Calico is an ISM volunteer and professor of emancipatory politics who has engaged in direct action, accompaniment, and human rights monitoring in conflicted-affected regions ranging from occupied Palestine to the rebel Zapatista territories of Chiapas, Mexico. His writing and work on resistance and struggles for self-determination has appeared in The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al Jazeera, Verso, Znetwork, and Antipode. To join ISM, click
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