I feel like I’ve taken the red pill and broken free of something, seeing for the first time the gears of the machinery of modern life that usually remain hidden from those of us privileged enough to be ignorant of such things
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“Report from the Hothouse:
The Tomato Pickers
CrimethInc. Field Agent Guero Flaco spent four months working and living
undercover in a forty-two-acre greenhouse complex at the pulsing heart of
North America’s greenhouse tomato industry, which relies almost exclusively
on contracted laborers from Mexico and the Caribbean. He wrote these letters
by flashlight from his bunk inside the warehouse dorm room.”
Living Quarters I live with forty-four Mexican men in one of the com-pany’s three packing warehouses. The same number of Mexicans live in a second warehouse, and Jamaican and Vietnamese workers share rooms in a third. All forty-five of us sleep in four bunkrooms upstairs inside the dimly lit warehouse. There are no dressers in the bunkrooms; we... See more
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“Report from the Hothouse:
The Tomato Pickers
CrimethInc. Field Agent Guero Flaco spent four months working and living
undercover in a forty-two-acre greenhouse complex at the pulsing heart of
North America’s greenhouse tomato industry, which relies almost exclusively
on contracted laborers from Mexico and the Caribbean. He wrote these letters
by flashlight from his bunk inside the warehouse dorm room.” this is some real fieldwork
The idea that an understanding of genocide, that a memory of holo-causts can only lead people to want to dismantle the system is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is true: that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holo-causts has led people to... See more
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Dear reader, don’t be bashful about your desires, whether or not they make sense to those around you or fit any established revolutionary paradigm. Confide them to your friends and family as well as to strangers. Shout them from the rooftops and in your school or o∞ce or church. Paint them in bold letters on every wall and on banners for parades.... See more