Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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Culture of Resistance
We Will Bring About Our Own Liberation
“Everything we need is already inside of us as black people. It’s absolutely necessary that we recognize our very rich history of rebellion in this country, one that we can learn from and build off of, and that we can use right now in this moment.
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“I tell you: fight with me against the camp system”
Ajour Magazin spoke to one of thirteen illegalized refugees who decided that to get out and be part of society is more important than complying with the state; they moved into a derelict house in central Zurich.
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On Hope and Wild Possibilities
2004: “The old shapes, the old forms no longer contain the possibilities. I think something wildly different is going to happen, and that leaves room for wonderful as well as terrible things.”
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On Liberal Useful Idiots
Why the radical right should not be given a platform, ever.
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“Go Home!”
“Injustice must be resisted.” A day in the life of refugees in the heart of Fortress Europe
We Are Not Smarter Than How We Feel
All of us are in a collective coming-of-age of the Social Network Internet Machine, and we’re starting to understand that it affects us emotionally, as a global world, together. And it has mood swings.
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Back in Black
It’s worth reconsidering the role that militant confrontation, and self-defense, might play in protecting collective movements.
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.
Death to Debt Culture!
Debt is a shared condition; it is probably the defining feature of American economic life today. We’ve been talking a lot about divisions between college educated and not, between middle class or professional workers and working class folks. Debt allows us to stop seeing those divisions.
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