@jawanza.bsky.social
Lover of all the People | Love is a commitment to what is possible, not weak acquiescence Black. Queer. Leftist. Community Organizer. PhD PoliSci student. •Dir. of Movement Building with VOCAL-US (jawanza@vocal-us.org) Jawanzajameswilliams.com
My cousin was violently killed in Beaumont, Texas, and because the police say drugs were involved I’m sure it will hurt her fundraiser. But my cousin was a beautiful, young father of three beautiful girls. Please help: gofund.me/8f5b6b167
And most of the folks are Black, American, low-income.
Thank you so much
My first thought is to just screen a public lecture from one of my Black socialist favs.
If I wanted to screen a documentary or something like that to bring low-income/working-class folks to teach them why taxing the rich is a good thing, what should I show?
Earlier this week I organized this small emergency demo.
We need leadership that is willing to lead us out of the dark history of this country.
THIS IS AMERICA
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#KeithPorter
#HeberDominguez #VictorManuelDiaz #ParadyLa #LuisBeltran #LuisGustavo #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood #AlexPretti
Thousands gather in frigid temperatures in NYC to demand, clearly, #ABOLISHICE and the fascist regime occupying our cities and the White House. #NYC #minneapolis
AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. n.pr/48VPxj2
Join us with Housing Works, VOCAL NY, ACT UP, NYC AIDS Memorial, Harlem United, Amida Care, and the Center for Popular Democracy
December 1, 2025
NYC AIDS Memorial Greenwich Ave & W 12th St
Annual World AIDS Day observance and the Reading of the Names—honoring those we've lost to HIV/AIDS.
I’m in D.C. at the @homelesslaw.bsky.social’s fundraiser, following their press conference to rebuke the fascist-in-chief’s violent homelessness “plan” that will push 170,000 people back into the streets.
To #EndHomelessness, consider giving: secure.givelively.org/donate/natio...
See ya there!
#drugsky
#worldaidsday
#endthedrugwar
#harmreduction
#actupfightback
#publichealth
#hiv
#aids
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@housingworksnyc.bsky.social
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@harlemunited.bsky.social
@amidacare.bsky.social
Racialization *
Capitalism is and always has needed radicalization to function— producing cultures of hate, dehumanization, and ultimately, mass delusion (see White Supremacy/American Exceptionalism/ (White) Christian Nationalism/ Zionism etc)
I’ve been a member of @demsocialists.bsky.social for nearly 10 years.
I’m reposting these clips from 2017 in the hope they find themselves to some of the people targeted by this racially-manipulative, billionaire-directed & funded attack.
My first article for the brand new LGBTQ Community News. I hope you enjoy this piece exploring how the intersectional identities of 3 activists: @mynameisjro.bsky.social, @jawanza.bsky.social and Yanery Cruz impact their work in The Resistance.
lgbtqcommunitynews.nyc/2025/10/06/f...
I cannot express enough how grief is not unaffected by genocide, mass confusion, authoritarianism, and the increasingly bleak future.
We will not be gaslit.
Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!
Hundreds of thousands of NYers will lose their health insurance as soon as January 2026. Governor Hochul and state lawmakers can mitigate the funding cuts by taxing the rich and passing the New York for All Act. SPECIAL SESSION NOW! @jawanza.bsky.social @investinourny.bsky.social
Today, we are at Foley Square with the @investinourny.bsky.social coalition to let @governor.ny.gov and Legislative Leadership know that NOW is the time to protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. #InvestInOurNY #NY4All
@vocal-ny.bsky.social @jawanza.bsky.social
Gift link!
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
We will not be gaslit.
Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!
We're shocked –– shocked we tell you! –– that @nyscomptroller.bsky.social found that the Federal Budget Scam hurts working-class New Yorkers while benefiting the ridiculously rich.
Anyone else think it's time for a special session to #TaxTheRich?
Join us!
Visual AIDS presents:
Harm Reduction Today- Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!!
MoMA PS1
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 4:00pm–5:30pm
#harmreduction
#drugsky
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@flordepascua.bsky.social
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“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian!” #ArmsEmbargoNow
Happening Now: pro-Palestine, anti-genocide, anti-war demonstrators gather in Manhattan to call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, and and immediate lift of the siege on Gaza and the resumption of UN-controlled humanitarian assistance. #FreePalestine #UNAssembly
More than 20,000 children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military since 2023.
Nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed by the same government via human-caused famine. They were starved to death.
, and preserved by military expansionism, proxy-imperialism, and sustained State/Corporate/Elite, right-wing, conservative propaganda.
Do *NOT* join ICE.
No amount of money, even when we are poor, is worth the destruction of your own soul or the violence of attacking people via the authority of a nation founded by genocide and land theft; a nation built and defined by ensalvement, fascist authoritarianism (Jim Crow)
Benjamin Netanyahu, his admin, and any Israeli supporting his diabolical plan to steal ALL of Gaza are genocidal war criminals who deserve nothing less than the full application of existing international law and they should be the precedent for new law that the world needs.