culture fix

"i don't believe in independence, i couldn't make it on my own. and i'm not asking for more than i can give. angry arms, reverent feet..." -novice

"Like I've said so many times before, the long memory is the most radical idea around." - Utah Phillips Those of us who struggle for freedom today are forever indebted to those who came before us. There are, of course, millions and millions of individuals who have fought for freedom, and many of them remain nameless. Still, we feel it is important to offer readings and links by and about some of the freedom fighters of past generations that we might learn well from.

Throughout the world people are organizing and resisting. In fact, resistance is so common and takes so many forms, that we can hardly catalog everything here. However, there are quite a number of excellent organizations we've found who are fighting for national liberation and the removal of oppressive occupational regimes and/or for a generalized revolutionary movement for a new society. In an attempt to ground ourselves in an internationalist revolutionary viewpoint, here are some readings and links from radical organizations both within the U.$. and globally.

"Although there is considerable debate over the precise parameters of the field and the definition of the term 'postcolonial,' in a very general sense, it is the study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized in the modern period. The European empire is said to have held sway over more than 85% of the rest of the globe by the time of the First World War, having consolidated its control over several centuries. The sheer extent and duration of the European empire and its disintegration after the Second World War have led to widespread interest in postcolonial literature and criticism in our own times."

"Everybody wants to breathe, and nobody can breathe, and many people say, 'we'll be able to breathe later.' and most people don't because they are already dead." -Situationist International

Those of us living within the U.$. are in the home of the most powerful, deadly, vicious and insane war machine in human history. The war mongers are currently carrying out a devastatingly murderous campaign against Afghanistan, and likely against numerous other countries and internal dissidents (and brown immigrants) under the lie of "anti-terrorism" and patriotic stupidity. This section is full of readings and links and flyers and graphics to help you struggle against the war machine however you see fit.