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.
Prefiguration & Permanent Revolution
Assertions of the basic human freedom to make and remake social relations.
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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Desert Libertaire
We need to stop saying “Just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse…” Who seriously thinks it can’t get any worse? Still, there are things we can do–or rather, not do.
Subvert Everything
There are resources within the university, both intellectual and material, that we can steal in order to sustain our survival.
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An Appeal to Practical Solidarity
Protests and provocations help to undermine the legitimacy of Erdoğan’s regime, revealing its authoritarianism and making it harder for the EU and US to avert their gaze.
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Empathie wird uns nicht retten!
Empathie bedeutet nichts, wenn wir uns nicht für die Machtverhältnisse interessieren, welche die Not des Anderen produzieren.
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