The current Jack-in-the-Green is a modern iteration, but belongs to an older tradition of “green beings” that populate English folk custom. Jack-in-the-Green himself emerged as a tradition in the eighteenth century, becoming closely associated with chimney sweeps and their May Day celebrations.

Slovenian Christmas songs, remembering the Sun and the Water, and holding on to old traditions.

A radioactive wolf near Chernobyl
is now looking at your Instagram account. From Rune Kjær Rasmussen

“I offer you a different reason to fight, beyond hope and despair, beyond a hollow victory that only restores Status Q. A reason that can exist regardless of the chances of victory, regardless of the size of that dragon.”

Don’t you think ghost stories are another herald of the darker months? Not the stories of gore designed to frighten and elicit screams, but stories with more than a hint of truth, the stories of loss and tragedy…

It is rare that I find myself of the belief that the Gods will step in and shape your path. But in this case, I believe it is possible to make an exception.

a poem from Rex Butters

On being white and talking about racism. How to witness and learn from Afro-Brazilian stories of resistance, through lenses free from the objectifying effects of the white gaze.

The more I read what Aaron wrote, the more I realized that "What did he do?" is the wrong question. The right question is "Who is he?" Who is Aaron? Not who was he 13 years ago? Who is he now? If we are going to try to justify someone being locked in a cage, shouldn't that be the question? Not what did they do in the past? But who are they today? 

Another white man's story...

Sophia Burns looks at gender roles on paper vs. in practice, and the division of labor underlying both.

“The homeless are seen as an entity, some dirty mass of otherness"

A giant does not find it easy to die. We are too big.

The machine-world, offering nothing but ash and bitter hate, will in time make a sacrifice of us all.

Sophia Burns questions the ethics and efficacy of revolutionary front groups.

From Sabina Magliocco: resistance does not just consist of Molotov cocktails, guerilla warfare, and sabotage against the oppressor.

“Remember, remember, what's behind that door? There's a reason we have to keep it shut, I'm sure." A wonderful contemporary interpretation based on one of the stories in the ancient Mabinogion.

by James Lindenschmidt: Like Water is a story about my tribe, my comrades. The reality of police brutality, violence, and murder of civilians on the streets is foregrounded in the story, but the novel never comes across as preachy or even judgmental. The fact is, these characters must endure, each in their own way, in the aftermath of state-sanctioned murder.

From James Lindenschmidt: "Debt underlies all aspects of class struggle. Since the destruction of the Commons, there is no other possibility for most people to subsist and reproduce their lives."