Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 50 (December 10, 2018)

The Heresy of White Christianity

One of my favorite Chris Hedges articles I've read (though most of it is Cone quotes):

"The lynching tree is America’s cross. What happened to Jesus in Jerusalem happened to blacks in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky. Lynched black bodies are symbols of Christ’s body. If we want to understand what the crucifixion means for Americans today, we must view it through the lens of mutilated black bodies whose lives are destroyed in the criminal justice system. Jesus continues to be lynched before our eyes. He is crucified wherever people are tormented. That is why I say Christ is black."

Bird Bath: Electric scooters like Bird and Lime keep getting dumped in lakes and rivers.
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I try to stay away from cities, but I was recently in both Phoenix and Denver and saw for the first time those electric scooters that are everywhere that you can rent with a phone app.

Home for the “Gilets Jaunes” Days
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I enjoyed these first-person reflections by the author who was visiting her home in France during Acte IV of the protests.

We want to riot, not to work: The 1981 Brixton uprisings
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This is a good account of the 1981 Brixton riots (but leads to a page linking to a large 90MB PDF).

The Conscience of a Hacker by The Mentor (1986)

"The following was written shortly after my arrest..."

#4 Tubthumping by Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media

"A 1990s pop hit reveals how the Adams feel about capitalism."

Chumbawamba’s Long Voyage

This article by Aaron Lake Smith was one of the first I read on Jacobin, and still one of my favorites.

"There’s that song, the one about getting knocked down and then getting back up again, but their body of work is like an iceberg; the bulk of it is submerged below the surface, difficult to get a hold of."

Minneapolis ends single-family zoning, undoing a major component of housing segregation.
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"By doing away with single-family zoning, the city takes on high rent, long commutes, and racism in real estate in one fell swoop."