'In 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, staged a coup and murdered dozens of Black residents. More than a century later, a team of volunteers tries to track down every living relative of the victims.' https://t.co/58iv2gnfLI via @NewYorker
"It is still not clear to me that white America is ready to acknowledge how Black people have suffered and continue to suffer under systemic white racism," says @truthout: https://t.co/Fi1Co3q6Ej. #doingknowledge#doingtheknowledge#knowledgeispower
"Black urban governance is meaningless w/o a commitment to strengthening the public sector & rejecting the logic of austerity," says @jacobin. This, and many lessons, can be learned from the 1977 strike of Atlanta’s sanitation workers. https://t.co/hcQ8C0VdH2 #doingknowledge
A new debt relief prog created by #Democrats to help farmers who have endured generations of racial discrimination is benef “socially disadvantaged farmers” & now #conservative white farmers are saying they are being unfairly excluded: https://t.co/LfAr0FSxpc #doingknowledge
"Whether the government should tax rich people more to pay for spending priorities is a source of endless debate. Here’s another idea: Tax the rich because it’s the right thing to do," says @voxdotcom: https://t.co/XVkDPIgOLu. What do you think? #doingknowledge#doingtheknowledge
"White Americans have been filling jails/prisons at increasing rates in the 21st century. Reducing incarceration, reformers can credibly argue, will benefit Whites as much as Blacks" - @washingtonpost: https://t.co/59LJ5aitVW #doingknowledge#doingtheknowledge#knowledgeispower
"Her work tries to provide some kind of agency and #political meaning to these folks’ actions, as opposed to the older way of thinking in terms of the madness of crowds,” says Christian Davenport. #doingknowledge#doingtheknoweldge https://t.co/ZTunRTu3bK
Workers of the world unite! The powerful international solidarity shown during the #BAmazonUnion campaign is only the beginning.
"On #MayDay we celebrate a shared vision of a world where working people are treated with dignity, justice, and respect" -@sappelbaum#1u
#GeorgeFloyd I want to cheer, but I cannot. I am reminded of the prosecutor's insistence that this was a "pro-police prosecution." That means this conviction is going to be used to make the case that the problem is not systemic but an aberration. That is painfully untrue.
had a great time at dartmouth doing the latest episode of a pod called quest on student activism. we are working on the college tour so let us know if you are interested.
tried to convince myself that the floyd/chauvin decision did not matter to prepare myself for what i have come to expect from the american legal system but it came and like a wave i felt that something had been lifted. it’s not completely off of me or you or us but it’s lifted.