resistance | Meandering home

Looking for a rapper

we will make heard the voices of the exploited whose land and livelihood is being destroyed but who don't have the dollars to fight the white collars we will make heard the voice of the suffering grasses don't mistake me for a gangsta rapper or some fake flashy fast car leper stuck in his McMansion ...

29 September, 2013

Kamiel Choi

ecocide, gangsta rapper, indigenous, planet, rap, rapper, resistance, Turtle Island

Activism, Poetry

Planning book to help save the world. Got ideas?

Lately, I was reading "Eaarth" by Bill McKibben, the founder of

10 June, 2013

Kamiel Choi

book, capitalism, publication, resistance, solidarity

Activism

Mixed revolutionary ramblings

Every day now I become more averse to the system. I observe how my own mind struggles, and how it always shouts the word "local" in both my ears as the key to a solution. A local community is larger than a Greek oikos (etymological origin of the word economy) or household, but smaller than ...

8 May, 2013

Kamiel Choi

capitalism, resistance, solidarity

Activism

Ecobook Introduction (Draft)

Below is a draft of the introduction to a collaborative e-book (e.co.book) that I instigated on

26 March, 2013

Kamiel Choi

appropriate technology experts, collaborative e-book, collapse, e-book, e.co.book, Earthship, ecosystem, Environment, greenhouse gas emissions, Keystone pipeline, resistance, Social philosophy, Sustainable building

Activism

Infinite gross, revisited

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that we cannot grow the material economy indefinitely on a finite planet.* Such growth however, is exactly what is needed to keep the economic system from falling apart, as many studies have shown.**

What about the "service economy"? Could it be the solution to grow an economy indefinitely? Of ...

20 January, 2013

Kamiel Choi

capitalism, David Harvey, end:civ, endgame, resistance, Tim Jackson

Activism

The Decade of Inertia

Obama was perhaps catapulted into power by nifty social media outreach and a moderately credible promise of change we can believe in. When I look at the news, I don't believe in " real change" any more. Isn't the 'outcome' of climate conferences, such as those in Rio and Doha, always the same: empty promises ...

16 December, 2012

Kamiel Choi

climate change, inertia, Korea, Morsi, Obama, Palestine, resistance

Essays

Very Bad vs Downright Catastrophic Climate Change

Image courtesy of

12 December, 2012

Kamiel Choi

350.org, activism, Bill McKibben, catastrophic, climate change, James Hansen, realclimate, resistance

Uncategorized

Safehouses against capitalism

I'm penning these words while the election in the US is underway. Both candidates seem to give absolute priority to 'repairing the economy', to creating jobs, install the necessary pipelines, wage the necessary wars and destroy the necessary wildlife sanctuaries to keep gas conveniently low at the pump. This is insane and disgusting. What are ...

6 November, 2012

Kamiel Choi

alternative, capitalism, economy, fighting back, Jensen, resistance, safehouse

Uncategorized

Bullying!

Bullying! that's the solution. All we need is thousands of anonymous people following the decision makers of the big corporations (Monsanto, DOW, Bayer, Pfizer, Shell, Chevron, Conoco, Vale, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, BP, Coca Cola, Nestle, Apple, Samsung, Goldman Sachs, ...) everywhere they go. Make graffiti, pee in their gardens, block their garages and lawns, ...

24 October, 2012

Kamiel Choi

bullying, corporations, resistance, wallstreet

Uncategorized

Best of humanity

"This is not a vacation, gentlemen" sounded the speaker of the space shuttle. A group of five distinguished white males looked at each other but didn't seem the least uncomfortable. "You have been democratically elected because you are the most promising individuals to continue humankind. We the people have voted for you. Don't let us ...

14 October, 2012

Kamiel Choi

bankers, Barclays, FED, parody, Paulson, resistance, Rothschild, saturn, Tillerson

Uncategorized

The real truth of infinite growth

Extinguish everyone that is not us, everything that is not human, let every organism go extinct, with the exception of us, homo sapiens, let the mammals die, the reptiles, the bees, the plankton - never mind our primitive ancestors once were dependent on them for their survival. We won't be. We will have machines ...

29 September, 2012

Kamiel Choi

infinite growth, irony, otherness, parody, resistance

Uncategorized

Idea of Do NOT consume

I did it. I have alluded to the greatest possible crime against "the Economy". I have created a

18 September, 2012

Kamiel Choi

consumer society, Consumerism, corporations, do not consume, resistance

Uncategorized

The assassination speech

14 September, 2012

Kamiel Choi

America, Dreamerica, idealism, permaculture, president, resistance, speech, wikileaks

Essays, Laughs

What is needed?

Some call it the greed at the heart of the capitalist system, others call it the impossibility of infinite profit on a finite planet, still others call it the dead-urge of our entire industrial civilization. What we can - and should - all agree on, is that we are heading towards the biggest disaster in the ...

11 August, 2012

Kamiel Choi

debris, dismantle, dream, eco-village, permaculture, resistance

Uncategorized

Peep!

I saw a brilliant movie the other day. It featured a highly sophisticated critique of both the prevailing intellectualism and the corporately hijacked political elite. Its protagonists presented in part woolly, but mostly toothy arguments supporting the view that our system is undeniably adrift and we are headed for imminent disaster.

The name of the movie ...

26 July, 2012

Kamiel Choi

Continental Drift, Eddie, Film, Ice Age, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Jensen, List of Ice Age characters, Ray Romano, resistance, Weasel, Zizek

Uncategorized

Mad Max World

Cover of Wikipedia)But it's a choice so it's your call. Green propagandists like myself, carbon sinks. Choose a world where the important industrial nations don't even show up at a conference (positive feedback mechanisms of climate change (and to you, corporate media dick, if you abuse the word "positive" to pretend it's not that bad, I'll kill ...

6 July, 2012

Kamiel Choi

destruction, Mad Max, resistance, responsibility

Uncategorized

The Lightness of Being

"Recently I had contact with a scale. Not an old squeaking household scale, but an industrial-grade scale with metal footholds and a very precise digital display boasting accuracy in the hundredths. I was naked, and the scale was thus threatening to tell me the only truth. I waited for a short moment, then gathered ...

4 July, 2012

Kamiel Choi

Kundera, lightness, metabolism, resistance, scale

Uncategorized