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Olives, Climate Change, and Zionism

The olive branch is more than a symbol of peace. Since ancient times, Palestinians have tended olive trees—pickling some olives and pressing the vast majority into oil. Sit at any Palestinian table and olives will be a mainstay of the meal...

“I Am a Radical, and So Are You”

During an open-mic comment session at the 2014 SftP conference, when entreated to reconsider using the word “radical,” for fears of misinterpretation and political isolation, Chandler stated unequivocally: “I am a radical, and so are you.”

On Killing Crocodiles

At the turn of the twentieth century, a small and dwindling crocodile population lived in the Zor al-Zarqa/Kabbara marshlands near Palestine’s Mediterranean coast. Colonial zoologists had a geographically disproportionate fascination with...

Bleeding Rubber: Extraction as Nation-Making in Liberia

Historian of science Gregg Mitman tells the surprisingly 'American' history of Liberia, revealing the complexity of an imperial and settler-colonial project carried out ostensibly in the name of Black freedom and the scientific...

Springtime for Food Sovereignty

The Arab Spring had an agrarian root, borne out of struggles for food security. Ayeb's and Bush's outstanding work captures this link and steers our imagination and action toward food sovereignty.

Sumud and Sovereignty

UAWC works to empower Palestinian farmers, reinforce their steadfastness (sumud) on the land, and to achieve food sovereignty. They are recently targeted by Israeli occupation and Zionist forces in the West.

University Land Grab, War, and Medical Apartheid

This article is a snapshot from The Mapping Project: a project created by activists and organizers in eastern Massachusetts, investigating local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for dispossession, and...

Meet the Contributors

Meet the artists and scientists, writers and organizers, who contributed to our Spring 2022 issue, "The Soil and the Worker."