👀🗣️🔴⚫️🟢👊🏾❗️Michael Coard, Esq. (Black attorney), Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D. (Black author), and Greg Carr, Ph.D. (Black academic) are pro-Black and progressive. And all three have endorsed HELEN GYM for mayor. Be pro-Black. Be progressive. Vote for Helen! And check this out:
A 🧵 || My Twitter feed of my people in Gaza is literally everyone saying goodbyes to each other and apologizing to anyone who they might have hurt. Asking for forgiveness from each other and solving any beef they may have had with each other.
We led a training w/ @NEIU on how to share stories of racial discrimination by writing a shadow report that would become an official part of the record of UN proceedings...
"Quaker abolitionists like Lucretia Mott didn’t call for the reform of slavery, they were clear the institution had to end...ICE can’t be reformed. I believe now is the time to defund & abolish the agency." - @Lucy_Duncan#AbolishICE
In the same 24 hours, scotus made abortion illegal in half the country and the Senate of the largest, most "progressive" state in the Union confirmed that yes, they would like to keep prison slavery in place. That's sitting heavy with me today. #ACA3#RoeVsWade#EndTheException
People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So what is distinctive about this economic system? Three things (well, more, but three for now):
This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo.
This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat.
From our archives: "Confusing nonviolence with passivity is a huge mistake," @lucy_duncan wrote in 2018. "Nonviolent communication should stop violence, not quietly reinforce it. Confronting oppression isn’t violence; letting oppression progress is."
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