Weekly Roundup | Mar 15, 2026
The Prairieland Eight were found guilty of domestic terrorism. C&C is in solidarity with the defendants and rejects this sham trial on its anti-"antifa" terms, alongside the general illegitimacy of jurisprudence. We also situate this verdict in a wider tradition of lawfare, where even mild dissent is quashed. Alongside this, we'd be remiss to ignore to how this shapes international policy; the President and First Lady of Venezuela are awaiting trial after being captured. Their government is not being allowed to pay for their defense. This is in the context of a forceful capture with no due process. The law is whatever the powerful want it to be.
As for our writings, it's a bit of a lighter week: the published piece is about tenant organizing and its promise.
Some crowdfunds to contribute to
- Support the Prairieland Defendants!
- Help Rebuild this Programmers Dream!
- Fundraiser by Senhadji Lisa: Ahmed
- Islamic humanitarian giving
- Help a Black Lesbian pay for her braces!
- Fundraiser for Consweulo Davis by Nydrel Jack: In Loving Memory of Dr. Linda Davis
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Chaos and Conviviality
Marginalia
Resources to dive deeper on the topics of the week.
- Something that should be more deeply explored is how to bring together municipalist movements and tenant movements. By this, the intent is not a simple "combination," but a more radical version of both, that sees their interconnections. Within this, class should be analyzed alongside patriarchy, adultism, racialism, colonialism, antiBlackness, antiIndigeneity, ableism, and other forms of domination. At present, it seems that interests in "the city" are often overly theoretical, overrepresented within monied/professional (sub-)classes, or both. Tenant unions are often more working class, but struggle to see tenant class positionality as in league with those in more precarious situations like homeless folks. I've not found works that tie these threads together in a clear synthetic or syncretic way (i.e. that point to the specific lineages of tenant unionism and radical approaches to the city/urbanism), but maybe that's up to us. A start could be to explore the most promising strains of place-based movements, with texts like To Inherit the Earth, Take Back the Land, and Revolutionary Ubuntu. These movements combine the interest in changing space and the relations with/in it, alongside figuring out how to respond to questions of power. From there, urban life can be rethought of in ways that are actually rooted in emancipation.
Other Stories Worth Knowing
News that we didn't focus on, and worthwhile angles that we missed.
- Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe
- Prairieland protesters found guilty in Texas show trial
- Sudan’s gold: A wartime refuge or a smuggler’s paradise? Sudan’s gold: A wartime refuge or a smuggler’s paradise?
- Executive Disorder: War on Iran, Kristi Noem, Sea Mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Proton Mail
- As Obama Center nears debut, neighborhood poised for change
- Mississippi regulators greenlight xAI’s Southaven power plant despite strong public opposition
- The Mayor’s Office Wants A More Affordable New York For Game Developers (And Everyone Else)
- Iranian anarchists: “We continue to organise and resist”
- Inside Georgia’s Youth Detention Crisis
- How To Tell There's A Recession Coming, According To Sex Workers
- This Week in Africa
- The hidden reality of Italy's migrant domestic workers
- Habitat Loss Is Eroding Tribal Sovereignty
- Militarization of the Arctic: A new arena for US imperial ambition in Cold War Two
