Pawlenty’s Tax Proposal Caters to the Richest Americans
He sure knows how to mark an anniversary
Film: Cultures of Resistance
Join us for a screening of Cultures of Resistance. Can music, dance, photography and film be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, traveling over five continents, Lara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story.
Author Event: I Mix What I Like
In a moment of increasing corporate control in the music industry, Jared A. Ball analyzes the colonization and control of popular music and posits the homemade hip-hop mixtape as an emancipatory tool for community resistance. Join us when author Jared Ball discusses and signs his book hot off the presses, “I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto”.
The Age of Activism
We must fight hard in our Age of Activism to construct a new political entity: the activist state. If we fail, we will slip, inexorably, into an Age of Apocalypse.
The Battle for Greece
A popular movement is up against an embattled government in Greece.
Days of Rage in Croatia
Croatian protesters, like their Middle Eastern counterparts, are challenging the rhetoric of stability and moderation as a vehicle for the entrenchment and enrichment of political elites.
War Is Hell, Even if You Survive
Do you really think that hundreds of thousands of men and women can return from repeated blood-curdling scenes of death and suffering without mental damage?
Music, Messages, and the Movement
Throughout every stage of the struggle for social change music has both fueled and united people and helped galvanize the movement. Marvin Gaye still keeps us asking “What’s going on?” James Brown helped teach people to be “Black and proud” and to “say it loud”. Song has been a communal act of expression that sheds light on injustices from slavery, to the Jim Crow segregation of the Civil Rights and Black Power era, to social the inequalities of today, and it has also served as a creative release.
Gulf Tolls: A Poetry Reading
Split This Rock and Poets for Living Waters are partnering to offer a poetry tribute to the Gulf of Mexico and the surrounding regions. There is a $5 suggested donation but no one will be turned away.
Art, Activism, and Permaculture
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination treats insurrection as an art and art as a means of preparing for the coming insurrection.
Is Bono Undermining His Activism by Hobnobbing With the Superclass?
The impact of celebrity activists working within the system is limited.
Split This Rock Poem of the Week: Yael Flusberg
A moment of verse, brought to you by the folks from Split This Rock Poetry Festival.
Split This Rock’s 2010 Holiday Shopping Guide
Need a gift idea? Check out these books that matter!
The FBI Got its Groove Back
The agency has found a new demon to purge as it knocks down your door.
Trapped by Guantanamo
President Obama’s signed executive order to close Guantanamo has gone nowhere — nor have cases of those awaiting justice with the prison’s walls.