While most of us trained to look away when someone asks for help, there are a few folks who imagine a world otherwise. A world where no one has to to live on a dollar. A world where everyone could live on food instead. Transcript: I felt sorry for the human race, for the stupidity…
Indoctrination was purposefully built into our current systems of education, propping up unjustifiable institutions of authority by engineering consent. But some young minds resist domestication. And some of those minds call themselves hackers. Transcript: Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank…
“Hunger” by Adrienne Rich is about the persistence of desire in a world brutalized by heteropatriarchal militaristic imperialism. It is about resisting the Western mythology of independence in an attempt to find one another. [Download Link] Transcript: 1. A fogged hill-scene on an enormous continent, intimacy rigged with terrors, a sequence of blurs the Chinese… Continue reading The Decision to Feed the World
Eduardo Galeano had much to say about this world. [Download Link] Transcript: Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them – will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good… Continue reading The Nobodies
We don’t know what revolution is. But someone does. And that someone was Bhagat Singh. Here is an enhanced excerpt from the Joint Statement he made with B.K. Dutt, which was read by Asaf Ali in court in June 1929. [Download Link] Transcript: “Revolution” does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place… Continue reading The Meaning of Revolution
