Black Radicalism: “We need to start again.”
All of the great institutions in the West are built on the original sin of racism and genocide. What’s worse: it’s not like it stopped.
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Deciding the Future in Detroit, the US, the World
“People are stepping up to take responsibility in their communities and their own lives in a way that in my short life I have not seen. So yes, I absolutely think there’s a revolution going on here.”
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Destructive Creativity: Art and Late Capitalism
Art is not this pure thing that comes out of the romantic imagination, a spark from god. It has always emerged within and evolved out of capitalism. Maybe it has something to teach us about the system that gave birth to it.
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A Pattern of Torture and a Code of Silence
It’s something I ask every cop I question: Is there a code of silence in the Chicago police department? “Oh, no.” Have you ever testified against a fellow cop? “Oh, no.” Have you ever seen any police misconduct in your thirty years on the job? “Oh, no.”
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Who Is Doing the Liberating?
It’s not a matter of “helping” or being nice to poor people. It’s about sharing power. It’s about listening to what they say and amplifying their voice. People are the subjects of their own liberation, the subjects of their own freedom.
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The Death of Civilization and the Life Beyond Hopelessness
Beyond hopelessness there is a new kind of hope that opens up, which is a faith in the basic tissue of human existence, our connection to one another, our ability to persist in even the worst conditions, our ability to make joyful, meaningful, rich lives in the shittiest places.
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Struggles for Justice in Syria and Palestine
Neither Syrians nor Palestinians need us to teach them how to liberate themselves. They know what they need, and they know what liberation for them looks like. But can we help lessen the extreme conditions they live under so that they have the space to self-organize?
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For a Green Revolution from Below
We have to keep struggling for what we think is right and needed, and we may even get some small improvements along the way, but we recognize that those are not enough. As we keep on doing this, it builds up the forces needed to drastically change conditions and the allocation of power in society.
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There’s Work to Do in Rojava
It’s not utopia; it’s very difficult here. But there is the opportunity to come and learn from local people who know very much about the land and very much about the situation here, to study together, to build things together, to share knowledge.
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What If We Still Haven’t Escaped the Dark Ages
Some converted happily. But many said things like, “We are being swept away by the torrent. We are men reduced to ashes. Everything has been turned on its head.” People were terrified.
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