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Reading "Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance," by Nick Estes
Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* for Land Ownership was a selection from Nick Estes’s book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the… Read more
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Every river begins with a breath
Walking composition “We have to accept that our world changes radically and perpetually, and that it changes with us and in us, and that we have an obligation to perceive, to intuit, to sense this… Read more
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Realizing a better future requires us to imagine one
The first step might be believing in what’s possible A few weeks ago I was a guest on an international roundtable webinar-type thing for walkability advocates. It was a delightful hour and a half—I don’t… Read more
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Whose untold stories become part of our own
Essay When I was little, maybe eight or nine years old, I used to clean house for an older woman, Cora, who lived across the street from us. Mostly dusting and floors, for which she… Read more
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There are no closed systems
Walking composition “The word ‘economics’ makes me hiss like Gollum in Tolkien’s The Hobbit: ‘I hates it, I hates it, I hates it forever.’ For I believe classical economic theory, and all the theories it… Read more
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Slide into the cold and dark
Walking composition “I can’t believe the things you say. I can’t believe, I can’t believe the price we pay.” — “. . . And Justice for All,” Metallica I’ve been cold a lot recently. It’s… Read more
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Reading the Doctrine of Discovery: Papal Bull "Romanus Pontifex" of 1455 and Papal Bull "Inter Caetera" of 1493
Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable* reading selections were the two 15th-century papal bulls that comprise the Doctrine of Discovery, along with a short introduction to Bull Inter Caetera of 1493… Read more
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What would aliveness look like?
Walking composition “I don’t like planets. There’s dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.” —The Murderbot Diaries: Exit Strategy, Martha Wells I had the most beautiful hunting day recently, just before… Read more
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Reading "In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided," by Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Threadable-adjacent reading discussion on land ownership The most recent Threadable reading* was a selection from Walter R. Echo-Hawk’s book In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided: Chapter 4… Read more
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An unintended Twitter hole
Walking composition “mountains will speak for you rain will flesh your bones” —from “To Those Who Have Lost Everything,” Francisco X. Alarcón (This is a public post for all subscribers. Please be forewarned there are… Read more
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