watched this recently, I thought it was good www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiFW...

Syllabus Sourcing: Hoping for a little help! I'm looking for readings that challenge whether rights are the "right" frame for protecting humanity and promoting equality. I'll assign Marx and maybe excerpts from "How Rights Went Wrong." But any other recs particularly for a human rights course?

Finally some good news! www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Our introduction to agroecology sessions continue in November with topics oriented around the role of trees and their radical potential, among other things we'll be learning about the land reclaiming movement chronicled in David E. Gilbert's book Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

⭕DIRECTO | Arranca la jornada de huelga general, paros y marchas para denunciar el genocidio en Gaza

there is few (no?) more compelling cases for public control over investment than AI atm: the biggest misallocation of resources possibly in human history.

What's that the Italian navy shadowing the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is not about protection but is about using rescue as interception? It's the logic of Mare Nostrum all over again and I wish some people weren't so naïve to think militarism had anything to offer a politics of solidarity and justice.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

📢ANNOUNCING our next webinar 🌱 Farmers & climate justice activists are rising up together. Join this webinar on how #Nyéléni2025 can inform bold strategies for #COP30 in Brazil. 📅 9 Oct REGISTER NOW ipes-food.org/rising-up-to... with @canclimateaction.bsky.social @actioncontrelafaim.bsky.social

“A scandal that the EU is funnelling large sums of public money [via the #CAP] into farms accused & even convicted of labour abuses. “Social conditionality has proven toothless – failing to prevent abuse or trigger meaningful sanctions” says @deschuttero.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt. Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

🌱🎉 Agroecology Map turns 8! An open-source, volunteer-driven platform mapping agroecological practices worldwide 🌍🤝. Together we grow resilient food systems! 💚🌾 #Agroecology #Permaculture #Agroforestry #FoodSovereignty #SustainableAgriculture #OpenData #CitizenScience #ClimateJustice #Biodiversity

Can someone tell Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer?

De depolitisering van extreemrechts geweld

Outright fascists are now just hooligans

Yes! I just spoke to a librarian and they are spending time trying to find fake citations - they are being given pages of fake references to find via inter-library loan Again, digital asbestos - quick to produce, but so much cost and labour to clean-up.

🚨 Verboden pesticiden in bloemen! 🚨 In 🇧🇪 in 7 boeketten: 63 stoffen (26 verboden) In 🇳🇱 eerder dit jaar in 13 boeketten: 71 stoffen (24 verboden) Deze gifstoffen schaden mens, milieu & bijen. 🌱 teken op www.pan-netherlands.org/stopgifexport/ www.redactie24.be/lifestyle/pe...

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

Deutsche Liberale, die zu Masha Gessen, Ghassan Hage oder Nancy Fraser kein Wort verloren haben, drehen jetzt frei wegen Jimmy Kimmel. Leben wir eig im selben Deutschland?

Truly grateful to the editors sharing this experience. Great piece and such an admirable level of integrity and courage anywhere but specifically in the German context.

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tear gas in Novi Sad. Protests focused on a university building taken over by police and Vucic loyalists last week #serbia

“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.” “And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”

To friends who are doing field work & are recording stuff: I'm ready to replace my recording device with a more decent one. Do you have any suggestions for something very portable, easy to set up that will give decent quality audio of conversations inside (and sometimes outside: wind)? Thaaanks <3

Heya. I got a bit bored by people asking me how to navigate away from the cycles of exhaustion and exploitation that the academia seems exceptionally well inclined to produce. So I decided to run a workshop on it. An antiwork-antishop, in effect. Sign up below. janabacevic.net/against-acad...

the viscious authoritarian "legal" argument aside: news to me that books equal authors, regardless of contents. guess the book burning mentality has become normalised.

“Farming Under Siege: Food, Land, and Resistance in Palestine” – Statement from a comrade from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC): aseed.net/farming-unde...

Israel Waging "Fastest Starvation Campaign" in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food

The Abundance debate & discussion you didn’t know you needed with @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Malcolm Harris, @pewilliams.bsky.social. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/actu...

Day 653 of genocide I ask my kids: “What should I buy for you?” The answer is no longer a toy… Just one thing: “I want to eat.” 😓 All their dreams today have become a single bite to ease their hunger. We're just trying to survive a worsening famine. Please don’t forget my family in your support.💔

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture? That environmental destruction is actually conservation. This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'. 📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

Harsh, but fair

Excited to participate in this upcoming webinar on corporate and geopolitical power in food systems co-hosted by the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) & @ipes-food.org - alongside @michaelfakhri.bsky.social & @ksjomo.bsky.social July 25, 2-25; 8am Rome Time. More info:

What does system transformation look like in action? Join us 17 July for the #ZamoniaGame: a fully online, role-based simulation to co-create a national #agroecology strategy. Choose your role. Shape the outcome. Register:👉 https://bit.ly/3TCztKA #aeTPP #TreesPeoplePlanet

If you like me had to miss The Rooting Deeper Festival here is a blog post where you can read all about it: "Rooting Deeper Through Agroecology" www.tni.org/en/article/r...

The UK is truly a horrible place thanks to transphobes.

644 days of Genocidal barbarism.

If you wonder how the protest is progressing in in Serbia, students/citizens have been collecting and distributing aid in response to devastation caused by (climate-change-caused) wildfires across the country. The police are trying to break these aid-collection gatherings: nova.rs/vesti/hronik...

Can't thank @thedigradio.bsky.social enough for teaching me about Palestine, Israel, and Zionism. This interview with Mohammed El-Kurd hit me the hardest thanks to its more personal tone, but also great are: Mouin Rabbani, Richard Seymore, and Ussama Makdisi. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

The 'Joerges issue' just dropped- Law, Conflict and Transformation. Thank you @annabeckers.bsky.social, @vbogoesky.bsky.social, @stevenklein.bsky.social, @annapeychev.bsky.social, @mariaweimer.bsky.social, and others for brilliance and patience. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Joerges symposium is introduced by @annabeckers.bsky.social and @vbogoesky.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oh dear, time to delete my academia account. It's been long overdue

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...