Arlene Samons

I love to laugh, dance, stand up for justice and equality! I love nature, fun, family!!

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

I'll never forget when we had a big protest at the White House in 2023 against the US blockade on Cuba, Chris Smalls organized a whole Amazon Labor Union contingent to participate. After meeting with Biden in the White House in 2022, he said he'd never accept another invitation.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Chris Smalls with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. How rare it is to have an actual anti-imperialist labor leader willing to take bold action in this country!!

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Chris Smalls also traveled to Cuba two years ago to exchange with Cuban trade unions and speak out against the genocidal US blockade. He’s a real one. Shameful but not surprising that the vast majority of racist zionist trade unions are silent right now as he is tortured by IOF.

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Israelis hate black people. Chris Smalls was the only black person on that Flotilla and the only one assaulted, choked and beaten. Israelis are a racist, inbred death cult colonizing the Middle East.

[Shareefa Energy @ShareefaEnergy]

Solidarity with Chris Smalls kidnapped by the Israeli occupation on @GazaFFlotilla choked and beaten. It’s no small thing for an African man to be kidnapped by a racist apartheid genocidal occupations hands for simply trying to deliver food, baby formula, teddy bears for children

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

“I’m a father. I love my kids to death. I don’t want them to grow up in a world like this. As a US citizen, I’m putting my life on the line—but this isn’t about us, this is about the people of Gaza. This is about Palestine. Enough is enough.”

Chris Smalls on why he joined the Handala Freedom Flotilla, before Israel beat him for trying to bring baby formula to Gaza @Shut_downAmazon

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He was severely beaten by seven ppl in Israeli custody.

Labour must stand for Chris Smalls and stand for Palestine.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Solidarity with Chris Smalls, labor leader brutally beaten & kidnapped by Israel for trying to deliver aid to Gaza. He’s risking everything to expose the genocide of Palestinians. Demand his release now! @Shut_downAmazon

[Arlene Samons @ArleneSamons]

@ScarlettsRBF @queenie4rmnola ha ha there has never been peace or harmony with whites, before whites violated and oppressed and raped and killed, etc. non whites, whites were killing each other for centuries, duh!!!! whites never leave anyone alone, their up to something as usual, you never never trust whites

[Arlene Samons @ArleneSamons]

@nemeslikesmemes @queenie4rmnola ugh, racists whites gathering and forming together is literally always bad and leads to violence idiot!

[Arlene Samons @ArleneSamons]

@tanker1186 @queenie4rmnola um , women, blacks, natives etc. have never had peace thanks to white devils, so white devils should not ever have peace since they literally don't deserve it, and have ruined everybody else's lives and peace and country and world..

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

@LennyShovits Wrong. It’s a systemic plan as stated by the leaders. The community in Arkansas is a flagship community. I can’t tell if you’re being intentionally disruptive or simply miseducated.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

@lillijlee The problem is that 100 years of history (1865-1965) shows us that separate never meant equal. I live in a predominantly Black neighborhood. This isn't about preserving your right to live with people who share race and culture with you. It's an effort to resegregate our country.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

The whites-only community in Arkansas was formed by the Return to the Land (RTTL) movement. They're calling this community their "flagship," indicating they plan to replicate their efforts throughout the country. This is an effort to reinstate Jim Crow.

[Sal Ibrahim @SalIbrahim6]

@NerdeenKiswani The only Black passenger and magically the only one beaten. The IDF doesn’t miss when it comes to racism. Surgical precision.

[emiliorojas @emiliorojas]

@NerdeenKiswani When you put it into context with the fact that Israel is an extension of U.S. imperialism - and Amazon benefits from that Imperialism it makes perfect sense. Not only was he racially targeted but there are capital interests as well. IOF doing Jeff Bezos work too.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

The return of one person is treated like closure. But 14 are still in captivity. Gaza is still starving. And Chris Smalls’ beating is being buried.
Don’t reframe this. Don’t forget Gaza. And don’t disappear the violence Israel inflicted — or who it chose to inflict it on.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

And it’s telling how easily the story shifted away from the point — that Gaza is starving, that people put their lives on the line to break a siege — to a sanitized, selective spectacle that erases the urgency and the injustice.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

It’s deeply disturbing. Preferential treatment from Israel for Jewish detainees, and targeted violence toward a Black activist — is not just racism or white supremacy. It’s a reflection of the whole apartheid logic.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

One of them, came back to a welcome wagon. Flowers. Slaps on the back. Ululations. Celebration. And yet, while people are locked up, while Gaza is being starved, while Chris Smalls is being brutalized — for some the focus has turned into a feel-good reunion story.