The Anarres Project is a forum for conversations, ideas, and initiatives that promote a future free of domination, exploitation, oppression, war, and empire.
That time we asked @mafnoor for a job on #StarTrek. It's time for a proper philosophy consultant to make sure Ancient Philosophies is taught right at Star Fleet Academy
"Leverage art and culture to challenge oppressive systems, build alternatives and offer an inclusive inspiring vision...
Cultivate and share a positive vision of a future that has room for everyone who is willing to work together."
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"A majority of voters (54 percent) say they are generally optimistic about the next four years with Trump as president, while 42 percent are generally pessimistic."
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Trump issued an executive order today that prohibits the teaching of "critical race theory" in schools. We spoke with education leader @McFiredogg Mark Naison about attacks on CRT a while back. https://t.co/Go4TE1L2Pz
“Reject Optimism. It’s OK that there is no hope for things to continue as they are. Optimism is a false sense of safety, a confidence that we can eventually rename the terrors we have wrought upon the world.” https://t.co/n3im5d4Lsy
"When we as oppressed, exploited, or excluded people decide to walk out of an abusive job alongside our coworkers, to join in shouting down a duplicitous politician, to rush the police line together, we are enacting the democratic tradition in its oldest sense."
Andrew Lee calls for us to recapture the underlying spirit of democracy, which is not about voting or laws but about the power of the dispossessed:
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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
"We are better off doing with people who don’t share our political labels but are nevertheless trying to accomplish the same goals" https://t.co/qOoodLSP05
BREAKING: Trump Treasury nominee Scott Bessent opposes raising the minimum wage.
Bernie Sanders: “You don’t think we should change the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour?”
Bessent: "No, sir."