Another Year Gone, Another Year Coming

So the second year of this site’s operation has almost come to a close, with its third anniversary coming up in the next few days.

This year has seen quite a bit of success for this blog since I transitioned it from Blogspot / Blogger to WordPress. For initial reason for changing the site I hosted it on was relatively superficial, but also somewhat practical. I did it because WordPress allows you to have pages at the top, which meant I could create permanent links to things I thought were important.

That said, I could not have anticipated the new found success of the site. Over the last 12 months viewership has gone up substantially, with only one month having less views than the one before it, and with an overall increase of over 400%.

This year also saw a slight change in direction for the site as its mission became clearer. Initially starting off with the name By Any Means Necessary, it focused on wide ranging revolutionary issues, however over the last few months I have transitioned to much greater focus on indigenous struggles and issues, and as such the name has changed to The Speed of Dreams, which draws on the letter by Subcomandante Marcos of the same name. I and the site remain firmly Marxist, but I have now infused it quite a bit with a deeply indigenous perspective, drawing on my own experiences in getting to know my own heritage and coming to terms with our forms of struggle and politics of contention.

So what is in store for next year? Well, concerning Onkwehonwe struggles, the year will start off with a bang as we see the 20th anniversary of the so-called Oka Crisis, which was probably, along with the 1994 Zapatista uprising, the most important event of the last 20 years in inspiring the new wave of indigenous resurgence in Anówarakowa Kawennote. Next year also sees the culmination of 2010 corporate Winter Olympics fiasco, an event that is sure to stir up mass unrest, particularly among the oppressed layers of the British Colombian society. In terms of this site, I hope to see its readership expand as it works to add an indigenous voice to radical leftist struggles.

Finally, I thought I would end this recap by just posting a list of this year’s 10 most viewed posts:

1. The Railroad of Leonard Peltier
2. What Are Warrior Societies?
3. First Words
4. Wasáse and the Rebirth of Red Power
5. The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
6. Indigenous Resistance in the Americas and the Legacy of Mariátegui
7. The Myths of Ayn Rand
8. Warriors
9. Critiquing Primitivism, Anarcho-Primitivism and General Anti-Civilisationism
10. Conspiracy Behind Conspiracy Theories?

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