Ryan Ormond Kelly

Anti-imperialist. Tucson Chapter-National Writers Union. Agitate. Educate. Organize.

[Ryan Ormond Kelly @the_Ormie]

Said it once, said it a thousand times. Just a friendly reminder that ego is a movement killer.

[Iskra Books @iskrabooks]

“Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms—a loan, food aid, blackmail. We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.”

Today we remember the great Thomas Sankara who was lost on this day in 1987.

[CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) @ColumbiaBDS]

Suspension from Columbia for protesting genocide is the highest honor

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

Marco announces the good news.

🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

*The "North of Korea"

[National Writers Union @paythewriter]

We're pleased to announce that we've reached an agreement with @theintercept over a member's grievance re: articles debunking an NYT Oct 7 expose. This wouldn't have been possible w/o the foundational work of The Intercept & NWU freelancers back in 2019. https://t.co/WEzfeJHtQ4

[Ryan Ormond Kelly @the_Ormie]

@GabriellaCKelly The eagles came. The eagles came. 🦅

[Nick Gambill @NickBGambill]

Just got the call. Fired. I was the DEI coordinator for the Pentagon. My job was to put the coexist stickers on the F-35s.

[J. Moufawad-Paul @MLM_Mayhem]

Fck Bono. All that 1980s "artists against apartheid" was either a phase or a schtick. Probably the latter because he sucks on Irish Republicanism as well. Washed up genocide supporter.

[Ryan Ormond Kelly @the_Ormie]

@SVG__Collection One of my all time favorites. An innovative masterpiece.

[Dr Sarah Jilani @sarahjilani]

While there is much to be gained from reading Edward Said, I think it's very telling (about the class position of the majority of people in academia) that so much academic discussion the past year has revisited Said's work but less so Samir Amin's /1

[trans judeo-bolshevik @transjewtalian]

october 7th permanently shaped postcolonial studies as a discipline in that it revealed beyond all doubt just how many scholars are careerist unprincipled charlatans who wouldn’t know what solidarity looked like even if it set up camp occupying the center of campus for weeks

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

"They can oppress you, they can imprison you, but they will never break your spirit!

Gaza, Jenin, Tulkarm, Nablus, you’ll never walk alone!"

Celtic fans' message to the people of Palestine tonight. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Qiao Collective @qiaocollective]

It’s sad to see Westerners who’ve been politicized enough to see through the lies their governments and media tell about Palestine go on to repeat imperialist talking points about China, Iran, Venezuela, etc. What they lack is a systemic analysis of how imperialism functions.

[A-100 gecs @PinstripeBungle]

@SanaSaeed @DemSocialists DSA as an org is wild because the International Committee will have a statement like “Communique No.7: unlimited solidarity with the anti-imperialist United Front of Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestine” but national will be like “the socialism of Kamala Harris;
our latest in Jacobin”

[Ryan Ormond Kelly @the_Ormie]

Ní féidir fanacht!

…standing by.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

🎬 OFFICIAL KNEECAP MOVIE TRAILER

“Every word of Irish spoken… is a bullet for Irish freedom” 💥

🎥 Coming to your local cinema across Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England 👇

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[African Stream @african_stream]

IBRAHIM TRAORÉ: ‘BEWARE OF WESTERN MEDIA PROPAGANDA’

Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré held a public meeting on 11 July with various organisations in the capital, Ouagadougou, to detail his plans. In addition to sharing essential goals, he educated Burkinabé people on imperialist tactics, explaining how the Western media—specifically, Hollywood films—are a powerful form of racist propaganda meant to further imperialist objectives.

Many have noticed how Traoré’s (@capitaineib226 on X) speeches mirror those of Pan-Africanist Malcolm X (1925-65), who once stated, ‘The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal... If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.’

Please share with us some examples of how the Western media does imperialist propaganda.

Video credit: Faso7 TV (@faso7tv on YT, @faso7_bf on X and IG, @faso7bf on TikTok)

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

🚨BREAKING: Twenty authors have withdrawn their books from consideration from the Giller Prize, Canada’s largest literary award, until it drops its sponsors complicit in genocide: Soctiabank, Indigo, the Azrieli Foundation and Audible. https://t.co/KHVtHswA8P

[Kawsachun News @KawsachunNews]

Bolivian social movements appear to now out-number the military in Plaza Murillo, the site of the government palace. The area was earlier filled with military vehicles and heavily-armed troops.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel has killed the most aid workers in the history of the UN, but headlines won’t even mention who is killing them.

[Ryan Ormond Kelly @the_Ormie]

In other news, the US bombed Yemen today.