Author: Bernard Harcourt

By Nicole Willis The Standing Rock movement was a unique uprising in many ways. It had many facets and moving parts, each with a voice of its own. It must be remembered though that at the heart of the movement… Continue Reading →

By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Indigenous peoples have been engaged in over 4 centuries of resistance against a violent backdrop of conquest, genocide, expansive dispossession, unfettered capitalist exploitation, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy and environmental apocalypse.  Indigenous presence is a direct result of generations… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt The Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline during 2016-2017 built on decades, or rather centuries, of resistance to ongoing colonial dispossession and dehumanization—or, in the judicious words of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, to four centuries… Continue Reading →

By Oxblood Ruffin I come to hacktivism as an engaged participant. I am neither an academic nor an ethnographer. My opinions are subjective based on my own practice and understanding of what hacktivism is and should hope to achieve. Although I… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt  It is challenging to critically explore and theorize “hacktivism” the same week that the revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica return to the front page and that President Trump fires F.B.I. deputy director Andrew McCabe for his purported… Continue Reading →