zimbaboy

Into political ecology, to some extent!

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Remember the life and legacy of Dr. Walter Rodney. He was killed by his government in Guyana, June 13, 1980.. the CIA and the British and the Europeans did not like his book. How Europe under develop Africa. it was also banned in Jamaica because of its revolutionary teaching.

[David Chandler @DavidCh27992090]

Jamie Lorimer @jsplorimer, 'Governing Through #Gaia: The #Biopolitics of Delivering Nature-Based Solutions with Ecosystem Engineers', @ProgHumGeog June 2026 #7PIRS025W #6PIRS036W #Anthropocene #complexity #GoverningCrisis https://t.co/QiQNgCI0tf

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

A Life That Served a Purpose
In a world chasing fleeting applause, some souls choose the long, quiet road of service. Today, welfare economist Jean Drèze has been honoured with a global award for his profound research on poverty and inequality in India.

Born in Belgium, he made India his home and its people his purpose. With a scholar’s rigour and a revolutionary’s heart, he stood beside the forgotten—documenting their struggles, amplifying their voices, and shaping policies that reached millions.

His tireless advocacy helped birth two landmark legislations that still stand as lifelines: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which offered dignity through work to the rural poor, and the National Food Security Act, which sought to ensure no one sleeps hungry in a land of plenty.

This is not just an award. It is recognition of a life lived in radical empathy. Of choosing dusty villages over ivory towers. Of measuring success not in citations or comfort, but in the quiet lifting of human suffering.

Jean Drèze reminds us that the highest calling is to use one’s intellect, privilege, and time in the service of those who have the least.

In an age of cynicism, his journey is a living ode:
To knowledge that heals. To scholarship that serves. To a life that mattered.

Congratulations and Thank You Professor Drèze.
India is better because you walked among us.
May your example inspire a new generation to stop performing compassion and start practising it—with depth, persistence, and love.
🧡 🙏
#JeanDreze #ServiceAboveSelf #India #SocialJustice

[Abdikarin Dahir @Abdikarindahirr]

🚨| 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 : 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗢𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻 has arrived in Mogadishu to an extraordinary welcome, Crowds gathered in the capital to honor the award-winning referee best Referee, who remains a symbol of pride and inspiration for Somalia.

Omar Artan Was going to be first Somali to officiate at a World Cup.
@BBCNews @DailyMail @SkySports
@BBCSport @CNN @TheAthleticFC @Telegraph @AJEnglish @clashreport @mirrorsportslk @Sports @sistoney67 @lnstantFoot @Polymarket @TouchlineX

[AFSA @Afsafrica]

🌱 𝐓h𝐞 𝐍'𝐃j𝐚m𝐞n𝐚 𝐃e𝐜l𝐚r𝐚t𝐢o𝐧 | 𝐀f𝐫i𝐜a's S𝐞e𝐝s B𝐞l𝐨n𝐠 𝐭o I𝐭s P𝐞o𝐩l𝐞s

From 2 to 4 June 2026, AFSA convened the 4th Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance in N'Djamena, Chad — bringing together farmers' organizations, civil society, women and youth movements, academics, parliamentarians, and development partners from 20 African countries. Together, they adopted a landmark declaration calling for the full recognition, protection and implementation of farmers' rights and seed sovereignty across Africa.

Farmer-Managed Seed Systems provide 90% of seeds used by African farmers and are the foundation of the continent's agricultural biodiversity, climate resilience, and food sovereignty. Yet they face growing threats from restrictive laws, corporate concentration, and digital technologies that risk converting Africa's biological heritage into private assets.

The N'Djamena Declaration draws a clear line: Africa's seeds belong to its peoples — not to corporations, not to patents, not to private databases.

📄 Read and download the full declaration:

🇬🇧 English:
https://t.co/t2pdPqeCHM

🇫🇷 Français:
https://t.co/qfgWZDY4zB

#NdjamenaDeclaration #SeedIsLife #FarmersRights #SeedSovereignty #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #FarmerManagedSeedSystems

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Africa is not poor... Africa is divided.

One of the most painful truths about Africa is that it remains divided. Kwame Nkrumah understood this long ago. He believed Africa's greatest weapon was not gold, oil, or diamonds... but UNITY.

[Jason W. Moore @oikeios]

Great article.

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

The radical power of African oral tradition - ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
https://t.co/Ob3OLjifTi

[Afro Bolshevik ☭ @SankofaMarxist]

does anyone know where i can watch this film online?

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

https://t.co/BpoK2vrcbn

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

Great article critiquing decolonial theory's characterisation of the limitations of 20th century anticolonial nationalisms and national liberation movements!
https://t.co/3Eevq4KQ6V

[J of Agrarian Change @AgrarianChange]

New review article in @AgrarianChange. A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi discusses @oikeios’ Capitalism in the Web of Life (reprinted 2025) through debates on the agrarian question and ecological Marxism.
Open access here: https://t.co/Bj50lFR6re

[The Elephant @theelephantinfo]

According to Fanon, the peasant masses are capable of extraordinary acts of revolt and resistance, but they lack a coherent political vision. Their uprisings are spontaneous and insurgent, not strategic or programmatic. What they require is a unifying project, an organised, long-term vision of transformation. He introduces the figure of the radical intellectual. Often cast out from the cities by the national bourgeoisie, they find themselves in the rural hinterlands. It is there, in exile, that they undergo a kind of political reconstitution. Living among the peasantry, they cease to be mere transmitters of elite ideology and begin to operate, in Gramscian terms, as organic intellectuals.
Analysis: https://t.co/WfK0jkoJfr

@ROAPEjournal @CiruMuriuki @KatieSandwell @alexdpking @gndmediauk @wmnjoya @Udadisi @samar42 @ReginaldOduor @samar42 @Farida_N @jacobin @jkobuthi @realoyungapala @johngithongo

[La Via Campesina SEAf @LVCSEAf]

Youth championing the transition to Agroecology: In this video by @ESAFFUG showcases 18 youth from across Uganda who were trained on #Agroecology. They gained practical skills and inspiration to mobilize more youth in advancing agroecology.

Watch Video: https://t.co/L9EaLpcm0Q

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I was honoured to give the @IDS_UK Annual Lecture this spring, on capitalism, imperialism and ecology. A really wonderful group of researchers, students and staff, thank you all for welcoming me.

The talk and discussion is available online here: https://t.co/C1tY3CedsZ

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“The country has never been so divided and that is heartbreaking”

The Green Party’s Rachel Millward says it is our “collective responsibility” to heal political divides in the UK, but the “great divide” is the “economic difficulty” caused by wealth inequality

#bbcqt

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is great from Barry Gardiner.

Responsibility, humility, optimism. All words he says, and that resonate with lost Labour voters - right or left.

All words nobody associates with the PM.

[zimbaboy @zimbaboy]

Of course. The world food regime has repeatedly lied to us since the 1960s. In the meantime, destroying the environment.

[La Via Campesina (EN) @via_campesina]

Q: What proportion of the global food supply is produced by small-scale food producers?

A: 70%. At the very least.

https://t.co/YXvbjudDxj

[Febress Ssenyonyi @FebSsenyonyi]

Yesterday’s fight against the Sovereign Bill may not have stopped its passing, but I’m proud of my husband, @JoelSsenyonyi, and the other opposition leaders who stood firmly against this Bill amidst disrespect and intimidation.

True leadership is standing for what is right, even when the odds are against you. As your wife, I’m proud to call you my husband and my leader.

Thank you for being a people-centered leader who truly loves his country. 🇺🇬

[Gideon Nova Kwikiriza @KwikirizaNova]

LoP: They told you to get out and not to come to the microphone and make noise.

Speaker: Go go go go