Chris Crass for Truth-Out: "Expecto Patronum: Lessons From Harry Potter for Social Justice Organizing"
Katie McDonough for Salon: "Pussy Riot freed from prison"
Check out Letterboxd: "Letterboxd is a social network for sharing your taste in film. Use it as a diary to record your opinion about films as you watch them, or just to keep track of films you’ve seen in the past. Showcase your favorite films on your profile page. Rate, review and tag films as you add them. Find and follow your friends to see what they’re enjoying. Keep a watchlist of films you’d like to see, and create lists/collections on any given topic, for example: favorite heist films. We’ve been described as “like GoodReads for movies”."
Unwelcome Guests:
Episode #9: Technology and the Corporatization of Culture (Corporate Monoculture and Academic Freedom) "Michael Parenti [on] 'Corporate Monoculture and Academic Freedom' about how corporate trustees autocratically determine what ideas are acceptable in our educational institutions. In the second hour, ... a look at the impact of technology in enabling global corporate control, and its role in propangandizing the values of corporate capitalism. Jerry Mander of the International Forum on Globalization, and public interest attorney Andy Kimbrell are the speakers."
Episode #100: The Long Theft (Global Trade, Seattle '99 and the FTAA) "In our first hour, we hear a panel of seven speakers who will discuss the threat posed by the FTAA - and the damage its predecessor treaties have done to workers, family farmers, women and ecosystems of the nations in which they have been implemented. In our second hour, Iain Boal will discuss a new book, The Battle of Seattle, which chronicles the ideas, history and social movements against corporate globalization."
Episode #101: Daring to Say No (Citizens Challenge the War on Drugs and the American Gulag) "A growing number of voices from across the political spectrum are daring to say that the drug war does not reduce drug use. That choosing to wage a 'war' on drugs stimulates a violent, underground economy, an economy which would collapse if drug prohibition ended. And that this decades long war on drugs is not making our country safer, simply less free. In the first hour of our program, a documentary by Curt Scroell focusing on highlights from a drug policy conference held earlier this month at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Then in our second hour, a community forum : NYS Prisons, Inside and Out, which was held earlier this month in Ithaca as part of a New York interfaith prison pilgrimage."
“I love the idea that knowledge can make us closer to the world, as opposed to make us feel superior to the world.”— Guillermo del Toro
Keith Hayward and Roger Matthews in The Guardian: Jock Young obituary: Criminologist who questioned conventional ways of thinking about crime and its control
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