treeofjudas

Networking and politics

Political label: class struggler (or straggler?)
Region: Middle East
Country and town: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Employment sector: services
Occupation: QA engineer
Political group membership: Unaffiliated
What do your politics mean to you?: If all my politics gets me is a feeling of intimacy with a dedicated community of activists, then it isn't worth my damn time.
Favourite thinkers: Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Stanley Milgram, Uri Avnery, Daniel Dennet
Favourite political books: Black Boy, Stone Butch Blues, Obedience to Authority, The Handmaid's Tale, 119 Against 1: Uri Avnery in the Knesset, The Radical Soap Opera

About me: Work sucks. And mostly, if you even get the chance to earn more than subsistence, it involves managing other people. I want that to change.
Interests: anarchism, Marxism, philosophy, science, theology, science fiction, fantasy, cyberpunk, computers, society, film, art, theater
Custom title: too cute to persecute
Favourite books: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Snow Crash, Zodiac, Neuromancer, When Gravity Fails, The Illiad, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Watchmen, Stand on Zanzibar
Favourite films: Endless Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Clockwork Orange, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Haunted Palace
Music: Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors, Cream, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Yoko Kanno, Black Sabbath, King Crimson
Dislikes: work, shallowness, mediocrity, stupidity, ignorance, blind hatred, dogmatism, mobs, terrorism

1918: Rice riots and strikes in Japan
From July-September 1918, Japan was swept with a wave of riots from rural fishing villages to major industrial centres and coal fields, in what was the largest upheaval in Japan to date, and the widest ranging popular disturbances since the unrest during the Meiji restoration of 1868.