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Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, #YesAllWomen Changes the Story
It was a key match in the World Cup of Ideas. The teams vied furiously for the ball. The all-star feminist team tried repeatedly to kick it through the goalposts marked Widespread Social Problems, while the opposing team, staffed by the mainstream media and mainstream dudes, was intent on getting it into the usual net More
Rebecca Solnit: The Arc of Justice and the Long Run Hope, History, and Unpredictability
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Future Needs Us By Rebecca Solnit December 22, 2013 TomDispatch.com North American cicada nymphs live underground for 17 years before they emerge as adults. Many seeds stay dormant far longer than that before some disturbance makes them germinate. Some trees bear fruit long after the people who have planted them have died, More
Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell — The Case for Hope
The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable. By Rebecca Solnit May 19, 2013 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full More
Rebecca Solnit> Prometheus Among the Cannibals
I fear you may pay, if not with your death, with your life—with a life that can have no conventional outcome anytime soon, if ever. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped,” you told us, and they are trying to stop you instead. By Rebecca Solnit Posted on Jul 18, 2013 TomDispatch.com via Truthdig.net castigated_fish (CC BY-SA More
Rebecca Solnit> Prometheus Among the Cannibals
I fear you may pay, if not with your death, with your life—with a life that can have no conventional outcome anytime soon, if ever. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped,” you told us, and they are trying to stop you instead. By Rebecca Solnit Posted on Jul 18, 2013 TomDispatch.com via Truthdig.net castigated_fish (CC BY-SA More
Tomgram> Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 9:40AM, February 21, 2012. Tom Dispatch In December 2001, 110 of 112 revelers at a wedding died, thanks to a B-52 and two B-1B bombers using precision-guided weapons to essentially wipe out a village in Eastern Afghanistan (and then, More
Rebecca Solnit> Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
Mad, Passionate Love and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring By Rebecca Solnit Feb 22, 2012 TomDispatch via Truthdig When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by More
Hope: The Care and Feeding Of, by Rebecca Solnit
WAMMToday is now on Facebook! Check the WAMMToday page for posts from this blog and more! “Like” our page today. Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, Hope Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 5:28pm, July 31, 2011 TomDispatch.com If someone asked you, last July, to lay odds on the possibility that in 365 days, popular protests in the Middle More