What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less.

@bill-ayers.bsky.social hosted fellow @beaconpress.bsky.social author @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social on this latest episode of his @underthetreepod.bsky.social series. Have a listen! underthetreepod.com/2025/04/02/e...

For @bill-ayers.bsky.social, being hopeful is a politics and a choice. This is an important stance to take during these terrible times. #Resistance

Sadness, grieving, anger are all reasonable responses to the 2024 election. But @bill-ayers.bsky.social is right: we have to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and name this political moment for what it is so we can get busy in acts of repair and revolution.

"We live in a fascist dictatorship," @thenation.com's @elienyc.bsky.social says of Trump administration attacks on the judiciary. "There's not a coming constitutional crisis. We are in the constitutional crisis right now."

On this day in 1939, just months after he prevailed in a lawsuit to force the University of Missouri to accept him to its all-white law school, a young Black man named Lloyd Gaines went missing and was never seen again.

We’re always looking for ways to better promote our backlist titles. At #WI2025, our associate director of marketing @alyssahassan.bsky.social noted how we mark anniversaries by issuing new editions of them, like our Beacon Press Classics series!

"From what I can tell, Mahmoud Khalil has moral courage of the type Eugene Debs spoke about more than a century ago in a speech that he was unjustly arrested for."

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

COMING SOON THIS MAY!🌈 @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @doctressstory.bsky.social’s THE RAINBOW AINT NEVER BEEN ENUF “a sharp critique of racism, misogyny, and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ community.”

Join us on Monday, March 24th at 7 pm for a discussion of WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM, AND AUTONOMOUS ZONES. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/45447

The @legacysites.eji.org are currently featured in Atlanta Magazine. "The powerful Legacy Sites help us remember who we were—and who we can become."

@bill-ayers.bsky.social has been embarrassed watching colleges and universities capitulate and call the cops on student protestors. We’ve been here before in the past, too. #Resist

Yes, the wave of EOs is overwhelming. But as @bill-ayers.bsky.social says, the noise and chaos are meant to distract us from the real work of mobilizing ourselves and energizing ourselves to stand up for freedom and democracy.

“When you see the most radical representations of freedom in the counterculture in US history, there is not a clear divide between the personal and the collective. The 2 are deeply synthesized.”—Alex Zamalin in convo with @bill-ayers.bsky.social

Tonight @mayaschenwar.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social & Anya Tanyavutti on what care looks like in movements for liberation in celebration of WE GROW THE WORLD TOGETHER ✨ pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/UfU8gx4...

The GOP funding bill is a direct attack on working people. If Democrats won't act like a real opposition party, we need a party that will.

#OtD 14 Mar 1993 Spanish anarchist feminist Soledad Estorach died in Paris aged 78. She had fought on the barricades in the Spanish revolution, and helped organize working class women in the worker-run city of Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

Thxxx PCB! You’re the best.

Another beautiful evening with our @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social community! Thank you @mayaschenwar.bsky.social for this book and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Anya Tanyavutti for the wonderful discussion.

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NEW EPISODE! Link in bio. Conversation with Barbara Smith and @bill-ayers.bsky.social recorded on Dec 5, 2024 at the @mediasanctuary.bsky.social in Troy, NY. Visit our webpage to listen to the episode or watch a video of the event!

🎙️On today's show @bill-ayers.bsky.social tells us to get busy with acts of repair. www.wortfm.org/get-busy-wit...

Please look at it this way—MuskTrump is trying to make it impossible for anyone who is not a multimillionaire to have a decent, secure life. They are also trying to break our bonds to each other so we have no one to rely on. Don’t let this happen.

Benefit concert for @oilchange.bsky.social with the incomparable Kronos Quartet, dance by Bandaloop, and yeah, me mc'ing. If you are or can be in Oakland April 19th and can swing a ticket, please come. secure.givelively.org/event/oil-ch...

Oligarchy: After the DCA crash, Transportation Secretary and MTV Real World’s Sean Duffy ordered that helicopters couldn’t fly in DCA space when planes land. Good! But in practice, planes are now circling for hours, often landing at Dulles because of what pilots call VIP helicopters. Fuck dem VIPS.

#OtD 23 Feb 2005 France introduced a law directing schools to teach "positive" aspects of French colonialism. France invaded places including Morocco, Algeria, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tunisia, Senegal, the Caribbean, US, Canada and others and enslaved 1.3m stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Depuis 1 semaine, je participe à une formation pour devenir prof de yoga 🧘‍♂️ #SociologueYogi Je suis en désaccord avec plein de trucs, mais j'en ai plus appris sur la pédagogie en 1 semaine qu'en 10 ans à la fac, qui ne forme pas à enseigner. Et les coupes budgétaires vont pas améliorer les choses.

On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released.

Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas. (Published Oct. 2024)

Good for these federal workers, concerned about the sabotage of a functioning, safe park, for us and for nature. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

You didn’t think New Year’s was over, did you? Because this reading line up with books by @michaelbrodeur.bsky.social, @yrfatfriend.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social, and others are here for you on your transformation journey. 😉 @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social #NewYearNewYou

@bill-ayers.bsky.social is often accused of being an optimist, a romantic. The truth is that he chooses a politics of hope. He refuses to cave into despair to a rising fascist reality. And so should we!

Thank you, Beacon!!!

This handful of titles from by @serenekhader.bsky.social, @yrfatfriend.bsky.social, @piercesalguero.bsky.social, @bill-ayers.bsky.social, and others will set you on the runway of life to get 10s across the board for progress and self-reinvention! #NewYearNewYou

Dismantling the department would put Pell grants and other need-based aid programs at risk, which would disproportionately harm low-income students.

Social imagination is key to our feminist world view. It’s what @bill-ayers.bsky.social calls “the collectively creative, inventive, resourceful forces that embrace all of humanity & are explicitly pro-emancipation & pro-liberation for the many, for all.”

It’s what @bill-ayers.bsky.social calls our moment of contradiction. While we have an avowed fascist returning to the White House, we have incredible resistance to the war in Gaza, the Black Lives Matter movement, and more!

Of course, Americans are for freedom. But you will notice as @bill-ayers.bsky.social has that freedom is a contradictory idea depending on who you ask what it is. Is it individual or collective?

As our population becomes ever-increasingly diverse, efforts to celebrate that diversity will come under attack at the behest of our returning reality TV star in chief. So where do we go from here? We turn to @bill-ayers.bsky.social.

@bill-ayers.bsky.social started @underthetreepod.bsky.social to get people involved in the freedom movement, then and now, to talk about freedom and what it meant to them. This led to him writing WHEN FREEDOM IS THE QUESTION, ABOLITION IS THE ANSWER.