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”
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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”
Why is Cair urging US Muslims to seek security from DHS? | Middle East Eye
The grant push is only the latest in the civil rights group’s decades of steering Muslims towards the institutions that surveil, entrap and deport them — Read on http://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-cair-urging-us-muslims-seek-security-from-dhs
Fundraiser for Ev S by E R : Honor Kirin’s memory and support his partner
We have lost a beloved friend and important member of the Oakland community. It is wi… E R needs your support for Honor Kirin’s memory and support his partner — Read on http://www.gofundme.com/f/honor-kirins-memory-and-support-his-partner
Venezuela: US Court Rules Against Maduro, State Officials, Awards Damages to Former Prisoners – Venezuelanalysis
Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has argued for immunity from civil action given her current head of state position. — Read on venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-us-court-rules-against-maduro-state-officials-awards-damages-to-former-prisoners/
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance | WIRED
Curry says watching the videos has changed his sense of his own privacy as he walks around an American city—or, at least, San Francisco. “This was the first time I’d seen drones used in a city like this, and looking at these streets, they’re the same streets I walk down when I’m visiting,” he says.Continue reading “A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance | WIRED”