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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?
“The politics of the moment are open.” Read More »
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.
Solidarity, Resistance, and Other Ecstasies Read More »
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.
Love in a Hopeless Place Read More »
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.
One of the most dangerous implications of the past seven years that will affect Palestinians in the years to come was the normalization of state violence and its use to suppress civilian populations.
All Our Liberation: The Arab Uprisings and Palestine Read More »
The FBI links all this together into something called the “black identity extremist movement,” which then gives them the opportunity to surveil whomever they put in that category. There’s no definition of that category, so we have to believe that they’re doing the same thing that they did back then.
Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton Read More »
As always, new revisions to border enforcement make migratory journeys more lengthy, costly, and deadly.
“Disobedient Movement,” Rescues and Repression in the Mediterranean Read More »
A collection of accounts of Syrian metalheads and their methods of coping and survival, shot in 2013-2014 and smuggled out on a rubber boat journey to Europe.
Cinema Utopia: Syrian Metal Is War Read More »
The state is efficient at reproducing the state. The state is not necessarily more efficient at organizing subsistence.
On Foraging and Freedom Read More »
In the sudden absence of basic supplies, people have found the means of survival in each other, and in the resources and land at their disposal.
Dreaming With Our Hands Read More »
