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Strange Fruit
Posted by onehundredflowers on September 25, 2011
Posted in >> analysis of news, African American, art, Black History, civil rights, death penalty, Linda D, lynching, racism | Tagged: execution, strange fruit, Troy Davis | 1 Comment »
“Towns of the Dead”: A Hiroshima Survivor Speaks
Posted by Mike E on August 6, 2008
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August 6, 2007. A World to Win News Service. The following is excerpted from an eyewitness account by Hiroshima survivor Yuko Nakamura. It was posted on august6.org, the Web site of a coalition of U.S. organizations that held actions to commemorate the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and oppose a U.S. attack on Iran this month.
In August 6th, 1945, I was 13 years old, a sophomore at a girls’ high school in Hiroshima. Starting in July, like the senior students, the second-year students were mobilized to three munitions factories for the country. At the time, I was living in Miyajima-guchi, in west Hiroshima. I was sent to an aircraft factory in the small town of Koi, in northwest Hiroshima. Most of the workers in the factory were mobilized students, and there were very few adult specialists.
In the morning of that fateful day, August 6th, it was very hot with the burning summer sun. That day, we were to visit a beach to go swimming since the factory was to be closed for one day to conserve electricity. But an air attack warning had delayed our departure a while, and I was reading a book I had borrowed from a friend. I felt relieved when the air attack alert was called off, thinking that the American aircraft had flown away as usual without bombing. Then, a friend of mine outside of the factory called, “Look! There’s a plane. It might be a B-29! It’s dropping something that looks like a parachute!” Then, a yellow-orange colored light flashed like a bolt of lightning as if several thousand magnesium bombs had exploded; when I turned my head to look in that direction I felt a massive shock hit my body accompanied by a large boom. The blast, contaminated with glass and dirt, blew through the inside of our factory, and I was knocked down to the floor. I thought that our factory had been directly hit by a bomb. Through cracked pillars and beams that had collapsed, I could see a faint light in the dark cloud of dust. It was the factory door. I crawled through the rubble towards the door.
Posted in antiwar, AWTW news, Japan, Linda D, war on terror | Tagged: hiroshima, nagasaki | 12 Comments »
Linda D: Badiou, Mexico and How the People Stir
Posted by Mike E on April 1, 2008
Linda D is a Maoist, revolutionary, and artist living in Mexico. She is a founding member of the RCP who left the party during the 1980s. (Click on the picture to the right.)
Oh Man…this is so wild. Spent the last few hours thinking about how I wanted to write you re: López Obrador (AMLO). Returned to my abode, checked in with Kasama first, and found this new post by John Steele re Alain Badiou.
Keep in mind, I’d never heard of Badiou until this moment, but am now anxious to read his writings, as well as yours, about his theories, etc.
Just to excerpt one paragraph from J.S.’s piece, which in my mind dovetailed with what I wanted to share about AMLO:
“What to think? Well, let’s take a more familiar political example. Suppose you are a revolutionary militant or cadre. You have been grasped in your life and activated by a great eruption in the world, and the experience has completely up-ended the conventional system of facts and categories and hierarchies – all that you thought you knew. You have entered into a process of synthesizing and recognizing and establishing new truths in the world, a process which is not just yours, but yours along with many others. I am sure many of us on this site have experienced this, and have entered into such processes, and have had this shape our lives.”
And suppose you are not a revolutionary militant per se, or part of some revolutionary cadre, but through individual and collective experience and struggle, have had your world turned upside down, your life reshaped, etc.
Posted in Alain Badiou, Linda D, Mexico, Pancho Villa, Zapatistas | 4 Comments »
Linda D: On the 9 Letters and Kasama Project
Posted by Mike E on March 24, 2008
Kasama received the following commentary from Linda D, a revolutionary artist living in Mexico.
I have just started to read through the 9 Letters and the polemics therein by the Kasama Project.
I salute you for bringing these questions to light and for allowing those of us on the “outside” to try and get a handle on a meaningful debate.
I further applaud you for fomenting debate–”debate” in my opinion is something the RCP only pays lip service to. Interestingly enough I was guided to your thoughtful and in-depth writings via the RCP. Was curious what was “new” in their “new synthesis.”
I am a former member of the RU and RCP, and while a member dared to question aspects of their political line (in particular around mass line, cult of the personality, meaningful internationalism, art and culture, homosexuality, and their own insular/siege mentality), but was either dismissed as “intermediate”, relegated to worker-bee status, or labeled a “renegade”, “agnostic,” ad nauseum.
Posted in 9 Letters, Bob Avakian, communism, Linda D, Maoism, Marxist theory, mass line, RCPUSA, UCP Nepal (Maoist) | 2 Comments »
