First Draft Book Bar (at Changing Hands Phoenix)

#DrinkUpReadOn | Wine, beer, coffee inside Changing Hands Phoenix | 300 W Camelback Rd | Sun–Fri: 10am–8pm, Sat: 9am–8pm, | [phone]

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

🧵(1/3) – We will be CLOSED Fri, Jan 30 in solidarity with Minnesota and other communities protesting ICE and the killings of Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter Jr, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and the suspicious deaths in custody of Geraldo Lunas Campos, . . .

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Thanks for the shout, @phoenixnewtimes!

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Not all heroes wear capes—some wear sweatshirts. https://t.co/55WOFTttjB

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

❝Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide .... Secretary Clinton’s remarks are not only inaccurate, they are also a shameful example of the lengths to which people complicit in genocide will go to to deny its existence.❞

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

.@phoenixnewtimes dropped their Top 100 Bars issue, and our @firstdraftbar made the cut! Grateful to be included in the Best Neighborhood Bar category. It's a testament to the team and to YOU, the folks who continue to visit our cozy little book bar.🙏

🔗 https://t.co/IltuE4DR20

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

❝When the government seizes anyone without due process, it harms more than one person — it erodes the protections meant to safeguard us all.❞

[Diego Fonseca @DiegoFonsecaDF]

My AZ favorite bookstore, @changinghands, has this corner with something I have never expected to happen: having to defend the right to write, publish, and read —and therefore, to think.

(The election of the colors says a lot.)

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Very much looking forward to this one. Pre-order here, Arizona: https://t.co/tLhNoWi3Vm

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now.

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits.

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW.

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Maybe our elected leaders can think about it over lunch.

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Will anyone with access to power and a shred of decency do anything to stop this?

cc: @SenMarkKelly @SenRubenGallego

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

❝. . . four premature newborn babies had died at the hospital in recent weeks from malnutrition. Their mothers were too weak to produce milk and the hospital did not have enough formula to give them.❞

cc: @SenMarkKelly @SenRubenGallego

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Empathy and learning to read.

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

A world historical obscenity. Like the Biden administration before them, which vetoed numerous resolutions to stop the genocide, the Trump administration is the lone vote against.

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

So has Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a UN Special Committee, the International Criminal Court at The Hague ("plausible genocide"), numerous genocide scholars, and other international bodies.

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Signatories include two Nobel Prize winners for Literature—Annie Ernaux and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio—and Goncourt Prize winners Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and Leila Slimani.

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Neither do Gaza's adults.

cc: @RubenGallego @SenRubenGallego @CaptMarkKelly @SenMarkKelly

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

❝No aid has entered Gaza for more than 10 weeks. Every single one of the 2.1 million people there faces famine conditions.❞

—UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher

cc: @CaptMarkKelly @RubenGallego https://t.co/LKALA1WpmY

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Does @TheDemocrats' "ironclad support" for this government still hold? Even as major international bodies redouble their efforts to warn the world?

cc: @CaptMarkKelly @RubenGallego

[Changing Hands Bookstore @changinghands]

Anyone at all? @SenMarkKelly? @SenRubenGallego?