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@KarenAttiah
Jul 31, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
I wrote about women's activism, social media and the #ChallengeAccepted mini-mess.

But I wanna talk for a bit about @LoujainHathloul and the other Saudi women activists who are in prison.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Today is July 30, and it is @LoujainHathloul's birthday.

She in prison in Saudi Arabia, where she's been for 2 years-- arrested for her work on getting women the right to drive.

Jamal Khashoggi wrote about her arrest for @washingtonpost in 2018.

washingtonpost.com/news/global-op…
Loujain Hathloul is one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent young women, and in a Saudi prison has endured torture and sexual harassment.

Her jailers offered her a chance to go free if she denied that she was tortured. She refused.

capebretonpost.com/news/world/sau…
There is *so much* happening in the world right now and while so much focus has been (rightfully) on racism and anti-blackness, global violence against women must be tackled as well.

If you do the #ChallengeAccepted challenge, spare some caption space for @LoujainHathloul.
The world vowed to hold Saudi Arabia's regime accountable for crimes against citizens who just wanted to speak their minds.

Jamal Khashoggi is dead.

@LoujainHathloul is spending her 31st birthday in jail today.

Hollywood + Silicon Valley continue to cut deals with KSA.
Solidarity to Loujain's family, her brother @WalidAlhathloul and sisters Lina and Alia, who haven't given up speaking out for their sister and for others in Saudi Arabia.

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Aug 3
There is one last thing that has been bothering me about Trump being the first live appearance at #NABJ24. And for days I couldn't put my finger on it.

And then I remembered.

This year's conference theme is-- wait for it-- "Winds of Change: Journalism over Disinformation".
Ahead of an election year, the thematic goal for #NABJ conference was to empower Black journalists to fight disinformation and lies.

And then the first platform we gave was to a politician who unleashed an unstoppable flood of disinformation.

Make it make sense!
For those who think journalism is about access and asking questions, then, the Trump Q+A was a win.

Bar is on the floor, but a win is a win.

If journalists' job is to fight disinformation, the event was a failure, a betrayal of the #NABJ24 theme.

And something much worse.
Read 8 tweets
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Jul 9
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

The years ahead will be rough.
Now is not the time for despair or to quit, but to shift energy.

Get into community. Learn how to organize. Get grounded physically, spiritually, and creatively.

If you haven't already, start NOW.
It's not just the threat of Trump.

Between Covid and the slaughter of Palestinians,
America has witnessed, justified perpetrating, and normalized mass death and unspeakable suffering both at home and abroad in ways we have not before.

And that's in just five years.
Democracy is just a tool. The destination is supposed to be the life, freedom, and prosperity of all, regardless of race, color, creed or origin.

To justify, ignore, and diminish human suffering and death -- that is not democracy.
Read 8 tweets
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May 2
Biden has the audacity to give that speech that protest shouldn’t lead to disorder — while planning to speak at Morehouse’s commencement— Martin Luther King Jr’s alma mater.

MLK spoke about white moderates more devoted to order than to justice.
I’ve been at Columbia all week. Yes there is a lot of fear, there’s a lot of disagreement about Gaza, protests. But I’ve seen a lot of hope, courage and solidarity.

In a multi-racial democracy, safety is not from supremacy or brute state force, but by safeguarding other.
Is the “order” Biden wants the US- sponsored slaughter of Palestinians, Islamophobia, breaking international laws, the weaponization of anti-Semitism, purging Black thought from education, and increasingly militarized police?

All of this “order” requires violence to maintain.
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 16
For decades, we were told "Never Again" to genocide and mass atrocities.

The Holocaust. Rwanda. Bosnia. Darfur.

We were taught to spot the warning signs--dehumanizing rhetoric, violence, forced depopulation, and the destruction of culture.

We were told to speak out and act.
Watching the silence, censorship, racism, and hypocrisies on to the assault, starvation, and depopulation of Palestinians in Gaza is revealing.

Too many consume history as stimulating entertainment, neatly packaged for movies, classes, and museums. Not as something to act on.
What is happening @USC shows that the credibility/legitimacy of many liberal institutions died in Gaza.

Western journalistic objectivity died in Gaza.

True academic freedom died in Gaza.

Do we see how much violence it takes to uphold an imperial status quo?
Read 6 tweets
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Nov 7, 2023
Not only is this racist, but it reveals that to many white people, allyship is transactional and performative and that Black people should be grateful.

It's also historically ignorant of the lengths Black people have gone to call out and fight Nazism and the oppression of Jews.
The Black press called out the Nazi atrocities against Jews:

"Negro America calls for an end to Hitler and to Hitlerism. Let the sympathy of black men for the stricken Jewish people strengthen the arm of every Negro soldier." -Chicago Defender, 1942
ushmm.org/m/pdfs/USHMM-H…
Not to mention the scores of Black American, Africans and other diaspora soldiers that fought, and died in World War II.

The Black Americans that fought Nazism and survived came back, only to be subjected to racist fascism back home.
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Oct 2, 2023
Five years ago today, my friend & @PostOpinions writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by agents of Saudi Arabia.

For today's paper, I wrote about a disturbing @TIME party held in the aftermath of his murder--which taught me how cruel U.S. media can be.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
Jamal gave everything in order to speak his truth in the last year of his life.

As his editor, I saw how he used his time and pen in the @washingtonpost to uplift the cases of others unfairly targeted and imprisoned.

It makes me think a lot about how I use my time and my pen.
And today, I just want to be profoundly honest.
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