In the late 1920s, the Italian fascist regime implemented a campaign of ethnic cleansing in eastern Libya to create more land for Italian settlers and quell armed resistance to colonization. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida’s new book, Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History, examines this forgotten case of settler-colonial violence. Jacob Mundy talks to Ahmida about the genocide, the kind of research methods he had to develop to uncover this history and its present-day relevance.
— Read on merip.org/2022/05/genocide-historical-amnesia-and-italian-settler-colonialism-in-libya-an-interview-with-ali-abdullatif-ahmida/
A Pedagogy of Nature and the School of Joy: My Heart I Give to Children by Vasily Sukhomlinsky — Liberated Texts
My Heart I Give to Children must be considered against this tragic backdrop. What emerges from its pages is a story of a community torn apart by the horrors of war, who then found a path to collective transformation through Sukhomlinsky’s healing pedagogy of nature.
— Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/a-pedagogy-of-nature-my-heart-i-give-to-children-by-vasily-sukhomlinsky/
Justice 4 Jackson. Help us fix Jackson’s Water System and Build more autonomy and people power in the city. — Cooperation Jackson
Call to Action Statement from Cooperation Jackson.
We are demanding the State and Federal Government completely overhaul
Jackson’s water treatment and delivery systems. And asking our allies to
help us build autonomous infrastructure to help us end various dependencies
on the racist state apparatus.
Join the call. Spread the word.
— Read on cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/justice4jackson
Tens of thousands protest in Prague against Czech government, EU and NATO | Reuters
An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday, calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposition to the European Union and NATO.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/europe/tens-thousands-protest-prague-against-czech-government-eu-nato-2022-09-03/
routines
bodies pile up on your door
u have to step over them
to get thru
your day the quarter this life
this cheap imitation of living
and the dead keep dying
and you keep on crying
and keep it stepping
yet
Photos: Haitian protesters call for the PM to resign | Protests News | Al Jazeera
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Monday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
It was the second such protest this month.
— Read on www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/8/30/photos-haitian-protesters-call-for-the-pm-to-resign
Objective Laws of Socialist Economic Development
Objective Laws of Socialist Economic Development
— Read on redsails.org/objective-laws-of-socialist-economic-development/
Scientists’ warning to humanity on tree extinctions – Rivers – PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET – Wiley Online Library
Scientists’ warning to humanity on tree extinctions – Rivers – PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET – Wiley Online Library
— Read on nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10314
The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along — High Country News – Know the West
Once again, the media has excluded Indigenous peoples from our own story.
— Read on www.hcn.org/issues/53.11/indigenous-affairs-archaeology-the-white-sands-discovery-only-confirms-what-indigenous-people-have-said-all-along/
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.
— Read on www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/inside-fog-data-science-secretive-company-selling-mass-surveillance-local-police
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