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CIZRE: TWO YEARS ON STILL WAITING
Post Views: 183 “For 79 days, the people of Cizre witnessed an exceptional massacre in history. For the sake of a humane and free life, they lost their daughters and sons during the resistance. Yet they have not surrendered, and
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BOOK. ‘The Design of Everyday Life’ by Adam Greenfield
Last June 2017, Verso (formerly New Left Books founded in 1970 by the staff of the New Left Review) released ‘Radical Technologies – The Design of Everyday Life’ by American writer, Adam Greenfield
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK in December, 1961. Frantz Fanon
On a day this week, December 6, 1961, the writer and revolutionary-marxist Frantz Fanon, author of the ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ (among other works of philosophy and biting critiques of colonialism), died from leukemia
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Poem in November. In memory of Tahir Elçi & Sergio Finardi
Tahir Elçi, Kurdish Lawyer and Human Rights defender, assassinated November 28, 2015 in Diyarbakir; Sergio Finardi, human rights defenders, died 03 December, 2015, Chicago
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Walter Benjamin. A poem by Séamas Carraher
That time too, Walter, has left, like a painting or a book that hangs, birdlike, from your mouth, wide-open in surprise: your death mask’s endless labouring
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For Hernán Monardes, Jesuit
Victor Jara, poet, singer-songwriter, and left-wing political activist was arrested at the Technical University (today the Universidad de Santiago) shortly after the start of the military coup of 11 September 1973
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18 Theses, on the Philosophy of History, (poem), 2
Danger! The past will come upon us now like a carbomb or a trainwreck to the station
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TURKEY’S WAR AGAINST THE ACADEMICS…
Two recent studies have once again drawn attention to the unprecedented crackdown on academics and intellectual freedom in post coup Turkey
Read MoreCizre, Northern Kurdistan… After Tragedy – Farce…
Cizre. Evidence shows these were intentional massacres and deliberate executions that ‘cannot be explained only as a result of the fighting
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