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PhD student
political ecology | food sovereignty
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[Hind Khoudary @Hind_Gaza]

Everyone who has been saying they want to help Gaza and support its people needs to do more than just talk. Sharing this campaign is the bare minimum. Gaza is heading into another winter, and people are still living in tents, exposed to the rain and cold.

If you mean it when you say you stand with Gaza, prove it. Share this campaign. Help us reach people. Do something before the rain comes.

https://t.co/SIa3IGwaAD

[آدم 🇵🇸 @passerineee]

@LibyaLiberty exactly! Egyptian food is just Arabi soul food

[آدم 🇵🇸 @passerineee]

@MGaraoun amazing

[آدم 🇵🇸 @passerineee]

can anyone on here help me find a pdf of the book "Une ferme en Algérie" from Didier Guignard

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Moving beyond the critique of the letter itself which has been already addressed by colleagues/friends, what has become visible over the past few days goes beyond the failure of one letter or the outrage surrounding it. It reveals something deeper about the political and intellectual order that produced it.

I. The decay of western left intellectual authority

For decades, prominent Western left intellectuals have spoken with an authority that assumed their analyses could shape movements and political/public consciousness. The extensive scrutiny and rejection this letter has received shows how such authority is eroding.

The Guardian and the wider mainstream media, even when furnished with left cover, increasingly struggle to manufacture the moral consensus they once could. Humanitarian language, progressive/abolitionist credentials, calibrated condemnations and declarations of solidarity remain available, but their power to confuse or persuade the masses is diminishing.

The empire is experiencing a crisis of hegemony (owed to historic defeat of US by Iran and Resistance by anti-colonial forces in West Asia) and its intellectual institutions are decaying with it.

II. Condemnation is not politics

There is also a question for those, including comrades, who have rightly condemned the letter: what does condemnation actually accomplish?

It can provide the feeling of opposition without confronting the structures producing the violence. It allows people to distinguish themselves from the most vulgar representatives of imperial power while remaining embedded in the society that sustains and benefits from it.

Thinking, analyzing and denouncing matter. But they cannot become substitutes for political transformation.

The harder question is therefore: what kind of movement continues to reproduce intellectual authorities so detached from the material anti-colonial struggles of the people they claim to stand beside?

And how have Western left intellectuals who took disastrous positions on Syria retained legitimacy and institutional authority with so little accountability for the violence to which they contributed?

III. The letter’s irrelevance to Iranian political life

Perhaps the most revealing fact is what has *not* happened.

I have been closely following Iranian spaces from inside Iran; universities, classrooms, women’s collectives, labour spaces and political discussions. I have seen no meaningful engagement with this letter.

Its circulation has been overwhelmingly concentrated in English-language media and Western political spaces. A letter that appears enormously important in the West has little discernible significance among the people whose lives it claims to address.

That gap exposes the distance between the political imagination of the imperial centre and the material reality of those living under its consequences.

Western subjects may be surprised to discover how irrelevant they have become to the anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles unfolding beyond the imperial centre.

Finally

After everything i have lived through over the past two years, and specially after talking to Minab families, I refuse to extend the language of “good intentions” to those who signed this letter. They had decades of history, scholarship, testimony, war, sanctions, intervention and resistance from which to learn.

The future is being made by those who have proved capable of changing the balance of power in fav of the masses of the periphery. History is being made by the Resistance forces across West Asia led by the Islamic Republic of Iran, not through the increasingly irrelevant/saviour takes of the imperial intellectual class.

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Let Iran’s beauty bless your day

[Q. Ali @NobleQAli]

“Eco-authoritarian”

Do you see what I mean when I say “authoritarian” is an empty and meaningless expression

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

"Africa, the politics of unity: an analysis of a contemporary social movement" by Immanuel Wallerstein.

https://t.co/4TyB9Z1NV5

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Thomas Sankara celebrating Eid al-Adha with the Burkinabè people in 1986... Eid Mubarak 🤲🏿

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algeria, 1969.

[The Sameer Project @sameerproject]

Updates from The Sameer Project team in the last two weeks:

- 13 year old relative of team member hung himself and died, may he rest in peace
- The cousin of a team member was killed by a drone, may he rest in peace
- One of our team members got injured yesterday with shrapnel in his arms and hit his head from a car bombing in Gaza City
- One of our bus drivers got hit with a metal rod on his head today because there was no space in the free bus we provide

When our team member went to the police station to report the bus incident, the station was full of boys from age 11 to 15 years old who were accused of stealing.

Levels of desperation are high and the mental health of Palestinians in Gaza is extremely low from a genocide that surpassed the 2.5 years.

On top of all this, mutual aid groups are closing or significantly decreasing their distributions.

Nothing to say but Hasbi Allah wa Nema Alwakeel (Allah is sufficient for me, and He is the best Disposer of affairs).

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

The first library built during the genocide.

[آدم 🇵🇸 @passerineee]

@ClimateGaliev plssss send 🙏

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

"Before the adoption of manioc, maize had already become indispensable to the African agricultural systems that were widely being reorganized along the Atlantic coast to meet slave traders' growing demand for food. Maize provided a high-yielding, quick-maturing cereal that was easily prepared and whose grains could be stored for long periods. The particular success of maize in Lower Guinea, for example, was not due to a dearth of indigenous foodstaples or the incapacity of the region's agricultural systems. This Columbian Exchange crop flourished because its cultivation and preparation made the cereal ideally suited to the trade in human beings.

Maize revolutionized agricultural production in Africa even as it targeted the segment of the population who had been made slaves. It was planted to expedite and ensure delivery of slaves to New World plantation societies. In this sense, maize can be seen as a symbol of the dehumanizing condition of chattel slaves, who were no longer able to exercise dietary preferences or choose the type and amount of food they consumed. A serving of maize was a daily reminder that one no longer held the fundamental right to eat the food that traditionally defined membership in a culture. It signaled the rupture of fundamental entitlements to traditional preferences. Maize emphasized a person's demotion from human being to commodity, the loss of social status and cultural identity, of being made a kinless and orphaned servant in the Atlantic world.

Maize was introduced so early to western Africa that some scholars initially believed it was present before Europeans arrived in the fifteenth century. By the 1540s it was planted in the Cape Verde Islands. Plant remains in the archaeological record show that it was grown in the interior of the Gold Coast by the seventeenth century. Maize is the sole Amerindian representative of the useful food plants that Marees depicted on his visit to the Gold Coast at the beginning of that century. His drawing places maize alongside prominent indigenous African foodstaples—rice, millet, cowpea (black-eyed pea), fonio (Digitaria exilis), néré (Parkia biglobosa), melegueta pepper—in addition to ginger and sugarcane, which had been introduced to the continent before 1500.

Millet, sorghum, yams, plantains, and palm nuts are traditional foodstaples of Lower Guinea. The insertion of maize into the assemblage of African domesticates cultivated in the region had ecological and dietary significance, as archaeologist Ann Brower Stahl points out. In the Gold Coast, maize is harvested during the "hungry season," the lean months of chronic shortfall in between the yam and sorghum harvests. The adoption of maize thus closed a gap in the cycle of agricultural production by facilitating food availability year-round. As the transatlantic slave trade intensified, the need to create surpluses in order to feed its various participants changed the broader consumption pattern of traditional African foodstaples and placed the Amerindian introduction in a prominent role. Seen from this vantage, maize, like manioc, was not, as some accounts would have it, the benevolent and timely rescuer of a chronically hungry continent. These views situate the arrival of Amerindian staples within a framework that considers Africa as a region of few indigenous food crops, whose agricultural systems have long been unable to sustain its peoples. Instead, maize and manioc were expeditious contributors to the Atlantic slave trade's subsistence reserves. Discussions of Columbian Exchange crop introductions to Africa thus should not be divorced from their role in enabling the commerce in human beings. They cannot ignore the transatlantic trade's considerable impact on demand for food grown in Africa."

— Carney, Judith A. & Richard Rosomoff. In the Shadow of slavery: Africa’s botanical legacy in the Atlantic world. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. pp 55-7.
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[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

The ceasefire must include Lebanon. The 1.2 million displaced Lebanese people must return to their homes.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

This unapologetic intent to commit genocide, as seen in Gaza, is the direct result of Americans, bereft of political agency, enabling atrocities carried out by those they fund through their taxes/ facilitates the displacement of violence to our homeland.

The peace you live in, is at the cost of our lives.

We are resolute in holding every war criminal accountable, not in Geneva or New York, but in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Tehran.

[Momodou ✊🏿 @MomodouTaal]

Professor @bikrumsinghgill reminded me: Trump can existentially threaten an entire civilisation. And the fact that the US is not experiencing of a crisis of legitimacy in this moment. With no mass mobilisation and direct action against the sitting p*dophile and administration, is due to the years of demonisation and delegitimisation of The Islamic Republic. For every academic and leftist social commentator who said “regime” and “supported the people” you contributed to this. You have a direct hand in reproducing the logic that now allows for the president to threaten mass extinction of a people. We won’t forget.

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass.

I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed.

One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.”

This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it.

From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own.

We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution.

Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

It’s truly astounding to witness the Western shock at Iran responding to its leader being assassinated with proportionate attacks on the guilty parties. The psychology of Western hegemony mirrors that of rapists and abusers: they are stunned by their victims fighting back.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

look I don’t agree with bombing this country but I am going to repeat every state department characterization and talking point about that government

[Helyeh Doutaghi | حليا دوطاقي @Helyeh_Doutaghi]

Both US & Zionist regime are currently bombing Iran. I have heard over 10 explosions so far, including in the heart of the city's most densely populated area of Tehran, near Tehran University, as well as strategic sites in the South.

This is a blatant act of aggression against Iran’s sovereignty, perpetrated by the worst of humanity. Iran, alongside the Resistance forces, will fight these pedophile genociders to defend humanity itself.