Hi, I live paycheck to paycheck & am the author of two published books. Don't pirate them. There are many ways to enjoy them free like by using your library. Revenue from them comes to me, a real person who needs them & committedly distributes mutual aid.

"If you look at job growth between January and September ... for the past 15 years, it's only been worse once, and that was during the pandemic ... It is the worst first nine months for the labor market in 15 years."

Another world is possible. Together, we will never stop fighting for a future where Palestinians can live their lives with dignity and justice.

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

#WestPapua: Where Human Rights Go to Die and No One Notices

The #Netherlands is once again cheerfully supplying military equipment to the Indonesian navy — the same bunch that treats human rights in #WestPapua like a disposable option on a cheap menu. But hey, as long as the money’s good, who needs to ship a conscience along with the hardware?

#WestPapua: Five hospitals, zero humanity. In Jayapura you can be dying — but still not “eligible” for basic care. Don’t worry though, Indonesian healthcare works perfectly… just not for Papuans.

27 Nov 1661: John James, Fifth Monarchist & Seventh Day Adventist preacher hanged, disembowelled & quartered at Tyburn #otd (NY Public Library)

We do. But no one is listening.

Anyone interested in history, politics, gender or theory should be aware that Pluto Books has 80% off for ebooks for 48h. I’m trying to decide which ones. Click here: www.plutobooks.com

While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.

Hey casual reminder that this resource ⬇️ exists, and lists good places to donate & get involved if you're in the Baltimore area and want to support local Indigenous folks

Worth a read.

When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims they didn't realize they'd just invented Socialism for undocumented refugee immigrants. Happy Thanksgiving.

Sending love to my Indigenous and Native friends and mutuals this week. Friends, please remember this is a day of mourning for many of our Indigenous and Native neighbors for a very good reason. Please be respectful of that, and them.

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives." - Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)

They shouldn’t have been shot and killed. They shouldn’t have been needlessly deployed. They should be alive and home with their families. A senseless tragedy in every respect.

Over the next week (what thanksgiving break? lol) I have to read my book again and finalize it before it goes to *print* and I’m literally paying attention to details like colon vs comma and I’m sure most authors are like this and that’s one reason why you should buy our books. We really care.

64 Years Since #WestPapua Declared Independence — Still Colonised Because Gold Talks Louder

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I'm Jewish. I grew up in an observant home. My bar mitzvah was at a Lubavitch shul. My parents were ardent Zionists who donated to the Jewish National Fund and AIPAC as birthday presents. If *I* can recognize Israel is a genocidal apartheid state and become antizionist, so can you.

Bolsonaro is what happens when six Supreme Court justices aren't co-conspirators.

This makes complete sense that the biggest public university system should be part of the new NYC government!

...Just sprinting through to point out that THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich is ON SALE at @libro.fm - it's about a literally haunted bookshop, as well as love, justice, forgiveness, and just how hilariously annoying one customer can get... libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

RIP Jimmy Cliff Worth taking 3 minutes this morning to watch this profound and lovely performance. And if you’re my age, to remember where you were when you first heard the song. #ManyRiversToCross youtu.be/twf7LhQIBkQ

Sydney 3rd december Film and forum: West Papua’s ‘Food Estate’: Serving Land Theft and Human Suffering on a Silver Platte #WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation

Kwame Ture and Imam Jamil Al-Amin - For the Love of the People

Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now

So, I finished They Knew today, by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social I've been slow-walking the last fifty pages as I watch the names and stories unfold as news, aligning with this book written a few years ago. Read it if you want to understand how the world works.

I’m writing on war crimes, albeit in the 17th century, and Israel’s actions tick every box.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Epstein emails “together sketch a devastating epistolary portrait of how our social order functions, and for whom,” Anand Giridharadas writes. “Saying that isn’t extreme. The way this elite operates is.”

By luck (I didn't get into Harvard), I went to UC-Berkeley and then grad school at UW-Madison. Can't imagine a better education. Sick at heart at what's happened to once-great state universities over the past 50 years.

This!

Destruction of public universities, through higher tuition, reducing tenured faculty, imposing political requirements, has been the ruling class's project at least since Reagan was Governor of California in the 1970s.

Twitter now displays where accounts are from and it has confirmed that too many of the political accounts are out of country bots. Why are folks still there? To argue with bots? A waste of precious time while enriching the richest man on Earth. Delete your account.

Two days ago, the President of the United States called for the murder of Congressional officials, & we've just entirely moved on as a country. Total failure of every societal & political institution. We are not a serious country.

When our starting pay is this low and our scheduled hours don’t qualify us for benefits, the numbers just don’t add up. Starbucks has a higher CEO-to-worker pay gap than ANY business in the S&P 500. It would cost them less than a single day’s sales to finalize a fair contract!

Hey, so if folks are interested in Black economic thought, may I suggest the Review of Black Political Economy? It's a journal that features lots of Black policy and economic research. It's existed since 1970. The work in this journal is under cited, but shouldn't be. #econsky #blacksky

There’s a great children’s book about this too, called Brave Girl. My girls now love running around the house shouting “general strike” in Yiddish [kvells] www.harpercollins.com/products/bra...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

@sbworkersunited.org have launched the biggest open-ended strike in Starbucks history, fighting for fair wages and against unfair labor practices. We all need to stand in solidarity with striking workers. DON'T BUY STARBUCKS FOR THE DURATION OF THE STRIKE. #NoContractNoCoffee

Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.

The way the Black Panthers understood food aid as a crucial form of self defense against the capitalist machinery of the racial state remains essential to the struggle against fascism today.

Just in to stock from @ucdpress.bsky.social , the first major history of the 1798 Rising in over 30 years, with a host of fresh perspectives - Bloody Summer - A new History of the 1798 Rebellion by James Quinn. #irishhistory

I’ve not been feeling too chipper recently & have been busy with hospitals & consultants to fight my blindness, so haven’t been drawing. This is one of my sold one-off original ink drawings from 2020. Available ones are here: robbohan.etsy.com