🧵I spent days going through every deed of purchase that the Texas Highway Department made in the 1950s and 1960s as it assembled land to build Interstate 345 through Deep Ellum in downtown Dallas. 1/
Hey @SierraClub, your planned tours of occupied Palestine are attempts to greenwash the violent colonialist actions of the apartheid state called Israel. Real environmental justice requires a rejection of colonialism everywhere. https://t.co/oEu1fm05U4
If anyone is still “on the fence” about the #NolaCoalition & their intentions:
Here is a video clip of Melanie Talia, CEO of the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation saying *explicitly* that they want to “remove” ~10% of the population of New Orleans.
https://t.co/vdZ9pCItBL
The CEO of @nopjf & former assistant district attorney wants to "remove" 9-10% of the population of New Orleans to make our city "safe". That's tens of thousands of people.
https://t.co/o67mkPezlf
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first night of the Stonewall Uprising! Did you know Afeni Shakur - Black Panther leader, community organizer, author, mother of Tupac - was involved in the riots? [THREAD]
🚨 PHONE ZAP 🚨 PHONE ZAP 🚨 PHONE ZAP 🚨 PHONE ZAP 🚨 PHONE ZAP 🚨
some pals of the store are organizing against a TERF event scheduled by @AustinPublicLib
if you care about your trans friends, family, and comrades, let them know how shit this is
“What would it take to get you off the streets, an outreach worker ahead of a line of police officers attempting to clear the encampment, “housing!” She shouts “we need housing.”
The Cops Off Campus Coalition is selling shirts again this year for Abolition Spring! We suggest coordinating group campus orders to save on shipping! https://t.co/TWb4md1Kzz https://t.co/B8tUZVxxc5
BREAKING: Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island have voted to form the first union at Amazon in US history.
Ballot count: 2654 ‘yes’ to 2131 ‘no’.
Mood out here is jubilant. Workers are sharing their messages to Jeff Bezos
https://t.co/81WdyUM96p
Sometimes I question if we need tools and strategies to support people struggling with what we call mental illness or if we really just need to learn/remember how to love people better.