Africa Watch: IMF Deal: Cry, My Beloved Zambia

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

Genocide, Historical Amnesia and Italian Settler Colonialism in Libya—An Interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida – MERIP

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