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Agitprop / Arab Culture / Censorship / Human rights / Intellectuals / Petition / Politics

May 27, 2011

A Call from Syrian Writers

Transmission of the call addressed to all poets and writers in the world إحالة نداء إلى كافة الروائيين والشعراء والنقاد في العالم Check out the video before reading the text and thank you for your signatures...

Agitprop / Egypt / Human rights / Politics

February 5, 2011

Practical Primer for Protest

Here are the Egyptian activists action plans, with English translation, as published by The Atlantic a few days ago:

Arab Culture / Freedom of Speech / Human rights / Journalism / Middle East / Politics

January 29, 2011

Dead-Enders on the Potomac

Here are the opening paragraphs of a just published editorial on MERIP (The Middle East Report). You can read the rest of the excellent analysis here. From the Editors January 29, 2011 Every US...

Capitalism / Human rights / Politics / Unnatural Disaster

January 12, 2011

Insurrectionism Timeline

After the Arizona killings, one quote from someone who lost a loved one in one of many earlier mass-murdering rampages in this country and re-cited for the occasion by the media, stuck in my...

Politics

November 26, 2010

The Coming Insurrection

This tract by The Invisible Committee came out last year in French, was translated into English & published by Semiotexte (also out now in German, btw.) An excellent day-after Thanksgiving read — cleans &...

European History / Poet / Politics / signandsight / Uncategorized

November 21, 2010

Oskar Pastior Fortsetzung

Here are this week’s signandsight noticings on the ongoing Oskar Pastior affair: Oskar Pastior’s Securitate past After it emerged that the Romanian-German poet Oskar Pastior (more here) had been working for the Romanian Securitate...