RESISTING DOMINATION: STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANTI-COLONIAL RESISTANCE

As we come together we acknowledge there can be no safe spaces in a settler colonial nation state in a world under the control of institutionalized systems of domination which threaten the earth and all of it’s inhabitants. As a result of these systems we recognize continued and heightened attacks on indigenous sovereignty, cultures, and livelihoods worldwide and we seek to create confrontational spaces which challenge the normalization of white supremacist settler colonial violence.

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“Against the Inclusion of Zionist Organizations In The People’s Climate March” by kat yang-stevens with contributions from Jonathan Sidney

AGAINST THE INCLUSION OF ZIONIST ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH by kat yang-stevens with contributions from Jonathan Sidney The People’s Climate March, preemptively billed as “the biggest climate march in history”, will take place in NYC on Sunday, September 21st and will precede a UN Summit on Climate Change by two whole days. The…

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QUELLING DISSENT: How the Big Greens Contain & Dissolve Resistance

QUELLING DISSENT: How The Big Greens Contain & Dissolve Resistance by kat yang-stevens We are living in an age of unparalleled destruction. The prevailing colonialist capitalist order is forcing humanity to a state of near-total estrangement from the natural world. The earth can no longer sustain the parasitic extractive industry, which is fueled by the…

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REVISED EDITION: “On Anger, ‘Love Voices’, & ‘Divisiveness’ In Their Environmental Movement” by kat yang-stevens

This short essay posits that larger structures and forces work together to reinforce institutionalized forms of oppression, which in turn ensures continued commodification and destruction of the earth as well as the continued oppression and subjugation of Native, Black, and other migrant/diasporic/settler peoples of color. Environmental organizing spaces are often dominated by white people but it is Indigenous*,…

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Round Table Discussion: Gentrification & the Monopolization of Space

click here to listen to this 2 part round table discussion RON WHYTE Ron Whyte is a working class person of African descent who has been an organizer with various struggles since being radicalized by the 2003 Iraq war. Ron has been involved in alternative media since 2009, and has been working to operate…

“Keep This Country Shutdown”: Ferguson Communique From Negesti Cantave

In the past 48 hours here in Furgson, MO I have personally been attacked with tear gas and been in close vicinity to rubber bullets and pepper spray. I was personally directed by either National Guard or County Police (their exact identities could not be discerned) to leave the Fergeson PD area at gun point…

“Kara Walker’s Desecrated Cemetery for Blackness” by Malik Thompson

“Walker’s gigantic temporary sugar-sculpture speaks of power, race, bodies, women, sexuality, slavery, sugar refining, sugar consumption, wealth inequity, and industrial might that uses the human body to get what it needs no matter the cost to life and limb. Looming over a plant whose entire history was one of sweetening tastes and aggregating wealth, of…

Featured Artist: Malik Thompson

Malik Thompson is an eighteen year-old cis Black queer. He’s currently finishing his senior year of high school and looking forward to getting the hell out of his hometown, the swiftly gentrifying District of Corruption (Washington, DC). Into photography, writing, DJing, and theatre, Malik is constantly looking for ways to incorporate his art into…

“Cambio Starts With You: On Colonial Legacy, Anti-Black Racism & Identity in the Afro-Dominican/Caribbean Diaspora” by Crysbel “Mariposa” Tejada

by: Crysbel “Mariposa” Tejada edits: Yucca Bianca Westrup, kat yang-stevens title photo: Crysbel “Mariposa” Tejada “Como Afro/Dominicano/Negro vivo mundos diferentes y me debato, continuamente, entre un querer ser mi historia; y un rechazar lo que me dicen que fue esa historia; entre estar orgulloso de la cosmogonía heredada de mis ancestros, en un mundo de…

New Zine format of “On Anger…” Download Here to Print

ON ANGER, “LOVE VOICES”, & “DIVISIVENESS” IN THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT is now available in zine format. A downloadable pdf. is embedded below (the download button is in the bottom left hand corner). You can now print and distribute this essay at your convenience. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International…

Reflections On Power Shift 2013: An Impromptu Interview

Whitney Conti, an independent photojournalist, asked me for an impromptu interview after Power Shift 2013. Whitney Conti is an independent photojournalist from Washington D.C. Please visit Power Shift Climate Rally, October 21, 2013 Pittsburgh, PA. For a photoessay of the event which includes this interview. Website: http://www.whitneyconti.com Email : whitneyconti@gmail.com See Also: “Are Mainstream Environmental Groups Keeping…

Interview in Upping The Anti

COMING SOON! You can subscribe to Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory & Action or order just this single issue (#15) for $13 HERE. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

“On Anger, ‘Love Voices’, and ‘Divisiveness’ In Their Environmental Movement” by kat yang-stevens

ON ANGER, “LOVE VOICES”, & “DIVISIVENESS” IN THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT by kat yang-stevens “Women responding to racism means women responding to anger; the anger of exclusion, of unquestioned privilege, of racial distortions, of silence, ill-use, stereotyping, defensiveness, misnaming, betrayal, and co-optation. My anger is a response to racist attitudes and to the actions and presumptions…

GROUNDWORK FOR PRAXIS

BUILDING INTERSECTIONAL & ANTI-COLONIAL PRAXIS FOR RESISTANCE