Will Klatt, Luis Brennan, Aaron Petcov, and Ashley Weger Platypus Review 27 | September 2010 The Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion on the Politics of the Contemporary Student Left at the U.S. Social Forum (USSF) in Detroit on June 26, 2010. Moderated by Laurie Rojas, assistant editor for the Platypus Review, the panel [...]
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The coming insurrection? A reflection on resistance at the G20
Ashley Weger Platypus Review 27 | September 2010 One of the results of these recent movements is the understanding that henceforth a real demonstration has to be “wild,” not declared in advance to the police. Having the choice of terrain, we can, like the Black Bloc of Genoa in 2001, bypass the red zones and [...]
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Book Review: Adolph Reed Jr. and Kenneth W. Warren, eds., Renewing Black Intellectual History
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010 Greg Gabrellas Platypus Review 27 | September 2010 IN A 2005 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS, Howard Zinn urged the graduates of Spelman College to look beyond conventional success and follow the tradition set by courageous rebels: “W.E.B. Dubois and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and Marian Wright Edelman, and James Baldwin [...]
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