Sabrina Hassanali

STOP COP CITY!!

| Global Citizen | Activist | Lawyer | Professor |
I write about travel, adventure, personal challenges, and fresh ideas.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Nothing to see here except AIPAC bragging about how they’re the “top fundraiser for the Democratic party.”

The Democrats have no idea how done their party is. There are hundreds of thousands of us who will NOT vote for a party funded by the pro-Israel lobby.

Revolution or bust!

[Institute for Policy Studies @IPS_DC]

If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:

$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks

and

$4,049 — weapons & war.

These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay

[Azadeh Shahshahani @ashahshahani]

Trump's disgusting speech on Iran last night reminded me of what the anticolonial leader Aimé Césaire said: “The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

We warned the world that Gaza is the testing ground for a lawless new world order.

What Israel is currently doing in southern Lebanon is clearly aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same war crime tactics used in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Displaced over a million people. Wiping out entire villages. Control of the sea entrances in southern Lebanon. Separating the South from rest of Lebanon by bombing bridges and roads. Civilians can't flee. Ambulances cannot reach the wounded or the hospitals on the other side. Laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel from entering, with threats to bomb aid trucks and medical vehicles heading south. Power is out in hospitals and homes. Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working. Entire communities are cut off from essential supplies.

Food, water, and medical supplies currently available in the south are sufficient for at least a month, after which we will see another Gaza in Lebanon.

They are literally repeating it all on Lebanon, with flagrant violations of international law and the international community remains silent.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

We do not yet know the motive for the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But it would not surprise me if the killer stalked Thompson because UnitedHealthcare had denied medical coverage, or forced a family or an individual into bankruptcy, after the company failed to cover a serious illness. Insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment, often by deciding the treatment is not “medically necessary.”

Among 10 high-income nations, the United States spends the most on health care but has the worst health outcomes. Americans die four years earlier than their counterparts in other industrialized nations.

There are more than 200 million Americans who rely on private health insurance, but once they become seriously ill, they are often tossed aside, left with crippling medical bills and unable to receive adequate treatment. Exorbitant medical bills account for about 40 percent bankruptcies. Many of those driven into bankruptcy because of medical bills had medical insurance.

The revenue of six largest insurers  -- Anthem, Centene, Cigna, AVS/Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth -- have more than quadrupled from 2010 to $1.1 trillion. Combined revenues of the 3 biggest -- United, CVS/Aetna and Cigna -- have quintupled.

These corporations, in moral terms, are legally permitted to hold sick children hostage while their parents bankrupt themselves to save their sons or daughters. That many die, at the very least premature deaths, because of these policies is indisputable. 

Nothing absolves the killer of Thompson, but nothing absolves those who run for-profit health care corporations that embrace a business model that destroys and terminates lives in the name of profit.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

#BDS pressure works! Tech giant @Intel has halted construction of a new $25 billion factory in Israel, according to Israeli financial media sources.

Intel still remains deeply complicit in feeding Israel’s genocidal war chest, so let’s escalate our #BoycottIntel campaign!

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

In review—students’ tuition dollars help fund a genocide. Their tax dollars pay the salaries of politicians who send billions *more* of their tax dollars to fund it.
If they protest any of this, their tuition & tax dollars are then used to beat and arrest them and their teachers.

[Jeanne Theoharis @JeanneTheoharis]

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

[@politicaleducation.bsky.social @Center4PE]

#AbolishthePolice and #FreePalestine have always been one and the same struggle.

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

@capittalism I call it aging gracefully ☺️

[WABE News @wabenews]

Faith leaders from the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine held a press conference on Tuesday on the campus of Emory University to denounce the use of force by police against student and faculty protesters on college campuses. https://t.co/KDEImd05IN

[Atlanta DSA @atldemsoc]

‼️EMORY COPS ATTACK STUDENT PROTESTORS‼️

Today at Emory University, students gathered for a peaceful encampment protest on the campus quad to call for an end to Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

In response, Emory called in Georgia State Patrol to brutalize them.

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

An Atlanta Story: Bikes Howling Into the Moon as Cars are Stuck, by @UpstreamRose

Reflecting on the ride that made me fall in love with riding in Atlanta

https://t.co/OcPOhwAmyF

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

@AlexJosephATL oof

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

@GlitrioSt @jaydensusername This!

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

Did you know I have a newsletter?

Subscribe to Sabrina’s Newsletter, by @UpstreamRose https://t.co/GcVNhmpuir

[Sabrina Hassanali @UpstreamRose]

The Technium https://t.co/Rc04exh93G

Yes, we should be embarrassed by tolerating destitute poverty and the acceptance of passports to prevent mobility.

[Anti-Racist South |🇵🇸 #FreePalestine @antiracistsouth]

Christmas. Eve. Massacre.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This video from the Netherlands will haunt me. 8,000 shoes for the 8,000 Palestinian children murdered in Gaza.