🧵I spent days going through every deed of purchase that the Texas Highway Department made in the 1950s and 1960s as it assembled land to build Interstate 345 through Deep Ellum in downtown Dallas. 1/
Hey @SierraClub, your planned tours of occupied Palestine are attempts to greenwash the violent colonialist actions of the apartheid state called Israel. Real environmental justice requires a rejection of colonialism everywhere. bit.ly/RacistSierraClub
If anyone is still “on the fence” about the #NolaCoalition & their intentions:
Here is a video clip of Melanie Talia, CEO of the New Orleans Police & Justice Foundation saying *explicitly* that they want to “remove” ~10% of the population of New Orleans.
streamable.com/99xud1
Since many people don’t seem to understand how deeply the #NolaCoalition embodies white supremacy through & through, here is a little breakdown to help:
A THREAD 🧵 on the NOLA Coalition’s embodiment of white supremacy;
The CEO of @nopjf & former assistant district attorney wants to "remove" 9-10% of the population of New Orleans to make our city "safe". That's tens of thousands of people.
streamable.com/99xud1
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the first night of the Stonewall Uprising! Did you know Afeni Shakur - Black Panther leader, community organizer, author, mother of Tupac - was involved in the riots? [THREAD]
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some pals of the store are organizing against a TERF event scheduled by @AustinPublicLib
if you care about your trans friends, family, and comrades, let them know how shit this is
“What would it take to get you off the streets, an outreach worker ahead of a line of police officers attempting to clear the encampment, “housing!” She shouts “we need housing.”
The Cops Off Campus Coalition is selling shirts again this year for Abolition Spring! We suggest coordinating group campus orders to save on shipping! bit.ly/COCCwbit.ly/COCCb
BREAKING: Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island have voted to form the first union at Amazon in US history.
Ballot count: 2654 ‘yes’ to 2131 ‘no’.
Mood out here is jubilant. Workers are sharing their messages to Jeff Bezos
vice.com/en/article/qjb54d/a…
Sometimes I question if we need tools and strategies to support people struggling with what we call mental illness or if we really just need to learn/remember how to love people better.
Let us be done with the webinar-industrial complex.
We need you to devote time &/or materials to get people out of prison & connected with resources needed for survival - not another conversation about “decarceralizing your syllabus” or whatever.
Some states—Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas & Nebraska—denied about 90% of welfare applicants in 2020.
Texas, where a single parent of 2 must earn less than $188/month, had the lowest acceptance rate at just 7%, but had $281M in unspent welfare funds.
propub.li/3Jir47G
Marcus Bartley suffered a stroke while in solitary confinement. Over 6 months of medical crises followed; his family was not allowed to see him once. He passed away last week. Please help us cover the costs of his funeral; his family has suffered enough.
mightycause.com/story/746pqf