Houston, City of Death
by Gus Breslauer “In a lot of ways, Houston epitomizes America’s last gasp as it plunges deeper into a dystopic decline. This city is as plastic as a vase of fake flowers, from a distance they look real and elegant, but the closer you get, the more artificial everything is.”
Pandemic Teaching Reflections, Not All Rainbows
by Andrew Joseph Pegoda “Factors of pedagogy fully considered, I have certainly had some exceptional online students and many other students producing quality, thoughtful work, but for me, virtual teaching has not been as fulfilling. There is little contact with others. Students struggle. They really struggle online. “
Frantz Fanon: Négritude, Decolonisation and the Politics of Friendship (Part Two)
by Omar Chowdhury “With the struggles of Black Americans precipitating into protests worldwide, the world remains as divided as it was during Fanon’s era making his theories just as relevant now as they were then.”
Frantz Fanon: Négritude, Decolonisation and the Politics of Friendship (Part One)
by Omar Chowdhury “Therefore, to reconcile a reading of Fanon, we must read and analyse all his writings holistically because through this we garner only a better understanding of what Fanon’s aims were.”
Pre-Marxism in the Last Instance: A Review of Chantal Mouffe’s “For a Left Populism”
by Brant Roberts “The current political order is riddled with obstacles along legal and economic lines, not to mention the concrete structure of the state, making social democratic reforms appear more utopian than communism.”
Paradise Under Siege: Institutionalizing the Kashmir Occupation
by Jazzib Akhtar “The region of Jammu and Kashmir has long been under occupation for 70 years, and on the Indian side it has experienced a long list of human rights abuses.”
Fresher Fields Than Houston: Wilfred Owen, Z-Ro and the Apocalypse of Imperialism
by M.C. Zendejas “One must wonder, however, whether this complicity characterizes imperialism as unchangeable, or merely recognizes that immediate change is impossible, that change is not a single event but a historical process. After all, if we are to dare to invent tomorrow’s utopia we must first start by acknowledging today’s dystopia, beginning with our…
Last Days of Fiesta
by Gerardo Velasquez “I wonder what they’ll do with the property, now that Fiesta is gone. I wonder what will happen to our community.”
Death and the Maiden: Reflections on Art and Loss
by Tony McKenna “I was able to see it again but through different eyes. The painting was transformed. Now the two people the artist depicts seemed more exposed to me, more human.”
Houston’s Wave of Resistance
by Anonymous “As we marched, protestors chanted the names of the six people murdered by the HPD since late April. These chants were a reminder that behind the publicity stunt engineered by Acevedo lie a viciously brutal police force. “
Obstruction of Peace
by anonymous “During the waiting period, we are completely in the dark about what they are going to do. We tell them they are entrapping us without pressing a charge and they do not even look in our eyes or say anything. Some officers are smirking, talking amongst themselves as we freak out over this…
An Encounter with Police Brutality
by Usama Abbas “It brought me to tears which I held back because my younger brother was there looking up to me. The cause of my tears was that the injustice and brutality that a Black man, woman, and child face became so vivid.”
June 2020
by Patrick Higgins “For his part, Acevedo reveals himself as several things at once: a skilled operator, a talented performer, and a major city police chief with a department to protect. For educational purposes, two sets of records should be kept: one of HPD’s crimes against the working class and poor, and another of Acevedo’s…
Flood and Fire
by E.M. Conrad “I left West Virginia because I couldn’t imagine moving on from my grief when it had become a part of the surrounding landscape. I would have found it impossible to do so if every street corner, every hill and patch of road and piece of sidewalk bore witness to death and injustice…
First-Hand Accounts from Protesters in Houston
“After zip tying, three cops post up in front in a line w/ their batons in front. Shit looked like a fascist claw machine game but the toys are actual fucking human beings.”
Rebels in Eden
By Adam Lupiani “It is the political violence of police murdering innocent and unarmed black people. A political violence that hangs all of that over a people’s heads as a threat for what happens when the status quo is not followed.”
Until
By 3 Black Women Rice Students “until that original system of oppression upon which the police force is built is completely dismantled, it’s fuck 12”
Alain Badiou’s Hypothesis and the Arab Left as Contemporaries of May 68
by Dabya “What united them was not the vocabulary of classes or proletarian leadership, but the vocabulary of revolution and change in the broadest sense. For those who incorporated their bodies, thoughts, affects, and potentialities into a certain political truth procedure, and who became ‘militant[s] of this truth,’ the change had to look a certain…
Between Comrades and Competition: COVID-19 and the Vices of the Human Condition
by L.W. “Beyond those who risk infection at their jobs, the community oriented, self-sacrificing behavior of many is evidenced, in part, by an explosion of efforts toward charity, mutual aid, and collective action.”
Direct Action Gets the Goods: The Black Student Union and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Houston, 1985-1987
by Brant Roberts “It took direct actions, protests, rallies and months of planning to make the dream of divestment a living reality.”
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