Counter Hegemony Project
Dan Lesh - 10.07.2002 13:12
Counter Hegemony is a much better way of characterizing the rapidly growing and coalescing movements from around the world.
Hello!
I wanted to alert you of a website I operate called CounterHeg
( http://www.counterheg.org). I compile newsletters (no more than 2
per day and five per week) of news from around the globe about
various forms of resistance, from music to politics to local
demonstrations, etc. If you have a look at the site, you'll get a
picture of the kind of news I include. You'll also notice that the
site is currently really visually bland-- I assure you, this is
temporary, I just haven't had time to design something as big as I'm
thinking. Anyway, if you like the site, please feel free to
subscribe to the list.
CounterHeg, for the moment, is a newsletter, but is actually part of
a bigger scheme called Counter Hegemony. Counter Hegemony is a much
better way of characterizing the rapidly growing and coalescing
movements from around the world. Yes, this is what most call
the "anti-globalization" movement, but any one involved in the
movement is fully aware that its a particular (liberal economic) form
of "globalization" that we're anti-. Counter Hegemony encompasses
the whole bit, though. Its a cultural movement conscious of the
validity of economistic and socially conscious Marxist arguments and
is also very aware that feminism, environmentalism, critical race
theory, and humans' every day experience sometimes come into
contradiction with each other in irreconcilable ways under the
current power structures. We know about these contradictions and are
willing to press on, with each other, building a new hegemony; one
bent on freedom for all, with equal rights for women, men, blacks,
whites, everyone; with genuine respect for the environment; with
workers democratically controlling every aspect of their labour; with
all parents able to provide for their children; with all people free
to travel across political boarders; with meaningful access to mass
media channels; with votes that actually count in a political system
that actually cares; and with a consciousness that understands that a
(r)evolution doesn't happen overnight, but it does happen, and does
need people fighting for it.
Peace,
Dan "please forward this" Lesh
http://www.counterheg.org
 E-Mail: dlesh@hotmail.com  Website: http://www.counterheg.org
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