Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
If there isn’t resistance to police brutality, then the white supremacy and violence will increase. In some ways, we’re holding back a tide more than we’re actually advancing the bar.
Take it from a Veteran Civil Rights Attorney: Yes ACAB Read More »
When I talk about political violence, what I mean is protective violence. Black people have had to use violence to protect themselves. If someone was trying to capture and enslave them, they felt well within their rights to use deadly force to combat that.
People Will Always Defend Themselves Read More »
The power of feminism right now is that it can be a uniting tool to make people understand how their struggles are related. We are much more powerful when we are fighting together and learning from each other than if we stick to our little pet cause or only work with what’s in front of us instead of working from a systemic analysis.
Struggles will emerge from below to reclaim democracy for ordinary people and roll back financial power, by reclaiming some existing institutions and innovating new democratic forms of social organization from below.
Debt Versus Democracy Read More »
I love that folks are in the struggle on the front lines but dancing with each other, singing with each other, making mixtapes. When we make decisions, we put on R&B and dance together. We’re remembering that we’re not alive to suffer, to fight, to struggle. We’re alive to love each other and build community, to evolve.
Pleasure is Fuel, Pleasure is Freedom Read More »
There is no correlation between harsh and inhumane policies meant to “deter” migrants and whether or not they will actually migrate. That’s a risk they are willing to take because they are running for their lives, and they still strongly believe that they can build a better life for themselves and their families.
What Happened to Open Borders and Abolishing ICE? Read More »
Workers in the shipping industry get that they are part of something global. It’s not like they have to read books about this. Their lives tell them this. They move around the world; port workers interact with people who have just arrived from other countries delivering cargoes. They are talking to each other.
Shipping Is Primary Read More »
As European and North American powers divided the globe up among themselves and authored horrendous crimes on every corner of the globe, they needed to tell themselves that they were superior and virtuous, and they found a way to do it. That’s what the ideology of progress works for.
Progress, Purity, Ego, Ecocide Read More »
The failure of humanity to meaningfully tackle this problem is completely off the scale. For thirty years we’ve seen calls to reduce carbon emissions, and they’ve gone up sixty percent. We are going a hundred million miles an hour in the wrong direction and we only seem to get faster.
There are ways, beyond just personal consumer choices, to make your voice heard and say that if these companies are going to be complicit with ICE, they’re going to feel the effect.
#AbolishICE: Targeting Prison Profiteers Read More »
