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Critical human geographer and anthropologist whose scholarship explores the political and historical ecology of tropical forests, agrarian change, and struggles for recognition http://bit.ly/4mf1rsM

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Radical Abundance in Manchester this Thursday (March 5th). @kaiheron.bsky.social and I will be discussing our book and examining how a radical abundance strategy can be put into place in Manchester.

Get yourself to Partisan and join in.

04.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Vitória contra a privatização dos rios na Amazônia, mas não dá nem tempo de comemorar: no sul da Bahia a terra indígena Comexatibá sob ataque de pistoleiros e pressão de fazendeiros e da especulação imobiliária, mesmo tendo sido declarada como posse permanente dos Pataxó no final do ano passado.

24.02.2026 22:39 — 👍 66    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 1
🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱
👉 https://www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-must-move-beyond-technocratic-fixes-to-implement-real-integral-agrarian-reform-global-social-movements-in-cartagena
📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the International Planning Committee for #FoodSovereignty - ICARRD+20 Forum - Cartagena, Colombia, 23 February 2026
➡️ https://www.foodsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/EN-ICARRD20-Forum-Declaration-FINAL.pdf
Peoples’ control over land, water, and territories, NOW! 
Popular Agrarian Reform, Now!
#ICARRD20 #LandForLife #land #water #territories #PopularAgrarianReform #PopularAgrarianReformNOW #LaViaCampesina #ViaCampesina #UNDROP #UNDRIP

🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱 👉 https://www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-must-move-beyond-technocratic-fixes-to-implement-real-integral-agrarian-reform-global-social-movements-in-cartagena 📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the International Planning Committee for #FoodSovereignty - ICARRD+20 Forum - Cartagena, Colombia, 23 February 2026 ➡️ https://www.foodsovereignty.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/EN-ICARRD20-Forum-Declaration-FINAL.pdf Peoples’ control over land, water, and territories, NOW! Popular Agrarian Reform, Now! #ICARRD20 #LandForLife #land #water #territories #PopularAgrarianReform #PopularAgrarianReformNOW #LaViaCampesina #ViaCampesina #UNDROP #UNDRIP

🌍 Land for Life, Livelihood and a Liveable Future for All 🌱
👉 https://www.foodsovereignty.org/icarrd20-must-move-beyond-technocratic-fixes-to-implement-real-integral-agrarian-reform-global-social-movements-in-cartagena
📢 POLITICAL DECLARATION by the […]

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24.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Colombia enters election year amid record violence Colombians will go to the polls to elect a new president and congressmen amidst the highest number of attacks by armed groups since the civil war

Must read on upcoming Colombian presidential elections, brought to us by @murosinvisibles.bsky.social and the incredible Pirate Ware Services team. #kudos

open.substack.com/pub/piratewi...

22.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Teaser - Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (02/16/26) Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/150947880 Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term

Teaser here:

soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

16.02.2026 22:49 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

18.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 10189    🔁 1918    💬 256    📌 174
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Against the planetary: carbon fetishism and the politics of false solutions Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms? Building on Stuart Hall, we argue that regressive climate change solutions are enabled by an articulati...

Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms?

In a new #OpenAccess article, Michael Levien and @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social challenge the reductive articulation of climate solutions solely through the lens of carbon

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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People Think | Ben Tarnoff Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.

“Nothing can carry people into politics but people themselves. In the process, they bring their own ideas with them. ‘People think,’ Asad liked to remind his readers.” —Ben Tarnoff on Asad Haider

16.02.2026 01:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Criadoras do primeiro Território de Uso Comum, mulheres do rio Manicoré resistem em meio à destruição no Amazonas A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento.

A reportagem acompanha desde 2021 a luta dessas mulheres que transformaram a defesa do território em modo de vida. No final de 2025, o retorno a Manicoré revelou um cenário de invasões e desmatamento, registrado pelo Varadouro.

infoamazonia.org/2026/02/05/c...

05.02.2026 14:55 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades

Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...

08.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? This article analyses Brazil's first Território de Uso Comum (TUC) in the Amazon as an experiment in insurgent universality—a women-led, grassroots struggle advancing collective rights through shared...

The Amazonian Common Use Territory: Pluriverse or Insurgent Universality? doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

24.11.2025 14:56 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas Com o apoio da TNC Brasil, o documento marca uma nova etapa na proteção de florestas públicas no estado e fortalece a autonomia das comunidades

Comunidades do Rio Manicoré lançam plano que vai orientar o futuro do primeiro Território de Uso Comum do Amazonas www.tnc.org.br/conecte-se/c...

08.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Painel: Governo Lula suspende obra na hidrovia do Tapajós após protestos de indígenas Decisão sobre dragagem foi tomada para que haja consulta aos tapajós

Notícia da @folha.com

"Painel: Governo Lula suspende obra na hidrovia do Tapajós após protestos de indígenas"

Link sem paywall ⬇️

06.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

My piece on @uk.theconversation.com on how Bolivia's new government revived the entreguista state - and its opposition. @uclamericas.bsky.social

06.02.2026 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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128 | Introducing: Marxism & Religion, Part I: Martin Luther King, Jr. | What's Left of Philosophy Get more from What's Left of Philosophy on Patreon

new episode out now! we kick off our new series on Marxism & Religion with a discussion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose universalist ethos and principled nonviolence shine a light on the righteous path to liberation in these dark times www.patreon.com/posts/128-in...

28.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 30    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 4
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Progressive Activists, Officials Condemn Venezuela Attacks, Call for Joint Action Against Monroe Doctrine - Venezuelanalysis The "Nuestra América" summit in Bogotá laid out a unified front to defend regional sovereignty and oppose foreign intervention.

“We, the delegates at the inaugural convening of Nuestra América in Bogotá, Colombia, affirm the shared horizon of: a hemisphere that governs itself, defends its peoples, and speaks in its own voice."

Read more from Nuestra América in @Venezuelanalysis.

28.01.2026 17:56 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting book, especially for those of us working on the Global South, and book launch 👇

28.01.2026 15:14 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

28.01.2026 00:23 — 👍 6582    🔁 1842    💬 60    📌 31

The analysis in this episode is evergreen and *extremely* right now, especially because we need to get real about where we are, where we must go, and what it will take to get there.

18.01.2026 23:41 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...

‘Psychoanalysis can help us better understand how the world, including our oppressors, works, and so what we might do about it, and them; and what wishes we might have for collective life, and which of these the reality principle demands we set aside.’

Amia Srinivasan:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

14.01.2026 10:40 — 👍 17    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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The Machinery of Terror The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

Chris Hedges:

I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before

I have been a prisoner in their jails and spent hours in their interrogation rooms

I have been beaten by them

I have been deported, and in several cases banned, from their countries

I know what is coming

12.01.2026 07:56 — 👍 29    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 2
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Tony Wood · On Venezuela The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that...

Tony Wood excellent on Venezuela www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

10.01.2026 12:06 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Corn before it domesticated us

09.01.2026 02:21 — 👍 47    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Empire of Vice In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."

latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

08.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 722    🔁 260    💬 16    📌 27
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Ailton Krenak, sobre marco temporal: ‘nunca engoliram as nossas conquistas na Constituinte’ Nesta entrevista exclusiva, o filósofo reflete sobre a passagem do tempo, os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.

Em entrevista exclusiva para a InfoAmazonia, o filósofo Ailton Krenak, refletiu sobre os ataques à Constituição Federal, a troca de nomes no Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a tensão política eleitoral de 2026.

06.01.2026 17:09 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:

-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)

05.01.2026 01:43 — 👍 6816    🔁 2462    💬 542    📌 510

OnlineFirst - "Forging territorial justice: Afro-Colombian legal mobilization and the prefiguration of territorial authority in northern Cauca" by Zabrina Welter and Cristina Espinosa:

uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...

uni-freiburg.de/enr-sugov/te...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

26.12.2025 20:20 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

18.12.2025 09:10 — 👍 76    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 2
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Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more

15.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 32    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 3
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious You may not wish to commit yourself ontologically to some thing called the ‘unconscious’, and you may reasonably...

‘The real question is whether psychoanalysis can liberate us, not just from the violent divisions of our individual psyches, but from the violent divisions and resulting despair of our political moment.’

Amia Srinivasan’s Winter Lecture:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

22.12.2025 12:10 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2