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Two New Poems by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

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"The new Michael Jackson biopic turns a politically conscious Black artist into a raceless fantasy figure, erasing the civil rights struggles, global solidarities, and histories that shaped him." -- Sherry Zane for @africasacountry
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"Everywhere we turn, a ruin."

From Bhakti Shringarpure @WARSCAPES:

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We're live now with Vicky Osterweil and Sherry Zane for the book club on all things Disney! Buy the book @haymarketbooks

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Book Club: How Disney Killed the Movies with Vicky Osterweil https://t.co/xUElyQnqoJ

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Book Club: How Disney Killed the Movies with Vicky Osterweil https://t.co/xUElyQnqoJ

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Netherlands is pushing ahead with plans to set up Europe’s first “return hubs” where migrants can be deported from the EU to third countries.

The globalization of border violence is a worldwide phenomenon, including in so-called social democratic states.

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Israeli strikes kill at least 9 in Maarakeh and Haboush on eve of Eid holiday

In the latest in a day of relentless Israeli bombardment across southern and eastern Lebanon, initial reports indicate at least 5 people were killed in Maarakeh, a coastal town near Tyre in southern Lebanon, and 4 more in Haboush, near Nabatieh in the country’s south, on Tuesday night, according to journalist Hala Jaber.

Lebanese Civil Defence teams are still searching beneath collapsed buildings for others trapped under the rubble.

Jaber shared videos of paramedics trying to resuscitate a critically wounded child as entire homes around him were reduced to rubble. Rescue workers dug through shattered concrete in the dark.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

I wrote a piece on the recent announcement by @972mag, in collaboration with @PACBI

I hope there can be space for constructive and inclusive discourse on decisions in our movement that affect us all.

On +972 Magazine, Sally Rooney, and the centering of Israelis in an anti-colonial movement

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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

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Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan https://t.co/SBWK0WLZ1b

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We're live now!

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Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan https://t.co/SBWK0WLZ1b

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Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan https://t.co/SBWK0WLZ1b

[Variety @Variety]

#Cannes jury president Park Chan-wook says "I don’t think politics and art should be divided."

" I think it’s a strange concept to think that they’re in conflict with each other. Just because a work of art has a political statement, it should not be considered an enemy of art. At the same time, just because a film is not making a political statement, that film should not be ignored. Even if we are to make a brilliant political statement, if it’s not expressed artfully enough, it would just be propaganda. So what I want to say is that art and politics are not concepts that are in conflict with each other, as long as they are artistically expressed, they are valuable."

[Philip Leventhal @PhilipLeventhal]

Watch Ainehi Edoro's excellent interview about her new book, FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK with Radical Books Collective. https://t.co/PjIsYProEK @WARSCAPES @brittlepaper @ColumbiaUP

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Tomorrow May 14: Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan. Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. We speak to Sudanese journalists Ism'ail Kushkush @ikushkush and Raghdan Orsud. about why the deadliest conflict in the world has become the casualty of today’s media attention economy.

Set a reminder
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[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

what happened over the past few days is pretty amazing. The Israeli regime knew Nick Kristof was going to publish his NYT piece on their actual systematic rape of Palestinians including children and the use of dogs to rape, so they fabricated a new "report", the most insane one yet copy-pasted together by a proven fraud that repeats all the already debunked falsehoods and relies entirely on known proven hoaxers, and they actually got the NYT, BBC, CNN, AP, Reuters to launder it for them a day after the Kristof piece came out to bury it. They own the entire media class completely.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

One of the most striking indictments of US news media made in the Kristof piece, unintentionally, is that we are given an incredible example of how the word of Israelis is taken without any shred of evidence while Palestinians must provide every detail imaginable of the violence inflicted against them, and even then their suffering is treated, at best, as secondary if even acknowledged.

Also worth noting that Screams without Words was an official investigation by the New York Times and this report is in the opinion section.

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Book Club: How African Novels Think with Ainehi Edoro https://t.co/2fvOZWOEkW

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Happening today! Why are forest so important in African novels? A conversation about African literature with Ainehi Edoro, editor of @BrittlePaper and author of ‘Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think’ @ColumbiaUP at 1pm EST.
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