Rights ≠ Justice
Stop fighting for rights to things. Take the things.
2018
On Dogmatism and Denial
We are witnessing a major crisis of the left. The most serious problem is not simply that the left has become bankrupt, but that it has hidden its bankruptcy from itself.
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Oppression Radiates: Gaza and the Arab Spring
We need to connect and learn from each other about the histories of struggles in different places; get together and build together, so that when there is another revolutionary wave, we can be more prepared to make it everybody’s.
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“The politics of the moment are open.”
Iranian politics and society surprises all of us over and over again, so why limit the options and the possibilities for a bottom-up protest to only two possible narratives?
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How Fascists Operationalize Left Resentment
Anti-imperialists may believe they are on the right side of history. But history has already shown the results of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration.
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Eastern Ghouta: New Dimensions of Brutality
Eastern Ghouta is reminiscent of 2016 Aleppo: siege, starvation, bombardment, impending forced displacement. And twice as many people live there as were still in Aleppo at the end of 2016.
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Solidarity, Resistance, and Other Ecstasies
When we do start to say we want things to be different, that’s when people come together, isn’t it? That’s where we find joy emerging. We need more of that, more of the time.
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Love in a Hopeless Place
The toughest battle we have to fight in Syria today is against the collapse of our own ideals, the fight against a mentality that subordinates everything to the exigencies of war.
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Climate Trauma
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.
Crossing from Idlib to Turkey, Fall 2017
Even once you’ve made it across the border from Syria, you’re still a long way from safety. Turkish border police are hunting migrants all over the border region. And they do what they want with those they catch.
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