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Some tech and human rights updates this week topped off with some exciting news about a beloved video app making a comeback ✨✊🏽

Mother Viola Fletcher passes away at 111 years old TULSA, Okla. — Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the passing of one of the two last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher.

Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher.

111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.

She never got the justice she deserved

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This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.

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Our calling is clear: help, not harm. Heal, not divide. Each of us carries the power to create the #BelovedCommunity. No matter who you are or where you're planted, you can grow.

Nope. She already lives here. Rent free.

Securing Mutual Aid: Cybersecurity Practices and Design Principles for Financial Technology - CLTC Mutual aid organizations, such as food banks, disaster relief, direct cash assistance, and bail funds, serve as critical community pillars, yet their efforts are increasingly under threat in…

NEW: We helped the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to organize risk assessments for mutual aid groups. Now, there's a report with digital security recs for orgs + for projects that want to build mutual aid tools:

cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/...

If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.

Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

In our struggle for justice, we cannot forget that victories are never truly final. "Progress" is a generational project, one that often falters. We must continue marching forward, not just for us but for our children, grandchildren and beyond.

#Howl-A-Ween

Day 1 - Darkness

Not helping myself by setting the bar high from day one, with one of the greatest of all time, but it's just too good not to. Feast on this, friends.

Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin
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There's so much we all can do. So much is already being done, including the work of those I've interviewed over the years. It's easier to hope when you have assurance.

Problems have solutions.

Sustaining the Work - What is Your Plan?

I could have let National Podcast Day pass by, but since the internet reminded me, I'll drop this here: open.spotify.com/show/1YQJpC4...

Whoa. I saw this as a child - not sure why or where, but this post definitely has reminded me.

Rest in power Assata Shakur! ✊🏿

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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were murdered on this day in 1963 in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. May their memory continue to compel us to protect & expand the dream of a society where justice prevails.

In my community, this is happening for strawberry plant starts. The suppliers of those farms are having to give them away.

"What is US in a nutshell?"

I usually frame it as, Dawson’s Creek lasted longer than the Confederacy.

I am here for all your marching band content

More soothsayer vibes:
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a man in a white suit is talking into a microphone and saying what witchcraft is this ALT: a man in a white suit is talking into a microphone and saying what witchcraft is this

Who knew farenheight 451, parable of the sower, 1985 were guidebook to 2025. It begs the question are soothsayers finally making a comeback. Sure, it's in hindsight, but mediumship is BACK

Signed 68 years ago today, the Civil Rights Act of 1957—the first since Reconstruction—was limited and weakly enforced. Yet it marked a step forward on the road to justice. Social, racial, and economic justice are generational struggles that require persistence.

Injustice to one is injustice to all. From voting rights to LGBTQ equality to reproductive freedom, my father’s words remind us: our futures are bound together.

I used to not know that such a thing as ocular shingles existed. Honestly would prefer another natural childbirth experience over having it again. And I really didn't like hearing that a person can have to endure shingles more than once! I'm not that old, so...

See no evil When journalists and public intellectuals ignore reality.

"We can condemn the journalists & publications that are helping to derail democracy. But we can also actively support others at independent outlets like Bolts, Law Dork, Balls & Strikes, the Handbasket, & LA Taco"

das right

(ty @andreapitzer.bsky.social!)

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YouTube video by Kids4Change: Black History Edition 🚂 A. Philip Randolph & The Pullman Porters: The Fight for Labor Day! 🏆 #blackhistory #shrts

🚂 A. Philip Randolph & The Pullman Porters: The Fight for Labor Day! 🏆

From long hours to a historic victory—their strike changed history! ✊🏾

🎬 Watch the animated story & celebrate their legacy! #BlackHistory youtube.com/shorts/Yu_gk...
#LaborDay #PullmanPorters

They made beds and cleaned toilets. They shined shoes, dusted jackets, cooked meals and washed dishes. Yet the Pullman porters created history in the face of adversity and racial prejudice. They helped form the foundation for the black middle class, and became instrumental in the civil rights movement. Follow two former porters as they travel from their homes in Seattle to Oakland, Calif., where they were honored by Amtrak and the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum for their years of service. Troy Walker worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and Amtrak from 1944-1971. Walker was promoted from a dining car waiter to a lounge car attendant and finally a supervisor, when he retired after 37 years of working on the railroad. The son of a Pullman porter, Thomas H. Gray worked on the Santa Fe Railroad from 1955-1959. Gray was able to work as a chair car attendant for... Pullman Porters - Ordinary Men, Extraordinary History

🚆✨ Labor Video of the Week
Pullman Porters – Ordinary Men, Extraordinary History

100 years ago today the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded in NYC.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/6yoYSkoCp5M?...

📖 More: bit.ly/4oQo9sz

#LaborHistory #PullmanPorters #APhilipRandolph #UnionStrong

From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Wall Street, the call remains: to build the Beloved Community and guarantee freedom, opportunity, and dignity for all. The #BelovedCommunity is created when we protect the vote, close the wealth gap, and invest in our communities.