Take A Look Around
Morning Comrades!
I had an intense work-related weekend that didn’t leave me with much time to formulate any original thoughts worthwhile of your time today but, managed to catch up with a much needed deep dive into several discourses around global politics and happenings that I am going to be sharing with you today to set you up with an overview of what is going on around us.
To start, new tunes for your week. Amazingly enough this weeks playlist marks the 3rd year of sharing music in the form of these playlists and I hope you are all still getting as much out of these as I get from putting these together. This week’s theme, if there ever is one in the first place, would be varied - there is so much music from so many different genres in here this week that it defies my ability to name it. It’s a whole vibe though so click on the below to get into it.
Following are the stories, comments and discussions that interested me on Sunday. Most of these I will keep uncommented mostly due to the belief that no comment from this end side of the screen is necessary and by the virtue of the fact that you are reading is, most likely will interest you.
To kick this off though a few pieces on a climate protest action over the weekend. I am sure you have caught wind at the very least of the protest in which two people threw paint on a ( glass-covered) Van Gough painting and the glued themselves to the wall said painting was hanging on. Again no need for my two cents here, but the sheer amount of attention this got - in comparison for example to the person that burned themselves alive on the steps of the US Capitol for the same reason- and the subsequent nonsense the reactionary crowd presented the world with, here are two takes that I enjoyed for you. All these screenshots are linked for you.
This essay below is fascinating in several ways. Not only is it a first person account of a time seemingly long gone, but additionally gives great insight into what it was like to have been active in the counter-cultural revolutions in the US around the 60s as well as the subversive powers of the state.
On that note, this is a fascinating read into how the state works in subverting every and all movements that are even in the slightest opposed to capitalism:
And no, it’s not a tinfoil hat conspiracy. Far from it:
Since it looks extremely likely that the US once again will evade Haiti for “democracy” this article is a must read.
A most excellent thread on British Imperialism and what it looked like:
And in totally unrelated news to the above, I came across this little text that I wrote in the beginning of 2019, before the pandemic and seismic shifts that have since taken place. Some things change, some don’t. Thanks for being here, your attention and support.
Yours,
V.
Black Lodges 2019.
Black Lodges is a conduit for subversive art and propaganda in direct opposition to the global kleptocracy, their tools, puppets, mechanisms and active warfare against us all. We believe in the dialectical relationship of education and direct action. We acknowledge that our efforts are not for ourselves but to create a future outside of the currently enforced system of wage slavery whose single minded, one-generational method of enrichment at the cost of this planet and its occupants we will no longer endure. In all their decadence, this planet dies. Enough is Enough.
We are not leaders, but educators, agitators and those willing to not only ask the right questions but to act upon them.
Through art, dialogue, direct action and subversive agitation we will promote the idea that enough is enough, that we can reinvent the future outside and without the old, dysfunctional, destructive construct of this world. True to the words, “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” we are here to do what we can. Welcome to the family.
There is a war going on, and it is time that we all went.