anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist. union strong. organizer. @blacks4peace.
Oct 28, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Watching ppl try to separate the genocide of Palestinians by Israel from life in the US is astonishing. As if we don’t have reports on the Deadly Exchange Program that fully documents how cops, the FBI, CIA, & ICE get trained by Israeli forces to engage in violent repression.
Just months after 9/11 US law enforcement went to Israel to start a program that would train them on “best practices” on mass surveillance, violent repression and criminalization of any communities the government deems threatening to the capitalist & white supremacist status quo.
Feb 2, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
There’s something to be said about orgs that talk big about accountability but lack both accountability and transparency to the communities they claim to build and work with.
That’s 1 thing I felt strongly about during my time with the bail fund I co-founded. Because it was the community donating to free people, I made sure they knew how much money we had and how that money was spent: getting people out, purchasing care bags, paying bail agitators etc
Feb 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
And if we’re being honest, it’s bigger than posting the suicide hotline too. The conditions we’re living in must be radically changed if we want to see a significant decrease in suicides
Before folks act ignant, I never said don’t share or post the suicide hotline. I’m sayin that a hotline isn’t enough to save lives in the same way that checking on your strong friend or being kind isn’t enough.
Jan 31, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Re-watching the last few episodes from S3 of #Ozark to prep for S4 and I forgot how wicked Wendy is. She really had her bro killed.
Ruth called Wendy a “bitch wolf” 🤭.I forgot about that 😂 #Ozark
Apr 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
It’s worth noting that the National Guard (the military) is in Minnesota at the behest of the police. They are there to ensure police & property, not civilians, are safe. They’ve been weaponized, yet again, against Black people living under this oppressive settler colonial state.
The National Guard is making a decision to uphold & enforce racial capitalism & white supremacy. It’s also unsurprising because this is what they do around the world. The military act as an extension of US police in the global south, upholding & enforcing US imperialism.
Apr 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What mutual aid groups, bail funds & radical orgs do we need to be amplifying out of Minnesota right now?
Reject these lies too yall. We saw this already when police murdered Oscar Grant in 2009. Johannes Mehserle (cop who murdered Oscar) also tried to say he “meant to use his taser”. We’ve been here before!
“Reuters documented 1,081 cases through the end of 2018 in which people died after being shocked by police with a Taser, the vast majority of them after 2000. At least 32 percent of those who died were Black, and at least 29 percent were white.”
In light of Daunte Wright’s murder by police these politicians & police are going to try and tell you that police “need more training”. I can’t urge you enough to reject that. They’ve been getting “more training” for decades. It’s code for: more money.
As someone who was not always an abolitionist and who was deeply reformist and pushed for reforms like body cams, more training etc, I can tell you these things do nothing to disrupt or stop police violence. Ever.
@jack, what happened to all the BLM talk? The "equity" talk?
@BlackNoChaser posted a video (that had been widely shared on twitter) and were told by twitter to remove it and they did. Twitter still never returned the account. Their new account is @BeBlackNoChaser.
@mcclure_dede was never informed of why we were suspended
Aug 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
“He shot me and I still tried to protect him because the police be killing us” - @theestallion
This has me in TEARS. My god. Black women WHEW! We cant even fight for our own lives w/o feeling like we have to protect the lives of the people who commit acts of violence against us
I’m sick for Meg and ALL Black women who have been in this position where they’ve been abused and harmed yet still felt they had to protect said abuser so they wouldn’t be killed. My god. I just. I have nothing but tears cause so many Black women have done this
