"The point of deportability isn’t to actually deport everybody... Deportation and deportability operate as a check on the formation of organized labor and the demands of workers.” A. Naomi Paik, 2022 / Green Dreamer podcast kamea.substack.com/p/green-drea...

Great piece by @greendreamerkamea.bsky.social-I’ve written about “slowness” and anarchism in my own work. But, as is often the case for white leftists and as this piece points out, I’m just offering a perspective on an idea intrinsic to many non-Western of living and seeing the world.

“Slowing down is not a function of speed. It's not, ‘let's take a break’, ‘let's leave it all behind.’ Slowing down is a function of deepening awareness, noticing the others in the room." – Bayo Akomolafe, as quoted in my latest essay on the politics of slowness: kamea.substack.com/p/green-drea...

"Our longing for connection often gets hacked by these social media algorithms and likes. But underneath, there is a very human need for connection and belonging." – Prentis Hemphill on "Becoming strange to the normalcies of this world" www.greendreamer.com/podcast/pren...