Palestinian history is inextricably global, its locations many, and its social, cultural, and political entanglements with the world endless. The writing of Palestinian history, therefore, must necessarily attune itself to the local lives and particular struggles of refugees scattered across jurisdictions and far beyond Israel’s territorial control.
— Read on sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/10/los-angeles-intifada/

In spring it becomes obvious 
how lovely you really are my 
baby my baby my baby 
soft voiced but strong  

In summer it is unavoidable 
you strutted right into bedstuy
without a sweat it seemed 
from the outside tho you say 

In fall it is clearer than ever 
the murderers drop facade 
and the world goes smaller and 
crueler but you do not my dear

Wintertime you knock back on
my door, you wear the year well
we sit on hardwood floor 
played cards, the cats fur 
tickles us, spring again! 

This time this time will be 
different because we say so 
because the seasons change 
our love only grows the
children laugh and we laugh back 

Sweetness, my sweet one don't 
look back don't stop for a minute
the future is where we live 

The Essay applies a critical race and technology approach to examine a dimension of policing and criminalization that is taking new shape through advancing technology: collective state and private partnerships to control and monitor Black lives. It theorizes these practices as a form of crowdsourced surveillance that manifests in at least three ways: (1) in instances where law enforcement is given direct access to privately owned surveillance technology; (2) when private citizens are encouraged to use publicly owned surveillance technology to surveil fellow citizens; and (3) through digital public surveillance that is financed by wealthy private citizens and other third parties.
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

oh si
la playa mexicana 
oh si 
la playa mexicana
oh si
la playa de mi tierra 
a mi no me abierta 
oh si 
la playa floridita
a mi no me entrega
oh si 
la playa californita 
no me da becita 

To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show how these were strategic concessions by the capitalist class rather than the result of the establishment coming to see reason or bowing to the force of the better argument.
— Read on redsails.org/concessions/