We need a plan if we're going to get serious about transition. Concrete solidarity measures with Palestine can help with the conditions for real sovereignty and emancipation.
One more thing: a previous version of this article came out at The Intercept Brasil in Portuguese. I got to update it and improve it for this version after some critical feedback I got at Carleton University last week. Gotta love real constructive criticism - such a rare gem nowadays! <3
Such an inspiring piece! As a South African who visits family in Brazil as often as possible and as someone with an expanding Global South consciousness, I found this a very informative, stirring and direction-giving article. I really appreciate your tone of urgency vis a vis the pressing need to accelerate BDS tactics in order to hinder/halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Also your insights into the ways in which Zionist tentacles extend into the most toxic and harmful aspects of Brazil’s economy and insistence that they must be curtailed if a just transition is to be achieved in any meaningful sense — which it must be! Thank you for the vital clarity you bring to such complex, tentacular issues.
Thank you for your kind feedback, Alexandra. I really have a feeling we have a great opportunity to show that the "costs" of acting now can be easily outweighed by future aggregate benefits for the Global South. If only we can let go of the illusion that we can develop on the same terms as the North...
One more thing: a previous version of this article came out at The Intercept Brasil in Portuguese. I got to update it and improve it for this version after some critical feedback I got at Carleton University last week. Gotta love real constructive criticism - such a rare gem nowadays! <3
Such an inspiring piece! As a South African who visits family in Brazil as often as possible and as someone with an expanding Global South consciousness, I found this a very informative, stirring and direction-giving article. I really appreciate your tone of urgency vis a vis the pressing need to accelerate BDS tactics in order to hinder/halt the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Also your insights into the ways in which Zionist tentacles extend into the most toxic and harmful aspects of Brazil’s economy and insistence that they must be curtailed if a just transition is to be achieved in any meaningful sense — which it must be! Thank you for the vital clarity you bring to such complex, tentacular issues.
Thank you for your kind feedback, Alexandra. I really have a feeling we have a great opportunity to show that the "costs" of acting now can be easily outweighed by future aggregate benefits for the Global South. If only we can let go of the illusion that we can develop on the same terms as the North...
essa confiança linda <3 hehe