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"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" | National Museum of African American History & Culture. <p>“Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” campaigns of the 1930s used effective direct-action tactics, such as boycotts and picketing. </p>

I’m doing research for a project and found out about the “don’t buy where you can’t work” movement during the depression, where Black people boycotted and picketed places that wouldn’t hire us. Shout out to everyone who’s not going back to Target!

'No help, no food, no water': Hurricane-hit Jamaican towns wait for aid Days after Hurricane Melissa hit, communities are isolated with little food, no water, and no idea of when normalcy will return.

Jamaica and the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Melissa have been largely dropped from the news agenda.

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Reposting with Alt Text. Location of free food pantries in Atlanta for those in need.

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

Jamaica invested heavily in climate disaster insurance. It looks about to pay off | CBC News Jamaica’s decade-long effort to build layers of financial protection in case of natural disasters might help the country access millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Melissa — an...

Oh man, this is good news. Jamaica has disaster insurance which should (knock on all the wood there is) pay out $150 million pretty quickly, with about $820 million in total financing available. Crucial to getting up an running fast

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

#HurricaneMelissa has struck #Jamaica, #Cuba, #Haiti and other countries.

MSF is preparing to send emergency teams and medical, water and sanitation supplies.

Read more from Brice de le Vingne, Head of Emergency Unit: ow.ly/ZY2c50XkCyo

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso Note from fundraiser organizer:  This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

‼️‼️Oct 30 Rana update 2:

Guys, every time I speak to Rana I feel like she’s lost more of her flame.

She’s barely a flicker anymore.

She’s lost the will to even try with her fundraiser anymore.

This is where we’re at 💔

gofund.me/046b328a0

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to From Under the Rubble...Reem is Still Trying to Hold On, organized by Jennifer M Hello, my name is Jennifer, I am helping Reem to raise funds to sur… Jennifer M needs your support for From Under the Rubble...Reem is Still Trying to Hold On

Reem lost her account again but she still needs help ❤️

"Until Spotify removes every ICE ad, Indivisible is calling on everyone to cancel their subscriptions, and on artists to take a stand by speaking out against their work being weaponized for hate," Ezra Levin, Indivisible’s co-founder and co-executive director, says in a statement.

Don’t Stream Fascism: Cancel Spotify

TIL Spotify is airing recruitment ads for ICE.

indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

You can’t “financial literacy “ and budget your way out of not making enough money to survive. Poor people are not bad with money.

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

The suffering of the Sudanese people today echoes the pain of all nations that have endured war and displacement, and it reminds us that the defense of human rights is indivisible — and that silence in the face of such atrocities is itself a form of complicity.

The horrific massacres currently taking place in Sudan constitute a blatant violation of all human values and international laws, and they cannot be ignored or met with silence under any circumstances. 🧵

BREAKING: The Israeli Broadcasting Authority is reporting that a body handed over by Hamas is not the remains of one of the captives who had been held in Gaza.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gihb8d

We’ve got money for the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom no one asked for but not enough money to help feed the kids of people who work at Wal-Mart.

Only in America.

In the rural South where Medicaid has been a lifeline, residents brace for cuts With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

Nora has raised very little- her friend Mohammed was worried about her so helped her make a fundraiser but she didn’t know how to promote it at all. Even a little donation can help her ❤️

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Praying for everybody in Jamaica. May they get through this storm safely.

Can you help @nurssseha.bsky.social today? Winter in Gaza will be hard.

From the TBS Archives: Women in Prison: How We Are, by Assata Shakur & Joanne Chesimard - The Black Scholar To mark the transition of Assata Olugbala Shakur (July 16, 1947 – September 25, 2025), this article is free to download for a limited time. “Women in Prison: How We Are,” by Assata Shakur &Joanne Ches...

“To mark the transition of Assata Olugbala Shakur (July 16, 1947 – September 25, 2025), this article is free to download for a limited time.”

“Women in Prison: How We Are,” by Assata Shakur. Published in The Black Scholar, Volume 9, Issue 7, April 1978.

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We are closing out the 25th week of the giving circle—that’s sustained, dependable support for six families AND a displacement camp. About a hundred people total whom YOU help to survive.

As long as support doesn’t stop. And it has been.

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They’re Alive! Six Frankenstein Adaptations to Watch for a Monstrous Halloween | Black Girl Nerds To cap off the spooky season, here are some great Frankenstein adaptations worth checking out during Halloween.

To cap off the spooky season, here are some great Frankenstein adaptations worth checking out during Halloween. We love these uniquely monstrous retellings.

This is Islamophobia.

Plain and simple.

The fact that some folks are now trying to reframe Cuomo's comment by clarifying that it was said in the context of him questioning whether Mamdani has sufficient experience to govern doesn't make it any less Islamophobic.

Trump administration won’t use contingency fund to pay November food stamp benefits | CNN Politics The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly...

The Trump admin says it won’t tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits if the shutdown continues, according to an agency memo

That means roughly 42 mil Americans will not receive critical food assistance from SNAP in November

I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.