A tale of blind doctors and good illnesses
Members of RBSS have devoted their lives to a higher cause: the battle for the story of the Syrian war online. Some have even lost their lives for it. “We have to keep going,” says AbdAlaziz Alhamza.
Staying there was not safe at all, because of the potentiality of the warplane’s return. I spent a total of ten minutes there; I felt during these minutes a severe exhaustion, I felt the heaviness of my body, the difficulty of breathing, the inability to think of anything.
Four heroes of today’s global alt-right – Assad, Netanyahu, Trump, and Putin – have emerged triumphant over the corpse of the Syrian revolution.
Beyond hopelessness there is a new kind of hope that opens up, which is a faith in the basic tissue of human existence, our connection to one another, our ability to persist in even the worst conditions, our ability to make joyful, meaningful, rich lives in the shittiest places.
If we combine the ideas of ending tax cuts for the rich and cutting the military budget, we would have all the money we need for all these things we need for our survival.
Seriously thinking about how to confront climate change exposes the limits of our political imagination. We have to begin by realizing where we stand in the longer arc of the Earth’s natural history.
There is no way that we can get out of the warming condition or prevent climate breakdown without destroying and terminating things that are dangerous.
Traversing the Balkanroute is much more daunting now: double layered electrified fences, vigilante guards, virtually no state support for migrants. The biggest winners from the militarization of borders appear to be smugglers and corrupt government officials.
Long term prison-abolitionist strategies are not necessarily the same as those we’ll need to free individual prisoners in the short run. But in Sara and Seán’s case as in any other, it is important that we have critiques of the oppressive nature of prisons in mind while thinking about the specificity of their context.
Movement is a part of human life, and it always has been. People move out of need, but they also move out of curiosity. Treating that as a problem to be gotten rid of is what causes these great crises.
Movement is a part of human life, and it always has been. People move out of need, but they also move out of curiosity. Treating that as a problem to be gotten rid of is what causes these great crises.
All of the great institutions in the West are built on the original sin of racism and genocide. What’s worse: it’s not like it stopped.
“People are stepping up to take responsibility in their communities and their own lives in a way that in my short life I have not seen. So yes, I absolutely think there’s a revolution going on here.”
Art is not this pure thing that comes out of the romantic imagination, a spark from god. It has always emerged within and evolved out of capitalism. Maybe it has something to teach us about the system that gave birth to it.
