Fighting Sleep keyword-caribbean-radicalism sustainable agriculture and climate justice

sustainable agriculture and climate justice

it shows how a politics of failure might change what it means to be human

It delves into the practices of "extreme vetting

in a text that’s themes remain surprisingly relevant today

Fighting Sleep keyword-caribbean-radicalism sustainable agriculture and climate justiceOn April 21, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam veterans fell asleep on the National Mall, wondering whether they would be arrested by daybreak. Veterans had fought the courts for the right to sleep in public while demonstrating against the war. When the Supreme Court denied their petition, they decided to break the law and turned sleep into a form of direct action. During and after the Second World War, military psychiatrists used sleep therapies to treat an