politics – Growing the future: ways forward, together

30 November 2025

Stories for Peace

A project by Elijah Astute and the children of Nakivale, with Luca Luigi Ashieri and Catherin J Pascal Dunk The Stories for Peace project aims to give a voice to the children and youth who have fled war and are living in the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. This will be done through the publication…

altruism, charity, diverse voices, first nations, liberation, peace, refugees, social justice, state, system change, theory, war, writing, youth

ABCC, ABCC Nakivale, activism, africa, books, competition, diverse voices, donation, donations, east africa, elijah astute, go green, gofundme, GoGreen, healing, history, kids, listen, Luca Luigi Ashieri, nakivale, Nakivale Refugee Camp, politics, refugees, trauma, uganda, voices, war, writing, youth
12 November 2025

Liberation through Direct Action: An Interview with Emma-Louise Battante

when i think of direct action, i always think in terms of how direct the effect is to preserve life

anarchy, climate crisis, environment, ethics, liberation, media, peace, police, politics, protest, purpose, refugees, social justice, state, system change, war, writing

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6 May 2025

Peace in Ubuntu, by Elijah Astute

Please read this important, consciousness-raising work shared on my other blog, Wordflowerpoetry.com. Elijah Astute is a writer, interpreter, activist and permaculturist from DRC in East Africa, currently residing in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda.

art, class, ethics, first nations, patriarchy, peace, philosophy, politics, protest, state, war

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28 April 2025

One beautiful way to do revolution [a reblog]

Flowers, not guns claimed the streets back for the people in Lisbon, 25 April 1974. A reblogged article by Diniz Borges.

class, peace, politics, protest, state, war

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26 April 2025

Creation choir, Sydney

A unique blend of climate change activism, art and queer spirituality. You must watch this!

climate crisis, first nations, philosophy, politics, protest, queer

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29 March 2025

Capitalism as socioeconomic cancer

You don’t have to look too far to see the heinous environmental and social damage capitalism wreaks on every shore it infests. Read on to find out what you can do about it.

altruism, charity, climate crisis, economics, environment, gift economy, politics, protest, state, theory

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28 March 2025

Most people don’t understand

A reblog from Canadian writer windupmyskirt. What’s something most people don’t understand? That there’s really nothing that hasn’t already happened in this world. Which is why studying history is so important. For instance, what is currently happening between Canada and the USA has happened before. We’ve had trade wars, and we’ve even had literally invasions…

patriarchy, philosophy, politics, state, theory, voting, war

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26 March 2025

‘Fruit of a poisonous tree’

Today I share a timely article on the US situation, by Dan Rodricks.

ethics, patriarchy, politics, state

autocracy, corrupt, corruption, crime, death to democracy, democracy, dictator, dictatorship, Donald Trump, judiciary, law, Mitch McConnell, politics, president, punishment, separation of powers, state, trump, us politics, usa
26 March 2025

Mitch McConnell, the greatest enabler in U.S. history, kept Trump out of prison

I’ll employ a legal metaphor — “fruit of a poisonous tree” — to trace the path of one of the worst failures in U.S. history: The failure to hold Trump criminally responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and Congress, a failure that kept Trump eligible to run for president a third time.…

ethics, patriarchy, politics, state

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3 October 2024

Kari’s letter/ or a paradigm-shifting discussion with ChatGPT

A new theory of everything to help us forward.

artificial intelligence, ethics, philosophy, politics, state, theory, war

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