In Charleston, South Carolina, an anarchist and musician was recently subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury. She asked that others widely share this statement in order to bring awareness to her ordeal: — Read on itsgoingdown.org/anarchist-in-south-carolina-facing-federal-subpoena-releases-statement/
Author Archives: aidarends
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24
In the brutal logics and practices we have inherited and modified, Black children are not precious. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23
If we dare, we are undone by the marginalia of ghosts. Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23
Organization and Its Theories – by Jasper Bernes
In other words, while the “idea of horizontality” may be ideology, what it responds to are very real changes in the nature of society: globalization, information technology, and new form of class struggle emerging in response to these. — Read on jasperbernes.substack.com/p/organization-and-its-theories
The ‘Black Benjie Way’: Bronx Peacemaker and Ghetto Brother Whose Killing Led To Historic Gang Truce Honored With Street Naming | THE CITY – NYC News
More than 50 years after he lost his life serving as a peacemaker in the South Bronx, the intersection of East 165 Street and Rogers Place in Longwood has been officially renamed Cornell “Black Benjie” Benjamin Way. — Read on http://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/03/black-benjie-ghetto-brothers-gangs-hoe-avenue-peace-treaty-south-bronx-longwood/
Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)
It often happens that long ballads become whittled down into short lyrical songs. The dwindling of Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship into I Gave My Love a Cherry is a case in point. So too some forgotten narrative ballad of the return of a ghostly lover has survived as a lyrical fragment that sometimes turns up as aContinue reading “Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)”
From Okinawa to Palestine: How the US military machine connects occupied territories | Middle East Eye
The shared experience of settler-colonial dispossession and western military aggression helps explain why Okinawans see themselves in Palestinians — Read on http://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/okinawa-palestine-how-us-military-machine-connects-occupied-territories
Ilan Pappé, The Collapse of Zionism — Sidecar
Six signs of breakdown. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22
What, then, might it mean to bear witness and stand with and stand for in our times of ordinary and catastrophic violence? Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe passes resolution calling for ceasefire, aid in Palestine
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe passed a historic resolution earlier this month that called for an “immediate and lasting ceasefire in Palestine.” — Read on http://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2024/06/12/cheyenne-river-sioux-tribe-passes-resolution-calling-ceasefire-aid-palestine/
Aida Rends 