The bill requires people be held on bail for dozens of new, small-time charges—and virtually eliminates charitable bail funds.
— Read on theappeal.org/georgia-bail-bill-jails-more-people-pretrial-and-attacks-bail-funds/
Taiwan: An Anti-Imperialist Resource — Qiao Collective
As Taiwan makes headlines as a flashpoint for US aggression on China, this
resource unpacks China’s aspirations for national reunification and
Taiwan’s fraught status as an “unsinkable aircraft carrier” for Western
ideological, economic, and military power in Asia and the Pacific.
— Read on www.qiaocollective.com/education/taiwan
Full article: “We are Fighting Nazis”: Genocidal Fashionings of Gaza(ns) After 7 October
Scholarly responses to the ongoing war have been mired in competing historical and socio-legal interpretations of the very concept of genocide, and these fundamental disagreements are partially owed to deep divisions within the field of Genocide Studies itself.
— Read on www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2305524
Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024 – Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty.
— Read on librarianswithpalestine.org/gaza-report-2024/
Palestinians demand international inquiry after mass grave found in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
Bodies of Palestinian detainees who were handcuffed, blindfolded discovered in plastic bags near northern Gaza school.
— Read on www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/1/palestinians-demand-international-inquiry-after-mass-grave-found-in-gaza
Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation — Ebb
In this essay, Leila Shomali and Lara Kilani, two Palestinian writers,
detail what it means to be anti-zionist, laying out foundational concepts
and definitions as they explore essential strategies and tactics for a
militant decolonial movement against settler-colonialism.
— Read on www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/anti-zionism-as-decolonisation
Brown University students start hunger strike for Gaza
The university said reporters would not be allowed on campus to cover the hunger strike.
— Read on www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2024/02/02/brown-university-students-start-hunger-strike-for-gaza/72452107007/
Frederick Douglass and American Empire in Haiti – Boston Review
Toward the end of his life, Frederick Douglass served briefly as U.S. ambassador to Haiti. The disastrous episode reveals much about the country’s long struggle for Black sovereignty while always under the threat of U.S. empire.
— Read on www.bostonreview.net/articles/frederick-douglass-and-american-empire-in-haiti/
Land as a social relationship – Briarpatch Magazine
Reconstituting our diverse relations, our laws, and value systems is key to successfully retaking our land and to not only surviving but creating a life worth living for all of us.
— Read on briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/land-as-a-social-relationship
suicide in langston hughes
We are reading The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes in my Harlem Renaissance class. While I’ve taught Hughes over the years, the last time I spent …
suicide in langston hughes