It's everybody's fight

A conversation with Liz Casey of Community Care Tucson on the power of mutual aid, the cruelty of immigration detention, and how city officials are failing us.

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Catching up after a big move—and an exciting announcement. My fam, my goodness it has been so long I have really missed each and every one of you and hope you are all holding on tight and finding your peace and joy wherever you can.

110: It brings forth a world

On the brink of a big change, learning from the mesquite tree This is going to be the last newsletter before a bit of a hiatus, don't worry nothing is wrong but I do have news which is that I am moving to Tucson, Arizona. I know, big

109: Climate change in solid form

Plastic waste is inescapable, driven by industry, and inseparable from the climate crisis Today we are going to talk about something that is very close to my heart, which is plastic, and by that I mean it is literally close to my heart because the sweatshirt I am wearing is

108: If there were no future

Today is an exciting day because we are going to talk about Children of Men, one of my favorite movies of all time.

107: Is there no alternative?

Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is a grim thesis, but a tough one to argue with right now And we are back. I have missed you all I hope everyone had a decent if not great holiday and got to spend some time with loved ones and look at

106: The world won't end

A bunch of things I loved in 2021 I've been working on some year-end retrospective things for work lately and maybe it's just the contrast to how darkly dramatic 2020 and especially its conclusion were, but I've been having a hard time sort of

105: Reparative justice

The third annual Crisis Palace feel good guide to year end giving One of the things about living during the Biden administration is that the Republican Party's horrors hit differently than they did under Trump, when they were mostly inescapable, because try as you might, you could not

104: All the blood in the world is mine

In Wendy Brown's Undoing the Demos, neoliberalism brings the tyranny of the market and the death of the democratic project -- Oh boy, another issue being written right as our Diarrhea Country kicks into full gear, in this case the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, which we honestly all knew

103: COP BIF BBB WTF

It just keeps going and then after a while we die -- Today we are going to do one of those issues where we get up to speed together on what is happening in big climate news, namely legislation in U.S. Congress and whatever in god's name

102: Above the fray

Philanthropy's refusal to fight the fossil fuel industry and the GOP is holding back progress on climate change -- Hello everyone today we have something special, you might call it a Crisis Palace classic in that it's all about climate change funding. Specifically it is an