DCist Thinks Anarchy is Making a Comeback
Anarchy hasn’t been a very popular political philosophy since the 1930s, but based on this Overheard, maybe we’ll soon see Free Sacco and Vanzetti stickers on laptops? Read the rest here.
On UT’s Decision to Close Their Campus
University campuses, including the University of Toronto’s, have often served as safe havens for dissent and political organizing. From Berkeley to Paris to Oaxaca, students and the public have used campuses as a space to organize for a more just and equitable world. Some of the most important gains of the anti-war, feminist, civil rights, [...]
KKKatie the Racist Anarchist
Katie, I do not think that word means what you think it means. Sanity-estranged Katherine Dunbar, 24, of San Francisco was arraigned yesterday in court on charges of vandalism and hate crime after “allegedly spray-painting racist and anarchist graffiti throughout the city.” The scenester-meets-unmedicated is accused of spray painting “KKKatie” and tool-y anarchist symbols throughout [...]
HuffPo Says Jesus Was an Anarchist
About half of the scholars on the Gospel of Thomas say its authorship predates the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. That means this Gospel of Thomas may have been the first Gospel. Reading it will be eerily familiar to Christians, as half of the quotations come from the “Q Document,” which the other Gospels [...]