Tigray as a Death World: Frantz Fanon, colonialism, and the limits of liberation struggles Ethiopia’s relationship with its constituent peripheries and Tigray in particular can without any doubt be described as colonial—a peculiar example of internal colonialism, in the sense that it is not...

"The condition in Tigray today is such that the people are subjected to life-threatening circumstances that render them the “living dead,” trapped in a state of extreme precarity and exposed to various forms of premature death"
by @tekgw.bsky.social

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Land grabbing through unlivability: Necro-scapes and slow violence in the expansion of conservation regimes in Tanzania - Felix Mantz, 2025 Land grabbing is a persistent and highly dynamic global phenomenon whereby people's power over territories are alienated through multiple and ever-changing...

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Rest in Power!

book cover of "Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography" featuring a woodcut of a farmer holding a basket filled with fruit in an ecologically diverse area surrounded by banners reading "Manusia MemeLihara Alam Memberi" + "TFSR 4-27-25 | Countering Dispossession in Casiavera, Indonesia (with David E Gilbert)"

An interview with @davidegilbert.bsky.social , anarchist political ecologist and author of "Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography" ( @ucpress.bsky.social ) on land back agro-ecology in Casiavera, Indonesia

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Rheinmetall stellt um – Waffenproduktion jetzt auch im Wedding Aufruf der AG Studis der Versammlung gegen Aufrüstung und Krieg zur „Soziales statt Aufrüstung!“-Demonstration

Aufruf der AG Studis der Versammlung gegen Aufrüstung und Krieg zur „Soziales statt Aufrüstung!“-Demonstration

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#20! 2nd in 5! Up the Reds ♥️

🌱✊ On April 17, we honor the memory of the 21 landless peasants murdered in El Dorado do Carajás, Brazil. This day is not just remembrance — it’s a loud cry for justice, dignity, and resistance. 📢 As corporate power tightens its grip and destroys our territories with extractivism, peasants rises with agroecology, food sovereignty, and popular feminism! 📰 Read and share the full article at nyeleniglobalforum.org #April17 #PeasantStruggles #Nyeleni2025 --- 🌱✊ El 17 de abril honramos la memoria de las 21 personas sin tierra asesinadas en El Dorado do Carajás, Brasil. Este día no es solo de recuerdo: es un grito fuerte por justicia, dignidad y resistencia. 📢 Frente al avance del poder corporativo que arrasa nuestros territorios con extractivismo, ¡el campesinado se levanta con agroecología, soberanía alimentaria y feminismo popular! 📰 Lee y comparte el artículo completo en nyeleniglobalforum.org #17deAbril #LuchasCampesinas #Nyeleni2025 --- 🌱✊ Le 17 avril, nous honorons la mémoire des 21 paysan·nes sans terre assassiné·es à Eldorado do Carajás, au Brésil. Ce jour n’est pas qu’un souvenir : c’est un cri fort pour la justice, la dignité et la résistance. 📢 Alors que le pouvoir des entreprises détruit nos territoires par l’extractivisme, les paysan·nes se lèvent avec l’agroécologie, la souveraineté alimentaire et le féminisme populaire ! 📰 Lisez et partagez l’article complet sur nyeleniglobalforum.org #17Avril #LuttesPaysannes #Nyeleni2025

🌱✊ On April 17, we honor the memory of the 21 landless peasants murdered in El Dorado do Carajás, Brazil. This day is not just remembrance — it’s a loud cry for justice, dignity, and resistance.

📢 As corporate power tightens its grip and destroys our […]

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How AfD’s Alice Weidel went from German pariah to top opposition figure When the newly elected Bundestag meets for the first time this week, far-right Weidel, who lives in Switzerland with her Sri Lankan-born wife, will lead its largest opposition party

"Alles für Deutschland, (“everything for Germany”) was once a Hitler-era rallying cry... in August last year the slogan popped up at events attended by Alice Weidel, the [AfD] party’s co-leader, but in a subtly modified form – Alice für Deutschland."

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‘The South resists’: the coloniality of Mexico’s National Development Plan From 25 April to 4 May 2023, the Caravan El Sur Resiste marched across seven states in southern Mexico, chanting ‘El sur resiste, existe porque resiste’, meaning ‘the south resists, it exists becau...

"From 25 April to 4 May 2023, the Caravan El Sur Resiste marched acrossseven states in southern Mexico, chanting ‘El sur resiste, existe porqueresiste’, meaning ‘the south resists, it exists because it resists’. " www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

BUNDESTAGSWAHL: Wahlverhalten von 18- bis 24-Jährigen, laut Infratest dimap/ARD

LINKE: 25% (+17)
AfD: 20% (+13)
Union: 13% (+3)
SPD: 12% (-3)
GRÜNE: 12% (-11)
FDP: 6% (-15)
BSW: 6% (NEU)
Volt: 2% (n.a.)
Tierschutzpartei: 1% (n.a.)

Änderungen zu 2021
#Bundestagswahl2025 #btw25

Learn more about: Contesting Extractive Futures: Indigenous struggles against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project Title: Contesting Extractive Futures: Indigenous struggles against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Felix Mantz, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Felix Mantz (he/him) is a faculty member in the department of political science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He completed his PhD in political science at Queen Mary University of London. His research is transdisciplinary, spanning across international political economy, environmental politics, and anti/decolonial studies.

Learn more about: Contesting Extractive Futures: Indigenous struggles against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Project Title: Contesting Extractive Futures: Indigenous struggles against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Felix Mantz, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Felix Mantz (he/him) is a…

Grassroots Responses to Extractivism This volume makes visible the many innovative resistances and solutions emanating from the Global South, in response to the injustices of the current global eco…

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#Grassroots Responses to #Extractivism: Case Studies from Around the World edited by Samuel Leguizamon Grant, Felix Mantz (@fmantz161.bsky.social) & Mariko Frame

Digs into innovative solutions to current ecological crises from the #GlobalSouth.

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Abolition as a global project: engaging struggles against corporate seeds in Tanzania Abolitionism features some of the most vibrant movements and critical scholarship today. Despite growing international reach, struggles in the so-called ‘Global South' are seemingly less often thou...

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Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – the tactics the government uses Tanzania is using conservation as a pretext for land grabs and human rights violations.

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