Butch Ware and the US Green Party are helping to open a Decolonial Wormhole to a Better World

Its crucial to demonstrate electoral consequences for genocide.

Today, somebody wise sent me an interview of  Prof Bilal Rudolph "Butch" Ware on the Ansari Podcast. He is the Green Party's Vice Presidential Candidate for the forthcoming US Presidential Elections. To me his words and method are a vital alignment of thought, political spirituality and organising backbone that I find compelling. funny how in the UK, his nonsecular meter would be outlawed for some colonial 'spiritual influence' lawfare. 

The video is embedded below, Nur Nuggets include:

• Democrat Party as Party of the Elephant.
• Republican Party as the Party of the Braying Ass.
• The political aesthetic of a green hoopoe.
• The importance of being ready.
• The Democrats theft and gutting of the Green New Deal policy.
• The recent youth led movement in Bangladesh as a teaching lesson of our times.
• The things that can be done in the case of the team winning presidential office and no friends in Congress or Senate. Anti Trust suites and arms embargo on Israel.
• A poll based argument on why the Party of the Elephant have lost already.
• Plenty of policy reasons for voting for them.
• Good humour about the struggles ahead in any eventuality.
• Their independence from AIPAC and arms industry.
• Anecdote of convincing Republican voters to organise a rally for his party.
• The measures that the Two Party duopoly, Dems especially, have taken to prevent them accessing the voterhood.
• Podcast host's inevitable endorsement for black seed oil, apple cider vinegar, honey gummies from a Palestinian woman. [fractal of the whole thing]

Prof Ware's doctoral research was on the anti slavery resistance of West African Islamic scholars and he has more recently been organising with students and teachers against the Israeli-US genocide in Gaza and beyond. He is based at the History Department of the University of California Santa Barbara.

People in most states of that country have an option to vote against the Zionist's slaughter, with a decolonial ecopolitical horizon. That is a commitment of environmental and social justice that centres coloniality as the systemic foe. Prof Ware has brilliant moves, at least in the domain of discourse. Political proof will be in the struggles and relationships. I really hope they do well, that their supporters and workers do well and make the most of this, for the sake of the Palestinians, wider West Asia, themselves and all of us. Decolonial Duas for them and us all.

If Ware's political content and method resonate with you, he's been on Breakfast Club , Bad Faith, Democracy Now! and will be speaking to reach Trump voters ( ?!?) over the coming weeks.

There is a lot at stake in this election, this devastating year has exposed a lot of people's true colours and functions. So what will it be? Green Hoopoe or Green Card?

Candidates, Campaigns and Colonial Continuities

As Israel's slaughter continues acceleration through Palestine, and Shaytan laughs at his success, political life in older and newer colonial cores is growing more liquid as solidarity with Palestine fertilises the ground and scents the air. Unfortunately this is too late for over 30 thousand Palestinian people, perhaps some factors more if Ralph Nader's reasoning of a massive under evaluation is proven correct. British politicians have been characteristically colonial, cowered and meek. As Aamer Rahman notes, " The coloniser sees itself in Israel". 

Many are thinking to themselves that their sociopathy should not be rewarded and that it may be possible to get rid of them. Despite the pervasive and colonial stifling of debate, the post lockeddown, social media enabled solidarity community has grown more sophisticated, vibrant and societally deep. We can see historic Anti War, Student, Occupy and Corbynjaan movements and methods in the cauldron, along with substantial new features. 

Modest Gains

Following dozens of national marches, inspired by fearless peers in the US and morally uplifted by South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the University Campuses are coming alive once more. Encampments north and south and establishing and demanding at a minimum that their university authorities exercise responsibility and ethics over their investments and relationships with the Israeli death engine. Personal strategic courage and sacrifice has resulted in Anti Zionism recently being successfully demonstrated in the courts and institutions as a protected characteristic. The Implications are that one of those go-to techniques of destroying people's reputations, young and old is proving increasingly weak. Another feature that has well passed its sell by date is The Impunity of The Zionist Sh!tst!rrer, though perhaps this still requires mass whitnessing, documentation and pi$$ed off cops.

Dots are being joined and iA learning is being enacted because this justice alliance has generations of experience running through it and the scars to prove them. Following that by-election  and some recent local elections we can be encouraged that some experiments towards alternatives are paying off. We don't need to rely on legacy media to know about them, but their impacts on the power hungry, the gatekeepers and their courtesans provides a thread of comic relief in such a desperately sorrowful situation.

It's really hard to learn from another's mistakes. Mistakes will be made, they are inevitable because what's going on is unprecedented for most of us, egos exist and bloat with attention, we have our limitations and there is no depth to which the Assemblage of Zionist Enablement won't stoop. 

Forthcoming Labour Pains

Collectively we do need to be careful with the (over) (mis) selection of parliamentary candidates combined with bad actors meddling with local campaigns. Candidate saturation is a sign of unsuccessful consensus building within an inadequate electoral system. However, effective, dialogical and empowering leadership across a heterogenous solidarity movement is a beautiful challenge, to our egos and stupidities, I do so look forward to hearing about it. On a speaker's panel recently ANC-veteran Andrew Feinstein, made a vital point well worth ending a paragaph on, that individual self importance is of no use whatsoever to a movement. Citizen journalism is a prizeworthy activity to mitigate this. Like Not the Andrew Marr Show.

The Genocide Uniparty has had centuries of experience stoking and manipulating personal ambitions and feeding egos. It will always be able to know these things and thus enlist water carriers for all sorts of jobs. Please bear in mind that the issue of Gaza has perversely consolidated the value of these human remainers, who may well be subjugating us and messing things up in more powerful ways shortly*. 

All the better reason to organise, relate and learn in better ways.

*On this I think the campaign to drop the case against the teacher with the beautifully poignant coconut placard is a triple word score initiative.