Andrew J Douglas

Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power

I’ve seen enough. Luddism is the way. Smash the machines.

A 1941 letter from WEB Du Bois to the warden at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary asking to meet with Puerto Rican independence leader Pedro Albizu Campos. Du Bois notes that he heard about Campos during a recent trip to Cuba and that he and Campos are both Harvard grads.

1952 postcard featuring the Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico. From the WEB Du Bois archive.

Off to Puerto Rico and ASA for a panel on Du Bois and imperialism.

Some artifacts from the archive: a 1941 letter asking to meet with nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned in Atlanta at the time, and a postcard from Du Bois’s 1952 trip to San Juan with Shirley Graham.

New essay, written for the excellent @transitionsec.bsky.social
Propelled by the climatic and hegemonic transitions, military-imperial forms of state capitalism are confiscating our collective right to a safe, green, tech-powered future.
transitionsecurity.org/imperial-sta...
@campolis.bsky.social

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ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.

The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.

Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on

“We must not look away. We must not move on… Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Week of Action in Solidarity with Venezuela | Black Agenda Report The U.S. regime change effort against Venezuela has recently intensified with the killings of Venezuelans, Trinidadians, and Colombians said to be drug traffickers, the latest salvo in the long U.S. w...

An aircraft carrier strike group heads toward Venezuela amidst threats of direct military action. Erica Caines of the Black Alliance for Peace, an organization calling for a week of action in solidarity with Venezuela, joins us from Baltimore.

www.blackagendareport.com/week-action-...

Too many writing projects, too little time.

Graphic for a symposium at Boston University Law School on "The University and Democracy." many of our most powerful universities have enabled the Trump administration’s open effort to exert “existential terror” on our institutions and our communities. This convening will critically examine why universities have failed to protect democracy and how we might democratize our institutions and reorient toward their core mission: to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.

Honored to be a part of this symposium tomorrow.

Will offer some speculation on how today’s entrée into end times fascism may portend capital’s abandonment of the university – and thereby open new opportunities and obligations for campus communities to build anew.

www.bu.edu/law/engageme...

Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.

A great interview with Professor Mahmood Mamdani in which he discusses his new memoir, the shortcomings of the boycott as a political tool and its implementation in the anti colonial movement, academic freedom, libraries, and the relationship between scholarship and politics.

No talk of Zohran!

In case you missed it, here’s a recording of the conversation.

youtu.be/8l1Rj1wCeCs?...

“The Public Grant-Making Bank represents a critical mechanism for fiscal insurgency… a profound political act that challenges the hegemonic conception of money as a fundamentally capitalist tool.”

This is excellent. Immediate resistance, in unlikely places, that clears ground to build anew.

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades.

transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

No war on Venezuela.

People shouldn't forget that the first domino setting off tonight's capitulation came from the American Federation of Government Employees two weeks ago

Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care

What ever happened to solidarity?

These millionaires in the Senate just keep proving Nyerere’s point. Or Du Bois’s for that matter.The US remains a one-party state, and with all the vestiges of American extravagance, we still have two of them.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maryland Workers Are Fighting to Divest Their Pensions From Israel’s Genocide Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.

Maryland’s public pension fund raised its Israeli bond holdings to $74 million in 2024.
truthout.org/articles/mar...

“Working-class Black Atlantans frequently defended their neighbors by running off policemen as they attempted to make arrests for petty crimes.”

Stories of collective self-defense from the late 19th c. These are the histories we need to build on.

US sidelining Israel on decision-making at Gaza ceasefire HQ, official says Israeli liaison unit said relegated to contractor role in Gaza aid; US includes entire Trump 20-point peace plan in UN resolution establishing international Gaza force

More reporting from the Israeli press seems to further confirm that the US has effectively taken over day to day decision making from the Israelis on Gaza— exacerbating fears in both the government and opposition that a precedent has been set for the internationalization of the Palestinian question.

Jfc. 💀

“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

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Always lands with this generation of students. Make of that what you will.

Riot. Strike. Riot. By Joshua Clover.

“Thoroughfare, public square, pipeline, railway, dockside, airport, border, these will be our places.”

Teaching Clover today. RIP.

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.

Seems like a good day for big ideas.