pittsburgh teens just picked me up and put me in a big cauldron in the middle of market square. now they're taking turns cutting up vegetables to throw in.
wake up, America. Iranians are not “animals.” Palestinians are not animals. immigrants are not animals. our leaders are teaching you to fear people with less power than you so we don’t all join forces to confront the people with MORE power than all of us
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collective survival. She named the connective tissue that holds us together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast & often.
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On this day in 1995, police in Brentwood, Pennsylvania, killed an unarmed Black man named Jonny Gammage at a traffic stop. An officer responsible was acquitted by an all-white jury and, a year later, promoted to sergeant.
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Israel has killed or injured more than 10% of Gaza’s population over the past 24 months. Read more about the war, by the numbers ⤵️ https://t.co/Dkck1gnYnM
Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 7, including 10 from Al Jazeera, according to the Shireen Abu Akleh Observatory.
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Two years have passed since Israel launched its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Here’s the scale of devastation by the numbers ⤵️
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Here’s my write up on today's racist Supreme Court decision. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
In @thenation
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Cold truth: the statements &findings proving Israel's genocide of Palestinians-
even if found guilty by ICC and ICJ-
don't matter
unless we express our power & stop it
The only power to stop it- under capitalism- is from cutting their access to resources. Strike to force BDS.
On Labor Day- do you ever think about LABOR in prison???
Some states are paying $0.13 an hour to run the prison.
Then there are prisons like Alabama that pay a whopping $0.00 an hour. This is SLAVERY!!!!
We need to have important conversations about labor in prison