Rainreturn

Our land is dying; our neighbors are dying; everything sacred is being hunted down and destroyed. But tonight, at this moment, all I can do is pause to feel gratitude for the rain.

Climate Change, Cultural Commentary, Displacement, Land, working classAsa WestFebruary 18, 2020California, wildfire, Fire, Death, HomelessnessComment

Learning to organize in a time of repression, climate crisis, and war

Humanitarian crises will weaken borders between “developed” and “underdeveloped” nations, and guaranteeing these borders will continue to weigh on the US Military. How can we better prepare for this impending fate?

Some Call Dream

No understanding of borders here.

Displacement, Land, Liberation, Poetry, PoliticsGods&RadicalsApril 8, 2019birds, animals, Nature, borders, states, countries, freedom Comments

Regeneration = Gentrification Part 2: As Below, So Above

Hermeticism tells us that all things are connected, that what happens in the microcosm is a reflection of what is happening in the macrocosm. With this in mind then, my local issues are a reflection of national and global issues. The loss and destruction of land and the displacement of peoples is happening all over the world. And the poor are always the worst affected.

Article, Community, Displacement, Environmentalism, LandEmma KathrynFebruary 21, 2019displacement, loss of land, poor, environmentComment

What has happened in Venezuela?

Although it is said by authorities that Brazil has no plans to be involved in potential military conflict, the Brazilian military has significantly expanded its presence on the Venezuelan border since last month.

Article, Capitalism, Displacement, Editorial, Politics, SocialismMirna Wabi-SabiJanuary 25, 2019Venezuela, Brazil, United States, War, Cold WarComment

Urbancentrism

…as if there was a huge dome around the metropolis that prevents access to other places, or that transforms other places into utopias disconnected from reality which can be accessed only from time to time in dream

How to Be a Trans Writer in the Era of Never-Ending Gender Wars

“To write is to claim the audacity to speak and the courage to yield, to dare for a moment to care for ourselves in speech, in writing, and in solitude.”

Outlaw Women

“if Rights were ensured to everyone, the Government would have to become something else entirely. It would have to cease to be.”

Capitalism, Cultural Commentary, Displacement, Editorial, PoliticsMirna Wabi-SabiJuly 7, 2018Comment

This is America’s Enslaver Culture

It’s no surprise that, even though chattel slavery was formally abolished throughout the Americas over 100 years ago, enslaver culture is still very much alive.

Ancestors, Capitalism, Community, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, Displacement, Editorial, Politics, ReclaimingMirna Wabi-SabiJune 16, 2018Comment

It takes a village, not a European, to raise a child

"White people, through systematic oppression, actively create, profit from and maintain a market that institutionalises children throughout Africa." (From Jacqueline Tizora)

No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs, Or The Windrush Scandal

“The government shredded landing cards and other documents that would have outright proven these people’s right to stay. These folks, mostly the children of the Windrush generation, are and always have been British citizens, heck, the passport my father came over with even says British Passport on the cover!”

Colonialism, Displacement, Politics, UncategorizedEmma KathrynApril 26, 2018Comment