To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

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Wasafiri, Centre for Contemporary Writing (Queen Mary University of London), and @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social present an afternoon of poetry with Sophie Chauhan, Sasha Debevec-McKenney, and lisa minerva luxx. When: Sat, 27 September, 3.30-5.30pm Where: Whitechapel Gallery, London

New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.

Please listen shows.acast.com/in-it-togeth...

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

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.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of From the Ashes' release into the world. Sharing this selection, for reasons.

Watch now: Eileen Myles reads 38kg, by Batool Abu Akleen. You can get the book from the PalFest Bookshelf, subscribe here: www.palfest.org/bookshelf

Not the Onion.

Incredible footage of pro-Palestine protesters shutting down the Vuelta a España cycling race in Bilbao due to the participation of the Israeli team. The race ended with no victors as they weren't able to finish. elpais.com/deportes/cic...

On both sides of the Altantic, within and without bodies like the UN, EU and NATO, developed countries are eager to return to Hobbes's State of Nature as pretext for their response to climate crisis, and Israel is useful for establishing the worst of what states can get away with in that paradigm.

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Very excited about this one, which is timely af #BookSky www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2605-b...

Maybe nobody should be at the death and destruction show? Maybe we shouldn't be hosting this? Maybe it shouldn't exist?

'AN ENORMOUS BLOW' screams the headline. then the article immediately concedes that ticket sales are 'booming'. and the festivals they told us Fossil Free Books was KILLING are in fact...doing fine? www.thebookseller.com/news/an-enor...

Update: it got funny again

This is how the Hostile Environment works btw. We've had it in the UK for 13 years. It loves exploitative employers and exploitative employers alone.

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.

10 minute read or so, timely and unambiguous

Resist the mass deportation agenda. #farage #reform #migrantswelcome #refugeeswelcome

I am in Bristol talking about Refuge at @bookhaus.bsky.social next week. Please come www.bookhausbristol.com/events/

“how to be comradely with people you don’t like, how to tell someone you love they’re wrong… these are skills for organizing a movement that can actually stop the horrors” hell yeah @sarahljaffe.bsky.social pca.st/episode/e9a6...

Within this toxic targeting of asylum sites, we hear very little about the lucrative contracts the Home Office dishes out to private contractors- companies like Clearsprings who are make record breaking profits from people's misery. More ➡️ www.migrantsorganise.org/overcrowding...

Racist tropes and abuse directed at people seeking asylum, indulged and appeased by the Labour government and actively encouraged and instigated by the Conservative and far-right opposition, are a threat to all people of colour in the UK, and ultimately to all hope for a more just and equal society.

No Palantir in the NHS and Corporate Watch reveal the real story behind Palantir's NHS data platform rolllout in a NEW REPORT out now! corporatewatch.org/foi-requests... #NoPalantirintheNHS @medact.bsky.social @justtreatment.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social

Last chance!

NEW! 🎧 Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition is now an audiobook! Unbuild Walls, from @silkys13.bsky.social executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, dives into 40 years of US immigration policy & mass incarceration, exposing their intertwined systems of repression.

evergreen

Call from a producer this morning: Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice? We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.

My long read on Keir Starmer and human rights - for which a I spoke to dozens of current and former colleagues, campaigners and legal experts - is now a podcast. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Bridge of Solidarity is an anti-capitalist mutual aid organisation set up by poet Yazan in Al-Mawasi. Their projects have included providing water to folks in camps, hot food to medical staff, and reaching orphans and elders without families. You can donate directly here chuffed.org/project/brid...

Tonight! There's still time to sign up to our online fundraiser, When Silence Starves, bringing together poets, writers & artists around the world to raise money for mutual aid projects in Gaza, in collaboration with White Kite Collective & @haymarketbooks.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...

BREAKING: Downing Street has warned Sally Rooney risks committing a terrorist offence if she funds Palestine Action It comes after the author said she would continue to support the group financially

Vance was in the UK and the secret service were knocking on people's door in this little village tried to get ppls phones to check for mean tweets about him

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social's practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

A sweeping collection of case-studies, interviews, and interventions from activists around the world challenging surveillance and border technologies - from facial recognition tech, predictive policing and drones to militarised border walls, fences, & seas. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2094-r...

An urgent intervention from award-winning poet, journalist and writer Mohammed El-Kurd, challenging narratives of victimhood and reaffirming Palestinian resistance, refusal, and the steadfastness of a nation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...

New from brian bean, Their End Is Our Beginning is a deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2540-t...

Abolish the (Met) Police! With mass arrests of pro-Palestine protesters in Britain & the increasing criminalisation of dissent worldwide, we've put together this reading list on police abolition & its connection to liberation struggles everywhere: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/527-ab...

Reminder about our online fundraiser event on Tuesday - new names have been added! Please continue to share and boost 💛 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...

"The state of the country is dismal. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues...But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge." the newest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out now hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

my kind of love letter 💌