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Cover of Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire by Juliet Nebolon. Cover features a dark-hued piece of geometric artwork. A beige triangular shape repeats and tessellates across a dappled black-and-brown background. Though abstract, the pattern is reminiscent of tents arranged across a horizon. The title text is beige and red.

Congratulations to Juliet Nebolon @julietneb.bsky.social, whose book "Settler Militarism" has been named a co-winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. buff.ly/6YWcfZS

Vicente Rafael, Historian, 70 Vicente Rafael in 2016 being interviewed by a student. Photo: University of Washington Vicente L. Rafael (February 16, 1956 – February 21, 2026) was a pioneering historian of the Philippines whose …

A fine tribute to Vince Rafael from Geronimo Cristobal. It made me recall Vince talking about his early training with Fr John Schumacher SJ, the historian of Jesuit science, at Ateneo. I suspect that's why Vince initially was interested in my work on colonial science in the Philippines...

AMERICA FIRST: The Americas and the New Monroe Doctrine, 9-10 April 2026 at Yale

AMÉRICA FIRST: The Americas & the New Monroe Doctrine
9-10 April, 2026, Yale University, Humanities Quadrangle

Lifeboats, steampunk and colonialism – fascism today | Transnational Institute In this fascinating opening interview for State of Power 2026, scholar activists Toscano and Walia explore the historic roots and current capitalist dynamics that have led to the rise of fascism world...

harsha walia & alberto toscano discuss fascism & colonialism today @harshawalia.bsky.social @alfatau.bsky.social

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Donate to Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN, organized by B M update- we have been able to pay one months rent for one family and help pur… B M needs your support for Help Single Moms in Twin Cities stay Housed #ICEOUTMN

The story and the gofundme.

When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk

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gofund.me/f5f801087

About Headwaters | Headwaters Foundation for Justice Headwaters Foundation for Justice is a Minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across Minnesota Our mission is to amplify the power of community to advance equity ...

headwaters foundation for justice is a minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across minnesota
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On Being a Somali Artist in Minnesota Violence has a way of turning familiar places into guarded ground. And yet, I ask not what has been taken, but what we will continue to build from what remains.

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The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Printed image of a group of people, including mother & child, below, with an outsized hand above reaching out to stop a cluster of bayonets

Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

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Opinion | Palestinian Artists on Two Years of War in Gaza Times Opinion asked eight working Palestinian artists about the role of art in the war in Gaza.

To Love, to Honor, to Exist: Palestinian Artists on War and Loss www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence

Out today: a major new essay by former Artforum editor David Velasco, fired over a pro-Palestine open letter, surveying 2 years of turmoil in the art world, which was "practically designed to celebrate and aestheticize every rebellion" -- except Gaza. www.equator.org/articles/how...

Books Not Bars For The Holidays Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

On Ha Ha Shanghai and the Unflinching Honesty of Christine Choy The Exiles directors Violet Columbus and Ben Klein honor their subject/mentor, and present their favorite film of hers exclusively on Talkhouse.

RIP award-winning, fearless Chinese American documentary filmmaker and NYU film professor Christine Choy 🎬

"Christine Choy, who is said to have taught her film classes with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of vodka in the other."

Her Wikipedia lists her party as Black Panther Party.

#FilmSky

Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died.

Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died.

‘Turn the volume up’: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action As New York City’s mayor-elect reiterated his policies, the president posted ‘And so it begins!’ on his social media

‘Turn the volume up’: Mamdani invokes Trump in fiery speech that laid out plan of action

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City Mayoral election, reports @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani Leads Trump-Backed Ex-Gov Andrew Cuomo in Early NYC Election Results The New York City mayoral race drew national attention as a test for the left as democratic socialist Mamdani faced former governor Cuomo.

The New York City Board of Elections announced that 2 million people had cast ballots — the highest number since 1969.

been thinking about this a lot and want to (again) plug Astoria Food Pantry which will need extra funding to help our neighbors if/when SNAP benefits are cut off. we've already been running out of food faster than usual this month—any donation amount will help! givebutter.com/afp2025

#NoKings #Hartford

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Anchoring academic resistance Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rejected the “Compact” offered by the Trump Administration, crossing a line into resistance and (implicitly) inviting other uni…

MIT, by emphasizing data and merit, rather than politics, set out a standard for the rest of academia.

Anchoring academic resistance politicsoutdoors.com/2025/10/17/a...

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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amazing, can't wait!

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!