Alaka
@alakabv.bsky.social
thinking about crit. of political economy & tech.
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please give to lifeline4gaza.com linktr.ee/thesameerproject gazafunds.com/all sudanfunds.com x.com/congofriends x.com/sudanfundshare x.com/Hussein_Team sudansolidarity.com
Capitalism is "an economy of unpaid costs, 'unpaid' in so far as a substantial proportion of the actual costs of production remain unaccounted for in entrepreneurial outlays; instead they are shifted to, and ultimately borne by, third persons or by the community as a whole." – K. William Kapp (1950)
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Capitalism is "an economy of unpaid costs, 'unpaid' in so far as a substantial proportion of the actual costs of production remain unaccounted for in entrepreneurial outlays; instead they are shifted to, and ultimately borne by, third persons or by the community as a whole." – K. William Kapp (1950)
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
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Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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We are grateful to everyone who has followed us and interacted with our posts for the past couple of days. Let's continue to unite as community action is the only way we can provide those in #Gaza with the support they need. Please visit lifeline4gaza.com and share this post for visibility.
lifeline4gaza - a list of appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza
lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing chuffed & gofundme appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We are grateful to everyone who has followed us and interacted with our posts for the past couple of days. Let's continue to unite as community action is the only way we can provide those in #Gaza with the support they need. Please visit lifeline4gaza.com and share this post for visibility.
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My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My analysis of his year's Economics Nobel is out in EPW! What's wrong with the Economics Nobel this time around? I've written a little commentary arguing that the Prize rewards Eurocentric foundations for (innovation-driven) growth and supports a technology fetish. PDF: ingridhk.com/wp-content/u...
Please support the campaigns on @lifeline4gaza.bsky.social and start organizing fundraisers that contribute to their most neglected campaigns
Regardless of the supposed ceasefire, #Gaza is still under attack, and those listed on lifeline4gaza.com are fighting to survive. Please read this post to learn how you can support them and share it to help raise awareness.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Please support the campaigns on @lifeline4gaza.bsky.social and start organizing fundraisers that contribute to their most neglected campaigns
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ANNOUNCING 🇻🇪 🌎 Movements from around the world condemn the US's escalating military aggression against Venezuela and demand the closure of US overseas military bases globally.
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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ANNOUNCING 🇻🇪 🌎 Movements from around the world condemn the US's escalating military aggression against Venezuela and demand the closure of US overseas military bases globally.
October 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
ANNOUNCING 🇻🇪 🌎 Movements from around the world condemn the US's escalating military aggression against Venezuela and demand the closure of US overseas military bases globally.
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UK-manufactured small-arms systems have been recovered from killing sites in the UAE backed ethnic cleansing that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Britain’s export of arms to the UAE, has continued to supply arms to the paramilitary RSF in Sudan.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
UK-manufactured small-arms systems have been recovered from killing sites in the UAE backed ethnic cleansing that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Britain’s export of arms to the UAE, has continued to supply arms to the paramilitary RSF in Sudan.
Please donate below:
Please donate below:
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Don't panic, but submissions for the 2026 #LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago are due WEDNESDAY, 10/29 at 5pm ET. We
look forward to reviewing your paper and session proposals!
Submission Link (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601
#LSA2025 #CfP #LegalScholars
look forward to reviewing your paper and session proposals!
Submission Link (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601
#LSA2025 #CfP #LegalScholars
October 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Don't panic, but submissions for the 2026 #LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago are due WEDNESDAY, 10/29 at 5pm ET. We
look forward to reviewing your paper and session proposals!
Submission Link (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601
#LSA2025 #CfP #LegalScholars
look forward to reviewing your paper and session proposals!
Submission Link (LSA Login Required): bit.ly/LSA2601
#LSA2025 #CfP #LegalScholars
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“[We] decline this invitation to participate in what Ghassan Kanafani, the revolutionary writer and martyr, called ‘a conversation between the sword and the neck.’”
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No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
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October 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“[We] decline this invitation to participate in what Ghassan Kanafani, the revolutionary writer and martyr, called ‘a conversation between the sword and the neck.’”
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A donation is the only thing standing between my family and starvation in Gaza.It's the warm meal that ends my siblings' hunger,the clean water that protects them from disease,and the medicine that saves them.we need your help to survive.
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#HelpGaza#SaveGaza#DonateForGaza
chuffed.org/project/154855
#HelpGaza#SaveGaza#DonateForGaza
Gaza's Beating Hearts: A Family's Fight for Survival
In the silence that follows war, the real battle for survival begins. I am Rami, speaking on behalf of my family of 14 members who miraculously survived the war, but now face even greater challenges i...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
A donation is the only thing standing between my family and starvation in Gaza.It's the warm meal that ends my siblings' hunger,the clean water that protects them from disease,and the medicine that saves them.we need your help to survive.
chuffed.org/project/154855
#HelpGaza#SaveGaza#DonateForGaza
chuffed.org/project/154855
#HelpGaza#SaveGaza#DonateForGaza
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"One looks at the United States right now and wonders, What democracy? Which law? Where free speech? Whose human rights? If these existential treats can’t be located in the metropole, then we certainly won’t find them anywhere on the periphery."
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Palestine and the Making of a New New World - Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"One looks at the United States right now and wonders, What democracy? Which law? Where free speech? Whose human rights? If these existential treats can’t be located in the metropole, then we certainly won’t find them anywhere on the periphery."
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I just gave $50 to the Khalil Family. Please join me and match my donation!
A campaign very important to me hasn't received any donations in 12 days. The family has gone back to North Gaza and is homeless at this moment. They don't even have a tent. Please donate to their campaign 🤲🏽❤️
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October 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I just gave $50 to the Khalil Family. Please join me and match my donation!
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Join us at John Jay College on Nov. 8 for Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Reclaiming Democracy.
Full day of talks, panels, and emerging scholar sessions.
📍NYC | ⏰ 9am–5pm | In person only
Register by Oct. 30: bit.ly/LPE11825
Full day of talks, panels, and emerging scholar sessions.
📍NYC | ⏰ 9am–5pm | In person only
Register by Oct. 30: bit.ly/LPE11825
Surveys - APPEAL
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October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Join us at John Jay College on Nov. 8 for Heterodox Economics Meets Law and Political Economy: Reclaiming Democracy.
Full day of talks, panels, and emerging scholar sessions.
📍NYC | ⏰ 9am–5pm | In person only
Register by Oct. 30: bit.ly/LPE11825
Full day of talks, panels, and emerging scholar sessions.
📍NYC | ⏰ 9am–5pm | In person only
Register by Oct. 30: bit.ly/LPE11825
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Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...
Helping the Al-Areer family survive atrocities
Dear compassionate souls,
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October 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...
Please help The Sameer Project's medical campaign support Palestinian hostages like Mahmoud! x.com/sameerprojec...
October 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Please help The Sameer Project's medical campaign support Palestinian hostages like Mahmoud! x.com/sameerprojec...
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Today Journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi was shot and killed by an Israeli-backed gang in #Gaza 💔🕊️
Saleh was a fierce voice for Palestinian liberation. His work will continue, through other hands. His smile & love for life were infectious. His memory is a blessing ✊🇵🇸
Fuck USrael & RIP Saleh
Saleh was a fierce voice for Palestinian liberation. His work will continue, through other hands. His smile & love for life were infectious. His memory is a blessing ✊🇵🇸
Fuck USrael & RIP Saleh
October 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Today Journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi was shot and killed by an Israeli-backed gang in #Gaza 💔🕊️
Saleh was a fierce voice for Palestinian liberation. His work will continue, through other hands. His smile & love for life were infectious. His memory is a blessing ✊🇵🇸
Fuck USrael & RIP Saleh
Saleh was a fierce voice for Palestinian liberation. His work will continue, through other hands. His smile & love for life were infectious. His memory is a blessing ✊🇵🇸
Fuck USrael & RIP Saleh
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Free all Palestinian hostages
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Free all Palestinian hostages
"Financial capital, once cut loose from its original role as a modest helper of a real economy of production to meet human needs, inevitably becomes speculative capital geared solely to its own self-expansion." — Paul M. Sweezy (1994) https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-046-02-1994-06_1
October 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Financial capital, once cut loose from its original role as a modest helper of a real economy of production to meet human needs, inevitably becomes speculative capital geared solely to its own self-expansion." — Paul M. Sweezy (1994) https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-046-02-1994-06_1
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Zohran is manufacturing consent for the US invasion of Venezuela and further imperialist aggression against Cuba. DSA is a social imperialist organization.
While the Trump administration bombs civilian fisher boats and prepares for war with Venezuela, Zohran Mamdani calls Venezuela and Cuba dictatorships. The “democratic” in Democratic Socialism is always an anti-communist, pro-empire dog whistle.
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Zohran is manufacturing consent for the US invasion of Venezuela and further imperialist aggression against Cuba. DSA is a social imperialist organization.
End Hindutva
Free Kashmir
Free Kashmir
September 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
End Hindutva
Free Kashmir
Free Kashmir
please donate to Bilal (and share)! gofund.me/0962a012a
From Gaza where life endures despite everything Gaza lives despite the pain We write our pain to remind the world that we are still here I am from Gaza My voice is an attempt at survival and dignity Help us even a little to help my family Alittle makes a difference and gives hope gofund.me/0962a012a
September 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
please donate to Bilal (and share)! gofund.me/0962a012a
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Whitewashing Imperialism: the Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela
03/10/2024
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
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03/10/2024
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
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Whitewashing Imperialism: the Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela — Ebb
Detailing how US-based intellectuals on the left are always ready with critiques that deliberately obscure the imperialist siege against Venezuela every time Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewe...
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December 7, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Whitewashing Imperialism: the Western ‘Left’ and Venezuela
03/10/2024
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/white...
03/10/2024
By Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz
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New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.
Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.
September 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.
Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.
Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.
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Anyway… keep Palestinian life centered. Keep Palestinians alive. That’s the baseline.
One link, six families and a displacement camp of fifteen more, food, shelter, & medicine. Every single week—so click “weekly” on any boldness. 2473/3200 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families and a displacement camp of fifteen more, food, shelter, & medicine. Every single week—so click “weekly” on any boldness. 2473/3200 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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September 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Anyway… keep Palestinian life centered. Keep Palestinians alive. That’s the baseline.
One link, six families and a displacement camp of fifteen more, food, shelter, & medicine. Every single week—so click “weekly” on any boldness. 2473/3200 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...
One link, six families and a displacement camp of fifteen more, food, shelter, & medicine. Every single week—so click “weekly” on any boldness. 2473/3200 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...