Weekly Roundup | Mar 1, 2026
On Feb 28, the US & Israel bombed Iran, causing many casualties and the death of Supreme Leader Khamenei. We stand in solidarity with the people of Iran and oppose US-Zionist aggression wholeheartedly.
This week, we wrote about the misleading nature of “cycles of violence” and how to start organizing.
Continue reading for more, including urgent funding requests, additional resources to dive deeper on this week's topics, and other stories that we missed.
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Breaking Out
Building new systems in the wake of oppressive ones
I’m Tired of “Cycles of Violence” Stories
Dip explores the idea of Cycles of Violence using AAA games and traces the potential for more robust conceptions of violence.
Chaos and Conviviality
Finding Your People: How to Get Involved Radical Change (Intro to Radicalism)
Dip discusses how to get started in social justice work if you’re new.
Chaos and Conviviality
Marginalia
Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.
- The core of this week's conversation on video games revolves around the specious (at best) ways that a "cycles" framing excuses imperialism among other things. Given that The Last of Us Part II was discussed, it is apt to point folks to The myth of the ‘cycle of violence’; it explores the same conversation in the context of Israeli settler colonialism (the throughline here is Israel; the director of the game was born in Tel Aviv, and one can tell). The introduction to Order, Conflict and Violence, and Fanon on Violence and the Person are also worth looking at.
- Radical change is both individual and collective. Looking into Dean Spade's work, especially Mutual Aid, is a great way to start thinking more deeply about these things. Beyond that, texts that uncover histories of struggle, including Fighting for ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle by Solidarity Federation, The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control by Maurice Brinton, and Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing are great sources of rooted inspiration.
Other Stories Worth Knowing
News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.
- FIFA joins Board of Peace as partner as US gears up for World Cup
- ‘Open war’: Pakistan says ‘patience has run out’ as it bombs Afghanistan | Military News
- War is much easier to enter than to exit - Chicago Sun-Times
- Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran | Israel-Palestine conflict News
- France: Right-wing offensive follows killing
- The Trump Administration Is Trying to Target Immigrants Over Family Court Cases
- We Must Defend Black History — It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack
- Inside Saudi Arabia’s regional realignment
- Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case
- "He truly cared about games, about the industry, and about the people making them" – The industry on Phil Spencer
- Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony and Living Proof of Imperialist Conspiracies
- How to Write a Book When Your Country Is on Fire
- Prediction Markets Need Insider Trading, Despite What They Say
- US-backed killing of cartel boss unleashes wave of violence across Mexico
- CDC deputy director abruptly departs agency
