What a gift from @thedigradio.bsky.social ! Robin Kelley reflecting on the recordings he made as a 24 yr old of Black Alabama communist elders that become Hammer and Hoe. Lemon Johnson with that box of shotgun shells and Lenin teaching us about praxis! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Now online: Ep 29, w Rebecca Yeo @disabmurals.bsky.social ‬ The disabled people’s movement has long argued that preventing people from meeting their needs is disabling. Restrictions imposed on people in the immigration system disable people with existing impairments and create new impairments 1/7

Stad van 200.000 mensen. Verwoest. De wereld stond erbij en keek ernaar. Iets met ‘Rafah’ en ‘rode lijn’. Genocide.

Sudan is an extremely wealthy country in terms of resources and gold only contributes a fraction of that wealth. Money is absolutely a driving factor along with Sudan's strategic location along the Red Sea which ultimately is also connected to capitalist interests. (3/3)

Tomorrow is the second year anniversary of the war in Sudan. Please join us in a special edition of workshops4sudan in an Instagram live with the amazing @bsonblast.bsky.social Sara ElHassan and various Sudanese guests.

Every day at the southern border people are deported for no reason at all. Please let this moment radicalize you. This same judge is judging everyone who is not in the public eye too. What injustices have met the millions of other humans going through this system?

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

Imo this is the more informative framing of today's development - Israel is limiting access to potable water in Gaza

Israeli tanks have entered the North of the West Bank for the first time in 20 years.

Robin DG Kelley on the poetry of aja monet (1:05:33) "This is what makes the poems so powerful and dangerous. Like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat." www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoQ...

"the exchange structure specific to German-Israeli relations: moral absolution of an insufficiently denazified and still profoundly antisemitic Germany in return for cash and weapons."

Such an important and thoughtful piece, by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social "How can we prevent our own history of departure from being twisted to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine?" jewishcurrents.org/the-algeria-...

"In other words, a 12-year-old had the forethought to drag her younger sister immediately after witnessing three loved ones killed because she knew that Israel often deployed their infamous double tap strikes whereby they bomb, wait a bit, and then bomb again." Lucid and bleak writing; much needed.

Beautiful piece by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social “The rebel dead are not so easy to silence. Not in the forests of Eastern Europe, and not in mutilated Gaza. Their words bleed into the present, where they can be used by the living to create another world.” thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...

I feel like it almost has to be a fantasy of a certain class of people who are much less likely to have known people who went to prison that there's a plausible solution here. On paper it doesn't work. In theory it doesn't work. In practice it doesn't work.

a university degree, four books, and hundreds of articles and I still make mistakes when reading. you wrote me ‘good morning’ and I read it as ‘I love you’. — Mahmoud Darwish

And much of this technology will also be used to facilitate counterrevolutions and escalate border violence. Our collective liberation is tied to the liberation of Palestinians.

critical thinking + radical tenderness [been thinking a lot that this is the best possible combination to approach any pedagogical project, be it architecture or even better, be it life]

Can’t put enough emphasis on what the words “last medical facility” mean in the context of this genocide. It’s pretty simple to understand what happens when there’s no hospital available.

Another important and amazing podcast from my favourite podcast! @deverbranders.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Beautiful interview with Dionne Brand “How do I recover that which is outside … of that form, that administrative structure of capitalist economy, that takes over what I call my life? And what is my life now?” www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Now online: ep 28, with Manja Petrovska On the EU-IOM border regime in the Balkans as a contemporary form of imperialism. And on the weapons companies that benefit from displacement and global apartheid, as they do from the ongoing genocide in Gaza🍉

1984: "Verzekeraar A.S.R. (...) ziet het als een morele verantwoordelijkheid om in defensie te investeren" nos.nl/artikel/2547...

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

Another pic from Cyprus

Went on @deverbranders to discuss how the shipping industry is structurally set up to generate the conditions under which seafarers are abandoned, and the work I’ve been doing w @jacobbolton.bsky.social and Eliza Ader mapping abandonment cases that you can find here: abandonedseafarermap.cargo.site

Confirmed! Wide ranging strike with three key demands: 1) respecting right to protest 2) institution of an independent and democratic ethics review board 3) cessation of all ties with Israel in the meanwhile. Unprecedented shop action in NL. Lets go comrades!

As vital resources continue to be extracted and investments in war intensify, what does it mean to practice a politics oriented toward life? How do we build the body of the Hydra so that our movements interlink and regenerate? What can we learn from past freedom struggles?

“Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now.” —Rasha Abdulhadi.

Lucky me! I got to be on my favourite podcast: De Verbranders! The luck didn't end there. I was joined by one of my favourite fellow creatures, @marcusrediker.bsky.social and we were interviewed by the most amazing Neske Baerwaldt! Take a listen, if you can.

Now online: ep. 27 with @marcusrediker.bsky.social and @nsharma101.bsky.social On how people’s movements across oceans were—and remain—central to capital accumulation, until they begin projects of their own that challenge the powers dividing us by maintaining a radical orientation toward life

What is happening in the north is beyond comprehension, and the Israeli government and IDF have gone out of their way to ensure that the media has a hard time reporting it. Myself and @farrahfazal.bsky.social gathered some testimony, but it is one sliver of the horrors.

"The beautiful thing about the truth is that it's easy." Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about Palestine, narrative, cultures of denial & more on the excellent Makdisi Street podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/1fOu...

Now online: ep24 with Bridget Anderson, Cynthia Wright & @nsharma101.bsky.social On dreaming beyond images of nation-states & on No Borders as a practical political project that is carried out in the here and now by all of us who refuse to let borders dictate how and with whom we live

By Micaela Sahhar, this is stunning, please take a moment to read. An essay on human animals. "If you can’t understand these words, then try to feel what makes a body write them." overland.org.au/2023/10/an-e...

first bluesky try :) now online, listen to this beautiful episode with Hidaya Nampiima, on how Amsterdam is *made hostile* for illegalised people and how she challenges this injustice and fights for freedom soundcloud.com/de-verbrande...