A LeftOutMag from 2021, but very relevant today
Biden's inauguration speech argued for "unity," a tried & true Dem Party response to the extremes of the far right. LOM editor Alyx Goodwin examines the inherent hypocrisy & racism of this "unity" as it fails to address the inequality of capitalism.
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🚨 Protestors of Boston Public Radio live broadcast deliver message of media's complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.
Read their press release, linked below. (1/2)
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What's disgusting? #unionbusting Rally with us in Cambridge this #MayDay at 3pm as we stand in solidarity with Starbucks and local cafe workers. #1u
We know this and the gov stays doing NOTHING
❌EVICTIONS. ARE. ANTI. BLACK.❌
"Since the beginning of the year, they're filing to evict residents at rates 4 times as high in majority-Black counties"
Read⏬ npr.org/2021/06/03/100140441…
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Reminder:
Police kill an average of 3 people every day. More than 1,000 every year.
Sometimes the media pay attention and we know the victims’ names but usually they don’t. And that means we don’t know.
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NEED Span. lang. teen books for 169 girls (ages 14-17) at El Rinconcito del Sol shelter. BUY a book in Span. & mail it. EMAIL [email protected] to see how close we get towards our 169 book goal. MAIL them to: Youth Co-Op; 2112 S Congress Ave, Palm Springs, FL 33406. THANK YOU
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The politics of pushing mask mandates while reopening restaurants, gyms, and schools (so parents can go to work) is pure neoliberalism--freedom for business, restrictions for people. And it fuels the disastrous libertarian reaction that demands the same"freedom" from masks
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This year marks the 5th anniversary of the publication of my first book, From #BLM to Black Liberation. Haymarket is releasing a new, expanded edition in June w a new foreward from Angela Y. Davis. My book is five years old but I think it still stands up. Pre-order a copy!
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by @KeeangaYamahtta
Updated Edition with a new foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Releasing June, 2021
Cover photo by @byDVNLLN
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Good! And if that's possible, this should be organized for public library staff and other folks who work directly with the public.
Here in western Mass., the Holyoke Health Center administered 600 vaccines to the Holyoke Public School staff. westernmassnews.com/news/600…
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yet another example of how "cancel culture" is a rouse of the rightwingers to attack a broadly construed left and those with whom the right simply disagrees and wishes to excise.
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Asian American resistance
For those like me who are gutted by the murders in #Atlanta, please remember that #AAPIFightBack
A thread of Asian American resistance
photo: Corky Lee
#StopAAPIHate
How the U.S. Tax Code Privileges White Families - The Atlantic My latest @TheAtlantic how tax policy gives tax cuts to married white couples-but not black married couples. For decades black couples paid HIGHER taxes when they married. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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As part of the President's Colloquium on Race and Racism, @BU_Tweets Prof. Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) and @Princeton Asst. Prof. @KeeangaYamahtta Taylor will join @Harvard Assoc. Prof. @kimberlynleary '82 in conversation on 3/24 at 7 pm ET.
Register: bit.ly/3cW2Lhh
ALT Black and purple graphic with event information: President's Colloquium on Race and Racism. A Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ibram X. Kendi on Wednesday, March 24 at 7 PM EST. Moderated by Kimberlyn Leary '82.