Joshua (Josh) Williams | prisonersolidarity.com

A staple of the Ferguson rebellion, Josh Williams was sentenced to 8 years in prison for attempting to a light fire near a Quick Trip gas station, during a protest against the killing of Black 18-year old Antonio Martin by police in Berkeley, Missouri on Christmas Eve 2014.
— Read on prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/joshua-josh-williams

Projet de fédération Burkina-Mali-Guinée : Le Chef du Gouvernement invite les ministres en charge des Affaires étrangères à se mettre au travail

Panafricaniste convaincu, le Premier ministre, Me Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela, est sans équivoque : le Burkina Faso, le Mali et la Guinée, doivent impérativement aller vers le fédéralisme.
— Read on burkina24.com/2023/02/10/projet-de-federation-burkina-mali-guinee-le-chef-du-gouvernement-invite-les-ministres-en-charge-des-affaires-etrangeres-a-se-mettre-au-travail/

Seizing the means of computation – how popular movements can topple Big Tech monopolies | Transnational Institute

Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.
— Read on www.tni.org/en/article/seizing-the-means-of-computation

The Beckov Monastery by Jaroslav Hašek – Paradise Editions

Some four years ago, I became acquainted with the friars of Beckov Monastery. They were jovial Franciscans, and I wish to recount what it was like to be in their company. I arrived at Beckov via the Váh River, for the purpose of searching, among the locals, for traces of the Kipchak peoples.
— Read on paradiseeditions.net/blogs/news/the-beckov-monastery

Charles K Brown — I Just Want to Talk To You – Numero Group

Maryland native Charles K Brown moved to Tennessee to pursue a music degree, recording a trove of unreleased cosmic rural rock and ballads inspired by Linda Ronstadt. Charles Brown’s sole release with the Sleepy Creek band is a preview of a collection of his unreleased master tapes, coming soon. Charles K Brown
— Read on numerogroup.com/products/charles-k-brown-i-just-want-to-talk-to-you

Below Zero in Haiti, 20 Years into The Ottawa Initiative – Jafrikayiti

Adding to a long history of foreign conferences on “fixing Haiti” with catastrophic consequences, the Ottawa Initiative on Haiti (OIH) took place near my hometown on January 31-February 1, 2003. At the invitation of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s Liberals, the event brought together officials from the United States, France, and the Organization of American States to discuss ousting Haiti’s democratically elected president, establishing a Kosovo-like trusteeship, and reinstating the U.S.-subservient Haitian armed forces.
— Read on jafrikayiti.com/below-zero-in-haiti-20-years-into-the-ottawa-initiative/