writer, problem-solver, Global South person, daughter of Earth Mama
Los Angeles, CA
Joined May 2010
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It’s pub day for A Tinderbox in Three Acts 🌸🌸🌸
Here’s my mama reading the book of poems her daughter wrote about the history both of our generations were forced to silence & forget.
With love to our dead & the living who are dismantling the legacy of the New Order.
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Climate scientist Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) talks about leaving Los Angeles two years ago due to the risk of climate-fueled wildfires. He says the devastation unfolding in Southern California now is even worse than he feared and warns, "This is still just the beginning."
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an elected official in times of chaos ...
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The wildfires and the genocide raise the same question: how much pain and suffering are we willing to inflict on ourselves, each other, and our world before we do anything different? How bad does it have to get? I deeply fear the answer to that question.
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Hey I’m the mayor of Town That Always Catches On Fire and I decided to defund the fire department because cops REALLY need that money for a tank to use on homeless people. It would suck if a fire broke out, but luckily that never happens here in Town That Always Catches On Fire.
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I would also like to remind everyone that last spring, UCLA shut campus down for over a week to repress students protesting a genocide. But windstorms and raging fires....no biggie...come on down to campus.
Campus Update | UCLA is open for classes and regular operations today, Wednesday, Jan. 8. The fires in the LA region do not pose an immediate danger to the campus, and at present, air quality levels in Westwood remain within normal levels.
bso.ucla.edu/news/campus-ope…
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Breaking: in response to the Los Angeles fire, the US will send 20 billion more in weapons and bombs to Israel
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BYE
Good evening to everyone except PM Trudeau who got confronted in Vancouver, on these unceded lands, TWICE for refusing to call for ceasefire and his support for Israeli war crimes
No business as usual during a genocide. Free Palestine!
Thx Fatima J for vid, @palsolidaritycad IG
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital: We hold the world accountable for what is happening to us.
Just got off a 15-hr flight from Doha where I could not sleep a wink bc so many babies were crying the whole time. And now I’m home, crying because that is the sound of babies living & asking to be comforted, fed, held, loved. The sound US bombs are silencing in Gaza & Lebanon.
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My unpopular opinion is that folk at the imperial core who are newly learning about anticolonial struggles need to pause their imperial views stated with loud imperial hubris because work of learning is done in silence and must be done in humility
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Extremely unpopular opinion (I suspect): hakas will not get Maori people their rights, just as Debka won't work for Palestinians. Anger, direct action, strikes, and serious disruptions will. There are very clear rules for effective political struggle, and indigenous culture is for indigenous people. It is lost on colonizers, and its very presence in a filthy colonizer parliament disgraces it
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Thank you @andrewfeinstein for saying it like it is. The West has indeed gone batshit crazy. The United States has embraced the worst of its own history in its support for Israel. Germany can’t seem to do anything but support Genocide. Genocide Scholars are silent. We Westerners are all complicit. There’s nothing to do but keep fighting in solidarity with “the Global South” for a new order, free from colonial models of power and genocide. The current institutions must go.
The ‘West’ has gone completely batshit crazy. As victims, Israel & Israelis can do whatever they like, & any response to their brutality, their thuggery, their racism is antisemitism, a pogrom, etc. This complete madness is led by Germany, which feels like a nation in a state of self deluded psychosis
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From a March 2024 article. This was one of the main purposes of the Placeholder Presidency: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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"We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work." -Combahee River Collective (1977)
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US elxn isn't in isolation - Trump, Bibi, Modi, Orbán, Meloni are tip of iceberg of growing fascism. Anti-migrant racism, wars of domination, transmisogyny, rising inflation are their glue. Defeating fascism requires defeating flaccid liberalism that keeps ceding ground to right.
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Gone is a genocidal president too hypocritical to admit it. And in comes a genocidal president who wears it as a badge of honor.
IMHO Trump is so upsetting to white liberals bc he’s the real face of America. Narcissistic, abusive, resentful, rabid for supremacy. He’s the America the Global South has always seen, in the way that the master is truly known only by the enslaved. And Harris, such a thin mask.
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BREAKING🚨Israeli parliament just BANNED the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from Palestinian Territories
It’s time for the United Nations to list Israel as a terrorist organisation and EXPEL the country from the U.N 🇺🇳
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.@UNRWA is an irreplaceable lifeline to the Palestinian people. And it has been for the past seven decades.
UNRWA was created by the @UN Member States. Today’s decision by the Israeli parliament barring UNRWA from its life-saving and health-protecting work on behalf of millions of Palestinians will have devastating consequences.
This is intolerable. It contravenes Israel’s obligations and responsibilities, and threatens the lives and health of all those who depend on UNRWA.
