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Words of Inspiration

Brian K. Noe · August 31, 2017 ·


“We open our eyes and look unblinkingly at the world as we find it; we are astonished by the beauty and horrified at the suffering all around us; we dive into the wreckage and swim as hard as we can toward a distant and indistinct shore; we dry ourselves off, doubt that our efforts made enough difference, and so we rethink, recalibrate, look again and dive in once more. Organize, mobilize, agitate, resist, build the social movement, connect. Repeat for a lifetime.”

– Bill Ayers

Source: Weather Underground Members Speak Out on the Media, Imperialism and Solidarity in the Age of Trump

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Connect With Us!

Brian K. Noe · August 29, 2017 ·

Connect of Kankakee County

Since January of this year, I’ve been working with others in our community to organize Connect. Our main work has been the promotion of equality and justice for friends and neighbors who are the most vulnerable and oppressed in our society.

We now have a website. Please visit and share.

http://connectkankakee.com/

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Community Organizing, Connect, Equality, Justice, Kankakee

Solidarity Is More Than A Strategy

Brian K. Noe · January 13, 2017 ·

An editorial from Socialist Worker unpacks the concept of solidarity. It’s more than just a strategy for accruing power. It also transforms those who practice it.

THE CONCEPT of solidarity is based on the idea that people can unite across their differences not just because they are good people (or “allies”), but because they have a common interest in not allowing themselves to be divided and conquered. As the old Industrial Workers of the World slogan puts it: “An injury to one is an injury to all.”

Read More: Why solidarity can trump hate | SocialistWorker.org

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: International Socialist Organization, ISO, Socialist Worker

What Happened?

Brian K. Noe · November 9, 2016 ·

dt-won

Like many Americans, I’m still trying to process the news. I won’t try to describe my thoughts or feelings at this point, but I wanted to share some links that have been helpful to me.

Thomas Frank writes for The Guardian: Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there.

From the folks at Jacobin: Politics Is the Solution

From Socialist Worker: How could this monster win?

Be kind to each other today, people.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Elections, Jacobin, Never Trump, Socialist Worker, The Guardian, Thomas Frank, Trump, Trumpism, U.S. Elections

The Trump Effect: SPLC Report

Brian K. Noe · October 24, 2016 ·

The Trump campaign is producing an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom. Many students worry about being deported, according to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

My own daughter has related that some of her classmates are worried about their families being deported.

Read More: The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on Our Nation’s Schools | Southern Poverty Law Center

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: 2016 Elections, Child Welfare, Children, Donald Trump, Education, Elections, Never Trump, Trump, Trumpism, U.S. Elections

Coming Soon to a City Near You

Brian K. Noe · September 10, 2016 ·

From aa440 Flickr
The Baltimore Police Department has secretly deployed a privately funded surveillance system using planes and powerful cameras that can continuously record 30-square-mile sections of the city at once. ACLU Attorney David Rocah had this to say.

The surveillance program itself is a privacy nightmare come to life and precisely what we have warned against for years. It’s the equivalent of requiring each of us to wear a GPS tracker whenever we leave our homes, something that would never be tolerated in the physical world.

Read More:

Police Secretly Put Large Part of Baltimore Under Constant Aerial Video Surveillance | American Civil Liberties Union

Baltimore Police Secretly Running Aerial Mass-Surveillance Eye in the Sky | ACLU BLog

Secret Cameras Record Baltimore’s Every Move From Above | Bloomberg Business Week

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: ACLU, Baltimore, Civil Liberties, Government Intrusion, Police State, Privacy

The Good Revolution

Brian K. Noe · July 4, 2016 ·

4th-of-july

Did you ever read in your school textbooks that there were times during our Revolution when there were more Americans enrolled in the British forces than under George Washington?

In 1962, for KPFA radio, Hal Draper revealed the facts behind the story of our nation’s founding.

Read the speech: Hal Draper: A Fourth Of July Oration (1962)

P.S.: “There has been only one revolution in the history of the world which took place after a registration of revolutionary sentiment by vote.” It wasn’t in 1776. It was in November of 1917.

Happy Independence Day!

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: America, Hal Draper, History, Holidays, Patriotism, Revolution

The Rigged Game: New Report on Inequality

Brian K. Noe · June 23, 2016 ·

The Economic Policy Institute has published a new report on income inequality in the United States. Here’s a quick summary of the findings.

Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in many states is up in the post–Great Recession era. In 24 states, the top 1 percent captured at least half of all income growth between 2009 and 2013, and in 15 of those states, the top 1 percent captured all income growth. In another 10 states, top 1 percent incomes grew in the double digits, while bottom 99 percent incomes fell. For the United States overall, the top 1 percent captured 85.1 percent of total income growth between 2009 and 2013. In 2013 the top 1 percent of families nationally made 25.3 times as much as the bottom 99 percent.

It’s important to understand that none of this is happening by accident, nor by the hand of God, nor even because of the effects of an impartial marketplace. The ruling class decides who will win and who will lose. So it’s no wonder who wins and who loses.

Read the full report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county | Economic Policy Institute

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: Class War, Economics, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Ruling Class

Hedges and Nader

Brian K. Noe · May 24, 2016 ·

Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader speak about Nader’s Breaking Through Power event being held in D.C. this week, and about what it will take to bring democracy to America. Hedges opens with these thoughts.

This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction. This vision will only be obtained through mass acts of civic mobilization and civil disobedience across the country.

Nader is at his imaginative best these days. Many people are urging Senator Sanders to move beyond the election of 2016 toward a sustained program of activism, but Nader is the first I’ve read who articulates a practical strategy.

“What does he have to lose?” Nader asked of Sanders. “He’s 74. He can lead this massive movement. I don’t think he wants to let go. His campaign has exceeded his expectations. He is enormously energized. If he leads the civic mobilization before the election, whom is he going to help? He’s going to help the Democratic Party, without having to go around being a one-line toady expressing his loyalty to Hillary. He is going to be undermining the Republican Party. He is going to be saying to the Democratic Party, ‘You better face up to the majoritarian crowds and their agenda, or you’re going to continue losing in these gerrymandered districts to the Republicans in Congress.’ These gerrymandered districts can be overcome with a shift of 10 percent of the vote. Once the rumble from the people gets underway, nothing can stop it. No one person can, of course, lead this. There has to be a groundswell, although Sanders can provide a focal point”

Read the full article: Chris Hedges: Welcome to 1984 | Chris Hedges – Truthdig

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, Elections, Ralph Nader, Revolution, U.S. Elections

Remembering Father Berrigan

Brian K. Noe · May 20, 2016 ·

Bernardine Dohrn writes of her memories of Father Berrigan, from a time when both of them were wanted by the FBI.

Dan Berrigan refused to report to prison, and during his time “underground” he repeatedly appeared publically to conduct church sermons or to give anti-war speeches, further infuriating FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. His was both a playful “underground” and a passionately moral one. He wrote, of the Catonsville action: “Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children…”

The Weather Underground responded with a much less eloquent “communiqué” to “Brother Dan,” just after he was arrested in 1970. “We watched you, Dan, on TV when they took you to jail, smiling and with hands raised, handcuffed, giving the sign of peace. You have refused the corruption of your generation.”

I ran across these links today. Rest in power, Father.

The Priest Who Practiced Radical Direct Action: Father Daniel J. Berrigan | Beacon Broadside

Imagining The New Creation | Religious Socialism Blog

Bearing The Cross | Chris Hedges at Truthdig

The photo of Father Berrigan is by Jim Forest.

Filed Under: Curated Links Tagged With: 1960s, Bernardine Dohrn, Catholic, Catholic Worker, Chris Hedges, Civil Disobedience, Dan Berrigan, DSA, Faith, FBI Most Wanted, Religion, Religious Socialism, SDS, Truth to Power, Weather Underground

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