Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other.
Henry A. Giroux | Combating Trump's Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of "1984"
Wrongheaded Calls to "Give Trump a Chance"
Henry A. Giroux | Combating Trump’s Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of “1984”
Wrongheaded Calls to "Give Trump a Chance"
Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt
As Pollock says: “What she was afraid of was the tendency to devalue action, for the economic to overtake the political.”
Joseph Gerson | The Peace Movement and Resistance in Dark Times
Our responsibility is to resist, resist and transform.
Chris Hedges | The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
Fascist movements build their base not from the politically active but the politically inactive, the “losers” who feel, often correctly, they have no voice or role to play in the political establishment.
Chris Hedges: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
In fascism the politically disempowered and disengaged, ignored and reviled by the establishment, discover a voice and a sense of empowerment.
VIDEO. Henry A. Giroux | Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability
Giroux: Far too many youth today live in an era of foreclosed hope, an era in which it is difficult either to imagine a life beyond the dictates of a market-driven society or to transcend the fear that any attempt to do so can only result in a more dreadful nightmare.
Henry A. Giroux: The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy
Giroux: Pedagogy is a moral and political practice because it offers particular versions and visions of civic life, community, the future, and how we might construct representations of ourselves, others, and our physical and social environment. But it does more; it also “represents a version of our own dreams for ourselves, our children, and our communities.
Henry A. Giroux: The plague of American authoritarianism
Giroux: As David Sirota observes, “Getting cooperation,” means being willing to make seemingly apolitical entertainment products into highly ideological vehicles for pro-war, pro-militarist propaganda.”[13] It gets worse. Sporting events are now infused with the spirit of militarism and can be seen in fighter jets flying over football games, NASCAR races, and the Super Bowl.
Chris Hedges: Evoking the Wrath of Nature
Hedges: We do not have the power to make a new world. We only have the power to destroy or preserve the world we inhabit. We will either recover the sacred or vanish from the Earth.
Chris Hedges: The Lonely American
Hedges: We must connect with those around us. It is only the communal that will save us. It is only the communal that will allow us to build a movement to resist. And it is only the communal that will sustain us through mutual aid as climate change and economic collapse increasingly dominate our future.