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.
Essays & Analysis
Articles composed or presented by a single author or a group speaking with one voice, transcribed, translated, or tenderly (re)produced by Antidote and our friends.
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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Wo der Zaun verläuft
Nicht zwischen den Rechtsextremen und den Liberalen oder zwischen den Liberalen und der Sozialdemokratie – der Zaun verläuft zwischen Verhandlung und Streik, Status Quo und Widerstand.
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“There will always be another Jungle.”
Observations of a visitor to the (in)famous refugee encampment the week of its “eviction.” It’s not what you think; it’s worse than you think.
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Winter Is Coming Again, and Everything Is Still Fucked
Each day rolls into the next, and SNAFU remains the reality. We must all pull together.
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Slave Labor in Lugansk
The context for slave labor is a war – ostensibly between eastern Ukrainian separatists and the Kyiv government, but in reality fueled by huge quantities of weaponry and volunteers that have poured over the border from Russia – that has cheapened human life and made torture, murder and forced disappearances the norm.
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Cops → Copy Paste → Content
Many journalists apparently regard the reports of police spokespeople as a priori accurate and true descriptions of factual reality not to be questioned. Hmph.
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How to Build an Invisible Prison
People issued bounding orders are being criminalized and humiliated, receiving a punishment amounting essentially to indefinite detention.
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The Fight Is in the Countryside
Since politics has finally defeated the economy in Russia, instead of solving problems with employment and wage arrears the regime feeds people stories about war with the West. During a war, it is unpatriotic to demand payment of back wages. Only internal enemies would behave this way.
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Bulgarian Migrant-Hunters and Their Apologists
It seems that state authorities, their liberal critics, and the vigilante groups share a common narrative.
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