The Fourth World War (film): Debates and Critiques

• The Fourth World War: An Unembedded View of Global Resistance (Interview with Rick Rowley, Democracy Now, 2004)
• The Fourth World War: a review (critique from U.S. anarchist and anti-pacificist Peter Gelderloos, Infoshop News, Aug. 2005)
• The Fourth World War: Information Clearinghouse (full text of speech by Zapatista spokesman Marcos for which the film is named)
• Subcomandante Marcos (spokesman for Zapatista Mexican rebel movement, Wikipedia)

Protest Globalisms (2008-12)

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948)
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)
• Protest Around the World (the Guardian slideshow, Nov. 2011)
• Google map of protests during week of Feb. 18, 2011
• The Guardian interactive map of Occupy protests, 2011
• Time Magazine Person of the Year: The Protester (2011)

Debates over Violent Protest Tactics ("Black Bloc") (mid-2000s on)

• Martinez, Elizabeth. "Where was the Color in Seattle: Looking for Reasons why the Great Battle was so White", 1999. (famous discussion of the race politics among protestors at the WTO protests 1999).
• Hedges, Chris. "The Cancer in Occupy", TruthDig.com, 2012 (famous critique of Black Bloc tactics in the Occupy movement).
• Graeber, David. "Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: a Reply to Chris Hedges," n +1 blog, Feb 2012.
• pro-Black Bloc review of AK Thompson's book Black Bloc, White Riot, 2012. The Iconoclast blog.
• Thompson, AK. "Chris Hedges vs. CrimethInc. on Violence: will we get the debate we deserve"? Truthout.org, 2012 (on impending debate to be staged btw Hedges and the collective CrimethInc. at CUNY, NYC)
• Louis Proyect analysis of Hedges-Travon debate over Black Bloc at CUNY, 2012 (includes full video of the debate).

Regarding the Pain of Others: Shock and Images

• Susan Sontag (Wikipedia)
• Not What Happened but Why (NYT review of Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others)
• Susan Sontag Animation: Regarding the Pain of Others (Youtube art vid animating Sontag's narration of the last paragraph of her book)
• Shock Advertising (Wikipedia)
• Benetton's Most Controversial Ads (The Fashionist)
• The True Colors of Oliviero Toscani (Global Ad Age, 2001)
• Oliviero Toscani: There are no Shocking pictures, only shocking reality (CNN, 2010)

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