Posted by: lettrist on: July 23, 2009
The city of Paris, Texas is in the news today after two white men were acquitted for the vehicular homicide of a black man. The men drove their pickup truck over victim Brandon McClelland and drug him 70 meters before stopping. After news of the trial hit the town, the New Black Panthers came out [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: January 13, 2009
While selling some books on Amazon, I came across an old 90s comic book that my cousin had collected, called ShadowHawk. I opened it and began reading…
It was New York City in the early 90s.
Crime was everywhere.
Police were either lazy or prevented from doing their jobs by the silly court rules and bullshit watchdog services.
Paul [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: December 26, 2008
… the name of a poem by Saul Williams, but also, a real life story.
The Nation Institute recently uncovered some brutal new stories of an older news topic: the hidden race war during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans, when white residents fearing black looters formed citizens’ militias that systematically targeted black residents.
In one [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: July 29, 2008
Wu Ming (无名) is an activist from the Seattle-Tacoma area who was at the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan, a rural resort area on the island of Hokkaido.
Read this year’s summit statements for the states’ perspective on what had been accomplished this year. Hundreds of NGOs and a greater number of individuals signed the [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: June 9, 2008
John Locke rejected the view that man has no alternative but to obey any state under which he happened to find himself, and all of liberal theory has followed him in this rejection. Locke accused Hobbes of equivocating “state of nature” with “state of war”, and pointed out that the former rarely collapsed into the [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: March 27, 2008
You may have heard of ratemyprof.com, the site that allows students to rate their professors and write positive or negative reviews. Another site, based on the same principle, is called ratemycop.com. It allows anyone to write reviews of police officers, good ones and bad ones, and bring an entirely different layer of police accountability in [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: February 18, 2008
Apart from being an outburst of violence and anger, what political function does an uprising serve?
Many important changes take place in liberal democracies through massive protest and through the use of the riot. I studied in Germany over the summer and then I traveled around to dozens of cities. All across the nation, documented actions [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: February 16, 2008
A riot recently broke out in my neck o’ the woods at a Dead Prez concert when police attempted to arrest a black man who was initially roughhoused by a group of white trouble-makers. But the concert-goers surrounded the police car, set the prisoner free, and then asserted their power over this unjust police procedure. [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: February 10, 2008
I have one YouTube account that has over 60 videos. Some of my more politically-charged videos get commented on several times a day. Many of them are recurring viewers. Yet the English-speaking people of YouTube, which is more broadly, the English-speaking people of this planet, are so incredibly and insanely idiotic that I must admit [...]
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