The Remote Lounge was a high-tech bar in NYC’s Bowery District from 10/2001 to 11/2007. The bar’s gimmick was that it was packed full of monitors and closed-circuit television cameras.

Anyone in the bar could control each CCTV camera via any of the terminals located throughout the establishment, thanks to their servo-mounted design. Each terminal had a joystick (for controlling a camera), a camera button (which would capture an image and upload it to the RemoteLounge.com), a next button (for switching to another camera), a chat button, and a landline phone.

So you could cycle through the bar until you found someone sitting near a camera, then you could request to chat with them via the phone. Sometimes, as you were watching a scene, your video camera would start to move, and you’d realize someone else was watching and controlling the same camera that you were.

— Read on docpop.org/2013/10/way-ahead-of-its-time-the-remote-lounge-nyc/

i saw a coyote cross the ocean road
two black kitties in the abandoned field 

in a comradely way you said
we disagree but soon we be red 

orange blue banana smoothie 
we had a time didn’t we

We’re a year into unspeakable brutality, so let’s keep it simple:  there is no electoral solution to the problem of Zionist genocide.  If anything useful comes about in the United States, then it will be at cross-purposes with all these silly dreams of American redemption.  
— Read on stevesalaita.com/let-america-be-your-periphery/

Settler colonialism, and class collaboration more generally, have been the motor of the roots of fascism in the United States; once a culture based upon genocide against the Indigenous was established alongside a culture of slavery based upon expropriation of certain “racialized” groups, then it could, and does, continue to serve as a kind of political precondition; it serves as an exemplar of what can be done with full-throated, full-blooded fascism. 
— Read on www.peacelandbread.org/post/what-american-fascism-has-already-looked-like

Fathi Nimer traces the origins of food sovereignty and the challenges Palestinians face today to effectively put the framework into practice.
— Read on al-shabaka.org/briefs/food-sovereignty-in-a-palestinian-economy-of-resistance/

When one is asked to speak on the relevance of Marxism to Africa at this particular time, one is being asked to involve oneself in an historical debate, an ongoing debate in this country, particularly among the black population. It is a debate which has heightened over the last year, and from my own observations, it is being waged in a large number of places across this country.
— Read on www.marxists.org/subject/africa/rodney-walter/works/marxismandafrica.htm