http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com by Michael Staudenmaier Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:56:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [This is the text of my remarks for the panel "Islamophobia, Antisemitism and Fascism:  Challenges for Anti-Capitalists" at the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference in Vermont earlier this month.  The panel also featured remarks by Rami El-Amine and by my brother, Peter Staudenmaier.  A brief but productive open discussion focused ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/11/14/islamophobia-antisemitism-and-fascism-challenges-for-anti-capitalists/ [This is the text of the presentation I gave at the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference last weekend in Vermont.  The discussion afterwards was pretty good, I thought, mostly relating to the various experiences attendees had accumulated over years of working in "multi-racial" or "all-white" or "people of color" projects, organizations, and ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/11/09/the-white-skin-privilege-concept-from-margin-to-center-of-revolutionary-politics/ In early November, I will be participating in the 2007 Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference in Vermont, sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies.  I will be giving a presentation on "The White Skin Privilege Concept:  From Margin to Center of Revolutionary Politics," and I will be participating in a ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/10/19/renewing-the-anarchist-tradition/ It’s been far far too long since I last posted anything here.  I could offer the usual excuses (children, work, etc.), but instead I’ll try to tell a little story that relates directly to both my current life as a parent and to the history of STO. A month or two ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/09/25/double-stroller/ Some small number of people out there have probably begun to wonder why I haven’t posted anything here in over two months.  Suffice it to say that it’s been a busy two months:  first we moved, and then on May 14th we welcomed Nicolas William Carlson to the world.  Here’s ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/05/31/nico/ This is the text of a talk I gave this past weekend at the National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington DC.  It’s not necessarily directly relevant to my research on STO, although I do mention the debt the Three Way Fight perspective owes to some of the anti-fascist work ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/03/13/the-three-way-fight/ My site meter tells me many interesting things about the people who visit this blog.  One thing it tells me fairly often is that people come here having used google or ask.com to search for things like “what is sojourner truth’s contribution to history?”  Often the server from which these ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/02/05/sojourner-truth/ The same people who run the STO Web Archive also maintain a great blog called The Democracy and Hip-Hop Project.  As a casual fan of hip-hop, I am sometimes lost by the references, and I sometimes disagree with the perspectives offered, but I am always challenged by the content of ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2007/01/24/multi-racial-organization/ After nearly two years of research, I’ve finally started working on some draft sections of what I hope will become a manuscript for the long (if not hotly) anticipated book.  Of course, my research is ongoing as well (as is my day job, and my parenting responsibilities), which means I ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2006/12/13/anti-fascism/ Long before I ever encountered STO or learned of the inspiration the group took from CLR James, I was myself deeply influenced by the Greek/French revolutionary theorist Cornelius Castoriadis, who collaborated with James (and Grace Lee Boggs) on the seminal document Facing Reality.  I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Castoriadis, ... http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/2006/11/10/the-only-important-division/