A lot going on here

New pod w Vincent Bevins. Much requested guest and for very good reason!

E caiu no conto do sanduíche de mortadela (pra quem não é de São Paulo: não caiam nessa. Sanduíche de pernil do Estadão e bauru do Ponto Chic são sanduíches tradicionais da cidade infinitamente superiores)

They are really going to try to destroy the accumulation of knowledge itself to spite these kids

'cigarro faz mal' amigo tem gente que trabalha 50 horas por semana

By emailing and texting people and just showing up and asking politely, I have found it incredibly easy to speak with people at encampments across the US. Refusing to engage with their designated spokespersons is refusing to acknowledge that these movements actually exist

This was a very good book by Vincent Bevins. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vincent…

Berkeley professors condemn the state and para-state violence against students

If you, as a journalist, believe contemporary protest is subject to misrepresentation and media manipulation, your job is not to demand an ideal form which is impossible now, or never even existed. Your job is to tell the truth. Our class is the problem here, not the solution

Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley - as it happens, this is exactly where I protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The large encampment is relaxed and organized, and it was very easy to get information and request interviews

Seven people who took part in activities to express political support for Palestine were arrested abruptly from their homes by authorities in Alexandria over the past week. Six were arrested after suspending a banner in solidarity with Gaza from the overpass of an Alexandria…

This is even more pronounced in the 2010s. In the majority of the mass protest events I looked at, it was a crackdown on a privileged or vulnerable part of the population that caused the rapid escalation

When dealing with governments, corporations, or political parties, mainstream journalists accept that these powerful organizations may choose when to offer access and which interviews to give. But somehow we do not grant this right to kids under intense media and legal pressure

'A young boy is growing up on the burning-hot coast of Luanda, as Cuban soldiers and Soviet advisers help to defend Angola from South African forces bent on crushing the revolution and imposing a government that is friendly to the Apartheid regime.' northsouthnotes.org/p/avo-dezanove…

'KFC is not on the BDS list of targeted companies. But many Malaysians see any American fast food operator to be related to Israel'

Ottoman dental book showing a tooth infection

Oakland, next Saturday ! Very grateful for the invitation instagram.com/p/C5rP_HIy08K/…

On MST encampments in Brazil, members of the Landless Workers' Movement regularly get into debates about revolutionary theory, land reform in China vs. Europe, Soviet achievements and failures, imperialism and resistance, Luxemburg and Lenin and so on. And that is just at the bar