Aida Rends

Organization and Its Theories – by Jasper Bernes

In other words, while the “idea of horizontality” may be ideology, what it responds to are very real changes in the nature of society: globalization, information technology, and new form of class struggle emerging in response to these.
— Read on jasperbernes.substack.com/p/organization-and-its-theories

Lowlands (Away) (Roud 681; Henry H469)

It often happens that long ballads become whittled down into short lyrical songs. The dwindling of Captain Wedderburn’s Courtship into I Gave My Love a Cherry is a case in point. So too some forgotten narrative ballad of the return of a ghostly lover has survived as a lyrical fragment that sometimes turns up as a windlass or capstan shanty. No doubt the original ballad is old; the tune has an antique grandeur; yet in the form in which it is sung here it probably does not pre-date the nineteenth century. Negro cotton lumpers in the southern ports of USA had a special affection for this very English tune.
— Read on mainlynorfolk.info/anne.briggs/songs/lowlands.html

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22

What, then, might it mean to bear witness and stand with and stand for in our times of ordinary and catastrophic violence?
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 22

Becoming Kwame Ture – ROAPE

In Guinea, doors fly open at the mere mention of Kwame Ture’s name. A senior government minister met me within a few hours’ notice. And when I arrived at Villa Syli to meet a member of Sékou Touré’s old party, the PDG (Parti démocratique de Guinée), I was unexpectedly ushered into a luxurious salon, where I was instead met by Hadja Touré, the former president’s wife. Now in her eighties, she sat on a red and gold wooden carved chair, at the centre of a discussion with three men dressed in expensive fabrics cut in traditional styles.
— Read on roape.net/2020/12/15/becoming-kwame-ture/