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The similarities are striking. Many, if not all, Christians know of Barabbas as the murdererreleased on the Passover, (as per tradition), in replace of the Governor Pontius Pilate's first choice, Jesus. However, what many do not as readily know, is the strange, almost intentional, similarities between Jesus and Barabbas.
Not much is known of Barabbas, however, in Mark 15:7 it tells us exactly who he was; [he] was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. Barabbas was not just a common criminal, or violent murderer as we are often told, and as so many people have been led to accept. Barabbas was actually a revolutionary. A zealot, who stood up for his people against an oppressive government of racially biased, and wealth consumed, God-haters . . . |
Thomas, a Syracuse University art professor, is a part of Strike Debt. Strike Debt is a nationwide movement of debt resistors fighting for economic justice and democratic freedom. A little over a year ago, Strike Debt announced Rolling Jubilee. Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. They are trying to spark a movement that imagines and creates a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits . . .
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This new book by Cynthia Kaufman of Deanza College’s Philosophy in Cupertino, CA begins with a critique of the impacts of capitalism on society and the environment. It looks in new ways at what capitalism is and at how it is reproduced. . Kaufman then looks at some fundamental questions about how capitalism comes to look like a system that is unbeatable, and how people come to have desires that work to reinforce capitalism. She argues that rather than looking for the fulcrum point in a system that will make it able to be overthrown, we should try to understand what kinds of practices open more spaces for stopping the reproduction of capitalist processes, and what kinds of structures need to be developed to make capitalism a less important part of our world. ‘Getting Past Capitalism’ includes both a critique of capitalism and presentation of strategy and alternatives to capitalism, many of which already are being developed.
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