“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel and ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource-grabbing, bomb-dropping imperial power and its allies who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.“ Arundhati Roy
[NEW) Minneapolis is showing us how it's done. Over the past few weeks, I've received questions about how to adapt the Social Change Map for emerging efforts. I put together a short planner that can support folks in:
facilitating meetings
identifying roles
evaluating growth
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If you’re in the disability justice world, you should be following the new @blackdisabilityins.bsky.social account. So many good things ahead and you’re gonna wanna be in the loop!
60 Minutes's story on Israel’s pager attack that killed dozens and injured thousands of Lebanese featured no Lebanese voices and was told completely from the Israeli perspective. In the process, it justified war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/60-minutes-program-on-leban…
ED of @nilc.org Kica Matos on The Atlantic’s immigration screed “With their scolding and posturing these self-described “pragmatists” are—perhaps unwittingly—mimicking the far-right’s well-worn playbook of scapegoating marginalized people to evade responsibility” www.commondreams.org/opinion/dems...
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New Year's Revolution poster spotted in Sydney
2024 was a historically difficult year for transgender people, but it was not without its victories. I list over 60 victories for transgender people this year.
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Cover of Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape, surrounded by blue, that is slightly offset in the middle. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.
One of our great new titles coming out this month is "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World" by Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaina Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, and Cristina Rivera Garza.
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I am begging people to read Combahee River Collective Statement before “identity politics” goes the way of “woke”
www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
"Sleep (or a lack thereof) indexes scales of.. antiblackness. [Fletcher] considers the mirrored boundaries between wakefulness/sleep and life/death... By analyzing insomnia, slumber, fever dreams and nightmares.. [to] locate the bounds of Black consciousness and freedom."
- Marcelle-Anne Fletcher
The stories of Haitians who have come here through legal immigration channels are fascinating because there are so many white collar, highly-educated Haitians who managed to get out because they had the resources to do so that their less-fortune countrymen do not have.
Now they are at risk again.
Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...
CAPITALISM by Arundhati Roy CAN’T PAY WON’T PAY by Debt Collective ELITE CAPTURE by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU by Kelly Hayes and Marianne Kaba THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE HERE by H. Melt
Dammit, @haymarketbooks.bsky.social last day sale at NWSA, you got me good
We were able to raise over $8000 for families in Gaza with the Sameer Project. But there’s a still a push to get their Refaat Camp to £100K by Sunday. Please donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1133...
“Election Myth the “Left” tells the South” now on Scalawag Magazine
“America’s liberal democracy has always harbored fascism as its whip, noose, truncheon taser, rifle—wielded to motivate the South to embrace its liberalism, even as it maintains Blackness as capital.”
✍🏾: Yours Truly
Read more at scalawagmagazine.org/2024/11/elec...
As a Black person in America - news that the IOF just bombed a barbershop in Gaza on a Saturday is devastating- like these Zionists actually hate us - schools, hospitals, mosques… ok. the barbershop?! On a Saturday ?!
I have a new piece in @truthout.bsky.social reflecting on the election, the rightward lurch on immigration, lessons from years of fighting mass deportation and detention, and how we can prepare for the coming onslaught. truthout.org/articles/tru...
Police in #Vancouver, #Canada, carried out a violent raid and arrest of an activist and founder of Samidoun, a group that works to support political prisoners in #Palestine. The group was recently labeled a terrorist group by several countries. vancouversun.com/news/police-...
My piece about the need to rethink our approach to direct action and protest under a second Trump administration, reprinted in @truthout.bsky.social.
just so we’re clear: it’s free palestine over here too. 🇵🇸
Get into it. Something to start your own freedom schools 💫
“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”– Ursula K. Le Guin
A meme with three images from film Titanic of the dancing scene where Jack & Rose are spinning around laughing. First panel Kate Winslet's character says "WE SHOULD WRITE SOMETHING TOGETHER". Second panel Leonardo diCaprio's character laughs saying "I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME". Kate's character replies in third panel laughing hysterically "I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME EITHER".
An apt meme making rounds
So, I had some thoughts about the fascistic hoax Trump deployed on the debate stage and Vice President Harris's response.
Everywhere else on socials has become insufferable. Is here a better here? Loathing learning a new app but also…
it’s nice to be new. 🌱
Octavia E. Butler predicted that we will soon have ballots that only have the candidates' photos because most won't be able to read and people will decide based on who looks "presidential" and tells them what they want to hear.
