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‘On ne développe pas ; on se développe.’ This famous sentence from Joseph Ki-Zerbo could be translated as ‘we do not enforce development; we develop …
Re-embedding the economy to rethink (sustainable) development
Join CENTRO, Hunter College, Hostos Community College, and the Evelina Centennial Committee on September 15, 2022 at 3:00pm (EST) at the Silberman …
Evelina Antonetty Centennial Celebration and Exhibition
we’re on to something we think at first glance imperfect
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday published the conditions attached to the newly agreed programme with the Zambian government. The conditions are incredible, unbelievable, heartless and basically make for very sad reading. They are even more incredible than I predicted in my radio appearance on Hot FM last December. I spent this morning reading the IMF’s document. Below, and typed up pretty quickly because of work pressures, I summarise some of the most concerning aspects of the “deal”.
— Read on gchelwa.blogspot.com/2022/09/imf-deal-cry-my-beloved-zambia.html
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/
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/
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
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/
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
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
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