February 2012
20 posts
“49% of Youth Unemployed in Greece and Spain”
– Smuggled Portraits: ”49% of Youth Unemployed in Greece and Spain”
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“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to...”
– Buenaventura Durruti in response to Pierre van Passen’s claim that the revolution will leave the people “sitting on a pile of ruins”
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Markets vs. Freedom
2011 saw people around the world carrying signs and banners against the domination of the top 1%, denouncing their banks, their corporations, their dictators, their corrupt politicians, and their capitalist system. All these things deserve to be denounced, but we must also critically ask: just how deep are the roots of all this exploitation, looting, and inequality? What will it take to...
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Land of the Decieved, Home of the Slaves: The New...
The United States today, is faced with a plethora of serious issues that affect how we operate from within, our relationships with other countries, and how we view ourselves as a nation. We know that not everything is picture perfect in this country; our history is rocky, fraught with oppression and more importantly, revolution. The people of this country have had to overcome many a hurdle...
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Occupying The Future: Where the Movement Goes from...
After almost 4 months of occupation, consensus, and protesting; and after repeated instances of police brutality, tear gas, and over 5,000 arrests; America has a mass movement again. What began with a few hundred protesters in Zuccotti Park has become an uprising capable of changing the foundations of the American political system. We have shut down ports, occupied Times Square,...
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Hope for a Sustainable Future
It is not a coincidence that we live in a time of both increasing environmental and economic instability. The same systemic greed that produced the financial disaster created two powerful industries, the fossil fuel industry and industrial agriculture, which are wrecking our planet as well as perpetuating deplorable social conditions. Given the wealth of research available, in addition to...
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Legislative Aggression: 4 Bills and Their Impact
This December, four bills loomed over the political landscape, and as with all proposed legislation, will be voted on by Congress– and indeed, one already has and passed. The first two of the bills, the PROTECT IP and SOPA acts, are measures to curtail Net Neutrality in favor of corporate bodies and the rich. The third, even more repressive (and is now lawful), is a provision in the new...
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Occupy U-M Mic Check at the Regents' Meeting
Mic Check! Regents we are here to say that you are elected officials. You are accountable to the public that you are privileged to serve. Well the public is here. We are here to tell you that you have failed in this service. There was once affordable public education. Today there is only an expensive commodity. You sell this commodity to wealthy students. To the rest of us you offer a more ominous...
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Occupy Wall Street Firsthand: On the Ground in New...
In the past few weeks we have gone from a generation of apathy the most serious threat to the power structure in the past 3 decades. America has, in many ways, stood up. There are now thousands of protesters in scores of cites both nationally and internationally placing their bodies in the path of the super rich and proclaiming an end to upper class cultural and political hegemony. I went...
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All Men (except Palestinians) Are Created Equal
The following is one of the premier articles from Diag Dissent, the official blog of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE). This blog is a medium through which student activists can engage social justice on campus. For more articles and opinions. check out the blog http://diagdissent.com/
This past summer, I was in Jabalia, Gaza visiting my uncle’s home. It was about 2:15...
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Privilege: Recognition and Resistance
Privilege is a set of benefits bestowed upon members of a society via the society’s hierarchical structure and subsequent laws and norms. Two things should be noted in this definition: that benefits are bestowed, meaning that they come from a source external to the recipient of said benefits, and that privilege is a direct result of social hierarchy and subsequent norms. These two notions...
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Students of the UK Show Another Education Is...
It has been one year since 50,000 UK students converged on Central London for a demonstration against rising fees and funding cuts. The November 10th 2010 demonstration was a defining moment for a nascent student movement that has since led the way for resistance to the Tory and Liberal Democrat coalition government. Last week Wednesday, the students returned to central London...
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The People United: Occupy Wall Street Goes...
Since the last issue of The Harbinger, the Occupy Wall Street movement has become a national issue. In every major metropolitan area, a “sister occupation” has taken hold in some fashion. The setup of each of the protests is roughly the same: a core group of protesters sets up a visible camp in a public space to provide a constant presence that “occupies,” or reclaims the location...
Updates
Hello comrades, we’re updating and adjusting the page, trying to make it more readable and adding our back issues. Apologies as some of the articles may seem a bit outdated. from here on out we should begin posting more regularly in time with our print release dates in solidarity Ian
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McCarthyism and Political Repression in the...
For as long as there have been organized leftist groups in the United States, these movements have been subjected to constant state suppression. Throughout the late nineteenth century, those who fought for social justice and demonstrated and struck for workers’ rights were in a constant state of war with industrial capitalists, their state, and their private mercenaries. Those who...
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Wallstreet Occupation Week One: Events and...
The actual effect of public protests in modern American politics is a debate that continues in many political circles. On one hand, we have the fact that the Iraq War Protests – the largest protests in the history of the entire world – were ignored, by both politicians and the media. But in contrast, we have the Tea Party’s manufactured populist outrage, which, as good television of crazy...
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Hacktivism and Anonymous
Engineer and executive chairman of Google Eric Schmidt once said, “The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had”. While Schmidt likely meant this in a negative connotation, the statement rings true. The Internet is not entirely without regulation by government entities, but compared to the...
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US Empire Meets Arab Spring
Despite the best efforts of authorities the “Arab Spring” has rolled into a People’s Summer. Since the first cracks appeared in the Middle Eastern patchwork of autocratic regimes last December, the people have reinvented the region in a way not thought possible just a year ago. Two governments (Egypt and Tunisia) have fallen, a third (Libya) is desperately fighting a losing battle for supremacy...
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Popular Resistance to State and Corporate...
In March of this year, Governor Rick Snyder signed a law granting expanded powers to emergency managers to take control of city governments and school districts in financial distress.Weeks later, Benton Harbor, a small, predominantly African-American city in Southwest Michigan, was the first city to be taken over under the new law. In April, at the Benton Harbor City Commission’s first meeting...
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Welcome Students, Friends and Comrades,
Welcome to another year of the Harbinger. We’ve managed to stay alive and even grow a little stronger, despite the best prayers of conservative FBI informants everywhere. We thought we’d start this semester off with an short explanation of some of the values and ideas that guide us as Anti-Capitalists, allowing us to set right some false assumptions the power structure, and Fox news in particular,...
