producing multicultural touring performances in a tiny remote town in rural Alaska is an adventure! here's a sweet reflection on our last event from one of my fellow board members
China’s planned economy is beating the west on climate, Tianenman square protestors were shot for opposing a wave of reforms forced by US capitalists, and other fine grained Chinese economic history we don’t know but really should
My own Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan posts fear-mongering press releases about China constantly, but China poses no military threat to the US. It is surrounded by 200+ US military bases but has no bases surrounding us. Hickel argues China threatens the profits of US capitalists, not the American people, thus the saber rattling from maga types like Sullivan, whose family runs a massive Ohio chemical corporation
“Everyone hates me when I say this because we are all little addicts who want to defend our addictions and the livelihoods that are now unfortunately entangled up with them, but: we have yet to reckon both totally and personally with the fact that the smarphone is an anti-social instrument of control, surveillance, and self-annihilation.”
Denver mom detained by ICE without a deportation order, during her lunch break at Target, because of her immigration rights work
"John Fabbricatore, the retired field director for ICE in Denver, says the agency tried to deport Vizguerra for years, starting in President Donald Trump's first term.
“She's been against this government, against ICE,” Fabbricatore said. “She's just part of the Abolish ICE movement, and she should have been deported years ago.”
was out papering teslas on my dog walk, a practice that has got me looking closer at cars and noticing how ubiquitous the mega tall & blunt front grille has become. the hummer-ification of the US auto fleet is shit design for safety, aesthetic, and air resistance/mpg reasons
Alaska Dept of Corrections is still killing Alaskans at alarming rates, and ACLU Alaska is still trying to get justice. Alaskans need to be elevating & addressing this terrifying and ongoing problem in our jails
Mahmoud Khalil, now disappeared, was targeted by Shai Davidai who tweeted a request for his unconstitutional deportation to Marco Rubio (because these people are evil and performative)
Khalil has a green card and a US partner who is 8 months pregnant and cannot locate him
just took a bike ride and put a b/w print of this under the wipers of about 25 teslas. one owner came out as i was there and we had a nice chat, he hadn't heard of #TeslaTakedown and had been resigned to driving the car and avoiding thinking too hard about it
partner telling me I can offend fewer people by hanging this on bulletin boards instead of cars and I’m like bro u r missing the point, this coup won’t end without discomfort among the privileged
obligate organizer, systems thinker, radical optimist, public good believer, artsy generalistliving in Lingít Aani, my ancestors were quebecois & ukrainian jewsposts auto delete except the ones I keep at #bikeTales #psg #socialTech #ebbTideJams⚠️: I’m often wrong Avi is wild hair blowing in wind, cover is a watercolor I made of a volcano