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Bay Area Revolutionary Union

 Source:  Antiwar.com b y Alexander Cockburn CounterPunch , April 3, 2000 I  got an invitation to speak a couple of months ago from an outfit called antiwar.com, which is run by a young fellow called Justin Raimondo. "Antiwar.com is having its second annual national conference March 24 & 25, and we'd like you to be the luncheon speaker," Raimondo wrote. "The conference will be held at the Villa Hotel, in San Mateo (near the airport). The theme of the conference is 'Beyond Left & Right: The New Face of the Antiwar Movement.' We have invited a number of speakers spanning the political spectrum. Confirmed so far: Patrick J. Buchanan, Tom Fleming (of  Chronicles  magazine), Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com), Kathy Kelly (Iraq Aid), Alan Bock ( Orange County Register ), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), representatives of the Serbian Unity Congress, and a host of others." Raimondo seasoned his invite with a burnt offering, in the form of flattery, always pleasing ...

  By   Derek Ford  - September 17, 2021.  Source:   Liberation School All revolutionary processes are educational. From organizing meetings and study groups to writing protest speeches and propaganda before the revolutionary moment to creating new revolutionary educational and cultural institutions and training teachers and specialists after the seizure of power, revolution is educational through and through. Yet exactly what kind of educational operations does revolution entail, and how can we understand and practice them? It is precisely these questions that Paulo Freire addressed in his classic work,  Pedagogy of the Oppressed . One hundred years after his birth in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, Freire’s name is widely recognized and, relatively speaking, so too is his canonical text. Yet the book is referenced or discussed more than it is deeply engaged. This is particularly evident when Freire’s work is severed from its revolutionary Marxist orient...