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Philadelphia
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"Terrorism" if it's a CEO, but "unfixable" if it's school children.
BREAKING: Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing, on a charge of murder as an act of terrorism. apnews.com/article/unitedhea…
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Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517…
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
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We know that many of you, like us, are trying to wrap your heads around what the next few years will hold. These are a few titles that have helped us think through what we are up against and the resistance we need. Please read them, share them, use them. akpress.org/featured-product…
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“We who are not there, witnessing from afar, in what ways are we mutilating ourselves when we dissociate to cope? To remain human at this juncture is to remain in agony. Let us remain there: it is the more honest place from which to speak.”
Isabella Hammad's 2023 Edward Said memorial lecture was about narrative turning points. But after Oct 7th she had her own turning point & wrote an afterword that reorients herself to her own speech. We discuss both today
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/isabell… @PalFest @PenguinUKBooks
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All Fredric Jameson articles are now open access until the end of October.
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Ursula K Le Guin was so ahead of her time. She clocked Rowling's writing as uninspired, derivative and mean. Le Guin tried to tell us and people hated her for it. Now we're all saying it.
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Did you hear today is James Baldwin's 100th birthday? Do you feel like you should have read him by now?
We have a chart for that!
AND we made a James Baldwin page browsable by genre (since he was a genre-defying genius): roomofonesown.com/james-bald…
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James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
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Joining me in the chamber today is Hani Almadhoun, who has lost over 150 members of his extended family in Netanyahu’s genocide. After witnessing his sister forced to eat animal feed, he and his family were determined to start a soup kitchen to feed their starving neighbors.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW! Massive crowds are marching to demand the arrest of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu in DC! #ArrestNetanyahu #ShutItDown4Palestine
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we haven't had a single workshop sign-up in two days. that is a record low for us. please help us keep this project running. please help support palestinian families trying to survive by signing up for a workshop or sharing with a friend 💔💔
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Poetry is not about language, but about what happens when language gets impossible.
—Alice Oswald
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Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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In the spirit of our forthcoming book Loving Corrections, here are two AK classics about collective processes and what to do when they go awry. We humbly suggest these two #summerreads!
Holding Change: akpress.org/holding-change.h…
Come Hell Or High Water: akpress.org/comehellorhighwa…
ALT A hand holds two books over a sunny Oakland porch with green plants on either side. On the left is Holding Change, a bright turquoise book with a yellow title, and on the right is Come Hell or High Water, a pocked-sized bright orange book with black text.
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I don’t know what you got going on over there, but we real cool over here.
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Today, as Israel celebrates 76 years of statehood, Palestinians mourn the ongoing Nakba. We cannot stand by as billions in Israel Bonds-direct loans by individuals and institutions to the Israeli military and apartheid government - are directly supporting genocide of Palestinians
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BREAKING: Hundreds of Philly Jews and allies gathered at our local Israel Bond Sales office this morning to demand that our city, state, country, and communities divest from Israel bonds and break the bonds with the Israeli military’s genocidal war on Palestinians
