“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.” from The Salt Eaters
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release
can u feel me close to youi pray notbut deep in my stomach i wish you the best / praises sing / praises / breath
Re-embedding the economy to rethink (sustainable) development
‘On ne développe pas ; on se développe.’ This famous sentence from Joseph Ki-Zerbo could be translated as ‘we do not enforce development; we develop … Re-embedding the economy to rethink (sustainable) development
not titled
we’re on to something we think at first glance imperfect
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 AhmidaContinue reading “Genocide, Historical Amnesia and Italian Settler Colonialism in Libya—An Interview with Ali Abdullatif Ahmida – MERIP”
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/
routines
bodies pile up on your dooru have to step over them to get thruyour day the quarter this lifethis cheap imitation of livingand the dead keep dyingand you keep on cryingand keep it stepping yet
Objective Laws of Socialist Economic Development
Objective Laws of Socialist Economic Development — Read on redsails.org/objective-laws-of-socialist-economic-development/
Black Communist Women’s Prescient Quotes — Charisse Burden-Stelly
“To retire now meant to leave the world to these people who carried oppression to Africa, to Asia, who made profits from oppression in my own land. To retire meant to leave the field to evil. For there is an evil that stalks in our land, an evil that strikes at my people, that wouldContinue reading “Black Communist Women’s Prescient Quotes — Charisse Burden-Stelly”
conditioning
each sentence more than the lastyou can’t have no future if you don’t have no pasti was built to the lastout gassed out gunned out grasped out of nothing came something else a serenity. a gap. ok. run another lap