“There are a lot of tears of joy…There’s still disbelief b/c we were steadying ourselves for another denial. Now folks are excited about being able to reunite Mutulu w/his family. We were crying together. It’s a long time overdue.” @El_Jemedari https://t.co/CJ6I14XxIe
🧵 Thread: #PoliceFreeSchools is not a new demand, it’s been organized and lead by young people for years.
In 2017, BPNC youth joined young people from across the country in nationwide convening on #PoliceFreeSchools. #CopsOutCPS
Every war reporter and journalist should be raging about this instead of churning out IDF press releases. Standing up for murdered journalists doesn’t stop objective reporting. Stop lying to yourselves about which side you’ve chosen.
The banana empire "Chiquita" massacred up to 2000 striking Colombian banana pickers on this day in 1928. But the bloodbath is just one chapter in Chiquita's long, bloodstained history. 🧵
El gobierno continúa deteniendo arbitrariamente y desterrando a personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana, violando las leyes y la constitución dominicana e incurriendo en el crimen de lesa humanidad del Apartheid, tal y como lo define el estatuto de Roma suscrito por RD.
A propósito del 25 de noviembre y la violencia del gobierno dominicano contra las mujeres: Esterilización sin consentimiento y aborto prohibido: dos caras de la misma moneda https://t.co/IhdBSWTRvZ
The Manhattan Bridge is completely shut down.
Israel says that after the 4-day pause, the barrage will continue for at least two months. We need a pressure campaign like never before. From bridges to train stations to halls of Congress, no business as usual until a ceasefire.
Last night three young Palestinian students in the U.S. were shot in the back. Their names are Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali & Kenan Abdulhamid.
Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. Racism & Zionism go hand in hand.
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Profit-making holiday “Black Friday”, interrupted by mass mobilizations calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza
People took to the streets across the US to disrupt Black Friday, the most profitable shopping day, to demand a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
https://t.co/jWjQUzo5Do
Military Africa reports that due to the war on #Gaza, #Israel has withdrawn dozens of Israeli instructors employed by private military contractors in DR #Congo to train parties involved in the ongoing conflict in the country.
🇰🇪/🇭🇹 Kenyan High Court blocks parliamentary authorization of police mission to Haiti
The deployment has been vehemently rejected by the Haitian people, who have taken to the streets in mass protests against “foreign occupation.”
https://t.co/9nOFjZK8sC
From the river to the sea is a call for freedom.
Only reason that Zionists, white supremacists, Hindutva, fascists hear this call for decolonization as genocide is because of *their* genocidal worldviews.
From every river to every sea, all people will get free. Till liberation
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of business across NYC’s 5 boroughs shut their doors today to say business cannot go on as usual during a genocide! Small business owners & workers are pouring into the streets of Manhattan to send a resounding message to the powers that be: Ceasefire now!