The following post was contributed by Dave Warren, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community. I think the recent RevolutionTruth panel discussion on the Chris Hedges Black Bloc article took many unintended turns and twists but, guided by serendipity, it ended up being very illuminating on a number of counts even if it juked from its initial topic on Black Bloc. I will save actual comments on the tactics of…

Natasha Stoudt from Occupy Portland contributed this post to RevolutionTruth Over the past couple of weeks, the internet has exploded with responses to Chris Hedges’ article “The Cancer in Occupy.” I’m going to sidestep the issue of what was wrong or right with Hedges’ article or the many responses to it, and focus on the deeper subject of the debate it spawned: the debate about tactics. This debate is a…

This post was written by Eoin Garland, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community, in response to the Occupying Beyond Divisions Panel. Just listened to this in full………. I sit in a small unimportant corner of the world looking and learning about Occupy. I am small and unimportant. I am suffering from what has been caused by corrupt politics and the economic system. I’d like to think I’m a regular…

On February 15, 2012, RevolutionTruth hosted a live panel discussion with Chris Hedges, Kevin Zeese, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Lucas Vasquez, Georgia Sagri, and Cari Machet to discuss anarchist philosophy, Black Bloc, and Occupy. Chris Hedges’ most recent Truthdig column was a searing condemnation of Black Bloc as part of the Occupy movement. This article comes at a time when Occupy is suffering from coordinated and vicious attacks from the outside, weariness, winter (in the…

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On Wednesday February 15 RevolutionTruth produced its first “flash panel” (produced in a matter of days rather than months) and its second panel on Occupy. After resounding upset over Chris Hedges’ piece on black bloc, we felt it important to provide a platform for a deep discussion on some difficult topics. Unfortunately, the discussion failed to unfold as we had hoped. We had made it very clear to all panelists…

This post was written by Ro, a member of the extended RevolutionTruth Community. Ro has been a supporter of our endeavor since our inception. It is almost an established institution where I live, the Black Bloc. And just like in Chris Hedge’s recent article on “The Cancer of Occupy”, since at least the 1970s, the Black Bloc is generally demonised and described as “anarchic”. Maybe because their autonomous character makes it…

The following article was written by Josh Mitchell, the newest member of the RevolutionTruth team.  Josh is  an avid reader of politics and history and he seeks to change the world for the better by examining and asking the hard questions that we all need to be asking. Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and then it turns…

The following article was written by Robert Palmer who is a free spirit peace activist father seeking to revive his social life, explore, have fun, and inspire for positive social and personal growth. Robert was a counter culture peace activist in the sixties, then from 1969-2008 an airline employee working as printer, ramp agent, and then in an accounting capacity. During this time Robert also worked for divorce reform with R-Kids in Minnesota…

This is an excerpt from Meaningless Words, episode 24, January 18th 2012, where Justin Jackson, Pamela Taylor, Christopher Sisk, and Edward Dyer discussed the difference in mainstream media coverage between the Vietnam War, of which Ed is a veteran, and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.  It seems as though video games are used to inform soldiers and future soldiers of events during war now, rather than reporters of…

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