In Europe today, we have no project for the environment that is capable of resisting the policies of suffocation of an increasingly unbreathable world;
a project initiated in working-class neighborhoods that articulates anchoring on land with freedom of movement;
a project with its sights set on Africa, aiming to establish a broad internationalist front against global heating and the destruction of life itself;
a project that makes the Mediterranean an autonomous space and a rallying point for mutinies from North and South alike;
a project that views land liberation, animal liberation, and equal human dignity as fundamentally intersecting;
a project that envisages secession in the face of increasingly threatening right-wing extremist forces;
a project that sets sail in search of One Piece, the famous treasure in the eponymous manga that has become a symbol in working-class neighborhoods of the thirst for freedom thriving there;
a project that addresses children, seeking their well-being and liberation.
This is the project to pirate ecology.
Fatima Ouassak's book, Pirate Ecology—So we can be free! is the third release of Pensées soignées, K. Verlag's new series of works-in-translation dedicated to relaying how intellectuals and activists in the non-Anglophone world are thinking about care and caring about thought. By proliferating new concepts, models, and tools, the series aims to address the tragedies of our diminished and imperiled historical moment. The book is currently forthcoming and available for pre-order.