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A Tale of Two Cities. By Charles Dickens.

You leave France and move to London in the 1780s, as you are disgusted by the extreme tyranny of the nobility in your home country, and make a new life in your adopted city, but when the revolution comes to Paris, your past catches up to you when one form of tyranny is replaced by another.

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“I have great news for you. There are these things called ‘books,’ all right? There’s these things called ‘books’ and every revolutionary that the government was scared enough to murder, almost all of them wrote one before they died. And they’re so confident that you won’t read it, they have it for free at the library.”
- Josh Johnson (Source: https://youtu.be/TgKsG6NZSIo?si=FmpNE5xAhf3SRr0J)


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"In these universes characters and settings are monetary assets, to be exploited, protected, and manipulated according to the owner’s wishes. Understanding them requires understanding what the owner wants: how this story fits not just with the other stories to which it is connected but into the ever-proliferating network of brand identity and profit opportunities of which it is a part. (This is one of the things that differentiates such corporate storytelling from mere sequels, and from the more familiar dictates of genres and adaptations.) It takes so much awareness that it can feel, at times, like watching Hollywood movies made under the Hays Code, or like reading novels written under strict censorship. The best works of corporate storytelling are, in a sense, acts of quiet resistance, written in the blank spots of 


April Carter - Gewaltlose Aktionen gegen den Staat (1963)

Welche Formen gewaltloser direkter Aktionen gibt es? Was können sie erreichen? Welche Voraussetzungen brauchen sie, um erfolgreich sein zu können? Die Friedensaktivistin April Carter (1937-2022) hat diese Fragen auf den Punkt beantwortet.

Zum Text: https://www.anarchismus.at/texte-anarchismus/sonstige-anarchistische-texte/8117-april-carter-gewaltfreie-aktionen-gegen-den-staat-1963

Zur Person: https://www.womeninpeace.org/c-names/2017/6/14/april-carter

Zur Folge: https://anarchieundcello.podbean.com/e/april-carter-gewaltlose-aktionen-gegen-den-staat-1963/

UnterstĂŒtze den Podcast, wenn du kannst und magst: https://ko-fi.com/anarchieundcello/tiers

Today in Labor History July 14, 1789: Parisians stormed the Bastille during the French Revolution. The Bastille was a fortress, armory and political prison, and was a symbol of tyranny, feudal authority and the "divine" rights of kings. The Marquis de Sade had been imprisoned there and was transferred out only 10 days before the storming. The French Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy, replacing it with a bourgeois republic. However, it sparked optimism among working people throughout the world and inspired other revolutions, like the Haitian Revolution, in 1791.

Storming of The Bastille, Jean-Pierre Houël. By Jean-Pierre Houël - BibliothÚque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106405

Un pactole à 1 128 milliards : les 500 Français les plus ont vu leur fortune multipliée par 14 en 3 décennies

Alors que le Premier ministre s’apprĂȘte Ă  dĂ©voiler ses pistes de coupes dans les dĂ©penses publiques, menaçant le pays d’une dĂ©rive austĂ©ritaire, le tout nouveau classement Challenge tombe Ă  pic : les riches n’ont jamais Ă©tĂ© aussi riches et peuvent donc ĂȘtre aisĂ©ment taxĂ©s.

https://www.humanite.fr/social-et-economie/bernard-arnault/un-pactole-a-1-128-milliards-les-500-francais-les-plus-riches-ont-vu-leur-fortune-multipliee-par-14-en-3-decennies

Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/08/chris-hedges-report-how-paradise-lost-revolutionized-the-world/
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are few pieces of literature that remain as prescient and…
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