A Frank Discussion with Iranian Americans about COVID19 and US Sanctions on Iran

May 8, 2020

by CODEPINK   It’s one thing to read news accounts about US sanctions and the outbreak of coronavirus in Iran, but it’s another to hear first-hand accounts. The following is a frank discussion with six Iranian Americans about how the collapse of the Iranian economy and the healthcare crisis affect the lives of people back…

In Praise of Empathy

April 27, 2020

by Ruramisai Charumbira   If you had told me that it would take a novel pathogen, to work like a charm, drilling hard into our collective heart, making us shiver with fear and empathy, I would have called you names. If you had told me it would take a novel pathogen, to snap our eyelids…

When humanity fails: A hopeful reminder

March 30, 2020

by Elizabeth Sumida Huaman   When did the breath of life start to kill? As Quechua people, we are taught about the power of one’s breath. The fresh Andean air that we take in is a gift that we have been given to live in this world. Each breath is a reminder that we are…

Ukrainian Letter of Solidarity with Palestinian people

March 23, 2024

By Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid. We write this letter as people to people. The dominant discourse on the governmental…

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IAATW Official Statement: App-Based Workers Stand in Solidarity with Palestine

March 21, 2024

March 21, 2024 App-based worker unions representing over 100,000 Uber drivers and other app-based drivers across 20 countries have united to boycott Chevron-branded gas stations, including Texaco and Caltex, in alignment with the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) campaign and the call for solidarity by Palestinian trade unions. The International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers…

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Remembering Antônio Bispo dos Santos

December 7, 2023

We mourn the passing of Antonio Bispo dos Santos, a Brazilian quilombola intellectual and valued member of the AGITATE! community. AGITATE! Journal is proud to have published Antonio Bispo dos Santos’ first work translated into English—We Belong to the Land (2020)— a powerful commentary on colonialism, indigeneity, and “counter-coloniality”. AGITATE! also published Caatinga, Hierarchies, and…

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Events

AGITATE! Feminist Knowledge Production Event Series: Spring 2023

AGITATE! Journal invites you to a series of virtual workshops and discussions hosted in conjunction with the "Feminist Knowledge Production" ...

Feminisms, Translations, Solidarities: A workshop with the translators and editors of ‘The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics’

Join us for a workshop with the editors and translators of the The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics on February 9, ...

Introducing AGITATE! Volume 5

By Abdul Aijaz and Richa Nagar

In the Absence of a Corpse

By Soibam Haripriya

Solidarity with Palestine from Kashmir: Kashmiri, Hindi, and Urdu translations of Refaat Alareer’s ‘If I Must Die’

By Ather Zia and Idrisa Pandit, with Richa Nagar and Abdul Aijaz

Buried Waters

By Efadul Huq

Act One: The Multan Railway Station

By Abdul Aijaz

Silence | CHUP

By Fawad Khan

Performing Chup: Resonance Across Borders

By Fawad Khan, Tarun Kumar, Sunil Shanker, Parakh Theatre

चुप्पी की बोली: एक मंथन

By Richa Nagar

Playing With Silence: Fawad Khan Speaks with Richa Nagar and Abdul Aijaz

By Fawad Khan with Richa Nagar and Abdul Aijaz

Carrying Silences Across Borders: Tarun Kumar Speaks with Abdul Aijaz and Richa Nagar

By Tarun Kumar with Abdul Aijaz and Richa Nagar

A Haunting, Howling Chup: Literature and Ecology of Violence

By Abdul Aijaz

New Gaza

By Marwan Makhoul and various translators

New Narratives of Old Wars: Testimonios from the Co-Madres of El Salvador

By Heider Tun Tun, Ruby Steigerwald, and Inez Steigerwald

Untitled

By Ather Zia

غزہ کی خُدائی | ग़ज़ा की ख़ुदाई | Ghaza’s World

By عمران فیروز | Imran Feroze

Poetics is Political: Politics and Poetics of Difference Across the Borders of the Nation-States

By Papori Bora

इंतिफ़ादा | Intifada | انتفادہ

By अशोक कुमार पाण्डेय | Ashok Kumar Pandey

Amaithi as Stillness: Holding Palestine in the Batticaloa Justice Walk

By The Batticaloa Justice Walk

AGITATE!'s First Digital Book

War News
A Collection of 90 Poems
By Beau Beausoleil

Cover image of War News. White text on a black and red background.

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