Urgent Appeal
Please donate generously and urgently toward the evacuation of families and communities of street vendors from wad Medani and surrounding areas to Sinnar to avoid air bombardment which has been ongoing in the last couple of days. Link:
https://t.co/l0Xrf7wk4S
The Palestinian Gazan essayist and poet, Mosab Abu Toha, was kidnapped by the Israeli army while fleeing to southern Gaza. Last month, he was in the USA on a tour. He has been recognized with several awards, including the Palestine Book Award 2022. He also received the Arrowsmith Press Award, was a finalist for the American Book Award 2022, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Additionally, he received the Before Columbus American Award.
“We are forgotten in our calamity. But we were a source of happiness during our revolution. Everyone wanted to know how the Sudanese people overthrew alBashir.
Then the coup came, and we exhibited a courage that can’t be explained. But we were alone.” (1/2)
#KeepEyesOnSudan
@pipercarter @BlackPowerMedi1 @RJohnston815 @IMIXWHATILIKE You can follow folks like @BSonblast who tirelessly provide almost daily updates in English. @qoga12 has been providing updates on Darfur. @sudanwarmonitor provides updates on the war. For news websites @RadioDabanga provides useful articles
Gaslighting: We see you, we grieve with you, that’s why we’re giving Israel $14,000,000,000 in bombs, munition, tanks & warplanes to slaughter you!
Here’s 50 bucks each & we’ll call it even, right?
(This is called PR & reputational risk management, NOT aid!)
You all probably heard about the farcical piece by NYT targeting ant-war, peace activists… check @Horace_Campbell’s article on @NatCounterPunch
"Every progressive who works on peace will see what the Times is here seeking to do to Code Pink… @vijayprashad has remained …
@PanAfricanRevie @LonzenRugira Except under capitalist destruction of the planet, its Intellectual property scams, and extremely deteriorating living and working conditions, survival also becomes increasingly unlikely
Recovering from small illnesses can really be a mini-rebirth
The conditions of illness portray one of the most feeble aspects of the human species
እህቴም እንዲህ ብላ አስታወሰቺኝ:
የኛ ሰው ይሄን ተረድቶ ነው የአክብሮት ሰላምታን ጤና ይስጥልን ብሎ የሰየመው
A difficult piece to write - my longread on the violence that has engulfed Khartoum, the heavy toll of its destruction, and despite the city's faults, what its loss forecloses in terms of peaceful resolution to Sudan's war.
https://t.co/xbMFDHUEJF
Walter Rodney - Crisis in the Periphery: Africa and the Caribbean 🌍🌎
- NYC🗽 (circa 1970s)
So much of it sounds so familiar and prophetic.
This man was brilliant and hilarious.
3) historical questions from/of the agrarian class, which were central to the 1974 revolution and ET's historical development, remain and are likely to be exasperated
Anyone following the struggles of farmers to ensure fertilizers across Ethiopia understands that 1) the most profound self organization and mobilizations are based on class qns 2) the reality is exploitation is a shared experience & the state responds violently despite ethnicity