de Verbranders
@deverbranders.bsky.social
A podcast on Europe's borders and resistance against them | Episodes in English & in Dutch | hosted and produced by @neske-baerwaldt.bsky.social and Wiebe Ruijtenberg
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· May 30
Now online: Ep 29, w Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
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Now online: Ep 29, w Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
May 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Now online: Ep 29, w Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7
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and the current counterrevolutionary war that has produced the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crisis, you can support local mutual aid networks and independent union organizers by going to sudansolidarity.com or signing up for our workshops4sudan (2/2).
Sudan Solidarity Collective
sudansolidarity.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
and the current counterrevolutionary war that has produced the world’s largest displacement and humanitarian crisis, you can support local mutual aid networks and independent union organizers by going to sudansolidarity.com or signing up for our workshops4sudan (2/2).
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“As we hit the streets, I thought it might be inspiring to think about the ways in which art and dance and other facets of performance can make protest a more resonant act.”
Venus must be in transit because I actually wrote a personal newsletter and it features a very short roundup of inspiring protests that employ art and performance.
buttondown.com/cmonstah/arc...
buttondown.com/cmonstah/arc...
The art of protest
Some inspo for protesting
buttondown.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
“As we hit the streets, I thought it might be inspiring to think about the ways in which art and dance and other facets of performance can make protest a more resonant act.”
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Robin DG Kelley on the poetry of aja monet (1:05:33)
"This is what makes the poems so powerful and dangerous. Like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoQ...
"This is what makes the poems so powerful and dangerous. Like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoQ...
Freedom Dreams Episode 1: aja monet
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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February 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Robin DG Kelley on the poetry of aja monet (1:05:33)
"This is what makes the poems so powerful and dangerous. Like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoQ...
"This is what makes the poems so powerful and dangerous. Like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoQ...
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Het hele idee dat een 'we' zelf mag en moet bedenken wat die met 'migratie' wil, is de raciale grond waarop alle lulkoek die doorgaat voor 'democratie' gebaseerd is. Iedereen die daaraan meedoet (en dat doen 'we' allemaal wel een beetje) is bezig de hak in de nek van anderen te houden.
February 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Het hele idee dat een 'we' zelf mag en moet bedenken wat die met 'migratie' wil, is de raciale grond waarop alle lulkoek die doorgaat voor 'democratie' gebaseerd is. Iedereen die daaraan meedoet (en dat doen 'we' allemaal wel een beetje) is bezig de hak in de nek van anderen te houden.
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Authorities/police in #Bulgaria have been accused of ignoring emergency calls and obstructing efforts to rescue three Egyptian teenage #refugees boys, who later died in sub-zero temperatures near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Bulgarian police ‘blocked rescue’ of teenage migrants who froze to death
Report by rights groups alleges border police refused to rescue boys and blocked activists’ efforts to save them
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Authorities/police in #Bulgaria have been accused of ignoring emergency calls and obstructing efforts to rescue three Egyptian teenage #refugees boys, who later died in sub-zero temperatures near the Bulgarian-Turkish border in late December.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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"the exchange structure specific to German-Israeli relations: moral absolution of an insufficiently denazified and still profoundly antisemitic Germany in return for cash and weapons."
Very informative long-read on the origins of Germany's fascist philosemitism: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...
Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’
Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"the exchange structure specific to German-Israeli relations: moral absolution of an insufficiently denazified and still profoundly antisemitic Germany in return for cash and weapons."
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Every MLK day I post what I consider to be Dr. King’s most powerful speech: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” April 4, 1967. The late Vincent Harding wrote much of it, as he himself told me years ago. Here is the prophetic voice at the peak of its power.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48E...
Martin Luther King Speaks! Beyond Vietnam (Full)
YouTube video by Matthew Siegfried
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January 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Every MLK day I post what I consider to be Dr. King’s most powerful speech: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” April 4, 1967. The late Vincent Harding wrote much of it, as he himself told me years ago. Here is the prophetic voice at the peak of its power.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48E...
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Such an important and thoughtful piece, by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
"How can we prevent our own history of departure from being twisted to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine?"
jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...
"How can we prevent our own history of departure from being twisted to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine?"
jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...
The Algeria Analogy
We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predictoutcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
jewishcurrents.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Such an important and thoughtful piece, by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
"How can we prevent our own history of departure from being twisted to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine?"
jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...
"How can we prevent our own history of departure from being twisted to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine?"
jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...
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"This project of visual representation, through painting, is an invitation to dive into this collective imaginary and rediscover fragments of a shared memory, that of our Haitian culture. It’s an attempt to keep these extraordinary stories alive,
–Shneider Léon Hilaire in The Funambulist 57
–Shneider Léon Hilaire in The Funambulist 57
January 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"This project of visual representation, through painting, is an invitation to dive into this collective imaginary and rediscover fragments of a shared memory, that of our Haitian culture. It’s an attempt to keep these extraordinary stories alive,
–Shneider Léon Hilaire in The Funambulist 57
–Shneider Léon Hilaire in The Funambulist 57
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Beautiful piece by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
“The rebel dead are not so easy to silence. Not in the forests of Eastern Europe, and not in mutilated Gaza. Their words bleed into the present, where they can be used by the living to create another world.”
thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
“The rebel dead are not so easy to silence. Not in the forests of Eastern Europe, and not in mutilated Gaza. Their words bleed into the present, where they can be used by the living to create another world.”
thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
January 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Beautiful piece by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
“The rebel dead are not so easy to silence. Not in the forests of Eastern Europe, and not in mutilated Gaza. Their words bleed into the present, where they can be used by the living to create another world.”
thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
“The rebel dead are not so easy to silence. Not in the forests of Eastern Europe, and not in mutilated Gaza. Their words bleed into the present, where they can be used by the living to create another world.”
thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
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Another important and amazing podcast from my favourite podcast!
@deverbranders.bsky.social
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Ep 28: Border imperialism in the Balkans. With Manja Petrovska (English).
Podcast Episode · De Verbranders · 12/12/2024 · 1h 23m
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December 27, 2024 at 7:04 AM
Another important and amazing podcast from my favourite podcast!
@deverbranders.bsky.social
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@deverbranders.bsky.social
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Beautiful interview with Dionne Brand
“How do I recover that which is outside … of that form, that administrative structure of capitalist economy, that takes over what I call my life? And what is my life now?”
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“How do I recover that which is outside … of that form, that administrative structure of capitalist economy, that takes over what I call my life? And what is my life now?”
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
How the Western Literary Canon Made the World Worse
www.thenation.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Beautiful interview with Dionne Brand
“How do I recover that which is outside … of that form, that administrative structure of capitalist economy, that takes over what I call my life? And what is my life now?”
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
“How do I recover that which is outside … of that form, that administrative structure of capitalist economy, that takes over what I call my life? And what is my life now?”
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Time to talk again about the role of the #iom and the violence against migrants in the #balkans and our research with @tninstitute.bsky.social . Thank you @deverbranders.bsky.social
This follows on a report Manja wrote with @ahnidzara.bsky.social, Sophie-Anne Bisiaux, and Lorenz Naegeli, to document the violence inflicted on people moving through the Balkans, and to identify its sources
Published by @tninstitute.bsky.social, with Niamh Ní Bhriain as main editor
Published by @tninstitute.bsky.social, with Niamh Ní Bhriain as main editor
December 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Time to talk again about the role of the #iom and the violence against migrants in the #balkans and our research with @tninstitute.bsky.social . Thank you @deverbranders.bsky.social
Now online: ep 28, with Manja Petrovska
On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism.
And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉
On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism.
And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉
December 13, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Now online: ep 28, with Manja Petrovska
On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism.
And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉
On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism.
And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉
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It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”
December 8, 2024 at 4:32 AM
It’s a good day for Mahmoud Darwish — “The Prison Cell”
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Remembering Refaat today. Remembering Refaat every day. Remembering Refaat forever.
We have made so many kites but world does not get tired of creating more warplanes.
We have made so many kites but world does not get tired of creating more warplanes.
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Remembering Refaat today. Remembering Refaat every day. Remembering Refaat forever.
We have made so many kites but world does not get tired of creating more warplanes.
We have made so many kites but world does not get tired of creating more warplanes.
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Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
November 24, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Hello everyone. This is mosab abu toha. I had this account months ago and i will start posting here soon. Please spread the word.
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Lucky me! I got to be on my favourite podcast: De Verbranders!
The luck didn't end there.
I was joined by one of my favourite fellow creatures,
@marcusrediker.bsky.social and we were interviewed by the most amazing Neske Baerwaldt!
Take a listen, if you can.
The luck didn't end there.
I was joined by one of my favourite fellow creatures,
@marcusrediker.bsky.social and we were interviewed by the most amazing Neske Baerwaldt!
Take a listen, if you can.
Now online: ep. 27 with @marcusrediker.bsky.social and @nsharma101.bsky.social
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
November 24, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Lucky me! I got to be on my favourite podcast: De Verbranders!
The luck didn't end there.
I was joined by one of my favourite fellow creatures,
@marcusrediker.bsky.social and we were interviewed by the most amazing Neske Baerwaldt!
Take a listen, if you can.
The luck didn't end there.
I was joined by one of my favourite fellow creatures,
@marcusrediker.bsky.social and we were interviewed by the most amazing Neske Baerwaldt!
Take a listen, if you can.
Now online: ep. 27 with @marcusrediker.bsky.social and @nsharma101.bsky.social
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
November 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Now online: ep. 27 with @marcusrediker.bsky.social and @nsharma101.bsky.social
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life
🔥 New episode, with @miriammthsn.bsky.social, on Abandoned Seafarers 🔥
The abandonment of seafarers is not ‘an accident’, but a result of how shipping industries are set up, and of how borders are made to facilitate the accumulation of capital, while creating a class of disposable labor
The abandonment of seafarers is not ‘an accident’, but a result of how shipping industries are set up, and of how borders are made to facilitate the accumulation of capital, while creating a class of disposable labor
November 11, 2024 at 5:36 PM
🔥 New episode, with @miriammthsn.bsky.social, on Abandoned Seafarers 🔥
The abandonment of seafarers is not ‘an accident’, but a result of how shipping industries are set up, and of how borders are made to facilitate the accumulation of capital, while creating a class of disposable labor
The abandonment of seafarers is not ‘an accident’, but a result of how shipping industries are set up, and of how borders are made to facilitate the accumulation of capital, while creating a class of disposable labor
Now online: ep24 with Bridget Anderson, Cynthia Wright &
@nsharma101.bsky.social
On dreaming beyond images of nation-states & on No Borders as a practical political project that is carried out in the here and now by all of us who refuse to let borders dictate how and with whom we live
@nsharma101.bsky.social
On dreaming beyond images of nation-states & on No Borders as a practical political project that is carried out in the here and now by all of us who refuse to let borders dictate how and with whom we live
January 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Now online: ep24 with Bridget Anderson, Cynthia Wright &
@nsharma101.bsky.social
On dreaming beyond images of nation-states & on No Borders as a practical political project that is carried out in the here and now by all of us who refuse to let borders dictate how and with whom we live
@nsharma101.bsky.social
On dreaming beyond images of nation-states & on No Borders as a practical political project that is carried out in the here and now by all of us who refuse to let borders dictate how and with whom we live