By Chris Crass (November 11, 2015)
Notes to a white student who wants to get involved in growing racial justice movements on campuses around the country, but is nervous, scared and confused Continue reading “Notes to a White Student Who Wants to Get Involved in Racial Justice Movements”
By Chris Crass (November 6, 2015)
My goal isn’t to be a great ally. My goal is the abolition of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and the building up of multiracial democracy, economic, gender and racial justice for all and a world where the inherent worth and dignity of all people and the interconnection of life are at the heart of our cultures, institutions, and policies. Continue reading “My Goal is Not to be a Great Ally”
By Joseph Orosco (November 4, 2015)
Adam Frank, thinking about the success of Matt Damon’s new film The Martian, asks whether it would be moral to explore and colonize Mars. One of his concerns has to do with how we will treat any possible life forms that we encounter there, even at the microbial level. Continue reading “Is it Ethical to Colonize Mars?”
By Chris Crass (November 3, 2015)
If by diversity we mean striving to get individual people of color into a handful of highly visible positions that serve to mask and obscure the systematic devaluing, degrading, and brutalizing of communities of color, then no, that is not the diversity we are striving for. Continue reading “By Diversity We mean”
By Mark Naison (October 29, 2015)
During the last thirty years, working class incomes in the US have fallen sharply. The vast majority of income gains in the US during those years have accrued to people in the top 20 percent of earners and in the last ten years to people in the top 1 percent. The once proud US industrial economy has become a shadow of itself. Continue reading “The Drug War: A Brilliant Strategy to Divide People Along Racial Lines When All Boats are Sinking”
The first event in the “Radical Visions towards Another Politics” Series was a discussion on Revolutionary Unions and the Abolition of Wage Slavery hosted by the Corvallis Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). Continue reading “Revolutionary Unions and the Abolishment of Wage Slavery”
Lara and Paul Messersmith-Glavin discuss the lessons from a recent grassroots organizing effort in North Portland that canvased a neighborhood to determine people’s understanding of their own power to do something about climate change. Continue reading “Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe”
By Mark Naison (October 21, 2015)
When you erase caring, supportive relationships from people’s work and school experiences, you endanger the precious balance that allows them to live fulfilling lives. Continue reading “Measuring Our Failure By the Lives of Our Children”
By Chris Crass (October 20, 2015)
While the #BoycottStarWarsVII is easy to laugh at, and the diversity = white genocide people help expose the white supremacist roots of white fears and resentment of multiracial democracy, there are two key points to remember: Continue reading “Jedis for Collective Liberation: Why a Multiracial Star Wars Matters”
As part of OSU’s Constitution Day 2015 celebration, Anarres Project co-director Joseph Orosco discusses the significance of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution according to W.E.B. Du Bois. For Du Bois, the promise of these Reconstruction amendments was the possibility of building a richer more deliberative and participatory democracy in the United States. Du Bois thought that the moral insights of African Americans would lead this movement to transform America.
By Chris Crass (October 15, 2015)
I talk to people all over the country who simultaneously talk about the “small things” they can do, like make donations, volunteer here and there with a local social justice effort or are “only involved at their faith community ” or “raising their kids” and over and over again there is guilt and shame about not being able to do more. Continue reading “The Movement is Our lives: Everyday Activism for Liberation”
