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semiotext.bsky.social @semiotext.bsky.social · Jan 24
Botha primer and an update. Things moving fast on the ground

#Rojava #DNAES #NATOattackingsyria #syria

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Rojava: An Experiment In Radical Democracy Under Attack
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
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murosinvisibles.bsky.social Joshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · Sep 22
As indigenous federation CONAIE calls for a general strike in Ecuador, Military police in Gonzalez Suarez, despite an APC and heavy riot equipment, are completely routed by indigenous protesters and flee in terror ✊️
September 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Les journées portes ouvertes, journées Proche-Orient commencent !

Réfléchir. Saisir le problème à la racine. Ce week-end, le site du Monde diplomatique dévoile l’épopée du Proche-Orient. Nos archives seront en libre accès de vendredi soir à dimanche.
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Journées portes ouvertes, journées Proche-Orient
Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2025
www.monde-diplomatique.fr
June 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
semiotext.bsky.social
Love #Metaviews an alternative view of the future

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yceu...
67: The Best Worst Story with Jeremiah Patterson
YouTube video by Metaviews
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June 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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josepgoded2.bsky.social
The recently established U.S.-backed "aid distribution centers"—patrolled along the perimeter by Israeli forces—are reportedly being used to detain civilians.
May 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
World leaders can make as many statements as they like opposing Israel's actions in Gaza.

Until they end the sale of weapons to Israel, they remain complicit in the mass murder of Palestinians.

Stop arming genocide, now.
May 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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wearebrighton.com
You know someone else who always wins things in his second season? Fabian Hurzeler #BHAFC
May 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
semiotext.bsky.social
#Ukraine #Solidarity #anarchists

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Ukraine: On the ground with Solidarity Collectives - Freedom News
Their work in supporting anti-authoritarian armed resistance against Russian occupation has spilled over to directing aid to civilians living on the front ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ “If people are tired ...
freedomnews.org.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
semiotext.bsky.social
#Rojava #PKK #Syria

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/19/p...
PKK dissolution: The long goodbye to vanguardism - Freedom News
The move reflects a broader strategic vision embracing gender liberation, pluralism, and local democracy ~ Blade Runner ~ The formal announcement of the PKK’s dissolution has sparked mixed reactions a...
freedomnews.org.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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josepgoded2.bsky.social
The aftermath of a deadly Israeli strike on a family home in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, where a baby boy and both of his parents were killed and torn apart by the blast.
May 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
semiotext.bsky.social
It works! Unionism!
May 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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arthursmid.bsky.social
"Sortition is not perfect, but it is far closer to this ideal than what we have. By eliminating career politicians, sortition simultaneously curtails corruption and increases representation."

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The Case for Sortition in America - Harvard Political Review
An ideal American democracy is not beholden to moneyed interests before the people it serves. It dismantles unjust and undemocratic systems. Sortition is not perfect, but it is far closer to this idea...
harvardpolitics.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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anarchistfederation.net
Germany prepares for war
Germany prepares for war
www.anarchistfederation.net
May 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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freedompress.bsky.social
In addition to labour demands, demonstrators were drawing attention to escalating violence and insecurity in rural areas, especially in southern Colombia, where Indigenous communities have faced displacement, armed conflict, and threats from criminal groups.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/07/c...
Colombia: Indigenous mobilisation for peace - Freedom News
Some 16,000 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities were returning home this weekend after attending the capital on International Workers’ Day ~ Rob Latchford ~ The Indigenous collective, known a...
freedomnews.org.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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noviolenciala.bsky.social
✊🏽The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) leads a powerful movement of autonomy, dignity, and nonviolent resistance against armed actors and illicit economies in Colombia.

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flacso.edu.ec/accionnoviol...

#IndigenousResistance #CRIC #Cauca #Nonviolence
February 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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freedompress.bsky.social
On Tuesday morning, 15 April, members of the Military Police of the Federal District (PMDF), Brasilia, carried out a violent raid in the Teko-Haw village where 40 families of the Guajajara people live.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/18/i...
In Brasilia, Teko-Haw village resists violent eviction - Freedom News
For years, Indigenous families have faced pressure from real estate developers seeking to evict them in order to develop the area on lands known as Santuário dos Pajés, a sacred place for Indigenous s...
freedomnews.org.uk
April 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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freedompress.bsky.social
The only descendant of the Spanish anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti has died in France at the age of 93.

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/22/a...
Adios to Colette Durruti - Freedom News
The only descendant of the anarchist revolutionary José Buenaventura Durruti has died in France at the age of 93. ~ Rob Latchford ~ Colette Durruti, daughter of the anarchist revolutionary José Buenav...
freedomnews.org.uk
April 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social's Spanish Revolution tours of Barcelona are legendary!
spaincivilwartours.bsky.social Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · Apr 7
My well-thumbed edition of "Anarchism and the City" by @chrisealham.bsky.social , absolutely essential for understanding the often forgotten history of anarchist and working class Barcelona. Published by AKPress with forward by Paul Preston
April 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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anarchistfederation.net
Survival of the Organized
Survival of the Organized
www.anarchistfederation.net
March 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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jamellebouie.net
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
We held a talk about Democracy in Ancient Greece and David Graeber's essay, There Never Was a West.

The historian Mirko Canevaro spoke.

If you'd like to see the full talk, it is here on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2TM...
Mirko Canevaro On Democracy In Ancient Greece.
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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March 23, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism.
I think there has been a war of the imagination over the last several years. I was thinking a lot about what there might be to be optimistic about and I came to the conclusion that this feeling of hopelessness that everybody has is a manufactured product, and that’s what Neo-Liberalism is really about. Neo-Liberalism isn’t just an economic program, it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives." . - David Graeber
February 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
How has everything gone so wrong in the last few decades? David Graeber gives us a clue as to what has happened!
"Look at the 1950s when there was the expression - What’s good for GM is good for America - which made sense at the time when you consider that GM was taxed at 60–70%. They were producing enormous profits, and most of their profits went to the government, which in turn used that money to build roads, highways and infrastructure for the cars, so it became this virtuous circle. . Fast-forward 50 years, and companies like that are paying no taxes. They’re getting all their money from the financial sector, not from the cars, which are not profitable anymore. Instead, they charge people interest, and use that money to lobby politicians to change the laws that regulate them to be able to extract even more. And that’s basically how the American system works, and that’s why Wall Street and the government become almost indistinguishable. . Government coercive force becomes a means through which profit is extracted, and that’s why suddenly you have this change of how people perceive one another in relation to this system." . - David Graeber
February 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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freedompress.bsky.social
This hard-line shift is more than a calculated rebranding aimed at stemming voter defections to the far right. The legislation goes beyond the agendas of the Conservative and Reform parties, exposing Keir Starmer’s vision to “Make UK Great Again”.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/02/17/d...
Do it like Trump-Labour targets migrants - Freedom News
Labour’s rebranding aligns with a global surge in far-right, anti-migrant rhetoric ~ Blade Runner ~ Labour’s government is celebrating record deportation figures while pushing through draconian new le...
freedomnews.org.uk
February 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Normal is a tool of oppression. It pressures people to obey external standards that reinforce existing power structures rather than pursue their own joy and purpose.
106: The Tyranny of Normal
How the Illusion of Conformity Sustains Oppression
metaviews.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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mandascott.bsky.social
How can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid system into a world where they are fully connected to all parts of themselves, each other and the web of life?

accidentalgods.life/of-schoolish

#AccidentalGods #podcast with Tim Logan

#FutureLearning
Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design
If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then elders, how can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid sy...
accidentalgods.life
February 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM