Yesterday Srebrenica, Today Gaza

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By Emina Bužinkić & Piro Rexepi   This article was first published on dversia (October 9th, 2024), a Bulgarian-based critical outlet. It has been republished here with the authors’ permission.   Instigated by Germany and Rwanda, the United Nations recently brought to the fore the question of the Bosnian genocide denial and proposed recognizing the mass massacre of…

Ratne vijesti: The Croatian translation of War News

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Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu i časopis AGITATE! objavljuju Ratne vijesti u prijevodu Vere Vujović, hrvatsku verziju zbirke War News pjesnika Beau Beausoleila. Knjiga donosi pjesme nastale u prvih stotinu dana genocida u Gazi. Inicijativa za slobodnu Palestinu ugostila je pjesnika i članice uredničkog kolektiva časopisa AGITATE! tijekom jedne od mjesečnih višejezičnih poetskih večeri “Gaza Undated”…

AGITATE! Celebrates Professor Shailaja Paik’s Recognition as a MacArthur Fellow!

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TRANSLATIONS: ARABIC | BANGLA | CROATIAN | HINDI | MALAYALAM | MARATHI | SPANISH | TAMIL | TELEGU    “By studying the inequalities and the dehumanization of people, we can provide new ways to think about universal humanity and universal emancipation.” This agitational insight comes from the historian Shailaja Paik, whose ingenious, creative, and rigorous…

Mrtve ne treba micati / The dead should not be moved

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By Monika Herceg   Šifra: KEPLER MRTVE NE TREBA MICATI (“Žene spadaju među najteže kolateralne žrtve pandemije koronavirusom”) Likovi: P (majka troje djece, žrtva obiteljskog nasilja) K (prijateljica koja dolazi biti potpora P.)    /U dnevnom boravku za stolom sjede dvije žene. Rano je jutro. Malo dalje od njih leži tijelo muškarca u krvi. /…

আমাদের দেশ সংস্কারের স্বপ্নরেখা | Our Dreams for Reconstruction

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তুমি কে? আমি কে? বিকল্প! বিকল্প!Who are you? Who am I? Change! Change! আমরা বাংলাদেশের নিম্ন-আয়ের, নন-বাইনারি এবং আদিবাসী কুইয়ার মানুষদের একটি সংগঠন। শিক্ষার্থী ও তরুণ হিসেবে বাংলাদেশের চলমান বৈষম্যবিরোধী ছাত্র আন্দোলনের সাথে আমরা যুক্ত ছিলাম, আছি এবং থাকবো। বাংলাদেশকে ফ্যাসিবাদ মুক্ত করার এই ছাত্র-জনতা গণঅভ্যুত্থানে যারা আমাদের সাথে আছেন তাদের সকলকে আমরা সংহতি জানাই।…

Diverse Feminist Collective Open Letter

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“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”― Audre Lorde “Everything that is experimented on the Hills will be implemented in the plain land.” —Kalpana Chakma Dear Reader, We are a newly formed collective of activists, artists, researchers, teachers, human rights defenders, and individuals from systematically…

ধৈর্যশীল বিকল্পের খোলা চিঠি

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৬ই আগস্ট ২০২৪ বা ৩৭ জুলাই ২০২৪ যেভাবেই বলি না কেন, ৩০ জন ব্যক্তির একটি কালেক্টিভ একটি খোলা চিঠির মাধ্যমে বাংলাদেশের মানুষকে স্বৈরতন্ত্রের পতনের জন্য অভিনন্দন জানায় এবং এই নতুন বাংলাদেশকে বৈচিত্র্যময় লিঙ্গ ও যৌনতার মানুষেরা কীভাবে দেখতে চায় তার প্রস্তাবনা হাজির করে। ধৈর্য্যশীল বিকল্প একদল গবেষক ও এক্টিভিস্টদের সংঘ। অ্যাজিটেট! তাদের চিঠি ও দাবিগুলো…

The Red Muharram: An Ode to the Martyrs of July

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Nironjon Artist’s Statement The Patriotic Olive green terror marching past the maimed corpses of the deceased after emptying barrels of 7.62mm and its genocidal appetite, pig sirens became our midnight lullabies while the drones & Helicopters dropping sound grenades as if we were not already deafened from the fallacious gibberish of news headlines. The balcony…

Exodus from Ireland

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Marwan Makhoul Hindi translation by Richa Nagar | Urdu translation by Abdul Aijaz & Gwendolyn Kirk I arrived in Ireland and my coat cried out:You’ve gone abroad, my friend, but left me at home!Perhaps it was an omen,for missiles were embracing over my familyin Galilee, when I weakened and accepted Annemarie’s invitation.I came to read…

Making Home, Not Taking It: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Zionism from South Africa Today

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By Koni Benson This article was originally published on African Arguments (February 17, 2024), and is republished here with the author’s permission.  It is common to hear people say that history repeats itself, but history does not repeat itself; people repeat themselves, which is why it is important to place the struggle for Palestinian liberation,…

The Gatherer’s Call: For the Love of Prayer and Protest

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By Humera Afridi Power, kinship, beauty, and grace evince themselves in unified, embodied supplication. Hope and victory reside in solidarity. This protest was prayer in action.   There is a certain magic to Jummah. That midday hour on Friday is imbued with a sweetness which on some lucky Fridays extends a numinous quality all the…

Stories, Healing, Transformation: A Conversation with Amoke Kubat

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In October 2023, Amoke Kubat—artist, storyteller, activist, and performer—visited Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change, a graduate seminar organized and facilitated by Richa Nagar through the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. The participants—Lindsey Willow Smith, Kaeda Sabrewing, Somayeh Nikoonazari,…

Brownness and Being in the Twenty-First Century

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By Joy Mazahreh   Brown.ness (n.)Being Brown;The state of being reduced to storing corpses in ice cream trucks;Or pleading for help in English at a “press conference” in front of Al-Shifa Hospital (held by children);Or trying to convince the world that you are dying by showing the corpses of loved ones on camera   Teta…

Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 1)

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This is the first installment in a two-part series on Tamil Feminist Theater We live in a time when conflict and destruction are no longer the exception but the norm. It may be natural disasters or conflicts created by State and non-state institutions and individuals. It often feels like a dark cloud is looming over…

Healthy Living

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by Jordan Starck   HYPERTENSION Righteous rage delivered me to this world as I am, a Black man. My living, here, has always been illegal, and my fight preordained    for an always-later time    when I’ll whisk the blade    away from its hiding place on my wrist. Then, with just a quick, outward thrust and a…

Women of Color Should Be the Ones Remaking U.S. Foreign Policy

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by Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind, and Cindy Wiesner   In the 2020 presidential election, Black women, Indigenous women and people of color across the country delivered the votes to throw Donald Trump out of office. These voters want a new era in policy priorities, requiring radical change to the status quo—not just when it comes to U.S.…

Some Thoughts on the U.S. Presidential Election

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by Sima Shakhsari   As we anxiously wait for the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, many who are rightly worried about the ramifications of another four years under Trump’s presidency have hoped that Trump’s removal would restore the American democracy. This hope for restoration raises several concerns, that while not particular to this…

Artwork

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by Sunil Awachar         Dr Sunil Abhiman Awachar is a poet, painter and Assistant Professor at the Department of Marathi, University of Mumbai, India. He is a full-time activist in the Dalit human rights movement. He has published four anthologies of poetry in Marathi, that include ‘Global vartamanachya kavita (2008)’ ‘Mi mahasattechya darashi katora gheun ubha…

(Too) Great Expectations? On Fieldwork, Guidelines, and Ethics in Human Geography

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by Mark Anthony Arceño, Deondre Smiles, Emelie Bailey, Anurag Mazumdar, Thelma Vélez, J.P. Wilson, Kelly Yotebieng, and Kendra McSweeney   ABSTRACT This blog post engages the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) 2009 “Statement on Professional Ethics.” We argue that the Statement falls short in helping us (students) understand how we know if we are doing…

Beautiful Damaged People

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by Abhay Flavian Xaxa   Among the doom and gloom they smile, Mistaken for idiots by the mad rational world.  The Adivasis, beautifully damaged people! On the treasures of iron, gold and diamond they sit, Poor and powerless, holding the curse of nature. The curse of loving their land , water, forest, where they prefer…

कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी… Which Methodology…

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by विनायक लष्कर (Vinayak Lashkar)   कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी… -विनायक लष्कर कुठली मेथडॉलॉजी वापरून आमच्या जिवंतपणाचं तुम्ही संशोधन करताय गुर्जीतुमच्या मेलेल्या सिद्धांतांनीआमचं जिवंत असणं कधीच नाकारून टाकलंय…संख्या फेकण्यात तर तुम्ही सराईत तज्ञ आहात गुर्जीपण कोणत्या पद्धती वापरून तुम्ही करणार आहातआमच्या शोषलेल्या रक्ताचं गुणात्मक विश्लेषण…संशोधन पेपरांचे तर तुम्ही ढिगावर ढिग रचतच चाललाय गुर्जीपण आमच्या घामाची शाई तुम्हाला कधीच उमटवता येणार नाही कागदावर…राष्ट्रीय, आंतरराष्ट्रीय पातळीवर टाय कोट…

‘We are part of the tapestry’: Black Iranians launch collective

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by Behdad Mahichi (from Aljazeera)   She sits with an air of reflection, a tea in one hand, staring into the moon over the Gulf through the window. Next to her are two books, one titled Iranian. The second one is opened – and on a fresh page she has written down and underlined the…

Rest

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by Amoke Kubat   These times; Coronavirus now called COVID-19. The whole world is on lockdown. People are fearful, confused, defiant and restless. Somebody must have cried out from the wilderness, “What next, God?” I asked myself privately, “Is this when Hell freezes over?” I am sleepless with such questions. I am concerned but not…

Conversations on Tamil Feminist Theater, hosted by Marappachi Theater (Part 2)

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This is the second installment in a two-part series on Tamil Feminist Theater We live in a time when conflict and destruction are no longer the exception but the norm. It may be natural disasters or conflicts created by State and non-state institutions and individuals. It often feels like a dark cloud is looming over…

Singhu: The Unwritten

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by Simona Sawhney   This piece was originally published on Dalit Camera: Through Un-Touchable Eyes— a platform for narratives, public meetings, songs, talks, discussion on dalits. The response of the mainstream media to the protesting farmers at Singhu and Tikri, like that of the government, oscillates between pity and indignation. On the one hand, there…

Palestinian in Hiroshima

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By Mazin Qumsiyeh   I and Oliver Stone both spoke at Hiroshima on the anniversary of the first nuclear bombing in human history and we are slated to speak in two days at Nagasaki on the anniversary of the second nuclear attack. My speech is below in English (I will send the Japanese version later). These…

We Belong to the Land

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by Antônio Bispo dos Santos Translated by Carmela Zigoni1 I. When I provoke a debate about colonization, the quilombos2, their manners and their meanings, I do not want to position myself as a thinker. Instead, I am positioning myself as a translator. My elders formed me first through orality, but they put me in school…

The Creative Process

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by James Baldwin (1962)   From Creative America, Ridge Press, 1962. Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone. That all men are, when the chips are down, alone, is a banality—a banality because it is very…

Black Lives Matter and Savarna Supremacy

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by Vishal Jamkar and Richa Nagar   We begin here, with Sharpton’s words, as two writers whose lives are lived across the borders of India and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, where Floyd’s murder has led to a great global uprising against racist and colonial settler structures and logics of the United States and…