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 Matter activist in Alabama deserved getting roughed up. Continue reading “To the Donald Trump-led GOP: We Will Fight you and We Will Win”
December 9, 2015
Two Anarres Project contributors reflect on what needs to be done today to respond to a fearful social environment. Continue reading “Responding to Hateful Times: Our Tasks Ahead”
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 famous report to the Club of Rome? The age of easy growth is over – holding onto it at any costs exacerbates global environmental conflicts and shifts the burdens on marginalized social groups and the Global South.
This is not the whole story: worldwide social movements are experimenting alternative paths for a social ecological transformation beyond economic growth and within the planetary boundaries. Environmental Philosopher Prof. Barbara Muraca introduces the us to the growing worldwide degrowth movement.
The Radical Visions for Another Politics Lecture Series is co-sponsored by:
the Anarres Project for Alternative Future
http://anarresproject.org/
Allied Students for Another Politics (ASAP!)
http://asap.moonfruit.com/
& the School of History, Philosophy, & Religion at Oregon State. http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/shpr
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. Continue reading “What It Means to be “White” in a Rapidly Changing Nation”
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. Continue reading “Which Way Will Campus Protests Go?”
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. Continue reading “Racism, Capitalism, and the Prison System”
As part of the Allied Students for Another Politics!’s Fall Radical Teach In series, a panel that explores the reasons for hikes in tuition, the explosion of student debt, and how we can collectively lead the fight to abolish student debt and create a tuition-free university. Continue reading “We Won’t Pay: How Debtors Unions and Strikes Can Lead the Fight for Tuition Free Education”
By Chris Lowe (November 18, 2015) Continue reading “Violent Religious Extremism Widespread”
By Mark Naison (November 16, 2015) Continue reading “What Sorts of Places Should Our Universities Be? Structural Questions for Today’s Campus Protests”
By Phoenix Calida (November 14, 2015)
I’m tired. I’m weary. it’s not that I don’t care about France, it’s that the rest of the world cares about France. It’s a tragedy. It shouldn’t have happened. But the emergency medical care, emergency funds, emergency safe spaces and counseling will be provided for French citizens by default. Continue reading “Standing for Those Who Don’t Get Hashtags”
By Adam Hefty (November 14, 2015)
I spent last night, like many, watching the news from Paris unfold, feeling relief as my friends who live there posted that they were alright, worrying about UC students who might be in proximity at UC Paris which a friend said was close to one of the attack sites, worrying about the possible backlash and the instant expansion of the security state. Continue reading “Were Attacks on Beirut and Baghdad Attacks on Humanity, Too?”
