A photo I took at the May 22 mass protest in Montreal
Dear Readers and Supporters,
Funding for The People’s Book Project has essentially – despite a few select donations – come to a halt. At the moment, there are not enough remaining funds to sustain the Project past the next week or so. For this reason, I have started a crowdfunding initiative through Indiegogo, a large crowdfunding website, to attempt to raise funds for both the Book Project itself, and to facilitate a trip to Europe, specifically Greece and Spain, in order to undertake research and journalism from the front lines of the economic crisis and anti-austerity revolts. This was done in an attempt to shift the burden of financial support from those who have long supported my work – through my website(s) – to a new audience with a much wider reach than my own, which is very minimal, to say the least.
However, funding through Indiegogo is also currently not sufficient, so I am asking for your help in promoting this initiative, through Facebook, social media, networking, etc. The only way to increase financial support is to increase exposure, and I cannot do this on my own. If you have the means, or are so inclined, your financial contributions would be enormously appreciated as well, either through my website or on Indiegogo. However, it is in the networking, social media, and promotion that I need a great deal of help. I often see the same names who take it upon themselves to help promote my work through social media, and it is incredibly appreciated; just as I often see the same names who provide financial support. While both of these groups – with some overlap between them – are essentially the reason why I have been able to continue independent research and writing up to this point, I need to expand my exposure and bases of support, in order to continue the Project itself, but also to lift some of the burden from those who have consistently supported this Project as it approaches its one-year anniversary.
So, if you have not made a financial contribution, please consider doing so, and just as – if not more – importantly, please help in sharing my articles, book promotions, and the new Indiegogo fundraising page. Your efforts mean a great deal to me, and are enormously appreciated. So thank you for all you have done, and continue to do!
In looking at the objective for the first volume of the Book Project, with a focus on the global economic crisis and global anti-austerity and resistance movements, I feel that I should re-post some of the research and writing that has come about through the generous support of readers and supporters thus far, and of which a great deal will be going into the first volume of the Book.
Starting with the global economic crisis and anti-austerity resistance movements, the following articles, samples, and excerpts have been made possible due to the generous support of readers:
Welcome to the World Revolution in the Global Age of Rage
Austerity, Adjustment, and Social Genocide: Political Language and the European Debt Crisis
Italy in Crisis: The Decline of the Roman Democracy and Rise of the ‘Super Mario’ Technocracy
Super Mario Monti and the Dictatorship of Austerity in Italy
These articles are collectively but a small sample of the actual research and writing which has gone into the Project over the past two months, which has surpassed 300 pages in writing (with over 100 pages on Greece alone!).
On the subjects of education as social control, class warfare, and student movements, the following articles have been made possible: the series, “Class War and the College Crisis.”
Part 1: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education
Part 2: The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control?
Part 3: Of Prophets, Power, and the Purpose of Intellectuals
Part 4: Student Strikes, Debt Domination, and Class War in Canada
Part 5: Canada’s Economic Collapse and Social Crisis
Part 6: The Québec Student Strike: From ‘Maple Spring’ to Summer Rebellion?
Part 7: Meet Canada’s Ruling Oligarchy: Parasites-a-Plenty!
Further into the subject of the Quebec student movement, the following work has been made possible due to reader contributions and support:
Ten Points Everyone Should Know About the Quebec Student Movement
From the Chilean Winter to the Maple Spring: Solidarity and the Student Movements in Chile and Quebec
Quebec Steps Closer to Martial Law to Repress Students: Bill 78 is a “Declaration of War on the Student Movement”
Writing About the Student Movement in Québec: You’re Damn Right I’m “Biased”! … Confessions of a Non-Neutral Observer
Québec Students Spark the ‘Maple Spring’
The Maple Spring and the Mafiocracy: Struggling Students versus “Entitled Elites”
On June 11, the Global Elite Gather in Montreal: Will the Maple Spring Say Hello?
Stand Strong and Do Not Despair: Some Thoughts on the Fading Student Movement in Quebec
Organize, Imagine, and Act: How a Student Movement Can Become a Revolution
On the issue of Empire, the following research, samples, and writing have been made available through reader support and donations:
The Predatory Global Empire in Panama: Punishing the Poor
A Revolutionary Idea for a Revolutionary Time: A Plan of Action for the Global Political Awakening
An Education for Empire: The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the Construction of Knowledge
Education or Domination? The Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations Developing Knowledge for the Developing World
The Council on Foreign Relations and the “Grand Area” of the American Empire
The American Empire in Latin America: “Democracy” is a Threat to “National Security”
Organized Terror and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine
The Kennedy Brothers, State Terror, and Friendly Dictatorships
Punishing the Population: The American Occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
The U.S. Strategy to Control Middle Eastern Oil: “One of the Greatest Material Prizes in World History”
Fighting the “Rising Tide” of Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Syrian Crisis
Economic Warfare and Strangling Sanctions: Punishing Iran for its “Defiance” of the United States
Bringing Down the Empire: Challenging the Institutions of Domination
All of this does not even begin to truly cover the amount of extensive research and writing which has been undertaken in the past year, a good deal of which will be integrated into the first volume of the Book. Again, ALL of this has only been made possible due to the support of readers.
Readers and supporters have also undertaken – of their own initiative – to kindly translate some of my articles into foreign languages, simply because they chose to do so, and for which they received no financial compensation.
Among the French translations of some of my articles are:
De la dépression économique globale a la gouvernance mondiale
La politique économique du gouvernement global
Fermons la réserve fédérale mais ne nous arrêtons pas en si bon chemin!
L’éveil politique et le nouvel ordre mondial
Contre l’Institution, avertissement au mouvement Occupy Wall Street
Un court message pour l’humanité: nous voulons être libres !
De l’anarchie: Une Interview
A Greek translation of my article:
“Be the Change: A 12-Point Proposal for the Occupy Movement”
An Italian translation of one of my recent articles on the European debt crisis:
“Il linguaggio Orwelliano dietro la crisi della zona Euro”
And in Spanish translations:
“La ‘Crisis de la Democracia’ y el ataque a la educación”
Del Invierno Chileno a la Primavera Canadiense: ¡Solidaridad!
Quebec se acerca a la ley marcial para reprimir a estudiantes
“Bienvenido a la revolución mundial en la era de furia global”
So thank you, sincerely, for all of your support over this past year. I could not have done any of this without you, and it’s only possible – and will only be possible in the near future – because of your support. And I will thank you in advance for helping to promote my writing, research, and fundraising campaign on Indiegogo.
In Solidarity, now and always,
Andrew Gavin Marshall
Andrew Gavin Marshall is an independent researcher and writer living in Montreal, Canada. His website (www.andrewgavinmarshall.com) features a number of articles and essays focusing on an analysis of power and resistance in the political, social, and economic realms. He is Project Manager of The People’s Book Project, and is currently writing a book on the global economic crisis and resistance movements emerging around the world. To help this book come to completion, please consider donating through the website or on Indiegogo.