Whenever we asked activists in Rojava what the best form of solidarity would be, the most common answer we got was “Build a strong revolutionary movement in your own country.” That response caused us to reconsider the very concept of solidarity. In the history of the Western Left, solidarity has often amounted to a subject-object relationship, in which the “object” of solidarity is tied to the metropolises’ longings and needs for strong emancipatory movements. But this form of solidarity reproduces the colonial perspective on southern, traditionally nonindustrialized, and historically exploited countries. [...] This problem arose in most solidarity movements in the last decade. But solidarity, activists in Rojava say, means building solidarity movements together, movements that can learn from and support one another. [...] For leftists, solidarity with Rojava is not a question of benevolence but a necessity.
— Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboğa (2016)
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everything below the cut is free to read/download online. updated 28/5/26
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recommended reading = ✳︎
Communalist Library (most extensive list of texts, audio, videos, links; some are repeated here)
Öcalan
✳︎The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan
✳︎Reflections on the Antisemitic Content in Öcalan’s The Sociology of Freedom
Ocalan and Anti-Semitism by Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Review of Abdullah Ocalan’s Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization: Dr. Donald H. Matthews Dr. Thomas Jeffrey Miley, University of Cambridge
“How to live, what to do, where to start?” – Extract from Öcalan’s 4th manifesto
The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî
Democratic Modernity
✳︎The Theory of Democratic Modernity as a Guide for Building a New Internationalism
The Main Principles of Democratic Confederalism
✳︎In Defence of Öcalan’s Vision of ‘Democratic Society’
Democratic Modernity Paves the Way for Democratic Socialism
The understanding of fascism in Öcalan’s concept of democratic modernity
Autonomous organisation as a principle of women’s liberation
Killing and Transforming the Dominant Man
There Never Was A West by David: Or, Democracy Emerges From The Spaces In-Between by David Graeber
DAANES & the Rojava Revolution
✳︎The Rojava Revolution: A Decade On
DAANES' Social Contract, 2023 Edition
✳︎Beyond The Frontlines: The building of the democratic system in North and East Syria
Building an Anticapitalist Economy in Rojava
Beyond Rojava: North and East Syria’s Arab Regions
Explainer: The Religious Assembly and Academy for Democratic Islam
“This is the first time, after thousands of years, that our identity has been accepted and valued” – Eisha Sido, Yazidi Women’s Union of Afrin
The Anti-Terror Trial System in NES
Hidden Battlefields: Rehabilitating ISIS Affiliates and Building a Democratic Culture in Their Former Territories
After ISIS: Ensuring a future for Christians and other minorities in North and East Syria
DAANES & Syria
About the attacks on DAANES by the transitional government and the siege of Kobanê:
✳︎Rojava and Syria at war – a political assessment
Rojava’s reality and possible regional developments
Attacks, Escapes and Withdrawals: A timeline of events at al-Hol camp on January 20
Interview: “They were attacking and burning the camp offices” Jihan Hanna, al-Hol Camp manager
Anxiety and resolve in Rojava
Interview: “This does not mean building a new Syria, it means ethnic cleansing.” Mkrtich Varoujanm, Armenian Civilian
Groups affiliated with the transitional government loot people’s property in villages of Kobanê
Interview: “After all the martyrs, sacrifices, and coexistence, how could we suddenly switch sides and ally with parties whose mentality we do not believe in?” Sheikh Akram Mashoush
Stalemate in the SDF–Damascus prisoner exchange: Agreement not being implemented
Interview: “They may take our braids, but our dignity and our ideas cannot be eradicated” – Ruksen Mohamed, spokesperson of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ)
Parties in Kobanê call for reversal of district administrator appointment
Other:
Explainer: Syria’s transitional constitution
Explainer: the SDF-Damascus agreement
✳︎After the Earthquake: Impacts of the Natural Disaster Within War-Torn AANES Territories
Syria’s Kurdish-led region decries lack of international support in COVID-19 fight
DAANES & Türkiye
Violence and torture against participants of the ‘Peoples’ Caravan – Caravan for the Defense of Humanity’ in Turkey
✳︎After Assad – Turkey and SNA crimes against civilians in NES
From Idlib to Damascus – HTS’ Evolution Into the Syrian Caretaker Government
Turkey’s October Campaign – Airstrikes Targeting NES’ Essential Infrastructure
Targeting of journalists and obstruction of information-gathering by Turkey and the SNA in northern Syria
✳︎Explainer: Afrin, 5 years under Turkish occupation
Dossier: Turkish provision of material support to al-Qaeda-linked groups in Idlib
The SNA Encyclopedia: A Guide to the Turkish Proxy Militias
Incessant War: Turkey’s Drone Campaign in NES, 2022
"Why did the PKK disband? Have they given up?"
Making Sense of the PKK’s Self-Dissolution
✳︎The Paradigmatic Roots of Öcalan’s Call for “Peace and Democratic Society”
Struggle with and without arms: The 15th of August and its meaning in the current phase
What does the dissolution of the PKK mean?
Evîndar Ararat: The PKK’s difference lies in its approach to women
Democratic integration as a new social model
What does “democratic integration” mean?
Democratic integration as the answer to the question: “How to live?”
Öcalan's concept: Democracy through communes, integration through negotiation
New Internationalism
✳︎Towards a New Internationalism by Dr Thomas Jeffrey Miley
Shengal’s liberation: heroism of resistance, challenges of Autonomous Administration
Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance
The roots of the conflict and the Sudanese vision of democracy
On bottom-up organization and internationalism in the Philippines
From Chiapas to Rojava – more than just coincidences
LEARNING HOUSE LIRE KUNUME: A Tool To Reclaim Our Papuans Identity
An alternative Uganda: Borrowing a leaf from the Rojava struggle for autonomy and freedom from State oppression and Imperialist Invasion
✳︎World War III Has Begun – There Is Another Way
✳︎Third World War in Abya Yala
Perspectives from Rojava - Young Revolutionaries talk about the Internationalist Struggle in the current phase
For An Internationalist Intifada
A Path Out Of Darkness: Internationalist Youth Perspective
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Do you have any advice for starting to write to politicians? I've always talked myself out of it because there's so much information that exists on any given subject and it feels a bit like committing to a research essay so I just Don't. But I want to push myself to be more active in politics this year so...yeah, do you have any advice?
Ok this one is a big ask, so please try your best to stay with me on this. I've put a tl;dr at the bottom if you want to skip it all but i recommend that everyone saves this offline to have it on hand anyway.
Index:
1. Advocating.
2. key points to remember about writing to government.
3. who to send you letter to.
4. Drafting your letter based on the Sherbet method and an example letter.
5. Conclusion and tl;dr.
1. Advocating.
When we’re talking about writing to politicians, what we’re really doing is advocating.
Advocating is an important part of the australian democracy, because advocating allows us to make changes in the parliament. Advocating could take years to come to fruition, but it’s never a wasted effort.
Starting small and local is how you get the ball rolling, which is why we often start with local politicians.
I want you to imagine a rock at the edge of a slope. At first it’s big and heavy and pushing is hard, but each little push edges the rock forward, and each person who sees the rock move, feels inspired to join in. With many hands the rock becomes easier to push. Once it reaches the edge of the slope and starts rolling, it rolls fast. It becomes an unstoppable force.
Advocating is exactly like this.
Often issues overlap. Housing overlaps with Indigenous issues, which in turn overlaps with the climate crisis. You’re never advocating alone, even when it feels like you are. Somewhere on the other side of Australia, people are advocating for the exact same thing as you, and the more awareness you bring to a situation, the more these advocating groups can come together to make louder voices.
Writing to politicians may seem daunting at first, but it’s always good to remember this:
politicians are just people in positions.
Their positions are not higher than yours. Even the prime minister bows to other people (money). Politicians are simply one part of a bigger machine. However, that doesn’t mean writing to them is useless. Like I said before, starting local is the best way to get the ball rolling.
2. My key points when writing to a politician is this:
a) A politicians job is to listen to people. They’re obligated to listen to you. If they don’t, they’re not doing their job and a local journalist would love to hear about a politician not doing their job. So write your letters and emails with confidence.
b) It’s best to pick 1-3 issues rather than listing a whole heap of them. Too many issues will just add more confusion, make responses longer, and generally be harder to keep track of. My advice is to start with one, and when you’re more confident/ have more free time, take up another issue. This way you also wont suffer from burn out. You can write as many times as you like about as many issues as you like.
c) Keep your writing clean and concise. No insults. They wont make you heard, the office will just throw it out. It doesn’t have to be professional, it just has to make sense.
d) Keep a written record of all your interactions. You might want to send a letter or email, make sure to keep an offline back-up or even a physical copy. (this goes for all government and legal services. You always want to keep a record.)
If you are planning to meet in person, simply follow up with an email saying “hey, just to go over what we spoke of today, topic one, topic two etc” This sends proof that you met and discussed things. You might think that just because it was discussed in person that a politician won’t have to adhere to it, but australian government policy is not so black and white. Spoken words do count in a lot of cases.
e) If you feel like an agency hasn’t responded to you in an acceptable time, you can actually take it up with the national ombudsman, whose job is simply to tell agencies that they have to follow the procedure in the policy. To the government, POLICY IS KING. If it’s policy, they have to follow it, if it’s not policy, they don’t. Knowing this makes your job easier. Is it already a policy? Ok. Make them adhere. Is it not a policy or the policy is wrong? Okay, we’re changing policies. Knowing what fight you take up when you advocate, makes things a lot more smoother.
Sometimes just having the ombudsman involved is enough to get an agency moving. Always remember this, australian governments care more about how they look rather than how they act. If word gets out that an australian government agency is not following their own policy it makes the government look messy and unorganised. Obviously, the government is messy and unorganised but they’re trying to hide it.
(An unstable government makes an unstable country, and an unstable country makes the money from tourism/ investors/industries disappear. The australian government LOVES money from tourism/investors/industries. The power to make the government look inept and messy is your power as a citizen and it’s a right you can use at anytime. And do make sure you use it.)
3. who to send your letter to
The one thing you have to remember about politicians is that they absolutely wont do anything above their pay grade. So if you’re talking to a local politician about things that affect state level policy, they will smile at you and say “oh we absolutely care about this. We are trying our hardest on this issue” but do they care? no. because it’s ‘out of their hands’, so to speak. Finding the right politician for your issue will be half of your work.
Local politicians handle issues related to the city or suburb (depending how local or how big your city is) if your issue falls under the city council, it’s related to a local politician.
State politicians handle all state affairs. If it’s related to state issues, it’s a state politician matter. Housing, policing, education, government agencies, private entities, businesses, etc are all state matters. Human rights violations also fall under this, if they’re bigger issues.
For example, a business not having open access for wheel chairs is a local matter (yeah, it’s illegal.) wheel chairs users being adversely affected by a new policy it’s a state matter. If that policy is national-wide, it’s a national matter.
On the same level of state politicians is head of government organisations. All Government agencies have a director, and although I’ve never tried it (not yet but I probably will soon, because I’m angry about some issues that aren’t being heard.) you can theoretically email them, however it’s much easier if you work in the agency than if you’re outside of it, but you know. Whistle-blowers exist. Also I think if you’re making complaints about policies, you should be able to annoy everyone involved including government heads, who are often in charge of policy making on a state level. So yeah, consider how many people you can write an impassioned letter to.
Alright, back to the point.
4. The Sherbet recipe.
A good sherbet recipe has three key ingredients:
1 part Facts and figures. (Bicarb soda)
1 part local story (Citric Acid)
1 part impassioned speech. (Icing sugar)
Sherbet is a funny little sweet snack because the key ingredients are the same every single time, but how much of each ingredient you’ll use will depend on each individual person.
A rough outline of a letter might be:
Dear Politician,
I’m writing to you because I’m concerned about (issue). According to the UN declarations of human rights that australia signed in 1948, this issue is listed in [article number.] therefore not addressing this issue is a violation of humans rights.
(politicians don’t give a shit about human rights, but now they know you’ve been doing your research and you’re not just complaining idly. This shows you’re serious about this)
According to the ABS this issue is state wide. The ABS says blah blah
(facts and figures bring attention to a wider social problem. And once again, shows them you’ve done the research. Look for things that highlight your problem. If you can’t find it, it’s fine to leave it out, the point is to make your email seem serious enough to draw attention.)
I have been a resident in this city/state/country since xx (depending on which politician you’re writing to.) and I have suffered from this issue for the last five years, last year someone blah blah blah.
(share a bit about your story or share another local story of someone you know. Chances are you know someone who is suffering from the same issue as you. Keep it simple and to the point; who it was and how they suffered.)
it makes me so upset to know that our city/state/country has come this. I believe in a better future where kids won’t have to suffer from this terrible (issue)
(idk this is the impassioned speech part and you are passionate. Write out your feelings but keep it positive and justice-aligned )
the solution I would like to this problem is -
(putting a solution in is going to help a lot with advocating, so it’s good to think about what outcome you want before you start writing. It’s not always necessary especially with things that need multiple policy changes but for smaller issues it will make things a lot smoother)
(Finish it with)
sincerely,
[your name]
an example:
Dear local politician,
I am writing to you as I’m concerned about the quality of the drinking water in my suburb. As you know, quality drinking water is a human right listed under the human rights declaration which australia signed in 1948. (facts and figures/bicarb soda)
Water safety standards listed on the https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/environmental/pfas/drinking-water implies safe drinking water levels, however I have noticed that my suburb seems not to have adhere to this standard. (bicarb soda)
I cannot drink the water from the tap, as it makes me extremely ill. I have conversed with numerous people locally and found that they too have been buying bottled water. As you know our state is trying to curb single-use plastic, I’m worried about the impacts of continuously buying bottle water has on the environment. (local story/citric acid)
Furthermore, water often sells out quite quickly at my local supermarkets, which hints at a wider suburbial issue. This is very worrying for me as I simply have no other choice than to drink bottled water. I'm concerned that others in my local area are also forced to spend money just to have water to drink. As you are aware the cost of living has left many families in a chokehold, and one more unneeded expense can make a situation dire. (impassioned speech/icing sugar)
I must stress, that I also cannot drink water from a filter jug, as it still makes me ill, and that I didn’t have this issue when I was living in xx suburb. I’m worried there is a leakage in the pipes that lead to our suburb. (citric acid)
I live in a housing complex with Indigenous elders whose health are of great concern to me. I’m worried that given the pension’s restricted income, they will have no other choice but to drink the tap water, and that it may increase their hospitals visits. In the last month alone my neighbour has visited the hospital twice and I’m afraid for her health. (icing sugar)
I would like you to look into the water quality in our suburb and ascertain that it’s truly safe to drink, as I feel that’s extremely unsafe and I’m worried about the long term complications that those who do drink it may suffer from. (solution)
Sincerely,
Acacia Lastname
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So yeah, that’s my advice with sending letters.
However, if you want to take advocating seriously, writing to politicians is only one of the many things you’ll do. The best thing to do is find people who are angry about the same issue as you, and all write letters together. Petitions may also work, fundraising is an other option. Starting small is fine, but politicians should never be the end of your advocating.
Keep bothering them though. That’s what they are there for. It’s always good to keep politicians in check.
Key points (tl;dr):
-Politicians are just people who have a job, and in some cases shouldn’t have the job they have. Never let them make you feel like your issues aren’t important. Never let them feel like they have more power than you. Be as insufferable as they are.
- Write concise, write polite, keep writing until they fix the issue. Never let them talk you down. Back up everything you write, and follow up in writing when you meet in-person.
- Policy is KING for all government organisations. If the policy aligns with your issue, half your work is done. If it doesn’t, changing policy is not as difficult as you might think. Policy changes all the time. Sometimes for the worse. Make it change for the better.
- If you’re stuck on what to write, remember the sherbet recipe. Facts and figures/local story/impassioned speech. Adding a well thought-out solution may help in some cases.
-Look to other organisations that can help you with your issue. Politicians are a great starting point to getting your issue heard, but the bigger the issue, the more ‘oomph’ you need.
- Change takes time. Sometimes years, sometimes 10 years. If things don’t change right away, don’t get disheartened. You’re paving a road for a younger generation and every brick counts. And you still have time. My 70 y/o neighbour will make a problem of herself if she feels like somethings unfair and she’ll call whoever will hear her out, whether it's her sister or the guy at the pharmacy where she buys her smokes. You'll find allies in unlikely places
I'm so close to having a coherent thought about this, but I find it very interesting how violent behaviour is viewed in characters, versus other sorts of antisocial behaviour (-phobias, -isms, etc). maybe it's the perceived separation from reality? because if you're lucky, nobody in your life will ever slit anyone's throat, so you get to view it as an abstract and fantastical action. it's pure play! whereas if a character says something like "you look fat in those jeans", BAM! instant hatred, because now you can link it to painful moments in your own life. even though the people you've heard those words from (moms, aunties, grandmas) are probably people that you still love.
which is why you get all these books that embrace hyper violence but flinch away from any -phobias and -isms, because that would be uncomfortable.
what makes the dissonance especially jarring is that viewing violence as abstract is a privilege. in Canada and the States, we get to sit comfortably in our homes while our governments fund weapons and send troops to inflict violence overseas. and sure, we can watch a genocide live-streamed on social media, but it still feels distant.
don't confuse this as me saying violence shouldn't be written about! everything should be written about! it's more me wondering why violence feels comfortable to write about, when arguably milder social offences do not.
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if you want to feel real visceral horror about genocide denial propaganda produced for young children, check out the song Elbow Room from Schoolhouse Rock
genuinely i feel this song should be taught in schools for how fucking awful it is. and i am generally a fan of Schoolhouse Rock as a concept for teaching children, but the entire series on US history is whitewashed in every sense and its really clear how lovingly made, catchy, and nostalgic genocide & human rights violation denial propaganda can be.
Oh, elbow room, elbow room,
Got to, got to get us some elbow room.
It's the west or bust,
In God we trust.
There's a new land out there...
Lewis and Clark volunteered to go,
Goodbye, good luck, wear your overcoat!
They prepared for good times and for bad (and for bad),
They hired Sacagawea to be their guide.
She led them all across the countryside.
Reached the coast
And found the most
Elbow room we've ever had.
The way was opened up for folks with bravery.
There were plenty of fights
To win land rights,
But the West was meant to be;
It was our Manifest Destiny!
The trappers, traders, and the peddlers,
The politicians, and the settlers,
They got there by any way they could (Any way they could).
The Gold Rush trampled down the wilderness,
The railroads spread across from east to west,
And soon the West was opened up for - opened up for good.
Like this should make you feel the same way Nazi propaganda does. "The West was meant to be / it was our Manifest Destiny" is genocide erasure (one might argue multiple genocides, given that it wasn't just "Native Americans" but many specific nations that were targeted, over a long period of time).
And bringing up Sacagawea, which is I think the only time a Native person is mentioned by name in all of Schoolhouse Rock's songs on US history, only to talk about using her like a compass for the benefit of the nation that did those genocides. And then talking about "the Gold Rush trampled down the wilderness" like that is. A good thing???????? And the entire song depicts colonization as both predestined and righteous but also something necessary for and motivated by white settler comfort.
And then the song ends with speculating about lunar colonization, its own kind of strange. Evil evil evil
like ok allegedly the white people in Northern Ireland terrorizing mainly Black people and poc are British loyalists and not “real Irish” but that video stating that is showing more concern for the white Irish people currently hiding in their homes “in fear” of harm, while real life Black people are actively being harmed lmao like??? get up! if you say you’re not like these white supremacists than show up in defense for the Black people currently being mobbed by people who look like you!
paying liberal lip service does nothing but make sure history doesn’t remember you as the “actual bad guys”, just the cowardly bystanders & it damn sure doesn’t make any moves to protect anyone Black!
It's also like... Unless everyone over there is wearing shirts that say "Safe Catholic Irish" and "Bad UK Irish", there's no way a Black person is gonna know who is safe and who's not. So this idea that "it's not the real Irish" well then yeah the Real Irish need to stand up and get outside then because otherwise... You look just like the guy who burned my house down and I don't have time to give you a ten minute interview on your politics 🤷🏾♀️
In the midst of uprisings, we remember those who are imprisoned for fighting for a better world. Since 2004, June 11 has served as a day of solidarity with captured anarchists like Marius Mason and many more.
can’t find a post about it so i’m making my own. the spokane 3 trial reached a verdict today and it was Bad. these people (jac archer, justice forral and bajun mavalwalla II) were part of a group of people arrested After the fact for attending a protest last june on charges of “conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers” (none of them injured anyone and a lot of the people there that day were there in response to a facebook post calling for help to prevent ice from kidnapping a community member. not exactly a conspiracy) this is a federal case and they’ve just announced the verdict and all three have been charged with counts of conspiracy. obviously a not great precedent is set by that verdict, though they are hoping to appeal. this is. miserable. posting this so people are aware because there has been speculation that they will use this as a test case to charge other protesters with felony conspiracy charges
The defendants could face up to six years in federal prison and/or $250,000 in fines. They are expected to appeal the verdict.
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[instagram thread by activistjayden. title “affinity groups: an anarchist form of organizing”. 1. affinity groups are powerful: relative to their small size, affinity groups can achieve a disproportionately powerful impact. in contrast to traditional top-down structures, they are free to adapt to any situation, they need not pass their decisions through a complicated process if ratification, and all of the participants can act and react instantly without waiting for orders - tet with a clear idea of what to expect from one another. 2. the affinity group is a flexible model: a particular team can act together over and over as an affinity group, but the members can also break up into smaller affinity groups, participate in other affinity groups, or act outside the affinity group structure. freedom to associate and organize as each person sees fit is a fundamental anarchist principle; this promotes redundancy, so no one person or group is essential to the functioning of the whole, and different groups can reconfigure as needed. 3. decide your appropriate level of security: affinity groups are resistant to infiltration because all members share history and and intimacy with each other, and no one outside the group need be informed of their plans or activities. once assembled, an affinity group should establish a shared set of security practices and stick to them. in some cases, you can afford to be public and transparent about your activities. in other cases, what hoes on in the group should never be spoken of outside it, even after all its activities are long completed. in some cases, no one except the participants in the group should know that it exists at all. you and your comrades can discuss and prepare for actions without acknowledging to outsiders that you constitute an affinity group. remember, it is easier to pass from a high security group protocol to a low one than vice versa. 4. pick a scale that’s right for you. an affinity group can range from two to perhaps as many as fifteen individuals, depending on your goals. however, no group should be so numerous that an informal conversation about pressing matters is impossible. you can always split up into two or more groups if need be. in actions that require driving, the most straightforward system is often to have one affinity group for each vehicle. 5. go into action. stop wondering what’s going to happen, or why nothing’s happening. get together with your friends and start deciding what will happen. don’t go through life in passive spectator mode, waiting to be told what to do. get in the habit of discussing what you want to see happen - and making those ideas reality.]
These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.
While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.
Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.
We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!
Stranger Things season 1: beneath the superficial image of “peace and prosperity” in 1980s small-town America, there was the painful legacy of countless atrocities committed by the American government in the name of ‘freedom.’
Stranger Things season 4: evil Russians (not Soviets) have sent our All-American Hero to the gulags which apparently still exist in the 1980s and it’s up to us to save him 🇺🇸🦅🫡
There’s probably a term that already exists for this but if there isn’t I’m gonna call it ‘Rambofication’ in honor of its probably most well known instance: Rambo First Blood was about a soldier, John Rambo (that’s his actual name I’m not doing a bit), returning home from the Vietnam war, so traumatized by war that he brought the war home with him to a small town, unable to adapt to life without strict military discipline and hierarchy. Subsequent Rambo movies were about how John Rambo was the only supersoldier tough enough and patriotic enough to kill faceless hordes of dastardly foreign commies.
Ergo, ‘Rambofication’ is the process of a series starting with a relatively nuanced or subversive narrative before its sequels become a shallow embrace of the very narrative it originally subverted. It happens surprisingly often!
In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective.
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personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist
hey can y’all maybe ask yourselves why when people of color say things like “this movement I generally agree with has a racism problem” your gut instinct is to downplay and dismiss and say it’s only a few bad apples and that we’re co-opting the larger conversation by talking about it? can y’all examine this instinct in yourselves for a second?
Israel has once again cut off all aid to Gaza and closed all crossings into the strip, intensifying its genocidal blockade as the population
Israel has once again cut off all aid to Gaza and closed all crossings into the strip, intensifying its genocidal blockade as the population faces widespread disease and malnutrition.
The move, announced by the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), comes after Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for its strikes against Lebanon.
Israel has repeatedly violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah, killing hundreds in both Gaza and Lebanon in recent months as it seizes control of more land.
The apartheid state last cut off all entry to Gaza in late February following the outbreak of the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran.
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Cogat said in a post on X on Monday that crossings into Gaza would be closed “until further notice”. It falsely claimed the move “will not affect the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.
only 150-200 of the 550-600 needed trucks of aid were allowed to enter each day anyway. this is going to kill so many people
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