Just in case it’s been hard to keep track, in the past few weeks the Noboa dictatorship has:
• Bombed Colombia
• Bombed the Amazon
• Deployed 75,000 troops to round up children in a drug purge while he continues trafficking cocaine through his shipping enterprise
•Prohibited journalists from recording military operations
•Expanded the work day to 12 hours
•Kidnapped the mayor of the largest city in Ecuador for publicly criticizing him
•Banned his biggest political opposition party from participating in elections
•Disregarded a democratic vote and pushed through mining reforms that 65% of the country voted against
•Was accused by the head of the Los Lobos Cartel for ordering the assassination of his opponent in the presidential election
•Had unmarked cars chase and intimidate journalists
The list goes on but my thumbs hurt
48 hours later and Leqaa Kordia’s whereabouts and condition are STILL unknown after suffering a medical emergency in the hellhole that is Prairleland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Call your reps. Demand her release. FREE LEQAA NOW. @DHSgov@marcorubio
Stephen Curry positions himself as a social justice advocate but since the start of the Gaza genocide he's invested in two Israeli startups run by IDF intelligence operatives, and his co-investors are Zionist fanatics including Shaun Maguire at Sequoia Capital. Details next post
this is what's being argued by the UK Holocaust Educational Trust: that before 1994, when it was assumed Settela Steinbach was Jewish, this was an image of the Holocaust. after 1994, when we learned she was Roma, it was then no longer part of the Holocaust, actually
Unless you got some kind of explicit charge from the originators to carry on a legacy, or were part of the original, naming yourself after a well-known defunct organization is obviously just a way to hijack its gravitas rather than doing the work to earn your own.
If Tortuguita, who often wore a keffiyah at the #stopcopcity forest occupation, hadn't been murdered by the police, they would have joined the campus movement & fought for Gaza.
Despite being undocumented, they would be out fighting ICE today. May their memory give us courage.
3 years ago today, Venezuelan immigrant, anarchist activist, and forest defender Manuel Teran - better known by their forest name Tortuguita - was murdered by the Georgia State Patrol during a raid against an encampment in the struggle against Atlanta's notorious Cop City project
Breaking | Palestinian Jomaa Omar Hamed has died from wounds sustained in a previous Israeli strike on Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
To Refaat Alareer’s friends and loved ones around the world,
Today, 10 months after we recovered his body and laid him to rest in the Ibn Marwan cemetery, we were finally able to build his grave and place the headstone, after immense difficulty reaching the site near the yellow line and finding the necessary construction materials.
It’s a strange, bitter mix of sorrow and relief. That building a simple grave for someone we love has become a source of comfort says everything about what has been taken from us.
Sleep in peace, my beloved, Refaat. And may the eyes of cowards never sleep.
THREAD:
As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history of the term and its role of fracturing solidarity in the name of counter-insurgency.