This is one of those historical moments where tragedy unfolds in massive scale and bloodshed spills into our feeds, filling up our waking hours and intruding in our nightmares. When my friends and flatmates Saliem and Wael told me about a massive demonstration in Amsterdam in solidarity with Gaza’s...
Angela Davis speaks: “In Wisconsin black people constitute 4 or 5% of the state’s population and about 50% of the imprisoned population. Our criminal justice system sends increasing numbers of people to prison by first robbing them of housing, health care, education, and welfare, and then punishing them when...
I’m deeply saddened and worried by the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza. One of the most densely populated areas in the planet, home for 1.8 million people, 56% of them under the age of 18, what’s happening in Gaza right now is a heartbreaking historical tragedy unfolding before our eyes. According...
Ernesto “Che” Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) “Che was not only a heroic fighter, but a revolutionary thinker, with a political and moral project and a system of ideas and values for which he fought and gave his life. The philosophy which gave his political and...
“To kill oblivion with a little memory, we cover our chests with lead and hope.” SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN). In: ‘Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings’, Foreword: José Saramago (Nobel Prize In Literature) Published by Seven Stories Press (New York, 2003, Pg. 100.) PART I...
CHAPTER III – THE CLASH BETWEEN OBLIVION AND MEMORY “…there once was a man named Zapata who rose up with his people and sang out: ‘Land and Freedom!’ The campesinos say that Zapata didn’t die, that he must return… They say that hope is also planted and harvested. They also...
“The true hero, the true subject, the center of the Iliad is force. Force employed by man, force that enslaves man, force before which man’s flesh shrinks away. To define force – it is that X that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to...
“Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the...