@jawanza
Lover of all the People | Love is a commitment to what is possible, not weak acquiescence Black. Queer. Leftist. Community Organizer. PhD PoliSci student. •Dir. of Movement Building with VOCAL-US (jawanza@vocal-us.org) Jawanzajameswilliams.com
My cousin was violently killed in Beaumont, Texas, and because the police say drugs were involved I’m sure it will hurt her fundraiser. But my cousin was a beautiful, young father of three beautiful girls. Please help: gofund.me/8f5b6b167
And most of the folks are Black, American, low-income.
Thank you so much
My first thought is to just screen a public lecture from one of my Black socialist favs.
If I wanted to screen a documentary or something like that to bring low-income/working-class folks to teach them why taxing the rich is a good thing, what should I show?
Earlier this week I organized this small emergency demo.
We need leadership that is willing to lead us out of the dark history of this country.
THIS IS AMERICA
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#KeithPorter
#HeberDominguez #VictorManuelDiaz #ParadyLa #LuisBeltran #LuisGustavo #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood #AlexPretti
Thousands gather in frigid temperatures in NYC to demand, clearly, #ABOLISHICE and the fascist regime occupying our cities and the White House. #NYC #minneapolis
AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. n.pr/48VPxj2
La celebración anual del Día Mundial del SIDA y Lectura de los Nombres, en honor a aquellxs que hemos perdido a causa del VIH/SIDA. ESTE Día Mundial del SIDA no es sólo un momento de recuerdo: ¡es un grito de guerra! Este año, nos levantamos en resistencia contra un gobierno que está borrando décadas de progreso logrado con tanto esfuerzo. Poner fin a la epidemia de VIH/SIDA no se debe a que carezcamos de soluciones, sino a que las fallas sistémicas (falta de vivienda, racismo, injusticia económica y estigma) continúan negando a nuestras comunidades la atención y la dignidad que merecen. Estas no son sólo barreras: son actos de negligencia.
Join us with Housing Works, VOCAL NY, ACT UP, NYC AIDS Memorial, Harlem United, Amida Care, and the Center for Popular Democracy
December 1, 2025
NYC AIDS Memorial Greenwich Ave & W 12th St
Annual World AIDS Day observance and the Reading of the Names—honoring those we've lost to HIV/AIDS.
I’m in D.C. at the @homelesslaw.bsky.social’s fundraiser, following their press conference to rebuke the fascist-in-chief’s violent homelessness “plan” that will push 170,000 people back into the streets.
To #EndHomelessness, consider giving: secure.givelively.org/donate/natio...
See ya there!
#drugsky
#worldaidsday
#endthedrugwar
#harmreduction
#actupfightback
#publichealth
#hiv
#aids
@jawanza.bsky.social
@housingworksnyc.bsky.social
@vocal-ny.bsky.social
@harlemunited.bsky.social
@amidacare.bsky.social
Racialization *
Capitalism is and always has needed radicalization to function— producing cultures of hate, dehumanization, and ultimately, mass delusion (see White Supremacy/American Exceptionalism/ (White) Christian Nationalism/ Zionism etc)
I’ve been a member of @demsocialists.bsky.social for nearly 10 years.
I’m reposting these clips from 2017 in the hope they find themselves to some of the people targeted by this racially-manipulative, billionaire-directed & funded attack.
My first article for the brand new LGBTQ Community News. I hope you enjoy this piece exploring how the intersectional identities of 3 activists: @mynameisjro.bsky.social, @jawanza.bsky.social and Yanery Cruz impact their work in The Resistance.
lgbtqcommunitynews.nyc/2025/10/06/f...
I cannot express enough how grief is not unaffected by genocide, mass confusion, authoritarianism, and the increasingly bleak future.
We will not be gaslit.
Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!
Hundreds of thousands of NYers will lose their health insurance as soon as January 2026. Governor Hochul and state lawmakers can mitigate the funding cuts by taxing the rich and passing the New York for All Act. SPECIAL SESSION NOW! @jawanza.bsky.social @investinourny.bsky.social
Today, we are at Foley Square with the @investinourny.bsky.social coalition to let @governor.ny.gov and Legislative Leadership know that NOW is the time to protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. #InvestInOurNY #NY4All
@vocal-ny.bsky.social @jawanza.bsky.social
Gift link!
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social
Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.
We will not be gaslit.
Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!
Earlier today, State Comptroller DiNapoli released a report analyzing the impact that the Federal Budget Scam’s tax cut extensions will have on New Yorkers. This report comes on the heels of an analysis by the Fiscal Policy Institute that confirms New York’s growing economic inequality. Below is a statement from Erica Vladimer, communications coordinator for the Invest in Our New York Campaign, in response to the Comptroller’s report: “The analysis from Comptroller DiNapoli confirms what we already knew: The federal budget scam will move billions of dollars into the pockets of the richest New Yorkers, including the 130 billionaires who call New York home, while hurting working-class people in our state. "Congressional Republicans passed a budget that cut our safety net programs and increased burdens on working-class people, all to pay for tax breaks for the rich. It is not enough for state lawmakers to criticize the federal government; they must also take action to protect New Yorkers.
“Governor Hochul, Leader Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Heastie must convene a special session, make the super wealthy and highly profitable corporations pay their fair share, and invest those new public dollars in keeping our healthcare whole and making New York affordable for everyone. “As Comptroller DiNapoli’s report makes clear, the federal budget scam ‘further skews tax benefits to individuals and businesses at higher income’ and will ‘put a heavier burden on working-class New Yorkers trying to make ends meet.’ New York’s millionaires and billionaires can afford to pay what they owe in taxes.”
We're shocked –– shocked we tell you! –– that @nyscomptroller.bsky.social found that the Federal Budget Scam hurts working-class New Yorkers while benefiting the ridiculously rich.
Anyone else think it's time for a special session to #TaxTheRich?
Visual AIDS | Upcoming Event Harm Reduction Today: Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!! MoMA PS1 Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 4:00pm–5:30pm https://share.google/bgHD3QtcgzUWf9v20 In tandem with Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz, our current exhibition at MoMA PS1, Visual AIDS presents a conversation exploring the landscape of harm reduction today — from Mpox, PrEP, and sex parties to Narcan, fentanyl, and the enduring value of community-based outreach efforts. Tickets are not required to attend. MoMA PS1 is free for all New Yorkers. Following the tradition of safe sex and safer drug use practices championed by harm reduction activists such as Heathey Edney and Richard Berkowitz, this program will bring together three individuals applying harm reduction strategies in their work. Harm reductionist Tamara Oyola-Santiago, co-founder of Bronx Móvil, will recount her work as a public health educator implementing syringe exchange programs. Organizer Jawanza James Williams, of VOCAL-NY, will discuss harm reduction as it intersects with housing justice and abolition. Filmmaker/curator Adam Baran, co-producer of HOW TO HAVE SEX IN A PANDEMIC and an organizer of monthly sex parties in Brooklyn, will share practices to support collective sexual health care. This panel will celebrate the final weeks of Love Rules by reflecting on what has and hasn't changed since the early days of safe sex and safe injection practices. Following the discussion, visitors are welcome to explore the exhibition and converse with the panelists. Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz is on view at MoMA PS1 from April 24 to October 6.
Join us!
Visual AIDS presents:
Harm Reduction Today- Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!!
MoMA PS1
Saturday, September 27, 2025, 4:00pm–5:30pm
#harmreduction
#drugsky
@vocal-ny.bsky.social
@jawanza.bsky.social
@flordepascua.bsky.social
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“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian!” #ArmsEmbargoNow
Happening Now: pro-Palestine, anti-genocide, anti-war demonstrators gather in Manhattan to call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, and and immediate lift of the siege on Gaza and the resumption of UN-controlled humanitarian assistance. #FreePalestine #UNAssembly
More than 20,000 children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military since 2023.
Nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed by the same government via human-caused famine. They were starved to death.
, and preserved by military expansionism, proxy-imperialism, and sustained State/Corporate/Elite, right-wing, conservative propaganda.
Do *NOT* join ICE.
No amount of money, even when we are poor, is worth the destruction of your own soul or the violence of attacking people via the authority of a nation founded by genocide and land theft; a nation built and defined by ensalvement, fascist authoritarianism (Jim Crow)
Benjamin Netanyahu, his admin, and any Israeli supporting his diabolical plan to steal ALL of Gaza are genocidal war criminals who deserve nothing less than the full application of existing international law and they should be the precedent for new law that the world needs.
