So here we sit on the eve of May Day 2012, and there is an eerie calm-before-the-storm kind of feeling. The mainstream media is still doing its best to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. The only May-Day related event reported in the NY Times today was that a lawsuit was [...]
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Which Side Are You On?
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 30, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/which-side-are-you-on/
Ruminating on the demand for “demands”: Protesters, stay on target!
This morning we were discussing Nietzsche in my Seminar class at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and I asked the students to think about Nietzsche’s advice to his readers in the preface to The Genealogy of Morals. “One thing is necessary above all if one is to practice reading as an art,” Nietzsche said; “something [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on October 5, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/ruminating-on-the-demand-for-demands-protesters-stay-on-target/
Don’t Pepper-Spray Our Dreams
New York Times reporter Ginia Bellafante has totally missed the mark in her coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Where I see a vibrant grassroots movement unfolding organically, she sees a disorganized group, marred by a “lack of cohesion” and an “intellectual vaccuum.” Where I see a clever use of street theater to get [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on September 29, 2011
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/dont-pepper-spray-our-dreams/
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