Aida Rends

Librado Rivera – Dave Poole (1980)

“Of the many comrades and collaborators of Ricardo Flores Magon, Librado Rivera was by far the closest. Their revolutionary partnership lasted twenty…
Librado Rivera – Dave Poole (1980)

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 26

I understood the claim about marking public spaces with women’s names, but I could not get my head around the idea of naming a road after an environmentalist.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 26

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 25

Does Fanon not refuse to be a slave to history?
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 25

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24

In the brutal logics and practices we have inherited and modified, Black children are not precious.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 24

Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23

If we dare, we are undone by the marginalia of ghosts.
Reading Ordinary Notes: Note 23

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