but first,

The guerilla studies. The guerilla studies. The guerilla studies. My brothers and sisters, before I sit down, I beg you, I plead with you… I have thrown out some concepts. You may not have to accept them but I only ask one thing. I beg you to study. I beg you to analyze the problems of our people. You are students. In any revolutionary movement, students played the role of the revolutionary intelligentsia. Your job is to analyze the problems that face our people, criticize the proposed solutions, argue and debate and discuss them, and then give them back to the masses. That is your job.

You cannot do that if you're not reading… You are students, you must know these things. You are students, you must be studying these things. Your people need you. Your people need you. They need your analytical mind. I beg you, I plead with you, please, for your people, study and work for us.

- Kwame Ture, March 1971

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my attempt to do so, fall 2025 version <3

"'the flowers don't know how much money i have in my bank account'"

⬑ quote from finney 2021

⬑ response to the hour of liberation has arrived (1974)

⬑ a group concept art project based on the funambulist magazine #49

⬑ response to the introduction of robbins' carbon sovereignty

"abolition always paired with rebuilding"

⬑ response to chapter 3 of robbins' carbon sovereignty

⬑ introductory question dialogue between classmates. i'm 〇 / #2

"'specificities aren't stomped out by commonalities'" / "context of child enslavement" / "homogenizing separate prison revolts" / "power of finding commonalities & balancing that with nuance/variation"

⬑ response to the hour of liberation has arrived

"'resources are just another word for colonialism'" / "'resources' is a colonial construct" / "used to turn nature into a commodity" / "decolonial efforts must include reconnection to indigenous ideas of nature"

⬑ response to suffering for water, suffering from water by sultana

"america is very good at marketing -- american dream idea, repackaging of colonialism through bases & proxy wars"

⬑ pair(ily B) notes: chapter four of black marxism by cedric robinson

"'a revolution *by* education required a revolution *in* education'"

⬑ quote from we are an african people by russell rickford

"idea that science is also a social construct" / "our relationship to fact" / "definitions/standards/funding socially influenced"

⬑ pair brainstorm: chapter four of black marxism by cedric robinson

What is a lesson you've learned from the natural world? "good things take time - looking up at the trees and wondering how i could think of my life that way / approach time calmer"
"shit STARTS with students" / "people die but it's worth it in the end" / "how do you get people who benefit from the system to put their all in the way that is necessary" / "how do you survive."

⬑ thoughts on have you heard from johannesburg: ep 3 (trailer)

⬑ response to chan et al., 2016

"sometimes i think we talk too much about definitions and not enough about appreciation"

⬑ reflection on class field trip removing buckthorn

"movements start small"

⬑ response to the 6th world

"GOVERNMENT VALUES DAMAGE TO STUFF MORE THAN DAMAGE TO PEOPLE" / "people shifting schedules to nocturnal" / "we're on chapter one of climate change" / "holy shit"

⬑ notes on not built for this

⬑ response to the darjeeling distinction by sarah besky

"nonprofit industrial complex" / "the revolution will not be funded"
"importance of the work that happens IN BETWEEN. the stepping stones & foundational shit"

⬑ response to introduction of curley, 2021

"'we are black because the white person is looking at us' DAMN" / "repression AS reaction idea"
"PAULA" / "organize against, within, & beyond the state" / "through lens of time - think about long game" / "through the lens of love - actions based in care" / "through the lens of power - braided power"

⬑ notes from rojas' part of the state of the state. & speaking of:

⬑ semester reflection for my favorite class. & ibid:

okay last one. still from that reflection

that's all thanks!!! this is what happens when i take classes i like

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