"If we want to see a better day, we’ll find a way. Nobody can take away the strength that we have."
Hi, my name is Harjit. Hope this finds you well.
working on how to be a less oppressive man...critical social theory, anarchism, radical mental health, not so radical mental health, IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, veganism, straight edge,anti-capitalism, third world resistance movements, protest, animal liberation philosophy, sociology, guitar, bass, cello, piano, nature, history, orwell, my bicycle, people who squat, Really good Vegan cooking,granola, my family, lakes/rivers/streams/oceans, nice people.
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I play in a band called Scourge
BRIEFLY:
The Smiths and the Cure
Folk/rock: Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Riot Folk!, Beck, Gillian Welch, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Steve Earle, Fleetwood Mac, Hank Williams, Rocky Votolato, Ryan Adams, Ted Leo
Indie/post-hardcore stuff: Split Lip, Embrace, Death Cab for Cutie, Postal Service, Fair and Kind, Cat Power, Mirah, Texas is the Reason, Far, Walking Concert, Rival Schools, Braid, Promise Ring, Burning Airlines, Elliot Smith, Christie Front Drive, Boy’s Life, Further Seems Forever, Hot Water Music, Jawbox, Mountain Goats, Magnetic Fields, Mineral, My Bloody Valentine, Rilo Kiley, Sufjan Stevens, Sunny Day Real Estate, Waxwing
Punk/Hardcore: 108, AFI, Battery, Trial, Propagandhi, Catharsis, Gorilla Biscuits, Paint it Black, Strike Anywhere, Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Paint it Black, Trial By Fire, Go It Alone, Another Breath, The Clash, Suicide File, Count Me Out, Modern Life is War, New Found Glory,
Hip-Hop/rap: The Coup, Tupac, Jay-Z, Dead Prez, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Aseop Rock, Nas,
Post-Rock/other: Red Sparrowes, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Set Fire to Flames, From Monuments to Masses, Asian Dub Foundation, Tabla Beat Science
Zoolander, Battle of Algiers, The Terrorist, Zapatista, 2nd Generation, 4th World War, Hearts and Minds, Royal Tenenbaums, Lagaan, A Life Aquatic, Miami Model, Run Lola Run, Malcolm X, etc...
X-Files, Law and Order, X-Men Cartoon Series, Simpsons
Race/Coloniality:
Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, A Dying Colonialism, Black Skin White Masks, Our Culture Our Resistance by APOC, Black Panther Party Papers, and Vijay Prashad!
Existentialism: Sartre, Sartre, Sartre!
Fiction: Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and 1984. God of Small Things is wonderful as well by Roy.
Labour: Foner’s History of American Labour (all 9 volumes, but especially volume 4), IWW’s First Hundred Years, The Big Strike by Mike Quin is really an easy and great read about the great SF general strike.
Anarchism: What is Anarchism by Berkman, Living my Life by Goldman, and Rocker’s Anarcho-Syndicalism and other essays.
Gender/Sexuality: Bell Hooks, Pornography the Consumption and Production of Inequality, Stone Butch Blues, Giovanni's Room, Angela Davis, Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch, Carol Adam’s writings on feminism and meat.
Other: Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival and Fateful Triangle, Howard Zinn’s People’s History, Battle of Seattle (Collected by Eddie Yuen), Diet for A New America (GO VEGAN!) Wallerstein’s World Systems Analysis and other writings. Gundre Frank is also really important to check out? Marcuse is a genius who influenced Katsificas’s Imagination of the New Left. Ann Hansen’s Direct Action
my dad and mom, my friends, family, Bhagat Singh, you.