Nika Dubrovsky
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Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More http://davidgraeber.institute, http://davidgraeber.org @museumofcare, http://a4kids.org @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social
Cities Made Differently is a series of books, public art projects and conversations each full of pictures and stories about what it means to be a human.
While Congress eats lunch, 2 million Palestinians are being starved. We took this message to the Capitol cafeteria because the people in that building can lift the siege. 6,000 aid trucks are waiting. Babies are dying. Stop funding famine. End the siege on Gaza.
This day in 1961 saw the founding of the Sandinistas, a Nicaraguan revolutionary group that organized to overthrow the brutal US-backed Somoza dictatorship.
Peter Kropotkin: "Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give." (1897) theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-k…
Another ship and another port #HumanitarianSeaRescue ship #AITAMARI had been made to pay port taxes despite being a charity run - migrant sea search and rescue boat (normally exempt) they're getting their money back... #Valencia
El Aita mari gana una batalla clave! La Generalitat admite que nunca debimos pagar tasas portuarias por nuestra labor de rescate humanitario. Más de 80.000 € cobrados injustamente. Ahora vamos a por la total devolución. Gracias al equipo legal y a @monicaoltra por no rendirse
Debt is brutal and it has been hurting people for 1,000s of years. There is a book about this history.
The average 🇺🇸 American household owes $10,000 in credit card debt, $58,957 in student loan debt, $241,840 in mortgage debt and $22,612 in auto loans according to a survey by PolicyGenius.
@nikadubrovsky did you enjoy Red Star?
En 1908, Aleksandr Bogdánov escribió "Estrella Roja", una novela sobre comunismo, ciencia ficción y Marte. Lo que creó no fue solo ciencia ficción: fue además un manifiesto sobre una visión de la sociedad futura. (+)
Slavery is rather expensive, then they decided to give some money to slaves to take care of them by themselves. It’s a beginning of paid work.
The Chinese Cover of PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT. What do you think? with @davidgraeber
I just don’t believe that if these people were allowed — and they’re not — to dig wells, build homes, and start businesses, they wouldn’t have managed to create a livable environment in 30 to 50 years. People live in all kinds of places for millions of years— on ice, in deserts…
It seems that today’s refugee camps have become legalized prisons—gray zones, very similar to post-Soviet Chechnya.
If mutual aid, social co-operation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others are the kind of things that really go to make civilizations, then this true history of civilization is only just starting to be written. David Graeber 1961 - 2020
A few stories that struck me: Women traveling alone with children through the desert are sometimes forced to leave behind sick children who can no longer walk—left to be eaten by hyenas—just to save the others. And then they live in fear that the authorities will find out and…
If you are in New York on the 25th July, come along to our Visual Assembly. Its free!
Elsewhere, people are already building welcoming centers to replace refugee camps. indypendent.org/2024/02/migran…
If you are in New York on the 25th July, come along to our Visual Assembly. Its free!
Proletkult offered a glimpse of what real communism could look like, before it was crushed. museum.care/visual-assembl…
If you are in New York on the 25th July, come along to our Visual Assembly. Its free!
Join us on the 25th of July for the Visual Assembly and talk museum.care/events/visual-…
Spread the word! #RutoMustGo #OccupyStatehouse2025