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OPENING ACTS, a reportback from the Day of the Forest Defender rally in Gary, Indiana is up on our website! We ended up "face to face with the first instance of the incoming Trump administration’s political repression—two days before he entered office." https://t.co/AjIdzLDztR
~E278: Living on Island Time~
Former inmates Shanahan & Campbell reveal the hidden social world of Rikers Island in their new book "City Time" from @NYUpress
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Once the ceasefire goes into effect on Sunday, millions in Gaza will try to return to their homes. This is what they’ll find: 50.8 million metric tons of rubble littered with unexploded ordnance, toxic waste and asbestos. Evil on a dystopian scale.
A new documentary film “Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat” examines the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
Despite a ceasefire set for Sunday, Israeli forces continue attacking Gaza, killing dozens of Palestinians just hours after the announcement.
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This is the same deal that Hamas agreed to in May, June, and August, yet israel wanted to continue to prolong Palestinian suffering. They failed to conquer the north, thousands of Palestinians will be released, resistance has prevailed.
Starbucks workers in LA are being forced to work in areas impacted by the recent wildfires - even where the air quality is unsafe.
Management told partners that stores must open because “the community depends on us,” ignoring that some workers had to evacuate their own homes.
So far, the only official mention of incarcerated workers on the LA fires was a comment from the CDCR published in the Guardian that there are 29 incarcerated crews (295 people) working. These workers are likely coming from the 6 camps in LA County. These camps are:
This is precisely what Mike Davis and other experts I interviewed making Bring Your Own Brigade warned me about. That fire could burn into the city of Los Angeles and nothing could stop it, when the winds lined up, as inevitably one day they would. I am looking out of a window in Venice and for the first time planning what to grab and where to go. While also thinking I must be imagining it. I’ve interviewed so many people in this situation and now I find myself in it. Even though I intentionally live in the least fire-prone neighborhood because I saw too much fire devastation and was traumatized by it, so that even though I love the hills I was too scared to live there. It’s hard to imagine that even “the flats” are not safe.
~E276: Stochastic Panic~
We talk about 2025 and the Cybertruck psyop with @Hard_Crackers' John Garvey and Zhana Kurti.
In the fun half, we read the UFO prophecies of Baba Vanga, and hear @as_a_worker 's interpretation of CharliXCX's Brat.
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segment from The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016) w/ words of an incarcerated firefighter in CA. despite doing a bulk of wildfire fighting labor here, most aren't allowed to be firefighters if paroled. they aren't even allowed to speak to ppl whose homes they save.
116 incarcerated youth have STILL NOT been evacuated 🚨🚨 Call L.A. County Supervisors- demand youth in Sylmar Nirdorf Hall & Malibu Camp Kilpatrick be evacuated NOW: ☎️
Horvath 213-974-3333
Solis 213-974-4111
Hahn 213-974-4444
Mitchell 213-974-2222
Barger 213-974-5555