Close Rikers Now

here for beans and abolition dreams 🎺 🔧🏳️‍🌈 🧶 ornery queer radical teacher cheering young activists on, seeker of 🕳️ 🐇 , personal account

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Jasmine Guy breaks down in tears while recalling her efforts to help Tupac transition to the next part of his life, and says Tupac told her he wasn't going to make it past 25 years old.

(🎥 @Power1051 )

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

BREAKING | An eyewitness source at Al-Shifa Hospital to Al-Jazeera: "Israeli Occupation forces have raped and killed women in the vicinity of the hospital"

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Yeah…
On the positive side, not paying me also means not being constrained in what I have to say.
At least, that’s the lie I tell myself to keep myself from curdling into a bitter old man.

[Andrew J. Padilla 🇵🇷 @apadillafilm6]

Protests against VP Kamala Harris in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷are underway

US flags 🇺🇸 were removed & replaced with flags of Palestine 🇵🇸 , Haiti 🇭🇹 ,& the Black Puerto Rican resistance flag

Protesters demand an end to U.S. intervention in all 3 countries

More info below

📸IG @JSALPP

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Our government has already murdered Americans by bombing them on US soil & they’ve also executed someone using a robot with a detonator. All the Americans I’m referencing who were murdered this way were Black.

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

The LAPD developed the crossbow formation from the “crowd control” protocols of the U.S. military. From the Middle East to LA, these tactics are used to crush dissent against Amerikan imperialism.

This is exactly what we mean when we say that EVERY struggle is interconnected.

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

Wtf is going on… here in Seattle we have a massive budget deficit and a hiring freeze… except for the police department which has been authorized to give $30K signing bonuses to new cops and now city council is discussing subsidized housing for cops.

[Bianca @BiancaTylek]

Those who have experienced the loss of contact with an incarcerated loved one know the greed of the prison telecom industry all too well. Its tactics drove 74% of jails that adopted video calling to ban visits. Here’s how they did it.

THREAD

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

THREAD. Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of children have been banned from visiting their parents who are awaiting trial in local jails. Why? A conspiracy to make money. We just filed two landmark civil rights lawsuits to stop it, but the story is unbelievable.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

I don’t know what to say to anyone who believes more harm is caused to society by shoplifting from a mega corporation vs dumping our entire city budgets into a police state where cops use dogs, helicopters, military grade weapons and vehicles to arrest someone for petty theft

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

reminder that the IDF trains our police. so if you’re only worried about what’s happening here because the middle east is “far away”, understand that’s not the case. our country funds that genocide and brings that brutality right back here.

[Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim]

If you think the deadly tactics, surveillance technology and violent strategies being deployed at the southern U.S. border and in Palestine are separate from our everyday lives here, think again. This is the future that those in power want; this is what we all must fight against.

[Sun Ra @KailSovl]

They are closing down hospitals in rural Mississippi. My grandmother isn’t here today because she didn’t have access to a hospital in Gore Springs Mississippi. She had to go see a nurse practitioner who misdiagnosed her for years. They was treating her for arthritis until she…

[Deej @fanoniscanon]

It is those of us who have in the words of comrade Too Black allowed for the laundering of Black rage.
It is us academics viewing radicalism only through the liberal academy.
It is our insistence on electoral politics. Our iPhones, our sweatshop garments the banality of our day to day lives.

[beehiiv 🐝 @beehiiv]

men will start a daily newsletter before going to therapy

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵