I Want to Be Jessica Jones
By Lailah Knight (December 26, 2015) I really like this show, Love it even. It’s not without it’s flaws.
Yearly Archive: 2015
INTERVIEW: Bart Bolger
Bart Bolger is the current chair of the Veterans for Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132 in Corvallis, Oregon.
Pollinating Rios Vivos
A multi-media journey about arts, media, and land defense in South America. With original photographs, maps, and short films accompanied by live narration, this presentation shares a glimpse into the communities defending their territories in the face of resource extraction industries. Presented by the Beehive Design Collective, Movimiento Rios Vivos, Allied Students for Another Politics (ASAP!), the Anarres Project for…
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Mesoamérica Resiste
On November 13th, we were proud to host two presentations from the Beehive Design Collective at Oregon State University. The first presentation was an analysis of their massive two-part graphic entitled Mesoamérica Resiste. 9 years in the making, this double-sided, folding poster illustrates stories of resistance, resilience, and solidarity from Mexico to Colombia. A map drawn in old colonial style…
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The Hidden Costs of Gentrification
How Gentrification and Rising Rents Affect Educational Opportunity By Mark Naison (December 16, 2015)
To the Donald Trump-led GOP: We Will Fight you and We Will Win
By Chris Crass (December 11, 2015) One of my closest friends was a white supremacist skinhead when we first met as teenagers in high school. He would have cheered at Donald Trump rallies with each call to deport Mexicans and ban Muslims from entering the country. He would have agreed with Trump that the African American Black Lives…
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Responding to Hateful Times: Our Tasks Ahead
December 9, 2015 Two Anarres Project contributors reflect on what needs to be done today to respond to a fearful social environment.
Visions for Social and Environmental Transformation: An Introduction to Degrowth
Economic growth has turned into the sole goal to guarantee social stability and quality of life in our societies. While ongoing economic growth increases the pressure on the environment and is the main driver of anthropogenic climate change, climate change has turned into a limitation to further growth. Are we faced with new limits to growth 40 years after the…
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What It Means to be “White” in a Rapidly Changing Nation
By Mark Naison (November 25, 2015) Being “white” was once a central feature of being American. Those who were able to become “white” had the fullest range of political rights and economic opportunities the rapidly expanding nation had to offer.
Which Way Will Campus Protests Go?
By Mark Naison (November 23, 2015) One of my great fears with the current wave of campus protests is that Universities will respond to student protests by trying to reshape student and faculty attitudes rather than having universities change who they recruit and admit and hire.
Racism, Capitalism, and the Prison System
As part of the Allied Students for Another Politics! Radical teach in series, Dr. Robert Thompson and OSU graduate students, Zandro Lerma, and Amber Moody discuss the connections between capitalism, racism, and the prison-industrial-complex. Co-sponsored by the Anarres Project for Alternatives Futures.