In the 1970s, violent state repression resulted in dozens of murders and assaults against Indigenous people (primarily but not exclusively Lakota …
Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge (1977)
Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge (1977)
How 19 ‘Cop City’ activists got charged with terrorism | Grist
Documents show how Georgia police are invoking a 2017 terrorism law against activists accused of little more than trespassing.
— Read on grist.org/protest/atlanta-cop-city-terrorism/
US Airstrikes in Somalia Increased By 30% in 2022 – News From Antiwar.com
US Airstrikes in Somalia Increased By 30% in 2022 – News From Antiwar.com
— Read on news.antiwar.com/2023/01/08/us-airstrikes-in-somalia-increased-by-30-in-2022/
Ramón Quintero writes about living and migrating from El Pozo, Sinaloa
Marijuana farming and the Rise of the New Mexican Rural Dream at El Pozo, Sinaloa Ramon H. Quintero* “Land and Liberty”: The Legacy of the Mexican Rev…
— Read on nuestraaparenterendicion.com/index.php
New Jersey Rolls Back Protections for Trans Prisoners – The Appeal
After a wave of tabloid coverage about pregnancies involving a trans prisoner at a women’s facility, officials gave themselves more power to deny housing placements consistent with gender identity.
— Read on theappeal.org/new-jersey-transgender-prisoner-policy-demi-minor/
Under Eric Adams, a Rikers Island Unit That Protected Trans Women Has Collapsed – THE CITY
Detainees tell THE CITY that they are stranded in all-male housing units, subject to physical violence and sexual assaults.
— Read on www.thecity.nyc/2023/1/24/23567498/rikers-lgbtq-trans-eric-adams-corrections
Peru Resists – by taller ahuehuete – ahuehuete.org
Peru, a People’s Movement Overthrow, by Luis Hernández Navarro
— Read on ahuehuete.substack.com/p/peruresiste
México, sin capacidad para atender a migrantes en la Frontera Sur – Noticias Voz e Imagen de Chiapas
Wilner Metelus, aseguró que en Tapachula hay unos 18 mil migrantes haitianos y siguen arribando.
— Read on nvinoticiaschiapas.com/internacional/24/01/2023/46788/
Coming Out – by k’eguro – Imagining Freedom
Narrative always intervenes. Which is to say: we are asked to narrate the genre of our lives or, more commonly, we are asked which genres our lives fit into.
— Read on keguro.substack.com/p/coming-out
silver bullet
sound(s)well
they pool, they river
petals taught me that
i was a pebble
in a shoe
i was treble
in the blue
pitter patter
patent leather shoe
sound(s)treacherous
(s)o many times lost
calendars burned
(s)till the sun watch
the silver bullet
bounced off the world
and became the moon
Aida Rends 