Syracuse Solidarity Network

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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, like technology, is never neutral”

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“Bob Geldof has anointed himself Africa’s Great White Savior”

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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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“What do you mean I’m sexist?”
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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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“Through the Imagination, All is possible.”
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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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“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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