It is time to honor the work of Martin Sostre, an underappreciated jailhouse lawyer who waged a revolutionary struggle against the US prison system. — Read on roarmag.org/essays/martin-sostre-prison-activist/
Author Archives: aidarends
Katherine McKittrick, a conversation on Black Dreamcatchers
Katherine McKittrick, a conversation on Black Dreamcatchers — Read on dwellerforever.blog/2023/05/katherine-mckittrick-a-conversation-on-black-dreamcatchers
Pushing Back: Reporter Patrick Strickland on Europe’s Violent Borders
“When you allow the right to asylum to be chipped away, you’re not just doing it to other people. You’re doing it to yourself, too.” — Read on http://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/pushing-back-reporter-patrick-strickland
Statement From Howard Grad Advocates
We maintain countless grievances and will not sit silently and allow them to go unrecognized, especially in light of campaign season. On today, May 13th, 2023, our graduation day and the 38th anniversary of the MOVE bombing, we choose to advocate. — Read on docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/15tM52x3Gtgm8gmJZpMSNcyxHyQUPwYqU6a70CBxe6xI/mobilebasic
NY Senate leader vague about plans for end of session, but ‘good cause’ eviction as written is out – City & State New York
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins didn’t have many details about the agenda for the remaining weeks aside from excluding the tenant pr… — Read on http://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2023/05/ny-senate-leader-vague-about-plans-end-session-good-cause-eviction-written-out/386447/
The Tempest of Capital: Climate Crisis and Forced Migration
AMLO’s Mexican National Guard (GN) has effectively assumed the role of the US border patrol. — Read on ahuehuete.substack.com/p/tempest
Dancers at LA’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar Become the Nation’s Only Unionized Strippers · Actors’ Equity Association
Dancers at LA’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar Become the Nation’s Only Unionized Strippers · Actors’ Equity Association — Read on http://www.actorsequity.org/news/PR/StarGardenVictory/
Haiti – US not abandoning invasion scheme
The main problem facing Haiti and her people is not the criminal gangs but the relentless colonial oppression of Haiti by the US and its Core Group … Haiti – US not abandoning invasion scheme
Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv – The White Review
Silly or not, my preliminary thesis was to think of Tel Aviv as a sort of Los Angeles of the eastern Mediterranean. Both cities are trashy, though one is in denial about it. Both have a sort of melancholic hedonism baked into their equations: in Los Angeles the party ends when the cash runs out.Continue reading “Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv – The White Review”
errand #8
It’s always going to sound better coming from a lover, and I don’t fight those battles for others anymore.
Aida Rends 