Tuesday 9/27/2011: Wendy Brown attempts to buy all the College Republicans baked goods and more

Tuesday 9/27/2011: 


UC Berkeley star prof, notorious reactionary, direct action basher, and not so secret Berkeley hater/traiter attempts to teach the Cal Republicans a lesson in capitalism and gets schooled by the racist free market, the BSU mobilizes on Lower Sproul, the art of the molotov cocktail, state repression in Longview, the OPD continue their shooting spree, and more coverage of #Occupy Wall Street's second week. 






Stay wild, ILWU. From Labor Notes, "Longshore Union Protests 'Police Brutality' as President Surrenders"


Rally and Demonstration in Solidarity with Longview Port Workers Resisting State Repression

Yesterday, the CA prison hunger strike resumed.

Austerity is murder! Fuck the Police. "Witness: "Oakland Police Shot Man in the Back"

A comrade in Oakland was nice enough to send this along: The Art of the Molotov Cocktail

Photos from Day 2 of the Kaiser Strike


From AJ English, 41 days into the march Bolivia minister quits over road protest row.

As if we needed more reasons to loath the NYPD


From Bookforum, the Practice and Theory of Marxism

Melissa Harris-Perry goes hard at her detractors, critics, and attackers.




#Occupy Wall Street:

Against Absent Futures


Against Finance Capital: Vijay Prashad on the philosophy behind Occupy Wall Street


Immortal says, "If you really want to make a change, come to Wall Street."


Despite NYPD efforts, Wall Street stays occupied


From the American Prospect, "Follow No Leader" a reactionary critique so bourgeois I'm surprised it doesn't conclude with the sentence, "get a job hippies".


What the Media Aren't Telling you about American Protests


Wall Street brutality legitimizes protestors

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell "Cops beat up people because they know they can get away with it!"


From Shift Magazine, "Occupy Manchester is based on this desire to rediscover 'direct action' as a popular political form




"The Diversity Bake Sale"


On the farce of student government 


Follow the Daily Cal's live blog of "The Diversity Bake Sale" here

Follow Davey D's live-blogging from UCB's Sproul Plaza

The good folks at Reclaim UC on Chancellor Birgeneau's response to the racist bake sale

EI's invaluable Nora Barrows Friedman reports on the "nationwide condemnation of the Irvine 11 convictions"

Monday Roundup: Race, Privilege and the Criminalization of Dissent

The fallout of the Cal Republican's "Diversity Bake Sale" heats up as the ASUC condemns the action, a coalition of students from underrepresented communities of color discuss demands and actions, and everyone's favorite white privilege profiteer predictably weighs in on the matter. (It is the start of college lecture season after all). Occupy Wall Street intensifies following the arrest of 80 demonstrators on Saturday (even WaPO thinks shit is about to go down), progressive media calls out Corporate media for its blackout on Occupy Wall Street, liberal-left pundits jump on the opportunism bandwagon and heap all sorts of ridiculous praise on the movement they just heard about after they noticed it popping up in their RSS feeds, and Anonymous get a hold of the personal information of the pig who pepper sprayed protesters while they were kettled and hot anarchist anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber on Occupy Wall Street and the rediscovery of the radical imagination. A host of links on the aftermath of the 'Irvine 11' verdict, and the latest news on labor stuggles, working conditions, and solidarity organizing.




"Diversity Bake Sale": Mini-roundup 


From Mixed Race America: "An open letter to the UC Berkeley College Republicans and their misuse of the concept of racism"

Tim Wise never misses an opportunity to make money talking about racism

The Chronicle's Nanette Asimov reports on the results of ASUC's emergency meeting

*Daily Cal Coverage

*From the East Bay Express, "The Grand History of the Affirmative Action Bake Sale"

The Fallout from the Irvine 11' Trial

Islamophobia is alive and well

Nora Barrows Friedman on state repression and the voicing of Palestinian solidarity 

Angus Johnston on the latest example of the criminalization of protest at the UC

Dead Poet's Society Lied: What the Movies Don't Teach You about Student Resistance

Muslim students convicted of being mean to Israeli ambassador

JVP's statement on the verdict

Harvard's Palestinian Solidarity Committee statement in Solidarity with the Irvine 11

From the LA Times, "Supporters rally around 'Irvine 11' at town hall event

More on # Occupy Wall Street

In case you missed it, David Graeber on Occupy Wall Street and the Rediscovery of the Radical Imagination

The opportunism of Liberal-Left Pundits on full display

Correcting the New York Times's abysmal Occupy Wall Street Coverage

"Fire your boss! You don't need him. He needs you!": On Occupy Wall Street's "Leaderless Democracy"

Inside the Wall Street Protests: An Eye Witness Account of Police Crack Down on Peaceful Demonstrators

*"They held water bottles in front of us and drank them. They laughed at everyone and called us 'liberals' and 'hippies,' " Flor said of the police. "They told us we're losers."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/09/25/2011-09-25_wall_street_protesters_jailed_after_union_square_scuffle_vow_to_keep_fighting_fo.html#ixzz1Z5Aa4XBD
Want to know the name of the pig who pepper-sprayed protestors at close-range?  http://pastebin.com/nC4f5uca


*NYPD Abuse in Still Photo Unequivocal

And finally, today in Labor

Competition, Bankruptcy, and the Decline of the United Autoworkers

Fighting to Win: Steel City Solidarity and Solidarity Networks

NYC Restaurateurs: Having to Pay Our Workers is Destroying Us

*Egypt's Labor Movement Blooms in Arab Spring







*Updated

Sunday Round-Up:

From Tenured Radical ..."If Computers Are A Labor Saving Device, Why Am I Working A Double Shift?"


Over at Alternet, Sarah Jaffe weighs in on the student loan bubble: "Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop?"


Doc of the Day: "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front"


From the Race and Resistance Speaker Series, "The hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism"


Amy Sonnie and James Tracey discuss their forthcoming book,  "Hillbilly Nationalists, Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times:: "Hillbilly Nationalists: Authors Reflections:


On the advantages of joblessness, "How Marx Came to Discover the Alienation of Labor"


From The Guardian, George Monbiot on "knowledge monopoly racketeers" or, how Academic Publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist"


From the Journal of the Society for Socialist Studies, weapons for the present and future of struggle: ""Organizing for Austerity: The Neoliberal State, Regulating Labour, and Working Class Resistance"


"Of Freedom and Molotovs: Reporting on the Anti-Cop Movement"


Meet the brave young woman who wants to destroy your Iphone: Iprotest


Who is the For-profit education industry's new target? Vets.  "How Pricey For-Profit Colleges Target Vets' GI Bill Money"


Pittsburgh Steel Workers take on Sodexho and win a new green cooperative laundry facility in the process: "Pittsburgh's Steel Valley Authority Wins $250,000 Grant from Heinz for Green Cooperative Laundry"


From The Commune, "electricians occupy site in farringdon"