Scott Campbell / is on Nostr

Anarchist writer, translator, and educator. De vez en cuando, tooteo en español.

Website: https://fallingintoincandescence.com/

Last Notes

2024-07-25 23:37:13

While appreciating the utility of an organized anti-fascist movement, I feel like there also needs to be a normalization of acts of everyday anti-fascism.
Expressions of affinity with the forces of fascism - in the form of flags, tshirts, conversation, etc. - need to be met with a steadfast rejection, disapproval, disdain, mocking, and so on. Trump supporters and their ilk should be vociferously condemned wherever and whenever they show up.
I feel like we've been too nice, in part because the fascist creep has spread so widely and become so normalized itself. We may not all know an outright Nazi, but we all know a Trump backer. Civil discourse tell us it is a question to be debated at the ballot box and amid polite society. But the acceptability of fascism is not up for debate. It does not deserve a seat at the table. It must be confronted and driven off.
Antifascists have long proclaimed, "we go where they go." Well, they're everywhere. What are we going to do about it?
#MakeFascistsAfraidAgain

2024-06-20 19:39:49

A settler shot my husband. Then Israel bulldozed my childhood home
https://www.972mag.com/settler-shooting-home-demolition-masafer-yatta/
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #WestBank

2024-06-13 19:23:49

"Israeli tanks rolled into the western part of Rafah on Thursday as the city came under intense helicopter, drone and artillery fire in what residents described as one of the worst bombardments of the area so far.
"The assault on Rafah has driven out more than a million Palestinians who had been sheltering there, forcing them into areas with little or no access to food, water or shelter. The UN has warned that more than a million people are expected to 'face death and starvation by the middle of July'."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/13/israel-gaza-war-rafah
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Rafah

2024-06-06 21:12:45

Announcing the launch of the online Popular University for Gaza
San Francisco State University cancelled Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi's Palestine course. It is now available online as part of the Popular University for Gaza.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/announcing-the-launch-of-the-online-popular-university-for-gaza/
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia

2024-05-29 20:31:24

"Our civic infrastructure – universities, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums and cultural centres – built by generations of our people, lies in ruins from this deliberate continuous Nakba. The deliberate targeting of our educational infrastructure is a blatant attempt to render Gaza uninhabitable and erode the intellectual and cultural fabric of our society. However, we refuse to allow such acts to extinguish the flame of knowledge and resilience that burns within us."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/29/open-letter-by-gaza-academics-and-university-administrators-to-the-world
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #academia

2024-05-29 00:09:17

Meanwhile, in Rojava, indefinite detention and torture:
"On May 7, the United States repatriated 11 U.S. citizens, including five children, and one foreign-born minor. They had been detained in northeast Syria, where around 56,000 Syrian and foreign prisoners from the U.S.-led coalition’s decade-long war with the Islamic State remain held by U.S.-backed armed groups, including the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
"The latest round of repatriations follows an April 2024 Amnesty International report that found that the detainees, most of whom are children, are 'being arbitrarily and indefinitely detained and forcibly disappeared,' in inhumane conditions where they have been 'subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, including severe beating, stress positions, electric shocks and gender-based violence.' In one facility, Sini, this has 'led to the death of hundreds of people.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/us-backed-camps-in-northeast-syria-are-holding-29000-children-in-detention/
#Syria #Rojava

2024-05-28 17:58:38

"For nearly a decade, Israel has been surveilling senior International Criminal Court officials and Palestinian human rights workers as part of a secret operation to thwart the ICC’s probe into alleged war crimes, a joint investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian can reveal."
https://www.972mag.com/icc-israel-surveillance-investigation/
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ICC

2024-05-16 16:57:43

An important, powerful piece on #Sudan.
"In her work on 'grievability,' Judith Butler argues that some lives are more grievable and hold more value than others. Ungrievable lives, in her definition, are lives that can’t be lost or destroyed, because they as they already inhabit a lost and destroyed zone. They are perceived ontologically, from the very beginning, as already lost and destroyed—meaning that when these lives are destroyed in war, nothing is destroyed. The Sudanese identity, which blends 'blackness' and 'Muslimness,' is a recipe for disaster in the world of global solidarity that rejects either one of the two identities or both."
https://africasacountry.com/2024/05/the-worlds-forgotten-war/

2024-05-16 05:15:58

"France has declared a state of emergency in its Pacific island territory of New Caledonia and deployed police and military reinforcements in an attempt to end days of unrest over Paris’s move to change the rules governing provincial elections.
"Three Indigenous Kanak people and a police officer have been killed in violence that erupted on Monday night and has continued despite an overnight curfew. Hundreds have been injured."
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/16/state-of-emergency-takes-effect-in-new-caledonia-after-four-killed-in-riots
#NewCaledonia #France #colonialism #Indigenous

2024-05-16 03:50:36

More "insubordination" in the face of genocide!
"The president of Sonoma State University was placed on leave Wednesday, a day after he released a controversial campuswide message on the Israel-Hamas war that said the university would pursue 'divestment strategies' and endorsed an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
"California State University Chancellor Mildred García announced the decision in a statement posted to the CSU website, saying that Sonoma State President Mike Lee was taken off the job for his 'insubordination' in making the statement without 'appropriate approvals.'"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-15/sonoma-state-president-mike-lee-on-leave-after-endorsing-academic-boycott-israel
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #BDS #SonomaState #CSU #academia

2024-05-12 18:17:15

Fundraiser for Union of Anarchists in Sudan
https://anarchistnews.org/content/fundraiser-union-anarchists-sudan
#Sudan #anarchism

2024-05-03 05:54:06

"Between the Central Library and the Rectory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, students, workers and academics set up an indefinite encampment, as part of the global actions that thousands of university students around the world are carrying out in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
"In Mexico, the main demand is that the government and the university break academic, political and economic relations with the State of Israel, in addition to taking a stand against the genocide in Palestine."
https://piedepagina.mx/estudiantes-de-la-unam-llaman-a-universidades-a-solidarizarse-con-palestina/
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX #UNAM #academia #BDS
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2024-04-18 19:37:37

"Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consideration for or declined PEN America’s 2024 literary awards over the organisation’s 'failure to protect' Palestinian writers in Gaza.
"Nine out of 10 longlistees for the PEN/Jean Stein book award, worth $75,000, have withdrawn their books. Christina Sharpe, Catherine Lacey and Joseph Earl Thomas are among the withdrawing writers."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/18/writers-withdraw-from-pen-america-literary-awards-in-support-of-gaza
[@palestine](https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine) #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #books #bookstodon [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon)