treeofjudas

Networking and politics

Political label: class struggler (or straggler?)
Region: Middle East
Country and town: Jaffa, Israel
Employment sector: services
Occupation: software tester
Political group membership: Unaffiliated
What do your politics mean to you?: If all my politics gets me is a feeling of intimacy with a dedicated community of activists, then it isn't worth my damn time.
Favourite thinkers: Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Stanley Milgram, Uri Avnery, Daniel Dennet
Favourite political books: Black Boy, Stone Butch Blues, Obedience to Authority, The Handmaid's Tale, 119 Against 1: Uri Avnery in the Knesset, The Radical Soap Opera

About me: Work sucks. And mostly, if you even get the chance to earn more than subsistence, it involves managing other people. I want that to change.
Interests: anarchism, Marxism, philosophy, science, theology, science fiction, fantasy, cyberpunk, computers, society, film, art, theater
Custom title: too cute to persecute
Favourite books: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Snow Crash, Zodiac, Neuromancer, When Gravity Fails, The Illiad, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Watchmen, Stand on Zanzibar
Favourite films: Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Clockwork Orange, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Haunted Palace
Music: Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Yoko Kanno, Black Sabbath, King Crimson
Dislikes: work, shallowness, mediocrity, stupidity, ignorance, blind hatred, dogmatism, mobs, terrorism

Mexico: Guerrero teachers occupy electoral institute in protest at educational reform bill
Schoolteachers and teachers in training have occupied the electoral institute's state offices in Chilpancingo, Guerrero and are threatening to destroy the ballots of today's statewide municipal elections.

The Medicalisation of Everyday Life
NHS doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre writes about bullshit medical research, bogus science reporting, the placebo effect, and everything else from postmodernism to evolutionary psychology, at his Bad Science blog. His critiques of the health system, pharmaceutical industry, and consumer health fads are extremely relevant - his focus on social factors, economic inequalities, and rejection of reductionist medicalising and/or individualising of what are essentially social/collective issues is pretty consistent with any critique class-struggle anarchists could produce. This is an edited extract from his book Bad Science.

1957-1975: The Vietnam War
Howard Zinn's short history of the war in Vietnam from the beginning of the Communist insurgency in 1957 until the defeat of US and South Vietnamese forces in 1975.

Tea Break July 2008
First issue of an irregular workers' bulletin put together by users of the website, libcom.org. This issue focuses on the 2008 pay dispute over sub-inflation pay offers.