Bill Ayers

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Episode #121: A Radical Reframing with Jeanne Theoharis and Erik Wallenberg When a popular leader emerges from the whirlwind of a struggle for justice, power always stands in opposition—ignoring the rising demands where possible, ridiculing and coopting, and eventually fig…

@bill-ayers.bsky.social hosted fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on this latest episode of his @underthetreepod.bsky.social series. Have a listen!

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Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9 Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.

For @bill-ayers.bsky.social, being hopeful is a politics and a choice. This is an important stance to take during these terrible times. #Resistance

Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9 Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.

Sadness, grieving, anger are all reasonable responses to the 2024 election. But @bill-ayers.bsky.social is right: we have to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and name this political moment for what it is so we can get busy in acts of repair and revolution.

"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."

Mar. 19, 1939 | Lloyd Gaines Believed to Be Killed After Winning Missouri Desegregation Case Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1939, just months after he prevailed in a lawsuit to force the University of Missouri to accept him to its all-white law school, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines went missing and was never seen again.

A Historic Winter Institute 2025 Kicks Off in Denver Winter Institute 2025 officially kicked off Monday morning in Denver with close to 1,000 booksellers expected to attend. For the first time, the American Booksellers Association hosted a…

We’re always looking for ways to better promote our backlist titles. At #WI2025, our associate director of marketing @alyssahassan.bsky.social noted how we mark anniversaries by issuing new editions of them, like our Beacon Press Classics series!

The Labor Movement Should Stand Up for Mahmoud Khalil Unions have a moral imperative to defend against illegal attacks on political speech. That means demanding justice for Mahmoud Khalil.

"From what I can tell, Mahmoud Khalil has moral courage of the type Eugene Debs spoke about more than a century ago in a speech that he was unjustly arrested for."

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

The Rainbow Ain’t Never Been Enuf: On the Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity by Kaila Adia Story Gender and sexuality studies scholar Story debuts with a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ commu...

COMING SOON THIS MAY!🌈

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”

Copies of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF arranged in rows on a wooden floor in the sunlight.

Join us on Monday, March 24th at 7 pm for a discussion of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES.
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Must-Do South: Montgomery, Alabama As a destination, Montgomery is a journey in contrasts. The Alabama capital is both a proud epicenter of the mid-20th-century civil rights movement and a landscape curiously steeped in Confederate memory. Here, history isn’t merely preserved; it is powerfully experienced.

The @legacysites.eji.org are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."

Get Busy with Acts of Repair - WORT-FM 89.9 Bert Zipperer speaks with scholar and activist Bill Ayers about abolition, dignity, and the need for people to stay engaged.

@bill-ayers.bsky.social has been embarrassed watching colleges and universities capitulate and call the cops on student protestors. We’ve been here before in the past, too. #Resist

Bill Ayers on Freedom & Abolition, 12-05-24 at the Sanctuary Bill Ayers will be at The Sanctuary for Independent Media on Thu., Dec. 5 from 7-9pm to discuss his new book "When Freedom is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberatio

Yes, the wave of EOs is overwhelming. But as @bill-ayers.bsky.social says, the noise and chaos are meant to distract us from the real work of mobilizing ourselves and energizing ourselves to stand up for freedom and democracy.

Episode #118: Culture/Counterculture with Alex Zamalin Human beings are suspended in webs-of-significance—we make sense and we make meaning—and culture is nothing more nor less than the webs. Those webs-of-significance are alive, forever trembling and …

“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social

Maya Schenwar, Kelly Hayes, Bill Ayers & Anya Tanyavutti sit in chairs in front of an audience in a full bookstore.

Tonight @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social & Anya Tanyavutti on what care looks like in movements for liberation in celebration of WE GROW THE WORLD TOGETHER ✨ pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...

Republicans can't meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says The House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.

The GOP funding bill is a direct attack on working people.

If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.

#OtD 14 Mar 1993 Spanish anarchist feminist Soledad Estorach died in Paris aged 78. She had fought on the barricades in the Spanish revolution, and helped organize working class women in the worker-run city of Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

Thxxx PCB! You’re the best.

Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community!
Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.

Excellent!

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NEW EPISODE! Link in bio.
Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY.

Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!

Love Barbara Smith!!!!

🎙️On today's show @bill-ayers.bsky.social tells us to get busy with acts of repair.

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Please look at it this way—MuskTrump is trying to make it impossible for anyone who is not a multimillionaire to have a decent, secure life. They are also trying to break our bonds to each other so we have no one to rely on. Don’t let this happen.

A Celebration of Change: Journey to a Fossil-Free Tomorrow Saturday, April 19, 2025 5:30 - 8:30 pm Featuring a concert for the climate by Kronos Quartet With a special performance by BANDALOOP and Cesar Aguirre, Associate Director, Air and Climate Justice team Central California Environmental Justice Network Hosted by Rebecca Solnit This event benefits Oil Change International's work to expose the true costs of fossil fuels and facilitate a just transition to clean energy.

Benefit concert for @oilchange.bsky.social with the incomparable Kronos Quartet, dance by Bandaloop, and yeah, me mc'ing. If you are or can be in Oakland April 19th and can swing a ticket, please come. secure.givelively.org/event/oil-ch...