“Everybody has to die Firdaus. I will die and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”— Nawal El Saadawi My website 🔗: williamcanderson.info My book 📖: https://www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html
Please donate if you can! “After several years of treatment, Shontina is entering a new phase of care in her health journey, and we're turning to our community for support.” www.gofundme.com/f/team-shont...
Donate to Community Care for Filmmaker & Visionary Shontina Vernon, organized by Team Shontina VernonAfter several years of treatment, Shontina is entering a new … Team Shontina Vernon needs your support for Community Care for Filmmaker & Visionary Shontina Vernonwww.gofundme.comAs this essay mentions at the top of the second paragraph, it’s a follow up to a previous piece that’s explicitly dealing with Native genocide. logicmag.io/issue-21-med...
Curating Colonization: On Sharing Visuals of the Dead“Using images to highlight the gruesome and merciless power of an oppressor does not necessarily generate sympathy for the oppressed; it can be a t...logicmag.ioWingsNDNSilver"America" will never be any of those allegedly good things as long as everyone persists in erasing the Indigenous peoples of these lands. As this does. Two oblique references to variants of the word "genocide," but we can't even be named?
I went to the Netherlands and visited Leiden, where the Pilgrims first departed on the Speedwell. For @prismreports.org, I reflected on the U.S. semiquincentennial in a personal essay about letting go of the national myth of what the U.S. is and what it could be. prismreports.org/2026/07/23/e...
Another way out: Empires don't last forever—we help them fallAs news of the latest authoritarian incursions spreads, we have to keep reminding ourselves what the ground beneath us saysprismreports.orgI am beyond honored to have played a role in bringing this book to life. Go make sure you get your copy right now because this is going to be one of those books that sells out, trust me! www.akpress.org/anarchist-pa...
AK PressOver the years, many of us have had the privilege of hearing Ashanti Alston speak on Black anarchism, political prisoners, Zapatismo, and lessons from organizing. With the help of @williamcson.bsky.social we've compiled his writings, speeches, and interviews into a volume we can all learn from.
“The nasty ethical problem of representation remains under a Wall Street-controlled government with a history of genocide, slavery, misogyny, and racism.”
PrismPrison gerrymandering offers only the illusion of political representation, writes Ira Memaj in an op-ed. The Census Bureau counts incarcerated people as part of the overwhelmingly white, rural communities where they are imprisoned, funneling political resources away from disinvested communities.
“The Buddha treated religion as a personal matter. He demarcated religion from secular power and accepted that each should have its own priorities and values. The turning of Buddhism into the Lankan state religion unbalanced this equation.”
Himal SouthasianSri Lankan Buddhists believe that the Buddha’s teaching exists in its purest form only in their land. Yet caste is the basic organising principle of the Sri Lankan sangha. Read the piece by Tisaranee Gunasekara to know more: https://www.himalmag.com/sri-lanka-sinhala-buddhism-history-hemarathana/
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TOMORROW: Join Michael Kimble Support Committee + me from 1-3 PM EST for a discussion and workshop on the life of incarcerated comrade, Michael Kimble, in the context of Black radical struggle. DM or email the Committee for the Zoom link. And please donate!! Link: www.instagram.com/p/DZQn0I7Efes/
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Black Rose / Rosa Negra📣 Online event announcement 📣 July 5th: A Conversation with Anarchists in Sudan! This event is organized by a Black Anarchist Resistance & Sudanese Solidarity (BARSS), a coalition of Black Autonomy Federation, Black Rose/Rosa Negra, and the Dugout Podcast. www.blackrosefed.org/conversation...
People often preach about a better tomorrow while failing to meet needs in the present day. If our politics mean anything, it'll be evident in our actions and results, not in loudness, ideological hubris, or reciting doctrine. I wrote about why for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/06/17/r...
Another way out: Don't plan a future that fails the presentSome of the most impactful work isn’t glorified. It’s the work of meeting people’s material needs and building responses to disastersprismreports.org