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Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's.

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A hardcover copy of A Continuous Struggle, with a vintage-inspired cover design including a black-and-white photograph of Martin Sostre, rests against a rocky background.

The back cover of A Continuous Struggle includes praise from Mariame Kaba, Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Orisanmi Burton, and Mumia Abu-Jamal. You can find the full text of these endorsements on the book page at akpress.org.

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥 Garrett Felber's 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 is released today! Get your copy: www.akpress.org/a-continuous... or catch Garrett on tour: bit.ly/ContinuousSt...

Mental health matters. Please share and keep the below list in case you would need it 💙💚

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

this is a key way. over and over and over again. working at the municipal and local level to take over governanace.

Incarcerated workers in California organize to end unjust policies Incarcerated workers in Centinela State Prison held a work slowdown last year to protest lack of commissary access and daily strip searches

Outside of prison, there is no other workplace that could get away with requiring workers to strip in front of their co-workers & a camera. In 2024, 70+ incarcerated workers in CA organized against such degrading conditions & policies, says James Anderson.
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The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...

Now THIS is a syllabus #booksky #blackbooksky

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AI’s only general purpose use is to control labor. Thank you.

Screenshot from a workshop presentation slide. The slide is designed like an airmail envelope with a red and blue border and a postage stamp and postmark icon on the top right of the 'envelope'. On the lines where the recipient's address would go on an envelope is the text NATIONAL SOAP BOX DAY! And on the lines where the sender's address would appear on an envelope is the text: NO TO PRIVATIZATION. HANDS OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE. U.S. MAIL NOT FOR SALE.

ICYMI. P.O. Soapbox Day is a decentralized grassroots event that builds community & provides people with a way to take action on behalf of USPS.

Today, dozens of folks across the country are hosting teach-ins using a Toolkit & Workshop presentation I made to support them 👉 usps-teach-in.carrd.co

Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
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every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.

When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

Eugene ends longtime partnership with CAHOOTS amid service cuts After decades together, Eugene and CAHOOTS part ways. Here's what's replacing the iconic crisis team — and what services are changing.

This is absolutely terrible. People constantly say that they want to support "alternatives" to policing but they absolutely DO NOT WANT TO RESOURCE THEM. EVER. Cahoots is a gold-standard for non-police community response. 30 YEARS OF PROVEN SUCCESS.

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The new brief from Building Movement Project is pictured - the cover includes a photo of a dandelion puff going to seed, an illustration of a golden sun, and a collage cut-out of a hand holding up a megaphone. The brief is titled "Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days" and can be found online at bit.ly/100DaysMovementBrief The graphic has bright colors in purple and orange tones.

The 3 main goals of the new brief from BMP are outlined in this graphic that is brightly colored in purple, orange, and yellow tones. The brief is titled Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days, and the 3 main goals are: 1) Provide a snapshot of how executive orders are affecting the nonprofit sector; 2) Highlight movement infrastructure needs and challenges while documenting how organizations and movements are adapting through innovation, solidarity, and care; 3) Synthesize strategic recommendations for the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors that center sustainability, collective power, and solidarity

🚨 Just released - a new brief from BMP: Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days 🚨

130+ executive orders.
Funding freezes.
Attacks on civil society.

Movements are adapting through adaptation, solidarity, and collective power.

📚 Download: bit.ly/100DaysMovem...

RIP Tort, you will never be forgotten. Abolish ICE, stop Cop Cities everywhere, we keep struggling for a better world.

the construction of Cop City hinged on a compliant media that repeated false police claims and framing, private funders who see expanded policing as a safeguard for their capital, and state actors willing to serve those interests without question. none of that is unique to Atlanta!

Cop City is officially "opening" today. The movement against it carries so many lessons for people everywhere, because the issues are everywhere today: the un-democratic militarization and expansion of policing and state violence, backed by dark money private funding.

Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance YouTube video by Haymarket Books

Criminalization is not only a primary tool to suppress dissent—it's at the core of how authoritarian and fascist agendas are enacted and legitimized. Challenging criminalization in our strategies for resistance is essential.

Learn more: check out the recording of our event with @haymarketbooks.org:

We can survive and find a way to be of use amid this unthinkable chaos by tethering ourselves to each other. We hold each other down.

As usual with my early-morning threads, this is probably obvious. But let's repeat to each other — like prayers — the things that enable us to keep going. 5/5

The Tools of Repression - Hannah Riley & Micah Herskind - Inquest The sweeping conspiracy and terrorism indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

wrote about punishment infrastructure as the prerequisite for fascism, what's happening & what's coming in terms of state repression, and the need to dismantle the tools of repression regardless of who's controlling them

w/ @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social for @inquest.bsky.social

Hello, Bluesky folks! I have a pressing need to chat with someone about an AI-related issue I'm having with a publisher. Is there anyone here who may be able to consult with me, or who knows folks I may be able to contact? Being linked to someone who could provide legal counsel would be helpful too.

Campaign Strategy Course 2025 — Movement Law Lab This course is for legal advocates and organizers who are actively running a campaign or who want to plan and run a campaign soon. We strongly encourage you to attend with your legal or organizing tea...

"This course is for legal advocates and organizers who are actively running a campaign or who want to plan and run a campaign soon. We strongly encourage you to attend with your full law-and-organizing team." www.movementlawlab.org/campaign-str...

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Being Human in Inhumane Times "This will be a momentous undertaking, and we can’t do it alone."

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on being a person and being together during this fucked up time. "Sometimes, when I talk about how to contend with this moment, I am scolded by people who don’t want to hear that they need to connect with others."

Why has Israel imprisoned 10,000 Palestinians? For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it has apprehended 15 more.

"On April 17 every year, Palestinian Prisoner’s Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom against Israel’s continued occupation of their land." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

this isn't meant to downplay the danger of this moment! but we can’t forget that for millions of people in cages across the country, constitutional rights have long been optional. this moment isn’t the beginning, it’s an escalation

if we're defining a constitutional crisis as a breakdown in the rule of law or the erosion of constitutional protections, then we’ve been in one for a long time (see: US prisons.) what we’re seeing now is just that breakdown becoming more visible to people who were never directly targeted before

STOP Podcast Introduction Welcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories…

🎙️New Podcast. Stories for Power: Documenting Oral Histories of Transformative Justice. Check out @storiesforpower podcast for a journey across local communities that explores the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice. - so excited!!!!

Red, blue and gray screen print by Roger Peet with the words laws aren’t real on a background that looks like a cloud

Screen print by Roger Peet

"Try imagining that there is no end. There is just action and counter action. There is just protecting life and love and/or destroying life and love. That’s it..."+

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Too many people keep saying, “They're just trying to get a reaction out of us.” A fascist government is not your petty ex. They don't need a reaction out of you. They're carrying out their agenda whether you react or not. Talking about the administrators of a fascist state like this is so detached.