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Xingu: Dia, Noite, Terra, 1975

A record of life by the Xingu river, and that of distance between those who inhabit a place and those who document it by @scorpionicsun

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El Djazaïr: L’autre soleil, Ministère de l’Information et de la Culture, 1978   Post-independence Algeria, through the faces and hands of the stewards of her land   “Dix-huit millions d’Algériens font, à chaque instant, vibrer le pays tout entier; le geste du paysan, de l’ouvrier, du soldat, de l’étudiant, ébrale et bouscule ce qui paraissait immuable et définitif, pour édifier sur de nouvelles bases un système plus adapté aux besoins de tous. Chaque moment est ainsi prétexte pour puiser aux sources de l’Histoire et changer le cours du temps. Ici, tout est movement, mutation, devenir: tout spectacle est re-création, toute naissance, active, toute création, collective” ~ “Eighteen million Algerians, at every moment, make the entire country vibrate; the gestures of the peasant, the worker, the soldier, the student shake and unsettle what had seemed immutable and definitive, in order to build, on new foundations, a system better suited to the needs of all. Each moment thus becomes an occasion to draw from the sources of History and change the course of time. Here, everything is movement, transformation, becoming: every spectacle is re-creation, every birth active, every creation collective.” by @scorpionicsun

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El Rescate Ecológico de Xochimilco: Memoria Técnica, 1993

A record of efforts to keep Xochimilco’s canals, chinampas, and agricultural traditions alive amid water depletion, pollution, and urban expansion by @scorpionicsun

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Inchallah (Conte Soufi du Soudan)
Hassan Musa
Fournier, 1996
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starting here, with beginnings
before books, there was rhythm, voice, parables
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“Savez-vous pourquoi l’autruche ne vole pas ?
Ce conte, venu du Soudan, vous le dira”
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Do you know why the ostrich does not fly?
This tale, from Sudan, will tell you

~ this Sufi folktale was illustrated and written by one of my favorite painters, Sudanese artist Hassan Musa

Available for purchase 33.33$

100% of funds will go to Sudan Solidarity Collective by @scorpionicsun

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Storyteller
Leslie Marmon Silko
Arcade Publishing, 1981
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starting here, with beginnings
before books, there was rhythm, voice, parables
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“With these stories of ours
we can escape almost anything
with these stories we will survive”

2 copies available for purchase $33.33, dm local la pickup by @scorpionicsun

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The First Book of Rhythms
Langston Hughes
Pictures by Robin King
Franklin Watts, 1954
For ages 9 and up
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starting here, with beginnings
before books, there was rhythm, voice, parables
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Langston Hughes’ beautifully illustrated book of an exploration of life’s mysterious rhythms.

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Attica: Then and Now - Still Fighting Back
Attica Committee to Free Dacajeweiah, c. 1977

Written and produced by members of the Attica Committee to Free Dacajeweiah, with support from Youth Against War and Fascism / Workers World Party, Liberation News Service, and allied organizing networks.

Produced in the wake of the uprising, this document holds Attica as an open wound and a site of ongoing struggle- it is a record of resistance, and of the work that continued after the state tried to silence it.

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Contemporary accompaniment; Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt by Orisanmi Burton by @scorpionicsun

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Scorpionic Sun, poems from 1969, written in exile
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine
Nightboat Books, 2020 (tr. Conor Bracken)

This project’s namesake ~ I’m holding close the legacy that Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine and his peers Abdellatif Laâbi and Mostafa Nissabouri (will share their writing soon), who started Souffles, left behind, along with the dozens of incredible contributors from the global majority. The first issue of Souffles was published in Rabat in March 1966, and I’m grateful to be able to invoke it, even in a small way, sixty years later. I feel deeply indebted to this lineage of Moroccan revolutionary thinkers who, decades later, still offer a compass for moving through ongoing colonial violence and its psychic afterlives.

The poems in Scorpionic Sun feel like incantation and a time capsule of rage, written with palpable clarity.

“Description of a Flag” was written for Mehdi Ben Barka, head of the National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP), a vocal opponent of French colonial imperialism and the Moroccan monarchy under King Hassan II - abducted and murdered in exile in Paris in 1965.

I can make PDFs of both the English and French versions of the poems. I have one copy available, if you feel a connection to this history& lineage, I’d love to gift you a copy. by @scorpionicsun

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Report from Cuba
The Black Scholar, Summer 1977

Alice Walker, Bernice Reagon, Johnnetta B. Cole, Phyl Garland, Theresa George, Samella Lewis, Robert Chrisman, Sergio Giral, Lance Jeffers, and William Marshall travelled to Cuba in the summer of 1977 as a part of a delegation of Black cultural workers

Can scan and make into a pdf if there’s interest :)

Available for purchase, dm - 33.33$
LA pickup available or US shipping

via @mausoleum.books.music 🫡 by @scorpionicsun

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France–Algérie : images d’une guerre
Les Cahiers de Ciné-IMA, Institut du Monde Arabe, June 1992

« Trente ans après la fin des hostilités, la Guerre d’Algérie ne cesse d’interpeller les consciences et les mémoires. »

Guest edited by Mouloud Mimoun, with texts by Algerian filmmaker Ahmed Bedjaoui, Algerian producer Hachemi Zertal, among others. Includes stills from Patrouille à l’est (dir. Amar Laskri, 1971) and Noua (dir. Abdelaziz Tolbi, 1972).

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La salle de classe: photographies 1994–2000
Hicham Benohoud
Tarik Éditions / Éditions de l’Œil, 2001

“À travers les photos, je ne cherche pas d’effet plastique particulier, j’essaie, simplement et avec les moyens du bord, d’exprimer le lourd et vague malaise social, politique et religieux que mes élèves et moi, ressentons fortement.”

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Occupation and Resistance
Alternative Museum, New York, 1989

In Spring 1989 artists and writers traveled to Palestine with the Alternative Museum. This catalog traces their responses to what they witnessed, with contributions from Magda Dajani, Yong Soon Min, Tariq Abu Sammie, and others.

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