Kasama Report #10:02

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Newsletter from the Kasama Project May 9, 2010 / No. 10:02 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Secondary school students during the General Strike. JED BRANDT'S PHOTOS FROM NEPAL'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT Jed is posting, day after day, stunning photographs of the revolutionary upsurge in Nepal. View Jed's image galleries DISPATCHES FROM KATHMANDU Jed Brandt is on the streets of Kathmandu reporting on Nepal's revolutionary upsurge. Check Kasama or Jed's blog often for the latest developments and analysis. Recent reports: --Nepal: People Besiege a Government --Nepal's Streets: We Make the Power! --General Strike is On INTO THE WILD: Badiou, Actually Existing Maoism, and the "Vital Mix" of Yesterday and Today by Bill Martin How do we reconceive and update revolutionary theory? How do we learn from the revolutionary experiences of the 20th century? This essay was originally published on Khukuri. Read online: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Download as a Printable Document KENT & JACKSON STATE 1970: A FIRESTORM THEY COULD NOT CONTAIN by Mike Ely May 1970. Forty years have passed. It is history now in the eyes of the world. But for me, and many others, it is raw and alive. It always will be. I won't tell the well known details - if you don't know them, look them up. But I will tell you what it felt like, and looked like to a teenage boy who wanted desperately to see the liberation of the Vietnamese and Black people in America. [read more] _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Kasama Report is published by the Kasama Project. Email Kasama Report at kasamanews@yahoo.com website: kasamaproject.org