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rooting for everyone resisting oppression | author, Becoming Abolitionists | movement lawyer | Guardian columnist | @DreamDefenders | @Hammerandhope
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Sep 16 4 tweets 1 min read
well, this was the Biden-Harris Administration with Haitians seeking refuge in this country
Image GOP names something, and Dems just move to the right on borders, policing, immigration, war, etc
Sep 7 6 tweets 2 min read
Kamala Harris’ current website is a bio, donate, and volunteer page. Asking potential voters to comb through her speeches and tweets and interviews to find out where she is on policies is so ridiculous when she is intentionally being vague. If i’ve missed something, please post? Kamala is trying to ride a wave of defeat Trump as a policy, which means that she doesn’t have to commit to anything that people are demanding or need in order to win. Again, do you know how ridiculous it is for people to not expect or demand anything else?
May 1 6 tweets 1 min read
understand me: NYPD is about to attack these students and not just punish them on behalf of the university, but they are about to take out ALL of their anger against the left and progressive causes against these kids. Everything you care about is going to hurt them these kids about about the get beat up for Palestine, BLM, lgtbqia, reproductive justice, every fucking march that has happened for good causes and they get to use zionism as cover to attack these kids and it is so disgusting
Apr 27 7 tweets 2 min read
one of the greatest lessons i’ve learned in organizing is to not blame people for being surprised when they find out how bad the world is, even when it hits them late in life. not people who feign ignorance, but people who are truly surprised we need an energetic movement full of people who can say that they used to be wrong, confused, or ignorant about lots of things. we need that level of humility in our organizing. this is what political education is about
Oct 12, 2023 21 tweets 4 min read
I am disappointed that media outlets, including where I write, pushed articles that say “the left” celebrated the killing of Israeli Jews, especially ones without examples, nor acknowledgments of great grief from the left for Israelis & Palestinians alike. Here's what I've seen: In the last five days, I’ve been in meetings with radical Palestinian organizers to figure out how to affirm their resistance and mourn Israeli lives lost, all while Netanyahu bombed their neighborhoods in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Jun 18, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
i just really, really wish that we knew, named, and perhaps honored the various traditions of the formerly enslaved instead of projecting onto them a singular, narrow desire to be included in US Empire. it’s as narrow + as ahistorical as “they fought and died to vote” as someone with no directly traceable lineage to anyone beyond the US, i know there is a real fear of erasure of Black American access to US institutions, privileges, university seats, holidays, etc. i know that i was one of the few black americans at harvard law, etc etc
Jun 18, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
i mean, i hear you, but i don’t like simply calling my ancestors “Black Americans,” especially because so many tried to leave or destroy America and did not want to be Americans. it also ignores the cross border insurrectionary activity that lead to uprisings on US soil US cities and territories tried banning white people from bringing slaves from the caribbean with them because they found out that they were sharing resistance tactics with slaves in the US. That’s not the hill i’m finna die on
Jun 18, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
a #Juneteenth reminder that the enslaved people in Texas were not the last people to receive the news about their freedom. Thousands of Black people didn’t know they were free, or knew they were free and their owners forced them to stay. Black people were kidnapped and abandoned literally locked up and sleeping in jails and prisons across the south for years following “emancipation”. Disabled slaves particularly were left behind in bondage and suffered further exploitation by being sold and hidden between networks. Children, too.
May 31, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
Can someone let me know whether any of the politicians who were crying & taking a knee & pushing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act are condemning what's happening in Atlanta? Where are the people who had Black Lives Matter banners at the Democratic National Convention? Image No where are they? Where are the politicians who were marching? Who held the hands of Black mothers and said we gotta stop this? Where did they disappear to while Atlanta is building a facility that will guarantee the deaths of more Black children?
Apr 21, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
on my flight from dc to atlanta today there was a mom trying her best with two *screaming* babies who were clearly terrified of planes. an older black man in front of me, across from her, leaned over and started to console the kids. he pretended he was on a roller coaster then he started clapping, then all of us in the back started clapping and followed his lead. the babies calmed down and started playing with him. when they made a few noises, everyone just started clapping lolol