Alec Karakatsanis explains how both Republicans and Democrats have used the backlash to increase the powers of police. — Read on truthout.org/articles/when-the-left-distances-itself-from-black-lives-matter-far-right-policies-win/
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Shanti U Look Just Like Her
Shanti, you look just like your ma!a beautiful and Free Woman, maythe universe or God or whoever bless her and your soul, we need as many vigorously free artisticwomen walking Earth as we can getI mourn that I never got to meet herShanti, you look just like your ma!!
The Hollowed Vocabulary: Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institutional Capture of Anti-Zionism
All of a sudden we were navigating a new organizing terrain where everyone became self-avowed anti-zionists almost overnight. The act of people calling themselves anti-zionists was completely decoupled from political implications and became a rhetorical move similar to how people will declare that they aren’t racist, without ever really considering what racism is, how itContinue reading “The Hollowed Vocabulary: Jewish Voice for Peace and the Institutional Capture of Anti-Zionism”
Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory – the A-Line
In or around 1995, the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) bought a property, which included a three bedroom dwelling, in Christ Church, Barbados, in the vicinity of the international airport. Brathwaite referred to this property as Cow Pastor or Cow Pasture. Shortly after purchase, the Barbadian government informed him he could neither build on norContinue reading “Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory – the A-Line”
Legal Support | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising
This lawsuit is another thinly veiled attempt to weaponize the legal system to intimidate us into silence and incapacitate any form of resistance against the zionist entity’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The Amerikkkan bourgeois class and its fascist collaborators have always crafted the law to repress, imprison, and murder anyone deemed an “enemyContinue reading “Legal Support | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising”
Campaign: “Loon Loves You” on FreeFunder
Our dear beloved Loon is dead and we’re throwing her a party. She requested not to have a traditional memorial but she always encouraged us to be together. Anyone who knew her knew what it was like to dance and sing and laugh until your face hurt, to have dinner together and read poems aloudContinue reading “Campaign: “Loon Loves You” on FreeFunder”
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight. — Read on futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight
Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo
Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University (TXST) just days into his freshman year. As was widely reported, Devion became the center of a viral harassment campaign after he was singled out for participating in a campus protest againstContinue reading “Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo”
2027 STRIKE! — JLS
Fundamentally, this is a human rights crisis. The United States cages more human beings than any nation on earth. Behind the razors, we are stripped of our humanity, exploited for forced labor, and treated as raw material for state and corporate profit. Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS), a prisoner human rights organization, calls on all prisonersContinue reading “2027 STRIKE! — JLS”
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