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CounterHegemony Podcast
As of September 3, 2005 the CounterHegemony podcast is available for public consumption. I hope to keep each episode informative and useful for activists interested in social change. I encourage listeners interested in the operating philosophy behind CounterHegemony to review the first two episodes about Hegemony and CounterHegemony respectively. Continuing episodes cover other philosophical and background issues for social change as well as a series on Activist Methods.
The CounterHegemony Blog is where I'll blog and post information about each podcast. And the Podcast is available directly from http://counterhegemony.libsyn.com/.
Welcome to the newsletter. I'll start by explaining the name: CounterHeg.
CounterHeg is short for Counter Hegemony -- counterhegmony and counter-hegemony are acceptable, as are pronouncing the "g" either way, though in Italy its the "j" sound).
The news I'll be listing here is not the whole picture, it
does not claim to be an objective picture, but it is a challenging
picture. This is not The Truth, but it is not The Lie either. It
subjective, constrained, and it uses every tool available to tell a different story.
Utah Phillips has said, "We all assign blame in our own best interest. So
one of the most important functions in society is who controls the blame
patterns. Why is that so many workers in my country assign blame
downwards towards a few welfare chisellers who want to get a little
something for nothin', instead of upwards towards a whole bunch of
big-time chisellers who steal a whole lot of something for doing nothing at all?" He goes on
to criticize the school system, the profit driven media system, and other
institutions for arranging our priorities against our
interests. Why isn't free universal health care at the top of our agenda?
Why are we more concerned about the costs of social welfare than corporate
welfare? Why were we more concerned with Clinton's cigar than with his
foreign policy? Why and how was United States and Britain able to go to war with minority support internally, and barely any support internationally?
Counter Hegemony challenges to this organization. It challenges the
underlying assumptions and priorities of our lives. It can be artistic,
political, spiritual, entertaining or tear-jerking, but it is what it is,
and it doesn't disguise its intent: to challenge.
CounterHeg, for the moment, is this website, basically a newsletter published regularly between 2002 and 2003, and very sporadically since then. But, conceptually, CounterHeg is actually part of a bigger scheme called Counter Hegemony. Counter
Hegemony is a different 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 (neo-liberal economic) form of "globalization" that most of the world is anti-. Counter Hegemony encompasses the whole
bit, though. Its a cultural movement conscious of the validity of economistic Marxist arguments and is also very aware
that feminism, environmentalism, critical race theory, and humans' every day experience sometimes come into
conflict 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 (i.e. a Counter Hegmony - get it?); 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 borders; 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.
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Last updated: December 3, 2004
- Dissent From Labor, Obama, Afghanistan Sans Medecins
- My Life as a Resident Alien
- The world downscaled
- RE: [CounterHeg] + Kathy Kelly + Iraqi Workers Federation of Trade Unions
- MoveOn.org
- Clean Break Up
- CounterHeg Monthly
- Reminder: Iraq War is a) stil lhappenning, b) wrong, and c) about economic power
- January: MLK, DC, Labour Against
War, Venzula "strike?", ASF, WSF, Free Rider
- Some thoughts on The Truth and The Lie
- Bangladesh: Request from
BanglaPraxis
- Gore Vidal: The Enemy Within
- Is still alive!
- Weekend recap, Palestine Visit, WSF3, Indonesia, US PR tactics
- Not In Our Name Weekend, London Masses, Cops Suck, FBI Shocker, Buy Nothing Day,
and lots more...
- the early days...
- BIG WEEKEND: Arrests in DC
already!!!
- War on Famine, ANTI WAR DEMOS,
Coffee Prices, CAT Execs arrested, Hummus
- Culture: Disposable Teens - Today's
Disillusioned Youth
- Culture: KPFK and Pacifica Radio
- Other 9-11,$396 Billion Spectacles,Bass Kissers,Pedal Powered Net,McAfrika Bad
Timing...
- Fast Girls,Critical Mass,Censored Stories,Polish Voting and Dieting,Chicanos,Meme Warfare
- Portland,British Rabbi,Greenwashing Oscars,Camping,Zambia,Iraq
- Issue 50: A CounterHeg Story
- Culture: Manu Chao
- Kurds,US Ven. Report,Hip Hop,UN
Secret,Climate Change,ATTAC,Orphans,Potato Loaf
- CMCambodia,Genoa,Wal Mart,
Iraq,Columbia, British Corps Denial, Africa Aid?
- Culture: Chicago Community Radio
- US ANTI-War Movement,Nigerian Women,Turkish $,Faith Capitalism,WLUW,breakfast...
- Attempted Guilty, Eastern Workers, Rule of Law is wrong, Arresting Families
- 4th Parade Report,UK Labour Explosions,
Teenage Prostitutes,Ani DiFr,Lenny Bruce
- HIV+ Muppet,Bolivia,Whole Foods
Union, Women Strike, Car Busters, BanglaPraxis
- The Eagle Has Crash Landed,
Refuseniks
- E-mail Ban,Bush is Racist,G6B,IN
Trains,Lonely Brits,AIDS EastE,Moroccan Salad
- Fowl Play,Bolivian Elections,New
Planets Needed,Thailand Aids Drug Trial,Salsa
- DC re-colonizing,doored,Japan
Military,World Food summit,D-Day,props,Creole Stew
- Music and Art Review: Calypso
Kings, by Stuart Hall
- Propaganda Dept,ESF,Shoot The
Dog,Mexico Pride Parade,Biked the Ike,Genes
- A-Bomb v. AA-Bomb,Argentina
Protests,Cuba Forever,WWA,Fraud Cream,Workers,Risotto
- Culture: Eminem and White Privilege
- Zapatistas, Chicago Traffic,
HyperHeg, African Famine, CMM, KY, Happy b-Che
- US WAR CRIMES IN AFGHANISTAN,
Philippines Electricity, BCM, Starbuckers, Kaboom
- Apartheid lawsuit,American
Nighmares,Monsanto Guerillas,Reclaim World Cup,Eggs
- Israel,Workers
Struggles,Philipines,Denmark,FBI Loses,Cheney's $,CyclistsvPoPo
- Music and Art Review: Le Tigre, "En
Garde!"
- Meds in Palestine, Warmongers Sell
to Both Sides, WTO Closes, End WMD Threats
- Palestine/Israel, Kashmir, Columbia,
FBI, music & race, rape victims study
- castro, Disney Hotel Strike, Papua
New Guinea Aids Crisis
- White collar crime is up, why not
punishments? ; divest israel ; workers in Asia
- Algerian Election,Chilean Toast,US
Foreign Policy,Feminist Urban Design, IBubble
- Columbian
Election,TacoHell,Haiti,Bowling for Columbine,Porn, Pro-Drug Ads
- FastTrack,TexasDeathObsession,Women
in War,ConfusedAustrianSoldiers,fbiSabotage
- Dan Rather, Weapons, Afghan Jail,No
Sweat Apparel, Enron, Butternut Squash Chili
- media, corporations, labor, Heg,
resistance, environment
- Music and Art Review: i fought
the law
- Republican Fascists, Aussie Censors,
Corp lies, strikes, peta sexist,Satan&Iraq
- Music and Art Review: Is there a way
out?
- USofPR,CIA norms,Police
Accountability,60Kdemo in Israel,Revolutiona
- Brazil V Wall Street, Nike Lies
(Surprise!), Dirty US Military, Cannabis Closet
- why we don't vote, wal mart, BNP
Demo, Nepal Massacre, CM Sacremento
- Cuba, Columbus, Murdoch De-Reg,
DublinStreets, Barbie, SUVs
- Too rich to give, malay media,
empires fall, bella ciao ciao ciao!!
- Music and Art Review - Sunday
Supplement
- GWB is really really insane, BBC, Argentina & IMF, Drug Dumping, Falafels!
- Human Rights, Suu Kyi, Ohio 10, BNP,
Spain Sleepies, Jane Sucks
- Free to do What? UC Activists Censored,
Armey says move 'em, Chernobyl Tourism
- MaximumMayDay, Chevez not
white
enough, Fat Americans, US Military to Nepal...
- Jesus and Feminism and Jail,Mexican Maiz Crisis, May Day Map.
- Tutu, AnotOL,Caspian, Wal-Mart,M & D
- Oil Chess, Taft-Hartley, Miss
Right,...
- Censorship from the start, UK Arms Trade
- Chicago Labor History
Tour, Strike across Euope, Africa, India
- Workers Struggle in Americas, Jenin
first hand
- Urgent Update: Protest
Photos Caption Contest
- IndyMedia=Terrorism
- DC Protest, End of Maiz
- US Attacks Canada, Poland Debates
Media
- General Strike Italy

Reminder: I am an activist, too (and, therefore, cannot
devote my entire
life to this site!). Please do your part by helping me
promote this site by e-mailing the address to friends, mentioning it in
classes, or however you feel appropriate. When I get a few moments I will
design some promotional graphics and flyers. cheers, Dan
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