Carnival of Radical Action

Black Amazon will be hosting the next Carnival of Radical Action. The deadline for submissions is August 25.

Here’s what she’s looking for:

THE BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION :

Radical Knowledge
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. - Marian Wright Edelman

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.- Mark Twain

It’s the end if summer and as we prepare to start a year of ” education” Let us preface it by focusing on knowledge .

Knowledge is the forefront of all great actions, the lack of it, the acquisition of it, the concealment of it.

Radical action is almost always precipitated by a radical shift in the paradigm. How did you find out the strawberries were rotten? How did you find out you didn’t have to accept it. When did you figure out you could change the world?So for this carnival :

Know to do

Know better Do better

What do we need to know for radical action?

Resources

New Actions

New purposes

New places

New projects

What is radical knowledge?

Who has shaped your radical knowledge?

What knowledge makes/made you radical?

Primacy will be placed on NON mainstream voices.

To build a foundation we will start bottom and to the left.

Make back to school something ENTIRELY different this year.

Blog articles can be submitted through the carnival’s homepage.

Voices of Resistance

Ahni of Intercontinental Cry sent me this link to Voices of Resistance — Northern Territory Traditional Owners Speaking Out. It includes quotes and excerpts from a series of audio interviews where indigenous Australians discuss Howard’s crackdown on Aboriginal communities.

There’s plenty of anger directed at Howard.

The link [between Howard’s plan for a nuclear waste dump in the NT and the military intervention] is unbreakable. Because we have stood up so strongly saying we didn’t want a waste dump. We have stood up strongly again against uranium mining. We have strongly said no to both issues. I think this is Mr Howard’s way of saying ‘we’ve gotta put those blackfellas back in their place, we have to take their land away from them, we’ve got to demoralise them, we have to break their self esteem, we have to break any connection they have with their lands by taking through leases.

There’s plenty of healthy cynicism.

The time has come for us to fight back: otherwise there won’t be no looking forward, looking black; instead I think we’ll be in the middle of a railway track, and the train will run right over us.

The five year leases will become fifty years, then a hundred years, then perpetual leases. Ultimately all our hard fought land rights will be taken away in the name of national interest.

Go read the excerpts at Intercontinental Cry, or listen to the audio recordings here.