Investment In Public Transportation That Exacerbates Inequality
“Government investments in public transport systems may very well be exacerbating inequality due to their direct ties with the global capitalist system.”
Plan of Action
Written by Hamilton Borges, from the REAJA OU SERÁ MORT@ (REACT OR BE KILLED) organization in Brazil.
The Virtual is Death to the Being in Struggle
Solidarity is not the same as this insane movement of taking photos with the donation of a food aid basket and leaving the subject served by this charity for the flies.
A History of News and Justice in the Americas
“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?”
A Letter from a Witch in Quarantine Times
May you take care of your essence like a lioness takes care of her young, and may your heart shine with the innocence of a child, seeing the world through the hopeful eyes of tomorrow full of sweets, toys and ice cream. We still have to fight, with hope and confidence in seeing what we are in each other's eyes, even if by videoconference.
Colonialism and Decolonization Processes in Brazilian Witchcraft
Are we giving real support to indigenous peoples, offering their proper place in society and fighting against their still present eradication process? Or are we only concerned with gaining more knowledge for our spiritual evolution, thinking that these spirits are also here for us to use because they are similar to the Europeans ones we know, or even that these spirits could feel honored if we force them into our Witchcraft boxes with European, foreign and white roots?
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?
The Consequences of the Lack of Poetry in Witchcraft
We are the serial products that lose sense and purpose if our numbers are switched, reduced to a lowly existence, even less than what we are already systematically forced to be. In the eyes of the Witch, today we lack poetry.
Who's Afraid of "Cultural Marxism"?
“Cultural Marxism,” that neat conspiracy theory that aims to ridicule anyone who isn’t convinced today’s “World Economy” is an organic and beautiful expression of human nature.
Noam Chomsky Interview: The Greatest Challenge To State Power
Noam Chomsky: International law is for the weak.
A History of Displacement of Non-white Women In Vila Mimosa
Mapping the roots of Brazil’s most notorious red light district from the Byzantine Empire and WW1.
Favelado's diary
Favelado/Favelada: A male/female resident of a Favela. Politically, the term is used to reappropriate a marginalized identity.
Brazil's "Dictatorship Deniers": the new guise of capitalist hegemony
We’ve impeached a President, replaced her with a criminal, and now we are run by militia. A severely flawed Democracy has been replaced by a Military Dictatorship that barely bothers to disguise. Where but in a dystopian world is this framed as “Freedom”?
I Don't Remember Being Born to Please You
Politeness isn’t our shield, our unity is. Unity not only between women, but between all of us who are dedicated to destroying White Capitalist Patriarchy. There is no way to destroy the Patriarchy by being “gezellig”.
'A Luta Continua': The Struggle Continues
Good Morning, Brazil! And to all of you watching us from afar in this special day. Yes, today (October 28th, 2018) is election day down here...
Here is my prediction...
Fighting Invisibility: Maria Lacerda and Lucy Parsons
“Anarchism has been a hostile political field to racially marginalized segments of the population, as virtually all fields were, and somehow still are. Analyzing why this is is essential so that we can unlearn this harmful behavior."
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
What's Pan-africanism got to do with Marxism?
The fight against Eurocentrism is a struggle against the naturalization of racial oppression in the social condition of the worker. For this reason, Pan-Africanism is a necessary understanding of class struggle.
The Tragedy of Brazil’s National Museum Started Much Before the Fire
If we're gonna talk about the carelessness with which we deal with valuable artifacts, we must also talk about how we attach value to those artifacts, and the undeniable Ethno/euro-centrism involved in that process.