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Saturday Matinee: Belladonna of Sadness
Reconsidering Belladonna of Sadness: Still powerful after almost 50 years By Carmen Antreasian Source: Anime Feminist A cult film originally released in 1973, Belladonna of Sadness can be read as a second-wave feminist work. However, in order to understand the film as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Saturday Matinee, Video
Tagged Anime, Belladonna of Sadness, Cult Film, Feminism, Fukuda Yoshiyuki), Jules Michelet’, La Sorcière, Yamamoto Eiichi
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Saturday Matinee: Gloria’s Call
Source: GloriasCall.com From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar’s life is foreverchanged through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Film, Two for Tuesday, Video
Tagged Cheri Gaulke, Documentary, Feminism, Gloria Orenstein, Gloria's Call, Leonora Carrington, Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim, surrealism
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People Who Publicly Fret About Assange Rape Allegations Are Lying
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com A few hours ago I stumbled across a tweet by Huffington Post UK editor Basia Cummings which made my blood boil. Actress and activist Pamela Anderson had just spoken to the press with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson about their visit with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, Empire, Feminism, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Militarization, news, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Dirty Politics, empire, Feminism, geopolitics, imperialism, Julian Assange, Mainstream Liberals, Patriarchy, Rape, WikiLeaks
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Annihilation: Alex Garland’s Bad Trip Through Dis-ease and Over-Reproduction
By Kim Nicolini Source: CounterPunch If you go see Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) – and I highly recommend you see this film in an actual movie theater with a big screen and big sound –, you are in for a trip. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Environment, Feminism, Film, GMOs, media, Science, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Alex Garland, Andrei Tarkovsky, Annihilation, Biotech, culture, environment, Ex Machina, Feminism, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, Science fiction, technology
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American Psycho: Sex, Lies and Politics Add Up to a Terrifying Election Season
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Election Fraud, Empire, Feminism, History, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bill Clinton, corporate media, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Feminism, Government Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Paula Jones, police state, Presidential Elections, Religious Right, Sexual Harassment, voting
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The Courage to Speak Truth to Power
By Zoe Blunt Source: DGR News Service The more we challenge the status quo, the more those with power attack us. Fortunately, social change is not a popularity contest. Activism is a path to healing from trauma. It’s taking back … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Feminism, History, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Direct action, Elaho Valley, environment, environmentalism, Feminism, Health, Social Justice, SPAET, Trauma
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Rent Strikes: ‘together we can defeat the housing market’
By Matt Broomfield Source: RoarMag.org As they revive a long-dormant form of protest, rent strikers in London and San Francisco must learn lessons from the great strikes of the 20th century. When you can no longer afford to pay your … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Feminism, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Law, police state, Racism, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged activism, Class War, Economics, Feminism, financial crisis, Gentrification, Industrial Strikes, Institutionalized Racism, Labor History, London, Mass Strikes, Police Violence, protest, racism, Radical Housing Network, Real Estate, recession, Rent Hikes, Rent Strikes, San Francisco, Student Housing
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First Female US Presidential Candidate Victoria C. Woodhall (b. September 23, 1838 d. June 9, 1927)
Legal Contender….Victoria C. Woodhull: first woman to run for president By Susan Kullman Source: The Women’s Quarterly (Fall 1988) On the 150th anniversary of her birth, September 23, 1988, Victoria Claflin Woodhull was largely lost to history. She still is. … Continue reading