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Statement of defiance from Black Cat Workers Collective (Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA) ahead of a general strike planned for this Friday in the region. "The government sending in the army does not crush the spirit. Occupation causes resistance to bloom."

Between the Insurrection Act and the Insurrections | Antidote Zine

#ICE #FuckICE #GeneralStrike #Minneapolis #Minnesota #MNastodon

Antidote Zine Midsommar Seasonal Update! Your friendly neighborhood anarchist archivists here coming in with our most recent reads, now up on Antidote Zine. Additionally, in honor of the ten year anniversary of the Summer of Migration as well as our current context of extreme repression against migrants globally, check out our home page to see our new featured archive: No One is Illegal. Full post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/133589836

In our capacity as clerks of the transcript archive for The Fire These Times podcast, we just added an oldie but goodie: "The Inherent Toxicity of France's Islamo-Leftism Obsession." It's episode #72 from spring 2021, but covers an issue that hasn't been as thoroughly analyzed in the Anglo-American context...and has now reached absolute crisis proportions. Absolute must read/listen. @Elia Ayoub (he/him)

72/ The Inherent Toxicity of France’s ‘Islamo-Leftism’ Obsession (with Rim-Sarah Alouane) – The Fire These Times

Must read from @ProPublica on last fall's catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene in southern Appalachia.

ProPublica

Helene’s Unheard Warnings

As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vuln...

The region is still rebuilding, and still under threat of more frequent extreme weather events. Now with even less reliable warning and relief capacity from officials thanks to the new kleptocratic Nazi regime in Washington. Relatedly: grassroots mutual aid efforts are underway after deadly tornadoes in Kentucky and St. Louis. We will share info as we get it.

Our friend Liz_artistry in the From The Periphery media collective has adapted fellow FTP member @Ayman Makarem's recent video essay "Where Are the Arabs?" into a pretty little zine. Like their last spontaneous production, we've made it available for your reading pleasure and provided PDFs for sharing and printing (if you are inclined to art projects - video instructions included!). Also of course check out the full video essay, linked and embedded in the post!

Zine: Where Are the Arabs? | Antidote Zine

Robin Yassin-Kassab wrote an incisive article examining the recent, horrific, sectarian(ized) violence in Syria. Highly recommend, since, as Yassin-Kassab points out, "Iran and Israel as well as a range of western Islamophobes and 'tankies' are seeking to fan the flames with disinformation."

Qunfuz

The End of the Fairy Tale

An edited version of this piece was published at UnHerd. I disagree with the headline there – Syria Can’t Escape War – though at ...

(Note: this article was also published on a US-based diagonalist outlet which we are sure Yassin-Kassab did not know the nature of. Glad he posted on his own blog.)

The US has sent detainees to El Salvador, ignoring a court order and exposing the detainees to human rights violations. Last year our FTP homies at The Fire These Times podcast interviewed Michael Paarlberg, associate professor of political science, on what El Salvador's system looks like, where president Nayib Bukele comes from, and how the state of El Salvador is implicated in gang violence. Audio and transcript:

El Salvador’s Gang State w/ Michael Paarlberg – The Fire These Times

Highly recommend setting aside ninety minutes and watching @Ayman Makarem's new video essay, an entertaining and deeply researched polemic on the hypocrisies of Arab nationalist ideology from a leftist internationalist and anti-authoritarian perspective. Subscribe to From The Periphery's YouTube channel (and Patreon) for updates as this fledgling international media collective keeps growing and making cool shit! #FTP #QueSeVayanTodos #KellonYa3neKellon #AllOfThemMeansAllOfThem

From the archives (2021): One of our favorite transcripts, of an enormously wide-ranging interview by Elia @Elia Ayoub (he/him) on The Fire These Times with Emmi Bevensee. Lessons for 2025, from 2015: "Syria is what got me into antifascism. I believed that our struggles are interconnected and that I needed to follow the leadership of the Arab Spring, because they were pioneering new technologies of revolt and rebuilding their societies. It was a very exciting time."

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