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Sign of the day…
Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.
Absolutely fantastic turnout of protesters at the Chicago Hands Off! protest!
I love my city!
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Wild story that includes this nugget.
Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless.
This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
Woooooooboyyyyyyy!!!!
Senator Cory Booker is cooking on the Senate floor 19 1/2 hours into his filibuster.
Go Cory!!!!!
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Jeffries: "It was a terrible week. So what happens on Sunday? Trump says, intentionally, 'I'm serious about running for a third term.' He can't run for a third term! ... why does he say it? ... to distract from the terrible week that they've had. We're not gonna take the bait."
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
“Our [aid] partners [in Gaza] report having to reduce food rations to prioritise assistance for as many vulnerable people as possible”, says UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x5ujgp
Why is Trump waging a war on the Department of Education?
Because he knows that his biggest enemies are educators and younger generations of learners who are unafraid to speak truth to power.
Attacks on education are central to the fascist playbook.
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worldwithoutcaesars.com
Good for Canada.
Israel carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, say UN experts.
Read more: aje.io/pup0ac
Sunday March 9, 2-4, Alt Hotel St. John’s. ART and CLIMATE panel presentation with Sarah Gerats (Svalbard), and local hero’s Bill Montevecchi, Holly Hogan and Angela Antle. Free and open. Please join us!
www.leanto.ca/projects/sar...
🚨Public Service Announcement for Profs 🚨
Check in on your students, especially your trans students.
Better yet as a department / faculty / uni send out an announcement of solidarity in the face of the hate and ongoing attacks.
Renowned Arctic/Antarctic guide and Interdisciplinary artist, Sarah Gerats spends March in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) for self directed residence. ART and CLIMATE talk with her, Bill Montevecchi, Holly Hogan and Angela Antle, Sunday, March 9, 2-4, Alt hotel, cyan room.
www.leanto.ca/projects/sar...
Rachel Shabi: "None of the papers have anything about... Israel collapsing the ceasefire and blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime, and it is striking that that has not made any of the front [pages of the UK papers]"
Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.
Hamas has paused ceasefire talks until Israel releases 620 Palestinian prisoners, initially scheduled for release on Saturday. This comes as Israeli tanks enter the occupied West Bank for the first time in over 20 years.
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/hi4ilp
“Ironically, some of those history books on civil rights might reference the deployment of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to protect Black students during the desegregation of a high school, a pivotal moment in civil rights history.”
The cover of Jason Stanley's book "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future."
I'll just leave this here.
