History Is A Weapon
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BROOKLYN, New York
United States
Last Login: 8/28/2009
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| General | Switchblades, overthrowing capitalism. | | Music | Joan Baez
Bambouche
Billy Bragg
Blackalicious
Black Star
The Clash
Sam Cooke
The Coup
Dead Prez (especially Let's Get Free!)
Desaparecidos
Ani Difranco
Bob Dylan (especially his earlier stuff)
Michael Franti & Spearhead
From Monuments To Masses
Woody Guthrie
Immortal Technique
The Isley Brothers
Kanye West
The Kinks (especially Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire))
Fela Kuti
Lauryn Hill
Le Tigre
Lyrics Born
M1
Manu Chao
Bob Marley
Micranots
Mos Def (especially Black On Both Sides)
Mr. Lif (especially I Phantom)
Phil Ochs
The O'Jays
The Perceptionists
Public Enemy
Reflection Eternal
Gil Scott-Heron
Michelle Shocked
Nina Simone
Sleater-Kinney
Sweatshop Union
Talib Kweli
X-Clan | | Television | Stop the TV | | Books | The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Assata by Assata Shakur, The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn, The Angela Y. Davis Reader edited by Joy James, Parecon: Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert, The Trajectory Of Change: Activist Strategies for Social Transformation By Michael Albert, Cultural Hegemony in the United States by Lee Artz and Bren Ortega Murphy, Living For Change by Grace Lee Boggs, The No-Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier, Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky, Cages Of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment In The United States by Ward Churchill
The Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner
Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century by Stan Goff, The Movement Toward A New America : The Beginnings Of A Long Revolution by Mitchell Goodman, Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915 by Sidney Harring, A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey, Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson, Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 by George Katsiaficas, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South by Alex Lichtenstein, Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen, Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings by Subcommandante Marcos, God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane , Post-Conservative America by Kevin Phillips, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis by Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror by Christian Parenti, Democracy For the Few by Michael Parenti , Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman, Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Walter Rodney Speaks by Walter Rodney, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger
SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale, Introduction to Marx and Engels: A Critical Reconstruction by Richard Schmitt (The best introduction), Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford, Rivington Street by Meredith Tax, Union Square by Meredith Tax, The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World by Immanuel Wallerstein, Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams, Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams, Negroes With Guns by Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements by Malcolm X, The People's History Of The United States By Howard Zinn , Declarations Of Independence by Howard Zinn | | Heroes | 
Howard Zinn, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Joe Hill, Assata Shakur, Noam Chomsky, Sojourner Truth |
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History isn't what happened, but a story of what happened. And there are always different versions, different stories, about the same events. One version might revolve mainly around a specific set of facts while another version might minimize them or not include them at all.
Like stories, each of these different versions of history contain different lessons. Some histories tell us that our leaders, at least, have always tried to do right for everyone. Others remark that the emperors don't have the slaves' best interests at heart. Some teach us that this is both what has always been and what always will be. Others counsel that we shouldn't mistake transient dominance for intrinsic superiority. Lastly, some histories paint a picture where only the elites have the power to change the world, while others point out that social change is rarely commanded from the top down.
Regardless of the value of these many lessons, History isn't what happened, but the stories of what happened and the lessons these stories include. The very selection of which histories to teach in a society shapes our view of how what is came to be and, in turn, what we understand as possible. This choice of which history to teach can never be "neutral" or "objective." Those who choose, either following a set agenda or guided by hidden prejudices, serve their interests. Their interests could be to continue this world as it now stands or to make a new world.
We cannot simply be passive. We must choose whose interests are best: those who want to keep things going as they are or those who want to work to make a better world. If we choose the latter, we must seek out the tools we will need. History is just one tool to shape our understanding of our world. And every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
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There are men who fight one day and are good.
There are men who fight one year and are better.
There are some who fight many years and they are better still.
But there are some that fight their whole lives,
these are the ones that are indespensable. (Bertolt Brecht)
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