Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived.”
— Read on havanatimes.org/features/mexico-wild-waters-and-unfulfilled-promises/
Trey Reed Family Wants Private Autopsy; Police Say Video Exists
Demartravion “Trey” Reed’s family is seeking an independent autopsy after the Delta State University student was found hanging in a tree.
— Read on www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-family-calls-for-an-independent-autopsy-after-he-was-found-hanging-in-a-tree/
Caribbean Sea – US Military Harassing Fisherfolk
According to reports a missile destroyer, the USS Jason Dunham, of the armada prowling the southern Caribbean, was deployed over the weekend to intercept and board the Carmen Rosa fishing vessel whose 9 person crew were legally fishing in Venezuelan sovereign waters. An official complaint has been filed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, demanding an immediate end to these actions, which endanger the peace and security of the Caribbean.
Caribbean Sea – US Military Harassing Fisherfolk
UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government | Campus | dailycal.org
UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President.
— Read on www.dailycal.org/content/tncms/live/
Going Back to the Classroom in a Time of Repression – positions politics
As campuses reopen, academics reflect on teaching under repression, surveillance, and the ongoing U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza, calling for courage, solidarity, and genuine education.
— Read on positionspolitics.org/going-back-to-the-classroom-in-a-time-of-repression/
Mike Davis, The Political Economy of Late-Imperial America, NLR I/143, January–February 1984
Conventional definitions of American post-war ‘hegemony’ have focused on the sheer preponderance of economic and military power concerted through an atomic-military monopoly, monetary sovereignty, overseas investment, and historic differentials of productivity and mass consumption. Accordingly, from a baseline in the late 1940s when the conjunction of all these . . .
— Read on newleftreview.org/issues/i143/articles/mike-davis-the-political-economy-of-late-imperial-america
Caribbean – Threats to Peace
The Cuban Government strongly rejects the current deployment of United States military forces in the Caribbean Sea. This dangerous action represents a serious threat and an aggressive show of force against the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, it ignores the commitment of the 33 Member States of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States when they proclaimed the region as a Zone of Peace.
Caribbean – Threats to Peace
errand #28
The poems have been
quiet inside me.
I attempting now
to write the poem
through my life.
US trying to set fire to the Caribbean
Recent weeks have seen a dramatic increase in the United States military presence in the southern Caribbean. On 18 August, news agencies reported that the US military build-up in the area involved 3 destroyers, more than 4,000 marines, a submarine, a reconnaissance aircraft, a guided missile cruiser and amphibious landing troops, with further vessels reported to be joining them. It is evident that this armada is designed for aggression and has nothing to do with fighting crime. The obvious intention is to threaten the government and people of Venezuela as part of the US policy of carrying out regime change in that country and installing a puppet government there.
US trying to set fire to the Caribbean
People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid | Long-Haul Mag
I was first advised to listen to Life in Abdication, and Tucker’s solo work in general, by Bruce Reid, my co-worker on the night shift at Quality Food Centers (QFC), a Kroger-owned grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest. Bruce was a devoted fan of the Velvet Underground, the type who had all the live bootlegs and tracked the members’ solo projects. His encounter with their music and mythos had clearly left an imprint on his life. When I sought to contact him last year about whether he might have any copies of the late ’80s–’90s Tucker fanzine, Moe Works at Wal-Mart, I discovered that he had passed away in 2023 at the age of 53.
— Read on longhaulmag.com/people-like-us/
Aida Rends 