When you learn how hard it is to get people to come to three consecutive organizing meetings, you tend to spout off less about things.
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When you learn how hard it is to get people to come to three consecutive organizing meetings, you tend to spout off less about things.
On this international Women's Day, I'd like to find something intelligent to say about how being against genocidal imperialism and wanting bloodshed is feminized and we are in the grips of the most murderous form of misogynist violence and patriarchal hierarchy, but I can't find the words.
motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs
I think this also calls for an examination of the way disability is a social category and the reasons why more students are getting diagnosed.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."
There should be some sort of MacArthur Genius award for those of us who can design seating charts for multiple classes for multiple marking periods taking into account longstanding beefs, potential beefs, zero compatibility, too much compatibility, academic complements, and secret friend-matching.
I'm noticing the same responses to anti-"a.i." ideas as there were/is to anti-war and pro-disarmament ideas.
We are treated like naive children who don't "get" the real, adult world, and our ethical, environmental and humanitarian considerations forcibly eclipsed by economic and imperial logic.
#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.
Solidarity with the striking SFUSD teachers. Bay area teachers shouldn't have to strike for a contract that allows us to live where we work.
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.
What a useful resource for organizing.
"more and more of our leftist co-strugglers are recognizing that what people are doing...is much more important than how they talk about it."
"political transformation is much more likely to occur in the process of waging struggle than in the process of arguing about it"
No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
I know too much about what we do to incarcerated children in the U.S. I started and ran an organization focused on this for almost 15 years. Immigrant children are being treated terribly.
This is a country that cannot imagine the abolition of youth prisons and jails.
Some may benefit from looking into @prisonpolicy.org's various articles relating to youth confinement.
Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.
lfg
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
A drawing by a 5-year-old child in detention:
You're going to find this hard to reckon, but there were adults who spent the last decade arguing the biggest threats to speech in America were nine sophomores at Oberlin.
No words
“As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad."
shorturl.at/yOXfh
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
Some people say not to call them Nazis because there are antecedents in our own history, while others are over-reliant on outside examples. But it's important to acknowledge the mingling of our own trends and history with global fascist legacies and movements because that's our reality.
You rise to the level of your training and practice, not to the level of your imagined self.
So it's extremely important to get skilled up and to practice. That's what all of the people getting trained in ICE Watch are doing.
I saw that Philly is suing and fine.
But I think Philly should republish the full exhibit as a hard copy special issue zine/pamphlet and put them in every school in the city and every public library.
Philly should create a special curriculum unit and pick a week to do a citywide teach in.
