Climate Trauma
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.
Conversations
Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
All Our Liberation: The Arab Uprisings and Palestine
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.
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“The tools of our liberation became our captors.”
Ought we not at least entertain the possibility of something beyond ideologies, begin the work of thinking anew about the nature of politics, and push back against the troubling tendencies within the liberal order?
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Echoes of COINTELPRO and the Police Murder of Fred Hampton
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.
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On Foraging and Freedom
The state is efficient at reproducing the state. The state is not necessarily more efficient at organizing subsistence.
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Replacing the Imperialist Fairy Tale
We must understand how processes of imperialism and racial capitalism work, but also how people have fought back. These resistance struggles connect us to people from other countries.
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Beyond the Possibilities: On Black Radical Thought
“The enslaved are agents of history – perhaps the most important agents in the making of opposition to the Western world as we know it.”
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Identity Crisis of a Declining, Violent America
If we are no longer the most powerful, no longer the most prosperous, no longer good…who are we? That dislocation is very difficult for a lot of Americans.
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Living Well and Dying Well, Together
We create spaces of care, but it’s difficult to keep them together in a world that tells you this is not allowed. We’re all broken by this structure, which is why I want to get rid of it.
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“When someone can no longer go forward, you carry them.”
“Some trauma just stays. My engagement in struggle helps me overcome my own. But I have friends who are still suffering. It’s hard.”
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