Under Aleppo’s Rubble
There is something under Aleppo’s rubble to be mourned for everyone. By Taha Bali
2016
Attica, Now
If we don’t take care to know the truth of what’s happening, this will happen again.
Healing Waters
The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock is based on the conviction that peaceful, collective prayer can protect the water. But the camps and actions are also about healing.
Refugee Stories in Russia
“I used to really miss my family and my home in Syria, but not anymore. I have lost my family and simply see no point in life. I even think it would have been better had I been with my family the day the bomb fell on my house.”
Death to Debt Culture!
Debt is a shared condition; it is probably the defining feature of American economic life today. We’ve been talking a lot about divisions between college educated and not, between middle class or professional workers and working class folks. Debt allows us to stop seeing those divisions.
Thanksgiving Reflections on Standing Rock
What I observed at Standing Rock is symbolic in the sense that so many people—white, Native, young, poor—are disaffected, disenfranchised, alienated, and seek a sense of purpose. They seek empowerment through finding community in caring for each other and in direct action.
The Neoliberal “Common Sense” of Racist Police Violence
We have to understand the violence of policing within a long continuum of ongoing, foundational, colonial, imperial, racist violence that produces the US political economy.
Wo der Zaun verläuft
Nicht zwischen den Rechtsextremen und den Liberalen oder zwischen den Liberalen und der Sozialdemokratie – der Zaun verläuft zwischen Verhandlung und Streik, Status Quo und Widerstand.
Manipulating Everything and Everyone
“Is this an ad or is it an article?”
Die drei Affen
Ein Aufruf zur öffentlichen Debatte mit den deutschsprachigen, linken Medien zum Thema “Syrien und die westliche Linke”.