Leaving my first ever comment on your emails to say I read that Bensaïd book a while ago and really loved it. Robert Nichols's "Theft is Property!" is a really great follow up (in some ways counter point) that engages with indigenous scholarship very thoroughly.
Happy solstice! Thank you for the lovely dispatches year-round. Come to New York soon.
Just when you think you've read every book related to Marx...thank you, Phil. I think a lot of us are thinking about the same things these days. Climate collapse, endless war, land theft, resource exploitation, rising fascism, oppression, genocide and so much more. Capitalism is the root cause of all of these issues and it's time to end it before it ends us. I encourage everyone to become a member of Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org) or the PSL (https://pslweb.org). SR will connect you with other members in your area and everyone I've met so far has been cool as hell.
The black lodge show was incredible! And I got to see BBES absolutely kill it again last night at Tractor!
Anyway- last week some local bands played a benefit for a Palestinian children's fund (somesurprises/Natasha El-Sergany was there- she's incredible if you haven't heard her- and she's also an immigration lawyer!) They invited a local rabbi who works with Jewish Voice for Peace and he had everyone in the room call Patty Murray's office at the same time and then text a friend to ask them to do the same.
It was cool because it put the community into direct contact with local organizers- who could answer questions, let us know how the conflict was directly affecting our community and give advice on specific, actionable things we could do.
Appreciate the book reccs, and for you speaking directly. These things--genocide, dispossession, material and cultural erasure--network together like a tumor, connected by the threads of an economic and political system that not only allow them but seem to produce and require them. And yet, so often, they're treated (if they are treated at all) as distinct symptoms, things to be addressed with technological fixes or limited policy solutions. So, I appreciate you laying it out this way, with all that entails.
Looking forward to the next time you make it to the east coast. Caught you and Julie Doiron in Brooklyn just a couple of months before Covid hit--a small blessing to carry that show's energy into what followed.
Happy holidays Phil. Wish you the best. Thank you for your words. Hope to catch you live one day.
Leaving my first ever comment on your emails to say I read that Bensaïd book a while ago and really loved it. Robert Nichols's "Theft is Property!" is a really great follow up (in some ways counter point) that engages with indigenous scholarship very thoroughly.
Happy solstice! Thank you for the lovely dispatches year-round. Come to New York soon.
Just when you think you've read every book related to Marx...thank you, Phil. I think a lot of us are thinking about the same things these days. Climate collapse, endless war, land theft, resource exploitation, rising fascism, oppression, genocide and so much more. Capitalism is the root cause of all of these issues and it's time to end it before it ends us. I encourage everyone to become a member of Socialist Revolution (https://socialistrevolution.org) or the PSL (https://pslweb.org). SR will connect you with other members in your area and everyone I've met so far has been cool as hell.
The black lodge show was incredible! And I got to see BBES absolutely kill it again last night at Tractor!
Anyway- last week some local bands played a benefit for a Palestinian children's fund (somesurprises/Natasha El-Sergany was there- she's incredible if you haven't heard her- and she's also an immigration lawyer!) They invited a local rabbi who works with Jewish Voice for Peace and he had everyone in the room call Patty Murray's office at the same time and then text a friend to ask them to do the same.
It was cool because it put the community into direct contact with local organizers- who could answer questions, let us know how the conflict was directly affecting our community and give advice on specific, actionable things we could do.
Appreciate the book reccs, and for you speaking directly. These things--genocide, dispossession, material and cultural erasure--network together like a tumor, connected by the threads of an economic and political system that not only allow them but seem to produce and require them. And yet, so often, they're treated (if they are treated at all) as distinct symptoms, things to be addressed with technological fixes or limited policy solutions. So, I appreciate you laying it out this way, with all that entails.
Looking forward to the next time you make it to the east coast. Caught you and Julie Doiron in Brooklyn just a couple of months before Covid hit--a small blessing to carry that show's energy into what followed.