The revolutionary change sweeping North Africa and the Arab world offers great hope for the workers and oppressed people of the Earth. The demands for democracy and a decent life are shared by millions, if not billions, of people. At the same time the world’s capitalists stand exposed, out of touch and terrified by the movement they are witnessing.

An interview with Anti-Authoritarian Movement, the largest anarchist organization in Greece, by Philly publication "Defenestrator"

http://defenestrator.org/society_is_an_ocean

opinion/analysis author Tuesday October 26, 2010
by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.

Book Review of Anarchism & Socialism: Reformism or Revolution?, Wayne Price, Ed. Thought Crime Ink, 2010. The book can be ordered from www.thoughtcrimeink.com

Thought Crime Ink Ed., have done a great job in putting this interesting and thought-provoking book together in a stylish and sober presentation. Most of the material in this book I have already read, although the versions finally published in the book have been polished and have some changes. A lot of them had previously been published as essays for www.anarkismo.net. But all of them put together gives a new dimension to the overall work: this is not a simple collection of “selected writings” on disparate subjects. All of these articles have themes in common and create a consistent unity, defining a particular approach to anarchism and to the problem of revolution, influenced by the author’s personal reflections and experiences.

From the Boston Globes "Big Picture" photo blog via the excellent Feminists with Disabilities website. I like most of what FWD posts a lot, but I found these two images particularly powerful and heartbreaking, so I thought I would pass them on:

http://disabledfeminists.com/2010/03/13/photos-from-mental-health-institutions-in-indonesia/

I would also note that I find the information offered by the Boston Globe problematic, as it seems to frame the issue as one of supposedly "backward" cultural beliefs, rather than connecting the lack of support more to the intense poverty shown in some other images within the series.