Sy Tasnu

alum @swarthmore @cunylaw @cuny_clear | #closegtmo | 🇧🇩 born, Bronx/Queens run. Views my own. she/her.

[UAW Labor for Palestine @uawlabor4pal]

UAW #Labor4Palestine Solidarity With UAW 4811 Strikers Against Illegal Court Order

[Labor for Palestine @Labor4Palestine]

@byp100 @theCCR @AOC @Kaepernick7 @sandylocks @democracynow @DougHenwood @nycDSA @domesticworkers @4noura @intifada @MiddleEastMnt @MiddleEastEye @MotherJones @NLGnews @newsguild @hrw @marclamonthill @WorkersinPales1 @IlhanMN @JeffSchuhrke @jacobin @jeremyscahill @jvpliveNY

[Labor for Palestine @Labor4Palestine]

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[Labor for Palestine @Labor4Palestine]

#Labor4Palestine: FROM RANK AND FILE MEMBERS OF ALAA UAW 2325: Judge Unconstitutionally Muzzles ALAA UAW Local 2325 Membership Vote on Resolution
Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza and a Free Palestine https://t.co/IsK9ha4E00

[Labor for Palestine @Labor4Palestine]

#Labor4Palestine: A last minute unconstitutional court order barring UAW 2325 members from opposing the Israeli genocide of Palestinians will not silence us. The vote will go through, the union resolution will pass, and Palestine will be free.

[Jeff Coltin @JCColtin]

Pro-Palestine activists are rallying outside the Shomer Shabbos Somos event - hosted by the UJA, Met Council and Chabad of Puerto Rico.

[NYT Magazine @NYTmag]

.@rozina_ali wins the 2023 National Magazine Award for Reporting. https://t.co/5VW4Otcs45

[Sy Tasnu @SyedaTasnu]

Powerful video re: SCOTUS' nightmare decision today - @PPFA Watch “CEO Stacy Cross PPMM, 2022” on #Vimeo https://t.co/awppK3nqGN

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court nominee, noted on Tuesday that her parents had to attend racially segregated schools, but she did not. She called the generational difference “a testament to the hope and promise of this country.” https://t.co/LlgUK88mMI

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

I wrote about Rashida Tlaib, her fight for Detroit, and what she means for the growing Palestinian rights movement on the Hill. In this week’s issue of @NYTmag https://t.co/LmUssWQkie

[Sy Tasnu @SyedaTasnu]

Our very first Giving Tuesday! Check out the @BengaliMentalHM fundraiser here. https://t.co/9MhjZdr4jZ

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

8/8
think not only of the tragedy of that day but also of the tragedies that came from it. It is time to make justice and #closeguantanamo once and for all.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

7/8
So many innocent people lost their lives on 9/11 and I hope we can acknowledge that there were other victims. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people lost their lives, too. Among them are men like me, the forgotten prisoners of America’s war on terror.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

6/8
I never did and still don’t hate Americans. From the very beginning of my imprisonment, I knew it wasn’t fair to see all Americans through the filter of Guantánamo, even though my captors only saw me through the filter of 9/11.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

5/8
I didn’t see footage of 9/11 until 2010, after 8 years of solitary confinement. I wept for the innocent people who died. I wept for the wars fought. I wept because my captors believed I was capable of such an atrocious act. I wept for all victims of war on terror.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

4/8
On 9/11, 2001, I didn’t know much about America. I didn’t love it or hate it. I just thought it was a land of laws. When I was kidnapped by warlords and heard that the Americans had invaded, I thought they would save me and send me home.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

3/8
This is what I wrote about the day in my book, DON'T FORGET US HERE, LOST AND FOUND AT GUANTÁNAMO.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

2/8
I wept for all the innocent lives that lost since 2001.
I never could have imagined that this tragedy would be used to justify keeping me and hundreds of others locked up and tortured for nearly 15 years.

[Mansoor Adayfi 441 منصور الضيفي @MansoorAdayfi]

1/8
20 years ago, I heard about 9/11 on the radio in Afghanistan. At 18, I couldn’t imagine buildings so tall or why someone would kill so many people. Soon after, I was sold to the US & sent to #Guantanamo. 8 years later, when I saw video of 9/11 for the first time,