Projects tagged
Writing & Manifestos
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Subway Therapy
Read more: Subway TherapyDuring her concession speech yesterday, Hillary Clinton uttered a simple, terrifying sentence: “Donald Trump is going to be our president.” For many Americans—New Yorkers especially—the sickening reality of a Trump presidency is impossible to fathom. A few hours later, a…
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Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Read more: Occupation of Alcatraz IslandThe beacon flashed incessantly. On. Off. On again. Like some sort of traffic light gone crazy, it pierced the thick nighttime mist hovering over San Francisco Bay. The light sent a message five miles across the dark waters from Ghirardelli…
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Fresh Off the Boat
Read more: Fresh Off the BoatFresh off the Boat examines the immigrant struggle told from the perspective of Eddie Huang, a modern day chef and video entrepreneur who has found a way to use food to explore culture, diaspora, and more through food, television, and…
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Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award Nomination
Read more: Slammed in the Butt by My Hugo Award NominationChuck Tingle is the Internet’s most beloved author of bizarre niche erotica, perhaps best known for his masterwork Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt. The Hugo Awards are a formerly prestigious sci-fi honor, hijacked in recent years by…
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Center for a Stateless Society
Read more: Center for a Stateless SocietyThe Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) is an anarchist think-tank and media center. Its mission is to explain and defend the idea of vibrant social cooperation without aggression, oppression, or centralized authority. In particular, it seeks to enlarge public…
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The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to account
Read more: The Bristol Cable: A community-run newspaper holding power to accountTaking back the media. The Bristol Cable is a media co-operative shaking up local news with hard-hitting investigative journalism. “In every single pub up and down the country people will be talking about how crap the media is,” says Alon…
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Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds
Read more: Ai Weiwei: Sunflower SeedsAi Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually…
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Manual de micromilitancia
Read more: Manual de micromilitanciaLess than a month after Mauricio Macri’s inauguration as president of Argentina in December 2015, a manual for micro-resistance was released online to guide resistance against Macri’s election and policies. The manual suggests specific actions that people can perform in…
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For Warmth
Read more: For WarmthThich Nhat Hanh reads his poem “For Warmth” in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode “Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism.” Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country…
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Young Boricua & Proud
Read more: Young Boricua & ProudBoricua artist Castorillo discusses the crisis, diaspora, and the enduring significance of the Young Lords Party for Puerto Rican social movements today using illustrations: For the past couple of years, Puerto Ricans have been leaving the island and going (mainly)…