1245 || anti-ideological activism
" In effect we are saying the end is not as important as the means, we are turning hundreds of years of political form and content on its head by putting the means before the ends, by putting context ...
7 Loka 202410min
1244 || hope in the dark
"What could have happened if we could have spoken directly to the people in that wave, if we could have found common ground, if we could have made our position neither right nor left but truly grassro...
6 Loka 202410min
1243 || victory is the journey
"Paradise is not the place in which you arrive but the journey toward it. Sometimes I think victories must be temporary or incomplete; what kind of humanity would survive paradise? The United States h...
5 Loka 20249min
1242 || comedic alternatives to history
"After all, most environmental victories look like nothing happened; the land wasn’t annexed by the army, the mine didn’t open, the road didn’t cut through, the factory didn’t spew effluents that didn...
4 Loka 202410min
1241 || joy in resistance
"It’s always too soon to go home. Most of the great victories continue to unfold, unfinished in the sense that they are not yet fully realized, but also in the sense that they continue to spread influ...
3 Loka 202411min
1240 || peace movements + their butterfly effect
changing the world is not one with a tidy end goal that we will one day reach. it is an ever changing process that means we will always be working with it. and everything counts. no strategy is too sm...
2 Loka 202411min
1239 || hope in despair
there is power in active hope. despair can even be liberatory if we can learn not to be consumed by it. despair can turn us away from the deprivation that comes from refusing to seek out alternatives....
1 Loka 202411min
1238 || hope in the dark (via Rebecca Solnit)
We often mistake unknowability for dread. We sometimes forget that darkness can be a place for rebirth and hope, not just fear and hopelessness. Today, I'm reading from Rebecca Solnit's essay/book "Ho...
30 Syys 202410min
