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Hundreds of Jewish Americans and allies held a "Liberation Seder" in New York on Monday to mark the Passover holiday and demand an end to U.S. support for Israel's ongoing war on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. (Photos by Amy Goodman)

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the evil is real

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"Diversity is discrimination" is literally Orwellian language, like "war is peace, hate is love, slavery is freedom." You can find it at civilrights.justice.gov

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"This year, all over the U.S., Jews are holding emergency Passover Seders calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil and an end to the criminalization of all those calling for an end to the Israeli government's genocide of the Palestinian people." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Deportation #Genocide

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"Both citizens and non-citizens entering the US are potentially subject to having their phones searched at the border. Fourth amendment protections, which guard against 'unreasonable search and seizure,' have been weakened at US points of entry."

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On Saturday, I'll be at the Free Black Women's Library again. This time I'll be facilitating a discussion about Black women publishers and Black women's self-publishing. www.eventbrite.com/e/who-can-pu...

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ghoulish fools

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People love to list useless things done by Roman emperors, namely Caligula’s declaring war on the sea. But a technocrat “conquering space” w/an 11 min 🚀 flight carrying a brigade of rich female celebrities—when ticket $ combined are worth the entire NEH budget for a yr—is beyond Caligula levels imo.

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And people need to stop making disengaging cool! Especially Black people. It's not cool you're partying & line dancing totalitarianism away. Being more vulnerable means act more, not less. It's not about shouldering white people's burdens, it's being part of the motion that transforms your world.

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"In the thick of the Colonies’ war with England, a group of defiant slave women and men were arrested in Saint Andrew’s Parish, Georgia in 1774. But before they were captured, they had already brought a number of slave owners to their death." —Angela Davis

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Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

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apropos of not much theconversation.com/universities...

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"The Black political establishment, led by President Barack Obama, had shown over and over again that it was not capable of the most basic task: keeping Black children alive. The young people would have to do it themselves." —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Barack Obama—The End of an Illusion”

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"As it will be seen, black women often poisoned the food and set fire to the houses of their masters. For those who were also employed as domestics these particular overt forms of resistance were especially available." —Angela Davis, "Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves"

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This is today @redemmas.org

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"My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth. That ain’t easy.” —Toni Cade Bambara, in conversation with Claudia Tate, Black Women Writers at Work 17

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"There are so few truth speaking traditions in this society in which the myth of “Western Civilization” has claimed the allegiance of so many." —Toni Cade Bambara, in conversation with Claudia Tate, Black Women Writers at Work 17

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"It’s not just the battle over turf and who has the right to utilize resources for whomsoever’s benefit. The war is also being fought over the truth: what is the truth about human nature, about the human potential?" —Toni Cade Bambara, in conversation with Claudia Tate, Black Women Writers at Work

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"I don't see the fiercesome fearlessness yet that I'd hoped to see in this period. A lot of talented, brilliant, sharp folks are out there writing. But ah...lotta work ahead of us." —Toni Cade Bambara, in conversation with Claudia Tate, Black Women Writers at Work 14

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Toni Cade Bambara-- "It's a tremendous responsibility--responsibility and honor--to be a writer, an artist, a cultural worker...whatever you want to call the vocation. One's got to see what the factory worker sees, what the prisoner sees, what the welfare children see, what the scholar sees,

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"Disproportion of power in society is the real root of social injustice." —Reinhold Niebuhr

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"The political education of the masses is now recognized as an historical necessity." —Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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“It is the colonist who fabricated and continues to fabricate the colonized subject. The colonist derives his validity, i.e., his wealth, from the colonial system.” —Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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"You never knew what is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of chattel, entirely subject to the will of another." —Harriet A. Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, 1861, p. 55

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“...sugar-coated fascism: where people really think they are free, but all of a sudden discover that if you cross certain boundaries..., suddenly you find you can be blown up–some part of you can be cut off, shot down, taken away...” — bell hooks, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations 280

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“I start with the recognition that we are at war.” —Toni Cade Bambara Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara by Thabiti Lewis

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..: ‘How might our political understanding of the United States be altered or dismantled if we were to conceptualize fascism as the restoration of a liberal hegemony, a way out of crisis, rather than as the symptom of crisis or the breakdown of “democracy” and “civil society”?’ Dylan Rodriguez

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“...the university (as a specific institutional site) and academy (as a shifting material network) themselves cannot be disentangled from the long historical apparatus of genocidal and protogenocidal social organization.” —Dylan Rodriguez, “Racial/Colonial Genocide and the ‘Neoliberal Academy’...

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George Orwell, 1984 "Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now.

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always horrible

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One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

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This is one of the major steps Hitler took to consolidate power over German academia and science. 🧪 www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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thread.

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they want to defy laws to imprison people who haven't broken any laws that, right there, is it

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