Re-plugging this important archive.

45 years ago today, Blair Peach, a schoolteacher and anti-racist campaigner, died as a result of being hit over the head by police. He, along with thousands of others, was demonstrating against the National Front in Southall. Rest in power.

Neocolonialism in a nutshell

Happy Earth Day, folks!

On May Day next week, I’ll be giving a talk for Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program on protest music and psychedelic rock in Turkey! I’ll be close reading songs by Fikret Kızılok, Selda Bağcan, and Cem Karaca between the global counterculture and militant politics. This time you can also join by Zoom!

Good points in this article, & I would also add a reason often unsaid & less quantifiable – critical thinking unmasks power relations, & creativity imagines the world otherwise. Both threaten a steady supply of exploitable labour & unquestioning consumers.

Started this journey on the festival's 25th edition; here I am at the 43rd, still growing by seeing the world through other people's eyes 📽️🎞️ İstanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfı #filmfiend

solidarity with the students whose institutions want them in their diversity brochure but call in police as soon as they start protesting on their lawns

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

—James Baldwin

A turkish man invented the steam engine 200 years before the industrial revolution but he only made it to spin döner

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

🚨🚨 With your support & solidarity we made it! This petition now has 100k signatures, meaning it will be debated in Parliament!

Thank you to everyone who signed, shared in their networks, posted on social media, reported on it & reached out with offers of support.

'Who calls a fucking worm 'immortal tea'? They just use words that exist and give it any meaning they want?'
– watching #Dune with an Arab husband

Angela Davis on 60 years of solidarity with Palestinians. hammerandhope.org/article/angela…

Getting close to 100k signatures

Please sign this if you haven’t done already

Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war - Petitions petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

A new book of photography provides a glimpse into the everyday life of Palestinians before the Nakba. “Against Erasure” is an attempt to show that though “the people of Palestine lost their land, they refuse to lose their history.” jacobin.com/2024/04/images…

'If one day the Voltaic revolution is attacked, it will be because a foreign hand will have armed the hand of the brotherly people who would have stabbed us in the back.' Sadly prescient words from Thomas Sankara

Families in Gaza have won a case against the Home Office, held to have reached “irrational and unreasonable” conclusions to justify its refusal to consider the families’ reunion applications, with parts of its guidance being in breach of Article 8 ECHR theguardian.com/politics/2024/…