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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Manipulating Everything and Everyone
“Is this an ad or is it an article?”
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“There will always be another Jungle.”
Observations of a visitor to the (in)famous refugee encampment the week of its “eviction.” It’s not what you think; it’s worse than you think.
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Who Gets to Live Long and Prosper?
If we do not take that power back from the people who have it now, they will find ways to maintain it, either in a post-scarcity world where they use things like intellectual property to maintain control, or in a world of more dire ecological crisis, in which they run away and hide while the rest of us die.
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Winter Is Coming Again, and Everything Is Still Fucked
Each day rolls into the next, and SNAFU remains the reality. We must all pull together.
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