People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

One more thing before I get back to grading: social justice movements without the threat of violence, or the recognition of violence as a tool, are a relatively modern invention and one peddled by the interests of power to maintain powerlessness.

In line with its ethical and legal obligations towards Palestinians, LO Norway commits to the below ⬇️

We now call on all trade unions globally to follow LO Norway’s example and endorse the BDS call to end the shameful complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation, settler-colonial apartheid and genocide. This is a legal not just ethical obligation.

Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day.

These are already death camps.

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Faster than fear*

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I am never, ever mad when someone tries to explain the luddites to me, telling me actually, they weren't anti-technology and so on, I love it, it means the actual understanding is out there and spreading organically and we are all the better to challenge the ways capital wields tech against workers

Y’all are so freaking adorbs 😭

Days after UP Muslim man killed for resisting Holi colours, police book 117 Muslims, including his relatives “I don’t understand what kind of system this is. We lost a family member. We filed a complaint against those who assaulted Sharif, leading to his death, and now the police have booked us instead of ta...

A Hindu mob killed a man. His family registered complaint with the police and are in turn arrested on made up charges. This is India for Muslims, now.
#India
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Israel to confiscate a thousand hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank A military decision this week targeted pastoral areas in Tubas and villages east of Ramallah

Israel has seized 2,400+ acres of Palestinian land in the West Bank through force and violence.

“Little by little, we became unable to reach this area, which was also inhabited by dozens of Bedouin families, but the settlers expelled them from it.”

I alluded to this in the article, but one thing I'm thinking of doing is creating a regular litcrit guest column for Trans of Color critics to write about self-published books by TWOC.

Ideally would shoot to commission for ~$100 per column, preferring to pub critics without mainstream recognition.

"This does not mean we will be all right. Everything is under attack...It just means pretty much everything under attack is being defended. And that a lot of people are not indifferent or defeated. It's going to take a lot more, for a long time."

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Best major metropolis in the USA!!!!

Who will lead the Palestinians? This is a question they must be allowed to debate and answer themselves | Dana El Kurd The current leadership is seen as either absent or illegitimate. A postwar plan must not simply repackage it * Dana El Kurd is a researcher of Palestinian and Arab politics and a senior nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington Since the…

Who will lead the Palestinians? This is a question they must be allowed to debate and answer themselves | Dana El Kurd

It is very distressing that many people like to fantasize about mass uprisings without thinking at all about mass mobilization.

Far more gets done at community events and gatherings than musing about street battles from an armchair.

Report: Israel Detaining Record Number of Palestinian Children Without Charges There are at least 300 Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons and torture camps.

The 112 Palestinian children being held by Israel without charges or a trial make up over a third of the 300 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons and torture camps as of the end of last year.

A poster reading "Build a wall of resistance—don't talk to ICE" with a drawing showing a line of houses slamming their doors at the approach of a man who can be identified as a heartless and despicable mercenary by the letters "I.C.E." emblazoned on his jacket.

I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his payroll.

I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends
nor of my enemies either.
I will not map him the route to any man’s door.
Am I a spy in the land of the living,
that I should deliver men to Death?

-St. Vincent Millay

Sign the Petition Release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah from Swiss detention

Please sign and share the petition in solidarity with Palestinian journalist, @intifada.bsky.social executive director, and Haymarket author @aliabunimah.bsky.social, who is being held in administrative detention in Zurich

The thing about this new years is, it has been like at least a decade since anyone expected a new year to have less horror and pain in it than the old year.

"I am going to find joy and meaning out of pure fucking spite and bloodyminded stubbornness" has been the mood for years.

A quick easy way to support your community against the threat of mass deportations is to print Know Your Rights cards and distribute them widely. you can find them in 8 different languages here along with other helpful handouts

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