Anti-Globalists and Globalists

In History is a Weapon blog the team at History is a Weapon posted a letter they wrote to the New York Times about a certain article that briefly touched on globalization:

Go around the world and you will see that one of our icons is Che, a revolutionary Argentinean who led a revolution in Cuba, before going off to fight in Africa and Bolivia. We meet at international meetings like the World Social Forum precisely because we believe that humanity’s solutions require a world conversation and transnational strategies. If you want “antiglobal,” go talk to the militias hiding in their bunkers from phantom conspiracies or the minutemen bullying the border.

Hunt An Illegal

Jill, who puts out the blog Feministe, directs our attention to the New York University College Republicans:

Oh NYU College Republicans. I thought you hit your low point during your affirmative action bakesale. But now you feel the need to top even that proud display of bigotry with your rally this Thursday, titled “Find the Illegal Immigrant – They’re everywhere so it shouldn’t be too hard…”

Clash of Civilizations

Cubano writes about the absurdity of the “clash of civilizations” in the blog Eccentric Optimism.

The word civilization is used to refer to a culture and society. Society is composed of various things and it’s not just based on religion so I don’t know why Islam is being singled out and being referred to as a civilization. If you are naïve enough to believe that all of Islamic world is composed of one entity that thinks, believes and acts in an identical or a very similar manner then you may also add to your naivety by believing that there is a clash of civilizations. But, please save the crap for yourself and stop poisoning our minds.

I first found this linked at Blogbharti by Krish.