Close Rikers Now @AprilRuthless

here for beans and abolition dreams 🎺 🔧🏳️‍🌈 🧶 ornery queer radical teacher cheering young activists on, seeker of 🕳️ 🐇 , personal account Joined June 2020

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives

2 years ago

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children. You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN! Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

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The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_

2 years ago

Jasmine Guy breaks down in tears while recalling her efforts to help Tupac transition to the next part of his life, and says Tupac told her he wasn't going to make it past 25 years old. (🎥 @Power1051 )

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TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza

2 years ago

BREAKING | An eyewitness source at Al-Shifa Hospital to Al-Jazeera: "Israeli Occupation forces have raped and killed women in the vicinity of the hospital"

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Elie Mystal @ElieNYC

2 years ago

Yeah… On the positive side, not paying me also means not being constrained in what I have to say. At least, that’s the lie I tell myself to keep myself from curdling into a bitter old man.

@tiffanydcross @TiffanyDCross

2 years ago

Good time to point out that @ElieNYC - your absolute fave- has never been paid to appear on any network. Often times people would tell me if he’s on, they tune in.

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Andrew J. Padilla 🇵🇷 @apadillafilm6

2 years ago

Protests against VP Kamala Harris in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷are underway US flags 🇺🇸 were removed & replaced with flags of Palestine 🇵🇸 , Haiti 🇭🇹 ,& the Black Puerto Rican resistance flag Protesters demand an end to U.S. intervention in all 3 countries More info below 📸IG @JSalpp

Jornada: SALP @JSALPPR

2 years ago

Nos vemos este viernes #PalestinaLibre #NoInvasiónHaití #AbajoLaColonia #SeAcabaronLasPromesas

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Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome

2 years ago

Our government has already murdered Americans by bombing them on US soil & they’ve also executed someone using a robot with a detonator. All the Americans I’m referencing who were murdered this way were Black.

Shabazz @ShabazzArts

2 years ago

We're not far from having police armed with drones that drop bombs on civilians.

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People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil

2 years ago

The LAPD developed the crossbow formation from the “crowd control” protocols of the U.S. military. From the Middle East to LA, these tactics are used to crush dissent against Amerikan imperialism. This is exactly what we mean when we say that EVERY struggle is interconnected.

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GNCordova @GNCordova

2 years ago

Wtf is going on… here in Seattle we have a massive budget deficit and a hiring freeze… except for the police department which has been authorized to give $30K signing bonuses to new cops and now city council is discussing subsidized housing for cops.

People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil

2 years ago

Karen Bass is expecting every other city department to hold off on hiring people in order to pay for the $1 billion increase she just gave LAPD. What’s the difference between @MayorOfLA & Rick Caruso???

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Bianca @BiancaTylek

2 years ago

Those who have experienced the loss of contact with an incarcerated loved one know the greed of the prison telecom industry all too well. Its tactics drove 74% of jails that adopted video calling to ban visits. Here’s how they did it. THREAD

Worth Rises @WorthRises

2 years ago

BREAKING! For years, the prison telecom industry has colluded with sheriffs to eliminate jail visits and adopt costly video calls, sharing profits. It ends now. Our partners at @CivRightsCorps, with our help, just filed lawsuits to protect the #Right2Hug. freep.com/story/news/loc…

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Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec

2 years ago

THREAD. Across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of children have been banned from visiting their parents who are awaiting trial in local jails. Why? A conspiracy to make money. We just filed two landmark civil rights lawsuits to stop it, but the story is unbelievable.

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Mac @GoodPoliticGuy

2 years ago

I don’t know what to say to anyone who believes more harm is caused to society by shoplifting from a mega corporation vs dumping our entire city budgets into a police state where cops use dogs, helicopters, military grade weapons and vehicles to arrest someone for petty theft

Gwinnett County Police @GwinnettPd

2 years ago

GWINNETT POLICE UTILIZE AVIATION AND K9 UNITS TO APPREHEND SHOPLIFTING SUSPECT For more information, click the link: bit.ly/4cjUQs2

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reminder that the IDF trains our police. so if you’re only worried about what’s happening here because the middle east is “far away”, understand that’s not the case. our country funds that genocide and brings that brutality right back here.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim

2 years ago

If you think the deadly tactics, surveillance technology and violent strategies being deployed at the southern U.S. border and in Palestine are separate from our everyday lives here, think again. This is the future that those in power want; this is what we all must fight against.

Spyder Monkey @SpyderMonkey0_0

2 years ago

#NYC The NYPD has just deployed a drone to surveil a vigil going on in Brooklyn for a black girl who was stabbed. When NYPD first showcased their new drone technology, they repeatedly denied utilizing these drones against peaceful protesters. Now it has become a standard tactic

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Sun Ra @KailSovl

2 years ago

They are closing down hospitals in rural Mississippi. My grandmother isn’t here today because she didn’t have access to a hospital in Gore Springs Mississippi. She had to go see a nurse practitioner who misdiagnosed her for years. They was treating her for arthritis until she…

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Deej @fanoniscanon

2 years ago

It is those of us who have in the words of comrade Too Black allowed for the laundering of Black rage. It is us academics viewing radicalism only through the liberal academy. It is our insistence on electoral politics. Our iPhones, our sweatshop garments the banality of our day to day lives.

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beehiiv 🐝 @beehiiv

2 years ago

men will start a daily newsletter before going to therapy

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive

2 years ago

In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵