Dylan Rodríguez
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Reminder: "hate crime" is a criminal category created by the US state (um, the FBI) to *isolate / individualize* violence that often has origins in the behavior of the state itself (policing, war, presidential rhetoric, etc). It's a lazy term that is used wrongly & too often.
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In case anyone has it twisted, the Minneapolis police leadership testifying against Chauvin is not "justice." It is a sacrificial approach to DEFENDING the *legitimacy of* and VINDICATING *public confidence in* the police as the primary institution of domestic war.
#Abolition
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"white fragility" is really white supremacy in the form of a literary euphemism
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Sooooo many academics brand themselves "abolitionist" when their actions, positions, and scholarship are utterly reformist and undermine the collective work of actual abolitionists. It's opportunistic and extractive.
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The danger of the Chauvin guilty verdict is that one successful prosecution will overshadow thousands and thousands of non-prosecutions, past present and future. The problem is police *power*, not individual cops.
MN Attorney Gen said it himself: this verdict "is NOT justice."
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peace to
#AhmaudArbery
; these guilty verdicts are neither justice nor reparation.
#abolition
means addressing the condition that created these three killers, whose unapologetic antiblack animus is the signature of this moment, prior moments, future moments
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*REACTING* to Anti-Asian racism is not the same as antiracist organizing /activism/solidarity. More need to join ongoing *collective* work & not just issue individual condemnations. This also means connecting with the longstanding work of Black liberation, abolition, etc...
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hey everyone, remember that October 16 is... the day John Brown and gang started their raid of Harper's Ferry.
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I urge all faculty at
@UCRiverside
and other
@UofCalifornia
campuses to honor the grad student union's strike for a
#LivingWage
. Show solidarity with student workers and don't cross the picket line. **This includes not teaching on Zoom.** See you on the line!
@uaw2865
@uaw2865ucr
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how many times we gotta say this shit? liberal "solutions" to complicated, oppressive violence always reproduce the *legitimacy* of the institutions and systems that created the oppressive violence in the first place. i mean, damn, it's not hard.
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i think i need to write a book about the spread of liberal/progressive counterinsurgency and its effectiveness in demobilizing, domesticating, and pacifying abolitionist/liberation/anticolonial/Black radical movements.
it's so fucking thick.
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*state violence*
doesn't give a shit
that you're "nonviolent"
so it may be time
to let go of
that liberal defense
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Been thinking and simmering over how many "academics" of multiple generations clowned and undermined radical movements (abolition etc) until they realized they could commodify them without meaningful consequences.
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White nationalist proto-fascism does not go away after ballots are cast or counted (or recounted)
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University presidents are academic chiefs of police. This is not an analogy.
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it's worth recalling that "abolition" has always always always involved thoughtful, risky projects of destruction and attack that care less about the possibility of "failure" than about militant commitment to disruption of an intolerable condition
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These attacks on
#CriticalRaceTheory
are really about *demoralizing* targeted students and teachers. CRT serves as the proxy for everything Black and other in the classroom, in terms of both human beings and course curriculum.
#TeachTruth
#TruthBeTold
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To be quoted by
@noname
is the highlight of my 2020 and will keep me fighting, writing, and talking the mad shyt...
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Twitter fam: i'm proudly part of an effort to create a Department of Black Study here at UC Riverside. Please consider signing our support letter here, we want at least 1,000 signatures:
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this is an excellent interview re: the current AL prison strike
Alabama prison strike organizer Diyawn Caldwell on why people chose to strike: "deaths have significantly risen. We have more people coming out in body bags than on parole." via
@HuffPostPol
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May 3 will be a national day of refusal at universities/colleges across the country--no teaching, no classes, no webinars, no meetings. This will kick off ABOLITION MAY--a month of actions. Tune in below! DM if you have questions
#CopsOffCampus
#AbolitionMay
is on its way! RT/QT!!
JOIN US 5/3 - 5/25 in direct actions demanding
#CopsOffCampus
&
#PoliceFreeSchools
from coast to coast across Turtle Island. Check out our toolkit and new website () to get involved!
alt-text:
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How's all that police reform going?
‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022
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my wish for 2024 (and 2025, 2026...)
is that more people
get serious about
the difference between "freedom"
(too often flimsy, liberal, and unserious)
and *liberation*
(collective fight,
study, experimentation,
destruction, insurgent creativity,
endlessly…)
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I reject the premise that requires compulsory condemnation of one specific organization as the qualification to address an ongoing genocide conducted by multiple national govts. I also reject the delusion that this genocide just started 2 weeks ago.
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White supremacy is not an extremist tendency. It is persistent, historical, popular, and "diverse." it is generally DEcriminalized. Today it is spectacularly all of the above.
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something that worries me after being part of
#abolitionist
collective projects for over 25 years: how (what abolitionists call) "non-reformist reforms" get infiltrated by a liberal counterinsurgency machine and turned into "procedure" based technologies of pacification
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TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOLITION
Friday, January 28 at 12:00pm-1:30 PM (PST)
REGISTER:
w/ Shana Agid, Melissa Burch, Priya Kandaswamy, Meiners Erika (Erica Meiners), Setsu Shigematsu, and yours truly
LINK TO THE RESOURCE GUIDE:
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i am absolutely thrilled to be part of this project.
Today, I’m excited to share that we at
@KaepernickPub
will be releasing our first title, ABOLITION FOR THE PEOPLE: THE MOVEMENT FOR A FUTURE WITHOUT POLICING & PRISONS, on 10/12/21. This anthology builds on decades of organizing and writing against policing & prisons…
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peace
@bellhooks
. a massively significant thinker who understood the urgency of abolitionist praxis across temporalities, places, aesthetics, epistemes, and ways of being.
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It's been a slow creep but i now understand that many famous colleagues actually hired agents to help them get famous. By famous i mean "exposure on corporate and mainstream media." Many are grifting and/or a liability to the movements they "represent." Consumer beware.
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US university and college administrations, boards/regents, and powerful donors are proving the point in real time: they are a warfare ensemble--they *are* police power.
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"Reformism... Is Counterinsurgency," my contribution to the Kaepernick Publishing Series "Abolition for the People." this week includes
@dereckapurnell
,
@BreeNewsome
,
@ruha9
, and many more
@Kaepernick7
@KaepernickPub
#AbolitionForThePeople
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*Liberal pacifism* is the unnamed ideological weapon that has incited and now sustains the accelerated genocidal military-political violence against Palestinian existence-- and other Indigenous and Black and colonized and occupied and captive existence. It must be identified.
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i wrote this for those who resist all forms of post-2020 counterinsurgency carried out under the guise of "social/racial justice," "anti-hate," etc... S/O to the editors at
@truthout
for supporting publication of this piece.
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Check it out!
#AbolitionForThePeople
is here. useful for pretty much all forms of collective
#abolitionist
, Black Study. Thank you
@Kaepernick7
@conniewunphd
and
@CFPetrella
for making it happen. In this with
@dereckapurnell
@MumiaAbuJamal
@prisonculture
@deanspade
& crew! ❤️👊🏽
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pt 1:
Got a death threat yesterday, and immediately realized it's a tiny fraction of what many friends, colleagues, and comrades face every day because of their unflinching, courageous, freedom loving support of Palestinians who live under genocidal conditions of apartheid.
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Jesus was a revolutionary and an abolitionist. Happy bday Jesus.
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While some will call it "treason," a "mob," an attempted "coup," etc., this event is a deeply *normalized* expression of US patriotism, nationalism, and "freedom." it is an occupation of the state animated by white supremacist ENTITLEMENT to the state.
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Possibly the only cool thing that's ever happened in Irvine CA (12-23-2023) 😹 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸
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The phrase "humanitarian crisis in Gaza" does the work of liberal white magic by *disappearing* apartheid, settler conquest/occupation, and actual genocidal state terror. As i explained to my 15 yr old daughter last night,
@UN
exists to preserve the global order of empire (duh).
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Here are my reflections on accelerated anti-Asian violence in the US and how it should be understood as part of a white nationalist, domestic warfare totality rather than "hate."
S/O
@CharmaineSChua
and
@SocietyandSpace
for creating this forum.
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I'm increasingly uninterested in "engaging the state." But i will always be interested in engaging people who "engage the state," in part because i want us to stop wasting precious time, community energy, and shared resources on shit that usually ends up as flimsy ass reform.
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@ucriverside
Faculty Colleagues:
With no end to the
@uaw2865UCR
@uaw2865
strike in sight, UCR faculty will be gathering at the picket line to march in solidarity with our students and future colleagues. Join us:
•Monday November 21 at 12:00p PT
...
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Here is my longer response to Darren Walker's "In Defense of Nuance."
“Nuance” as Carceral Worldmaking: A Response to Darren Walker
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This is officially here... Most importantly, the coupon still works.
30% off coupon code:
FREEDOM2020
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The Milwaukee Bucks just engaged in a high profile version of a Wildcat Strike. They offered to forfeit the game, and the Orlando Magic declined and instead joined their boycott...
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Dear liberal-to-progressive Amerika:
US policing = anti-Black domestic war, racial-colonial war.
This is not something to be "reformed" or (merely) "defunded."
love,
several centuries of abolitionist struggle (the counter-war)
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QUESTION: Are there recent examples of schools, universities, colleges (and other institutions) that have successfully abolished, reduced, and/or demilitarized their police forces? Or are in the process of doing so? Asking for some friends.
#AbolitionMay
#CopsOffCampus
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if you have info on mutual aid for incarcerated people, food and housing insecure people, undocumented people, and anyone else who's in a state of acute vulnerability, please post as a reply to this tweet...
#mutualaid
#abolition
@prisonculture
@deanspade
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1/2 with respect- i ask Asian American activists, influencers, media, teachers, scholars, etc to refrain from using
#SayHerName
in reference to the atrocious, preventable death of Michelle Go.
#SayHerName
invokes the lives/spirits/ghosts of *Black women killed by police*...
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police (reform) "task forces," whether based in cities, college/university campuses, or other policed places, should be viewed with utmost suspicion. If their membership is *appointed* by an upper administrator (mayor, chancellor, etc), they'll likely *include* police.
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Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
Dr. King did not merely die, he was assassinated.
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i will never forget or forgive
@VanJones68
for the numerous times he has sold out (Black) organizers, activists, students, and community members while claiming to speak for and with grassroots mobilizations and movements. He is personification of opportunism w/out accountability.
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In case folx couldn't attend the
@ScholarsForSJ
Leith Mullings Salon conversation between Rachel Herzing and me last week, here's the recording. Captions available. thanks again to
@DavarianBaldwin
and Mia Silva!
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tomorrow! this is what it's like when a community treats an attack on one like an attack on all...
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i am honored to be the target of Zionist trolling today! I reject the premises enabling their weaponization of the terms “anti-semitism” and “hate.” Ironically (or maybe not), these trolls exemplify the very toxicity i referenced in my original post.
#DefendEthnicStudies
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My refusal of Filipino Americanism (esp the patriotic multicultural industry it creates) reflects my love for Pin
@y
and resentment toward Amerikkka. This is why i have never ever claimed "Filipino American" identity. And don't hate, Tagalog is my first language😜🤜🏽🤛🏽
#pinoypower
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It's back! S/O
@CESJournal
for supporting publication of this expanded version of the article...
How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency
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Heads up: the massively $funded$ efforts that have become
#StopAAPIHate
and
#StopAsianHate
are 100% allied with the antiblack, racist police power of the state and do absolutely *nothing* to clarify systemic anti-Asian and Anti-PI (state) violence.
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Disclaimer: reformist means *nothing beyond reform,* and i know these types bc i've been trying to not be an "academic" for 20+ years.
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This exposes the performative "both sidesism" of the moment for what it is...
On Mourning and Statehood: A Response to Joshua Leifer via
@DissentMag
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UC Riverside Chancellor recently invited me to join the “Campus Safety Workgroup.” My response is published here (spoiler alert, i declined):
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please consider supporting Jay Ward, who has been contributing to collective freedom and justice focused work from behind bars and now has a chance to leave incarceration behind.
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Police "trainings," police prosecutions and police body cams neither slow nor stop police violence...
Repeat...
Police "trainings," police prosecutions and police body cams neither slow nor stop police violence...
Repeat...
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... and targeting specific people for demoralization in this way is a tool of conquest, enslavement and war.
It's that fucking serious.
#TeachTruth
#TruthBeTold
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An older white academic used the term "blacks" in a big meeting today and somehow that right there revealed his whole ass
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As always, Roberto Sirvent at
@blkagendareport
knows how to provoke and cajole me into saying some sh!t
s/o
@MAKCapitalism
@UMedicsChi
@ucftp
@BlackPowerMedi1
and many others
Cops, Colleges, and Counterinsurgency: An Interview with Dylan Rodriguez
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i can't overemphasize this point enough...
“There’s no such thing as an individual abolitionist ... You can’t be an individual abolitionist.” -
@dylanrodriguez
🔥
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That man told his Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by." That's an open acknowledgement that this is *already* a state of (asymmetrical) war. So...
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I can offer one insight after more than 25 years of involvement in activism, social movements, and liberation/abolition focused collective projects: don't be a shithead, and don't let shitheads get away with being shitheads. Also, don't be a fuckface.
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Teachers should respect picket lines. That includes professors.
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University administrations + police = a *continuum of policing* (and nothing less)
It’s exactly 6 months since the
#1
public university let police use its iconic
#JackieRobinson
Stadium as a field jail to hold
#BlackLivesMatter
protesters as prisoners. Hear for the first time from detainees held
@UCLA
& organizers demanding
#CopsOffCampus
#AbolitionNOW
!
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Jesus was Palestinian (and Jewish, obv). He was on the side of prisoners, sex workers, unhoused people, disabled people, poor people, and the weak. He was a warrior for freedom, not a right wing evangelist. Also, he was from Palestine. 🇵🇸🍉
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A week ago, the UC Academic Senate leadership approved a set of recommendations on policing to the UC President that can justly be described as proto-abolitionist. With 2 months left to go in my UCR Senate Chair term, this is a nice way to go out.
here are the 5 recommendations:
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"Imposter syndrome" is an overused and often misused term. It turns institutionalized racial/gender/class/sexual violence into an *individualized illness/dysfunction*. Nah f
#ck
that.
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Dear
@democracynow
,
The Philippines is not merely a "Former US Colony." It is a current US neocolony. And has been for over 100 years.
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police reforms, prosecutions of cops, and choke hold bans don't slow the casualties created by police violence-instead, they make police power *sustainable* in its atrocity
Five LAPD killings in nine days: teen’s death caps brutal year of police shootings
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1/2 If They'll do this to a white cis male colleague like
@garrett_felber
, what will They do-and what do They *WANT* to do-to some of the rest of us? defending Garrett is preemptive self-defense of a precious COLLECTIVE institutional presence.
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About time this group got together! Tuesday April 30, 3 pm PST online: "Insurgencies/Counterinsurgencies: A Conversation on Aesthetics, Archives, and Autonomy," with Shellyne Rodríguez
@orisanmi
Elyse Ambrose and yours truly. FREE REGISTRATION here
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A truly fitting way to honor the singular life and indomitable spirit of Dr. Mutulu Shakur.
The Political Theory of Dr. Mutulu Shakur via
@YouTube
@FreeDrMShakur
@idabeewells
@Kalonjichanga
@BabaAk
@BlackPowerMedi1
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Strike against genocide. Strike for the Palestinian people. Strike for liberation from occupation, apartheid, and asymmetrical warfare.
#FreePalestine
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Baba Sekou Odinga, your legacy lives. (Photo circa February 2023)
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UP TODAY (9 am PST), "'Mutual Aid' is a People's Movement: Beyond Charity, Philanthropy, and Dependence on the (Police) State..." the first release from the ASA Freedom Course series! A FREE RECORDED event for use in classes, political education etc
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nonprofit industrial complex = front line of post-2020 liberal counterinsurgency
You know who you/they are
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It is with immense pride that i go full "daddy ball" to congratulate Taer Rodriguez on his commitment to play and study at Dartmouth beginning in Fall 2022. Thank you to Head Coach Bob Whalen and coaches Conor Burke and Blake McFadden for a great recruiting process!
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1/2 Compulsory calls for "peaceful demonstration" and "systemic police reform" are about much more than either of those things. It's a scramble to find/restore confidence and faith in a "system" that deserves neither.
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"The truth is that Americans now live within an escalating system of radicalized gun tragedy that is working exactly as expected.
I know. For more than two decades, I worked in the highest levels of the firearms industry."
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Once again: (fatal/anti-Black) police violence is systemic and normalized, not exceptional or extraordinary--Chavin et al's potential prosecution solves little or nothing...
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We need to discuss the normalized institutional repression/violence (in universities/colleges) that's regularly carried out by self-selected groups of academic white liberals (generally senior-level tenured professors, many but not all are boomers)...
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A public letter to the Harvard administration from the leadership of the American Studies Association regarding the case of Prof. Lorgia García-Peña:
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State multiculturalism is a cop
An award-winning building shaped like a soaring eagle provides a new space for Indigenous ceremonies and promotes a holistic approach to healing at a correctional institution in
#Quebec
. Read more:
@CSC_SCC_en
#PSPCStories
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022-
Uncommon Emergency: A Roundtable on the Invasion of Ukraine, Border Violence, War, and (Un)Shared Suffering
12-2 PM (PST)
Virtual Event
REGISTER:
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I get to talk to one of my favorite people on earth, Rachel Herzing, about a book! Thank you to Davarian Baldwin and
@ScholarsForSJ
for organizing this. FREE REGISTRATION at
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Here's the livestream link to the first ASA Annual Meeting Freedom Course, "Abolitionist Universities: Organizing in and against Education" (live now!)
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