Silver Lining

Looking for life in the midst of ecological collapse on "It's Hot in Here with Silver Lining" of WCBN 88.3-FM, also on Spotify. 🎧 Eng/Esp/Port. From 585.

[kat @onsecondthot]

the current vibe at Em*ry right now 🇵🇸💚❤️🖤 come thru @ 6pm to demand a free Palestine and university divestment in Israel’s genocide #atlanta

[Jewish Voice For Peace UMich @JVPumich]

‼️Breaking‼️
University of Michigan’s Faculty Senate passes resolution *demanding divestment from companies profiting off of Israeli aggression in Gaza*

@TAHRIRumich thanks all of the faculty who stand on the right side of history!

[Conpazcol @ConpazCol_]

#Putumayo | Inicia recorrido para la siembra definitiva de nuestro hermano y compañero Mayor Indígena Nasa Phanor Guazaquillo Peña.

#PhanorEsSemilla 🌱

@CENPAZ_ @IEANPE_ @liliasolanor @ConsejeriaDDHH @MisionONUCol @ONUHumanRights @WfPSolidCollect @Peace_Presence @gimena_wola

[Detroit & Washtenaw for Palestine @washco4plstn]

Our movement has shut down roads to #TheGame of Michigan vs OSU this morning! Ohio’s team was rerouted due to total shutdown for 2 hours. There’s no business as usual while the US funds genocide. We demand a #PermanentCeasefire.

[julia dupuis @juliaxdupuis]

Update on my experience as a #ATL61 RICO defendant:

I was released last week after about 30-40 hours in detention, although some defendants were held longer (two are still inside).

What we went through is just a glimpse into the brutal reality of incarceration in this country.

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

ann arbor police attempting and failing to shut us down rn

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

HAPPENING NOW: hundreds of students and allies gather on the diag demanding that @UMich divest from companies that send military equipment to Israel.

[RootsAction @Roots_Action]

BLOCK COP CITY PRESS RELEASE:

HUNDREDS MARCH TO COP CITY SITE FOR NON-VIOLENT ACTION, POLICE RESPOND WITH TEAR GAS AND FLASHBANGS; FOREST DEFENDERS PREVAIL: CONSTRUCTION STOPPED TODAY

Atlanta, GA - This morning, a bold and joyful procession of roughly 500 people marched along a public road to the proposed Cop City construction site. Holding banners and giant puppets, and accompanied by drummers and a brass band, Block Cop City activists reclaimed Atlanta's rich civil rights legacy from politicians who continue to tarnish it with every voter disenfranchised and each tear gas canister thrown. Despite the violent response by police, activists minimized arrests and harm through careful planning, extensive preparation, and close attention to lessons learned from generations of revolutionary struggles against repression and authoritarianism.

The march began with a festive gathering in Gresham Park where participants adopted an explicit commitment to nonviolence and heard from Kamau Franklin (Executive Director of Atlanta-based Community Movement Builders) and Joel Paez (father of Tortuguita, a forest defender murdered by police in the forest in January.)

"Now is not a time for cowardice. You are either with the oppressed or with the oppressors. You are either with the people or the pigs. You cannot stand in the middle. You cannot be on both sides. You cannot close your eyes to the terror of policing that happens in this world." - Kamau Franklin

"We are going to continue defending the forest. We are going to continue defending the legacy of Tortuguita. We are family. You are my family." - Joel Paez

Once the march was underway it took less than an hour for the police to declare it illegal, just as they did in 1965 during the March from Selma to Montgomery. Despite numerous stated commitments from religious leaders and city officials to honor the right to protest, armed riot police terrorized the crowd with tear gas grenades, attack dogs, clubs and ballistic shields.

Video footage of the police escalation against protestors on Constitution Road can be found here: https://t.co/ImEQuXmoPb

Additional video footage of officers using flashbangs against the crowd can be found here: https://t.co/LQsEuq6rlQ

"We just witnessed overt violations of our civil rights on a road named after the U.S. Constitution. Atlanta claims itself to be a civil rights hub, but it erases its own legacy when protests arise that confront the power of politicians and police. The police's violence against protestors today affirms our belief that Cop City must never be built." - Mary Hooks, field secretary for the Movement for Black Lives

As other protestors took to planting tree saplings in the Weelaunee Forest, journalists were forcibly separated from the crowd and threatened with arrest by police. We condemn this infringement of these journalists' rights as well as the arrest of protestors including the Indigenous activists arrested while visiting Tortuguita's altar in the Weelaunee Forest over the weekend.

The movement to Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest is undeterred by today's police aggression and is planning a press conference and vigil at the Dekalb County Jail at 8PM. Additional vigils are being planned at the Atlanta City Detention Center and Rice Street Fulton County Jail where arraigned RICO defendants are expected to be released today.

"The City of Atlanta's actions against this movement under the leadership of Andre Dickens have been draconian but we remain committed to the opposite: building a world free of police violence and repression where all of us can thrive." - Sam Beard, Block Cop City spokesperson.

Additional photographs of the march can be found at: https://t.co/RDGVIDSdvT

COP CITY WILL NEVER BE BUILT!

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

Last Thursday, we stood in solidarity with @SAFEumich and a large coalition of over 40+ student orgs as they met with @UMich admin, a meeting they secured by occupying Ruthven administrative building on the 10/25 Walk-out for Gaza. 🧵 (1/5)

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

.@SantaJOno has time to tweet about basketball, but none to respond to hundreds of students and employees @geo3550 staging a die in rn to demand that UMich DIVEST its 17 BILLION dollar endowment from the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

@UMichPrezOno, your priorities are clear.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

HAPPENING NOW: Die-in on the Diag for the 10,000 and counting Palestinian lives lost over the past month.

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

Full interview here, absolutely worth your time: https://t.co/wk2GYsNssq

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

“I told my mother that if I lived, I would never, ever be quiet and I would become a peacemaker,” says 87-year old Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram, who has been protesting outside the White House calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. “I have kept that promise.”

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

s/o to hundreds shutting down 30th st rn <3 <3 <3

[Briana Smith @brianasmithnews]

PROTEST: About 300 people inside 30th Street Station in Philadelphia right now calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Hundreds more are outside.

Many are connected with Jewish Voice for Peace, Philly Palestine Coalition and If Not Now Philadelphia.

@6abc

[Appalachians Against Pipelines @stopthemvp]

All four people who locked-down this morning have been extracted and arrested. But we can confirm that work at both sites was stopped ALL DAY.

Plz donate to our bail fund and help get our friends out of jail! https://t.co/cFj2GOlZrd.

[Appalachians Against Pipelines @stopthemvp]

BREAKING.

Mass direct actions are shutting down construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at two locations. People have swarmed both sites, and a total of four people have locked-down to construction equipment. #NoMVP

[Sunrise Ann Arbor🌅 @sunriseannarbor]

A group of ~25 concerned citizens visited the mansion of Accident Fund CEO Lisa Corless, demanding she cut the contract with Cop City. She called the cops but no arrests were made.

Accident Fund insures Cop City. If they cut ties, construction will have to halt.

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

feat “Freedom Rap” by Gary Lamaar https://t.co/CI4tGYJEnn

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

Latest episode of “It’s Hot in Here w Silver Lining” is out from last week! Feat homies Shihab Jackson & Brian Geiringer, we bad mouth Washtenaw County prosecutor Eli Savit and make the case for why all environmentalists should also be abolitionists. https://t.co/r6ssKG4cuV

[Comunidad de Paz San José de Apartadó @cdpsanjose]

¡Atención! Hace pocos minutos paramilitares armados entraron a nuestro centro comunitario La Bodega, en San Josesito. Al llegar nuestra Comunidad se escondieron por el río.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

This beaver was orphaned and rescued as a newborn.

Watch the incredible instinct to build a dam, even though it’s never seen its parents build one..

[Silver Lining @SilverLinePen]

HR says it doesn’t have the $32 million it would cost the @UMich to pay @geo3550 graduate workers a living wage.

Fun fact: DPSS has a budget of $32 million.

[Grad Employees' Org UMich @geo3550]

BREAKING: @UMich president docks pay, sends cops on picketing grad workers

(Full press release below 📣)