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Introducing The Central American Drop a weekly newsletter in English, curated by Central Americans for a global audience.
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We can't win a better world by waiting for the "right" person to get voted in –– or the "wrong" person to get voted out.
We have to be organized enough to strategize, build power, and maximize our leverage. We must go beyond cycles of street protest.
Here's what we mean 🧵🚩🏴
Having a "proud Black queer" woman to cite without having to deal with an actual human is basically the endpoint of the last ten years of liberal discourses.
NYT frames article on the New Orleans attack in context of concerns about the Gaza war inspiring terrorism then provides zero evidence that's what happened here
This is coined, "Theme Park Urbanism", where vacation destinations, like Disney World, provide the average American with a walkable environment they can only associate with vacation, and never with their own neighborhood.
It's easier to humanize immigrants through their relationship with work and the economy than to think of immigrants as human beings that are valid and can exist outside the parameters of capital.
leaving aside all the guns for a moment, there is nothing more depressing than the suburban basement. a bar, pool table, arcade games--all the markers of a vibrant sociality, hidden away underground in the single family home. a space of profound social isolation