At least someone is protesting somewhere. Thousands of someones, facing their own government's attempt to repress them (sound like the US? What *will*happen at the inauguration? Will protest be visible?)
Chileans mobilize. "We're not bomb throwers," she said. "We want to confront
APEC, but only in the realm of ideas and paradigms."
~ passed on by Ximena to the social justice listserv.
Welcome to democracy 101! I finally get it. Ok, yes, I feel a little bit like, duh. How many times has Stephen gone over this? :-) Balibar, however, makes it plain enough even for me, or perhaps its simply a matter of receptivity and timing. Maybe this time it will stick:
"two notions of the people: that which the Greek language and following it all political philosophy calls ethnos, the ëpeopleí as an imagined community of membership and filiation, and demos, the ëpeopleí as the collective subject of representation, decision making, and rights. It is absolutely crucial to understand the power of this double-faced construction ñ its historical necessity, to some degree ñ and to understand its contingency, its existence relative to certain conditionsî (2004:8).
Well, I'm going to use the rant against the south as my explicit text, am still looking for an implicit one. Meanwhile, some blogs that discuss FTS.com and may be of future/further interest:
the liberal reality-based avenger" who is based in China.
StumbleUpon, a community tool that acts as a search engine of sites recommended by "friends and peers" and perhaps not accessible via Google. Hmmm!
Here's some info on election results that show its not ALL going to pieces:
Bright Spots by Evan Derkacs, Alternet
and more promising results not mentioned in the above article.
~ Thanks Camille!
David sends this link, as a response to the link shared earlier. Evidence that cultural combat continues.
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Bush won Ohio by 136,483 votes. Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of votes cast are voided-known as "spoilage" in election jargon-because the ballots cast are inconclusive. Palast's investigation suggests that if Ohio's discarded ballots were counted, Kerry would have won the state. Today, İthe Cleveland Plain Dealerİreportsİthere are a total of 247,672 votes not counted in Ohio, if you add the 92,672 discarded votes plus the 155,000 provisional ballots.
Kerry won. Here's the facts.
"A NASA photo expert's analysis makes it clear: Bush is lying -- he wore some kind of device in each of the three debates. So why won't the media go near this story?" ~ passed on by Yasser.
Not sure who compiled this list; it came to me via Barbara Love on the social justice listserv (UMass). It includes prominent democrats, republicans, and pundits/preachers":
Now that I'm becoming a Jon Stewart watcher (!), last night he said it was the first time he really "got" the culture wars. It really is about developing a system that can accommodate difference - the most radical alterity - those whose vision of what human culture ought to be is different than ours - the red states.
I want to disagree with Stephen's reactive insistence that we have to resort to the rhetoric of fear in order to sway those still "reachable" through various forms of communication. I want to contest his pronouncement, "Democracy is not possible." (Viveca's retort, "What about rhetoric and performance?" was a gem.) :-)
