Today is a day of solidarity with Palestinian journalists, left alone to report from Gaza after Israel barred international press access for three years and killed around 280 Palestinian journalists.
Be the voice of Gaza’s victims. Amplify their message.
Fascinatingly, the open letter to Iranian prisoners was written in English and published in the Guardian, not a text available to them, nor to the Iranian people – who might have preferred it in Farsi. This is not a text for the Iranian prisoners. This is a text for Western liberals to recover their sense of superiority.
We are humbled to present the largest oral archive of testimony from Gaza produced since the genocide began, a collective memorial to the journalists who gave their lives to tell their people’s stories. LISTEN: https://t.co/qTS04mJsON
A man was denied medical care for his cancer in NY's Green Haven prison. DOCCS even failed to tell him it spread. He's 61 & served 15 years (for attempted burglary). Does New York really need to punish him more? Let him get treatment in the community and try to live.
“We should not be afraid to criticize ourselves about racism. We are all racists, not because we want to be, but because we are taught to be that way, to keep us divided, because it benefits the capitalist system. And this applies to racism toward Asians, other Brown people, and toward white people. White people are not all the oppressor-capitalists are. We will never have socialism until we are free of these chains on our mind.”
- Denise Oliver-Velez, 1972 (RIP)
A website dedicated to securing the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been launched. It includes information about his life, the latest updates on his case, and a timer tracking how long he has been held in Israeli torture prisons.
➡️ https://t.co/4s3faruFlb
PRESS OTG AT DELANEY:
I set up a safety form you can fill out so other press and press lawyers know what to do in the event you’re detained or injured.
Especially important for freelancers but open to staffed press too!
https://t.co/gCKok4OAhm
We are at the State Capitol with the #CommunitiesNotCages campaign demanding that our lawmakers pass the Second Look Act, Earned Time Act and Marvin Mayfield Act. People change, and our sentencing laws must change, too.
How the horrors that happen to Palestinians in Israeli prisons becomes legal. Great thanks to @basilafarraj and @JournalSpectre https://t.co/HjAEvNMGeX
🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨
Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and support their strike: https://t.co/FmZ4a1kvHc #thealabamasolution
ICYMI: @snidelines interview w/ Basil Farraj is still live on our website.
You can also find susie's piece on Carol Crooks and the August Rebellion and other recent pieces on Zionism and the carceral state by @ranasukkarieh , @rawanbaki , Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr
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In the latest for Spectre, susie day speaks with Basil Farraj, professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank, about his project tracing how Israel has become “the epitome of carceral logic" and heinous violence.
https://t.co/CQZacd3wLl
⭕️ JUST IN: At least 40 people, including civilians and members of the Venezuelan military, were killed in the attack, according to preliminary assessments, a senior Venezuelan official reportedly told the New York Times.
U.S. forces deployed more than 150 aircraft to eliminate air defenses, clearing the way for helicopters to insert troops who then moved on President Nicolás Maduro’s location, the outlet said citing U.S. officials. More on the operation from Jack Murphy of The High Side in the post in reply.
The EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine is NOT a Belgium win or German loss. Stop framing everything as bilateral bargaining.
This is the first common borrowing by a sub-group of member states - unanimous (V3 accepted the deal but opted out) and pragmatic.
It shows the EU can adapt its institutional tools to new realities.
The transactional narrative is the real threat to European solidarity.
NOW: Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, crime survivors, people with loved ones in prison + lawmakers are rallying in NYC, Rochester, Long Island, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, Ithaca & Albany for Parole Justice to reunite families and build safer communities.
NYC: Anti-ICE protesters Throw Trash and Garbage Cans to block ICE Agents Cars in Lower Manhattan, Arrests and Pepper spray.
Video by Ken Lopez @FreedomNTV[email protected] to license