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The Many Lives and Meanings of “Bella Ciao” – Page 2 – The Narrative Transformation Lab Is it a work song, sung by women mondine (“weeders”) in the rice fields of northeast Italy to bemoan the hard conditions of their work?

Good Morning!

Many have sung the Italian resistance song 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗼 because freedom depends on people who refuse to stay silent.

If you’re tired, scared, or angry: you’re not alone. Lift your voice.

What’s your favorite anti-fascism song?

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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.

Which side are you on?

Sunday homily.

Live updates: Officials confirm ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...

“‘She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,’ Heller said.”

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Happy solstice, happy Yalda, happy Yule. It's the reason for the season!

Hope everyone gets to spend some quality time with their loved ones on this longest of nights, the Earth will stand still for the next three days and then the days start getting longer again; holy darkness birthing Light.

Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.

Here we are again.

We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.

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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.

“Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets,” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes. It also means losing what cannot be seen: “the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine.”

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester “Your name was brought up.”

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
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It feels as if we’re living frozen in time. Between a world we can no longer sustain and a future that’s asking us to wake up. Where nothing feels real anymore. Where everyone is waiting for something to shake things up. Because things can no longer go on this way.

These times require a lot of sabr (perseverance), which I struggle with more than with shukr (gratitude); the two pillars of faith.

September is next week already?! Time really flies when you're living in a dystopian hellscape.

If Trump died tomorrow, your MAGA neighbor is still gonna want immigrants deported because their ancestors took their grandparents to public lynchings.

Trump is not the root of the problem. He is a symptom of it. This is why we keep talking about decolonization. The problem is bigger than him.

Zionism is Nazism.

National strike, anyone?

Every single Black Revolutionary leader saw the problem of collective liberation the same way.

The Black Panthers inspired and helped build Brown Berets and Young Lords.

Malcolm, Huey, Baldwin, Morrison, Assata- they were all for Palestine.

Our enemy is white supremacy.

The imperial boomerang, from Palestine to LA.

Pico Iyer's "Half Known Life."

Do not capitulate in advance; not to fascism, not to AI, not the conservative turn which generally comes with hard times.

Their control is based almost entirely on fear & surrender. The only real efficacy of a panopticon is that people police themselves bc they think they're being watched.

Happy 100th birthday to this Truth Teller.