13:52:04+00:00 https://twitter.com/SFath/status/1257159589448962048 robertogreco sarahfatgallah 2020 lindatuhiwaismith decolonization methodology research indigenous indigeneity imperialism colonialism globalization knowledge culture extraction appropriation civilization modernity enlightenment discovery maori meratamita observation assessment unschooling deschooling palestine edwardsaid orientalism superiority positionality power ngugiwathiong’o collecting territory stealing resources ethnography anthropology jamesclifford literature art primitivism haunani-kaytrask taking designresearch design datastorage accountability ownership responsibility dissemination ethics legal law control guidance property resiprocity relationships respect multidisciplinary rights injustice justice history storytelling oralhistory oral survivance assimilation geraldvizenor connecting connectedness environment criticalconscience envisioning gregcajete ngũgĩwathiong’o ngugi ngũgĩ Māori paulofreire https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6f1463df0d0f/ Interview: Ruth Kinna – Freedom News 2020-04-29T02:45:30+00:00 https://freedomnews.org.uk/interview-ruth-kinna/ robertogreco anarchism ruthkinna institutions change injustice justice 2020 freedom prejudice bias expression irrationality mistrust trust self-interest society collaboration unschooling deschooling émilearmand peterkropotkin marraybookchina mutualaid mikhailbakunin karlmarx authority capitalism hierarchy horizontality decisionmaking collectivism pierre-josephproudhon tolstoy via:anne social exploitation power proudhon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cb4895d28909/