Council Member Anika Bowie declares June Black Music Month in St. Paul. (Also, Juneteenth, Pride...) In case you missed it, Walker West Music Academy has touched any number of artists in St. Paul, and it has bigger new digs: https://t.co/pXlbXcTxpo
i am v v grateful for the Minneapolis public schools principals who, once they learned of ICE presence on Lake St, made sure our vulnerable students had alternative routes home avoiding the area.
Political ignoramus looking over my shoulder at the latest news, asks me, "why is she running in ward 10 if she lives in ward 1?"
Me, longtime political observer: "because someone who lives in ward 3 needed to run in ward 1"
New lawsuit from a University of Minnesota international student is out. ICE terminated his status after identifying him in a criminal records check. His crime? A speeding ticket and a handful of parking violations:
For those of you in New York, I’ll be at Word Up community book store tomorrow night (Wednesday) at 7. Come by, and let’s discuss how the news media helped bring us to this authoritarian moment.
Wild. Right after Cory Booker went viral for speaking on the "wretched truth about America," he just voted to keep arming a government that just officially achieved The Deadliest Conflict Ever for Journalists & executed and buried 15 paramedics and their emergency vehicles
To all friends
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free.
In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world:
• A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:
https://t.co/dlwb6Rf77I
https://t.co/XaqRKmNnhE
https://t.co/nXaMQf8mOJ
• "Keeper of Memory" documentary:
https://t.co/Izb5iQc1Rg
• "Empty Seat" documentary:
https://t.co/g5qQ76dFsL
• "Resistance Pilot" documentary:
https://t.co/r7gHsZgbh7
• "Jenin" documentary:
https://t.co/w7MHEtT1rx
• "The Olive Tree" documentary:
https://t.co/UGc281sB8g
• "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973:
https://t.co/FJhBrXqV6G
• Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom":
https://t.co/FP9plLDRnH
• Documentary "Arna's Children":
https://t.co/nMARn6hK3x
• Short Film "Strawberry":
https://t.co/3vDtJfBl9S
• Short Film "The Place":
https://t.co/4YnMgKjDxM
• Documentary "The Mayor":
https://t.co/OrZ5t0o418
• Documentary "The Creation and the Nakba 1948":
https://t.co/dopya7lonp
• Documentary "Occupation" 101":
https://t.co/aMOLKoRJ8L
• "The Shadow of Absence" Documentary:
https://t.co/lpJDZiLCyW
• "The Don't Exist" Documentary:
https://t.co/8amenIgDUt
• "As The Poet Said" Documentary:
https://t.co/1V5UrOWuxW
• "Five Broken Cameras" Documentary:
https://t.co/z9spDWinbx
• "Paradise Now" Feature Film:
https://t.co/tfVXiCC0PI
• "Abnadam" Short Film:
https://t.co/EFj1zuGtVV
• "Wedding of Galilee":
https://t.co/wcWMYkN3Ix
• The feature film "Keffiyeh":
https://t.co/kPco6N7nCv
• The documentary film "Slingshot Hip Hop":
https://t.co/B3hX8o80nk
• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV
• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle":
https://t.co/SwvFHGJMrV
• The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance":
https://t.co/dGZaXBVkqK
• The documentary film "Swings":
https://t.co/pW6DpGxU3x
• The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision:
https://t.co/mztq6n0A5C
• "The Upper Gate" Documentary:
https://t.co/nwHl803u1B
• "In Search of Palestine" Documentary:
https://t.co/36ADmq3yuj
• "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film:
https://t.co/4agkw8suWK
• "Speak, Bird" Documentary:
https://t.co/6iA9FDYvIQ
• "The Palestinian Exodus" Series:
https://t.co/TzKlaXXloB
• "I Am Jerusalem" Series:
https://t.co/jvyieEoCrs
One question I tell young people going to do political work to always ask: Is the gist of this policy that someone--literally anyone--will materially suffer in order that someone else benefits? If so, it's probably not a good idea.
After you've read the article, consider that the Washington Post headline is completely inappropriate understatement (to the point of misrepresentation) of what its article reported.
The appeasing behavior of elite Democrats like Schumer, universities like Columbia and Yale, and many people with influence is a catastrophic error. We have a small window to prevent the worst from happening through unrelenting refusal in every corner of society to accept this.