Excerpts – Ghadar Now!: Recent Episodes
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Tenzin Tsundue exposes a terrorist. [Download Link] Transcript: I am a Terrorist. I like to kill. I have a horn, two fangs and a dragonfly tail. Chased away from my home, hiding from fear, saving my life, doors slammed on my face, when patience is tested pushed against the wall, battered, justice constantly denied, from that… Continue reading Who is a Terrorist?
Sex offender registries are yet another part of the carceral regime. But is this criticism unsubstantiated without detailing alternatives? [Download Link] This statement is part of many abolition statements published by the journal, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics. Read the original post here. Transcript: “Notes Against & Beyond Our Carceral Regime: Erica Meiners on Abolition,” a statement published… Continue reading Beyond The Carceral Regime
Racism is a touchy subject for white people. We found an antidote. [Download Link] Read the full article at RaceBaitr. Transcript: Whiteness must be banished to history—to an other-space of that which is unknown and impossible. There is no way in which whiteness can move that is freeing or liberating for Black people, so… Continue reading Whiteness Must Be Banished to History
[Download Link] Excerpt from an anonymous submission on Conflict MN. Transcript: … But who defines what “violence” is? And who decided that being “peaceful” was not only the best strategy, but the only possible one? In short, the cops did, but the cops conceived as a mechanism. The police are really nothing other than a mechanism… Continue reading On Throwing Rocks
John Perry Barlow invoked the forefathers of the United States of Slavery to turn the tables on the US Government and other colonial institutions in this Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. Get your headphones, your rebellious mind and hang tight. [Download Link] Transcript: Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel,… Continue reading An Independent Cyberspace
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