About 300 passengers are boarding each of the eastbound and westbound Amtrak trains daily, according to the agency. — Read on http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/07/09/amtrak-borealis-ridership-from-milwaukee-to-twin-cities-tops-18500/74327634007/
Author Archives: aidarends
Coyote Woman in the City | Hood Museum
Rose the Coyote. No one’s princess, she is the very modern hip, brassy, singing, dancing trickster star of her own show. — Read on hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/p.989.10
Ornithofauna Prevailing at Al-Mawasi Ecosystem of the Gaza Strip, Palestine
No badjacketing: the state wants to kill us; let’s not cooperate | libcom.org
An article by the Twin Cities General Defense Committee (GDC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) about the dangers of ‘badjacketing’, which is defined as ‘creating suspicion, by spreading rumors or unsubstantiated accusations, that people are undercovers, infiltrators, snitches, or cooperators. ‘ — Read on libcom.org/article/no-badjacketing-state-wants-kill-us-lets-not-cooperate
1969-?: The strategy of tension in Italy | libcom.org
Faced with a huge growth of working class power, with strikes, occupations, self-reduction of prices and mass squatting the intelligence services began carrying out terrorist acts with the help of fascist groups. Anarchists and the left were blamed, and working class militants were arrested. The worst such attack was the worst terrorist attack in EuropeContinue reading “1969-?: The strategy of tension in Italy | libcom.org”
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the juke they perfectedstilted but deadly affectiveto those who can’t read bodies is layered into speech patterns and we are trippin OUT
What Are We Voting For? – Marie Louise Berneri (1942)
“The very fact of fighting an election is on the contrary a counter-revolutionary activity.” What Are We Voting For? – Marie Louise Berneri (1942)
The reluctant memoirist exposes the academy – Mondoweiss
At a time when Palestine activism and free expression at U.S. universities are under attack, Steven Salaita’s new memoir disabuses us of the notion that these universities are anything other than hedge funds with a campus. — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/07/the-reluctant-memoirist-exposes-the-academy/
Testimonies from the Mawasi massacre: 90 people buried in the sand – Mondoweiss
The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.” — Read on mondoweiss.net/2024/07/testimonies-from-the-mawasi-massacre-90-people-buried-in-the-sand/
ABOUT GERALDINE POINTER | Martin Sostre
On the night of July 14, 1967, Geraldine Pointer (then Robinson) was helping Martin Sostre close the Afro-Asian Bookshop on Jefferson Avenue. The two met and started dating the previous year, soon after he opened the city’s first Black revolutionary bookstore. Sostre eventually opened two more stores, including the East-West Bookshop which Pointer managed. InContinue reading “ABOUT GERALDINE POINTER | Martin Sostre”
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