Syracuse Solidarity Network


Sun & Solidarity: A report back from the August 10th National Day of Action Against Electoral Politics, Syracuse, NY

Sun & Solidarity: A Report Back from the August 10 National Day of Action Against Electoral Politics from Syracuse, New York
by E. Sebastian Snowflake

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Roundtable on Anti-Oppression Politics in Anti-Capitalist Movements
April 5, 2008, 7:28 pm
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“To the annoyance of some leftists who argue that capitalism and class form the fundamental basis of all oppression, anti-oppression organizing seeks to understand the connections between racism, sexism, heterosexism, colonialism and class… But is this happening?”

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Why The War Is Sexist And Why We Cant Ignore Gender Anymore; Here’s a Start for Organizing by Huibin Amee Chew
April 5, 2008, 7:21 pm
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“Not only does the war perpetuate sexist inequality and patriarchy, but also it enlists patriarchal relations - economic, sexual, and ideological - to carry out its operations.”
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“Large and Growing” Life Expectancy Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans
April 5, 2008, 7:07 pm
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“New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.”

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Damn Near Seven Years of Failure: The Phoenix Anti-War Movement and the Ritual Cult of Defeat
April 5, 2008, 6:57 pm
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“Ritual and ineffectiveness still dominate the movement, as do activists who need the war to justify their management of others (to get votes, to build organizations or just to massage their own egos). A fear of shaking things up and a conservative attitude towards tactics prevails.”

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Anarchism and the Struggle to Move Forward By Kim Fyke & Gabriel Sayegh
April 5, 2008, 6:33 pm
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“The anarchist movement is in dire need of an anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-classist analysis and a commitment to bring that theory into action.”

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Time and It’s Discontents by John Zerzan
April 5, 2008, 6:15 pm
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“Time, like technology, is never neutral”

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Live 8: Legitimizing the Oppressor by Aly Wane
April 5, 2008, 6:06 am
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“Bob Geldof has anointed himself Africa’s Great White Savior”

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Colonizing Consciousness by Nick Cavanaugh and Jake Eichten
April 5, 2008, 6:03 am
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“When looking at the roots of current environmental and social injustices, one of the most important stories to tell is that of European colonization.”

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Going To Places That Scare Me: Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy by Chris Crass
April 5, 2008, 5:58 am
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“What do you mean I’m sexist?”
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The Gender Order of Things By Lydia Sargent
April 5, 2008, 5:53 am
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“Revolutionary feminists who have tried to raise consciousness about the way sexism is maintained in our societies through laws, cultural images, dehumanization, science, fear and violence, control of our bodies via reproduction and sexuality, and a hierarchical, racist, and patriarchal division of labor need to become central to this global movement.”

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Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It by Ashanti Alston
April 5, 2008, 5:51 am
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“Through the Imagination, All is possible.”
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Upping the Anti: an editorial by the Autonomy & Solidarity Network
April 5, 2008, 5:45 am
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“anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism. These three political tendencies, while overlapping and incorporating various contradictory elements, together represent the growth of a radical politics in a space outside of the “party building” of the sectarian left and the dead end of social democracy.”
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The Eagle Has Crash Landed by Immanuel Wallerstein
April 5, 2008, 5:41 am
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“Pax Americana is over…The economic, political, and military factors that contributed to U.S. hegemony are the same factors that will inexorably produce the coming U.S. decline.”
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Youth In Action Protest, 4/2/08
April 5, 2008, 2:57 am
Filed under: Actions, Articles

Youth In Action are a group of Syracuse young people fighting against the war and for social justice.
During the summer they held a large un-permitted youth anti-war march that took over the Federal Building lawn to denounce imperialism, joined the un-permitted youth/anarchist feeder march at the September 29th Upstate NY Citizen & Soldier March Against the War, and are planning future events.

On Wednesday they held a spirited rally against the war along Westcott St.
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