What we need is a Tribunal révolutionnaire, but I guarantee you what these limpdicked politicians will try and sell us will be a Pacto del Olvido.
No one will be held accountable for any of this unless we, the people, organize and do it ourselves.
"An irreversible shift" is underway "that no weapon of mass destruction, no tech firm, no military occupation, no nuclear power can ever destroy," one that threatens "to upturn the system that has made this genocide possible in the first place."
The US and Israel are starving Gaza. They are also starving Yemen. I wrote about these dual human-made—or, more precisely, American made—humanitarian crises, and how starvation is now a routine tool of siege warfare and collective punishment.
"The facts are known. The evidence is overwhelming. The silence is a choice. And we are here to break it."
“I am saying it clear and loud,” Mahdawi said outside the courthouse. “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work!
academic.oup.com/isle/advance...
I am thrilled that my piece "What American Fascism Has Already Looked Like" (co-authored w/ Gerald Horne) is now available in Issue 5 of Peace, Land and Bread!
Make to get yourself a copy & one for a comrade 🙏
I'm thrilled to see this. More of us who teach relevant topics should find ways to participate in Freedom Schools or, if we have the means, build our own. Let's Educate to Liberate.
We were all reading our Karl Marx and he says the tools have to be in the hands of the guys doing the work, and so we tried to keep the fabrication and the distribution in the same hands.
- Peter Brötzmann, in Daniel Spicer’s Peter Brötzmann. Free Jazz, Revolution & the Politics of Improvisation
We are proud to be a sponsoring organization for a new academic society, along with our comrades at @CTW_ATC and @worldmarxistrev: The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).
I don’t know Mahmoud Khalil but I love him because every time he opens his mouth, even if he’s sleeping on a floor of a prison cell estranged from his pregnant wife, he advocates for others, for people in Gaza, for immigrants in holding. No wonder they’re terrified of him. They fucking should be ✊🏼
Thank you to @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social for publishing the text of my letter to Notre Dame after they canceled my speech.
inthesetimes.com/article/notr...
People are in the background at a protest. Sign says “free Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil”
A sign lists many demands: biodiversity, public libraries, LGBTQ, rights, Black and Indigenous history, clean water, Social Security, public schools, national parks, free speech
A sign says hands off Gaza in red, with pictures of watermelons. In the background, people march at a protest
Sign says put Donald Trump into the dump. Held by arms in red sleeves. Buildings are in the background.
It was a relief to join 30,000 people chanting through the streets of Chicago today for the #HandsOff rally and march.
people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...
Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort:
chuffed.org/project/just...
Press release about a new boycott of Columbia
Nearly 1000 teachers, academics, and more are mounting an academic boycott of Columbia.
Columbia "is colluding with the current U.S. government's project to destroy higher education and criminalize protest," they say.
Signers include Noura Erakat, Marc Lamont Hill, Ruha Benjamin.
I'd like to make one thing clear: I've LONG been an advocate for Open Access to scientific knowledge. Both of my books w @mitpress.bsky.social are freely available, and I fought for that!
What I oppose is the enclosure (privatization) of profits from 'AI' (LLMs) nonconsentually trained on my work.
"The Democratic Party, which campaigned on the existential threat Trump posed to democracy, has offered little more than begrudging responses to acts of repression that rival, if not surpass, those of the McCarthy era."
In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine."
"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."
Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump.
Only 28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.
A lucid, blistering review of what is probably the most damaging and intellectually dishonest book of the past year.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The vicious culture of anti-Palestinian racism the liberal establishment has helped normalize strengthens Trump’s insidious narrative of migrants as terrorist threats, all as part of a massive push to facilitate deportations, ramp up surveillance, and further militarize the border.
"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this
El lament dels grandíssims @vijayiyer.bsky.social i Wadada Leo Smith pel poeta palestí #RefaatAlareer assassinat per Israel a 2023 open.spotify.com/track/760WBv...
“Fully closing down Gaza AGAIN, while resuming hostilities, is much more than a violation of the ceasefire.”
“It is an escalation of Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.”
—UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese
