Saum Haas she/her

Amazon warrior helping her fallen companion, with worried horse
ancient cameo, Beazley Archives, Oxford

“Take it easy in this capitalist hellscape”: Lessons I learned from Alice Wong “Take it easy in this capitalist hellscape.” That’s the last line that Alice sent me. We had been exchanging emails, as I had quoted her in my new book and wanted to make sure she was OK with it. I as...

For March, Taking Alice Wong’s Advice in this Capitalist Hellscape will be our focus, with an invitation to reflect on how this can inspire our Collective Liberation, so I hope you will consider joining us then!🫂

Here is the registration link: accesslovemarch.eventbrite.ca

Please share widely! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca

"For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework." 🫂

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

This is a project of resilience, dignity, and future. The volunteers at Spark mean it. It isn't just internet or a workspace, but a way for students to continue to dream, and families to support themselves autonomously.

Hit "weekly" to keep it open. 57/340 by Monday: chuffed.org/project/spar...

Portion of a brass tray on a red and gold altar cloth. On the tray is a small clay oil lamp and a horse ornament painted with the red, black, white, and green flag of Palestine surrounded by red rose petals.

Hindus for Palestine!
Equestrians for Palestine.

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

“Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight

“Any resistance IS resistance. If at the end of the day all you have to offer is a soft place to land? That counts too.”

Please follow & support
@jackfrombkln.bsky.social
here & on Substack

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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.

Beyond Borders: Afro-Indigenous Histories and Identity | Native American Support Program | University of Illinois Chicago

Just signed up for this Beyond Borders: Afro-Indigenous Histories & Identity event, so here is the registration link, if you could also benefit from this chat to work in solidarity with both Black & Indigenous communities for community resilience beyond imposed borders!🔥 nasp.uic.edu/events/beyon...

Organizing Reading List — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.

standwithminnesota.com/read

How I feel about the capitalization of Black, is if you're Black, do you! I respect the many articulations Black folk have for their usage. But I better see you putting that respeck with some capitalization if you're not Black.

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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We must show up for local issues in our neighborhoods and small towns

Photo description: snowy winter scene. a black & white horse walking on a long lead line next to a person in shadow. Background is a tall pile of snow pushed up by a snowplow and more snow

Doomscrolling checkpoint.
Take a few deep breaths. Drink some water, if you have it.

#DoomscrollBreak

Image description: On a dark background: A lit candle, and the words International Holocaust Remembrance Day January 27

“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
-Elie Wiesel

“Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.”
-Mother Jones

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

It looks like the Minnesota dash cam effort is getting some attention again, thank you!

Yes, we still need more; this link has everything you need, including a PO Box if you don't want to support Amazon: ottergoose.net/dashcam/

Disability Justice 101 Disability Justice would solve every single social justice issue we currently face, so please join us to learn more about this framework! ✨

Having discussed this event's analytics with a strategist yesterday, I have updated the page to answer the basics of What, Why, When, Where, Who, & How in the hopes of getting more folx who view it to purchase tickets & invite others, so please consider sharing this post to increase participation! 🙏🏾

If you would like to help Sudanese living through UAE-funded, West & rest facilitated, RSF-operated genocide, famine and disease, check out Sudan Funds.
Donate to any of the listed campaigns.
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Minnesota is the best of us.

Photo taken from above, showing thousands of people marching through downtown Minneapolis. Caption reads: Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

If I ever again hear someone refer to my home state as “flyover country,” I’m gonna throw them into Lake Minnetonka. In January.

#AbolishICE
#Minneapolis
#Minnesota
#LakeMinnetonka
#Prince

Photo description: view from above, of thousands of people marching in the streets of downtown Minneapolis.

My heart is breaking and overflowing at the same time. I’m so proud of my home state, so fucking proud of all of you. I miss you. I love you. 💜

Thank you for showing up, and for showing everyone how it’s done.

#Minnesota
#Minneapolis
#StPaul
#AbolishICE

Photo credit: Dan Bailey.

Donate to We are very tied the war has exhausted our body, organized by Alyce Thompson Hi my name is Alyce and I am making this fundraiser on behalf of my bro… Alyce Thompson needs your support for We are very tied the war has exhausted our body

Aghar Hamed has a family of nine.
He has raised only 1,388 AUD (957.30 USD).
The last donation to his campaign was twenty days ago.
Please support him if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
His campaign is listed on lifeline4gaza.com.
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Photo description: A small ornament shaped like a galloping horse. It’s painted with the red, black, white, and green flag of Palestine. It’s hanging from a piece of twine against a greyish wall.

Please remember our siblings in Palestine. Help if you can.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-coach...

On MLK Day, we’ll hear a lot of quotes from people actively dismantling his legacy, including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Dr. King’s work was never finished. It was interrupted.

We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Dozens of brass bells of different sizes, hanging from thin chains and colorful strings.

Dear desi / South Asian -American siblings, when Rev. King said “I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate,” he was also speaking, through history, to us.

We brown moderates helped pave the path to where we are today.

letterfromjail.com

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s