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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 1h

This climate denialism, fused with Country's existing anxieties, preemptively excuses the climate devastation that will only continue to worsen and disproportionately impact the most marginalized strata of the populace.

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 1h

The climate imaginary of country music assumes a stable cyclicality that mirrors the genre’s fantasy of a resilient white rural lifestyle, despite both agricultural employment and stable weather patterns increasingly becoming a thing of the past

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 1h

Climate change has serious implications for Country music, Jean Maro tells us, teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's "Hurricane," a resuscitated hit that takes on an entirely new significance in the face of increasingly severe hurricane seasons

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Seattle Anarchist Bookfair @seabookfair.bsky.social · 18h

After a full weekend of books, @htwvmag.bsky.social is hosting a documentary by Alexis Daloumis about the Syrian Democratic Forces' 18 month fight against I$I$, the coinciding fight for women's liberation, and the general social transformation in Rojava!

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Movie poster for Belkî Sibê: a journey through the Syrian War and the Revolution in Rojava. October 19th, 5PM at The Beacon. Hosted by Heatwave Magazine, Emergency Committee for Rojava, and Puget Sound Libertarian Socialist Caucus. The image shows the silhouettes of fighters hoisting firearms from the top of a ruined building.

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 12d

Issue 2 is almost here!

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

Preview Heatwave Issue 2 by reading "The Red Thread of Black Power in Jamaica: The Case of Abeng" by Saul Molcho on our website now :

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The Red Thread of Black Power in Jamaica: The Case of Abeng | Heatwave

Abeng, a short-lived newspaper, offers a window into Jamaica's revolutionary currents in the late 60s. Acting as a theoretical nexus between communism and black power, it also served as a means of pra...

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

...quick to see the paper as addressing their most prominent concerns and who, in turn, spoke through the newspaper to one another. This reciprocity by and large designated Abeng’s self-conscious approach to revolutionary organization"

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

"The Abeng newspaper also provided an opportunity to institute a dynamic reciprocity between, on the one hand, the militant core of the paper’s partisans who propelled its production and distribution and, on the other, the nebulous aggrieved and disaffected sufferers who were...

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

"From our contemporary vantage point, the primary lessons of the Abeng group are to be found in their innovative approach to the relationship between party and class, and to the new forms of organization this approach called for."

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

"It is within this context that the Abeng group and its weekly, eponymous newspaper first appeared in January 1969, offering an innovative and popular response to the deepened crisis in Jamaica."

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 15d

Abeng, a short-lived newspaper, offers a window into Jamaica's revolutionary currents in the late 60s. Acting as a theoretical nexus between communism and black power, it also served as a means of practical communication between different currents of class struggle on the island

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 20d

This essay was weird, wonderful, and fun.

Really glad the first issue of Heatwave is online.

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 23d

Read it here!
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This Wreckage Podcast @theantifada.bsky.social · 19d

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Audio from our public reading + NYC Anarchist Bookfair celebration of the publication of Jarrod's new book from @pmpress.bsky.social

w/ @okfox.bsky.social, @samanthahinds.bsky.social, @htwvmag.bsky.social, and more

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Common Ruin @common-ruin.bsky.social · 18d

Dams & Deluge: on communist niche construction

This article ran in @htwvmag.bsky.social issue #1. Infinite thanks to the friends who provided encouragement during the writing process, and to the wonderful Heatwave editors. More is on the way, hopefully.

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Dams and Deluge: On Communist Niche Construction | Heatwave

The fur trade was the first tendril of the emerging capitalist world system to probe and strangle its way across much of the North American continent.

The Murder of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi | Heatwave

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 16d

“Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was a Palestine liberation activist from Seattle, Washington in the USA who was murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces at a Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank in late 2024.”

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 27d

The transcript with Ayşenur's comrade can be read here: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was a Palestine liberation activist from Seattle, Washington in the USA who was murdered by the Israeli Occupation Force at a Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank in late 2024....

Fire to the Prisons | Heatwave

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 20d

And the first installment of Fire to the Prisons, a regular column in Heatwave Magazine dedicated to prisoner’s struggle. Here, we turn to a small group of comrades at Uprising Support who work with prisoners of the George Floyd Rebellion —

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In this first installment of Fire to the Prisons, a regular column in Heatwave Magazine dedicated to prisoner support, we turn to a small group of comrades who run the Uprising Support website, offeri...

Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 20d

Donde La Vida No Vale Nada: Scattered Thoughts on Organized Abandonment & Ideological Retrenchment in Oakland — heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...

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