“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

A United Nations commission of inquiry has determined that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, concluding in a 72-page report that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention, just one of which would legally constitute a genocide.

Theory of Water at Birchbark Bizhiw in Minneapolis, October 8, 2025. Tickets here. www.eventbrite.com/e/leanne-sim...

Mark Carney has moved Canadian politics to the right. In response, Pierre Poilievre is moving even further right on immigration to distinguish himself from Carney My latest, with Martin Lukacs for @breachmedia.ca, tracks this latest wave of immigrant scapegoating breachmedia.ca/poilievre-an...

“Antifascism not only drew students and faculty out of the universities and into the streets. It also brought antifascism and varieties of Marxism—Trotskyism, Stalinism, Fabian Socialism—into the university.” Robin D. G. Kelley:

And this cover is FIRE.

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives" ---CLR James

Grief is a door into a different world where we are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? Our new workshop, "A Furious Blooming: Writing Into Personal and Collective Grief," w/Bushra Rehman on Sept. 13 works through these questions. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-f...

A second boat in the activist flotilla setting sail to Gaza has been attacked, with activists blaming Israel and vowing to continue their journey. Video footage of the attack shows a large explosion, and the boat’s deck was set aflame. The crew was able to quickly put out the fire.

"Major Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has reportedly shut down a U.K. facility after it was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action activists, in a major victory for the group that was recently banned by the U.K. government." #England #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Sending solidarity to folks living in Chicago

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

I almost wrote “what a world we have created,” but yeah, fuck that

A solid listen !

if you want to host a launch/ event for the new edition of Policing Black Lives HMU! Ruthie Gilmore wrote very generously: “We are so fortunate to have this new edition! Robyn Maynard’s clear, compelling book is a must read for organizations, households, and anyone who fights for social justice”

Tuesday at noon ET (US), 9 AM PT we'll be live again with @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social to talk about T. Hoxha's hunger strike, Casey Goonan's solidarity hunger strike, defending direct action, Pro-Palestine political prisoners in the imperial core and more! www.youtube.com/live/GYXM0DU...

For @truthout.org I look at Canada's border policies and how we force US-based migrants to hide for 14 days to be able to claim asylum. Rather than preparing for more arrivals, Canada is making it virtually impossible for people to claim asylum from the US. truthout.org/articles/can...

we just counted 144 campaigns with NO donations. many more who have gone without any for days. we have to change this TODAY! lifeline4gaza.com

Thanks so much ! Stay tuned for the expanded updated version this coming out this October. 💙

Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.

Israeli soldiers are using teenage boys near U.S.- and Israeli-backed “aid” sites in Gaza as “target practice,” according to a British doctor who recently provided care in the Palestinian territory.

the leaders of the right do not care about human or planetary life, and are attempting to eradicate the possibility of a liveable future for all of us. there is no "both sides" here.

The air has been varying levels of toxic in Toronto nearly every day these past few weeks, the moon is red at night, and everyones health is being harmed by the air we breathe. The time to address the climate crisis ––with its roots in slavery, genocide, and militarism–– is now.

“Our duty to care endures even & especially when the law threatens our ability to provide it. In this moment health workers face a choice We can go along or we can join those before us who took risks to protect those in need” must read by BDNH doc @eric-reinhart.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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As Mike Davis said, "Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."

None of us are innocent when our governments are funding and supporting genocide, apartheid, warfare, and colonial subjugation the world over. We are all complicit, and every single action we take to oppose this brutality is important. There is no excuse for silence. Action is the antidote.

educator hive-mind: what are some of your fave essays by Black radicals (global north and south) about capitalism, imperialism, internationalism, for intro-level undergrads?

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

Expanding the carceral state will never stop at so-called “outsiders,” or “wrongdoers” (already a classed and racial construct) but will instead expand the category of those deemed expendable, a process from which no one should expect to be safe. Abolition now.

Liberals may not recognize this fully yet, but it is good to be anti-fascist, actually.

Liberating people from shackles and cages has been and remains a crucial goal of any meaningful freedom movement. Working to end the practice of shackling and caging human beings is just as urgent.

Black folks have never, ever, had anything like "equality" within the US and Canada, and the minor but life-savings and hard-won gains Black folks have made in recent decades are now being violently attacked on both sides of the border. This is the goal of the attacks on "DEI" and "wokeness."

study by Liam Michaud shows an escalating war on drugs by police: "Police in Ontario are increasingly interfering with the operation of health services, our recent study found. This obstructs people from accessing life-saving care." filtermag.org/ontario-poli...

So much terror threatens young people's futures. The call for youth liberation should be loud, given that the possibility of a good life is being put at risk by dwindling resources, state violence, and genocide. I wrote about this for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/07/16/c...

Carney is implementing a Canadian DOGE to make more $$ fund the military and the carceral state . www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

@ladyofsardines.bsky.social has a fabulous series of comrade cards, be sure to check out the broader collection

The new foreword and the introduction of my revised and expanded edition of Policing Black Lives with Duke University Press and Fernwood has been published on the Duke website bit.ly/3Tv16oQ now available for pre-order. Discount code in the US and worldwide is E26MYNRD

carceral capacity and carceral infrastructure--jails, prisons, detention centers, cop cities, police forces, ICE, DHS, sheriff's offices, surveillance tech, fusion centers, real time crime centers, & more--are all part of the same system, and they all have to go if we are truly to be free together

the brutal state repression ramping up in Western states around the world makes clear that police, prisons, and border violence serve and have always served to facilitate racial, gendered, and economic violence. abolition, not reform, is the only way forward.

The rise is devastating floods, storms, and droughts are products of centuries of imperialist ecocide and genocide, born of euro-north american slavery and genocide. They are not inevitable tragedies: divestment from extractivism and militarism are possible and necessary.

The cops are defunding every single municipality. And supposed "serious thinkers" simply cannot respond.

“And in those places forgotten—abandoned—by the state, people have their own visions for freedom, for their own multiple struggles to make life livable, to strive for a different and more collective way of organizing human life, and of distributing care.” #KeepEyesOnSudan (2/2)

When I think about Sudan and the ways ppl sometimes describe it in the media as the "forgotten war" I think about these words by @policingblack.bsky.social from Robyn and @biidaasamose.bsky.social's book Rehearsals for Living: “Forgotten places are not, after all, forgotten by all....(1/2).

Finally, please read (& subscribe) to the magazine that has been my writing home for many years now. There are not many of us — national educational justice orgs & publishers — left. We are not to the fascists' liking. The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

📁Abolition & the State: Responses—Abolitionist Futures in Conversation This 'zine gathers reflections from 2 conversations—with @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social; and with @harshawalia.bsky.social, @williamcson.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social