This Is Our Life Together
Long read: Observations from years of improvised refugee solidarity on the Greek frontier island of Samos
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Prefiguration & Permanent Revolution
Assertions of the basic human freedom to make and remake social relations.
Pirate Utopias
Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom?
Against the Work Ethic
Let’s get on with a society in which there doesn’t have to be a rigid relationship between work and income.
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Die temporäre autonome Zone
Werden wir, die in der Gegenwart leben, denn niemals Autonomie erleben, niemals einen Moment lang auf einem Stückchen Land stehen können, das nur von Freiheit regiert ist?
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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.
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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Respect Our Water, Respect Our Very Bones
All of the threats on our water, our sacred sites, and on the land are connected. It gives us hope to know that people care about the future, the water, and our children.
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Charity, the Perfect Alibi for the Expulsion Machine
The informal policing performed by the big humanitarian groups doesn’t save migrants from the risk of deportation, and it forces them to accept being controlled in order to receive the bare minimum needed to survive.
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Cinema Utopia: Exile 2.0
A year after Aylan Kurdi made the EU border crisis famous, a film to remind us of the intense times that followed (and, though mutilated, continue).
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