The art of Remedios Varo does indeed show the dream world and the real world are the same, combining technical drawing and surrealism in a way that brings the dreamworld into the realm of the everyday, hinting at the magical nature of the world. Using contrasts in colour and texture, Varo captures the essence of the ‘other’. My favourite piece, if I had to choose just one, is called Star Maker.

The purpose of the protest wasn’t only to stop Trump from claiming dictatorial power – it was also part of the ongoing rebellion touched off by the police murder of George Floyd, which happened in a city and state controlled by the Democratic party. As such, the crowd’s chants had as much to do with the George Floyd Rebellion as the 2020 election.

Written by Hamilton Borges, from the REAJA OU SERÁ MORT@ (REACT OR BE KILLED) organization in Brazil.

“The murders of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, and the attack against Christian Cooper. Do these specific cases, whose punishments rely on the chance of someone recording at the right place and time, shake the foundations of our structurally racist society?”

Noam Chomsky: International law is for the weak.

This trashcan is called Peace.

The Crackland in Rio— Portraits of people from the drug scene in the favela Maré.

The sad reality is that individual action is inadequate. No amount of donation, responsible eating, ethical-company-purchasing action will save anyone when your professional and economic actions work to undermine your theoretical ideals.

“Will we stand idly by, cynical and apathetic, while what’s left of society is dismantled, piece by piece, as a sacrificial offering to the great god Mammon? Or will we, fueled by sheer rage, stand up as one to the orgiastic misanthropy of our “leaders” and smash their petty little self-aggrandizing ambitions into dust?”

We must make those who think that Paganism tolerates abusive, controlling behaviour aware that they have no place within our traditions.

"[S]ince it has become increasingly clear that stocks, and even money itself, is entirely based on a perception of value, which is by nature subjective and mutable, the only question becomes how that perception of value is influenced? And who is doing the influencing?”

Sophia Burns questions the impact of social media on radical organizing.

On liberalism's crisis and its nationalist solution.

Sophia Burns argues that opportunism comes not from bad ideas, but from practical and contextual needs.

April was Indigenous Month in Brazil. This article reports on the Leadership of Indigenous Women conference in Salvador, and explores the personal and communal journey of indigenous women through generations.

Another white man's story...

From Eli Sterling

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

If there was ever a thing of beauty among our race, it was the part that held the light of the star and the crash of the waves upon a rocky, inhospitable shore.

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