Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

tap tap tap

bit.ly/freeleqaa

There's an excellent organizing campaign to be built.

Poetry and Gaza Fundraiser for Salem Ahmed's Initiatives Poetry Readings and Gaza Fundraiser

i just donated. please help spread word and/or contribute if you can. chuffed.org/project/poet...

THREE DAYS LEFT: authors for eSIMS. i just added a book +, inspired by Jane Shi and others, feedback on a small group of poems. incredible books, prints, postcards. 13,000$ raised so far. this push closes may 18th. click here: app.galabid.com/authors4esim...

there’s currently 22 items that are under $30, which can provide Gazans a few days worth of Internet. don’t miss Cynthia Dewi Oka's A Tinderbox in Three Acts or Lea Taranto’s A Drop in the Ocean, which were recently added :)

tinyurl.com/authors4esims

#ConnectingGaza

US and Hungary Stand Alone at ICJ in Favor of Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Thirty-nine states, the UN and international NGOs all condemned Israel’s blockade at the International Court of Justice.

Thirty-nine states, the UN and international NGOs all condemned Israel’s blockade at the International Court of Justice.

Students in the California State system launched a hunger strike today for Gaza. They're calling on the CSU system to divest, cut ties with Israeli institutions, forbid ICE and DHS from entering classrooms and notify students if they're on campus

HERE WE GO:

Federal judge orders Rümeysa Öztürk's released immediately, finds she has made a "substantial claim" her constitutional rights were violated.

"The reason she has been detained is simply and purely the expression that she made in the op-ed in violation of her First Amendment rights."

This is America.

Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
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Israel murdered this beautiful soul. Remember Fatima Hassona. Watch and spread the film "Put your soul on your hand and walk". And never stop fighting the mass murdering death machine that is the Israeli state.

She was 25.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.

This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Budget airline Avelo to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona Budget carrier Avelo Airlines says it has signed an agreement to fly deportation flights from Arizona starting in May

If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.”

(h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

🚨 NEW from the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO): Gaza has entered a full-blown famine.
Israel is deliberately starving 2 million people — bombing bakeries, blocking food, and cutting off water. This is not a crisis. It’s genocide. A thread 🧵

How many students is Columbia University responsible for subjecting to even more state violence due to its surveillance and militarized suppression of the student movement protesting the genocide of Palestinians and the university's complicity in it?

Please support these wonderful people doing such important work keeping people connected in Gaza

Truth Is Never Finished | Fady Joudah They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?

...they couldn’t turn off time, and they went crazy that they had colonized a time in which there was no one left for them to come after, for they did not know how to be with others outside the madness of pursuit, the sweet perfume of domination. -Fady Joudah
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‼️‼️ Last night the entirety of the Refaat Alareer camp had to be relocated due to bombing. This is a special encampment that the Sameer Project has built to care for critically injured people because most of the hospitals are destroyed. Help them rebuild:

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we won’t share the video but please don’t look away from the continued genocidal, unspeakable violence the zionist entity is inflicting on people in tents right now and be honest with yourself about if you are doing enough to stop it. gather with some comrades and do more. we all have to risk more.

Family Detained in Immigration Raid in Tom Homan’s Hometown Is Released Residents of Sackets Harbor, New York, protested the detention of a mother and her three school-aged children.

NEW: A mother and her three school-aged children detained by ICE/CBP on March 27 in Sackets Harbor, NY, have been RELEASED after an outpouring of anger from locals in northern New York theintercept.com/2025/04/07/t...