The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵 #sschat 🗃️

Trans lives. 🏳️‍⚧️ Queer history.

The misunderstanding of nonviolence and its purpose (exposing structural violence) is also a major problem.

Day after day, they walk out anyway. Teenagers choosing conscience over comfort, courage over fear. They keep showing up to protest ICE, cages, and inhumanity. In surprising places like Oklahoma, young people persist. History moves because they refuse silence. Never give up on young people.

I love this series so much: food writing as a gateway to investigating culture, nature, commerce, migration, identity and more! Plus joyously good writing. And a project inspired by the glory that is Wikipedia! #food #sandwiches #wikipedia

One of the most important things we need to be educated on is how billionaires profit from prison slave labor. So many corporations rely on it for their precious profits. The more people in prison (especially private prisons) the better for them.

Tomorrow morning, students at Fitch High School in Groton Connecticut are planning an ICE Out walk out — they've been threatened by building leadership, by district leadership, and by batshit crazy maga's online. I think they're going to walk out anyway.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

No one is free until all are free.

But abolition would effectively constrain the violence, Elizabeth...

This article is either maliciously stupid or stupidly malicious. The authors do not (and cannot) deny the reality of Indigenous dispossession in North America--so they resort to claiming that it is too late and too complicated to address the issue. 1/

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

A vital classroom resource on the history of deportations is "Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement." Check out the timeline and data visualizations below. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ma...

What is violence? Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you? Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone? Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask— Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it?

DHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.

STOP FORCING A.I. INTO EVERY FUCKING THING! #sticker get it → nobodyssweetheart.bigcartel.com

If you live in the East Bay you likely live on Huichin, which means you, like me, are benefiting from millennia of Ohlone stewardship Fortunately, we can help sustain that stewardship by paying the Shuumi Land Tax sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-...

found a stack of these cleaning up my studio the other day. as ever!!!

"By condemning these comparisons, the USHMM is not safeguarding Holocaust memory - it is policing historical memory so that it applies only to certain groups, stripping it of its power as a universal warning against dehumanization and state violence." www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

I regularly come across important Black organizers & thinkers in my own research abt whom literally nothing has been written. Substantial events, movements, & experiences concerning Black Americans abt which nothing has been written. It’s maddening.

"The answer is not better training for ICE and Border Patrol... It’s to insist on human rights for everyone, and to create a system in which punishment is not the central and defining feature of government for whole sectors of the U.S. population."

So...we have to pay for the overpriced administrators, AND the overpriced machines that write their emails?

Found the Google contract with SFUSD that includes users for Gemini (also? Holy fuck $324 per user??!?!?!) so SFUSD is already paying for an LLM

“The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered ​‘highly trained,’” Ramirez wrote. ​“The problem isn’t ​‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

Background on this shameful chapter in Democratic Party politics here. A huge stain on the integrity of all the non-profits who pushed for this as well to give the Democrats cover. bsky.app/profile/equa...

Historians of material culture check this out...

1/4 Rep. Kelly Morrison, is a practicing M.D. Her description of conditions in the Whipple detention facility are horrifying. Here is a rough transcript of the video she just posted. @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social

Hey, East Bay friends!

My signs from yesterday.

Award for late Afrobeat pioneer and political radical is the 'anti-establishment being recognised by the establishment'.

Federal agents tear-gassed families and children today in Portland. There are two approaches to counterinsurgency strategy: either you try to win the hearts and minds of the general population, or you set out to intimidate or exterminate them. This administration has clearly chosen the latter.

In response to recent acts of state violence in Minneapolis and across the U.S., Big City Social Studies has released an official statement on civics education, democratic responsibility, and the role of educators in this moment. #sschat #edusky See here: bigcitysocialstudies.org/wp-content/u...

Prove that you're human song

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

The gas + flashbangs combination is especially outrageous. When you're stumbling and choking on tear gas and the crowd surges away from a flashbang grenade, falls and tramplings get a lot more likely.

This explains why Virginia Giuffre was so reluctant to name #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Protesters, observers, and resisters in American cities are speaking with a moral voice, at their peril, against the language and force of law, which demands we dehumanize each other.

Gavin Newsom exists to widen the gap between rich and poor. PG&E’s power monopoly is just one example

Your phone is killing people. aje.news/9rqd03

The irony here is that a parent could lose custody or even be arrested for leaving their child like this in a car

P.S. All these fascists bound to lose.

#OtD 29 Jan 1912 striking textile worker Anna LoPizzo was killed by police during the "Bread and Roses" strike in New England. Shamelessly, police then arrested two leading @iww organisers for the crime. Learn more about women in the IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

It appears several clergy were just arrested as they staged an anti-ICE protest in the Russell Rotunda in the U.S. Senate office building. A number of faith leaders, who were in town urging Senators to vote against additional ICE funding, were led away by police: www.facebook.com/FIAnational/...

Gordon is getting tired of waking up to this bullshit. He had been dreaming of a world without borders and the cops who police them. Probably because he fell asleep listening to his human read Border & Rule. You can get a free ebook from @haymarketbooks.org right now along with some others.

Social studies teachers: Are you teaching about the protests inside ICE detention centers? Important to cover both the incarcerated peoples' resistance and the inhumane conditions. Here are some resources. #sschat #edusky www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I think it's not a shock, in our carceral world, to want punishment for people doing harm, but I really do wonder at how our emotional response there skips over care for victims.

Alex Pretti’s killing was “another reminder that this operation is not about safety—it is about terror.” The local community in Minneapolis & St. Paul grapples with influx of escalatory propaganda, state violence & surging need after second killing by federal agents, Talia Jane reports.

The Kansas bathroom bill applies to state government buildings. State Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat who is trans, was selected to fill a vacant seat earlier this month and it's believed this bill was specifically targeted at her. Disgusting and hateful. Details here: