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Daniel Burton-Rose: Guerrilla USA, Monday
8/30/10 8-9pm PST Prolific writer, activist, artist and musician, Daniel Burton-Rose creator of the Infernal Noise Brigade and author of two new books examining the history of the 1970s Seattle based urban guerilla group the George Jackson Brigade, ponders some vexing questions: How do you create a social movement equivalent to what we are up against? And when a government engaged in a genocidal foreign policy is assassinating political leaders and activists, as well as mowing down students in the street, at what point do you shoot back? On hand to answer questions were two former members of the George Jackson Brigade, Rita "Bo" Brown and Ed Mead. Daniel is author of Guerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970's, co author with Bo Brown of Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade, and co-editor, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright, of The Ceiling of America: An Inside Look at the US Prison Industry. Thanks to Elliott Bay Books
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Primetime in Web Exclusives: Friends of Sabeel Conference: “The United States , Israel and Palestine : What Does Justice Require of US?” held at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle 2/19-29/2010 Seattle hosted the premiere event: Friends of Sabeel – Puget Sound , a nonprofit working with and on behalf of Palestinians to promote justice through nonviolence in the Holy Land . Featuring internationally-acclaimed speakers and a vibrant array of activist voices, this conference explores the situation in Israel and Palestine today, the experience of occupation, the role of U.S. policy and nonviolent strategies for peace.
Richard Silverstein, Larry Johnson, Bruce Ramsey: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Media Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The panel examines the nature and quality of reporting on the conflict
in both the U.S.: In this video, Thom Hartmann lays it all out: How this Supreme Court decision in fact never found any such thing and how corporate usurpation of human rights was stolen. And why the time has never been better to get moving on the process of revoking the legal fiction of Corporate Personhood once and for all. I hear rumors that Thom will be coming out with an updated edition of Unequal Protection in the near future. We look forward to seeing him back here in Seattle to address this subject again. This talk was recorded at Elliott Bay Books October 5th 2002.
John Stauber: Poisoning the Grassroots
There exist Public Relations firms whose sole purpose is to “mine” activists. They infiltrate and spy on activists and activist organizations compiling dossiers and using the information to advise their clients how to undermine their efforts. Stauber illuminates by example how corporations use this information to devise divide and conquer strategies to effectively derail reform movements. With this information, they divide the actors into 3 categories: “Radicals” are the ones who usually have a personal or principled stake in the issues at hand and most generally are the instigators of the movement. This designation does not necessarily connote a political orientation. They are “radical” in the sense that they are attacking the root of the problem. The “radical” in question may be a Republican grandmother living in a trailer out in the countryside who is suffering the effects of aerial bombardment from 2-4D, now dying of cancer and whose children and grandchildren are all sick. They want an absolute end to the spraying of toxic chemicals and a genuine redress of their grievances. These people are unlikely to accept compromises that amount to non solution solutions. “Idealists” are the ones who come to the support of the people who have been victimized. They may include rank and file members of large non governmental or other organizations committed to social progress as opposed to personal gain for themselves or their organizations. “Rationalists” are the ones, usually leaders of large nongovernmental organizations whose main interest is organization building, PR, and or fundraising. They are most willing to sell out their principles by negotiating “win, win” compromises that make their organizations and the corporations in question look good. They gain lots of corporate funding in exchange for “solutions” that don’t threaten the corporate bottom line or make fundamental changes that may actually get to the root of the problems at hand. This is essential knowledge for anyone attempting any kind of reform which in our day would necessarily involve challenging some sort of corporate privilege. For instance, a direct analogy could be applied to what would likely happen if a grassroots attempt were made to take over from corporate control of the Democratic Party. John Stauber outlines how most large main stream environmental organizations have been compromised in this way and calls for a return to grassroots organizing. The War at Home
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