Boima Tucker
@chiefboima.bsky.social
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surely varied by region and social context, but from my little area I know well, there were a lot of Yiddish partisan songs as well as ones written by internees in Nazi ghettos, here's a well-known one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...
"Zog nit keyn mol" | Yiddish Resistance Song
YouTube video by Txomin
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February 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
surely varied by region and social context, but from my little area I know well, there were a lot of Yiddish partisan songs as well as ones written by internees in Nazi ghettos, here's a well-known one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Rv...
Listening to the Regional Mexican station, a song about being undocumented comes on, and the polka/klezmer cadence got me wondering what resistance music was in WW2 Europe.
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Listening to the Regional Mexican station, a song about being undocumented comes on, and the polka/klezmer cadence got me wondering what resistance music was in WW2 Europe.
Im thinking that post-Apocalyptic nostalgia might be the best label for our current cultural era (one which we’re only at the beginning of).
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Im thinking that post-Apocalyptic nostalgia might be the best label for our current cultural era (one which we’re only at the beginning of).
Jamaican Airhorns are serious right now.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Jamaican Airhorns are serious right now.
The development of technology (under capitalism) just feels like a long sequence of inventing ways to have enough time to do what you actually want to do.
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The development of technology (under capitalism) just feels like a long sequence of inventing ways to have enough time to do what you actually want to do.
A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A lot of AI “solutions” are like: what if I could live like a slave owner, guilt free!
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In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
San Francisco staves off Ice invasion while federal police amass in the East Bay? africasacountry.com/2021/03/what...
What is whiteness to a cyborg?
Tracing the digital contours of the settler colony helps us understand how old inequalities will shape a future with artificial intelligence.
africasacountry.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
San Francisco staves off Ice invasion while federal police amass in the East Bay? africasacountry.com/2021/03/what...
My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...
Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent - Hay Festival
Laura G. de Rivera, Farid Kahhat, Susan Neiman and Boima Tucker in conversation with Eduardo Dargent
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October 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My first foray into the Peruvian public sphere www.hayfestival.com/p-24332-laur...
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The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures? africasacountry.com/2025/06/when...
When the crowds go home
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures?
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June 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The first print edition of Africa Is a Country asks: Fifteen years after the mass protest decade began, what happens when the crisis endures? africasacountry.com/2025/06/when...
We’re live in Nairobi radio.calotropis.xyz/static/uploa...
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We’re live in Nairobi radio.calotropis.xyz/static/uploa...
I really can’t imagine what experiencing a world war was like when your only updates came once a day from newspapers, radio broadcasts, or the previews before a Charlie Chaplin film.
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I really can’t imagine what experiencing a world war was like when your only updates came once a day from newspapers, radio broadcasts, or the previews before a Charlie Chaplin film.
Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!
June 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Welp, cancelling my flight thru Doha!
Booked a window seat so I could stare out at the Amazon, only to realize that a RAINforest isn’t that interesting from 30,000 ft.
June 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Booked a window seat so I could stare out at the Amazon, only to realize that a RAINforest isn’t that interesting from 30,000 ft.
What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?
June 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What stage of AGI is it when humans and robots are equally dumb?
Changed paper towel dispenser backstage so Ben Harper could dry his hands. He nodded at me while dripping water into the sink.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Changed paper towel dispenser backstage so Ben Harper could dry his hands. He nodded at me while dripping water into the sink.
I was now years old when I found out Flag Day was a thing in the US, and last week's years old when I found out celebrating a national flag (in this case Peru) was even a thing.
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I was now years old when I found out Flag Day was a thing in the US, and last week's years old when I found out celebrating a national flag (in this case Peru) was even a thing.
Saw there was a bloghouse book.
June 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Saw there was a bloghouse book.
That they tagged up the federal building with anti-ICE graffiti that just happens to be next to MOCA is brilliant.
June 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
That they tagged up the federal building with anti-ICE graffiti that just happens to be next to MOCA is brilliant.
So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.
June 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So many of my old bookmarks just now lead to companies selling AI services.
It’s amazing how useless the Internet has become if you’re not actually logged into anything that’s spying on you.
June 7, 2025 at 5:05 AM
It’s amazing how useless the Internet has become if you’re not actually logged into anything that’s spying on you.
First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?...
Los 'runners' de Lima que salen a correr en plena madrugada de frío: Esto fue lo que respondieron
YouTube video by Latina Noticias
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June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
First I rolled my eyes but this just kept getting funnier and funnier youtu.be/_9FajnL1KXo?...
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June 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Tomorrow, May 25 Africa Is a Country will host its last co-presentation at the 32nd NY African Film Fest: the premiere of "When I Say Africa." With Sean Jacobs as executive producer and @chiefboima.bsky.social as music supervisor, Africa Is a Country is extra proud to present this film.
May 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Tomorrow, May 25 Africa Is a Country will host its last co-presentation at the 32nd NY African Film Fest: the premiere of "When I Say Africa." With Sean Jacobs as executive producer and @chiefboima.bsky.social as music supervisor, Africa Is a Country is extra proud to present this film.
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Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics. africasacountry.com/2025/05/afro...
Afropolitans and the fantasy of a digital nation
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics.
africasacountry.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Web3 utopians promised a sovereign future for the African diaspora—but what they delivered was a networking club for elites, wrapped in crypto-libertarian hype and Afro-futurist aesthetics. africasacountry.com/2025/05/afro...