Verso Mixtape 2017
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"I was an enforced transplant of the Illinois DOC for the murder and armed robbery of someone that I didn’t know." An excerpt from Surviving Justice
An excerpt from Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, edited by Dave Eggers and Lola Vollen.
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"I got back to the prison with staples in because of the c-section." An excerpt from Inside This Place, Not Of It
An excerpt from Inside This Place, Not of It, edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman.
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"That’s why they wanted us—for cheap labor." An excerpt from Underground America
An excerpt from Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, edited by Peter Orner.
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"I see some of these kids and think, they are amazing." An excerpt from Chasing The Harvest
An excerpt from Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture, edited by Gabriel Thompson.
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An excerpt from Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince
An excerpt from Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port-au-Prince, part of the Voice of Witness series of oral history.
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"I grew up dreaming of Beit Jibrin as a paradise." An excerpt from Palestine Speaks
An excerpt from Muhanned Al-Azzah's portion of Palestine Speaks, part of the Voice of Witness series.
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Why are we so crazy about bitcoin?
An extract from Ann Pettifor's The Production of Money, examining the inner workings and the value of bitcoin.
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"Socio Psycho-mancy and the Horizon of Possibility" - an extract from Franco 'Bifo' Berardi's Futurability
In this extract from the introduction to Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi claims that chaos can be a catalyst for change.
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The savvy amateur urbanist Jane Jacobs on ‘the intricate sidewalk ballet' of the city
In this excerpt from The Amateur: The Pleasures of Doing What You Love, author Andy Merrifield explores how he likes to live in a city through the poetry of the Beats and the joys of what amateur urbanist Jane Jacobs called ‘the intricate sidewalk ballet’.
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Teju Cole: Bad Laws
Israel's slow, cold violence, no less than the other kind, ought to be looked at and understood.
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Myth: The Palestinians Voluntarily Left Their Homeland in 1948
