Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon
“Today, during my slog through the Substack messages, newspaper headline notices, and podcast reminders that hit my inbox every morning, two stories drew my attention. Both had to do with the fact that human beings have always moved around this planet …. I was reminded of a decades-old song by the Venezuelan singer Soledad Bravo, ‘Punto y Raya’ (‘The Dot and the Dash’) … ‘Between your people and mine’, says the song, ‘there’s a dot and a dash. The dash says, ‘No entrance’ and the dot, ‘The road is closed’…’ Bravo goes on to say that, with all those dots and dashes outlining the borders of nations, a map looks like a telegram. If you walk through the actual world, though, what you see are mountains and rivers, forests and deserts, but no dots or dashes at all.” (02/10/25)