"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

— Noam Chomsky

Powers and Prospects, 1996

The consistent anarchist, then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.

— Noam Chomsky

In Daniel Guérin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, 1970

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.

— Noam Chomsky

Talk titled "Government in the Future" at the Poetry Center of the New York YM-YWHA, February 16, 1970

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

— Starhawk

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

— George Carlin

No sane person with a life really wants to be a political activist. When activism is exciting, it tends to involve the risk of bodily harm or incarceration, and when it's safe, it is often tedious, dry, and boring. Activism tends to put one into contact with extremely unpleasant people, whether they are media interviewers, riot cops, or at times, your fellow activists.

— Starhawk

Toward an Activist Spirituality (2003)

Between Infoshops and Insurrection

Between Infoshops and Insurrection U.S. Anarchism, Movement Building, and the Racial Order By Joel Olson This is a slightly revised version of a chapter from the new book Contemporary Anarchist Studies, edited by Randall Amster, Luis Fernandez, etc. (Routledge 2009). Joel Olson teaches political theory at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and has been around anarchist circles in the United States for many years. Anarchism has always had a hard time dealing with race. In its classical era from the time of Proudhon in the 1840s to Goldman in the 1930s, it sought to inspire the working class to rise up against the church, the state, and capitalism. This focus on “god, government, and gold” was revolutionary, but it didn’t quite know how to confront the racial order in the United States. Most U.S. anarchist organizations and activists opposed racism in principle, but they tended to assume that it was a byproduct of class exploitation.

Detroit: Renewing the New Years

Saturday Feb. 7th - 6PM – Detroit

International Institute – 111 E. Kirby St. – Room 3(downstairs)

Renewing the New Years

Promise

Building radical grassroots social movements in the new era

January 20th, 1991, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd U.S. president. The Democrats victory came with much hope and enthusiasm after 12 years of Republican government. After years of government attacks on working and poor people, the 1991 Democratic win left many feeling that change was coming.

The new Clinton/Democratic administration instead continued agendas of aggression – invasions; sanctions and air strikes against Iraq; creation of a mass prison system; cuts in social aid programs; and the expansion of a global economic system that benefited corporations and private interests at the expense of poor and working peoples across the globe.

Jna 15, 2009 - Next Generation Biofuels: Bursting the new Green Bubble - Open Letter to Pres. Elect Obama

For Immediate Release January 15, 2009

“Next Generation Biofuels”: Bursting The New “Green” Bubble
Letter challenges unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry

United States--A diverse alliance of organizations published an open letter [1] today in the U.S. and internationally warning of the dangers of industrially produced biofuels (called agrofuels by critics). The letter explains why large-scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so-called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community-based land rights and will worsen climate change. With the new Obama Administration slated to take office Tuesday, the letter’s originators warn that if Obama’s “New Green Economy” runs on agrofuels it may trap the U.S. in a dangerous “Green Bubble” of unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry.

Critical Response to President Barack Obama

With Barack Obama becoming the next President of the United States, there are many around the world who mistakenly think that Obama's regime will usher in a significant era of change. President Obama will have different policies and style from President Bush, but his government will continue the policies of previous Republican and Democratic governments. This page is a collection of criticism of President Obama and his government from anarchist and other sources.

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