Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
Today I’m off to Ireland. I was meant to leave yesterday, but my flight was delayed and… well today I’m off to Ireland. Yesterday was an interesting experience though, spending so much time at the airport (five hours?), and not actually getting anywhere. One of the reasons it took so long is that when they […]
Read More Thoughts by a Weary Traveller in an Airport Terminal in a Little-Bit-Fascist CountryThis is not a post about Boston. This is not even a post, as I can barely bring myself to write about all the mourning that is demanded by 90 dead in Iraq in 3 days, 5 killed by drones in Afghanistan. And thinking about the last ten years of Occupation, and the million dead. […]
Read More This is Not a Post about BostonLast night I was speaking with Palestinian friend who grew up as a citizen of Israel, when I was viscerally overcome by the recognition of the gap that divides Palestinians living in Israel from green card Palestinians in the West Bank. This friend went to a mixed university – Jews and Palestinians together. They were […]
Read More The Otherness of MartyrsSyria. Uttered in Arabic, we hear Sou-ree-ah. What is the meaning of this word today? Its utterance produces shivers, sighs, perhaps sparks of hope along with the horror. And of course fights. There is alive in the 2.0 world of print/blog media a war of words concerning Syria – is it a revolution? is it still […]
Read More Syria: The Sovereignty of the Revolution Lives in the Bodies of the People in Struggle
Only a Northern Song 