Sasha Lilley

Wed 12.08.10| Indigenous Insurgencies

John Womack, Jr. and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Dreams of Revolution: Oklahoma, 1917 Monthly Review

Dan Berger ed., Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism Rutgers, 2010

Insurrection and resistance are as much a part of the history of these lands as dispossession and occupation. Native American historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has make it her life's work to shine a light on such history, which is so often hidden. She discusses the little known Green Corn Rebellion in 1917, as well as the struggles by native peoples in the 1970s.

Tues 12.07.10| Uneven Development

We may take for granted the vast geographical inequalities of wealth in our world, but we shouldn't. According to pioneering geographer Neil Smith, they are actively produced by capitalism. In a seminal work, Smith provides a fully formed theory of uneven geographic development and how it helps us understand capitalism's ability to endure. (Encore presentation.)

Tues 11.30.10| Autonomy for All

They took over factories in Italy, fought neo-Nazis and the police to a standstill, militantly opposed nuclear proliferation, squatted large urban areas, and attempted to transform gender relations and the politics of everyday life. Radical scholar George Katsiaficas discusses the formidable European autonomist movements of the 1970s and '80s.

Mon 11.29.10| Selling Home Ownership

Alyssa Katz, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us Bloomsbury, 2009
The meltdown of the US housing market is visible to anyone living in northern or central California, where foreclosed houses dot our urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Journalist Alyssa Katz describes how the idea of owning one's own house has been actively fostered by a government wanting to generate private economic growth and abandon public housing. (Encore broadcast.)

Wed 11.24.10| Blue Collar Rebellion

Aaron Brenner, Robert Brenner, and Cal Winslow (eds.), Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s Verso, 2010
From the mid-1960s to 1981, working class people waged a double battle against their bosses and often ossified unions in a period of tremendous labor militancy. Yet that history has been written out of the books about the period, which tend to characterize workers as reactionary and prowar. Labor historian Cal Winslow and Mike Hamlin of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement set the record straight.

Mon 11.15.10| Harvey on Left Organization; Coyle on Cutting the Work Week

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism Oxford, 2010

Eugene P. Coyle, "Cut the Work Week," CounterPunch


 

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In a moment of economic crisis, what should our demands be and how should we hope to win them? Geographer David Harvey talks about organizing ourselves for life after capitalism, while resource economist Eugene Coyle discusses why unemployment is not solved by perpetual growth. He argues that it's time for labor and the left to again raise the banner of cutting the work week.
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