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Blogs are a familiar feature on the internet - where users post content in an accumulating manner, with comments, and search options, etc. They facilitate expression and exploration, and via attached comments, also debate and synthesis.


Reading and
Navigating Blogs

Our blogs are quite powerful. Each writer can post, as is typically the case. Sustainers who have the option can also post, however. All Blogs appear in the blog system, and sometimes also in content boxes the top page of ZNet - and always via the left menu of the top page - and can be found via searches, etc.

Commenting on blogs follows the blogs, attached at the bottom, and blog comments, like all others, are also visible in many places that show comments including in the forum system. In addition, the entire blog system gathers content for everyone - but one can look at the accumulating content in many ways.

  • For example one can look at one writer's efforts - so one is seeing what is effectively a blog system for that one writer, or Sustainer.
  • One can also look at the content by topic, seeing blogs that are tagged as being about a certain topic - or place, as well. Thus, when doing that, it is a blog system about a topic, or a place, with many contributors.
  • One can look at only writer blogs, or only sustainer blogs, as well.
  • One can look at blogs for particular Groups, too.

All this is easily done using the left menu. Searches allow even more variables and refinements.


Creating Blog Posts

If you are a Sustainer with permission, and are logged in, you will see a link in the left menu for you to post a blog - and you can use that to post one, and then tag it various ways (such as with a topic or place, or a group tag), and once you do, it is in the system with you as the author.

You can also use the console button to the left to post a blog - anytime and from anywhere in the site, as long as you are logged in.

Meanwhile, enjoy the blogs - and, by the way, if you are a Free Member or a Sustainer with a ZSpace page, of course you can put one or more content boxes on it, pulling blog links of any sort you may want to filter for, for example, by you or by your friends or by others - and by topic, about places, for groups, etc.

Z Writers Blogs

Remembering Chairman Fred

Tribute to Fred Hampton first published in 2004, on the 35th anniversary of his death.... (More) Comments (0)

Memes, Death Genes And Real Estate Schemes

At present, growing numbers have taken heed of the situation and are fighting back. Within the span of a few short months, the narrative of the corporate media has, to a limited extent, been altered. Yet, at this point, the development is merely background noise: The neoliberal order is collapsing; capitalism itself is nearly at the end of its five hundred year run. OWS is part of a global movement of resistance that is laying the groundwork for a new paradigm. Although, change will not come without struggle and suffering, without defeats, betrayals and moments of despair. But, given the unsustainable nature of the present order, a shift in both perception and practice is inevitable. Yet when there are this many variables (known and unknown) in play, gazing darkly or through rose-tinted eyewear will prove neither adequate nor helpful. Engaging in acts of resistance are often not about winning or losing a particular battle; rather, it is the propitious manner the act transforms one's character by drawing one out of isolation and into the heart of life. ... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy the Capitol

This is a talk I gave at a rally of many thousand at the steps of the Washington State Legislature. They were beginning a special session today to consider even more cutbacks in spending for poor people, health and education.The rally was sponsored by Olympia Coalition for a Fair Budget, Occupy Olympia and many others. The State Police tasered a few people and arrested at least three people as the rally turned into an Occupation of the Washington State Capitol here in Olympia, Washington. Occupy Olympia is continuing its occupation of Heritage Park and protests are planned at the Capitol all week. ... (More) Comments (2)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.6)

From 'Necessity' to Possibility: Part six of a 7-part series exploring new ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing.... ... (More) Comments (0)

Ruthlessly Pursuing Middle East Policy

Analysis of US foreign policy in the Middle East in the midst of political turmoil. ... (More) Comments (0)

Coups d'etat in Western Europe

Recently the President of Greece and Prime Minister of Italy were forced out of office and replaced with unelected technocrats with close ties to international banks. According to Barron's, a weekly financial newspaper, "the regime changes forced in Greece and Italy [were] by the bond vigilantes." ... (More) Comments (0)

Jaws of Victory

Only the Left could see a video showing victory as an example of defeat.... (More) Comments (8)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (Pt.5)

Beyond 'The Market' and 'The State': Part five of a 7-part series exploring alternative ways that the Occupy Movement can engage with questions of "the economy" and with our strategies for moving toward long-term transformative organizing....... (More) Comments (2)

NYT and OWS

Unprovoked police violence against Occupy protesters is consigned to Orwell's "memory hole" by New York Times coverage of the Nov. 15th raid of Zuccotti Park.... (More) Comments (2)

Frank Miller on Occupy

As a fan of Frank Miller's Sin City and Dark Knight comics, it was a punch in the gut to read his recent diatribe against the Occupy movents. I am referring to his blog piece "ANARCHY."... (More) Comments (0)

Occupy! Connect! Create! (pt.4)

"From Economy/Nature to a Community of Life": Part four of a 7-part series...... (More) Comments (0)

Summarizing Parecon

A very brief summary of Parecon's features... (More) Comments (6)

Demands?

Occupy Demands - yes? no?... (More) Comments (0)

ICTR is political, not judicial

Even though the international jurist, Richard Goldstone, has said the 1994 assassination of Rwandan President Habyarimana was "clearly related to the genocide" the role of Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patrtiotic Front (RPF) in carrying out the attack has often been played down. Now a former aid to Kagame, Théogène Rudasingwa, is "demanding" that he get to testify to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on knowledge he has about "the most pivotal event in the 20th century whose consequences remain tragic almost two decades later.” Rudasingwa, the former Secretary General of the RPF says Kagame personally admitted to the assassination.... (More) Comments (2)

Liberating Possibilities

After articulating the relevance of longstanding economic and political crises to Americans’ everyday lives, the Occupy Wall Street movement must now make itself relevant to those same lives. Will the next phase be a dual-power movement?... (More) Comments (0)

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