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There is definitely going to be a dash of Buddhism in this, so if you are super adamant about only reading articles about “Gods and Radicals” instead of maybe a few moments of “Bodhisattvas and Radicals”, you may want to skip the whole damn thing. I'm also going to talk about neurology, and probably fuck it up. Then to finish, we're going to look a bit at the society of the spectacle, and what 2020 can teach us.
Saturn, In the Time of Putrefaction
My responsibility is not to tell Black people how to protest. My responsibility is to tell white spiritual people that, when we say things like this, we are assholes.
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.
That Old Time Sophistry
Oh you'll go outside again, work at a job, hate the president. But that old world is gone, let it go and prepare for the new.
View From a Window
The grim realities of the capitalist system could not be clearer right now in the United States. The sudden disappearance of labor has caused the entire economy to go into crisis overnight, for one simple reason that should have been obvious all along: all value comes from labor.
The Systemic Changes Needed to Combat Hunger (During a Pandemic)
The cultural impact of ultra-processed foods is “a consequence of the desire to consume more and more as to create the sensation of belonging to a more modern and superior culture." With this, late stage capitalism has changed the concept of poverty and hunger.
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?
Riot Review of 2019: Resistance and The Western Gaze
This piece won’t have the pretence of analyzing the myriad of global uprisings and their effectiveness. It will deal critically with the Western gaze over Southern and Eastern movements — without promoting deradicalization. […] More often than not, mass media has been used to manipulate public opinion, and we must be critical, above all, of that which seems to have been catered for us.
A Year of G&R Interviews on the Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast
In grappling with the implications of the global ecological crisis and anthropogenic climate disruption, the animist perspective, as presented in the wide range of voices published on this website, revealed to me something incredibly crucial and often missing in the popular discourse on the matter — our sacred obligations as a species, and more specifically as anti-capitalists and political radicals, in our time of trouble.
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.
The Amazon is on fire, no shit...
None of this is new, deforestation by the livestock industry dates back to the 1960s. Still, it's good to learn from today's tragedy. More effective than voting is to not support the industries responsible.
Rio's Concentration Camp: the drug scene in the favela Maré
The Crackland in Rio— Portraits of people from the drug scene in the favela Maré.
Trending Topics Don't Matter
We went through this phase where we thought social media could be the cradle of a revolution, but now that this idea had time to mature we can see it for the passing phase it is, can’t we?
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”?
Misogyny, Colonialism, and the Armed Forces
On the misogynistic culture of the Armed Forces, colonial attitudes toward Indigenous and Quilombist peoples in Brazil, and a call to action asking women to take up space.