What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

justsomeantifas:

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koobaxion:

respectfulofwomen:

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The vultures are circling

For context

A sequence of events:

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https://m.dw.com/en/bolivia-scraps-joint-lithium-project-with-german-company/a-51100873

https://m.dw.com/en/bolivians-protest-over-lithium-deal-with-german-company/a-50732216

For those of us in the imperial core, these events may seem far-off & uninvolved. They are not.

Lithium almost certainly powers the device you’re using to read this right now. It powers the phone im using. It powers your laptops. Your drills, your modems, basically anything that holds a charge. Capital extracts in excess, but if we want those devices we need the mineral in whatever kind of future. Thus if we don’t proactively amplify the voices of resistance to extractivism in the colonial periphery, we carry their blood in our pockets.

Note how much you’ve heard of the election protests - who heard abt the counter-extractivist protests just a couple weeks before? I hadn’t.

The beast is here with us. How will we handle it?

More context Re the new german gigafactory built solely by Elon Musk & his ingenious magnanimous hands.

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    The vultures are circling