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What to do when you, too, become a “terrorist”: New zine launch! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is launching a new zine, “What to do when you, too, become a ‘terrorist’” — inspired by our own experience being banned in Germany and being labeled a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT)” by the United States and a “terrorist entity” by Canada, and by the ongoing attempts of theContinue reading “What to do when you, too, become a “terrorist”: New zine launch! | Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network”

Committee to Stop FBI Repression Says, Drop the charges against Alejandro Orellana!

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CFSR) condemns the unjust arrest and targeting of immigrant rights activist and Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) member Alejandro Orellana. On the morning of June 12, FBI agents, National Guard troops and LA County Sheriff’s deputies descended on Orellana’s East Los Angeles home in a coordinated, militarized raid. AgentsContinue reading “Committee to Stop FBI Repression Says, Drop the charges against Alejandro Orellana!”

How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians | The Nation

To simply imagine Palestine without settlers, to simply imagine a sky without drones—that, in the Zionist imagination, is genocidal. If you stick with the “want” of the charge, the notion that Palestinians want to kill all Jews, you find that Zionism is at war with our future. It is at war with our ability toContinue reading “How to Answer the Stupidest Questions About Palestinians | The Nation”

ICE targets Iranian man living legally in Buffalo : Investigative Post

His neighbors aren’t having it.  More than a dozen have organized themselves into rotating shifts to keep watch on the ICE agents. “You picked the wrong block,” said Jennifer Connor, one of the residents keeping watch. — Read on http://www.investigativepost.org/2025/07/01/ice-targets-iranian-family-in-buffalo-here-legally/

Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes

The ruling reactionary circle, through the consequence of being imperialists, transformed the world into what we call “Reactionary Intercommunalism.” They laid siege upon all the communities of the world, dominating the institutions to such an extent that the people were not served by the institutions in their own land. The Black Panther Party would likeContinue reading “Revolutionary Intercommunalism (Huey P. Newton, 1970) | abolition notes”

Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring – The Bloomingtonian

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington is suspending or eliminating more than 100 academic programs across a wide range of disciplines ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. The programs are on a list from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released on a PDF from the June 30, 2025 meeting. Universities across Indiana are eliminatingContinue reading “Indiana University Bloomington to Eliminate or Suspend Over 100 Academic Programs in Sweeping Restructuring – The Bloomingtonian”

Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025

This essay interprets Thomas More’s Utopia, not chiefly through its intended audience, an elite, international circle of humanists and jurists, but through its intentionally excluded audience: the lower classes of Europe. Five centuries of scholarship on the critique of private property in his Utopia have generally overlooked More’s opposition to the largest popular uprising ofContinue reading “Unfinished Acts: Utopia, Thomas More, and the Peasants’ War – O. L. Silverman, 2025”