United States of America
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California’s Confederate Past and Present
Most people seem to think California is a bastion of cultural pluralism and progressive policymaking, but California had more Confederate monument than any other free state. Continue reading
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Call to Action: March to Protect the Sacred!
We will fight the forces of death with life! We will fight colonial violence, capitalist greed, and ecological destruction with our memories, our witness, our songs, and our bodies! We will not give up! We will stop Line 3, and we will build a better future without it! Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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A Different Kind of American Revolution
We always think of the war. But the war masks and hides the revolution. Those aren’t the same. You can have a revolution without a war. Continue reading
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Doesn’t That Make It a “Death Camp?”
Transcribed from the 8 February 2015 episode of This is Hell! Radio and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “I thought it was just another detainee holding facility. But we knew that it was not on the map; this was not on the books. The soldier with… Continue reading
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Riots gegen den Rassismus des 21. Jahrhunderts
lasst euch vom Mut des Aufstands und der Militanten von Ferguson inspirieren. Nehmt am Kampf und an den Debatten teil, egal wo ihr seid. Continue reading
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Ferguson is Not Unique
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 5 September 2014 episode and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “It’s not so much a question of whether the media should be there or not. The media should just do a good job. We should be respectful of residents’ privacy… Continue reading
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Zombie Prisons
Transcribed from the 2 August 2014 episode of This is Hell! Radio and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass… Continue reading
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Counterinsurgency in America
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 6 September 2014 episode and printed with permission. Edited for space and readability. Listen to the whole interview: “We face a state that treats black people as if we are about to rise up in an insurgency at any moment. They preemptively police us as if we are… Continue reading
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Under Occupation in America
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 24 May 2014 episode and printed with permission. Listen to the full interview: “When you’re a target of the police, you want to be an unpredictable person. You don’t want to show up routinely anywhere. You don’t want to go to the hospital when you’ve been injured or when… Continue reading
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Lack of Diversity in Policy and Media has Consequences
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 12 April 2014 episode and printed with permission. Listen to the full interview here: “The mistake people make is to say that there’s violence in Chechnya because Chechens are violent. Politics is what motivates ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts don’t happen because a particular ethnicity is inclined to violence.” Chuck… Continue reading
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Dragnets and Pre-Crime
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio’s 1 March 2014 episode and printed with permission. Listen to the full interview here: “This is a collective problem that affects everybody; it’s sort of like our Internet is polluted.” Continue reading
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Squatting Across the Atlantic
The insights in Hannah Dobbz’s Nine Tenths of the Law: Property and Resistance in the United States may also be useful for property resisters elsewhere “Simply by writing this book Dobbz has already moved the ball forward, providing the movement with an identity and a history, pointing out some of its past mistakes, and warning of… Continue reading
MANIFESTO
The Antidote Writers Collective seeks to resist and counteract the poisons that course through the veins of our politics, our cultures, our movements, our relationships, ourselves.
We believe that a strong collective immune system is built through knowledge and understanding and that the struggle against division and repression requires building a new culture of discussion that goes beyond flat definitions, brittle ideologies, stubborn dogmas, idle preconceptions, and petty rivalries.
We will share knowledge with each other, aiming to build empathy, and in turn enable the emergence of genuine solidarity—one which does not demand uniformity across contexts, one which does not “include” you, but in which you include yourself.
In this spirit, we will provide a platform for a diverse set of voices, especially for those otherwise silenced or ignored in “mainstream” discussions. We want to hear from people engaged in radical struggles all over the world. We seek neither agreement nor conflict, but rather to identify issues at their roots, and to consider different radical approaches to their resolution. And though we at the Antidote Writers Collective have voices—and we will use them—we will not presume to speak for anybody.
On the contrary, we invite you to offer us new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing. It’s not about establishing a space for comfy ideological self-indulgence, but for questions, for a true diversity of voices and viewpoints, and for turning all of this into action.
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“… in the midst of putative peace, you could, like me, be unfortunate enough to stumble on a silent war. The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.” – Arundhati Roy
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